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Spotlight Texas
Texas Ranks 36th Nationally in Per-Student Education Spending. Here's How Much It Spends.
Hey, Texplainer: How much is spent educating the average public school student in Texas?
It depends on who you ask.
Both the Texas Education Agency and the National Education Association track per-pupil funding. But their numbers don't quite add up.
Amid Tumult, Houston ISD Leadership Pitches $1.7B Bond Vote for Next Year
Administrators on Thursday recommended Houston ISD seek voter approval for a $1.7 billion capital projects bond in May 2019, charging forward with long-term spending plans even as the district faces uncertainty about its leadership and ability to maintain local control over decision-making.
District leaders said the $1.7 billion bond would finance much-needed rebuilding of 18 existing elementary and middle schools, construction of three new campuses, security upgrades at all 280-plus schools and the purchase of new buses, among other costs. HISD administrators said it was unclear whether the proposed bond package would result in a tax increase, saying they will have a better idea when the Harris County Appraisal District finalizes property values in August.
Could Legalized Sports Betting Fund Texas Education?
State Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-Brownsville, wants to legalize sports betting in Texas, and has drafted a bill to do it. This follows a ruling from the United State Supreme Court that cleared the way for each to decide whether sports betting would be allowed in its borders.
Lucio applauded the SCOTUS ruling, and said in a release he was "looking forward to beginning a conversation with my fellow members of the House this legislative session."
Time For a Reality Check on Public Education
Across the nation, there is a simmering discussion about education funding. In places - Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, West Virginia - that simmer has reached the boiling point. Here in Texas, we have tasked a commission to study education funding - again.
Amid years of ongoing study, what have we learned? We have learned there are no easy answers and certainly no magic bullets to fix education funding. However, amid the vast array of data there is some clarity. First, poverty makes educating students more difficult and more expensive. Second, lack of English language skills makes educating students more difficult and more expensive. Unfortunately, about 60 percent of Texas students fall into the poverty category. Almost one in five Texas students speaks limited English.
TEA Commissioner: Harvey Waivers Could Stave Off HISD Accountability Sanctions
Houston ISD's 10 longest-struggling schools likely would not trigger major state sanctions this year if they all receive academic accountability waivers because of Hurricane Harvey, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath said Wednesday.
However, the district still would face punishment — either campus closures or a state takeover of the district's locally elected school board — if Morath opts against accountability waivers for the schools and a single one fails to meet state academic standards.
Is Enough Really Enough? The Case for Funding Special Education
As a state, we are required to provide a free, appropriate public education for all students, regardless of ability. Not doing so would make Texas the target of various intervention mechanisms in our country, as evidenced by the recent action by the U.S. Department of Education regarding the 8.5 percent cap on special education enrollment encouraged by state policies. We fund public education; and therefore, we fund special education.
Why Money Matters in Public Education
Texas, like much of the country, is struggling with funding for public education. Some state leaders point out that Texas is putting in more money than ever before. So, what's the problem? Texas' funding per student is still below 2008 levels despite the fact that we're demanding more from our schools. This is especially true in funding levels for small and rural districts, special education services, services for English-language learners, and career and technical education.
Future of Houston ISD's Struggling Schools Now in Hands of Texas Education Agency
The fate of Houston ISD and its 10 longest-struggling schools now lies with the Texas Education Agency.
Texas' largest school district missed an April 30 deadline to submit plans to the TEA detailing how it would hand operations of those 10 schools to a third-party group, according to Houston ISD spokesman Tracy Clemons. If approved by the TEA, such a plan would have triggered a two-year grace period and protected the district from state takeover and the 10 schools from closure.
Higher Ed: Competing Demands In Education Lead To Stress
The end of the school year is a busy time for students, faculty, staff, and families. Finals exams are looming; seniors may be on the hunt for a job; and many students have to say goodbye to friends and teachers. In this episode of KUT's podcast "Higher Ed," Southwestern University President Dr. Ed Burger and I discuss the origins of stress; the role it can play in education and learning; and how to successfully manage it (both in and out of school).
Texas Teachers Hope for Ripple Effect From National Protests Over Pay
Teachers walked out in Colorado and Arizona Thursday demanding more school funding, but it's an unlikely scene for Texas teachers. The protests Thursday come on the heels of several other states protesting low teacher salaries.
In Texas, education advocates say it's unlikely there will be an organized strike since teachers who do could lose their teaching certificates or pensions under state law. Still, they say it's time for change.
Ahead Of Board Vote, Houston Teachers Union Raises Questions About Proposed Charter Partner
As the Houston ISD board of trustees scrambles against a tight deadline to try and secure a partner for struggling schools at risk of closure, the Houston teachers union and other advocates are raising a host of concerns over the group.
Late Friday, the HISD administration revealed it was recommending Energized for STEM, a charter network authorized by HISD and operating four schools, to take on the management, budget, curriculum and turnaround efforts for 10 HISD schools that haven't met state standards in several years. The HISD board will consider the proposal at a special meeting Tuesday.
Coppell Middle School Pits Cowboys Fans vs. Packers Fans to Help Choir Teacher Battling Oral Cancer
When Allison Hartzell discovered several white spots on her tongue in January, she knew it could only mean one thing: The oral cancer that the 31-year-old Coppell Middle School West choir teacher had spent the past year battling with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation was back.
This time around, the Coppell West community is stepping up its game by pitting Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers fans against each other to raise $1 million for Hartzell's medical treatment and oral cancer research.
School Districts in Houston, Statewide Feel Crushing Effects of Budget Troubles
For eight-straight years, Cypress-Fairbanks and Conroe ISDs earned the Texas Smart Schools Award, bestowed on school districts with prudent financial practices and high academic achievement.
Now, Cypress-Fairbanks faces a $50 million deficit next school year, and Conroe is projected to face its first deficit in nearly a decade in the next two to four years.
Texas School Administrators Warn They Need Money for Likely Spike in Special Education
Jaculyn Zigtema, a special education director in Whitehouse ISD in East Texas, told state education officials Monday that she planned to hire two diagnosticians, four teachers and two behavioral specialists to handle an anticipated spike in students considered eligible for special education.
'I Can't Wait to Meet Him': Dallas Seniors Meet Their Young Student Pen Pals Face-to-Face
Wearing her silver Dallas Cowboys earrings and bracelet, Nancy Miller patiently waits for a bus full of kids from Good Shepherd Episcopal School. Out of the 20 students who are visiting, the Presbyterian Village North resident has her mind set on one in particular — a 9-year-old Cowboys fan named Ahan Jain.
Texas Schools Suspended Tens of Thousands of Students in Second Grade or Younger, Report Says
Texas schools issued more than 64,000 in-school suspensions to students in the second grade or younger during the 2015-16 school year, and a disproportionate number of those students were black, male, in foster care or in special education, according to a report released Monday by a children's advocacy group.
The report by Texans Care for Children also said that more than 36,000 students received out-of-school suspensions during that time. The following year, lawmakers passed a bill that banned out-of-school suspensions for students up to the second grade.
AM Expert Has Educators Asking: If Kansas Schools Need $2 Billion, How Much Do Texas' Need?
Texas AM University professor Lori Taylor has a reputation for being fiscally conservative when it comes to school finance.
When Texas school districts sued the state for underfunding public schools last decade, Taylor took the stand as an expert witness for Texas and said schools didn't need much more money than they already had. She recommended the state give the 46 school districts suing a boost of less than $1 million — after they demanded hundreds of millions more.
This Texas Senior Applied to 20 Elite Colleges and Got a Full Ride to All of Them
A Texas high school senior has a lot of options for college: He's been offered full-ride scholarships at all 20 colleges he applied to.
Micheal Brown, a 17-year-old senior at Lamar High School in Houston, was accepted into elite private schools including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Stanford and Georgetown, The New York Times reported. He also got into small, selective liberal arts colleges and big public universities.
In Texas, Falling Behind on Your Student Loan Payments Can Cost You Your License to Work
When Roderick Scott Sr. submitted an application to renew his teacher's license in the summer of 2015, he thought the matter was handled. He had no idea that, months later, a decades-old Texas law would nearly derail his career as a middle school teacher in north Dallas because he'd defaulted on his student loans.
Over the course of three years, Scott said he swiftly lost a "dream job," was evicted, had his bank account garnished and eventually filed for bankruptcy.
Marlin ISD Gets Formal Reprieve from State Closure
Marlin Independent School District will remain open for at least another year, now that the Texas Education Agency has granted the district an abatement agreement, Superintendent Michael Seabolt announced during Tuesday's school board meeting.
First, however, the district's state-appointed board of managers must approve the agreement, which the managers plan to do next month. The district received the agreement Tuesday afternoon, too late to get it on Tuesday's meeting agenda.
Texas Education Agency Asking For Public Input on Special Education Plan
The Texas Education Agency has released its new plan for overhauling special education across the state.
The TEA has been working on the plan since federal officials found the state had illegally denied services to students with disabilities for years. The plan would create a professional statewide special education deployment system. It also calls for increasing special education staffing, providing better special education training for teachers and creating more tools for parents of children with suspected disabilities.
Spring Break Dampens Texas Participation in Student Walkouts Protesting Gun Violence
Students around the nation walked out of their classrooms at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes, symbolically honoring the 17 lives that were lost in last month's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. While organizers expected Texas students to join in, most schools were on spring break, so there were no classes to walk out of.
The shooting caused an eruption of conversation about gun violence among middle and high school students around the country, and they quickly turned their emotions into activism.
$50,000 Pegasus Prize Boosts Center to Help Homeless Youths in Dallas
There's a makeshift shelter in the back of Fannie C. Harris Elementary, a shuttered Dallas ISD campus that sits in the shadows of the Cotton Bowl. A hastily erected curtain blocks the back entrance to the school, which has lain dormant for over a decade; a shopping cart filled with belongings sits nearby.
The campus, with boarded windows and a "for sale" sign out front, shows no hint that it will be bustling with activity in the coming months, serving as a haven not just for one individual but, hopefully, for hundreds of at-risk youth.
Education Advocates, Leaders Start Wish List For Next Houston ISD Superintendent
Since Houston ISD's Superintendent Richard Carranza announced this week he's leaving for a job in New York, local leaders and education advocates have started to build their own wish list of what the district needs in its next superintendent.
In fact, the last time the HISD board of trustees searched for a new superintendent in 2016, they came up with a profile based on what community members wanted.
Last Chance to Apply For TRTF Beginning Teacher Scholarships
Applications are due in full no later than 5:00 p.m. on March 15, 2018.
The Beginning Teacher Scholarship will reimburse applicants for certification tests and test results, and provide funds to help the applicant purchase materials for his or her classroom during his or her first year of teaching.
Classroom Tools
Why Teens Should Understand Their Own Brains. And Why Their Teachers Should, Too!
A teenage brain is a fascinating, still-changing place. There's a lot going on: social awareness, risk-taking, peer pressure; all are heightened during this period.
Until relatively recently, it was thought that the brain was only actively developing during childhood, but in the last two decades, researchers have confirmed that the brain continues to develop during adolescence — a period of time that can stretch from the middle school years into early adulthood.
8 TED-Ed Lessons to Engage Even the Most Uninterested Students
Using digital media is a surefire way to grab students' attention, and using everyday topics students encounter in their personal lives is an even better way to engage them in learning.
With a wealth of resources online, educators can find content that meets students where they're comfortable learning, with interactive and engaging presentation. TED-Ed Lessons are among the resources that help students learn while engaging them in the subject matter.
Why So Many Gifted Yet Struggling Students Are Hidden In Plain Sight
Scott Barry Kaufman was placed in special education classes as a kid. He struggled with auditory information processing and with anxiety.
But with the support of his mother, and some teachers who saw his creativity and intellectual curiosity, Kaufman ended up with degrees from Yale and Cambridge.
Why Students Cheat-and What to Do About It
"Why did you cheat in high school?" I posed the question to a dozen former students.
"I wanted good grades and I didn't want to work," said Sonya, who graduates from college in June. The students' names in this article have been changed to protect their privacy.
IRS Withholding Calculator
The IRS encourages everyone to use the Withholding Calculator to perform a quick "paycheck checkup." This is even more important this year because of recent changes to the tax law for 2018.
Accommodating Students with Dyslexia
For many of us, reading is as automatic as breathing. But for the millions of students with dyslexia, reading is a difficult task that poses constant academic and emotional challenges. To simulate the experience of reading with dyslexia, try using this key to decipher the coded statement below.
Unionized Or Not, Teachers Struggle To Make Ends Meet, NPR/Ipsos Poll Finds
More than 9 in 10 teachers say they joined the profession for idealistic reasons — "I wanted to do good" — but most are struggling to some extent economically.
Those findings come from a nationally representative survey by NPR and Ipsos of more than 500 teachers across the country. The poll was conducted in April amid widespread walkouts in several states, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and currently Arizona.
Magnolia Days Festival Combines History, Charm, & Fun Into One Awesome Event
On May 18 and 19, Columbus, Texas is hosting the 2018 Magnolia Days Festival on the Courthouse Square. In the shade of both oak and magnolia trees that are at least a century old, the Magnolia Days Festival offers family fun for those of all ages, including historic charm, food and beverage stands, a wine garden and Biergarten, live entertainment, and a Family Fun Zone. While you're there, get your picture taken with the Magnolia Belles, shop the Farmers Market and Vendor Marketplace, and try some tasty treats ranging from filling lunch/dinner options, and end your day with sweet dessert.
Casting Aside Shame And Stigma, Adults Tackle Struggles With Literacy
At the tiny public library in Winterport, Maine, 43-year-old Robert Hartmann bends over The Little Engine That Could and slowly sounds out the first line.
A Deeper Look at the Whole School Approach to Behavior
Classroom management is an essential tool for an effective teacher, but it's not always easy to do well. Without an orderly classroom it's hard for teachers with upward of 25 kids in their classrooms to lead effective lessons, help students who are struggling, and perhaps most important, to trust students. That's why getting behavior under control was Michael Essien's number one goal when he started as the assistant principal at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School (MLK) in San Francisco.
Cinco de Mayo Activities
Cinco de Mayo commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla, in which a few thousand ill-equipped Mexican citizens defeated a much larger army of highly trained French soldiers. Although the victory did not result in the immediate end of French occupation, many historians believe it indirectly affected the outcome of the American Civil War and led to Mexico's eventual independence. Today, people in both the United States and Mexico celebrate Cinco de Mayo -- the Fifth of May -- as a day of freedom and goodwill.
100 Top Colleges Vow To Enroll More Low-Income Students
College access and affordability: It's a common topic in higher education — because college is the one place that can really be a catapult when it comes to moving up the economic ladder.
5 PowerPoint Features Often Overlooked by Students and Teachers
About ten years ago I started to notice a lot of alternatives to PowerPoint popping-up on the web. Some of those presentation tools like Google Slides and Prezi are still going strong while others have faded away. Through it all, PowerPoint kept chugging along even though it wasn't a darling of Web 2.0 users. Today, PowerPoint has all of the features students and teachers need, including collaboration, but often those features are overlooked. If you haven't taken a look at PowerPoint in a while, here are five PowerPoint features that you should try.
Reflections 50th Grant
For 50 years, the National PTA Reflections arts program has helped millions of students explore their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, develop artistic literacy, increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life.
Teachers Are Marching Ahead Of Their Unions, In Oklahoma And Arizona
"I'm 54 years old and my paycheck is $1,980 [a month]. I can't afford f****** health insurance."
That's one of the first things Larry Cagle says on the phone. He is spitting nails. The Tulsa English teacher is one of the leaders of a grassroots organizing group, Oklahoma Teachers United, that they say represents thousands of public school teachers around the state. His group, and both of Oklahoma's teachers unions, support the walkout and rally happening across the state Monday in support of higher wages and more state revenue.
The Rhetorical Analysis of Poetry
Poetry is not a given in AP Language and Composition—in fact, some teachers use only nonfiction texts because a major focus of the class is rhetorical analysis. But rhetoric is everywhere, and its compact form and concentrated language make poetry a particularly effective vehicle for introducing students to rhetorical analysis.
So when we were in the midst of a unit on civil disobedience and had read Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., articles on the "take a knee" protest, and some interesting political cartoons, I introduced the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall."
Teachers And Those Magical OK Go Videos: A Match Made In Science?
If you've ever gone down the rabbit hole that is OK Go's YouTube channel, then you know how insanely cool the band's music videos are.
Sure, OK Go is a rock band. Their songs get on the radio, they've played sold-out shows, but the group is far better known for their really complex and elaborate videos.
How Good is Your Eyesight? A Test!
Do you see Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein? It may seem hard to confuse the two, but AsapSCIENCE explains how people can see both in this eyesight test.
50 Moms And Their Kids With Down Syndrome Do 'Carpool Karaoke' For World Down Syndrome Day
March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), a day that "encourages our friends all over the world to choose their own activities and events ... to help raise awareness of what Down syndrome is, what it means to have Down syndrome, and how people with Down syndrome play a vital role in our lives and communities," the official WDSD site reports.
Rethinking How Students With Dyslexia Are Taught To Read
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability, affecting tens of millions of people in the United States. But getting help for children who have it in public school can be a nightmare.
"They wouldn't acknowledge that he had a problem," says Christine Beattie about her son Neil. "They wouldn't say the word 'dyslexia.' "
Effective Student-Led Discussions
A few years into my teaching career, a colleague attended training at Phillips Exeter Academy on the Harkness method, in which classroom learning takes place as students and teacher sit in a circle or oval for discussions and all students must contribute. Afterward, she enthusiastically shared what she had learned about facilitating effective student-led discussions.
Until then I had been running discussions in the familiar way: pitch a question to the class, ask students to raise their hands, and try to be equitable when selecting volunteers to answer. The idea of giving students more ownership over what we discussed—from the questions themselves to possible answers—seemed like an exciting opportunity for us to learn together.
National Library Legislative Day
National Library Legislative Day (NLLD) is a two-day educational event that brings hundreds of librarians, trustees, library supporters and patrons to Washington, D.C.
Attendees spend one-day learning effective advocacy tactics and being briefed about pressing federal legislative issues that are impacting libraries. On the second day, they join other attendees from their state to meet with their members of Congress and rally support for library issues and policies. Open to the public, the event also offers attendees the opportunity to attend a reception on Capitol Hill.
Making Elementary School A Lot More Fun: Like Preschool!
In Kelly Stevens' kindergarten classroom, each day begins with circle time for what sounds like a menu of lesson options.
Students — or "friends" as Stevens calls them — can read at the green table, they can build boats or make things out of clay, among other options.
14 Mathtastic Pi Day Activities for the Classroom
Math deserves its own day, don't you think? Join the fun of Pi Day, celebrated on March 14 (3.14, get it?) by more and more schools every year. Here are 14 Pi Day activities that will encourage your students to see the joy and whimsy in math.
With Hundreds Of Students, School Counselors Just Try To 'Stay Afloat'
Yuridia Nava, a counselor at Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside, Calif., has been getting to work at 7 a.m. lately. It's class registration time, so she wants to be available before school for parents and students to come in with questions as they plan for the next year of courses, SAT tests, and college preparation.
Bringing Wonder Into Mathematics
Doris Lessing once said, "Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
National School Breakfast Week March 5-9, 2018
Mark your calendar for National School Breakfast Week! This year's theme, "I Heart School Breakfast," encourages parents, students, and school officials to get social over school breakfast. Speaking a language kids understand, we're ready to show-and-tell all the benefits of a healthy school breakfast.
Ancient Rome 101 and Life as a Roman Teenager
National Geographic has a great series of YouTube videos called National Geographic 101. The most recent addition to that series is Ancient Rome 101. The video provides an excellent introduction to the origin, rise, and fall of the Roman Empire. The length and substance of the video makes it an ideal candidate for inclusion in an EDpuzzle lesson.
What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me
I remember back during the 1997-98 school year when we were all stunned by five school shootings within a period of eight months in places few Americans had heard of: Pearl, Miss., West Paducah, Ky., Jonesboro, Ark., Edinboro, Penn., and Springfield, Ore.
2 Evidence-Based Learning Strategies
I often say to my students, "If a test is the first time you're made to think about or with the class material, we've both probably failed." Learning is effortful and requires cognition. As their teacher, I need to ensure that I provide my students with opportunities for demonstration of learning in the classroom.
The Ultimate Cheeseburger: the Juicy Lucy Burger
Meet the Juicy Lucy, the ultimate cheeseburger with the cheese inside the patty.
Farmers Markets You'll Want to Visit Soon for a Delicious Taste of the Hill Country
Getting out to a Texas Hill Country farmers market has long been a tradition of many locals. The fresh produce, homemade entrees, baked goods, fresh flowers, and cold beverages (some made right in front of you) simply can't be beaten. The prospect of discovering a find you can't turn away from is strong, and the opportunity to shop local stimulates the area's economy and helps your local farmer. Here are three Texas Hill Country farmers markets you should visit soon!
Jimmy Kimmel Took A More Apologetic Approach To Teacher Appreciation Week
Jimmy Kimmel took a unique approach to Teacher Appreciation Week on Wednesday night. Instead of simply encouraging people to thank their favorite teachers for inspiring them, the host acknowledged that many former students remember a teacher they "put through the ringer." So he gave them a chance to apologize.
The host started things off by apologizing to his high school Spanish teacher on behalf of the student who erased his chalkboard and drew NSFW pictures. "Teachers have difficult jobs," he reminded viewers, before turning to people on the street to offer their own apologies.
As Predators Rebound, You're More Likely to See Alligators at the Beach
Sometimes, things pop up in places where we least expect them. So when an apex predator was sneaking through a saltmarsh where Brian Silliman was studying crabs and snails, he was shocked.
"I was being stalked by alligators," says Silliman, a marine conservation biology professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. "Alligators are thought to be freshwater specialists. [Seeing one in a saltmarsh] just completely challenged everything I was taught about alligators."
On the 'Roof of Japan,' An Otherworldly 17-Meter-Deep Snow Corridor
One of the world's wildest mountain drives, Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan has reopened to tourists for another season.
Stretching across the Toyama and Nagano prefectures north of Tokyo, the 90-kilometer sightseeing route -- dubbed the "Roof of Japan" -- offers incredible views of the 3,015-meter Mt. Tateyama and 2,478-meter Mt. Akazawa-dake peaks, while providing access to everything from Japan's highest altitude hot spring to the country's highest waterfall.
I Lied To My Students Today
I lied to my students today.
You see, today was the first day of state testing. They showed up filled with anxiety. So I did what any good teacher would do. I lied.
Spicy Lamb Ragu Recipe
Hearty and comforting, this lamb ragu is just the thing you need to keep away the winter blues. There's something about a huge portion of pasta covered in saucy meat ragu that is ultra warming. The second best part about making this, aside from the fact that you get to eat it, is that it fills your house up with the most delicious smells.
A Farewell to the Alps
Here is what several weeks' worth of brewer's yeast looks like, collected after a month or two of beer-making: melted caramel ice cream. That, or whipped mud.
This One Tip Makes Cucumbers Taste So Much Better
In addition to a recent revamping, David Chang's Italian-inflected Momofuku Nishi unveiled a brunch menu in March, debuting a triple-stacked Dagwood Sandwich with sardines and roasted chicken thigh and a smoky, mapo tofu-esque Eggs in Purgartory, plus a slew of morning cocktails, our favorite being the Resting Brunch Face with rye, averna amaro, cold brew coffee, and orange bitters.
Otherworldly Destinations Here on Earth
Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, wants to ferry people to Mars by the hundreds, with the first humans landing on the red planet around 2025. President Barack Obama published an op-ed in October 2016 recommitting to his goal to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. It's enough to give Earthlings a bad case of interplanetary wanderlust, but you can't book your tickets just yet. For budding space tourists eager for a celestial-body experience, here are some terrestrial destinations with distinctively off-planet flavor.
Our Favorite Love Letters to Earth
There's a planet with poles that flip, a supersized moon, and landscapes that harbor acidic pools, boiling rivers and living clouds.
We call it Earth.
How to Become an Iron Chef in Your Own Kitchen, According to Alton Brown
Avid viewers of Iron Chef watch the show in awe. The task before the elite chefs (the likes of Alex Guarnaschelli, Bobby Flay, and Stephanie Izard) and challengers on the cooking competition is Herculean: Cook a perfect meal in an hour, using just the ingredients provided, plus a secret ingredient—anything from halibut, to beer, to coconut—while the world watches. Though most of us succumb to the pressure of cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for family let alone creating world-class dishes for discerning judges, it's hard to watch the show and not wonder, could I become an Iron Chef?
Pick Your Favorite Pinterest Recipes And We'll Guess One Of Your Biggest Fears
Who isn't Pinterest-obsessed, TBH?!
How a Retirement Plan Birthed Asia's Best Portuguese Wine Lounge
Why bother going into one of the casino gambling halls?" asks Jacky Higgins, co-founder of MacauSoul, a Portuguese wine lounge housed inside a traditional colonial building.
"Just walk around the streets. It's totally fascinating."
3 Foolproof Ways to Make Hard Boiled Eggs
With Easter coming up and summer potlucks following right behind, there are many hard-boiled eggs in our near future. Sometimes they can be a little tricky to pull off—peels included!
Pictures of Moscow's Surprisingly Elegant Subway Stations
Everyday in Russia's capital, residents commute like clockwork through an underground labyrinth filled with treasures. Soaring marble walls hold gilded mosaics, sculptures of fallen leaders, and painted scenes from Russian history under crystal chandeliers. Unlike the dirty, utilitarian systems of many cities around the world, the Moscow metro drives through a former–but not forgotten–stage of history that sought to bring palaces to the masses.
Avocado Recipes
These delicious recipes include gooey cheese-topped guacamole and chilled avocado soup with crab.
Newest River Walk Tradition a San Antonio Success: Lanterns on the Water
San Antonio introduced "Lanterns on the Water," the beginning of its newest River Walk tradition in 2018, bringing together locals and tourists alike to enjoy the beauty of these artfully crafted and visually appealing lanterns as they floated down the river. From February 17 – March 3 of this year, the River Walk became something of a glowing appeal!
This College Town Is All About Their Annual Pi Day Celebration, and Of Course There's Pie
Us mere mortals might be hanging around waiting for the arrival of spring, the semi-annual time change and the return of good lighting, but mathematician types (not to mention Albert Einstein groupies) look toward the coming days, see March 14 on their calendar, and commence getting just a little bit excited.
Can You Survive 24 Hours Without Your Phone?
Sundown-to-sundown on March 9–10 is observed as the National Day of Unplugging. As a challenge, or rather "digital detox," it is asked that we detach from our cellular devices for 24 hours in an effort to highlight the value of reconnecting with yourself, your loved ones and your community in real time.
3 World Food Records That Were Held in the State of Texas
People around the world are encouraged to attempt a number of impressive, odd, and sometimes completely meaningless world records in order to simply achieve such a feat. Here in Texas, however, people have been known to do that unprompted, all the time!
10 Awesome Ways to Teach Kids to Pay It Forward
Good deeds have ripple effects. Give your students this experience firsthand. From simple acts done in a few minutes to in-depth lessons, you can teach how to pay kindness forward in whatever time you have available.
Short Ribs Recipes
Terrific short rib recipes, from Indian-spiced short ribs to short rib farrotto with carrots and parsnips.
Nearly 150,000 Bornean Orangutans Lost Since 1999, Cutting Population By Half
Earlier this month, an orangutan was found brutally shot to death in Borneo. In January, one was found decapitated and floating in a river. In 2017, oil plantation workers were accused of killing and eating one of the island's orangutans.
San Antonio Stock Show And Rodeo: The Season Can Now Commence
The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo kicks off on Thursday, February 8! The Western Heritage Parade and the Wrangler Cowboy Breakfast have already taken place (did you attend?) and the Stock Show Stampede went off without a hitch. Rodeo season can now commence, and Texas is ready for it!
Look Inside the Abandoned Stadiums of Past Olympics
Every two years, bids are made by cities around the globe to the International Olympic Commission (IOC) for the chance to host the Olympic Games. The winner is chosen through a rigorous process that, for one, takes into account whether the city can convince residents that the benefits of hosting the games outweigh the increased taxes that may come with it.
See the Offices Where Employees Can Work in a Tree House
The enormous orbs are constructed of glass pentagons held together with miles of steel and rebar but packed with lush tropical plant life, including epiphytes, rare begonias and a rhododendron normally only found at the top of a single mountain in the Philippines.
Iconic Garner State Park for Spring Break: Not Only a Summer Destination
It's as iconic in Texas as Shiner Beer and George Strait. It's located in the middle of nowhere on the banks of an infamous river. It's been a wildly popular family summer destination for generations, but it's also a great place to head for Spring Break. What are we talking about? Garner State Park, of course.
In Honor Of National Blood Donor Month, We Asked 6 People Why They Donate
During the month of January, New York Blood Center and blood centers across the country are celebrating National Blood Donor Month to recognize the lifesaving contribution of blood and platelet donors everywhere. Dedicating a month to this cause is so important given that someone in the U.S. is in need of a donation every two seconds, yet very few people actually donate. In fact, approximately 38 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, yet less than 10 percent actually do each year.
Healthy Soups
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|Atomic determinants for inducing β conformation in protein structure
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|چکیده مقاله:
|Statistical analysis on existing structural files of proteins indicates that 400 possible dipeptides are differently distributed in defined structural classes of proteins. We took 12 favorable dipeptides for beta conformation along with 12 dipeptides that are not significantly found in this conformation. The structures were geometrically optimized at DFT level (B3LYP 6-311++g**) and their physico chemical properties including bond lengths, bond angles, torsion angles and charge distribution on specific atoms were calculated by Gaussian 09 program. For mimicking the beta sheet secondary structure, in our peptide model; the φ and ψ torsion angles were constraint to β conformation. The output of the computational study was statistically compared using T-test analysis and it was found that the bond lengths of N-H and Cα1-C1 are significantly different in two datasets. It was also revealed that bond angles including C1-N1-H2 and H2-N2-Cα2 are different in two groups. However, there was no significant difference in specifying torsion angles for the planarity of peptide plane.
Concerning the importance of N-H group in forming the hydrogen bonds as well as dipole-dipole interaction in protein folding; it may be concluded that the peptide plane dictates its structural roles via its N-H moiety.
|کلیدواژه ها:
|Protein; Dipeptide; Conformation; DFT; Gaussian.
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This week was pretty frustrating, but I didn't kill anything this week, so I can't complain. J
We didn't find anyone this week, and we didn't teach any of our investigators either. We got to see Faye for a little bit but that was about it. I just wonder what more we can do. There is always more for us to do! And we shall do it because we love our Father and our Lord!
Elder Lampropoulos and I had a cool chat this week about the Atonement. It was a really cool time to sit and realize how little our minds can comprehend! Haha.
We got to go into YSA this week to teach the lesson about the Plan of Salvation. It was a really cool lesson. Elder Lampropoulos has a beautiful testimony of the Plan of Salvation. He teaches me so much every day.
|Kippers in a bag.......it was weird!
Hmm...I wonder if that's why Elder Lampropolous threw up?
He started throwing up one morning this week and so we stayed in the flat (that's apartment for the Americans) for a little bit. I thought I was going to die. I sat in a corner of the room and lost my mind for about 4 hours. It's so hard to stay in the flat! Eventually he agreed he was going to go crazy if he stayed in the flat any longer and we went out to do some work. He is such a champion.
I hope that I will have more to talk about next week. i love you!
Elder Crowe
|Ordering pizza... What's your name? Uh..
|On our way to a dinner appointment we stopped in to say Happy Birthday to a member's nonmember husband,
and they gave us fish and chips. We couldn't say no!


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|00-828 Project Manager: P. F. O'Leary
Jane B. Pierce and Patricia E. Monk, New Mexico State University
Cotton glands produce gossypol, a natural defense against insect pests. Glandless cotton varieties have been developed but were rejected as a commercial crop in many areas due to losses from pests. New Mexico has lower insect pressure than most of the cotton belt, and could potentially produce glandless varieties as a niche crop with added seed value. In 2012, field trials were conducted on a New Mexico State University farm to evaluate the influence of nitrogen and glandless cotton on cotton bollworm and beet armyworm survival and development in field and lab trials.
Field petiole nitrate levels were 1573-1765 ppm N in low nitrogen treatment plots and 5211-6243 ppm N in high nitrogen treatment plots when a field to lab bioassay was initiated. Survival was not affected by nitrogen levels in the first 48 hours in early instar larvae. Survival to pupation also was not affected by nitrogen level. Beet armyworm fourth instar larvae were 30% larger and required two less days to reach pupation on high N cotton. Bollworm pupal weights were 9% larger on high N cotton but there was no significant difference in fourth instar larval weights or days to pupation
Effects of glandless cotton were more notable. Although there was no difference up to 48 hours, bollworm and beet armyworm survival was 5-10 times higher at pupation on glandless cotton. Beet armyworm fourth instar larval weights and pupal weights were not different on glandless or glanded cotton. However, those on glandless leaves required 4 less days to reach pupation. Bollworm fourth instar larvae were 69% heavier, pupae were 16% heavier on glandless cotton squares, and pupated in 9 fewer days compared to those on glanded cotton. Bollworm larvae also developed 43% faster on glandless cotton pupating in 21 days vs. 30 on glanded cotton.
Field square damage was significantly higher in glandless plots compared to glanded plots. Glandless plots had twice as many damaged squares with 6% damaged squares compared to 3% damaged squares in glanded plots. The number of damaged squares were not affected by N levels.
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March 2016 - 15 Night Panama Canal - Ocean To Ocean (Ft. Lauderdale To Los Angeles) Cruise on Island Princess
Panama Canal Transit
Great cruise. Would have rated excellent if the food in the dining room had been better. Since Princess engaged Curtis Stone as their top chef, the menu selection and the preparation has not been up to the past. We enjoy the dining room and prefer not to eat in the Horizon Court for dinner; however, sometimes, we were forced to do so. The service in the dining room was outstanding.
We were disappointed that this itinerary did not include Panama City as a port of call.


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- About Myboutiquehotel.com is a hotel reservation website offering some of the best design hotels all over the world. ( b&b and small hotels ) Whether it's a town, city or an isolated idyll you are looking for, Myboutiquehotel.com offers a carefully-selected range of hotels which help make every trip extra-special. Myboutiquehotel.com negotiates exclusive offers with flexibility in reservations, with the option of paying at check out or cancelling without penalty at just 48 hours' notice. It also offers room upgrades and guarantees you won't find a lower price anywhere else. Myboutiquehotel.com has partnered with several Aimiles programmes to allowing you to gain miles.


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Life is beautiful journey where you can be gently wandering along a beautiful woodland path, sunlight shimmering through the leaves, the smell of fresh pine filling the air, all of the birds harmonizing with the sound of the trickling stream as it dances over perfectly placed pebbles – Oh come on, let's get real….I am pretty certain that no life is ever like this! Life is an always changing, ever challenging journey. There are days where we can feel the pain of the uphill struggle and it can feel as we are simply just enduring from sunrise to sunset. It can feel like we are treading along the weathered stone road with no end in sight.
Dare to adventure, occasionally slip off the road onto the unbeaten track, through the thick woodlands, down rivers and white water and into the unknown.
Along the weathered stone road is an online blog devoted to sharing the reality of my adventurous pursuits.
So who am I? My name is Georgia and I love being at home wrapped up in a duvet, preferably sleeping, but on occasion I like to stretch my legs and pursue the great outdoors.
I was born in a small town called Kettering. Not a particularly pretty place but sufficient enough to meet the needs of my childhood. I attended the local C of E School and gained a respectable education giving me the grades I needed to endevour with life. I left education at 17 and undertook an accountancy apprenticeship and continued to work in the accounts field. At the beginning of 2017 I undertook employment with E-Outdoor a Northamptonshire based company that specializes in outdoor clothing and equipment.
As you can see I'm pretty average. I tell things like they are – no dressing it up in flowers, sparkles and unicorns. I hope you get to know me as you read the nonsense I write.


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Backhouse, Roger E. The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton Univ. Press.
Policy: "a commendable introduction to the historical context of modern economics…Perhaps the main value of the book is to dispel the widely held notion that economics is some late-20th century theoretical scourge divorced from practical relevance…Brevity leaves Backhouse with little room for his own interpretative interventions. Some of those that do find their way into the book are wide of the mark…" Region: "diversions are prevalent throughout the book and prove valuable; Backhouse has apparently left few stones unturned in his attempt to tell a story about the development of economic ideas…You don't have to be an economist or social scientist of another stripe to benefit from this instructive, well-reasoned and tightly written synthesis of economic thought." Library Journal: "clear analysis...a well-integrated, thoughtful, accessible text that makes a major contribution to the history and philosophy of economics...recommended for all academic and public libraries." Kirkus Reviews: "This compact study gives an accomplished and remarkably comprehensive overview of an often arcane field of inquiry. The Economist: "Largely successful..." Choice: "A readable and enjoyable volume accessible to a broad audience, and of considerable value and interest to professional economists. Booklist: "A scholarly book that will have appeal to well-read library patrons within the general population."


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My way of dealing with stress is to work. Tackle the tasks and get them done. I'm good at prioritizing and ticking things off a check list. I can jump from activity to activity without losing track of what I'm doing. So, I'm OK in times like these when I have to jump from a conference call, to feeding/soothing a crying baby, to someone knocking at the door because they're here to start the power washing and want a run down on what is needed for the paint job to begin, and then back to feeding/soothing the baby while simultaneously checking and responding to email, to my employee dropping by to have our weekly check-in meeting, returning again with feeding/soothing the baby, back to work and drafting action alerts on our budget play and emailing staffers in the legislature, and then paying bills and juggling the books to deal with the massive amount of money we are spending to get our beloved house ready to sell....
That is my typical day lately. And those tasks are the easy parts of my day. The hard parts are when I look at the clock and realize it is 3:26 PM and then checked the schedule on the wall and remember that Kai finishes KidzArt at 3:20 and is now waiting to be picked up. Crap. Why did I not extend her time in Adventure Time? Picking her up in the middle of the day is really making it hard to get all the rest of this stuff done. As soon as I pick her up, she starts complaining about how she is not in Adventure Time anymore. It turns out, we both loved her afterschool activities going until 6 PM.
I had this notion of being on maternity leave and getting to spend extra quality time with Kailey, especially given that it has been a bit of a rough year for her. I wanted to take her to the library and park after school and just hang out with her a bit more.
But, of course, I also knew that we'd be moving -- and not just moving, but getting this house ready to sell in a very compressed period of time, figuring out her summer schedule, researching schools and neighborhoods in Sacramento, keeping up with my work some (I didn't really anticipate the degree to which I would still be working...unfortunately, the individuals I hired to fill in for me while I'm on leave are not really working out), managing real estate agents, and dealing with the stress caused by a list that has caused this sentence to go on for an entire paragraph!
That is to say, I have no idea why I thought Kailey and I would have any quality time during this period. And, I don't know what compelled me to cancel most of her after school activities -- so now she is home between 2:15 - 3:30 most of the week. She still has Spanish School twice a week, but it requires me to go pick her up, entertain her for an hour, take her to Spanish School and then pick her up again 2 hours later. So -- the Spanish School days are not exactly conducive to getting things done beyond the 2 o'clock hour.
Instead of the extra time together resulting in some quality bonding time, it's just tested my patience. I'm never done with the list of things I need to get to when the Kailey pick up time rolls around. That's not her fault. But, it irritates me and then I get her home and try to go back to what I was doing before, which she isn't very interested in, and everything falls apart. I start snapping at her and bribing her to stay quiet. She wants her needs met -- she's hungry, she wants help with homework, she wants to cuddle with Alden or me, or she wants to play a game.... all reasonable requests. But, they all involve me. Which means not doing the rest of my calls (why do I set up a conference calls for the late afternoon?) or finishing the bills or scheduling my other meetings. It's not fair to her, and it makes me feel terrible for alternately snapping at her and ignoring her.
And, to her credit, she's been really good about playing by herself in her room for long periods or doing her homework by herself. We haven't resorted to endless videos (although, we've certainly watched some). But, she's six, and she isn't going to just entertain herself endlessly. And, it's not fair for me to be upset about that.
That, and, none of us really wants to move. So, we're all dealing with the emotions of a move that takes us from a house we love. I haven't had the bandwidth to really help her process her own emotions about moving away -- and, I feel terrible about that.
I am really looking forward to getting through June. Hopefully, by the end of June, we'll have sold this house, be settled in our temporary home in Sacramento, be done with the school year, have a fun summer camp for Kai, be done with a lot of my work (budget activities wrap up mid-June), and be starting to have fun again. Kai and Alden are both dealing with the chaos much better than their parents -- but, I want to have some real time with both of them this summer, away from all the stress.
Hopefully we'll get there. Fingers crossed.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Recipe for Risa
Cheesy Broccoli Soup
2 Tbsp. butter
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 Tbsp. flour
2 1/2 cups milk
1 lb. Velveeta Cheese or you can use regular cheddar or low fat cheddar, chopped into 1-1/2" cubes
1 pkg (10-16oz. depending on how much broccoli you want int he soup) frozen broccoli, thawed and drained
1/8tsp. pepper
1 tsp. marjoram
1/4 tsp. Adobo
Melt butter over medium heat in a large saucepan (6 qt. is good) on stove-top. Add onion and saute until tender. Add flour, stirring constantly for 1 minute over medium heat.
Add milk, stirring constantly. Bring to a gentle boil and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer 1 minute. Add all remaining ingredients and cook until cheese is melted and soup is heated through. YUMMY!! Nice and filling with crusty bread or serve in a bread bowl.
Hugs, Bobbi Jo
6 comments:
- The Blonde Duck said...
I love broccali cheese soup and Billy Blanks! You're on a roll!
- December 10, 2008 at 3:25 AM
- Laura Ingalls Gunn said...
I love this soup and will make it for my family soon.
- December 10, 2008 at 7:03 AM
- Alaska Family said...
That sounds so good! I love soup in the winter
- December 10, 2008 at 8:25 AM
- Merrianne said...
that looks soooooooooooooooooooooooo good!
I was just curious...that name RISA isn't too common. ARe you talking about RISA that is in the 76th ward in Mesa, AZ?
anyway... when spencer and i lived in AZ a couple of years ago, that was our ward ♥
- December 10, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Risa said...
OMG!! I get my name on a recipe! I feel special, thanks a bunch. I love Broccoli Cheese soup. I'm going to try it out ASAP.
Oh I am "the" Risa who requested the recipe however, I don't belong to any ward in Mesa. I live in Omaha, NE. I am from AZ though and I have lots of LDS friends! That's got to count for something right? ;-)
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Frank Capra's timeless classic, anchored by a winning performance from James Stewart as everyman and unsung hero George Bailey, was designed to remind us why life is worth living, and will continue to do so for generations to come. But much as we might love the film, aren't film purists supposed to hate the jaundice-faced studio colorization, with its painted-postcard hues? Maybe so, but the side-by-side comparison offered by this two-disc edition proves that the colorized version somehow suits Capra's fable from a bygone era, when viewed next to the too-black, high contrast black and white version. Either way, the film deserves 5 stars.
EXTRAS: With a trivia track and trailer, it's hardly a wonderful selection.


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Develop a toned body involves a mix of dieting and exercise, it's not an issue of "any nothing". However, business owners with little if any here we are at exercise have to make-use nutritional changes. Consequently, it requires longer to attain 6-pack abs plus they soon quit.
Exercises to have an attractive and well-sculpted abdomen aren't difficult plus they need nor time intensive. Actually, they merely have a couple of minutes each day and lots of can be achieved at the desk. So here's how busy business owners can train for flat stomach without major changes for your program.
Get trained in your cabin
Incline Curl : You are able to perform this exercise at the desk while sitting . Sit together with your back straight. Relax whenever possible. Hold for any couple of seconds and go back to your original position. This exercise works the stomach muscles and also the central area .
Standing Side Bends : After hrs sitting at the desk , you'll need a stretch . Take this chance to coach your abs. Stand straight back as well as your arms at the sides. Fold one for reds , hold for ten seconds and go back to beginning position. Perform the same for sleep issues.
Sitting size twist : The twist from the sitting height is yet another excellent exercise to obtain faster for individuals who spend many of their time in a desk torn. Sit together with your back straight. Put your right hands around the opposite shoulder and gradually turn top of the part of the body for the reason that direction. Perform the same for the following shoulder. Repeat the exercise .
Reserve undertaker for that weekend
Crunches are the most typical abdominal training exercises and many important if you wish to burn body fat and obtain ripped soon. It fortifies and types of conditions the soul. You will find various kinds of crunches for example regular crisis, lengthy arm crunch , reverse crunch, vertical leg crunch , bicycle crunch crunch and twist. Crunches cannot be done at the desk since it positions specific exercises and involves using equipment too. That you can do crunches around the weekend or in a nutshell duration ( 10-fifteen minutes) restricted to the exercise , daily crunches don't take lengthy .


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Refinements and Changes
- In Compile, it is now possible to turn off the preservation of centred text when formatting is overridden on a section-by-section basis. It is also possible to tell Scrivener to preserve tabs and indents in a Section Layout that otherwise overrides the text formatting. Both of these options are available via the new paintbrush icon at the bottom of the Section Layouts pane.
- Removed "Hide section in ebook" Section Layout Compile option for Kindle format, because the Kindle currently ignores this ebook option.
- Added <$sectionParentTitle> placeholder for headers and footers. This is the same as <$sectiontitle> but outputs the title of the parent document for the page group.
- Compile will now flag up when formats have the same internal ID (which can cause issues). This could be caused by a Time Machine restore or by copying formats manually in the Application Support folder, and is not likely to occur often. A warning icon is shown for problematic formats and a "Fix Duplicate IDs" option appears in the contextual and gear menus when this condition exists.
- Text completions and emojis can now be added to Scrivener's main editor Touch Bar.
- "Heading" and "Title" paragraph styles now use Keep-with-Next by default in new projects.
- The Format Bar can now show fractions in font sizes.
- Added a "Reload from Original Image" option to the contextual menu of linked images in text.
- Collapsed footnotes and comments in the Inspector now use an icon rather than text to indicate their type, allowing more room for the comment text preview.
Media Files and Web Pages
- When viewing audio files, the playback controls no longer fade out but remain visible.
- Added ability to insert the current media's file stamp in the focussed editor (Insert > Media Time Stamp). To do so, you need the editor to be split and for it to be showing a sound or video file in one editor with the focus in the text in the other.
- Added "Allow limited navigation in web pages" option to Navigation Preferences. When ticked, you can navigate around imported web pages to some degree, and the contextual menu allows you to navigate back and forward. Note that Scrivener is not a dedicated web browser, however.
- You can also now hold down Option when clicking a link in a web page to open it inside Scrivener's browser.
- When Scrivener resolves an alias file, if that file is on a volume that is not mounted, Scrivener no longer tries to mount the volume, which could lead to long lock-ups as macOS tried to access the volume.
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- In Scriptwriting mode, the "General Text (Centered)" pop-up menu shortcut is now "E" rather than "C", which clashed with the shortcut for "Character".
- It is now possible to set script mode to insert text at the start of a line when hitting tab (under the Tab/Return area of Script Settings).
- Added 1.2 line spacing as an option to Script Settings.
- Added a new <$mediaPlaybackTime> placeholder that can only be used inside the tab "Insert" fields of Script Settings. This can be used to automatically insert the current playback time of a video or sound file in the other editor by simply hitting tab.
- Added a new "Transcript" script format that takes advantage of the new time stamp placeholder, intended for use while working with a video or sound file in the other editor.
- Project Statistics now show the average, longest and shortest document lengths.
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- It's now possible to permanently delete a trashed document from a collection or search.
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- Fixed bug whereby if formatting was applied to multiple sections in Scrivenings mode, if any sections were identical, the formatting would only be saved for the first of the identical sections.
- Hopefully fixed crash relating to displaying unknown file types.
- Fixed a bug whereby the "Author" attribute in the Scrivener project's XML could include invalid XML characters, causing the iOS version not to be able to read the project.
- Fixed error that could be thrown on restoring Quick Reference panel tabs when launching Scrivener.
- Fixed a rare bug that could cause a hang when exporting to Word.
- Fixed bug whereby an edited custom metadata value could be lost on autosave.
- Fixed bug whereby turning off "24-Hour Time" in "Language & Region" System Preferences could cause problems with snapshots.
- Fixed bug whereby dragging comments or footnotes while editing them could cause the note text to be replaced with that of another comment or footnote.
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- Fixed bug whereby typewriter scrolling could kick in too early when "Typewriter scrolling always jumps to scroll line" enabled.
- Fixed bug whereby exporting to Scrivener 2 format would fail if there was a project of the same name at the export location.
- Fixed bug whereby custom meta-data lists containing an old value could display with the menu divider selected.
- Auto-Generate Synopsis now works as expected in Quick Reference panels.
- Fixed bug whereby filtering the outliner when showing the contents of a collection could include subdocument results unexpectedly.
- Fixed bug whereby if Scrivener was assigned to a different desktop via Mission Controls, Quick Reference panels could migrate to the active desktop.
- Fixed bug whereby "Address" information from the Preferences wouldn't be used in templates if Contacts access was turned off.
- Fixed bug whereby inserting and deleting elements in Script Settings could throw off the next elements set in Tab/Return.
- Fixed minor bug whereby the minimum width for images in the editor was larger than it should be.
- Fixed "Take Snapshot" in the editor header bar contextual menu to take snapshots only of the main editor document and not the one in the Copyholder.
- Fixed bug whereby "Export Comments and Annotations" failed to export comments.
- Fixed bug whereby automatically-generated tables of content for ebooks were creating an invalid nav element (because the title was not being turned into a header correctly).
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- Fixed bug whereby "Add prefix when compiling" in Script Settings would only affect the first paragraph in a sequence.
- Fixed bug whereby "Convert MultiMarkdown to rich text in notes and text" would cause a space to be inserted at the start and end of the notes or text.
- When exporting to ebook format, images are now always assigned unique IDs to avoid ePub validation checks.
- Fixed bug whereby headers and footers may not appear correctly in exported RTF and Word files when the exported file did not contain different sections.
- Fixed bug whereby plain text export would use the .mmd extension instead of .txt.
- Fixed bug whereby tables converted to images during Compile could contain unresolved placeholders.
- Fixed bug whereby underscores and asterisks in links would be escaped when converting rich text to MultiMarkdown in Compile.
- Fixed bug whereby footnotes could appear in the wrong place in an ebook when using the endnotes placeholder.
- Fixed bug whereby lists could appear with two bullets or numbers when compiled to Word if there was a paragraph style in the document.
- Fixed bug whereby the second footnote on a line may get missed out when compiling for print or PDF.
- Fixed a couple of bugs that could result in the "Treat as raw markup" Compile option not working as expected.
- Fixed bug whereby ticking "Treat as raw markup" in the Styles pane of Compile and then un-ticking again would change the formatting of the style.
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- Fixed bug whereby if a custom table of contents was used for ebooks without a header, indents may not come out as expected.
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"MacArthur's Spies" by Peter Eisner is the true story of a soldier, a singer, and spymaster working the underground resistance during WWII in the Philippines. The story follows Boone, Chick, and Claire as they work to both help American POWs that are dying by the thousands from starvation and neglect and acquiring intelligence from the Japanese officers partying at the clubs.
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When I hear the first line of "When You Get To Asheville," I immediately think of "Your House" and the story I wrote about yesterday.
"When you get to Asheville, send me an email."
It's such an interesting opening line, because it does nail the song down to a time and place. It couldn't have been written 20 years ago. And probably wouldn't be written 20 years from now, when we don't use email anymore because there is some kind of future-communication.
And, unlike Alanis Morissette, I get the feeling that this reference by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell is fully intentional.
The Old-Time/Bluegrassy/banjo sound is an immediate throwback. Whether it was recorded 40 years ago or 40 minutes ago, it can sound old.
Starting of a Pop song or a Rap song with a mention of "send me an email" would be perfectly appropriate and uneventful, as that music is crafted to sound "here and now."
But starting off a banjo song with "send me an email" catapults the Old-Time-sounding song, and the story, firmly into the present.
It's a clever move.
Hear the song on Youtube.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell "When You Get To Asheville"
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Left: Western blot analysis of TL1A in PC-3 cell lysates with TL1A antibody at (A) 0.5, (B) 1, and (C) 2 µg/ml.
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Tested Application(s) : E, WB
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Blocking Peptide : Cat. No. 3109P - TL1A Peptide
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Positive Control
1. Cat. No. 1216 - PC-3 Cell Lysate
Species Reactivity :H, M, R
GI Number : 21745392
Accession Number : AAM77366
Short Description : (NT) DR3 ligand
1. Chinnayan AM, O'Rourke K, Yu GL, et al. Signal transduction by DR3, a death domain-containing receptor related to TNFR-1 and CD95. Science 1996; 274:990-2.
2. Kitson J, Raven T, Jiang YP, et al. A death-domain-containing receptor that mediates apoptosis. Nature 1996; 384:372-5.
3. Screaton GR, Xu XN, Olsen AL, et al. LARD: a new lymphoid-specific death domain containing receptor regulated by pre-mRNA splicing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1997; 94:4615-9.
4. Bodmer JL, Burns K, Schneider P. TRAMP, a novel apoptosis-mediating receptor with sequence homology to tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 and Fas (Apo-1/CD95). Immunity 1997; 6:79-88.


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Proverbs 31 talks about such a lady as Grandma - and this phrase clarifies how i feel:
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Rest in peace, dear one. You will be missed but you touched lives in ways that perhaps you could not imagine.