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Second, I want to thank my Castlecomer list friend Jack Langton for alerting me to what is quickly becoming one of my favorite web sites, Papers Past.
With the world's awareness now focused on New Zealand, I thought it would be appropriate to point out a very valuable resource that the National Library of New Zealand provides for Irish family history researchers: the Papers Past project. This free online database can be of value to all Irish researchers, even if one's family never set foot on New Zealand soil. The database contains over one million digitized newspapers from the years 1839-1945.
Why would old local newspapers in New Zealand be of value to a researcher in Iowa or Toronto or Dublin? Because where ever the Irish settled, they still longed for news and gossip from home. If your ancestors made the news in Ireland, they may have found their way into one of the 61 New Zealand newspapers in the Library's database.These newspapers are full of news items coming out of Ireland.I began by using broad search terms such as "Kilkenny" and "Castlecomer." The search engine returned numerous articles about local life in Co. Kilkenny that ranged from the king's visit to a local uprising to a mysterious thick black rain that fell on Castlecomer on a July evening (the rain stained clothing and contaminated the local streams).
Don't forget that this search technique can be effective with other newspaper databases, also. Have you tried a search using your Irish townland or county name in newspaper databases for cities with large Irish immigrant populations, such as Boston or Philadelphia?


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A Food Blog that shares tried & true recipes, and my passion for cooking and baking with a garnish of beginning gardening and some travel.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Pasta with Fried Sage and "what's-in-my-refrigerator
I had a busy Saturday, so all of my plans for baking flew right out the window. I did manage to pay my first visit to my favorite place to by locally grow and fresh, organic produce-- "The Farm" (that I blogged about in March). I regretted that I didn't bring my camera, but I'll be sure to do that next week. I bought some beautiful strawberries, that were so sweet and freshly picked. While browsing around at all the beautiful produce, Sarah (who has managed the business for several years) asked if I saw the fresh garbanzo beans. I winced. Remember, I don't like garbanzo beans! However, I had never seen fresh garbanzo beans.
So, I popped one in my mouth, and the flavor didn't scare me away. Fine. I'll try them!
Time ran away, so I decided to make pasta. I had some heirloom grape tomatoes, fresh mozarella, pancetta and a LOT of sage. I decided to fry some sage in some leftover butter:
Once the Sage Leaves were crisp, I used the leftover butter and LOTS of garlic and added the tomatoes and garbanzo beans, and then roasted these in the oven for a little under 10 minutes.
I found a bag of farfalle pasta that I cooked until al dente. At the last moment, I decided to add the diced pancetta to this and to cook some chicken in a separate skillet (seasoned with only salt & pepper and a little balsamic vinegar), because I hadn't eat much all day and I really wanted some protein.
This dish turned out to be really delicious-- especially when I added fresh mozarella and let it turn nice and gooey. The boys had second helpings (and so did I).
As for the garbanzo beans... I think, next time, I'd par-cook them or steam them. These were a little crunchy, but I liked this far better than the texture of canned ones. Yes, there will be a next time. Maybe I can learn to like these after all!
I am also thrilled to have spotted my first two tomatoes-- from our 20 container plants!
Our "Early Girls" are living up to their promise of producing fruit in record time.
I also spotted my first bell peppers, Eureka lemons (almost ready) and potential Meyer lemons (which seem a little late, but we shall see...)
Spring has certainly blessed our home garden, with promises of so many fresh vegetables and fruits. I can hardly wait!
Hopefully, tomorrow, I can make a strawberry cream tart. I have a few more recipes to upload, if I could just slow my life down a bit. Honestly, I wish I had the time to blog every day. I will, once my summer vacation rolls around on July 1st. That's when I plan to get busy with canning tomatoes and making jams. Whoo-hoo!
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- Donna-FFW said...
Your pasts dish looks fantastic. Its wonderful when spur of the moment dishes turn out so well. Cant wait to see how you can/jar tomatoes!
- May 31, 2009 at 3:41 AM
- Proud Italian Cook said...
I'm getting excited about your garden, can't wait to see all the goodies you get, and everything you'll be making from it! Please don't give up on garbonzo's they're sooo good!
- May 31, 2009 at 6:24 PM
- Monica H said...
Your pasta and your photos are lovely, as usual.
Can't wait to see pics next week of The Farm!
Strawberry tart- yum! I'm making a strawberry cake tomorrow for our neighbors. I may make one myself because it looks so good :-)
- May 31, 2009 at 7:16 PM
- Elyse said...
Sounds like your garden is doing really well!! This dinner sounds fabulous by the way. I love the idea of fried sage, and that melting mozzarella with the pancetta is just divine. What an inspired dinner!
- May 31, 2009 at 10:32 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
That's a very nice dish for "just out of the refrigerator" ingredients! Thanks for the garbanzo photos - I've never seen them fresh, either!
- June 1, 2009 at 6:04 AM
- Culinary Wannabe said...
The pasta looks so delicious! And fried sage is something I will have to try (everything is better fried, right?!). I can't wait till you start making jam! It's one of those things I've always wanted to do myself, but am really intimidated by the whole jar situation. Only one more month till summer - you must be so excited!
- June 1, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- ♥Rosie♥ said...
What beautiful photos and your pasta looks amazing! Your garden produce seems to be coming along great.
- June 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- foodcreate said...
Wonderful Pasta dish very versatile perfect with a glass of wine>I think i will make some tonight:)
Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipe:)
And I can visit you if you can visit me:)
- June 1, 2009 at 1:24 PM
- Kristen said...
I love how this all came together!
- June 1, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Stacey Snacks said...
Love the photo montages!
I love garbanzo beans (ceci).
I had early girls last year, but the squirrels ate them!
My favorite meals are clean out the fridge meals.
- June 1, 2009 at 5:07 PM

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PSYC 341 Personnel and Industrial Psychology (1)
This course will explore the field of industrial/organizational psychology in its broadest sense. We will examine the psychology of work behavior from both a management perspective, with its emphasis on efficiency and productivity; and from a worker's point of view, including concerns about career development, job satisfaction and stress. Work-related issues in many types of organizations (e.g., educational institutions, social service agencies, profit-oriented manufacturing companies) will be considered.
- Prerequisite: PSYC 210 or consent of instructor
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By Bill Dries, MemphisDailyNews.com February 17, 2013 For a third consecutive year in Nashville, the Shelby County schools merger and the suburban reaction to it are on the calendar of the Tennessee legislature. As the General Assembly finished its legislative week Thursday, Feb. 14, state Senate Republican leader Mark Norris of Collierville introduced several bills, […]
By Bill Dries, MemphisDailyNews.com
February 17, 2013
For a third consecutive year in Nashville, the Shelby County schools merger and the suburban reaction to it are on the calendar of the Tennessee legislature.
As the General Assembly finished its legislative week Thursday, Feb. 14, state Senate Republican leader Mark Norris of Collierville introduced several bills, some of them captions to be added to as needed that would make suburban municipal school districts possible.
The legislation would remove a pending ruling from Memphis federal court Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays on the two existing state laws on municipal school districts as the make-or-break moment for moving ahead with the districts.
The most detailed bill of the group promises to be debated heavily by legislators across the state. It would lift the state's ban on the creation of new local school systems "thereby avoiding artificial barriers to innovation."
The bill would delete any trigger for the creation of municipal school districts, specifically a schools merger or the naming of a transition planning commission as part of a merger.
The bill's rhetoric frames the change as a reaction to "the consolidation movement in public education." It also aligns the creation of municipal school districts with the state's move toward more charter schools and the creation of the state-run Achievement School District for low performing schools.
"Education reform and innovation will be further enhanced if the statewide prohibition against establishment of municipal school systems is abolished and local communities are, once again, granted the flexibility to assess and determine, on a case-by-case basis, the best path to great cost efficiencies and more effective student outcomes," the bill reads.
Last year, legislators from other parts of the state repeatedly asked sponsors of the legislation Mays struck down in November if it would affect their districts. Several indicated they weren't interested in seeing multiple school districts in rural counties with some recent history of suburban development where there is now a single county school system.
There were conflicting answers at first from several of the sponsors before all said the bill would only apply to Shelby County. Mays agreed in his ruling that the bill applied only to Shelby County and thus violated the Tennessee Constitution. The ruling voided all of the steps suburban leaders had taken, including two referendums in each of the six towns and cities earlier in the year.
A charter schools bill that made its debut in the House Education Sub-Committee on Feb. 12 offered more of an indication about how linking legislation to the schools merger might draw fire from other parts of the state as state reforms go statewide.
Germantown Republican state Rep. Mark White is sponsoring a bill that would permit charter school operators in Davidson County and Shelby County to apply directly to the state board of education instead of local school boards.
"These are the two (counties) with the most charter schools, the two with the most schools in the bottom 5 percent and the two with the most charter school applications per year," White said. "Parents are becoming impatient because they fear the changes will come too late for their child."
Suburban leaders discussed with the Shelby County Commission the option of creating charter school districts for their towns and cities as an alternative to municipal school districts. The private talks that started late last year were aimed at ending the federal litigation. All sides ended the talks formally this month.
Amy Frogge of the Metro Nashville school board said the bill is aimed at her and other board members who turned down a charter school operator who appealed to the state and won. The state threatened to take several million dollars in state funding from the school system.
"I represent a strong silent majority here in Nashville that is vehemently opposed to bills like this," Frogge said as she talked of the relationship between local school systems and charter school operators. "This bill would undermine that relationship. It would create a shotgun marriage."
The charter schools bill also drew fire from Athens Republican John Forgety.
"In my opinion, this bill would indeed circumvent the legally vested authority of local boards of education that are elected by the people of their district and it would relegate that authority from the local board to an appointed body," he said referring to the appointed state board of education. "To me, to remove the authority, whether we agree with the local board or whether we disagree with the local board … is fundamentally wrong."


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I'm French, Chew on Me
Sophie the Giraffe, the European teething toy that's sweeping America.
Somewhere, right now, a baby is torturing a giraffe: dropping it, chewing it, coating it with a thick layer of drool. Despite this pattern of unprovoked attacks from the nation's infants, the long-necked mammals—rubber teethers that hail from France—are multiplying across the United States. Sophie the Giraffe is the best-selling baby product on Amazon.com, outranking a nasal aspirator called "The Snotsucker" and a nightlight shaped like a turtle. And while it's not quite as well-reviewed as Jacques the Peacock, customer comments tend toward the rhapsodic: "totally lives up to the hype"; "this is truly the greatest toy we have—truly"; "Wow! Best Baby Toy Ever!"
Sophie is not just a creature of the Web. "From a retailer perspective, it's the gift that keeps on giving," says Ali Wing, the founder of the baby emporium Giggle. The teether is unique, Wing says, because it's such a consistent seller—"every day, every week, every month, every quarter, every store, every state." Indeed, my informal survey of friends and colleagues with small children turned up but a few giraffe-free households. "Dude, of course we have Sophie," a new dad told me. One mother was sold on Sophie's charms by an enthusiastic clerk at a Bay Area baby store; another reported that the giraffes were omnipresent in her "bumps and babes" group in Abu Dhabi. Two people confessed sheepishly that they'd succumbed to Sophie's ubiquity—the feeling that "you're a bad parent if you have not purchased this giraffe."
In her native France, Sophie is a national icon, with annual sales (a reported 816,000 last year) paralleling the country's birth rate (an estimated 796,000 live births in 2010). But how did a 7-inch-high rubber giraffe from Europe become omnipresent in the United States?
As the Los Angeles Times explained in 2009, Sophie began her life in America as a "status teether"—a $25 plaything for celebrity progeny. "Sophie la Girafe," which was first manufactured in Paris in 1961, first crossed the Atlantic a decade ago, at the behest of Helene Dumoulin-Montgomery. At first, the French expat couldn't convince anyone to take the imported animals out of her Southern California garage—both Toys R Us and FAO Schwarz rejected the teether, Dumoulin-Montgomery says, deeming it too expensive. For Teri Weiss, who sells $500 infant dresses at the Elegant Child boutique in Beverly Hills, cost was not a concern. In 2002, Weiss started placing Sophie in the gift baskets she creates for Hollywood stars. Thanks to celebrity endorsements—Kate Hudson's son Ryder loved to gnaw on his—Weiss was eventually selling 125 giraffes per day. "A good percentage of my income was Sophie," she says.
Over the last few years, the Gallic savanna-dweller has transformed from an elite plaything to a mass-culture phenomenon. Dumoulin-Montgomery says her sales increased from 100,000 in 2008 to 400,000 last year. It would've been 500,000, she says, if not for a Sophie shortage caused by the French general strikes. "Amazon was calling every day to make sure they had the stock," she remembers. "I had to tell them, I'm not lying, it's on the news."
While tiny thumbs-ups from celebri-babies gave Sophie her start, Dumoulin-Montgomery credits bloggers for her sustained commercial success. As she struggled to get her giraffe on store shelves, Dumoulin-Montgomery sent out free samples to mommy bloggers. "They were amazed," she remembers, and their glowing write-ups made other moms take notice. It makes sense that parenting blogs and message boards would function as a launching pad for commerce. New parents, who need to buy a lot of unfamiliar products very quickly, are understandably swayed by effusive personal recommendations. When your baby won't stop screaming, a blog post that credits a rubber giraffe with deliverance from "the fiery pits of teething hell" is an effective sales pitch.
Even so, the pricy Sophie—which generally costs between $18 to $25 online, compared to just a few bucks for a generic teether—can induce sticker shock. Simmie Kerman, a buyer for the Barston's Child's Play chain of toy stores, says she's up front about the price when delivering her sales pitch to parents: "This is Sophie, she's wonderful, people who own her turn around and buy her for their friends—she's also really expensive for a teether." Given the price, Dumoulin-Montgomery speculates that gift-givers account for the majority of giraffe purchases. (Along with its other superlatives, Sophie is also the most-gifted baby item on Amazon.) Twenty bucks is the ideal price point for a shower gift—neither chintzy nor extravagant. And even if you're buying Sophie for your own kid, $20 isn't an outrageous amount to spend on a universally beloved, child-soothing mouth-animal—it's more reasonable, at least, than springing for a $1,000 Bugaboo Cameleon Ocean special edition stroller.
Wing believes that Sophie's high price is justified. The spotted plaything, she explains, is more than just a piece of molded rubber. It is a "friend-like soothing companion that's easy to hold on to"—a teether, a toy, and a lovey all in one. A baby doesn't just shove the giraffe's head into his maw—he cradles it and squeezes it and gazes deeply into its dark black eyes. Sophie's manufacturer, the French company Vulli, plays up the Swiss-Army-giraffe angle, claiming the teether stimulates the newborn's senses: the "attention-catching spots … provide visual stimulation," the "squeaker keeps baby amused and stimulates his hearing," and the "soft texture and numerous chewable parts … make her perfect for soothing baby's sore gums."
Sophie was doubtless designed with babies in mind—there are copious places (legs, face, horns) for an infant to nibble, and the long neck is easy for a wee hand to grip. The giraffe's success, though, depends on its appeal to parents. Babies have notoriously bad taste: They are drawn to the bold, loud, and garish, and would never choose a handsome wooden rattle or a chic giraffe for themselves. Preferences are also fleeting when you're an infant. Today, your kid can't get enough of a plastic spoon; tomorrow, he's infatuated with a sock.
For those with more developed aesthetic sensibilities (and more consistent access to a credit card), an all-natural, French-made teether has a certain cachet. Sophie is fashioned from rubber "derived from the sap of the Hevea tree," its pink cheeks and caramel-brown spots are applied with "food paint," and it's put together using a traditional process "that involves more than 14 manual operations." The giraffe's back story appeals both to the kind of parents who knit their brows over chemical-laced plastic—Sophie's sales reportedly increased during the 2007 Chinese toy recalls—and those who get gooey over European eco-friendliness. The teether's packaging, which includes an Eiffel Tower doodle and the en français spelling of girafe, also signals that this is an item for cultured carpoolers. "I think sometimes the Americans are in love with France, the villages and the quaint areas," says Dumoulin-Montgomery. "When you know that Sophie is made in the Alps, it's very appealing."
Giggle's Ali Wing argues, however, that Sophie's packaging is incidental to the product's success. The company's random checkout surveys show that very few customers know the giraffe was born in France. Rather, Giggle's questionnaires reveal that most every Sophie buyer gets the teether for the same reason: moms' word of mouth. The 752 five-star reviews (of 1,080 total) of Sophie the Giraffe on Amazon, then, are the best kind of advertising for a baby product—unabashed love letters from fellow parents who lavish attention on every possible selling point. "It helps my daughter learn to grab and develop hand-to-mouth coordination," writes the user Junesbug's Mom. "I also like that IT'S NOT MADE IN CHINA!!!" shouts B. Seeman.
Sophie's dissenters are less visible. Amazon's 63 one-star reviews warn that the giraffe's legs are a choking hazard—alas, so is anything a baby puts in her mouth—and dismiss the teether as a French-ified canine chew toy. (Dog is the third most commonly used word in Amazon's one-, two-, and three-star reviews; in five-star reviews, it's the 40th most common.)
Unfortunately for the anti-Sophie lobby, the giraffe's online popularity ensures it won't go extinct any time soon. Just as an article's presence on the New York Times' most-read list ensures that still more people will read it, Sophie's Amazon ranking is self-perpetuating—since everyone's drawn to the No. 1 product, items at the top of online lists tend to stay at the top. The giraffe is also easier to find than ever in the offline world. Along with the boutiques that made her famous, you can now get Sophie at megastores like Babies R Us and Pottery Barn Kids. Beverly Hills' Teri Weiss, who once knew the joys of having Sophie all to herself, says she's sad to have lost her cash giraffe. "It was a wonderful thing to have something so special. I really discovered it," she says. Also: "It was very lucrative."
Sophie has been lucrative for Helene Dumoulin-Montgomery, as well. To thank her for launching a massive wave of American sales, Vulli presented the master importer with a giraffe painted gold. Along with her profit-generating herbivores, Dumoulin-Montgomery also sells Chan Pie Gnon, Vulli's line of all-natural rubber mushrooms. "Some people call them the little aliens, or they call them Sophie's friends or Sophie's cousins," she says. Soon enough, perhaps, American kids will be eating a steady diet of champignons.


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|Pam Winterroth, 5th Grade Teacher
Mrs. Winterroth graduated from Concordia University, River Forest in 1996 with a degree in Elementary Education with a double minor in English and Art. She has taught in the Jr. High grades for her entire career. She has also coached basketball, track, and cross country. Mrs. Winterroth is currently the student council faculty advisor. When she is not teaching at Trinity, she is a mother of three wonderful boys and she devotes all of her personal time to her family.


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UPDATE: We've gotten further information that Thomas Destories wasn't on a motorcycle when he shot at the speed camera van, instead he was driving a truck at the time of the shooting. He was however on a motorcycle when he was arrested, and was armed with a gun and ammunition at that time. Thanks for the tip Stacey!
Thomas Destories, a 68 year old motorcycle rider, has apparently shot to death a speed camera operator in what police are calling a ride-by shooting. After opening fire on speed camera operator Doug Georgianni's van, Destories turned himself in to the local police department. He has subsequently been charged with the first-degree murder of the 51-year-old camera operator.
"I'm sorry. I was going to turn myself in," Destories, 68, told police. "I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt."
During the incident five shots were fired at the marked Safety Camera van. Three were grouped on the window of Mr Georgianni's seat. Police found a magazine for a .45-calibre pistol in Destories' front pocket when they arrested him. The police haven't said what Destories motives were for the attack, although it would seem obvious that the motorcycle rider wasn't too fond of speed trap cameras.
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Pictured: Melissa Schellberg drove in the lone Harvard run
against the Aggies.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – In the second day of the San Diego Classic II, the Harvard softball team dropped decisions to Kansas, 9-1 in five innings, and No. 20 Texas A&M, 10-1 in six innings, on the campus of San Diego State University.
The Crimson fell behind early in the first game of the day as the Jayhawks posted four runs in the bottom of the first to take a commanding early lead. The Crimson got on the board in the third inning as Whitney Shaw doubled to right field and scored on a Jane Alexander RBI double later in the inning. Mariah Montgomery tagged a two-RBI double in the bottom of the third to put Kansas up 7-1 and the Jayhawks plated two more runs in the fifth to clinch the 9-1 final.
In game two, pitcher Rachel Brown held the No. 20 Aggies scoreless through four innings but Texas A&M broke through with six runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth to clinch the 10-1 final. Melissa Schellberg drove in the lone Crimson run in the bottom of the sixth, plating Ellen Macadam on an RBI single.
Harvard wraps up its spring break trip with games against Long Beach State and San Diego State Saturday at noon and 5 p.m., respectively.


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Windsor Half Day tour, Thursday 13th December 2018
This tour is perfect for those wanting to take a morning visit to Windsor with their afternoon and evening free in London.
After our pick up point in Central London our coach will travel to the historic town of Windsor where we've included entrance into Windsor Castle, the Official Residence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
The castle's history spans almost 1000 years and still remains a working palace and you'll have free time to explore the castle and it's grounds.
Tour Includes:
• Visit to Windsor & Entrance into Windsor Castle
• Luxury coach travel throughout
- Day 1 - Thursday 13th December 2018
- 09:30 London pick ups.. Victoria 9.30am, Earls Court 9.50am
- 09:50 Travel to Windsor. After our pick ups we travel to Windsor.
- 10:30 On arrival in Windsor, you'll have free time to explore the historic town. Entrance into Windsor Castle is also included and free time to explore the grounds at your own pace
- 13:00 . Return to the coach for our return journey *Your driver will advise you on meeting times for returning to London*
- 13:30 . Tour will arrive back in London at approximately 1.30-2.00pm (Time may vary depending on delays/traffic). We do not recommend booking anything until after 4pm in London just incase.
**Please note: We include General Admission to Windsor Castle, please check the Windsor Castle website for any specific aspects of the castle you wish to visit as it may be closed on the day you wish to travel but the castle itself will be open to visitors (i.e State Apartments etc).
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March 5, 2014, 1:00 pm
Can craft brewers achieve 20 percent market share by 2020?
The number was put on the table. It sounded good. It was big, ambitious and bold. Or crazy and unrealistic.
When the guiding lights of American craft brewing met last weekend at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder to sharpen their vision and undoubtedly drink a lot of good beer, the suggestion was raised that craft brewers should try to claim 20 percent of the U.S. beer market by 2020.
By the end of the meeting, the Brewers Association board had revised the organization's mission to reflect that goal and made a few changes that might help it get there, including broadening the tent of what it means to be a craft brewer – always a contentious subject.
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Earlie E. Dean
EUPORA — The funeral for Earlie E. Dean will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Oliver Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Wood Springs Cemetery.
Visitation will be today from 5 to 8 p.m. Oliver Funeral Home, which is handling the arrangements.
Mr. Dean, 92, retired welder for Babcock and Wilcox Manufacturing, died Thursday, October 21, 2010 at his home in Eupora.
Survivors include his wife; Mattie P. Jones Dean of Eupora; two sons, Kenneth E. (Laine) Dean of Starkville, Dale (Becky) Dean of Eupora; step-daughter; Debbie Jones (Ed) Baker of Eupora; sister, Ethel Fulford of Eupora; brother, James B. Dean of Eupora, seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
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David Lee, associate professor of education and director of the Applied Behavioral Analysis Program, hones techniques to improve outcomes of children diagnosed with emotional behavioral disorders.
Zack has a reputation for trouble in the classroom. Everyone knows he'll use any means necessary to avoid academic work. Some days he's the class clown, coaxing giggles from classmates. Other days, he just won't stay seated, beating a path between the garbage can and his desk, maybe stopping to look out of the window. His current teacher says that often Zack just plain refuses to complete an assignment: "There's no getting him going on the task."
Children like Zack, who have been identified with emotional/behavioral disorder (EBD), autism spectrum disorder, or ADHD, present enormous challenges for teachers, caregivers, and parents. Not only do these episodes disrupt the entire class, but in the long term, refusal to even engage in tasks negatively affects learning. What starts out as a "won't do" problem soon becomes a series of "can't do" problems.
"We can't necessarily control what goes on with a child out in the world, but we can control what happens in our classrooms. This is a simple, highly effective preventive strategy that teachers can easily do."—David Lee
And it's a national issue. Consider the numbers: ADHD affects 3-5% of the school-age population. Similarly, about 1 in 88 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. And while the Department of Education reports that a little less than 1 percent of children with EBD are provided special education services, experts believe that there may be as many as two to three kids with EBD per classroom. The drop-out rate for these youths is more than 50 percent.
Turning the Tide
The concept is simple. Success breeds success. It builds momentum. Creating a momentum of academic success is the cornerstone of Lee's research.
Imagine a Mack truck barreling down the highway, flying over potholes in the road. In the face of an environment obstacle, the truck persists. The driver of a Prius, on the other hand, might jerk the steering wheel in order to avoid an accident.
In the same way an engineer might be interested in how physical momentum plays out in that scenario, Lee is interested in variables that affect task engagement and persistence in classrooms.
"How can we help children, who typically do not engage in academic tasks, begin and persist in those tasks for long enough to produce more fluent performance?" Lee asks. "Start with something simple. Start with a series of simple, preferred tasks followed by something more difficult. This primes the pump. It creates a history of success that builds momentum."
Lee's research is based on applied behavior analysis (ABA), which focuses on techniques, such as positive reinforcement, that can bring about meaningful and positive changes in behavior. It's about arranging the environment in a manner that encourages success.
Experts believe that there may be as many as two to three students with emotional behavioral disorders (EBD) per classroom.
ABA has been around since the 1960s, but in the past decade, it has begun to transform the field of special education, where it's particularly effective when employed with children who require behavior supports, such as ADHD, autism, and EBD. ABA practitioners have made great strides in providing these children with the verbal, motor, and social skills needed to function in society.
The idea, Lee says, is to look at each child as an individual, to figure out why the child is behaving inappropriately. "For instance," he says, "if a student throws books on the floor or calls a teacher a four-letter word, normally that child gets sent to time-out, or to the principal's office."
Lee explains that in the short term, that tactic certainly gets the job done. "But the child learns pretty quickly that acting out is an effective way to avoid engaging in an academic task," he says. "A teacher using behavior analytics strategies can teach that student to raise their hand, or flip a card over to ask for help. The teacher can then provide the individualized assistance needed to help the student succeed."
"But this goes way beyond the classroom," Lee notes. "Parents wind up feeling like prisoners in their own homes, afraid of what can happen when they take their kids out. ABA strategies can change that. Maybe they can have tantrum-free trip to the grocery store, or they can sit down together for dinner without a meltdown."
Research in Practice
For the past eight years, Lee has served as the director of the Applied Behavioral Analysis Program, which is delivered by the special education faculty through Penn State World Campus. What began as a small regional effort in Pennsylvania—the first cohort consisted of just a few students—is now a full-blown program approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (the governing body of behavior analysts).
The program consists of four online courses plus a fifth course, a face-to-face weeklong seminar held every August at Penn State University Park in conjunction with the National Autism Conference, which is in its 17th year. Attendees include family members, physicians, education faculty and anyone interested in autism.
The program is popular, Lee says, because care-givers are demanding interventions that work. "We have a number of parents in the program. Some use the information to become better consumers of behavior analytic services. Sometimes, their kids have grown up and they want to give back to the community, help the next group of folks who are coming along."
"The impact that these individuals have on kids is a sobering, but amazing thought," Lee says. "Listening to a teacher from Hong Kong tell you about how she used an intervention based on behavioral momentum to help increase the engagement levels of one of her students really brings research to practice full circle."
Top photo: Professor David Lee works with educators as they learn the most effective ways to teach children.


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Learning Together, Worlds Apart
Learn what life as a distance learner is like, how José stayed active in the Penn State community, and what his first-ever trip to Penn State was like when he visited for graduation.
When José Francisco Llompart Quirós learned about the Penn State World Campus Alumni Ambassador program, which provides alumni with the opportunity to connect with prospective students, he didn't hesitate to sign up. The fall 2012 graduate of the College of the Liberal Arts' online bachelor of arts in law and society degree was eager to share what he had learned navigating the challenges of online education as an international student.
"I bleed blue and white!" said Llompart Quirós. "The semesters I invested at the University while earning my degree have allowed me to enjoy the Penn State culture," which, he said, is based on honor and success.
José Llompart Quirós truly exemplifies the World Campus' mission of making a Penn State education accessible to adults wherever they live.
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Serving as a World Campus Alumni Ambassador is just one more way Llompart Quirós said he can "strengthen the already strong bonds I have with my alma mater, while helping out other prospective and current students with some advice out of my personal experience," he said. His advice helps others, he said, "to face the multiple challenges I had to overcome as an international student living overseas and learning in a virtual academic environment."
Llompart Quirós also is benefiting from communicating with prospective students. "The interaction with people interested in the law and society program is truly refreshing and enriching. You get to know people from very diverse areas, not only from the United States, since the World Campus is globally oriented, who share a common interest in learning and improving their academic lives."
His interest in comparative law, the study of the legal systems of different nations, led him to search for an American academic program. Llompart Quirós explained, "American-based case law or jurisprudence is somewhat opposite of the Spanish legal tradition, which is mainly based on codified law." He chose Penn State, he said, "due to the multifaceted nature and flexibility of the law and society program and the University's worldwide reputation."
Earning his degree enabled him to gain a better understanding of the American legal system. As a result, Llompart Quirós has been designated by his Bar Association as a specialist in United States law. A lawyer for more than 15 years on Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands of Spain, Llompart Quirós earned his J.D. degree in 1994. He opened a law office in Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the Balearic Islands, and currently serves as a judicial bankruptcy trustee and has been designated as an arbitrator by the Bar Association of the Balearic Islands.
"My advisers have saved me countless times from a vast array of problems with their tireless and invaluable help throughout the semesters."—José Llompart Quirós
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José Llompart Quirós truly exemplifies the World Campus' mission of making a Penn State education accessible to adults wherever they live. This mission is taking on new urgency as the World Campus prepares to expand the number of students enrolled in online education programs from nearly 12,000 today to 45,000 within the next decade.
Llompart Quirós is ready to help increase World Campus enrollment and return the assistance he received from his academic advisers, as well as his instructors. They helped him juggle his many responsibilities.
"They have provided me with the flexibility that has ultimately allowed me to harmonize areas of my life, which in other circumstances would have created problems," he said. "Penn State distance education is designed to help facilitate a balanced life with academics."
One of his advisers, Jane Ireland, told him about the many opportunities World Campus students have to engage with Penn State, enabling Llompart Quirós to become not only an alumni ambassador, but also a World Campus student blogger and member of the World Campus Blue & White Society, the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, and the Penn State Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
"Jane Ireland gave me priceless information and advice when I was still a prospective student and was by my side when I had to deal with the many challenges of my first semesters in a foreign university," Llompart Quirós said.
He praised the assistance he received from all of his World Campus advisers, including Beth Brown and Courtney Karmelita. "My advisers have saved me countless times from a vast array of problems with their tireless and invaluable help throughout the semesters."
Ireland said, "What I remember most about José is that he was not only interested in the academic aspects of Penn State, but also the community of Penn State. It was very important to him to know about all aspects of Penn State." Ireland, who is now retired, added, "I guided José on the academic road to his degree and also provided him with a bridge to the greater Penn State experience." They continue to keep in contact through social media.
Karmelita, who advised Llompart Quirós during his last two semesters, said, "World Campus students are not physically present on a Penn State campus, so to help them feel connected and like a Penn Stater, it's important they have the opportunities to be involved."
"Visiting for graduation is emotional. It gives you the opportunity to meet in person with those who have made a difference in your academic path." —José Llompart Quirós
Touching Down in State College
Llompart Quirós met both Ireland and Karmelita in person when he made his first visit to Penn State last December to participate in commencement, where he graduated with High Distinction.
"I really enjoyed commencement," said Llompart Quirós. "The ceremony was simply amazing, very touching, and perfectly organized. For someone who was raised in a different academic system and environment, as the Spanish, more discreet and lacking in such huge celebrations or ceremonies, my graduation ceremony at Penn State also had elements of a very positive cultural shock."
One day, he may return to enroll in Penn State Law's master of laws program. "During my visit [to the Lewis Katz Building during commencement weekend], I donated to the library a book about Spanish law," Llompart Quirós said. "I guess that means that until I am able to fulfill the unaccomplished dream of earning that LL.M. degree, a small part of me is already in The Dickinson School of Law library!"
In the meantime, Llompart Quirós will continue to be connected with Penn State, wearing the colors proudly as a World Campus Alumni Ambassador.


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Over the weekend I saw this peaching-to-the-converted piece by Nick Cohen in The Observer. Lamenting the UK's shameful rape conviction rate of around 6%, Cohen placed most of the blame on the jury:
A representative sample of the people who pass them [men] in the street, takes their account of themselves literally and says that, if the defendant is really so brassy and sassy and in control of her life, then rape isn't the responsibility of the rapist and the victim must pay.
Sadly, Cohen is not exaggerating. The UK's blame culture is still in full swing when it comes to rape. In 2005, Amnesty International published statistics showing that 30% of Britons believe a rape victim would be partially responsible for her ordeal if she was drunk, dressed provocatively, or had had several sexual partners. Of course, here the obvious issues would be defining how drunk is drunk, what constitutes provocative attire and how many sexual partners are 'several' or 'too many'.
The courtroom also provides the arena to drive this blame culture home: speaking at a public trial I attended in early 2008, rape victims affiliated with Crossroads Women's Centre in Kentish Town, north London, called their violating and intrusive court cases 'a second rape', a process they would rather not repeat were their ordeals ever to happen again. The bottom line seemed to echo 'you're asking for it.'
China is sitting in the same trap. One recent example comes from the light sentencing of two civilian police assistants charged with the rape of a young girl in Huzhou, Zheijang province. Their case garnered attention because the judged ruled the crime a "temporary" one that occurred "on a whim." The judge ruled that, although the two officers had raped the teen, having wined and dined her and then taken her back to a hotel to allegedly "let her sober up", the act itself was never a part of their game plan. Plus, since they turned themselves in, they were in the market for a fair amount of sympathy. Crucially, their crime was treated as a spontaneous and whimsical time-filling activity, trivialising the domination, intimidation and horror embroiled in rape itself.
Examples of blame culture were evident in the rampant discussions that followed the news of this "temporary" (i.e. not pre-meditated) crime. Blatant misogyny was found on various blogs and comment boards, with the victim being told she was a 'bitch' who 'had it coming to her', and that the case sat in a sexual act twilight zone, blurred by the copious amounts of alcohol consumed by all involved. Alongside such comments, however, were also instances of outrage at the judge's sentencing. One contributor from Tianya wrote,
the law has become a plaything in the hands of judges. Being born in a China this terrifying is too frightening.
Of course, my comparison can only go so far since the social realities for women in China and women in Britain are vastly different. The gender inequalities suffered by women in the PRC are far more blatant and less widely challenged than those in the UK. For instance, the concept of face bears a heavy weight in China: a colleague told me about a domestic violence crisis centre that had opened in Beijing last year, but due to shame and embarrassment embedded in a far wider socio-cultural context, no victims came forward.
Yet, the two countries also share the reality that rape is a topic so often trivialised by a lack of understanding and an immense stigmatisation of women, providing a fertile ground for a blame culture to blossom. This is our twenty-first century version of reinforcing female subjugation and limiting female social mobility: if women are blamed for rape due their alcohol intake, the freedom to dress as they wish and the illustriousness of their sexual past, then they are subsequently being confined even further into boxes of 'appropriate behaviour'.
This is not to say women are or should be void of any responsibility. On the contrary, we need to understand and respect ourselves and our bodies by being in control and not putting ourselves at risk. We should know how much Grey Goose it takes for us to become paralytic.
But with this comes an even wider responsibility on the part of society to draw the difference between sex (i.e. consent on both sides) and rape (i.e. domination and control on one side over the other). In China's case, of course, this is easier said than done, given that sex itself is a topic so rarely discussed (unlike in the UK), and sex education remains drastically poor (not too dissimilar from the UK). Online, however, more liberal attitudes and curiosities have a chance to run wild, as shown in this recent, if tasteless, series on chinaSMACK. The online arena, away from traditional social constraints of offline life, may well provide an environment for more diverse understandings to germinate.
All this talk may be purely hypothetical; there is clearly a lot of work to be done in breaking down gender barriers and pointing fingers on both sides of the globe. In theory, a deeper awareness of the severity of rape could deter us away from an all-too-easy blame culture. But in practice, we continue going around in circles bordered by misogyny and trivialised understandings.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday that legislation to keep the federal government operating beyond September 30 must be passed in the House of Representatives before the Senate would consider a measure.
"It's up to the House. We're waiting for them to act. Until they act, we're going to do nothing," said Reid, the Senate's top Democrat.
Republicans in the House are fighting among themselves over how to pass a bill to fund the government in the next fiscal year that begins on October 1 and whether to attach a measure to either kill or delay the new national healthcare law known as "Obamacare" that they oppose.
(Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Vicki Allen)


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Experts think that up to 1 in 10 cancers (10%) in the UK may be linked to diet. There's a lot of research being done into which types of food may affect our risk of developing cancer.
Research suggests that a lack of fruit and vegetables in the diet may contribute to about 6 in 100 cancers (6%) in men. And being overweight may contribute to about 7 in 100 cancers (7%) in women. There are many reasons why people are overweight, but an unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity are often factors.
Our diets are made up of many types of foods, which in turn are made up of thousands of different substances. Some of these may increase our risk of cancer, but others may protect us. How diet affects our risk of developing cancer is complicated, and we still don't completely understand it.
Despite this, we do know that a balanced diet and regular exercise help us keep to a healthy weight, which can help reduce the risk of developing some cancers.


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