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Villa Vatnan | Nordic Office of Architecture
Nordic Office of Architecture was approached by the Vatnan family to deliver their dream home. They had a simple architectural vision, but a demanding site on which it was to be realized.
Located on the edge of an established residential area with limited access and a steep topography, the site does, however, offer fantastic views from the private and shielded south-west facade.
Photography: visualis / m.c.herzog
The family desired a home for both everyday life and entertaining, where the primary rooms are all collated on one floor with generous sizes and well resolved spatial relationships. By lifting this main floor up to one floor above the natural entrance level, we captured the best of the views and the sun. The elongated body of the house shelters against the wind and creates an open private outdoor space, while the bedrooms and living areas all have direct access to the garden via a covered terrace stretching the length of the house. Photography: visualis / m.c.herzog
The simple concept is reinforced by the overall simplicity in the use of materials. The entire main floor is covered in pine boards, and the living room, kitchen, and terrace are clad in veneered oak. The concrete is sealed throughout the house, and the ceiling height of 2.8 meters further contributes to the experience of the house opening up towards the grand view to the south-west.
The basement and main deck are cast in concrete and the gable and long walls to the north-east are clad in cedar wood.
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What do Photographs and Captions Tell Us About the Story? Day 1 of 2
Lesson 5 of 6
Objective: SWBAT ask and answer questions to analyze text features in an informational text.
Big Idea: Authors use photos and captions in a the story to draw attention to important details. Today, my students look for the big idea(s) the author wants us to remember.
Context and Overview:
Rereading with purpose is a very powerful strategy that aids comprehension. Today, I am going back and rereading the first part of Stirring Up Memories, by Pam Munoz Ryan, title, "Growing Up." As we read I will be asking text dependent questions. This time the goal of these questions is to take the reader deeper into the comprehension of the autobiography through understanding the structure of the story. The way I am doing this is by focusing on the information the photos and captions carry. Students need to identify text features and be savvy about their role in stories.
Before we dive into the reading, I am giving the students time to read this section silently.
Then, we are rereading with text dependent questions.
After that, I am gathering the students on the rug for Socratic Seminar.
Finally, the students will have the opportunity to write about what is important for the writer given the photos and the captions.
Opening Activity:
From the rug, I share the objective with students: "I can ask and answer questions to analyze how the photos and captions help to better understand the story."
We read it chorally, then proceed with the next question, "What are text features?"
I wait for them to think about the question, and then I let a few share.
Next, I review the text features: photographs, illustrations, and captions. By reviewing I am helping them focus on what we are going to do today.
My students come to my classroom with limited literacy experiences. That is why I take the time to give them many reading experiences throughout the day.
Now, I am asking them to read quietly to themselves. Students at this age need to learn how to read silently for sustained amounts of time. This is good practice. As they reread, I walk around to make sure they are indeed reading.
I tell them I pay attention to their body language and how their eyes and fingers are tracking the reading. I make sure to praise their reading behavior.
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Now that the students have finished reading on their own, it is time to reread the section with text dependent questions. These questions differ from the questions we went through during our first read of this selection in a previous lesson. These questions mostly start with how and why. Why? These questions take the reader deeper. The second read is about helping them understand the structure of the story. So the focus of the questions is about how the author uses the photos and the captions and/or maps, and illustrations to tell her autobiography.
I want the students to understand this higher perspective and by repeating the question, how does the author use the photos and captions to tell her story, it is my goal to help them understand the intentional use by the author to convey meaning. In other words, in this second read, I am helping my students have a conversation with the author about the way these text features are used. For example, one students demonstrates knowledge of how captions. In this way, the author becomes a real entity instead of an unknown or foreign subject. I am helping my students question the author.
To help my students provide evidence in communicating their ideas, I am following up with, "How do you know?" after the questions.
In working with English Language Learners, repetition is important to help develop language and conceptual understanding of the story. That is why I keep asking them the questions:
•How do they (text features) help you to understand the story better?
•Why do you think the author chose to use these text features?
I am asking my students to explain, which is a more challenging task. The hows and whys usually trip my students up. What did I do to help them explain and go deeper? I asked other questions that served as a bridge from the concrete to the abstract. For example, on one of the pages the author shows a photo of her grandmother holding her when the author was a baby.
I asked my students, what is happening in the photo? Who is in the photo? I waited for their answers and I followed up with, how do you know that is her grandmother? Some students raised their hands to say it was her grandmother. I asked, what did you do to figure that out? In asking this question my goal was to get my students to answer that they had to read the caption to figure it out.
Then, I asked my students, if there was no caption underneath the photo, how would we know who this person is? (I repeated the question with the other photos: how would we know what this photo was about if there was no caption to go with it?)
In doing this, I helped my students see the importance of the caption and how it provided additional and important information to the story. There is enough information in the story to infer this person is her grandmother, but I explained to the students that in providing the caption, the author doesn't us want us to guess. The author makes it clear and helps us readers understand this is an important detail in the story. She wants us to pay attention to it.
Additionally, I asked, the author never says she loves her grandmother, but she shows us that she loves her grandmother, how does this photo show that? What does the photo tell us that the text does not? And this question takes me back to the above questions listed above.
I was guiding my students in communicating that the author uses photos of her grandmother because she wants us to know how much she loved her grandmother and much her grandmother influenced her cooking--not in those precise words, but understanding the importance of this person in the author's life.
In teaching text features and guiding students with questions to analyze them, it is important to keep in mind the reason as to why author has chosen to use them in the first place. This is one of the reasons it is imperative to read the story before teaching it. And, to understand how the different layers of meaning in this text make it a complex one.
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Socratic Seminar
Authors of informational texts tell us what is important to them through through photos, captions, and other text features. I want to help the students glean the important information in the text from the text features.
That is why for Socratic Seminar, we are discussing the following question: "Given the text features, the photos, captions, maps, and others, what is important to the author?"
It is a question that takes the students back into the text. That is the goal.
I throw out the question to the group, only after we have reviewed the reason for Socratic Seminar, and the rules for participation.
To share with each other their ideas, students must hand off. Handing off means, letting someone else share their thoughts. When someone is ready for someone else to speak, they simply state, "I hand off to _________." This keeps going until no one else wants to share or until the time is up.
Sometimes before they share with the whole group, I give them a moment to share in pairs. It is another way I make sure I engage all my students.
I have posted both charts my students need for Socratic Seminar. They are quite visible to my students.
I also have attached a Socratic Seminar Rules document that fully details how I implement Socratic Seminar in my classroom.
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Now students take the time to integrate their learning in writing. My students have had the chance to read, speak/discuss ideas, and now they are using their thinking and reading skills again to write. I support students in different ways. I give them help with spelling words, encouragement to begin and keep going, direction to staying on task, and anything else that comes up. Here are examples of their writing:
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When students share their work with others, I make sure I show my enthusiasm for their sharing. Students' effort needs to be validated in different ways. Having them be in front of their peers and read their work is definitely one way. And my students know that in sharing they will be given feedback about what they wrote. I make sure to make this time a celebratory experience, in which the speakers can listen and take in both praise and critique.
Here are the two speakers for today:
How do my students praise and critique one another? I give them a specific structure to work within:
- Two stars: Two students share two specific ways about what they liked in the writing.
- A Wish: Another student states a specific way in which the writing can improve.
This time is a closing time, too. I make sure to close the lesson by reviewing whether we accomplished our objective or not.

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Angels outfielder with Poteau ties unanimously voted AL Rookie of the Year
NEW YORK — Mike Trout and Bryce Harper were teammates on the Scottsdale Scorpions last fall. The outfielders arrived in the major leagues on the same April day this year, both played in the All-Star game and they won Rookie of the Year awards a half-hour apart Monday, the vanguard of baseball's next generation.The 21-year-old Trout was a unanimous pick as the youngest AL rookie winner, and the 20-year-old Harper edged Arizona pitcher Wade Miley 112 points to 105 to become the second-youngest winner of the NL honor."It's pretty neat," said Trout, the son of former Minnesota minor leaguer Jeff Trout.For the first time, players learned the voting results when they were announced on television."My heart was beating a little bit," Harper said.Trout, who turned 21 on Aug. 7, received all 28 first-place votes from the AL panel of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. The Los Angeles Angels center fielder was the eighth unanimous AL pick and the first since Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria in 2008.There could be more to come, too. Trout, who is the nephew of City of Poteau Water Department employee Charles Busonick and his wife, Sandra, is among five finalists for AL MVP and is considered the chief challenger to Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera for that award, which will be announced Thursday.


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I. In Focus This Week
North Carolina counties try to go it alone to require photo ID
Legal questions surface before legislation
Earlier this year, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue vetoed voter photo ID legislation bucking a nationwide trend that has seen voter photo ID laws grow this year.
The General Assembly failed to override the veto and is again currently in special session with that on the agenda, but according to media reports the prospects of overturning the veto appear slim.
While debate continues at the state level, some counties in North Carolina are taking matters into their own hands. Recently several counties approved resolutions asking their state representatives to introduce legislation that would allow them to require voter photo ID at the county level.
Local election administrators are taking a wait and see approach about how the legislation — if enacted — would impact them, although many admitted that the first time they heard about the resolutions was through the local media.
"My office was not consulted or made aware of any pending voter ID resolution before it was approved by the Gaston County Commission," explained Adam Ragan, director of elections for Gaston County. "I first heard about the resolution after it was passed by reading about it in our local newspaper."
Erin Burridge, director of the Craven County Board of Elections said that while she was aware of the resolution before the county voted to approve it, her office was not consulted about it prior to the vote.
Ragan said without seeing any actual legislation he was unclear of the impacts it could have on the workload or budget of the county board.
"There will be some impact on our office workload but I won't know for sure until any legislation is passed by the General Assembly," Ragan said.
Like Ragan, Burridge said that she could not even begin to speculate the impacts such a law would have on her office, but she does expect there would be some.
While counties are hoping the General Assembly will take up their cause, the state's Department of Justice is urging caution.
In a letter issued on November 23, Chief Deputy Attorney General Grayson G. Kelly wrote that uneven local election laws raise equal protection questions under both the state and U.S. constitutions.
"…it appears likely our courts would conclude that voter identification requirements, if otherwise constitutional, must be enacted through general laws applicable statewide to all voters in a class," Grayson wrote. "Legislation which enacts such requirements through multiple local acts would therefore be deemed impermissible under the Constitution."
Grayson concluded his letter by saying, "It is therefore our opinion that the enactment of local bills requiring photo voter identification in certain counties would likely be held unconstitutional by the courts."
Gary O. Bartlett, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections said that other than directives issued by court order, there are no other county-by-county election laws in the state.
Because this process is still very much in the early stages, Bartlett is unsure of the impacts any new law would have on the state board.
"Until the particulars of the enacted bill are known, I can only provide general comment," Bartlett said. "The state board has oversight of all elections in North Carolina, thus at the least, we would have to manage different laws and policies instead of uniform application of election laws."
Bartlett said this could lead to confusion of the voter and administrator, especially living in a mobile society where people frequently move.
And not all counties have jumped onboard the movement.
In the same week Craven and Gaston counties overwhelmingly voted yes, commissioners in Columbus County voted unanimously against a resolution saying they were in favor of the bill.
"We spend all this time and energy trying to encourage young people and seniors to go vote and I can see this being an obstacle to prevent them from voting," Commissioner Amon McKenzie told WECT.
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Creativity & Innovation
You know you've made it when your work is featured on an episode of NBC's "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."
That's the case for Ed Tronick, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
The developmental and clinical psychologist's Still Face Experiment, which shows the strong reactions of a baby trying to win back its mother's attention, was used as a plot point on the show in 2009.
Still Face Experiment Goes Viral
Tronick was one of the first researchers to show that babies are profoundly affected by their parents' emotional states and behavior. His Still Face Experiment is now the standard for studying social emotional development, and a video of it has gone viral on YouTube.
Tronick studies the neurobehavioral and social-emotional development of infants and young children, and infant memory for stress. He has also investigated the effects of prenatal cocaine abuse and other toxic substances on infant behavior and development.
Tronick's latest research focuses on the impressionable nature of genes, an emerging and controversial field known as epigenetics.
"Epigenetic processes are part of normal development – for example, they occur during cell division, fetal development and over the course of the life span," Tronick explains. "We now know that single nutrients, toxins, prenatal or postnatal environmental exposures, and even parenting practices can silence or activate a gene without altering its genetic code."
Discoveries in behavioral epigenetics may lead to targeted therapies for depression, addiction, schizophrenia, and learning disorders.
In addition to teaching at UMass Boston, Tronick is chief of the Child Development Unit, which moved from Children's Hospital Boston to UMass Boston in January 2012. Tronick also has faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Fielding Graduate University, and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
He has co-authored and authored more than 150 scientific papers and chapters. His book, The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children, is a tour de force according to a review in New England Psychologist.
Go Inside UMass Boston
- Psychology Department
- Infant-Parent Mental Health, Post-Graduate (Certificate)
- Child Development Unit
Go Off Campus
- Children's Hospital Boston
- Harvard Medical School
- Fielding Graduate University
- Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute


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NEW LEBANON, Ohio —
Authorities in western Ohio say a former girls softball coach is accused of having a long-term sexual relationship with a teenage girl that started when she was 13.
The Dayton Daily News reports that the victim - now an adult - initiated the investigation against 43-year-old Thomas Zimpfer last year. He was indicted last week by the Montgomery County grand jury on charges of rape and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
Authorities say Zimpfer started the relationship with the girl seven years ago. He never coached the girl in any sport, but previously coached third- and fourth-grade girls softball in New Lebanon, near Dayton.
He is being held with no bond. Jail records didn't indicate if he had an attorney.


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The Institute of Marine Science of the Burapha University
The University operates a modern aquarium with real underwater environment and a marine science museum which opens daily, except Monday, from 8.30a.m.to 4.30 p.m. For more information, call (038) 391671-4.
The Khao Khiao Open Zoo
Covering a vast tract of forest land, the zoo is located approximately 20 kilometers south of Chon Buri from Sukhumvit Road. To get there,
The Si Racha Tiger Farm
The farm, which is situated at Km. 20 marker on highway No. 36, raises a large number of Bengal tigers, as well as large crocodiles.


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Live updates
Llandudno concert to highlight threat to African lions
This weekend, a special concert will be held in Llandudno to help raise awareness of the threat to lions in Africa.
In less than half a century, the population of the species has declined by 75 percent.
Now, Queen guitarist Brian May and singer Kerry Ellis are taking to the road to try to halt the decline.
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Medical student saves lives abroad
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Elicitation of Factored Utilities
The effective tailoring of decisions to the needs and desires of specific users requires automated mechanisms for preference assessment. We provide a brief overview of recent direct preference elicitation methods: these methods ask users to answer (ideally, a small number of) queries regarding their preferences and use this information to recommend a feasible decision that would be (approximately) optimal given those preferences. We argue for the importance of assessing numerical utilities rather than qualitative preferences, and survey several utility elicitation techniques from artificial intelligence, operations research, and conjoint analysis.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v29i4.2203
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The new Kimichi Caprese Salad is a refreshing change from all the boring leafy salads out there.
A Korean/Italian fusion of brussel sprout kimchi, tomatoes, ricotta salata, roasted beets and pomegranates ($9), this salad is actually worth eating.
Matching the bitterness of of the brussel sprouts with sweetness from the roasted beets and creaminess of the ricotta, this salad is an adventure of flavours and textures that you just won't find in a typical bowl of greens.


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A review of the seminal sources of the Beat experience in poetry and a discussion of the work of Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth and William Everson/Brother Antoninus as progenitors of the Beats.
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"One of the most popular poets of the 1920s, Edna St. Vincent Millay was known for her exquisite love sonnets and her dazzling concert hall recitations.
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This seminar will use visual and musical works to explore the moment when the modern poet is pulled in many different directions by complicated emotions.
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Marking the twentieth anniversary of his death, this seminar focuses on in-depth reading of selections from Life Studies, considered Robert Lowell's masterpiece.
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Robert Creeley reads Duncan's poetry, recollecting his friendship, advice and generous company.


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Another morning in Larkhall — I'm beginning to wonder what's wrong with me. I mean, I see this big beast of a prison, and I want to jump for joy. That's not normal, despite the fact that incarceration is my backup retirement plan.
Oh, but here's a good reason to jump for joy: There's Helen! And now that she's bid good riddance to those stuffy suits of the first season, we can enjoy her lithe neck, her lovely collarbones and her other considerable assets.
Helen and Karen are getting ready for the wing meeting. Because Helen is back at work at Larkhall, remember? She's back! She's there! And we get to keep Karen as wing governor. Here's me jumping for joy again.
Helen and Fenner exchange looks that say, "I hate you even more than I did the last time I saw you, and that was really a lot." Only on Helen's face, there's an extra element of "I dare you." She's so cool and fierce at the same time.
Just like her expression, Helen's task is twofold: Figure out why there are more women lifers in Britain than any other country in Europe, and "make sure everything's OK" with the women lifers at Larkhall. Oh? OK, you say? Like, the sort of all's-right-with-the-world feeling Nikki gets when she brushes those full Scottish lips with her own?
Oh, boy. It's gonna be a long recap.
After Karen finishes her speech, Helen assures everyone that she's not there to run Larkhall in any way, and won't be reporting anything to the governing governor.
I will. That, and a miracle worker. Same diff.
Karen continues with the meeting. It seems Shell has been shipped off to the loony wing. Er, she's under observation in the prison hospital. But why didn't we get to see the big rescue scene? At the end of the last episode, she had a makeshift noose around her neck. Oh, well; guess that got sorted out somehow. It was probably one of Helen's miracles.
Still scheming — Fenner visits Yvonne in her cell. He wants to make another pay-for-privacy deal with Yvonne.
Yvonne, you know I love you, but what is your shirt doing? Besides scaring me, I mean?
Fenner decides to push his luck this time: He's going to need a little something more, if he's going to continue to put his job on the line. Yvonne looks at him like she'd like to put his neck on the line.


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Canadian rapper Drake is mourning the loss of his beloved grandmother.
The Best I Ever Had hitmaker, real name Aubrey Graham, broke the sad news to fans on Twitter.com on Thursday (22Nov12), as his American devotees celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with their families.
He tweeted, "Rest in peace to my grandmother Evelyn Sher. What a day to go...thankful to have had the times we did".
Drake shared a close bond with his maternal grandma, who spent her final days in a nursing home, and even referenced her in a handful of his songs.
On the unreleased track The Winner, he rapped, "Yeah, and in the name of Evelyn Sher/I'll forever forgive anybody that never was there/For me, no other woman could ever compare/My angel I hope heaven's prepared for whenever you there."
Sher even landed a guest appearance on the tune Look What I've Done, from Drake's 2011 album Take Care, on which she tells her grandchild: "All I can say Aubrey is, I remember the good times we had together and the times I used to look after you and I still have wonderful feelings about that. So God bless you, and I hope I'll see you."


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Although he has not filed any paperwork, it appears that Florida junior defensive end/tackle Dominique Easley is strongly considering leaving early.
NEW ORLEANS — Although he has not filed any paperwork with the NFL, it appears that Florida junior defensive end/tackle Dominique Easley is strongly considering leaving early for professional football.
Easley said Friday he has a tough decision to make about his future after Wednesday's Sugar Bowl game against Louisville.
"It's difficult. It's my future," he said. "It's a difficult process. I should address that at another time."
Four other top juniors — defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd, tight end Jordan Reed, safety Matt Elam and outside linebacker Jelani Jenkins — already have filed paperwork with the NFL to ascertain where they project to go in the NFL Draft. Floyd and Reed are expected to enter the draft, while there's a good chance Elam, an All-America selection this season) also will depart.
Even though Easley has not filed any paperwork, he's obviously considering an early departure.
Gators rule the state
Numerous UF players, including Easley, have been seen walking around New Orleans wearing orange T-shirts with 37-26 written in blue on the front.
That, of course, was the score in the Gators' big season-ending win over Florida State in Tallahassee, a victory that propelled UF into the Sugar Bowl.
On the back is written, "Win the State," a reference to the Gators considering themselves to be the champions of Florida this season. FSU beat Miami and Florida beat FSU, so the Gators feel justified in claiming the title.
Business trip for UF
Although several UF players have visited Bourbon Street, which is walking distance from the team hotel, the Gators say they're not here to party. They're here to win their 12th game of the season.
"We have a goal to go 12-1," junior cornerback Jaylen Watkins said. "We're still not finished."
On Friday night's UF agenda: bowling.
UF coach Will Muschamp said the players have a curfew, but he will not reveal it to the media. "It's earlier than yours," he said to a writer that asked about the curfew.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals, making their first trip to New Orleans, do not have a curfew, Louisville coach Charlie Strong said.
"There won't be a curfew because I want my players to enjoy the experience," Strong said. "They deserve it as a team because they've worked so hard to get themselves here. They already know it's all about business, and we're not trying to see how many hurricanes we can consume or anything. We can stay out at night, but in the end we know it's a business trip for us."
Bridgewater feeling good
Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who battled through wrist and ankle injuries down the stretch to help lead the Cardinals to a share of the Big East title, said he should be good to go in the Sugar Bowl.
"I feel great," he said. "I can't put an exact percentage on it right now, but I feel great. I've been running really well in practice so (the ankle) won't be much of a factor. It's not bothering me at all."
Gators out to corral another QB
The Florida defense has excelled in many areas this season. One thing the Gators have really been good at is containing top dual-threat quarterbacks, including Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M.
Bridgewater will be another test.
"I think it's just everybody doing their job," Watkins said. "We believe in our coaches and the scheme they put against (scrambling quarterbacks)."
The defense also gets an assist in preparation from No. 3 quarterback Tyler Murphy, who will be emulating Bridgewater on the scout team this week.
"He definitely takes pride in going to the scout team every time we have a scrambling quarterback (to prepare for)," Watkins said. "He takes it serious with the look. He really does a good job with it."
Bridgewater said he's very impressed with the Florida defense.
"They are very physical. They have a great front-seven," he said. "The closest team to them would be Rutgers, but we haven't really faced a team like them."
Snowbirds arrive
Florida's two Indiana players — punter Kyle Christy and offensive lineman Kyle Koehne — had travel issues due to a snowstorm and did not arrive in New Orleans until late Thursday night.
"They got caught in the snow up there in the Midwest and they finally got in last night," Muschamp said. "Everyone is here and accounted for."


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Barbara C. Pinto '12 has been awarded the Abascal Fellowship, a $47,000 grant given to a UC Hastings College of the Law student to pursue anti-poverty and civil rights work.
Pinto plans to work with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, helping undocumented immigrants take advantage of a new prosecutorial discretion policy that will potentially allow some 300,000 individuals in removal proceedings to close their cases and apply for work permits.
In addition to representing clients in that administrative proceeding, she will teach other lawyers how to do so, and educate immigrant communities about the new policy.
She plans to concentrate her work in the Central Valley, not far from where Abascal had his start working with union activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
"My goals with my proposed project will bring about an informed population who will exercise their rights and in turn be able to stay in the country, as well as obtain work permits," Pinto wrote in her application essay.
Pinto knows firsthand the fear and uncertainty that comes with being undocumented. When she went to apply for college, her parents, a cab driver and clerical worker, sat her down. "I told them I wanted to go away for college, and I had all these different schools I was looking at. That's when they told me it might be better to stay here," she said.
Though she has no memories of her early life in Venezuela, Pinto and her parents were undocumented. They came to the U.S. when Pinto was two years old. Her uncle was sponsoring the family, but none of them had yet been successful. They were still in the process of adjusting.
"My parents had tried to hide it from me as much as they could through the years, and so when I found out it was sort of shock. I went through a range of emotions, denial, fear," she says.
"Then I realized this could be empowering, and that I could do a lot with this experience."
Pinto was full of determination and drive before she landed at UC Hastings. Raised in San Francisco, she went to Lowell. "In high school, I knew I wanted to go into law. So I went to my career counselor and got a part-time job at a law firm in San Francisco" with UC Hastings alumni Anthony P. David '67.
"I had great mentors, great supervisors," she says.
Like many immigrants, she is the first in her family to go to college. She went to San Francisco State University, and nearly got sidetracked into psychology. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and got her green card just before starting at UC Hastings in 2009.
She soon set her sights on the Ralph Santiago Abascal Fellowship. "I knew I wanted a shot at it when the announcement came out," she said.
The committee that awards the fellowship, which includes members of Abascal's family, UC Hastings faculty and others, looks for students who have existing ties to a nonprofit. That fit Pinto perfectly. Pinto had already volunteered at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and served an internship with the city's Human Rights Commission. She was a clinic intern at UC Hastings' Refugee and Human Rights Clinic, and served as law clerk for the local chapter of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the ACLU's Immigrant Rights Project, and worked at a local immigration law firm.
Prof. Richard Boswell said there were many good applications, and the decision was a difficult one. Pinto, however, had an interest in public interest law from the beginning of law school, he said. "One thing that stands out about Barbara is she is an immigrant herself, and she wants to continue to work with the community she is from. She has a long-standing relationship with the organization she is partnering with," he said. "Hopefully, something more substantial will develop from that later."
"I've never doubted what I wanted to do," Pinto says. "All my internships have been related to immigration, and all I've done has confirmed my passion."
Pinto begins work at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in September.
About the Abascal Fellowship:
It would be difficult for a mere mortal to fill the shoes of Ralph S. Abascal '68 (1934-1997).
The affable, soft-spoken Abascal was a fierce advocate for immigrants, farm workers, and welfare recipients and changed the face of public interest lawyering as the long-time general counsel of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). He challenged the powerful, changed laws and improved the lives of the poor, the undocumented, and anyone who worked in California's agricultural fields or ate its food.
In addition to being a CRLA attorney and its general counsel, Abascal served as founding director of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment, and had been the director of litigation at the San Francisco Legal Assistance Foundation. He worked for three decades on more than 200 major cases, many of them class actions on behalf of welfare recipients, farm workers, and undocumented immigrants.
He was among the first and most vigorous advocates to use environmental law broadly, and pioneered the field of environmental justice.
Abascal was studying economics at UC Berkeley when he saw the 1960 film "Inherit the Wind," which portrayed the famous 1925 Scopes trial over evolutionary theory and the battle between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. He left the field of economics and enrolled at UC Hastings, graduating in 1968. As a law student, he worked as a law clerk at CRLA's Salinas office. He became a CRLA staff attorney upon graduation. One of Abascal's first cases resulted in the ban on the short-handled hoe.
Prof. Mark N. Aaronson, who is on the fellowship committee, said Abascal's brilliance was seeing the big picture. Just a few years out of UC Hastings, Abascal proved an adroit lobbyist, working in Sacramento with lawmakers to reach a compromise with Governor Ronald Reagan over welfare reform legislation. Some of his counsel involved making the legislation more vulnerable to federal court challenge because of conflicts with overriding federal statutory law. Once the legislation passed, Abascal and other legal aid lawyers on behalf of welfare recipients challenged its various provisions in some 40-45 major lawsuits, most of them successful
"He was not charismatic in the conventional sense, but he had a presence people respected, and people trusted his word,"said Aaronson, founding director of the college's Civil Justice Clinic. Aaronson is polishing the final edits on a book analyzing Abascal's advocacy on behalf of the welfare poor during the early 1970s. Representing the Poor: Legal Advocacy & Welfare Reform during Reagan's Gubernatorial Years is due out in Summer 2012.
Abascal later taught at UC Hastings, inspiring legions of public interest attorneys. He served on the UC Hastings board for 12 years. His wife, Prof. Beatrice Moulton, taught for almost 20 years at UC Hastings. She developed and taught courses on roles and ethics in practice, homelessness, and negotiation and settlement.
For all his success, Abascal never abandoned his humble roots. He told the New York Times he and a fellow attorney once shared a pair of wingtip shoes for court appearances, and apologized for using prize money from one of his many honors late in his life to buy a small Chrysler convertible.
The American Bar Association honored Abascal in 1995 with the Thurgood Marshall Award. He was also honored with the Kutak-Dodds Prize of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Robert Kutak Foundation.
Following his death from cancer in 1997, his supporters and admirers, many of them UC Hastings alumni, contributed donations to an endowment in his name to jumpstart the careers of young public interest lawyers and ensure under-served populations would continue to receive representation. That endowment funds the annual Abascal Fellowship.


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Cozad looking to recruit new physician
COZAD—Cozad Community Health Systems will be losing a family practice physician as Dr. Kate Boos will be stepping down with Jan. 17 being her final day. Dr. Boos started her tenure in Cozad in September of 2008, and has been a mainstay in the medical profession in Cozad for the past five years. Boos and her family will be moving to Kearney, and is grateful for the five years serving the Cozad community. Currently, there are four physicians and one nurse practitioner that are practicing at Cozad, with recruiting efforts moving forward to bring more medical professionals to the community.—reported in the Tri-City Trib.
More Custer County riders are buckling up
BROKEN BOW—A recent seat belt observation completed in four locations in Custer County showed 54-percent of residents were wearing a seat belt, a phenomenal increase in use when compared to seeing only 46-percent restrained one year ago in the fall of 2012. The observations are part of an evaluation completed for Custer County Campaign Buckle-Up, a three-year project that began in October of 2012. The campaign is sponsored by Central Nebraska Community Services and funded by the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety. The county's injuries and fatalities have decreased, according to official data, which is in part due to the education of the project.—reported in the Custer County Chief.
Student's brochure is featured on website
OGALLALA—A brochure created by three Ogallala Middle School sixth-grade students will be used to help attract people to Keith County. In a partnership between the Ogallala Middle School and the Ogallala/Keith County Chamber of Commerce, students in geography classes created brochures promoting the area, which then were voted on with the winning brochure to be posted on the Chamber of Commerce's website. The winning brochure was created by Marcus Wolfe, Elizabeth Christensen and Jayden Gonzalez, and features local businesses, the Prairie View School expansion project and Lake McConaughy.—reported in the Keith County News.
NCTA named Top 10 vet tech college in U.S.
CURTIS—The veterinary technology program at the University of Nebraska-Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture (NCTA) in Curtis was recently named a Top 10 large animal vet tech program in the United States. Students in the vet tech program at NCTA are able to find a number of opportunities to increase their large animal experience and understanding including by working with animals located in a horse barn and a cattle facility at the school. Contributing to the ranking is NCTA's two-year technical program, campus renovations, clinic and classrooms, and a skilled, well-trained instructional staff.—reported in the Frontier County Enterprise.
Christmas child gift boxes get new goal
ARNOLD—The community of Arnold has been a part of sending boxes overseas through Operation Christmas Child (OCC) for several years now, but this year, the bar was raised with an astounding 442 boxes already taken to a collection point and more are expected. The project began in 1993 and over 100 million boys and girls in 130 countries have received shoe box gifts filled with items such as school supplies, hygiene items, flashlights, clothes and toys as well. Community members have also contributed to the shipping costs and are planning the project again next year with an even bigger number.—reported in the Arnold Sentinel.
Five decades of service is honored
CALLAWAY—Callaway Volunteer Fire & Rescue members recently honored Larry Franssen for 50 years of membership with the department doing both fire and rescue work over the five decades. Volunteers hosted a surprise dinner for Franssen and presented him with a special plaque of a fireman's axe. Franssen joined in 1968 when the department had just one truck and an International. He recalled that the first ambulance in 1972 had a top speed of just 50 mph. Only he and Larry Mowrey remain from that original crew.—reported in the Callaway Courier.
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Google space weapon obliterates 50m insect
Rampaging earwig blown from Google Earth
Those among you who think that Google is nothing more than a force for international evil masquerading as an internet ad-punting outfit will have to think again. We have just received news that messrs Brin and Page are using their vast wealth not to enslave millions to the Google brand, but rather to protect mankind from rampaging 50m insects.
Regular readers will recall the chilling case of the sleepy hamlet of Arlesberg, menaced by the mother of all earwigs*:
Here's the original wide view, indicating the sheer scale of the beast:
However, here's the same area now:
Quite what kind of terrifying, space-based weapon Google used to blow this monstrous insect back from whence it came is a complete mystery, but suffice it to say we can all sleep sounder in our beds tonight safe in the knowledge that the search engine monolith is ready to strike with massive force against any threat to its customer base. ®
*Yes, yes: we know it's not actually an earwig, and thanks to all those entomologists who wrote in to point out our mistake. Thanks too to Hayden Clark who alerted us as to the giant insect's destruction.


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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising Announced; Stand-alone Digital Download
The PC version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, released last October, will receive a digital download expansion this March, publisher Electronic Arts announced today.
Titled Uprising, the stand-alone expansion will offer four mini-campaigns for each faction, along with an additional campaign focusing on the origins of the Empire of the Rising Sun's commando Yuriko.Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising also introduces the "Commander's Challenge". This feature will allow you to test your skills against a set of nine commanders from different territories and difficulty levels in 50 challenges, all with their own conditions and game rules.
Also look for new live-action cutscenes. Gemma Atkinson and Ivana Milicevic are among those actors returning; additional cast members will be announced soon.
"Uprising is a game that in many ways reflects the feedback we have gotten from the Command & Conquer community," said EA Los Angeles senior producer Amer Ajami."We're giving gamers more of what they want - more of the fast, fluid and fun gameplay, more of the story we began to tell in Red Alert 3 and more cutscenes featuring top-notch Hollywood talent. At the same time, we're excited we're going to be able to bring new things to the mix, including new units and the Commander's Challenge, which is a great way for players to hone their skills and get deeper into the combat."


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We built 'The Compassion Experience' in order to really bring the developing world to America.
Kingsland, Ga. (PRWEB) January 09, 2014
Compassion International, a leading authority on child sponsorship which releases children from poverty globally, will be bringing its "Change the Story: The Compassion Experience" tour to the Kingsland area Jan. 17-20. The event will educate visitors about the realities of life in poverty as well as provide an international experience to visitors who may not ever have the opportunity to travel abroad to a developing country.
The four-day event will be set up in the parking lot of Christ's Church Camden at 201 Kings Bay Road in Kingsland, Ga. from Jan. 17-20. There, visitors will be invited on a 20-minute, self-guided journey where they will be immersed in the lives and stories of one of three children living in India, Uganda or Bolivia. Each child's story starts in hardship but ends in hope.
The experience includes 3,100 square feet of exhibit space, featuring replicas of the homes and environments of these three Compassion beneficiaries. The event is free and family-friendly.
"We built 'The Compassion Experience' in order to really bring the developing world to America," said Mark Hanlon, Compassion International's senior vice president of global marketing and engagement.
The tour is highly interactive, using individual iPods and headsets to offer visitors a sense of what life is like in extremely poverty-stricken areas around the world where more than 1.4 billion people are living on less than $1.25 per day (USD). In the areas Compassion serves, one in five children die before the age of five, mostly from preventable causes, and 101 million children worldwide do not attend school. Tour goers will have the opportunity to "change the story" of children living in poverty by learning more about the issue, as well as Compassion's child sponsorship program, which tackles global poverty one child at a time. Compassion currently serves more than 1.4 million children in 26 of the world's most impoverished countries.
For more information about "Change the Story: The Compassion Experience," visit http://www.compassion.com/change, @ChangeTour on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/changetour on Facebook.
Compassion International is the world's leading authority in child sponsorship. Compassion revolutionized the fight against global poverty by equipping the Church to develop children out of poverty to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults. It is the only child sponsorship program to be validated through independent, empirical research. Today, Compassion partners with more than 6,000 Christian churches in 26 countries to release more than 1.4 million babies, children and students from poverty in Jesus' name. Compassion has been awarded the highest rating for financial stewardship and transparency for 12 consecutive years by Charity Navigator, America's largest charity evaluator. For more information on the ministry, visit Compassion.com or follow them on Twitter at @compassion.


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Preston Craft Hearing Aids has been serving the hearing impaired in Polk County since 1985. Recognized as one of the most experienced and trusted Certified Hearing Aid Specialists in Central Florida, Preston Craft HAS, BC-HIS, ACA has worked to improve the lives of thousands of area individuals suffering with hearing loss.We're dedicated to providing unmatched service excellence and provide our patients with the kind of personalized, responsive care and experienced service you're looking for. At Preston Craft Hearing Aids, we take the time to listen and care. We provide free hearing tests and back our hearing aid sales with dependable, quality service. We repair most brands of hearing aids and also sell batteries. At Preston Craft Hearing Aids, we will fit you with the right hearing aids for your specific hearing loss and budget. We also take the time to educate you regarding your options, so you can make a more informed and confident decision when choosing your new hearing aids. We offer all styles of hearing aids including the newest, most technologically advanced digital hearing instruments on the market today. In addition, it's important for you to know we offer the lowest prices around on the newest and most popular lines of hearing aids.
Additional Information
With your hearing aid purchase, we also provide:• Free Adjustments and In-House Repairs• Free Monthly Cerumen ManagementWe invite you to stop by our office or call us any time you have a need or question. We welcome the opportunity to serve you and thank you for allowing us to be of service.


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Visit waitrose.com/howto for a video clip of this and other easy-to-follow culinary techniques.
To avoid the flesh from discolouring, prepare avocados just before you serve them.
Step 1
Using a sharp knife, cut the avocado in half lengthways, carefully cutting around the fruit's large central stone.
Step 2
Twist the halves in opposite directions, until they come apart.
Step 3
Use a teaspoon to remove the stone.
Step 4
Carefully peel the skin away from the flesh with your fingers or with the tip of a knife.


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Suitable for the couple who want a little more comfort or are taking a longer rental. The dining area converts to a double bed, spacious living area, rear access door, pressured hot shower, toilet, microwave, gas cooker and grill, fridge, radio with CD player, TV with DVD player. There is also an outside slide-out BBQ.
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Photography Tutoring Sessions
Starting in 1964 I got my first tastes of being behind a camera and seeing the
results I expected and desired. After all of those years I'm sharing that
experience and knowledge with others via these Tutoring Sessions and all of the
seminars and classes that I offer.
When I offered some special one-on-one tutoring sessions because of a canceled Photo Excursion, I discovered there was far more demand for these sessions than I could have guessed. In an effort to address this demand I am now scheduling some sessions on an ongoing basis to fit into openings on my calendar. All of these sessions are intended to be held at a location of your choosing.
These sessions are offered in two-hour units, however I have also offered the
ability for you to add extra hours as necessary at the same discounted rate.
I must warn you that in some cases I will not be available to accommodate the
extra hours, and if that is the case I will notify you as soon as you register
and refund your order for the extra hours. If that makes the initial
session not work for you, then we will refund that also.
• Exposure
• Composition
• Landscapes
• Shutter Speeds
• Macro
• Flash / Available Light
• Studio Lighting
• Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
• Business of Photography
• File Management
• Post-production workflow
• Better Photography with a Point-and-shoot camera.
Sign up for the sessions you need in the time slots available. If you sign up for multiple consecutive sessions we can be flexible with timing if it will better fit your schedule. You may bring another person or two with you to the sessions, but you need to let me know if you plan to do so.


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Jacksons MMA grand opening live stream
Watch your favorite local fighters sign autographs for other people - LIVE!
The live stream for the grand opening of Greg Jackson's new gym is up. As soon as I connected, Michelle Waterson pranced toward the camera and gave us a great angle on a dramatization of her picking her nose. In fact, if that literally hadn't happened the very minute I turned on the stream I probably would not be live blogging this live stream. And then, out of nowhere, there's Greg Jackson posed in side-hug position with a fan for a photo, and I was hooked. Who says slow news days are boring?
The gym is located in a mall at the northwest corner of Eubank and Candelaria. I'd probably stop by myself if the view wasn't as good as it is from my house.
Ustream is some powerful stuff. It's kind of funny when people have no idea what's going on, and stand ass-first to the camera, or give us an unflattering profile. I predict it won't be long until more of us are as savvy about it as the Karate Hottie. Just remember, you or I might not look as good digging for buggers. And remember, the mic is probably on. There was in interesting discussion to be eavesdropped between Joey Villasenor and Jon Jones regarding head games before, wisely, the mic was turned off.


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|Deutsche Bahn's long-planned services from Germany and the Netherlands to London will pass through Lille. Photo: DB AG
Most of these benchmarking exercises have simplified global high speed rail experience either to some kind of panacea for economic miracles, or as a massive con trick propagated by the EU, the rail supply industry, the nuclear sector, or Uncle Tom Cobbley.
As an HS2 supporter and an international rail journalist, I am obviously keen to point out where high speed rail has done well and why (and it is worth adding the rider that, as Andrew Adonis has pointed out, no city which has received high speed rail has said it would rather not have it). In May last year, I went to Lille to interview the local business community, and specifically Thierry Mabille de Poncheville, Managing Director of APIM, a promotion agency which sells the city to inward investors. It was heartening to hear that, in preparing its report on HS2, the Commons Transport Select Committee also visited the city.
Mabille and his colleagues were adamant that, of course, the city would be worse off without the LGV Nord high speed line. It was suggested that perhaps 50 000 jobs created since 1993 could be attributed to high speed rail. There are counter-arguments of course – the Nord Pas de Calais region remains an unemployment blackspot and some observers claim that the region is worse off today than prior to the coming of the TGV, relative to the rest of France. (I'd suggest that's a slightly dodgy argument as France has few other heavily industrialised areas, and perhaps a better comparator might be Belgium, but that's an aside…)
But these are robust, balanced discussions which will continue for some time yet – indeed, the question of Lille's experience featured in a wide-ranging webchat on The Guardian's website this week.
How sad then that the mass media unquestioningly allows high-profile columnists to parrot simplistic scaremongering about 'bust' high speed rail without bothering to review the context. The Zelo Street blog did a better job than I could of picking apart Andrew Gilligan's wayward tirade against high speed rail in the Netherlands, for example. Mr Gilligan's errors were compounded by recent news that Thalys continues to grow revenue and ridership on its Paris - Amsterdam route, the only high speed services which use the Dutch line at present.
But sometimes the most illuminating context can be provided from far afield. I was most impressed by a comparative piece put together by Dan Schned and Petra Todorovich of the America 2050 lobby group reflecting on how the outline approval of HS2 might affect plans to implement true high speed rail in the northeastern USA. I was lucky enough to meet Ms Todorovich at a conference in New York last autumn, and I was immediately impressed by her grasp of the intricacies of the HS2 debate, and her knowledge of the problems encountered during the West Coast Route Modernisation of 1998-2009.
There are compelling similarities between HS2 and the Northeast Corridor high speed programme, yet from the bluster exhaled on this side of the Pond, you'd think the curious Californian project was the only show in town, as the rail pessimists fall over each other to pronounce its supposed imminent demise.
The quest for context continues.