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It is not every day, every week, or even every year that a secretary of defense sends a letter to thirty US newspapers and forty foreign publications. It is even rarer that such a letter is used to defend his administration's policy against alleged inaccuracies and misrepresentations, as if he did not have any other means to put the facts before the public. Yet, on August 23, just such a letter was sent by you on the subject of this administration's nuclear-war policy. (It is reprinted on the opposite page.)
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Just how such secret documents get leaked is an even greater secret. You fret and fume about it but seem incapable of locating the culprit or stopping the practice. The leaks must undoubtedly come from sources high enough to know what is in the documents, because the leaks come with exact quotations of just what you did not wish to be leaked. No one has denied the accuracy of these quotations.
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Whether you're cooking it, eating it, growing it, or reading about it, food brings people together. Welcome to #BittmanTopics: a place where we can all share ideas about a different food-related topic each month. In case you missed the first installment, here's how it works—and check the archives for past months' conversations.
This month's topic gave an inspirational glimpse of how many of you are enjoying your meals al fresco: at cookouts and food trucks, on picnics and in gardens, from NYC to the south of France. No- and low-cook meals seem to be the perfect food in this sweltering heat—that is, when your grills aren't fired up for searing local produce and pizza.
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"Champlain Valley, Vermont. Grilled king salmon, roasted corn, fresh tomatoes with cucumber and balsamic vinegar, baby summer squash." –@cckinvt
"Central Park's Great Hill; fresh fruits, homemade hummus, pretzels, pearl couscous salad, wild rice and grape salad, lemon cookies." –@reinamaureen
"Gazpacho andaluz, made with fresh farmers market ingredients, garnished with melon and micro mustard greens!" –@lornina
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"My garden. Eggplants, zucchini, tomatoes and peppers every possible way from around the Mediterranean. Lots of feta and lots of fruits. It's that time of year." –Clio Tarazi, Facebook
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"what is your favourite summer cold soup? I love de gazpacho of course & vichychoisse." –@riucafe
"i gotta go off-topic. just made this gazpacho: almonds, almond milk, cukes, grapes, mint, oil, lemon… sorta ugly. but really delicious. and drinking it outside so it counts." –@bittman
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".@PlantAndPlate forgot. i used a touch of garlic too. and roasted almonds. no soaking. but used almond milk." –@bittman
"@bittman I LOVE a cold cucumber soup- we make a Bulgarian version w walnuts a la Joy of Cooking" –@deb2525
"That gazpacho sounds perfect to take along. Many Bay Area picnic opportunities are in places where flames would not be good." –@EyeEmEff
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ASPEN (AP) – Stefan Dag transformed skiing more than 30 years ago.
He just might be primed to do it again.
In 1980, the Austrian native and part-time Carbondale resident unveiled the Rapidgate, a hinged slalom pole constructed of polycarbonate thermoplastic that still is widely used at all levels.
Now, the 62-year-old self-proclaimed industrial artist and entrepreneur is thinking big again. For nearly five years, he's been toiling on a redesigned pole, one fashioned out of soft but durable ballistic materials. Dag calls it the Airkipp – kipp loosely translates to "tip" in German – and says the revamped design will make injuries a thing of the past.
"It's kind of bizarre that nothing has changed with these gates in about three decades, and I thought something had to be done. It's ironic that it's me doing it again," Dag said. " ... Nobody knows slalom poles better than me, and if this was a bad idea, I wouldn't have touched it. But this was just too good," he said.
Airkipp poles, the result of years of tinkering with hundreds of prototypes, are sized to meet FIS specifications and fashioned out of urethane-laminated ballistic nylon. Impact areas are reinforced to prevent wear.
"It's the most durable thing there is on the planet," Dag said. "It's made of expensive materials and complicated manufacturing techniques. ... The valves are difficult to make; the bladder is difficult. This was a can of worms. Luckily, I've been in a few cans of worms."
Set-up requires three steps: drilling a hole in the snow with a special bit, inserting the gate and then inflating the internal urethane bladder, which takes about 10 seconds. When deflated, an Airkipp pole is not much bigger than a balled-up T-shirt.
"Would you like to carry 10 of these in a pack on the chairlift or 10 of the (original gates)?" Dag asked. "This really is a no-brainer."
The poles come in hot pink and fluorescent yellow to create an interesting profile and improve visibility – "Blue and red are ancient, and those colors fade in the shadows," Dag said. (They retail for about $69 each, and Dag's "starter kit" – 20 gates, a backpack, drill bit and drill caddy as well as an inflator with lithium-ion battery, is available for $2,237 on www.airkipp.com.)
The most significant benefit, however, is safety, he said. Airkipp's design is predicated on eliminating most of the mass of conventional "hard" gates, thereby decreasing the force of inertia.
"I really want to help ski racing. This isn't about me," Dag said. "Inertia and big mass leads to pain, broken teeth, the usual. There are kids that are afraid of slalom training in clubs because of the gates and people that would love to ski gates but are getting older and don't want to armor themselves like knights in shining armor.
"I'm trying to make everything right that was wrong with my first pole, especially the injuries and the pain. Maybe then I can get into heaven," he said.
Dag's system was rolled out about four months ago, and he has embarked on what he calls a guerrilla marketing campaign to drum up interest.
He spent opening day of the Aspen Winternational races last month at Aspen Mountain doing demonstrations at the top of the Gondola Plaza.
A week earlier, during a U.S. Ski Team training session on Strawpile, he was chatting with everyone from Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club athletes to course workers and officials.
"Basic gumshoe work is what I'm doing," Dag said. "People I talk to are on board and interested, but they have to be convinced. This is something new that has to be proven, and then they'll jump on the bandwagon."
"Anybody who creates a new product will tell you the same story. People are skeptical, and they should be. You have to be brave because you're going to hear negative things thrown at you. It's human nature. Call it being a devil's advocate," he said.
The Austrian ski federation – the same organization that threw Dag out of his home mountain, Kitszbuhel, for demonstrating the Rapidgate in the '80s – is reviewing the Airkipp system and has been receptive, Dag said. He also has engaged in preliminary discussions with both AVSC and Aspen Skiing Co.
"Give it five years, and this will have a life of its own. I'm convinced of that," he said. "Of course, I'd want to see this used in the World Cup – I'd be a fool if I said no. But this time, I have a bottom-up approach. I'd rather have young kids using it right now and not getting injured. I'd rather have intermediates with no injuries, and then work our way up to the pros.
"The market is huge. There are thousands of ski areas where people slalom. I want to see ski school with clients going up and running gates and rental shops renting a course in a bag and people getting to go ski in a designated area. Basically, I want to bring the fun back to skiing."


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Griffindor School and Quidditch Robes.
We are a bit Harry Potter crazed around our house so when the kiddies said they wanted to dress as Hogwarts students for Halloween 2007 my only question was, "witch ones?". Harry, Ron and Hermione would seem the odvious choices, but I had a feeling they might have had something else in mind. My middle guy did not disappoint, he wanted to be Oliver Wood, the Griffindor Quidditch Captain.
Luckily they were able to give me enough of a jump start that I was finished in time for my daughter to take 2nd place in the costume contest at the Deathly Hallows book release party. Her costume was probably not the most amaizing there, but she was so dang cute that she got a lot of high pitched squeals from a group of teenage girls who got her into the final two with a man dressed full on like Hagrid, he deserved 1st place :o)
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Fabrics: costume satin and velour. Other necessities: Griffindor patches found on ebay. Quidditch goggles, gloves, shin and forearm quards from a costume site. Under robe garments mostly found at the second hand store, with the exception of the boys rugby style shirts which I found at Old Navy.
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Doubles play was all Pfeiffer, with wins coming from the duos of junior Taylor Lindsay and sophomore Valeria Mendoza, freshman Olivia Nelms and sophomore Hannah Watson, and freshmen Mylene Petitpas and Amanda Long. With the doubles victories, Mendoza and Lindsay improve to 9-1 extending their win streak to four, Nelms an Watson improve to 9-1, and Petitpas and Long extend their unbeaten streak to six.
The Falcons also dominated singles play, picking up wins from Nelms, Lindsay, Mendoza, Watson, Petitpas, and senior Briana Oliver. Mendoza extends her singles unbeaten streak to nine, starting the season a 9-0 tear. Petitpas won her fifth straight match to improve to 8-1, Watson also improved to 8-1 and picked up her third straight victory, with Nelms following suit improving to 7-1 in singles play.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Belt delivered more ninth-inning drama, but it wasn't enough Tuesday to save the Giants on a mistake-prone night.
The Arizona Diamondbacks withstood Belt's game-tying homer by rallying in the 11th inning for a 6-4 victory at AT&T Park.
The Giants made three errors in the game, allowed the go-ahead run on a wild-pitch and had a runner thrown out by a country mile trying to score in the 10th.
But Belt nearly saved the day — again — with a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth off closer J.J. Putz to tie the score at 4-4 and force extra innings. Belt's first career pinch-hit home run came one night after his first career walk-off hit.
"Good for Brandon," manager Bruce Bochy said. "I know he's been working hard. He gave us a huge hit."
The Giants had a chance to complete the comeback in the bottom of the 10th, but Pablo Sandoval was out by several steps trying to score from second on a single to right by Hunter Pence. The throw from right fielder Cody Ross was there and waiting, raising the question of whether third-base coach Tim Flannery was overly aggressive in waiving home Sandoval.
Bochy had little patience for the second-guessing.
"What do you want me to say? It was a two-out hit, and we were trying to score," Bochy said. "Ross charged the ball well and threw a bullet home. That's part of the game. (The other team is) going to execute and make good plays."
The Diamondbacks broke through in the 11th against Giants reliever Santiago Casilla. Didi Gregorious scored on a wild pitch and Gerardo Parra followed with a double to drive home Alfredo Marte, who had reached on an error by Belt.
Belt led off the bottom of the 11th with a single, but then made an error on the bases, running into a tag that resulted in a double play.
The loss dropped the Giants to 0-5 in games started by Matt Cain this season. The right-hander rebounded from a few shaky innings to limit the damage to four runs (three earned) over six innings. Still, the three-time All-Star's ERA sits at 6.59.
"Matt threw the ball well," Bochy said. "He just had bad luck. There's not much you can do about that. But he settled down."
The left-handed swinging Belt will be back in the starting lineup today with a right-hander scheduled to star. Bochy benched the struggling hitter against left-handed pitchers the first two games of the series, but Belt appears to have rediscovered his smooth stroke.
With the Giants trailing 4-2 in the ninth and Pence at second after a double, Belt sent a towering shot into the right-field seats against Putz and raised a triumphant fist as he rounded first base.
It ended a string of 88 consecutive at-bats without a home run for Belt, dating to Sept. 22 of last season.
But the Diamondbacks had their own big blast earlier in the game. In the third inning, Cain fell behind in the count 3 and 1 to Paul Goldschmidt, who hit a two-run homer into the left-field seats to make it 4-0.
It was the sixth home run Cain has given up in his five starts. (As recently as 2011, he gave up just nine home runs all season.)
Bochy is unfazed.
"Matt's a pro," he said. "He knows he's going to have his moments. He's fine. He's healthy. … He'll tell you he's just make too many mistakes out over the plate."
The large, orange shield bearing the number "756" — a nod to Bonds' surpassing Hank Aaron's record of 755 home runs — had been there since the start of the 2008 season.
wednesday's game
Arizona (Ian Kennedy 1-2) at Giants (Madison Bumgarner 3-0), 12:45 p.m. CSNBA


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Grand Theft Auto V Isn't As Grand As You Think
Grand Theft Auto V isn't as grand as some players may think.
There's a classic moment in the BBC show "Fawlty Towers" when Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese, is trying to placate a travel-weary couple from California as his wife Sybil makes small-talk.
"Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton were just telling me about California," Sybil says to her husband. "You can swim in the morning and then in the afternoon you can drive up into the mountains and ski."
"It must be rather tiring," Basil quips in response.
"Tiring" is one way to describe GTA V, a new video game that Rockstar Games claims is larger than its last three games combined. Walking from one end of a world of such scope feels like a trek, and it shows on your protagonists, whose backs become shiny with sweat whenever you ask them to jog too far.
"There's launching other games, and then there's launching Grand Theft Auto" is how a company representative put it to me in one of the rare moments I managed to get them on the phone. You can't deny him any more than you can dismiss the stature of "Grand Theft Auto." In three days, the game sold more than many of its peers will in their entire life on the market. It beat its chief commercial competitor, Call of Duty, to $1 billion by 12 days. It's predecessor helped push author and critic Tom Bissell into a spiraling addiction to cocaine and video games, and the new game has already forced game critics to question the very nature of their craft when they're not too busy mainlining the game in weekend-long binges. Kanye West may call himself "the nucleus" of contemporary culture, but it's hard to imagine even Yeezus devouring his own critics this way.
For an industry that's spent most of its life vying for mainstream approbation, the irrefutability of GTA V is no small victory. But anyone that's truly passionate about video games has to be left wondering: why this game, and why now?
If you talk to many of its fans, you'd think the answer lies in Rockstar delivering on a decades-old promise that game developers have made to their fans to construct "persistent, living worlds," a buzzword now so replete in the game industry that it's become clear it speaks more to the aspirations of video games than their reality. But the lure of that promise is still there: a game that's not really a game at all. A game that's more like life, except without all the unpleasantness of mortality and social norms. "Go anywhere, do anything," chants the mantra.
"Yeah, they are wrong," Ian Bogost, a philosopher and video game scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, told me when I put the question to him. "You can't do much in GTA. But it fools people into thinking they can, which is genius."
And how does it trick them, exactly?
"Well, it appears to have more affordances than it does, and most people don't try to pursue the others, so they don't notice how constrained it really is," he said.
So what can you do in GTA V? When you first step into the world of Los Santos after a brief narrative preamble, everything seems to be in abundance. Even the way that the game allows players to swap between the three player characters Michael (a retired bank robber about to leave retirement), Trevor (a meth dealer who's all Heisenberg), and Franklin (an aspiring high-class criminal), shows the studio's appreciation for the micro and macro versions of its world: the camera pans out, snapping upward several times to show a birds-eye network of highways or city blocks, then zeroes back in a few miles away to one of your other avatars, sitting at home watching TV or cursing at a traffic jam.
Other games might fly you around the world and show you exciting things, no doubt. But they've always maintained the artifice of action movie setpieces. Step a few feet in the wrong direction in Call of Duty, and you'll accidentally fail the mission. Drive up and down the coast for hours in GTA V, and nothing will tell you not to. See a mountain in the distance? Go check it out. Why not?
But once you get there, you can't actually ski. You can swim, sure. Ever since 2004′s "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," characters started flapping their little polygonal limbs once they hit the water rather than just flailing and dying, their sad and frustrating fate for GTA III and Vice City. And there are a number of other impressive activities available for those times when you don't want to run around carjacking and killing people, including excellent new mini-games like golf and tennis that could hold their own against full-fledged sports titles. Or if you still want the thrill of gunplay, you can even go hunting, which is sort of like killing people in the game, only your targets are smaller and more agile. But still, you can't ski.
Why does that even matter? For many GTA fans, it doesn't. And there are a probably a lot of compelling reasons why Rockstar, which spent five years and more than a quarter billion dollars to make the game, chose to leave it out, weather being chief among them. I don't even like to ski in real life, so I might side with Basil on this one anyways.
Nevertheless, this absence speaks to a lie at the heart of a game like GTA V. You can't ski because Rockstar didn't create a world in which something is meant for skiing. It could be anything—hugging, cooking, twerking. They're all not there. What you're left with after all is said and done at the golf course or on the yoga mat is a world operating under two core modalities: driving and killing, often at the same time.
It's just that stealing and killing never felt this good. Los Santos may not be a "living world" per se, but it uses the instruments of life better than any game before it. Everything about the city shimmers with possibility — places to go, people to see, all virtual handles meant to be grasped and violently, playfully shaken. I got lost for hours at a time wandering down quiet corners of the city, chasing after little question marks on the map that invited players to meet eccentric characters politely labels "strangers and freaks." These can be comic, such as when Michael accidentally smokes a joint and goes a bad trip involving space aliens, or painfully heartfelt, like operating the tow truck of Franklin's drug-addled uncle. Either way, they turn Los Santos into a rich novel unfolding at your fingtertips.
Too often, however, this means it's hard to do anything but mayhem. At one point when I was playing as Michael, I walked up to the front door of the fictional version of the FBI (called FIB, get it?) headquarters in search of a man meant to give me a story mission. I accidentally bumped into a passer-by, who responded by punching me. Nothing afforded diplomacy in this situation, no "apology" button to press, so I did the only thing I could. Next thing I knew, I was sprinting away from the cops. I didn't get back to that mission until the next day, and I made sure to avoid large crowds of people after that. This made the game more manageable, but left me feeling strangely isolated. For a game that promised me freedom, I was inexplicably trapped.
This is a point GTA's many alarmist critics miss: as the series has aged, so too has its appetite for destruction. As the weight of GTA's immense and almost-living world bears down on you, violence is no longer a casual endeavor. More than that, the game just feels dense. It's impossible to walk down the streets of Los Santos without being assaulted by countless distractions, from crazy people shouting at you on the street to the buzzing of your own mobile phone (yes, you can take selfies in GTA V) asking you to invest in a new stock or come meet someone for a loot drop. Your relation with these characters — even the insane meth dealer Trevor — become fiercely intimate as you learn to navigate the mundane hazards of life in GTA V in your own unique way. When a work looks and feels this good, you have to wonder if soon video games will be less about playing, and more simply being.
And who do you want to be in such a world? As the Wall Street Journal reported last month, a new generation of "empathy games" struggle with profoundly human issues — alcoholism, depression, family illness — rather than the meanderings of psychopaths. To be truly human, you have to be able to interact nonviolently, to be able to walk up to the door of a major office building without getting punched in the face. Gamers clearly want this; why else would they "embark on a nonkilling spree?" It's a sign that Michael, a not-so-reformed bank robber who forms the moral center of the game, always seems to find himself in therapy after his most exciting missions.
"I just don't like myself very much doc," he blurts early in the game.
Of course you don't, you want to say.
Yannick LeJacq writes for Kill Screen.


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Pasarela Delicias
Delicias, a great pedestrian area
Calle Delicias street, just three kilometres from the centre, could be the world's largest pedestrianised commercial area, with more than 200 shops offering everything you could imagine. This area is easily accessible on a number of bus routes. Close to Delicias there is another large commercial area, Avenida de Madrid. It is a long avenue, stretching over more than a kilometre and a half, with shops of all kinds, including fashions, textiles, footwear and, above all, restaurants and furniture.
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Britney Spears' manager has spoken out to defend the pop star over accusations she mimes during her Las Vegas residency, insisting it is "virtually impossible" for her to sing throughout the show.
The Toxic hitmaker ended her first run of concerts at the Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino resort last month (May14) and she is due to return in August (14) for another 50 gigs.
Her initial residency in Sin City attracted criticism that she was not singing live at various points during the performance, and now her manager Adam Leber has defended the pop star.
He tells Medium.com, "To put on the show that she puts on, it's virtually impossible to sing the entire time and do what she does. She's singing on every song, basically, when she has the ability to sing. There's no way you can dance for 90 minutes straight and sing the entire time."


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Editor's Comment: This study found no difference between the cognitive performance of patients with CFS and healthy controls. However, the authors of the study make no mention of the time it took for people with CFS to complete cognitive tasks, which is one of the subjective complaints reported by ME/CFS patients. A number of studies have found that people with ME/CFS not only require more time to complete cognitive tasks, but expend greater effort ( Prasher et al., 1990, Cook et al., 2005, Lange et al., 2005, Constant et al., 2011). Curiously, one of these studies was published by Cockshell et al. in March 2013.
By S. J. Cockshell et al.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between subjective and objective assessments of memory and attention in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), using tests that have previously detected deficits in CFS samples and measures of potential confounds.
Method: Fifty people with CFS and 50 healthy controls were compared on subjective (memory and attention symptom severity, Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, Everyday Attention Questionnaires) and objective (California Verbal Learning Test, Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Test, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, Stroop task) measures of memory and attention. Fatigue, sleep, depression, and anxiety were also assessed.
Results: The CFS group reported experiencing more cognitive problems than the controls, but the two groups did not differ on the cognitive tests. Scores on the subjective and objective measures were not correlated in either group. Depression was positively correlated with increased severity of cognitive problems in both the CFS and control groups.
Conclusions: There is little evidence for a relationship between subjective and objective measures of cognitive functioning for both people with CFS and healthy controls, which suggests that they may be capturing different constructs. Problems with memory and attention in everyday life are a significant part of CFS. Depression appears to be related to subjective problems but does not fully explain them.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).
Source: Cockshell, Susan J.; Mathias, Jane L. Cognitive Functioning in People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comparison Between Subjective and Objective Measures. Neuropsychology, Dec 23 , 2013. doi: 10.1037/neu0000025


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14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
Date: 8-12 March 2009
Place: Mumbai, India
WHO is a technical supporter of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH). The conference, which has been organized every three years since the mid-1960s, will gather tobacco control researchers, activists and leaders. WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative will participate.
This year the conference will focus on the theme of multi-sectoral approach to tobacco control. It will specifically consider the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into force in 2005 and currently has 163 parties.
Other topics for discussion will include:
- health warnings on packages of tobacco
- women and tobacco
- tobacco's aggravation of the global tuberculosis epidemic
- challenges in the enforcement of tobacco control laws.


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8-year-old rescued after being trapped in NC river
8-year-old rescued after being trapped in NC river
Officials say an 8-year-old boy is hospitalized after Transylvania County rescue personnel pulled him Sunday from the East Fork of the French Broad River.
The Times-News of Hendersonville reports that the unidentified boy had been trapped under water for nearly 15 minutes.
Rosman Fire Rescue Capt. Daniel Powell said the boy was tubing down the East Fork on Sunday when he went over a cascade and got hung up on a tree.
The boy was found lodged under a log at the bottom of the cascade. Rescue workers started CPR in the water once the boy was dislodged.
Powell said the child took his first breath in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The boy was taken to Transylvania Regional Hospital and then airlifted to Mission Hospitals.


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Are you ready to party like a pro this year? Pro running back LaDainian Tomlinson knows that planning and preparation are as important on the field as they are for hosting game-day parties. Here are a few of his tips to help you win fans at your Big Game bash this year:
•Crunch the numbers: Count on guests each eating between 8 - 12 servings of appetizers over a two-hour period. Plan on two nonalcoholic drinks per guest during the first hour, and one for each hour after that. Buy about a pound of ice per guest for drinks.
•Tackle the food prep early: Make as much of the food ahead of time as you can. Peel, chop and prep veggie trays a day or two in advance. Dips and desserts can be made the day before. If you'll be making anything in a slow cooker, prep all your ingredients the day before, so that all you have to do when you wake up is put them in the cooker and turn it on.
•Stock up on all-star ingredients: Make sure you have plenty of the snacks your team really likes. Crowd-pleasers like Cheez-It® crackers, Town House® Flipside® crackers, Keebler® cookies, and Rice Krispies Treats® make adults and kids alike happy, and they can be used as ingredients in other dishes or paired with tasty dips and spreads, too.
•Run a surprise play: Try a new recipe like Spicy Touchdown Tenders that get a surprising, crunchy kick from Cheez-It Hot & Spicy crackers. Serve them with some Buffalo sauce and they'll be the MVPs of your party.
•Call on your special teams: If you want a great dessert, but don't bake, ask your baking friends to work their magic for the party. Get the resident chili expert to make his best, and let your friend the décor expert set the scene. They'll enjoy working in their zones, and you get a few things taken off your to-do list.
•Let the Pee Wee League play, too: Let the kids help out with party prep, too. Older ones can help you make food and younger ones can set out utensils, cups and plates. You can appoint some special "Trash Referees" to patrol the party and help clean up plates and cups during the game, so there's not a big mess to clean up afterward.
•Prepare for fumbles: With so much excitement and food, someone is bound to have an accident. Keep cleaning supplies like paper towels and rug cleaners handy for an emergency. Also, protect your furniture as best you can by placing extra coasters on tables.
•Share the home field advantage: Not all of your guests will be cheering for the same team, so be sure to decorate your party with both teams' colors to make everyone feel at home.
You can head over to SnackPicks.Com to watch a video demonstrating his top tips and to learn more. He's also got great recipes such as Cheez-It™ Spicy Touchdown Tenders and Cheesesteak Dip that are sure to be a hit.
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Chattahoochee River & Trails
Roswell, GA 30075
Chattahoochee, River of the Painted Rock. At one time the Cherokee and Creek people lived, hunted, and fished along its banks. The river and its tributaries supplied power to run the mills. Today, a 7-mile linear park along the Chattahoochee River provides the opportunity to follow one of Georgia's most unique resources as it winds its way through Roswell. Playgrounds, picnic areas, boat ramps, fishing, and more. To enjoy the Chattahoochee River visit Azalea Park on Azalea Drive; Don White Memorial Park on Riverside Road; Riverside Park on Riverside Road. Picnic areas, spraygrounds, playgrounds, boat ramps, bicycling, multipurpose trails, fishing and more. Maps and information available at the Roswell Visitors Center.
Info & Amenities
Hours of Operation
Sunday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Monday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Tuesday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Wednesday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Thursday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Friday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Saturday: 6:00AM - 8:00PM
Nature Trails
Facility Amenities
Free Parking
Near Interstate Highway
Canoe / Kayak
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The question often comes up during the college application process: how much will I need to borrow to pay for it all?
The amount of your college loans depends on how much your family has saved, how much financial aid you qualify for, how much grant and scholarship money you get, and more. But the good news is that established formulas will help guide you to the right answer.
Bear in mind that the total cost of college is more than just tuition and room and board. It includes things like your books and lab fees, transportation costs, and laundry, which can add up.
Also keep in mind that your school must first certify that the amount being borrowed is in line with the tuition and other costs accrued. The money you borrow will be sent directly to the school rather than to you or your parents.
Remember these questions as you think about student loans for college:
Naturally, you should also be aware that by taking on this debt, you have made a legally binding pledge to repay it. The extent to which you do so faithfully will affect your credit standing for years to come.
Media coverage about the exploding costs of post-secondary education tends to focus on the eye-popping expense of top-tier institutions, such as those in the Ivy League. This can induce sticker shock in most parents.
But it also creates a misleading picture, for at least two reasons:
Private schools are perceived to be more expensive than public schools, but if you examine the numbers, that's not always true. Public schools cost less because they are subsidized by the state, while private schools are not. However, private schools usually have more institutional aid to give out, so the actual cost may be just as affordable.
Relatively few students pay the full list price at a private college, since even more students at private universities receive financial aid than at public institutions. Often, because of endowments and other sources of funding, private institutions have more access to aid than public schools. Overall, about two-thirds of students attending four-year institutions do so with the help of some form of financial aid.
The upshot is this: educational finance experts suggest forgetting about the distinctions between public and private tuition costs, at least as you begin the search process, and instead focus on the school or schools that represent the best fit for you.
Knowing more about private student loans could give you the opportunity to attend the school of your choice. If you have ruled out a private college as too expensive, it still may be a possibility with private student loans. Learn about our Citizens Bank Student Loan™, a private loan for college.
Generally speaking, the manner in which a college or university charges in-state versus out-of-state tuition to students depends on whether they're a public or private institution. Naturally, since they're supported directly by state taxpayers, public institutions usually (or at least traditionally) charge higher tuition for students coming from outside the state than they do for their own residents. Also, keep in mind that residency requirements vary.
On the other hand, instead of charging different rates for college in-state and out-of-state tuition, private colleges and universities usually have the same sticker price for both types of students. But that doesn't mean the actual price your family will pay will be the same. Depending on how the institution wants to balance its student profile, it may well offer more financial aid for students from certain targeted places, in part to maintain a diverse student population. That can result in you being awarded more financial aid if you happen to come from a geographical area the school has identified as a priority.
Publicly funded institutions have worked together to offer steep discounts—sometimes equating to the same university in-state tuition rates charged to their own residents—to out-of-state students. They created:
Some publicly funded institutions have long offered university in-state tuition rates to students from contiguous states, either informally or through formal reciprocity agreements.
When you are still young and you're trying to save for your college education, you're probably focused mostly—or possibly exclusively—on two large-ticket items: tuition cost and room and board, either on-campus or off-campus.
And why not? Those categories comprise by far the largest portion of your post-secondary educational expenses. But many families are also surprised by how much they must spend on incidental—but nevertheless essential—items.
You should know that the federal government has a rigorous formula when it comes to calculating your Expected Family Contribution. It requires each accredited institution to provide a cost-of-attendance budget each year, which can serve as a starting point for estimating your family's costs.
For Federal Pell Grants and Direct Stafford Loans, covered costs are limited to:
Direct Stafford Loans can also cover the following expenses:
Remember that, depending on your needs and preferences, you may encounter other categories of expenses that must be accounted for, such as lab fees or trips home.
When it comes to calculating college costs for attending the school of your dreams, it can be alarming enough to consider the obvious costs that are impossible to miss, like tuition. But many students understandably fail to also include a host of smaller—but still considerable—indirect college costs that they'll have to shoulder. To draw up a realistic budget and perform an education cost analysis, you'll need to consider both categories of expenses.
Think of the direct college expenses as the big-ticket items that most people would ordinarily consider when planning. They include:
Indirect college expenses include books and other college supplies as well as miscellaneous out-of-pocket costs that you generally don't pay directly to the college. They include:
The good news is that many of the indirect costs—including computer rental or purchase, books and child care—can be financed through your student loans.


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Beets have loads of healthful benefits, and can be prepared in endlessly delicous ways. Here's why they deserve a place in your garden:
Cancer-Crushing Colors
High in fiber and rich in vitamins A and C, beets have more iron than other vegetables, including spinach. And they're rich in calcium, potassium, and phosphorus, as well as folic acid, which helps protect you from heart disease and guards against birth defects.
Better yet, the classic beet's red coloring comes from betalains—a combination of the purple pigment betacyanin and the yellow pigment betaxanthin. "The betalain pigments are potent antioxidants," says Irwin Goldman, Ph.D., a beet geneticist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Antioxidants deter the formation of cancer-causing free radicals.
(Whether you're starting your first garden or switching to organic, Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening has all the answers and advice you need—get your copy today!)
Beauty On Your Plate
Those pigments make beets a feast for the eyes as well as nourishment for your body. Beets' rich reds, golden yellows, creamy whites, and stunning stripes will add a brilliant splash of seasonal color to your autumn meals. And their bright green foliage with red veins and stems brightens up your garden beds, too.
Two Crops For The Price Of One
Beet greens are not only colorful; they're also tasty raw, braised, or stir-fried. And if you leave a little of the foliage to continue growing, you get plump roots that you can store and then eat when you want homegrown flavor after cold weather sets in.
Cold Is Cool
Beets are adapted to grow in cool weather, making them a perfect vegetable to plant both in spring and late summer. They thrive when the days are warm (60 to 70 degrees) and nights cool (50 to 60 degrees). They may go to seed if temperatures drop below 50 degrees for an extended period. Sow the seeds in full sun for the best roots; if you don't have a sunny spot in your garden, plant them anyway—beets still produce a lot of leafy greens in partial shade.
Fall Harvest...
You can plant beet seeds directly in your garden about 8 to 10 weeks before the first expected frost and harvest them in time for the holidays. Beets harvested in fall have stronger colors than spring-planted beets, Goldman says, and fall beets often have higher sugar levels as well. So what are you waiting for? Plant a row or two this week.
Or Spring
For a spring crop, plant beets as soon as the soil dries out and you can work it, typically from March to mid-May; where the weather remains cold and wet into spring, wait until April. Beets do transplant surprisingly easily for a root crop, so you can germinate the seeds inside and move them to the garden as soon as the soil dries out in spring.
Growing Beets
Beets grow best in loamy, acid soils (pH levels ranging between 6.0 and 7.5). If your soil is heavy clay, rocky, hard, or alkaline, mix in an inch or so of compost. Add a bit of wood ash, if handy, because its rich supply of potassium enhances root growth. If in the past you've harvested beets with black, hard spots in the flesh, they've suffered from the aptly named disease black heart, which is caused by a boron deficiency. Adding compost to the soil or spraying plants with seaweed extract will help somewhat, but if the symptoms persist, have your soil tested.
Beets aren't fond of crowds, so when sowing the seeds, plant them about 1 inch deep and 3 to 4 inches apart, or sow them closer together and use the thinnings later for salad fixings.
Spread a layer of grass clippings, shredded leaves, or straw around your beet patch to help keep the moisture consistent—that's essential for uniform root growth. Be sure to mulch well in spring to protect your beets from unexpected hot spells.
Get a pot that's at least 12 inches deep, and you can grow beets on your deck, suggests Lance Frazon, of John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds in Bantam, Connecticut. "Beets are a natural for containers," he says, adding, "just make sure the containers are watered more than an in-the-ground garden."
Related: 8 Plants With Unexpected Health Benefits
Beet Growing Problems
Rotation Resistance
Beets are relatively disease and pest free, and even the problems they do have are relatively easy to manage organically. For instance, you can prevent diseases by rotating crops of beets, spinach, and Swiss chard with other types of vegetables. And use cover crops during the off-season, advises George Abawi, Ph.D., a plant pathologist at Cornell University.
Miners Not Major
Beet-leaf miners (Pegomya hyoscyami) can become a problem, but even if they do get into your beet leaves, says Mary Ballon, owner of West Coast Seeds in Delta, British Columbia, you can just tear off the damaged portion. She favors the "two fingers" method as the best way to control this pest, which tunnels into the leaves. "Do a daily inspection of the leaves by feeling around the leaves for any bumps, and apply two fingers," Ballon says with a laugh. "It is the only pest that sits still to be squished!" To keep leaf miners and other pests away, simply place row covers over your beets during the insects' busiest time between May and late June.
Related: Grow Healthy Food By Identifying And Treating These Common Plant Diseases
Harvesting Beets (And Beet Greens)
Greens Early
You can start enjoying your beet crop at the first thinning. Simply cut greens during the thinning process to use in salads. Pull up baby beets when they reach 1 inch in diameter (and cook them up with their stems). When harvesting larger beets, leave 1 to 2 inches of the stems attached to prevent any staining or "bleeding."
After The Frost
For a fall harvest, pull up your beet crop after a hard frost. Be sure to cut off the tops close to the roots and store the beets in a box of sand in a cool place like a basement or a root cellar until you are ready to eat them. Greens can be cut, washed, and stored in the fridge until needed for salads, stir-fries, or steaming on the side as a "mess o' greens."
Related: What To Store In A Root Cellar
Best Beet Varieties
Supersweet + White: Albina Vereduna, a close cousin of the sugar beet, contains twice as much sugar as red beets. A pure white Dutch heirloom, it needs to be steamed lightly—it turns a bit gray when overcooked. High in calcium. Matures in 50 to 60 days.
Heirloom Favorite: Detroit Dark Red, a classic dating to 1892, is still one of the best for sweet roots and tasty greens. Perfect fresh or for canning. Matures in 60 to 65 days.
Great For Storage: Red Ace produces tender greens perfect for salads and rich red roots that resist "zoning" (alternating red and white rings caused by excessive heat). Stores exceptionally well. Matures in 50 to 60 days.
Yellow Heirloom: Golden Beet has bright yellow flesh and a sweet-potato-like flavor. Improve its low germination rate by soaking the seed in bathtub-warm water for one hour, then sow 1 inch apart. Sow extra-thick, since it doesn't produce as well as the red varieties. Matures in 50 to 60 days.
Related: What's Better: Organic Or Heirloom?
Bull's-Eye Classic: Chioggia is an Italian heirloom (dating to 1880) with naturally occurring red-and-white-striped flesh (not zoning caused by stress) and sweet flavor, with flavorful leaves as well. Grows well in spring and fall. Steam lightly to avoid "bleeding." Matures in 55 to 65 days.
Heat- + Disease-Resistant: Kestrel, a sweet, dark-red globe globe baby beet, is very resistant to disease and bolting. Matures in 50 to 55 days.
Tiny Treats: Baby Ball offers perfectly rounded, petite crimson beets with fine tips; mellow, sweet taste; and delicious, healthful greens. Early to harvest, it matures in about 50 days. Pick at baby size.
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Cold-Tolerant: Bull's Blood is an heirloom with gorgeous dark maroon-red leaves that provide a great splash of color for salads. It produces a tasty beet when harvested young (2 to 3 inches), and is extremely cold-hardy. Try this beet in your flower border—the wine-red leaves are highly ornamental and look great all summer. Matures in 35 to 40 days for greens; 55 to 60 days for roots.
Great For Greens: Lutz Green Leaf (sometimes sold as Winterkeeper) is an heirloom for fall harvest and winter storage. It grows large, with great-tasting green leaves. Its baseball-size, heart-shaped roots stay amazingly sweet and tender and store well through winter. Great for cooking. Matures in 70 days.
Short Season: Early Wonder Tall Top has maroon-tinged leaves and purplish red, flattop roots. Excellent for cooking. Matures in 50 to 60 days.
Related: 10 Vegetables You Can Still Grow In The Fall
Variety Pack: Jewel-Toned is a blend of burgundy, golden, and candy-striped beets that's handy if you want to try them all.
Ways To Eat Beets
While many gardeners still like to preserve beets through traditional pickling and canning, Steve Peters, commercial seed manager at Seeds of Change in Santa Fe, says he prefers the natural earthy taste of the root. "Steamed with a bit of butter is perfect."
Asian Style
"I like to stir-fry them or steam them with a little honey glaze," says Radish Bruce, of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange in Virginia. "Sometimes we eat them raw, shredded up in delicious spring rolls."
Related: Beet And Apple Soup
Paired With Fruit
For a tasty salad, "combine sliced cooked beets, chopped apples, and toasted walnuts with fresh greens," suggests Renee Shepherd, owner of Renee's Garden Seeds in California. "Or you can roast them with orange, ginger, and a touch of tarragon."
For Dessert
If your family doesn't love beets, try them for dessert. Add freshly cooked, pureed beets to chocolate cake batter. This addition makes the cake extra-moist and creates a truly healthful treat.
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Sharon Stone has been sued by her children's former nanny for harassment and wrongful termination, but the Basic Instinct star says that's "absurd."
Erlinda Elemen, who was fired by the actress in February 2011, alleges Stone, 54, insulted her Filipino heritage and demanded she not talk to her kids, The Wrap reports.
"This is an absurd lawsuit that has been filed by a disgruntled ex-employee who is obviously looking to get money any way she can," Stone's rep said in a statement to Us Weekly. "After she was terminated approximately one and a half years ago, she filed claims for alleged disability and workers compensation. Now, she is obviously looking for another opportunity to cash in."
"This is a frivolous lawsuit for absurd claims that are made-up and fabricated," the statement continued. "Sharon Stone will be completely vindicated in court." Stone has three adopted sons, Roan, 12, Laird, 7, and Quinn, 5.
Elemen's attorney, Solomon Gresen, however, said the lawsuit will also draw attention to the issue of overtime pay for domestic employees. The suit alleges Stone accused Elemen of "stealing" the overtime pay.
"A common problem for employees in household occupations concerns the receipt of overtime and other wages," Gresen told The Wrap. "When a celebrity does it, it only serves to draw attention to the fact that there are thousands of people who are being underpaid. Hopefully, the publicity generated from this lawsuit will be of benefit to others and will prompt some change in the lives of ordinary citizens."
The former nanny is seeking unspecified damages.
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Driving simulator created to teach driver safety
Driver's TOMS has been around for some time now but is it still 'getting it done?' I recall my driver's ed being a bit of a joke. I remember in all those old high school shows the students actually drove cars in coned parking lots – I never drive in my class. Saved By The Bell taught me NOTHING!
Meanwhile in a Manhattan New York Basement, engineers and programmers are creating a video game to simulate the whole driving experience. No, I'm not talking about Need for Speed or Crazy Taxi – I'm talking about a real life simulator. What better way to simulate driving than by being in a frame with an actual steering wheel.
The frame is actually adapted from a flight simulator. By putting students behind the wheel in this game, they can safely deal with real life driving situations without any danger. The idea is so simple, but so effective at the same time. In a simulator, a student can learn frantic lane changes and sudden breaking. At the experimental automotive lab at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City this is all becoming a reality.
The developers of this project are looking to partner with insurance companies to teach teens safe driving. I can't help but to support this, make driver's ed fun and educational once again!
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Any food52 member is welcome to help us test our Editors' Pick candidates, so go call dibs on the recipe you'd like to test in the comments section below! We'd love to see some new testers in the mix. Don't forget to email us your notes (about 100 words) to [email protected] by next Tuesday at 5pm.
We'll collect your comments, decide the official list of Editors' Picks and publish your evaluation in the headnote if the recipe is selected as an Editors' Pick (with credit, of course!). And even if the recipe you test isn't chosen as an Editors' Pick, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
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Professor named a top young engineering educatorUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Posted: Oct 26, 2010
Brian Bingham, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, has been selected as one of the nation's most innovative young engineering educators by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and will participate in the organization's second Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium, December 13-16, in Irvine, California.
Professor Bingham was selected following a highly competitive nomination and selection process by NAE and will join 52 other early-career faculty members from around the country who are developing and implementing innovative educational approaches in a variety of engineering disciplines. Over the course of the two-and-a-half day event, participants will focus on ways to ensure that students learn the engineering fundamentals, the expanding knowledge base of new technology and the necessary skills to be an effective engineer or engineering researcher.
Professor Bingham specializes in the development of innovative tools to expand the ability of ocean science for exploring, understanding and protecting the marine environment – including precision underwater navigation, autonomous vehicles and diverse sensors. He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and earned both his MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"We are proud of the NAE's recognition of Professor Bingham as a rising young star in engineering education," said Peter E. Crouch, dean of the College of Engineering. "We look forward to many more accomplishments and contributions from him in the future."


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Fitz "might" be available against Bama
According to Joe Schad's Twitter feed.
@schadjoe RB Fitz Toussaint is not necessarily going to be suspended for all or some of Bama season-opener; going through discipline now
Personally, I don't know how I feel about this. Granted, I'd love for him to be available, but if he is prosecuted for a DUI, I feel he should miss adequate game time. We hold ourselves to higher standards than MSU and the Chris Rucker-gate or ND and the Michael Floyd situation.
Thoughts? Besides possible euphoria imagining Fitz ready to go against Bama?
Edit: My apologies to Mr. Rucker.


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Producing Safe Drinking Water with a Novel Nanoparticle Biofoam
Caty Fairclough July 29, 2016
Around the world, millions of people lack access to improved sources of drinking water. Pesticides, bacteria, organic matter, and other pollutants can make accessible water unsafe for human consumption. Finding a cost-effective and easy method to purify water is therefore a major global initiative. One possible solution is a nanoparticle biofoam, which may provide an efficient method for generating safe drinking water.Read More
Bridget Cunningham May 2, 2016
Graphene is a material with a strong presence — and impact — throughout the scientific community. Amongst its many uses, researchers are looking to graphene as a potential material solution within sensor designs for medical and biosensing applications. Today, we'll explore the role of simulation in analyzing and optimizing a 3D multilayered graphene biosensor.Read More
Andrew Strikwerda August 4, 2015
Within the research community — and on the COMSOL Blog — graphene has been a topic of great interest. The unique properties that make this material so remarkable can also make it challenging to analyze. In simulation, a particularly difficult question to address is whether graphene should be modeled as a 2D sheet or a thin 3D volume. We provide answers to this question in today's blog post.Read More
Bridget Cunningham November 6, 2014
With its growing use in numerous applications, the demand for graphene has steadily increased over the years. This heightened interest has prompted new research behind the methods for synthesizing graphene — one of which is chemical vapor deposition. See how one research team used modeling to analyze and enhance the CVD graphene growth mechanism.Read More
Fanny Littmarck December 13, 2013
You've heard the story: a couple of scientists discovered graphene when they repeatedly pulled a strip of adhesive tape off a layer of graphite. Graphene has been all the rage due to its incredible strength, low weight, and electronic properties, but it's not the only material of its kind. There are plenty of other 2D materials to consider for electrical applications — some of which may work together with graphene, and others that can be used in its place.Read More
Daniel Smith May 8, 2013
In a paper titled "Choosing a Gate Dielectric for Graphene Based Transistors", the applications of a semiconducting form of graphene are examined. As we have seen before, single-layer graphene is not a semiconductor, it is a zero bandgap conductor (a semimetal). Efforts are well underway to introduce bandgaps to graphene, which would make it semiconducting with a room temperature mobility an order of magnitude higher than silicon. The race is already underway to find applications for such a material once […]Read More
Daniel Smith May 2, 2013
Graphene can be created by way of thermal decomposition at high vacuum. In order to design and optimize these high-vacuum systems engineers might look to simulation, but there are currently not many modeling tools that are up to the task. Let's have a look at how vacuum systems are relevant to graphene production, why you should simulate them, and how.Read More
Fanny Littmarck April 10, 2013
Everyone's talking about graphene right now. When was the last time a material received this much attention? Sure, other materials have peaked our interest before, but when something breaks into more mainstream news you know it's going to be a very big deal.Read More
Daniel Smith March 27, 2013
In a previous blog entry I discussed some of the exotic properties of graphene. The fact that graphene consists of a single layer of atoms means the aspect ratio of any graphene-based structure may be very high. High aspect geometries present their own array of modeling challenges.Read More
Daniel Smith March 12, 2013
Graphene is a special type of material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. Graphene in its stable form was discovered at the University of Manchester in 2003 (coincidentally while I was there studying for my Masters degree) and resulted in Nobel Prizes in 2010 for the two researchers who discovered it. Recently, graphene has been making the mainstream news; the European Commission has pledged €1 billion (yes, that's billion with a b) to […]Read More


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Sketching Derivative Functions (Part 2 of 2)
Unit 3: Formalizing Derivatives and Techniques for Differentiation
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Objective: SWBAT sketch derivative functions given original function graph.
Big Idea: Visually estimating tangent slopes point-by-point to plot the derivative can be tedious. Today we look for ways to improve this process.
Math, unit circle, Precalculus and Calculus, calculus ab, derivatives graphically, geogebra, unit circle trig, calculus, AP Calculus, AP Calculus AB
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Joseph L. Goodrich
Joseph L. Goodrich, 91, died January 2, 2013. He was the beloved husband for 25 years to Myrtle H. (Simmons) Goodrich and the former husband of the late Mildred N. (Shubert) Goodrich.
Born in New London, Conneticut, a son of the late Neil G. and Alice (Latham) Goodrich, he has resided in Warwick since 1953. He was a World War II Navy veteran. After the service, he graduated Boston University Magna Cum Laude in journalism. He had worked as a reporter with the Fall River Herald until his employment with the Providence Journal where he worked until his retirement as financial editor in 1987. Mr. Goodrich was the recipient of the Loeb Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1958. He was former president of the Netopian Club in Providence, served on the Board of Directors of the Providence and Worcester Railroad and was a Scout Master and committee member of Troop 1, Conimicut during the 1960's.
Besides his wife; he leaves his son, Thomas E. Goodrich and wife, Arna, of Warwick, his daughter, Dawn G. Lomden of Philadelphia and was the father of the late Joel Turner Goodrich. He also leaves three grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. He was the brother of Neil E. Goodrich, Sydney R. Goodrich and the late John G. Goodrich.
A funeral service will be held Monday at 11 a.m. in the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Chapel, 2435 Warwick Ave. Burial with military honors in Pawtuxet Memorial Park, Warwick. Visiting hours Sunday 4-7 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to Cornerstone Adult Services, 140 Warwick Neck Avenue, Warwick, RI 02889, will be appreciated. Information and condolences, visit TheQuinnFuneralHome.com.