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It may not be quite on a par with the Manhattan Project or with the challenge of beating the Soviets to the moon, but the race to find a substitute for the lacquer used to line food cans is heating up.
The canning industry is frantically trying to find a replacement for the epoxy resin currently being used because of concerns that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical that has been vilified as an "endocrine disruptor," might be leaching into the contents. BPA is combined with other components to form a polymer that keeps the metal from reacting with the food. Once the BPA has been incorporated into the polymer, it no longer has any hormonal effects. But there are always traces of unreacted BPA left over that can indeed leach out.
Before exploring this issue, a bit of history is in order.
Napoleon, as with many other generals before him, discovered that soldiers do not fight well on empty stomachs. And stomachs were often empty due to the difficulty of supplying food to massive travelling armies. So the emperor offered a prize of 12,000 francs, a healthy amount of money at the time, to anyone who could come up with a viable method of preserving food.
This challenge was taken up by Nicolas Appert, who, as the son of an innkeeper, had learned about brewing and pickling. These "fermentation" method, he knew, could be halted by heat, and he began to wonder if food spoilage could also be stopped in this fashion. After all, it was clear that cooked food kept longer than fresh food, although eventually it too would spoil.
Years of experimentation led Appert to make a critical discovery: if the food were sealed in a glass jar and then heated, it would keep for a remarkably long time. Long enough, at any rate, to please Napoleon, who awarded the prize to Appert in 1809. For the method clearly worked, although nobody at the time understood why, since bacteria were not identified as the cause of food spoilage until another famous Frenchman, Louis Pasteur, came along later in the century.
Appert's invention came to the attention of merchant Peter Durand in England, who was troubled by the use of glass jars, which often broke. There had to be a better way of storing food! Why not a metal container? Iron was cheap, and was his first choice. But iron corroded, especially when exposed to acidic foods. A coating that would protect it from the air and contents had to be found. Tin, concluded Durand, would do the job. The metal had been known since antiquity and could be easily melted and applied as a coating to iron, to make tin plate. And most importantly, tin did not corrode. By 1818, the British company Donkin and Hall was mass-producing food in tin cans.
When Admiral Parry sailed to the Arctic Circle in 1824, he sustained his crew on canned food. At least one can of roast veal apparently was not consumed, as just such a can turned up in a museum 114 years later. Inquisitive scientists opened it and decided to check the effectiveness of the canning process. They were not quite brave enough to try to eat the veal themselves, but the rats and cats who were given the pleasure of partaking of the 114-year-old feast not only survived — they thrived.
Although tin did not corrode, small amounts did dissolve, resulting in tainted food. Aluminum eventually turned out to be more suitable for cans, but aluminum still presented a problem of interacting with the food. As a result, chemists stepped into the picture and found that an epoxy resin made by reacting bisphenol A with epichlorohydrin was excellent in providing a barrier that was stable under the high heat and pressure of sterilization. What's more, it did not crack if the can was dented, and stood up well to the varying acidity of different foods.
Epoxy resins performed admirably, but cracks, figuratively speaking, began to appear in the early-1990s. By then, analytical techniques had been developed to detect extremely small amounts of BPA. More importantly, the hormonal effects of this chemical were being demonstrated by its effects on the multiplication of cultured breast cancer cells. In 1995, researchers at the University of Granada in Spain investigated a number of canned foods and found estrogenic activity in peas, artichokes, green beans, corn and mushrooms — but not in asparagus, palm hearts, peppers or tomatoes. The authors pointed out that while an estrogenic effect was observed, it was far less than that observed for estradiol, the body's naturally occurring estrogen.
The significance of the estrogenic effect of canned foods is difficult to estimate, given that on top of the estrogen produced by the body we are exposed to a wide variety of natural estrogenic compounds found in foods including milk, chickpeas, soybeans, vegetable oils, cabbage, flaxseeds and oats. It should also be noted that the concentration of pure bisphenol A required to produce maximum proliferation of breast cancer cells in the laboratory is 1,000-fold greater than for estradiol.
Though no risk from traces of BPA in canned foods has been demonstrated, there is a clamour for invoking the "precautionary principle" that aims to prevent harm even when the evidence is not fully in. For food companies, pleasing consumers is a high priority, whether demands are justified or not. So the race is on to find substitutes for epoxy resins.
In some cases, for such low-acid foods as beans, plant extracts that harden into a resin have met with success. For other foods, companies are looking into various acrylics, polyesters, polyurethanes and polyvinyl compounds. These do not match the performance of epoxy resin, nor is it clear that they have a better safety profile. Could we be trading in a perceived but unsubstantiated risk for a possible increased risk of food poisoning?
While you've been reading this column, hundreds of people have died from hunger, lack of clean water, poor sanitation and a host of preventable diseases ranging from malaria to AIDS. By contrast, we have the luxury of worrying about traces of chemicals contaminating our very ample food supply. A prescription for a dose of perspective is in order.
Joe Schwarcz is director of McGill University's Office for Science & Society (www.mcgill.ca/oss). He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.


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The tragic case of Rory Staunton, the 12-year-old Sunnyside, Queens boy who died of septic shock last April after being sent home from the emergency room at NYU Langone Medical Center, has resulted in the introduction by Governor Andrew Cuomo this week of powerful new emergency room measures that could save thousands of lives.
During his State of the State message this week, Cuomo is expected to announce that every hospital in New York must adopt new measures to identify sepsis in patients, including the introduction of a new countdown clock to begin treatment within an hour of spotting it, a state official told The New York Times. Cuomo's action stems directly from the case of Rory, whose parents, Ciaran and Orlaith, are originally from Ireland.
Sepsis is an illness in which the body has a severe response to bacteria or other germs, overwhelming the immune system. Something as simple as a cut can cause it, which is what happened in Rory's case.
It's estimated that Cuomo's new guidelines on sepsis awareness and detection could save between 5,000 to 8,000 lives in New York State each year and reduce the long-term costs of the condition.
Cuomo's office is also expected to announce that state regulators are developing procedures for parents to "play a meaningful and informed role" in decisions made about care for their children, according to the governors press office.
Rory's parents Ciaran, originally from Co. Mayo, and Orlaith, originally from Co. Tipperary, are well known members of New York's Irish business and political circles, and have responded with enthusiasm to the announcement, a comprehensive response to the dangers of sepsis that they are calling Rory's Law.
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"It's great news," Ciaran Staunton told the Irish Voice. "The governor is leading on the issue. Since we found out that our son Rory had died of sepsis, a condition that we had never heard of before, we reached out to everyone we could in political life and we found the governor's office very receptive to meeting us."
Responding to the Staunton's request to publicly highlight the dangers of sepsis, Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, organized a conference on the issue last November, inviting national authorities to contribute to the panel.
"People are seeing that one of the largest killers in the United States is a word that no one even knows," said Staunton. "Some describe it as the third largest killer in the nation."
At the time of Rory's discharge from NYU his parents were not informed that the results of his blood tests had not yet come back yet. Had the results been received in time they would have indicated that Rory was becoming critically ill, but the Stauntons only learned about the test results when they received a laboratory bill after Rory's death.
"We will be tortured for the rest of our lives that we brought our son home from hospital and he lay dying on our couch," says Staunton.
"They never told us about the tests. Part of what we hope will pass as a part of Rory's Law is the right of parents who should know what is happening to their children under hospital and emergency rule care."
Staunton says that transparent emergency care should be part of the complete package under a stronger Rory's Law, meaning that when parents bring a child into the emergency ward there should be a number of set criteria that must be met, involving and clearly explaining to the parents what medical decisions are being made.
"Parents are a child's first line of defense in hospital and emergency room situations. They have to be made aware of the dangers that the child may face," said Staunton.
Those who knew him know that Rory Staunton wanted to change the world. He was very active politically and sophisticated beyond his years. He ran a campaign in his local school to encourage his fellow students say no to the use of the "retard" word. He also took a stand against bullying.
"We even found a letter he had written to the North Korean government on his computer about their starving people," Staunton reveals. "We always knew that he would do great things. The unfortunate thing is that he had to die to do them.
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(Atlanta, Ga. - February 22, 2013) The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Gulf of Mexico Program will host an Environmental Justice Conference, "Environmental Justice: Systems, Symptoms, and Solutions" on March 1 - 2, 2013. The event will be held at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center.
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Ron Curry, EPA Region 6 Administrator;
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Jacqui Patterson, National Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Office of the NAACP
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Hosted by the Department of Economics, the panel featured remarks by Ken Weiher, chair of the Department of Economics; John Merrifield, UTSA professor of economics; and Gary Hoover, entrepreneur and Friedman student. The speakers recounted their personal experiences with Friedman and provided insights into where Friedman stood on a variety of issues such as school choice and fiscal and monetary policy.
"Friedman was not an advocate for vouchers, but in getting the government out of education," said Merrifield, a fellow proponent of school-choice research and policy implementation. "The key is unleashing the entrepreneurial initiative -- changing the choices in education, not shuffling people around to the various choices."
As a student in Friedman's class at the University of Chicago and later as a friend and fellow proponent of the free market system, Hoover felt that Friedman would have disagreed with the recent financial interventions by the government. "I was an outlaw and maverick just like him," said Hoover. "While he is often portrayed as a conservative economist, his thinking was truly revolutionary."
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TV-turned-movie stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison and James Buckley made it up the red carpet for the premiere of The Inbetweeners Movie – without a wardrobe malfunction in sight.
Hundreds of fans waited for hours in London's Leicester Square to catch a glimpse of their favourite cast members from the E4 sitcom, who are finally getting the big-screen treatment.
A suited and booted Joe, whose character Simon often gets caught out without clothes, joked: "I'm not taking any chances today.
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The Irish tourism agency, Fáilte Ireland, are optimistic about Ireland's tourism numbers for 2012 as the country prepares for the "The Gathering", a global Irish homecoming and Ireland's biggest tourism project to date which will be held in 2013.
The agency is targeting a two percent to seven percent increase in tourism this year, following last year's increase of six percent.
Fáilte Ireland's chief executive, Shaun Quinn, also said that there is not room for Ireland to rest on its laurels when it comes to tourism.
He said, "2012 is extraordinarily difficult to predict and that's an understatement."
Quinn said that growth in all key markets is expected, with a two percent to five percent increase in British visitors predicted and increases of up to seven percent in visitors from Europe and the US.
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Last year, the number of tourists coming from Britain increased by almost four percent to 2.8 million and European number increased by eight percent. US arrivals were up by five percent.
The greatest threat to Ireland's fragile recovery, in terms of tourism, comes from global factors. Quinn said "Any downturn in the global economy – or even significant fears about a downturn – has the potential to undermine the fragile recovery made so far in Irish tourism."
The chairman of Fáilte Ireland Redmond O'Donoghue said that for the first time in three or four years the Irish tourism industry is optimistic about the future.
Following Queen Elizabeth's visit to Ireland and President Barack Obama's homecoming there is a feel-good factor surrounding the country. Their visits also generated $380 million (€300 million) worth of publicity through the 40,000 articles and broadcasts generated by the global events.


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Iowa's public universities have work to do to end suppressive speech policies according to a new report from an advocacy group devoted to free speech in academia.
Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa all received "red light" ratings for their speech codes in the report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released this month.
A red light rating, given to universities with one or more severely restrictive speech codes, was given to 65 percent of 392 schools surveyed in the yearly report. While the report shows a slight decline in red light schools from past years, it says a "new wave" of federal and state policies that strengthen limited speech codes is threatening free speech nationwide.
In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post earlier this month from Greg Lukianoff, the foundation's president, he said many universities are now using overly broad speech codes that vaguely define harassment and discrimination to suppress other forms of protected speech.
For ISU, this year isn't the first time the university has received a less than acceptable rating from FIRE based on this criticism.
Last year, the report targeted ISU's harassment policies for citing jokes, pranks and derogatory comments based on an individual's personal characteristics like race or sex as examples of harassment.
Under the foundation's interpretation, harassment is "extreme and usually repetitive behavior so serious that it would interfere with a reasonable person's ability to receive his or her education" that is "severe, pervasive and objectively offensive."
Adam Kissel, vice president of programs at FIRE, said the examples of harassment listed in ISU's policy, particularly those related to sexual harassment, still don't meet this standard.
"The kinds of things that college students normally do and say on campus are liable to get them in trouble," he said. "Obviously, assault is not protected but 'unwelcome flirtation' is something that happens all the time, right? You don't know it's unwelcome until you actually flirt with someone and then you find out. And 'inappropriate put downs?' Are we in fifth grade?"
But Keith Bystrom, associate legal council at ISU, said he disagrees.
"They didn't like the fact that our policy provides examples," he said. "We just have a difference of opinions here. They think by putting in our examples we are putting in things that could be vague or could be interpreted in different ways. We think it helps students understand."
Kissel also criticized a line that says ISU's policy "may cover those activities which, although not severe, persistent or pervasive enough to meet the legal definition of harassment, are unacceptable and not tolerated in an educational or work environment."
"That's amazingly over broad," Kissel said. "Basically, the university is saying 'We haven't told you yet what you might have said or done, but if we think it's inappropriate and unjust and even if it's not severe, persistent or pervasive, we're going to count it anyway.'"
Some of ISU's other policies, including one that designates certain areas on campus as "free speech zones," received a "yellow light" rating, or one that could be interpreted to suppress speech.
That policy, which pertains to members of the ISU community who want to use certain campus areas for "expressive activities," requires large groups to file a notice of intent and receive approval as far as three days in advance of a demonstration.
Despite this policy, Bystrom said, "Anything can happen spontaneously in areas we've designated as free speech zones."
The recent Occupy ISU protests, for example, could take place at an area near the Campanile or the Hub under ISU's policy. If a group of more than 50 people wanted to bring the protest to the doors of Beardshear Hall, however, they would need permission from the university.
An unfair rating?
Michael Bugeja, director of ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, said he was "disappointed" by this year's red light rating.
He mentioned ISU's annual First Amendment Day Celebration and said the report made no mention of the week-long event dedicated to promoting free speech on campus.
"We had a representative of FIRE complimenting us on our First Amendment Day Celebration (last year), and I don't see that mentioned in the report," he said. "I would encourage a review of our red light rating in light of all the activities we put on concerning the First Amendment."
Bugeja, who contributes regularly to "The Chronicle of Higher Education" and the web-based publication "Inside Higher Ed," said ISU's speech policies have not affected him personally.
"Nobody has ever told me not to write about things that matter. In fact, I have been encouraged and at times counseled by my superiors," he said. "When you read the FIRE report, it really looks like it's focusing on policy, but there are several other aspects to the First Amendment that I enjoy personally as a journalist and professionally as a journalism educator."
Despite the rating, "the measure of the strength of the First Amendment" is best defined by students being able to express their opinions openly on campus, said Kelsey Kremer, president of ISU's Society of Professional Journalists chapter.
Kremer, who is active in planning ISU's annual First Amendment Day Celebration, said it's reasonable for the university to place some restrictions to prevent riots or other disturbances.
"It would be nice if the entire campus was considered a free speech zone and we didn't have a red light rating, but I think people can still express their opinion," she said. "I certainly think it could be much worse."
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- Remove dust from the mirror of a film camera. Use a hurricane bulb or other manual blower to spray air into the open camera body to remove dust from the mirror. Hold the camera body so the open front is facing the floor as you blow the air into the camera body. Debris will then fall directly to the floor, rather than being simply moved into another area of the camera body
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Nina S. Rees, Assistant Deputy Secretary
What's New
Innovations in the News
What's New
Secretary Spellings
spoke at the Business and Professional Women's Leadership Summit, celebrating
women's roles in government and business as well as the 85th anniversary of women's
right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment. Secretary Spellings hailed
the recent developments for an American university in Afghanistan that will help
to educate young girls. She also hailed the efforts to make equal education a reality
for all children in the U.S. through the No Child Left Behind Act. (May
Arts Education
Awards under the Washington Post's "Grants
in the Arts" program have been announced. This program provides educators in
the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia with funds for art education activities
to enhance existing curricula, expose students to visual and performing arts, and
encourage students to think critically and be creative. (May 15)
Virginia Walden-Ford, director of D.C. Parents for Choice,
will release Voices, Choices, and Second Chances: How to Win the Battle to Bring
Opportunity Scholarships to Your State, on May 26 at the
Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. The book highlights successful
efforts to provide education options for low-income families and the federal D.C.
Choice Incentive Act, which is administered by OII. (May 23)
Closing the Achievement Gap
A new
study of 28 urban districts targeted as leaders in "performance-driven practices,"
which are designed to focus school districts on student achievement, shows that
no blanket model works for all schools and all students. The report was prepared
for the NewSchools Venture Fund and examines promising practices, as well as barriers
to implementation. (May 23)
For Reading Is Fun Week (May 15-21),
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) partnered with the National Cartoonists' Society,
and over 30 syndicated and regional artists promoted reading in their comic strips.
RIF also announced the 2005 Community Reading Challenge and Volunteers of the Year
awards. (May 18)
Teacher Quality
Five teachers have been inducted into the
National Teachers' Hall of Fame. Two of them teach at schools of choice. Randy
Granger is head of Visual Arts at the private William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia,
the oldest Quaker school in the world, which was established by William Penn in
1689. John Mahoney teaches high school math at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School,
an alternative "International Baccalaureate World School" in Washington, DC.
These two schools
also have received recognition in other ways. Sarah Caleb, a sophomore at
William Penn is one of five winners of the Seventh Annual Young Composers
Project-a collaboration of the Philadelphia Classical Symphony and the Partners
in Distance Learning Classroom Arts Project. Banneker was listed in
Newsweek among the 100 best high schools in the country, based
on the number of Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate tests taken by all
students at a school, divided by the number of seniors taking AP courses. (May 23)
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Outstanding Young Educator Award honors an education professional 40 years
of age or younger who continuously demonstrates leadership among colleagues and
whose exemplary teaching practices have a significant impact on student achievement
over time. Two finalists for the award will be announced this month. Fall nominations
close on October 15, 2005. (May 23)
Michael J. Petrilli
Associate Assistant Deputy
Marcie Brown
Chief of Staff
Cynthia Hearn Dorfman
Director of Communications
Tiffany Taber
Margarita L. Melendez
Copy Editor
Cynthia Cabell
Production Editor
Program Contact
Transition to Teaching Program
Margarita L. Melendez
Article Submissions
Jack Klenk
Gillian Cohen-Boyer
Ms. Mahnlaye Boayue, a former health information manager
with Humana, Inc., decided to shift her focus from research conducted in a science
lab to a new type of laboratory: a school managed by a program that offers alternative
routes to teacher certification. After earning a degree from a college of biomedical
and health information sciences and working in the health field, Ms. Boayue entered
the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL) to become a teacher in a Chicago
public school. As part of her teacher training, she worked toward fighting low student
performance, while academically strengthening students as they sought to realize
their dreams.
The nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership attracts
mid-career professionals such as Ms. Boayue and recent college graduates with diverse
backgrounds and experiences to its teacher preparation program. Fifty-four percent
of AUSL participants enter the program after a stint in the professional workforce,
while 46 percent enter directly after receiving their college degrees. Most of the
AUSL "Residents," as they are called, enter with a long-term commitment to education
in mind. Many have been called to education as tutors, teachers' aides, substitute
teachers, social workers, mentors, or education volunteers for summer youth programs
or nonprofit organizations.
Chicago civic, education, and business leaders founded AUSL
in January 2001 with the purpose of infusing the city's public schools with new
teaching talent. One aspect of the program that sets it apart from other teacher
training programs is its focus on "critical mass" in a school in order to provide
concentrated education reform, with the goal of enhancing student academic achievement.
In other words, a large number of AUSL graduates needs to teach in the same school
in order to have a lasting impact on the school culture and the students' academic
achievement. Chicago Public Schools, therefore, has contracted with AUSL to completely
manage and conduct teacher preparation programs in three schools: the Chicago Academy,
the Dodge Renaissance Academy, and the Chicago Academy High School.
The Chicago Academy opened in 2001 and currently serves
562 pre-kindergarten to eighth grade students, and the Dodge Renaissance Academy
opened in 2003 and serves 392 pre-kindergarten to eighth grade students. The Chicago
Academy High School welcomed its first freshman class of 122 students this academic
year and will add one grade level for the next three years, increasing enrollment
to 500 students. All three schools operate independent of the city's public school
Each AUSL training classroom contains three instructors:
one Mentor Teacher and two AUSL Residents. AUSL Mentor Teachers advise Residents
and help them build a repertoire of core teaching practices in a co-teaching environment,
with the goal of having a positive impact on student achievement. AUSL and the schools
it serves are optimistic that positive test scores will grow as students receive
instruction from Mentor Teachers and teacher candidates. In 2004, 77.3 percent of
students at the Chicago Academy met national standards in reading, and 81.9 percent
met those standards in math.
The program's mantra is "attract, train, retain." As an
incentive, AUSL offers its Residents a $30,000 living stipend, health benefits,
a reduced-tuition Master of Arts in Teaching degree from
National-Louis University (NLU), and the opportunity to earn Illinois teaching
certification at the elementary or secondary level. AUSL uses a variety of recruitment
strategies by reaching out to national and community organizations, sending representatives
to colleges and universities, and placing special emphasis on the recruitment of
men, who are not typically drawn to education programs.
As part of the application
process, candidates must complete an interview with a panel of four AUSL staff,
including two who have over twenty years' experience each as principals. In addition,
candidates must write essays, teach a model lesson to panelists, and write an impromptu
reflection on the lesson. All finalists take the
Haberman Star Teacher On-Line Pre-Screener, a tool developed by the Haberman Educational
Foundation (see
Innovator, Feb 23, 2004) to identify those candidates who are more
likely to become leaders and who will take ownership of practices implemented in
their urban classrooms.
Once Residents commit
to AUSL, their rigorous 12-month training begins. During the summer, they spend
two months in intensive coursework through National-Louis University that provides
them with theory and research across six areas: (1)
Foundations of Education, (2) Knowledge of Students, (3) Methods of Teaching, (4)
Teacher Leadership, (5) Power of Data, and (6) Technology. In addition, they participate
in several AUSL workshops that address such topics as diversity, culturally competent
teaching, written and oral communication, and cognitive coaching.
Once the public schools
open in September, Residents spend the academic year in classrooms working alongside
experienced Mentor Teachers who have demonstrated their effectiveness in urban settings.
After school, Residents divide their time between structured reflection sessions
with their Mentors and classes with NLU faculty. Under the tutelage of their Mentors,
Residents learn how to create and sustain a positive learning environment and differentiate
instruction for various types of learners. As part of the NLU coursework, Residents
complete classroom projects that help them apply theory and research to their work
with children. Student study team meetings and teacher learning team meetings are
also part of the Residents' daily schedule.
As part of its goal to retain teachers in the school system,
all Residents must commit to a five-year placement in low-performing Chicago public
schools after they graduate. AUSL works with principals who want to maximize the
potential of new, passionate teachers in their schools. These principals hire AUSL
graduates in teams and sustain an ongoing partnership with the program, which includes
quarterly professional development seminars and on-site consultation with AUSL field
coaches. NLU faculty members maintain contact with graduates through a liaison who
facilitates the communication process. AUSL has a 97 percent retention rate of teachers
in the field.
Residents are evaluated several times during the year using
a competency appraisal developed collaboratively by NLU faculty and AUSL staff.
This rubric assesses the Residents' professional practice based on standards developed
by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), the Illinois
State Board of Education, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE). The combination of NLU coursework, AUSL workshops, and
practice with Mentor Teachers builds a strong pedagogical foundation for Residents,
prepares them to meet AUSL's challenging standards, and readies them for Chicago
public school classrooms.
To help measure AUSL's success, the program is working with
the Chicago Public Schools' Office of Research, Evaluation, and Accountability to
examine test scores of children taught by AUSL graduates, as compared to scores
from non-AUSL teachers. AUSL also received a grant from the Spencer Foundation to
contract with Brown University and the University of Memphis Center for Research
and Education Policy. Both universities will perform the first comprehensive evaluation
of AUSL and its impact on student achievement. AUSL receives funding from the Office
of Innovation and Improvement's Transition to Teaching program and the Fund for
the Improvement of Education program.
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program is innovative and interesting; however, it does not yet have evidence of
effectiveness from a rigorous evaluation and may not be replicable under differing
In Washington County (MD), principals
and guidance counselors are seeking struggling students and moving them into more
rigorous courses. Ten years ago, South Hagerstown High School nearly lost its Advanced
Placement (AP) chemistry course because so few students enrolled. Now that class
is full, along with the 17 other AP classes the school offers. Last year 93 percent
of the twelfth graders at South Hagerstown High graduated when, in 2000, just 74
percent received diplomas. [More-The
Baltimore Sun] (May 16)
When Irene Sullivan, director of
Advanced Placement programs for the Covington (KY) school district, wrote an application
for an AP grant for Holmes High School, she didn't hold back on the grim facts.
Holmes ranked 226th out of 229 Kentucky schools on state assessment tests in 2002
through 2004. Despite this ranking, the school's AP program has been growing. More
students have begun to enroll in AP U.S. History, English Literature, and Economics.
Moreover, while in 2002 the pass rate on the AP tests was 5.4 percent, it rose to
21.7 percent last year. This month the College Board awarded Holmes a $32,000 AP
Start Up grant to add an AP course in English Language Skills. [More-The
Sunday Challenger] (May 18)
Superintendent of
Washington, D.C. Public Schools Clifford B. Janey has called for $13.1 million to
hire more art and music teachers, buy supplies and equipment, and include the arts
in the elementary and middle school curricula. Out of the district's 167 schools,
44 have no art teachers, and 49 have no music teachers. Mr. Janey is centering his
plan around the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the system's college-preparatory
arts magnet high school. [More-Education
Week] (May 18) [free registration]
When they enter the New Haven charter middle school, Amistad
Academy, the 275 students and their parents sign contracts pledging to uphold Amistad's
strict standards on dress, homework, attendance, and values such as tolerance and
respect. Amistad is one of the highest performing middle schools in Connecticut,
with 81 percent of eighth graders achieving mastery in reading on the 2003 state
test, compared with 67 percent statewide. [More-The
Washington Post] (May 14)
Teach for America (TFA) teachers are filling many persistently
empty teaching slots in St. Louis Public Schools (MO). The nonprofit added St. Louis
to its list of recruiting sites three years ago and has since placed nearly 100
teachers in St. Louis public and charter schools. TFA plans to expand the St. Louis
corps next year by adding 55 to 60 teachers to the local school system. [More-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch] (May 13)
Twenty-five teachers took advantage of a Teaching American
History grant from the Office of Innovation and Improvement to the Northern Humboldt
Union High School District (CA). These teachers recently received master's degrees
from Humboldt State University. The elementary through high school level teachers
participated in a three-year program where they took summer history field trips,
made presentations at conferences, produced lesson plans, and analyzed primary source
documents. Another 30 teachers will receive their master's degrees from Humboldt
next May. [More-Times-Standard]
(May 17)
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* Choice would show importance of Hispanic voters
* Colorado was an important swing state in 2012 election
(Updates with quotes, White House no comment, background)
By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Colorado Lieutenant Governor
Joe Garcia is a leading candidate to become secretary of labor
in President Barack Obama's second-term cabinet, sources
familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday.
Garcia, a Hispanic former president of Colorado State
University-Pueblo, would bring racial diversity and a Western
flair to Obama's team.
The president has faced criticism for failing to choose
women and minority candidates for cabinet vacancies at the
departments of state, defense, and treasury.
Garcia, if nominated and confirmed, would succeed Labor
Secretary Hilda Solis, a Latina who earlier this month announced
plans to resign.
The choice of Garcia would highlight the importance of
Latinos - a hugely influential voting bloc - and of Colorado, a
political swing state that supported Obama in the 2012 election.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a fellow Hispanic from
Colorado, said earlier this month he planned to leave his post
by the end of March to return to his ranch.
A spokeswoman for Garcia and a White House spokesman both
declined to comment.
The promotion to lead a federal government agency would be a
big jump for Garcia, who rose rapidly from a career in higher
education to become Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper's No. 2.
Hickenlooper picked Garcia to be his running mate in 2010.
Once in office, he made Garcia executive director of Colorado's
Department of Higher Education in addition to his lieutenant
governor role.
Garcia was credited with revitalizing student enrollment,
improving finances and strengthening the reputation of Colorado
State University-Pueblo.
"Joe Garcia is incredibly talented," said Rick Palacio,
chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party, who said he was not
aware that Garcia was a candidate for the Labor post. "I think
he brings a lot to the table."
Obama has singled out Garcia for praise during campaign
trips to Colorado, calling him "one of the finest lieutenant
governors" during a trip to Denver in May.
Obama chose John Kerry, a former Democratic presidential
nominee and Massachusetts senator, to succeed Hillary Clinton as
secretary of State; Jack Lew, a former White House chief of
staff, to succeed Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary; and
Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator, to succeed Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta.
Garcia is a graduate of the University of Colorado at
Boulder and Harvard Law School.
(Editing by Alistair Bell and Cynthia Osterman)


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PORTLAND — The mauling death of a longtime employee cleaning a cougar enclosure at a suburban Portland wildcat sanctuary this weekend is eerily similar to that of an intern killed by a lion at a wildcat park in California earlier this year.
In the Oregon case, WildCat Haven in Sherwood said its head keeper, Renee Radziwon, 36, of Portland, broke a safety protocol that calls for two qualified workers in an enclosure with animals.
But Radziwon's family says the woman did not break any rules and had expressed concerns about working alone just days before the attack.
What exactly occurred may never be known, because there are no cameras at the facility. But the circumstances of Radziwon's mauling recall the March death of 24-year-old Dianna Hanson at Cat Haven in central California. Hanson was also killed while cleaning an enclosure.
Hanson died after one of two lions escaped from a smaller feeding cage into the enclosure and attacked her. She, too, was working alone — though another worker at the facility was in contact with her via walkie-talkie.
In that case, authorities concluded that proper enclosures were in place and the intern had committed a fatal error: She failed to secure the latch of a door to the smaller cage.
Authorities in the Oregon case have directed no blame.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said Monday that it had finished looking into the attack and concluded no crime was committed.
The state Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are still investigating.
WildCat Haven owner Michael Tuller discovered Radziwon bloodied and lying on her back inside the enclosure at about 7 p.m. Saturday and pulled her body by the boots into a secure entrance before calling 911.
According to a Clackamas County sheriff's report, responding officers found one cougar walking freely inside a main enclosure with a small amount of blood above its nose, and a second cougar in an enclosed 15-by-15 cage.
Tuller told authorities that Radziwon was alone at the facility because he and his wife — the sanctuary's executive director, Cheryl Tuller — were at another property in Scotts Mills, where they plan to eventually move the sanctuary, the report said.
The sanctuary said in a statement Sunday that the facility's handbook specifies that a staff member can enter an enclosure to clean or make repairs only after the animals are locked out of it.
The enclosure is surrounded on all sides with a 14-foot wall of thick wire with secure ceilings and includes a lockout area and double-door entry, according to the statement. Tuller told investigators he found Radziwon's body about 10 feet away from the inside door.
Sheriff's officials did not say whether Radziwon disregarded the safety protocol and allowed one of the cougars out into the enclosure with her, whether she left the smaller cage unlatched, or whether the cougar had escaped from the smaller cage as the lion did in California.
The sanctuary did not return multiple calls for comment Monday.
Carol Radziwon said her daughter was very careful around the animals and would not break any safety rules, because she had written some of them herself.
"There was no one there to help her. There was no one at that sanctuary. They left her completely alone," Carol Radziwon told the Associated Press by phone from Pennsylvania.
Autopsy results released Monday showed Renee Radziwon died at the scene of multiple bite wounds concentrated on her head and neck.
It was not immediately clear whether the cougar that attacked her would be put down. In California, sheriff's deputies killed the lion when they could not lure him away from Hanson's body. The USDA is looking into the Oregon incident to determine whether any noncompliance with the Animal Welfare Act contributed to the attack, spokeswoman Tanya Espinosa said. As in the California case, USDA investigators will look at whether proper enclosures were in place and whether they were in good working order.
Two routine inspections conducted by the federal agency at the Sherwood sanctuary in 2011 and 2012 showed no violations, according to USDA records.
Oregon OSHA will also investigate the sanctuary's safety protocols and safety training, spokeswoman Melanie Mesaros said.
WildCat Haven is a nonprofit that rescues captive-born cougars, bobcats, tigers and other wildcats. Cougars are the size of large dogs and are native to the American West.
The sanctuary is 17 miles south of Portland, in a secluded, wooded area. It's closed to the public, but conducts tours for donors. The Tullers opened the facility in 2001 and still run it. Its website says the sanctuary houses more than 60 cats. Renee Radziwon was the only staff member listed on the site.
Renee Radziwon, who was originally from Philadelphia, leaves behind a husband and 5-month-old daughter.
Officials at another big cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, told The Associated Press last year that at least 21 people, including five children, have been killed and 246 mauled by exotic cats in the U.S. since 1990. Over that period, 254 cats escaped and 143 were killed.
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Chinese Vegetarian Recipes
Muop Tau Hu Xao Recipe (Vietnamese Loofah and Tofu Stir-fry)
Mướp tàu hũ xào (loofah squash and tofu stir-fry) is a standard in Vietnamese vegetarian cuisine. Mướp (Vietnamese Loofah) is stir-fried along with tofu in black bean sauce and chili garlic sauce. The dish is seasoned with soy sauce and fried garlic. I also added straw mushrooms as a foil to the loofah. It's a very quick and easy dish I often make when I'm in a rush and I want a tasty, healthy meal.
Vietnamese loofah is a very common vegetable in Vietnam that is also used a lot in making canh ("soup" in Vietnamese) because of its natural sweetness and tender texture. You won't be disappointed by this, and if you like it, it's easy to put together non-vegetarian versions.
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Spicy Eggplant Recipe
This eggplant side dish is very easy to prepare. It's perfect if you want to cook Asian food for a vegetarian crowd. I sautéed Japanese eggplants in a hoisin sauce-based mixture for its caramel color and subtle sweetness. To this, I added several crunchy ingredients such as shredded bamboo and black fungus mushrooms (called nấm mèo in Vietnamese) to balance the soft texture of the eggplant.
It's important to add spiciness to the dish as the eggplant can be a little bland. I added sliced jalapenos, grated ginger and store-bought chile garlic sauce. The result is a combination of sweet, garlicky, spicy and savory.
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Bottle Gourd Recipe with Tofu
Trái bàu translates to calabash, bottle gourd, long melon or opo squash. It's a very common vegetable used in Vietnamese cuisine. The shape is cylindrical and the color is light green. It's best harvested while still young. It can be boiled, stir-fried or added to soups. The texture is very similar to zucchini; the flesh is very soft, spongy and tastes mildly sweet.
Whenever I look at calabash, it makes me think of a very nice lady named Trần and her lovely family. Last year, I got to meet Trần through PhamFatale.com. She read my article about the dragon fruit that I bought at the market and she kindly offered to give me dragon fruit trees her mother grows as a hobby. Trần's mom has magical hands and is a very talented gardener. While visiting their garden in San Jose, I noticed beautiful, giant calabash growing on vines hung over a trellis. I took a few home with me and they were the some of the best I've ever had. I'm going to try and to grow some of my own this year, and I'll let you know how it goes.
For this particular version I made a quick vegetable stir-fry, using miso and honey. In honor of the upcoming Asian New Year, I'm determined to eat vegetarian for a week and at the same time, shed a few pounds. This recipe was a great way to kick off my challenge.
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Choy Sum with Oyster Sauce
Choy sum (also known as Chinese flowering cabbage) is a very quick and easy vegetable to cook. I pan-steamed the greens for only a few minutes to maintain a bright green color and paired them with an oyster sauce mixture. Of course, I also had to modify the recipe a bit for the strictly vegetarian diet of my husband Lulu, but the method is exactly the same.
You can serve them as is or with a sauce of your own. It's a healthy and flavorful way to open a meal. I've had it often that way at dim sum restaurants. In fact, it's usually one of the few vegetable dishes offered. With this recipe, you can have it at home, without the dim sum prices!
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Braised Tofu with Hoisin Sauce
Braising is one of the best cooking methods to increase the flavor of tofu. In this particular dish, I braised the tofu in a hoisin sauce-based mixture for its caramel color and subtle sweetness. To this, I added several vegetables such as wood ear mushrooms, button mushrooms, carrots and Japanese eggplants.
If you've been following my culinary adventures, you know I married a vegetarian. I'm not saying it as though it's a flaw, but I have to admit that when we first got married, I was a little nervous about what I was going to feed my sweetie. I really didn't have any familiarity with vegetarian cuisine. I love Lulu so much that I was determined to learn how to prepare flavorful vegetarian meals. Since then, I've tried boiling tofu, pan-searing it, grilling it, braising it and deep-frying it. I think I've gone through every possibility, but If you have any other methods you like for cooking tofu, please drop me a message.
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How To Clean In-Ear Headphones
We love our in-ear headphones. One thing we don't love about them is how quickly they can start looking quite dirty thanks to the white ear buds. Recently we discovered the cleaning powers of a home brew solution we made for cleaning our laptop screen, which will also work for cleaning your in-ear headphones.
What You Need
our screen cleaning solution
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clean rag
purified water
1. The first thing you do is remove the ear buds from the headphones. If you do not already have the screen cleaning solution mixed up, create a batch now mixing 1 part purified water with 1 part distilled white vinegar.
2. Pour the screen cleaning solution into the glass till it is about an inch high. Insert the ear buds into the glass and let that sit for about 15 minutes. Remove the ear buds, turn them inside out and then place them back into the solution. Leave them in the solution for another 15 minutes.
3. Remove the ear buds. Empty the contents of the glass, rinse the glass, then fill the glass with purified water. Insert ear buds into the glass. Leave the ear buds in this water rinse for about 10 minutes.
4. Remove the ear buds and dry them using the clean rag. Re-attach the ear buds to your headphones.
Additional Notes: Make sure that your ear buds are completely dry before re-attaching them to the headphones. Headphones like most electronics are not keen on getting wet.
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The Brewery
Raleigh, NC
Dec. 31, 1986 into the wee hours of Jan. 1, 1987
audience recording (sound quality VG+; a well-balanced, solid-sounding recording).
BIG THANKS to TG for recording the show and SUPER DUPER THANKS to dB's Fan for the share!
Highlights: A fired-up dB's play a rowdy New Year's Eve show — a perfect way to ring in any New Year. (Dig those nutty noisemakers!) During the show, Peter announces (for the first time in public?) that I.R.S. Records has signed The dB's and that a new album will be recorded and released in 1987.
Gene models the kind of hat all well-dressed
New Year's Eve revelers should wear
(ie, a sideways Like This jacket!)
01 Any Old Thing
02 She Got Soul
03 Auld Lang Syne -- Never Say When
04 Rains Around Here
05 Lonely Is as Lonely Does
06 Not Cool
07 Never Before and Never Again
08 A Better Place
09 Today Could Be the Day
10 White Train
11 I Lie (very end cut, faded)
12 New Gun In Town
13 Change With the Changing Times
14 Amplifier
15 Love Is for Lovers
16 Witchi-Tai-To (Jim Pepper cover; Will sings lead)*
17 A Spy In the House of Love
18 Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
*16 is a traditional Native American peyote chant set to music (leave it to Will to find something that cool & include it in a dB's show...)
These photos were taken at a show in Boston at The Rat in the mid-1980s. But it probably looked a lot like this on New Year's Eve in 1986 at The Brewery in Raleigh.
The dB's:
Peter Holsapple: guitar, vocals
Gene Holder: lead guitar
Will Rigby: drums, backing vocals
Jeff Beninato: bass, backing vocals
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Just a quick post for today – heading to Hawai'i in less than a week. I really want to find a way to organize life so that I can spend winter and summer in Hawai'i, and spring and fall in NYC. And of course, wedge in a few picture-perfect Paris months ;)
Afternoon tea at the Mandarin Oriental right off Central Park. I love how the lobby is up on the 36th floor…amazing views are integral to the afternoon tea experience here.
Sugar scones with housemade orange marmalade and Devonshire cream. You're supposed to eat sandwiches first, then scones and finally desserts. But I like starting with scones when possible, then moving to sandwiches and then desserts. So you get the sweet-savory-sweet balance, otherwise it's a lot of sugar all at once.
Then we eat sandwiches. In the back: smoked salmon layered over lemon-caper mousse, cucumber slices to finish. Served on marble rye bread. And in back: multigrain with soybean hummus, goat cheese, watercress and a bit of sea salt.
In the back: brioche with honey-dijon and a layer of Vermont-smoked cheddar. Another layer of brioche, more honey-dijon and the black forest ham. It's easy to look at tea sandwiches and think, ahh that's so easy…until you try to make it yourself! So hard to get everything precise with balance and sharp edges. And in front: Asian chicken salad with napa cabbage and roasted peanuts on whole wheat bread.
I was here during Fashion Week 2012 so they revamped all the regular desserts to fashion-themed desserts. Seriously cute. Let's run through them all!
– Jimmy Choo Caramel Tart
– DVF Batten Burge
– Hot Coco Chanel
– Donna Karrot Cake
– Apple Brown Betsey Johnson
As for the tea itself? The Mandarin uses Vancouver-based tea company, Tealeaves (also known as "T"). This company has an impressive presence in the luxury hotel industry, and I've mentioned them <a href="http://static.squarespace.com/static/51895797e4b07dc9727307ce/518957d3e4b04dec96da1667/5189580be4b04dec96da1d55/1337365989000/#img Darjeeling and Jasmine Pearls are spectacular.
I have a bunch of afternoon tea plans lined up in Honolulu…see you guys there soon!
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Beautiful blonde Kayden Kross got her start when she began stripping at age 18 at Rick's Showgirls in Rancho Cordova, California, to earn extra money to purchase a pony that was going to be slaughtered. That kind-hearted act led the way to a career in adult entertainment. Kayden made the big jump into films on November 15, 2006 as a college senior. Her first scene for Vivid Entertainment also became her first title, "Kayden's First Time." After the success of the first video a second one quickly followed, "Be Here Now," which featured her first girl-on-girl scene and her first anal. Kayden became a Vivid contract girl in 2006, making appearances on several shows, including several episodes of "The Block," a reality snowboarding show that aired on G4TV, in which the Vivid Girls went to The Block hotel for a photo shoot. Her contract, however, expired in 2007 and was not renewed by Vivid. Kayden continued to work as an independent performer until she was signed to an exclusive Adam & Eve contract in December of 2007. Kayden's beauty has led to featured appearances in Penthouse magazine and Digital Dreamgirls as well as glamour modeling under the name Jenna Nikol.
Aside from her work in adult films, Kayden is also a blogger contributing to MikeSouth.com as well as X-Critic. She's a self-described bookworm who enjoys horseback riding, fosters animals, and is attracted to older, well-dressed men -- she hopes to find one who loves horses as much as she does. "I think I'm basically a reserved person," she has said, "but I'm pretty turned on just under the surface and, if the situation is right, I can really be outgoing."


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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
A movie.
Kadokawa's site for the movie:
Originally a juvenile novel.
In 1972 it got a shounen(boy's) drama series.
From Anime News Service:
There are 2 volumes released of this manga (its finished).
Here are the covers:
Shounen manga
Mangaka: Gaku Tsugano (also the mangaka of the second Suzumiya Haruhi manga)
A new manga called Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo TOKIKAKE started on 26/4/2006 in the shounen manga magazine Shounen Ace.
Here's the cover of the manga:
Shounen manga
Mangaka: Kanori Ranmaru
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I added the covers of the old manga (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) to the post above.
The new manga (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo TOKIKAKE) that started on 26/4/2006 in Shounen Ace magazine will be the manga version of the movie.
|2006-05-23, 07:57
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Man, I just love Sadamoto´s artwork. It´s looking great, and I´m really looking forward to it.
Don´t forget to checkout the trailer people:
Also, It would be great if someone could explain anything from their blogposts..!
|2006-05-23, 11:05
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Yeah, it does look great. now I'm looking forward for this even more
|2006-05-23, 15:05
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
Ah, so this is what that is. I keep seeing this in Newtype JP. The trailer looks very promising indeed. I like the character designs. I'm getting a sort of Earth Girl Arjuna vibe off of it and maybe a little Mimi Wo Sumaseba especially in the little details like the ladybird and the the wooden clock/chimes.
Madhouse seem to be pretty busy at the moment with this, Kiba, Yume Tsukai, Black Lagoon and others...
|2006-07-24, 11:22
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Just saw the movie that just came out last saturday.
I didn't know about the manga, but let me tell you it's awesome. Perfect sets, cute heroin, great plot, great music, and of course good animation and good voices. I'm not sure this would never be licenced for a theater release in Europe or the US but why not in DVD?
Right now I feel like reading the novel.
Everyone in Japan, don't even hesitate to have a look at it, this is more than "juvenile", it's moving and funny, nostalgic in a way. Ok, I loved it. I guess it's because I had a real shitty day I wish I could take back.
|2006-07-24, 17:47
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It was published in France under the title "La Traversée du Temps" (roughly translated as "Cross through Time"), I had the novel from my school when I was ten. I fucking enjoyed it, the ending was kind of bittersweet.
I learnt about its adaptation as animated movie just today, but I didn't know it was that until I saw the name of the author of the original work and figured out I had the book in my belongings all along.
I am so wanting to watch it. Time travel being one of my favorite themes in the science-fiction genre.
So I am hoping that the french import the movie in their ground because of the past publishing of the book here.
|2006-07-25, 01:28
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trainee archangel
I checked that after posting. Now I remember my college teacher quoting Tsutsui in a lecture. I'll definitely read it when i have the chance.
And as I said, this is a really good movie, you won't regret it. I'm just wondering if it hasn't been a bit "simplified" to fit in 100 mins format.
|2006-08-03, 21:41
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Gairyu Isle, Japan
Age: 32
I read that this got 4.7 out of 5 so it must be good. Gedo Senki on the other hand only got 3.2 or something like that (I remember it getting an average point).
You can find a summary for the movie here: http://www.designchronicle.com/memen...mpression.html
Does anyone know when the DVD is coming out?
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|2007-02-11, 16:32
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Join Date: Jul 2004
I have the novella. It's good. It's fairly short, and the Japanese is pretty easy. The story was atmospheric and interesting. It's no wonder it has been adapted so many times. I'm looking forward to seeing it animated. I haven't seen the live-action movie, but it's around.
|2007-03-22, 07:12
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I stumble upon this anime when i was browsing about for information on Okami and found out it won the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival award for the animation category. No idea how acclaim this award is but it beats anime like
a) GITS SAC: Solid State Society
b) Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
c) Mushishi
so it must be something to watch for.
Japan Media Arts Festival 2006 Award website
|2007-04-21, 18:09
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Gairyu Isle, Japan
Age: 32
Well the raw has been out in tokyo (*Hint, Hint*). Anyway, anyone got a chance to watch it? I downloaded it just because I'm really curious and exited to watch this. I won't watch the whole thing, I'll probably just skim through it.
Anyone know who's subbing this besides Saizen?
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More than 50 big-hearted volunteers filled four trucks full of rubbish recently, by collecting other people's litter in the Peak District National Park.
As a reward for their good work, the authority treated them to a go at climbing, high ropes or abseiling.
The Pick and Play event was organised by the Peak Park Conservation Volunteers and Castleton-based outdoor activity company Peak Mountaineering.
Litter picks were organised at Burbage Plantation, Tideswell Dale and Pindale near Castleton. Among the rubbish they collected were old tyres, a TV, a duvet, tarpaulin shelters and a multitude of cans, bottles and food-wrappers.
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A recent visit to Mojave by Aviation Week found 4 MD-11 freighters stored awaiting new operators. Whilst the trend for widebody operators is still towards twinjets, there is still some demand for already-converted trijets. Pictured are two former China Cargo Airlines and one from Shanghai Airlines. The all-white one is destined for Western Global Airlines, a startup to be based at Sarasota, FL.
The eagle-eyed among you may spot a SAAB J-32 Lansen and a pair of F-100's in the photo.
Not far away, but in a different area at Mojave, is where they pull apart airliners not likely to fly again. Over here are 13 Southern Air 747's and 5 Atlas Air 747's, of which some can be seen here.
The 4-jet freighter market has bottomed out, and there are dozens of these giants stored in the Southwestern deserts.
Finally a picture of an immaculate L1011 TriStar, belonging to Orbital Sciences Corporation, one of only 3 airworthy examples in the world, and the only one in the US, according to Aviation Week Intelligence Network's Fleet Database.
For those who were curious, the fighter alongside is a SAAB Draken formerly of the Royal Danish Air Force.
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The Onslow County Health Department is remodeling and cleaning up before its accreditation.
The Onslow County Health Department is remodeling and cleaning up before its accreditation.
According to Health Director Angela Lee, the building is currently �worn and tattered� and for accreditation, it needs to be clean, safe and secure.
In 2002, the N.C. Division of Public Health and the North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors developed a mandatory, standards-based system for accrediting local health departments throughout the state.
Assistant County Manager Sheri Slater said that the focus of the accreditation is on the health department�s capacity to ensure the health of the public.
Projects scheduled between now and the April accreditation visit include painting, replacing carpet, steam cleaning tile floors, replacing tile in the bathroom and on the ceiling, putting a railing on a handicapped accessible ramp, improving the plumping and lighting, remodeling the lobby to include security windows and steam cleaning the floors.
�We continue to try to work with what we have,� Lee said.
The security windows, she said, will help protect patient privacy, and double locks are required because there are medical records involved.
The work is expected to cost $152,781; and $69,288 has already been funded by the department, according to information Lee presented to the commissioners Oct. 15.
The remaining $83,492 will be a combination of Health Department and Onslow County funds. The funding will be requested from the Onslow County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 21, Slater said.
The Health Department is also scheduled to start remodeling the lobby on Monday, Lee said. Starting today, the lobby will be moved to the auditorium.
�We will have lots of signage up throughout the building but we do want folks to know that the renovations are an effort to make their health department a clean, safe and secure facility,� Slater said.
Lee explained that while the department�s building, which was built in 1943, needs many improvements, staff is focusing on those needed for accreditation first.
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Hip music site SonicNet is banging the drum for its brand name.
Just four months after being acquired by Paradigm Music Entertainment, SonicNet has set an aggressive expansion plan including international editions in Japan and Australia, a syndicated daily music news service for major Web sites, a TV network for the college market and a music news wire service for radio stations.
SonicNet by June 1 will launch SonicNet Japan, created in Japanese congi characters by staffer Toshio Karamata. The site is a partnership with Digital Garage, Tokyo.
SonicNet also is expected to launch in Australia through a partnership with a telecom company, possibly Telstra.
SonicNet recently inked syndication deals to provide daily music news to America Online's the Hub, PointCast and Yahoo!
The company hopes to sign a total of between 20 and 30 syndication deals priced at $1,000 and up per month.
If all goes according to plan, this fall will bring the launch of SonicNet Television (a music and culture show) on UCTN, a college cable network shown on 200 campuses and run by UC Television. SonicNet has already invested $500,000 in the production.
Paradigm in January also acquired music news site Addicted to Noise. ATN's editor, Michael Goldberg, came on board as editor in chief of SonicNet, which last month recorded 1.5 million visits to its site.
SonicNet on June 17 kicks off "Supercast Summer," offering cybercast concert performances. The company is courting sponsorship from marketers including Levi Strauss & Co. and Carter-Wallace.
Standard ad packages go for a $25 cost per thousand; larger deals cost $50 per thousand.
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