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If you're looking for a calico cat, be aware that these multicolored felines are almost always females. If you're looking for a male cat, consider an orange-and-white tabby.
Before Tiger Bomm found shelter in Maryjean Ballner's home, he was a homeless stray. "He was a tough adoption," admits Ballner, who lives in Sandy, Utah. "'Mouthiness' was part of his repertoire." It wasn't easy to teach the scared cat to drop his guard, but after five months, Tiger finally purred softly for the first time. Ballner's secret to pacifying Tiger? Cat massage.Your pet can benefit from frequent cat massage sessions, too. With results including stress relief, increased circulation and endorphin release, cat massage not only enhances your pet's overall health and well-being, but it also deepens the bond between you and your special feline friend.Petting vs. Cat MassageChances are, you already pet your cat. Similar to what you do, cat massage is achieved by using a combination of specific hand parts, hand positions, motions, pressures and speed. But cat massage takes petting a step further: "When we add detail and finesse to our touch, we upgrade petting to massage," explains Ballner, a licensed massage therapist and author of Cat Massage: A Whiskers to Tail Guide to Your Cat's Ultimate Petting Experience (Griffin 1997). Ballner advocates cat massage techniques that primarily deepen the human-pet bond.Feline reflexology, a different form of cat massage, encourages the body's innate healing ability. Based on the theory that the paws, feet and head are a perfect map of the whole body, reflexology is a system of massage techniques that reduce tension and prevent stress-related illnesses. "Stress contributes to 80 percent of all major illnesses, and reflexology acts as a way to minimize the stress," explains Jackie Segers, certified holistic health practitioner and author of Reflexology for Cats (Bateman 2007).Our experts recommend the following techniques:Brain strokes Gently stroke the middle of the forehead, from between the eyes to the top of the head. According to Segers, this movement may affect the pituitary gland and brain function.Chin ups With your full palm, slowly caress from throat to chin. Cats will crane their head up in approval. "You may also want to try light rhythmic finger tapping under the chin," adds Segers. "It's both soothing and stimulating, and it has a direct influence on everything in the pelvis."Mouth strokes Massage in small circles around the sides of the mouth and chin. Reflexology holds that this promotes good digestion. Getting StartedThough reflexology works best when your pet is a kitten, cat massage can benefit cats of any age. Here are four beginner's steps:Find the right time Notice your cat's natural routine. Then, "choose a time when your feline friend is resting and is not playful or aggressive," says Segers. She suggests bedtime or nap time for any touch therapy. Because cats react to the moods of their human companions, be sure that you're also relaxed. Feeling stressed? Postpone the session.Ask permission "Never restrain your cat or force touch," warns Segers. Instead, approach your pet gently, "with love and an open heart so it can feel your intention to help." As a first non-threatening step, drop your hand to its eye level and near its cheeks. "This is where scent glands are located, so cats are marking you at the same time you're touching them," says Ballner. Respect your pet when it's had enough.Learn the art of slow motion According to Ballner, the slower you touch, the more your cat will respond. Even better, remember "no-mo" (no motion), says Ballner. "Simply rest your hand next to your cat, on top of him or even under him and stay still. Learn to just be with your cat."Repeat, Repeat Turn off the TV, music and cell phone. Dedicate four whole minutes to massaging your cat at the same time every day, Ballner suggests. Be patient and when you find a technique your cat likes, stick with it. Your cat will come to expect it and will want to share each day's favorite moments with you."Since we don't speak fluent 'Meow,' the best way we communicate with our felines is through touch, and the best possible touch is massage," concludes Ballner. "Our cats deserve the best of everything."
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Natalia Macrynikola is a Group Editor at Studio One Networks, which publishes The Daily Cat.
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email@example.com says: ya my cat doesnt care a bout massages he just wants food. He always tries to lead me to the kitchen its funny to watch.
Cathie says: My Daisy is very proactive when it comes to having her chin scratched. I just twiddle my fingers and she rubs against them, turning her head this way and that to get all the itchy places.
elliot says: i do all those very day (except for rubbing around the mouth) and my cat is so effectionte and loving...now i know why he is like this, everytime someone mees my cat , they compliment on how much of a beautiful co panion he is. i advise this to all =)
firstname.lastname@example.com says: I noticed blood from the vaginal area. What could be wrong with my five year old cat. I never noticed blood before. I cleaned the area with a moist cloth. This occurred 9/29/2009
Connor says: When I scratch my cat behind the ears he tilts his head at a really wowed angle lol it's fun to watch and the neighbor vet says it ok and normal but it's really wierd
Kourtney Holz says: My only cat is 2 years old and he loves to sit on my lap with his mouth slightly open all the time! It's cute! He has no health problems and it's never hot indoors (he's an indoor cat). So I guess that's just how he likes to sit! Then when ever he tries to stretch his neck up or outward to smell or lick anything, he makes a funny snort sound! He breathes alright, so I guess he is just a funny oral sounding kitty! We love him and he is just a unique one of a kind fella!
Ashraf says: i just got a cat of aged only about 5 day.its mother is dead.it is crying whole days,help?
Judi D Johnson says: I have 3 cats, and they get so much massage, love and attention! I find with my three, they all come into the bathroom with me every morning, and they make sure to have a morning rub, while I get ready for the morning tub. He he, I love my babies, and spend a lot of quality time with each and all together,
Guenwyvar says: My kitties like to have their ears "twiddled". I stroke their ears lightly & do little finger pats. They also like being groomed & having their backs stroked & rubbed. I get incredibly loud purring at massage time !!
ymz_mom says: My lil girl and I have snuggle time each morning where she gets a massage. Very rarely can I get away with NOT doing it. She waits for me to get out of the shower and meows at me until I pick her up :) I love it! even if sometimes it makes me a little late for work :)
dimitris says: Thank you so much for such an interesting and instructing article. I would like to add one technique that induces cats to purr. It is taking the side of the cat's head in your palm and start rubbing with your fingers from throat to the side of chin. Cats tend to bend their head into your palm with pleasure. I never met a cat that didn't like this technique.
misti says: all this is true. cats are superhumans and we can learn anything about life from these gifts from God.
Marge Avera says: my cat loves his chin stroked every morning
takeyiea says: cat i like cat is baby cats .
john hough says: our male cat will muscle in between us and then purrs so loud we're awake..its cute but getting old..esp when he won't leave
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Google SERP snippets are no longer being truncated after 156 characters, and I fail miserably to relive my SERP snippet ASCII art glory days.
Another experiment with Google SERPs. This time to find out: Does Google's 12-word Indexer Limit Exclude Stop Words?
This SERP experiment is designed to answer the question: If the words are short, will Google index more than 12 words from a page title?
This experiment is intended to test whether or not Google uses character pixel widths to determine where to truncate SERP titles.
After taking a beating from The Mangler in Round 1, SEOmofo is back in the cage with a little help from Abe Lincoln.
If Google refuses to display your ugly, keyword-stuffed title in its SERPs–but it still gives your page credit for having keyword in the title–then the time-consuming task of balancing SEO-friendly and User-friendly just got a helluva lot easier, didn't it?
It's possible that Google completely ignores character counts now and only cares about the rendered width. To test whether or not this is true, I've used a title and meta description on this page that consist mostly of pipe characters.
Easily analyze the content in Google's SERP components and find out for yourself what the most-recent character limits are!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present my entry into the 2nd Annual Bad Ass SEO Guest Blogging Contest!
After 15 years of cutting-edge research in the field of natural language processing, Google still sucks at understanding English.
Some asshole SEO wannabe in Dubai stole my prized Meta description content and claimed credit for it. This post is my response.
Google's reckless misinterpretation of your JavaScript code could end up causing real damage to your website's rankings and indexation.
This post shows how Google inexplicably turned all my CamelCase content into lowercase letters before using it to form SERP snippet titles.
Right now, the single greatest threat to your personal privacy is Google. You absolutely cannot trust Google with your private information.
More evidence that Google's search results suck ass and DuckDuckGo is still awesome.
Google Instant Previews Experiment #01 – When is the Screen Captured? Find out how lazy-loading content might affect your SERP preview.
Evidence is presented that supports allegations that Google's search results have reached an unprecedented level of felonious SUCK.
This is my tribute to Joe Rozsa, who thought he could bully Mike "Columbus SEO" Halvorsen with bullshit trademark claims and scare tactics.
An experiment in which I attempt to spam Matt Cutts' search results with fake endorsements for my SEO services–all whilst trying to hijack a subdomain.
Lazy-loading affiliate marketing links can minimize page load times and PageRank loss, but does it violate the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
These advanced SEO techniques were developed specifically for affiliate marketers. Optimized for page speed, PageRank, and accessibility.
I was having trouble finding a high-resolution copy of the new Google logo, so I made my own png file with a fully transparent background.
Improve your advanced SEO skills by being able to easily identify links that cannot be crawled nor flow PageRank, e.g. iframes and rel="nofollow" links.
A custom FeedBurner icon is a subtle way to peer-pressure visitors into subscribing to your blog. It's like saying, "Come on, man…everybody's doin' it!"
Looking at the code of the newly-released Thesis 1.7 theme for WordPress, I found 2 new filters: thesis_comments_closed and thesis_comments_link_closed.
Site speed is now a factor in Google's ranking algorithm. Here are some tips for optimizing your page load times, for SEO, SEM, and social media folks.
This experiment compares the page load times of two different versions of social media widgets: one that uses 6 images vs. one that uses 1 image.
The goal of this post is to increase awareness of how the United States government uses social media to gather incriminating information about US citizens.
This experiment tries to find an answer to the question of how many characters long a URL can be and still get crawled and indexed by Google.
My Sphinn account was deleted and many of you are wondering why. Here's the story behind why my content will never again grace the front page of Sphinn.
If you use the TweetMeme Retweet Button on your WordPress blog or website, find out how to install it without slowing down your page speed.
Enabling comments and custom Gravatars on your WordPress blog can encourage visitors to participate, but it also negatively impacts your page speed.
We've all heard the Google motto, Don't be evil, but that didn't stop them from incorporating evil into Sidewiki or making it accessible to evil users.
This post shows you how to customize the robots meta tag for each type of page on your blog–assuming you are using the Thesis theme for WordPress.
This page lists the changes I made to my site during the first month after I installed Thesis/WordPress. It might give you ideas for a fresh WP install.
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In this article, I will show you exactly how I achieved natural, SEO-friendly permalinks in WordPress, by installing plugins and customizing settings.
Approximately 98% of the World's population recently discovered Twitter's new retweet feature and went into an emotional frenzy of stupid complaints.
Google's Sidewiki toolbar feature is a novelty at best. At worst, it's a megaphone in the hands of an irate customer standing in the middle of your store.
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I critique a lame spam email that claims I've won some kind of Nokia promotion and am entitled to a bunch of British pounds sterling, whatever those are.
This is a quick tip I discovered while messing around with my custom Thesis styles. It shows you the CSS code that creates rounded corners for the nav menu.
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Gerald, from San Francisco SEM company, Red Bricks Media, asks: "What would happen if you tested a title of one word with 80 W's?"
Google SERP Snippet Experiment No. 2 I have updated the Title again. This time, let's see if I can get my snippet to go the entire width of the SERP… SERP Experiment No. 3 »
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Trading 247 could be a legit rival to the big boys of the online stock trading market, with a lot of features not found elsewhere. But how does it compare?
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You've finally decided to go ahead with that crazy ecommerce business idea and decided to setup your online store.
However, after some market research you realize that a potential consumer has dozens if not hundreds of other online destinations they could choose instead of you. So, then why would they buy from you? That's the question you need to answer as you start formulating your unique selling proposition.
It can drive you crazy. Especially, if you've never thought too deeply about it. What is it about your online store that would make a potential customer shop there and not elsewhere?
There's got to be something about what you do that helps you stand out from the pack, otherwise, how are you ever going to stay in business? Call it "positioning", "differentiation", "mission statement", "vision statement", or insert any other business terminology in there and it all comes down to the same thing. Why would a customer choose you and not a competitor?
Part of determining your unique selling proposition is understanding the value that your product brings to the market. One of my favourite books, "Business Model Generation" defines a value proposition as the following:
"It solves a customer problem or satisfies a customer need. Each value proposition consists of a selected bundle of products and/or services that caters to the requirements of a specific customer segment. In this sense, the value proposition is is an aggregation, or bundle, of benefits that a company offers customers."
The beauty of that definition is that it forces you to take a holistic approach to your value proposition when it calls it an aggregation or bundle of benefits, meaning it doesn't have to be just one thing. Otherwise, you'd resort to citing one of these common value adds (which are really just boosters to what you have to offer):
- "Free" or fast shipping
- Discount codes
- Gracious return policy
- Great customer service with live help
- and anything "everyone" else is doing….
However, rather than go down the "me-too" route, you're going to want to carve out a unique space in your customer's mind, one that's reserved just for you. That may sound like a difficult or intimidating thing to do, but it's critical - especially with Amazon a click away.
Finding Your Winning Difference
To figure out what makes your business unique, spend some time trying to uncover what makes your story remarkable and revealing any hidden benefits that you products may have. Start by asking yourself the following questions to discover where in your business that unique selling proposition can come from:
- What materials is your product is made from?
- Where did those materials came from? Who created them or produced them?
- How are your products manufactured and assembled?
- Who are they manufactured and assembled by?
- What are the unique benefits your product offers?
- What's your personal story and how does it add value to your products?
- What do you have to offer that no one else does?
Once you've come up with answers take a look at how you can build your "unique business story". I've listed a few examples of online stores who do a great job at showcasing what it is that makes them unique to give you an idea of where you can go with this.
Bee's Wrap Sells a "Unique Product"
Bee's Wrap founder Sarah Kaeck created an alternative to plastic wrap for food storage on her family farm in Vermont for her own needs. Little did she know that she would be giving people around the world also concerned with the environmental impact and health safety of plastic a means to try something different and hits home on all those values. The end result was a fabric infused with beeswax, jojoba oil and tree resin, and built to be the perfect alternative to plastic.
- USP: The "new" old fashioned alternative to plastic wrap
Hiut Denim Co. Sells a "Unique Story"
Here's a story for you. Cardigan, a small town of 4,000 people has a jean making factory where 400 of them are employed. After making jeans for three decades, it one day closes and all those good people are laid off. What comes next is the origin of a new jean making company, Hiut Denim Co. that puts a premium on quality and has "Grand Masters" who are skilled in the ways of making jeans. The catch is, they only product 100 jeans a week. In other words, they offer hand crafted, limited edition jeans as well as the opportunity for customers to support a local economy.
- USP: Do one thing well, our town makes the highest quality jeans
DODOcase Sells a "Unique Concept"
It's no secret that physical books have been getting hit hard both in demand and distribution resulting in the decline of things like the art of bookbinding. So, how does DODOcase keep the traditional alive while adapting to the digital era? Simple, make accessories for our digital devices like iPhones and iPads using the same bookbinding methods used to make books. Add local and handcrafted manufacturing in San Francisco and what you end up with is unique and high quality Apple accessories in sea of "me-too" competitors. How can you combine wo seemingly unrelated products and bring them together to create something entriely new and unique?
How can you combine two seemingly unrelated products or ideas and bring them together to create something entirely new and unique?
- USP: Preserving traditional bookbinding techniques through American made cases for digital devices
Holstee Sells a "Unique Company Manifesto"
It's not everyday that a company that started off selling t-shirts with a holster stitched on decides to dedicate itself to helping people live more mindfully. Since originally launching Holstee in 2008, the company has grown into offering uniquely crafted products and exclusive design prints while cultivating a community around its manifesto. It encourages people to do what they love and stop wasting time on everything else. Something that clicks with a generation in flux striving to find their mark in the world.
- USP: We live and breathe our core value: "do what you love". Buy our products, join our mission.
Black Milk Clothing Sells "Unique Apparel Designs"
How does a self-taught fashion designer selling leggings out of his kitchen go on to creating a global brand raking in millions of dollars? By designing products so unique that they are impossible not to talk about. From prints that include everything from muscle suits, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and galaxy designs on your leggings, swimsuits, and full on bodysuits to several other eye-catching designs, Black Milk Clothing has been able to effectively carve a niche for themselves. They have also created a social media-powered community of raving fans that engage and interact with each other.
- USP: Bold and outrageous products that you only buy from them and access to a community of likeminded individuals.
Greats Brand Sells Sneakers at a Unique Price
Early last year two men ventured out to disrupt an entire industry, they saw massive opportunity in creating a direct-to-consumer mens line that offered premium quality sneakers without the premium price tag. The result was the Greats Brand, and online store which sells retro mens footwear that ranges in price from $59-$99, and aims directly at global sneaker brands with cheaper yet high-quality goods with a radically shorter product development life-cycle. With the company's sights set on becoming the Warby Parker of footwear, they're out to be yet another game changer in their industry.
- USP: High quality sneakers at low value pricing resulting in disruptive industry standards
Mr. Gugu & Miss Go Sell Membership to a Unique Community
What if buying a product from an online store also served as an initiation into a community? That's exactly what Mr. Gugu and Miss Go, a European brand that wants the entire continent to look fresh, brave, original, and self-confident does. Taking advantage of social platforms like Instagram, it promotes and sells not just apparell, but an attitude and way of life, in addition to belonging to a global collective of "Gugu People".
- USP: Bring self-confidence and originality to Europe, join the club and wear the clothes
Those are just a handful of companies that have figured out their winning difference and how to make their products resonate with their target audience.
But the real question is, what's so unique about what you're selling? In other words, why does your company or brand matter?
Answer these questions honestly and sincerely and you're bound to get a unique selling point that will not only stick out in your target consumer's mind, but will have them coming back time and time again.
If you know of any other ways that ecommerce companies can stand out in the minds of consumers, let us know by commenting below.
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5 digital tools for newsrooms and how they help journalism
The most overdone way this tool has been used is to pile up tweets and facebook posts. I believe this is a gross underuse of the tool.
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Not contempt with reading Joe Gavins interview in the latest issue of the mag? Then have a look below for a selection of Joe footage that we've plucked out of interweb land for your enjoyment!
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Up to five standard height lines of information about you, your pool and equipment, and most anything else you think is important to tell people every time. Please be specific. The best information to include is the size of your pool in both feet and gallons, the kind of pool surface (vinyl, plaster, fiberglass, pebble), what kind of filter you have (sand, DE, cartridge), and if you have a SWG. Anything else you feel like mentioning is great as long as it fits in five lines. Information about your pool helps us answer your questions and helps people reading your posts understand the context.
If you are a business owner, and you have posted 200 meaningful posts, your signature can contain the name of your business and one or two links to your web site, as long as they are text links, you are not posting for the sole purpose of promoting your business, and there is no associated marketing speak. Poolsean and duraleigh are both excellent examples of the right ways to do this.
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This frothy farce reflects on commitment as characters at crossroads take literal and figurative steps
British farces are not usually my cup of tea; I find madcap, bawdy romps to be silly and exhausting. But Alan Ayckbourn's Taking Steps is a delightful summer infusion of iced chai: more cool and spicy than hot and saucy, with suspenseful plot twists to make it fun. Colonial Players' production delivers on its promise to present "a set of very probable, though quite amusing characters in a series of improbable situations that uncover a treasure trove of truth about human nature."
As in all farces, characters wander in and out of trouble due to misunderstandings. In this one, confusion reigning over the creaky Victorian lodging stems as much from intrigue as from overactive imaginations. The Pines is a former brothel rumored haunted by the amorous and deadly Scarlet Lucy.
It all begins when Lizzie Crabbe (Heather Bagnall), a has-been dancer and trophy wife, decides to leave her new husband, the alcoholic business tycoon Roland Crabbe (Ken Sabel). A coward, she assigns her brother Mark Boxer (Luke Tudball), a tweedy and hapless bore, to deliver the Dear John letter. But Mark is distracted by his own problem, namely Kitty (Sarah Wade), a confused young Sweet Tart with whom he has had a lingering betroth-fail.
Enter Tristram Watson (Paul Webster), the socially awkward solicitor Roland has hired to arrange his purchase of The Pines, which the Crabbes have been renting from Leslie Bainbridge (Eric Hufford), their financially strapped biker/landlord. Tristram and Leslie find Lizzie's note as she attempts to escape down the stairs. Tristram hears her scurrying in the bedroom above, which he takes as proof of the ghost's existence.
Too distraught to sleep in his marriage bed, Roland assigns Tristram there as he beds down in a guest room with a bottle of sleeping pills. But that's where Mark has stashed Kitty, who was on the verge of making her own escape with her own goodbye note and even more unexplained footfalls when she found herself trapped.
A repentant Lizzie returns in the night to snuggle up to her supposed husband, who cowers in her embrace until dawn. With morning light revealing Roland's apparent suicide attempt and Lizzie's accidental infidelity, things look bad for Leslie's real estate deal. Only Mark foresees a rosy future that he expects to spend with Kitty — until she meets Tristram.
Though farce is a genre Ayckbourn is known for, he considers this, his 24th play, written in 1979, his only true farce. Its success lies in the power of imagination contributed by both characters and audience.
Written for theater-in-the-round, it simulates a three-story Victorian with carpeted stair treads and actors charging/trudging/tiptoeing/ skipping upstairs and downstairs according to their moods. They assume appropriate leans and take mincing steps with raised knees as they pursue each other and flee ghostly sounds. The elaborately furnished set has imaginary walls, doors and light switches whose boundaries and functioning must be observed to convey clarity of vision.
If the actors are not up to the challenge, caricatures and confusion result. This cast shows such attention to detail while remaining in character that their movements seem second nature.
Tudball is adorable with his assortment of befuddled expressions and mannerisms. Webster's timidity resonates with his every anxious start. Wade is lovable and laughable in her ripped fishnets and platforms. Sabel is authoritative, if not always audible, as the clueless Sugar Daddy. Bainbridge displays a gift for comic timing and gymnastics. Bagnall is a narcissistic sight for sore eyes as she stretches and leaps and tries to recapture her glory days in mismatched neon dance togs.
More than entertaining, Taking Steps addresses serious commitment issues. Whether to stay or go is a question we address every day at home, at work and at play. Ayckbourn's eccentrics resolve their turmoil a bit too abruptly, but their journey is fun. To see what they decide, you'll have to buy a ticket. I think you'll be glad you did.


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1 1/2 pound asparagus
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
3 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme leaves, stripped from 6 to 7 sprigs
Coarse salt and pepper
2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, eyeball it
2 pounds chicken tenders
1/2 cup white wine, eyeball it
2 1/2 cups chicken stock (available on soup aisle in paper boxes), divided
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup grainy, stone-ground mustard
1 1/2 cups, about 1/2 pound, seedless red grapes, halved 2 cups couscous
Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
Place asparagus in a large bowl and toss with about 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons of chopped thyme leaves and salt and pepper. Spread the asparagus out on a cookie sheet and roast 10 to 12 minutes until the asparagus is tender and crispy at the tips.
Heat a large skillet over medium to medium high heat; add 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, and 2 tablespoons butter to the pan. Place flour in a shallow dish. Season chicken with salt and pepper then dredge the tenders in flour and add it to the pan. Cook chicken 7 to 8 minutes until browned. Add wine and scrape up browned bits as wine cooks down and bubbles, 30 seconds. Add 1/2 cup stock to skillet. Combine cream and mustard and add to stock. Add grapes to the pan and turn chicken and grapes to coat and combine with the sauce. Simmer 5 minutes over low heat.
Bring remaining 2 cups chicken stock and remaining tablespoon of fresh thyme to a boil in a small pot. Add couscous. Put a tight fitting lid on pot and remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes, then fluff with a fork. Serve tenders and grapes on couscous alongside asparagus
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Chicken with grapes, couscous and asparagus
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For the past several J-Terms at Luther Seminary, Dr. Craig Koester
has offered a very popular "Genesis to
Revelation" course. You may listen in online to these
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Professor of New Testament
Through my teaching I want to help people enter the world of the
Scriptures, so that the old story takes on new life for them.
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Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis: Hillary Clinton
Episode 15: Zach Galifianakis sits down with Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain, Sally Field and another special guest from Lincoln.
- February 12, 2013
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Sally FieldActor
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Brian LaneCinematographer/Editor
BJPorterExecutive Producer
Funny Or DieExecutive Producer
Between Two FernsSeries
Betsy KochProducer
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Ellie del CampoProduction Design
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Starring Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain & Sally Field
Also Featuring Misty Monroe
Executive Producers: Mike Farah, Scott Aukerman & BJ Porter
Producers - Anna Wenger, Betsy Koch & Michelle Fox
Production Coordinator - Lisa Lumar
Cinematographer / Editor - Brian Lane
Gaffer / Camera Operator - Kevin Stewart
Sound - Fredrik Wahlstedt
Hair/MU - Sally Wang
Still Photographer - Mandee Johnson
Production Design - Ellie Del Campo, Candy Lopez
PA - Rogelio Sanchez
DIT - William Maxwell
Special Thanks to the Academy
February 12, 2013
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(show music plays)
Zach Galifianakis: Hi. Welcome to another
edition of Between Two
Ferns: The Oscar Edition.
Zach Galifianakis: This is part two. I would
like to welcome my first
Zach Galifianakis: Jessica Chest Stain.
Jessica Chastain: Jessica Chastain.
Zach Galifianakis: Jessica is an actress. You
were nominated for Zero Dark Thirty.
Jessica Chastain: That's correct.
Zach Galifianakis: Zero Dark Thirty. Is that a movie
about Chris Brown?
Jessica Chastain: No.
Zach Galifianakis: How hard did you
fight to keep
Zach Galifianakis: all of the torture in
the film?
Jessica Chastain: Well, you know, it's really
Jessica Chastain: important that the film is as accurate as possible. So...
Zach Galifianakis: It's about capturing Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty.
Jessica Chastain: Yes.
Zach Galifianakis: Documentary?
Jessica Chastain: No, but...you know.
Zach Galifianakis: Who cares then? If it's not
the real thing.
Jessica Chastain: Yeah.
Zach Galifianakis: 'Cause you're just playing
somebody that actually caught him.
Jessica Chastain: Yeah.
Zach Galifianakis: It would have been nice to
get the actual person.
Jessica Chastain: Well, she's undercover in the
CIA, so...
Jessica Chastain: No one can know what she
looks like.
Zach Galifianakis: Well doesn't she look
like you?
Jessica Chastain: I can't tell you that.
Zach Galifianakis: So she looks like an average-looking
redhead with a weird dress on?
Jessica Chastain: Mm..
(music plays)
Zach Galifianakis: Oh, and they're playing
you off.
Jessica Chastain: It's done?
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah, you have to leave.
Jessica Chastain: Okay.
- Zach: Hello
- Sally: Hello
Zach Galifianakis: Hi. Welcome.
Sally Field: Thank you.
Zach Galifianakis: This is Sally Field
Sally Field: Yes it is.
Zach Galifianakis: I had read that you gained 25
pounds for the movie?
Sally Field: Yeah, I did.
Zach Galifianakis: How did you do that?
Eat Anne Hathaway?
Sally Field: Hmm.
Zach Galifianakis: Do you look at a penny
differently now that
Zach Galifianakis: you've been in Lincoln?
Does that make...
Sally Field: I just have to say something
really, really honestly.
Sally Field: I hate pennies.
Sally Field: I hate them.
Zach Galifianakis: So, you're not Jewish?
Sally Field: I...not that I know of.
I think I'm Catholic.
Zach Galifianakis: Well, I'd like to thank Sally
Field for coming to the show.
Sally Field: Absolutely. Very, very
nice to be here.
Zach Galifianakis: And really, really, really
a pleasure.
Sally Field: Absolutely.
(Music Playing)
Sally Field: Thank you so much.
Thank you. We're going this way.
Zach Galifianakis: Well, I'm very very excited
about having my next guest
Zach Galifianakis: it's a real pleasure to
have him here
Zach Galifianakis: because he doesn't do a lot
of interviews, and he's chosen to be here.
Zach Galifianakis: Please welcome Daniel
Daniel Day-Lewis: Hey there, how you doin'?
Zach Galifianakis: What are you doing here?
Zach Galifianakis: Oh. Emmanuel Day-Lewis.
Daniel Day-Lewis.
Zach Galifianakis: Thank you for
coming by.
Zach Galifianakis: Welcome Bradley Cooper.
Bradley Cooper: Hey.
Zach Galifianakis: Bradley, nice to see
you again.
Bradley Cooper: Nice to see you Zach.
Zach Galifianakis: I got your text about how
bummed out you were that it was the
Zach Galifianakis: start of Black History Month.
Zach Galifianakis: Are you nominated?
Bradley Cooper: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Zach Galifianakis: For what?
Zach Galifianakis: For...for best actor. Yeah.
Best Actor?
Zach Galifianakis: How's bragging camp going?
Zach Galifianakis: Well, I've written a speech.
Bradley Cooper: Really?
Zach Galifianakis: Since you haven't written a speech.
Yeah, I have wrote a speech.
Bradley Cooper: That's really thoughtful
of you.
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah, I did it 'cause
I know you're busy.
Bradley Cooper: That's really...thank you.
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah, that's it.
Bradley Cooper: Are you serious?
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah. Go ahead and test
it out.
Bradley Cooper: When did you write this?
Zach Galifianakis: Like uh, I spent a couple weeks on it.
Bradley Cooper: Thank you. I just called
Daniel Day-Lewis
Bradley Cooper: to congratulate him on
his victory.
Bradley Cooper: So, I wish that I had been
able to fulfill my dream of
Bradley Cooper: being a talented, respected actor.
Bradley Cooper: But the Academy has chosen
someone better.
Bradley Cooper: It just sucks I'm
a loser.
Zach Galifianakis: I'm gonna punch it up,
if you want me to?
Zach Galifianakis: In that speech you
don't win.
Bradley Cooper: You know you don't
make a concession speech.
Zach Galifianakis: You should.
Bradley Cooper: I just don't understand. It's
like, this is the first time in my life
Bradley Cooper: that I'm actually part of
something. And you know, you
Bradley Cooper: don't know what that means to
me, to be a part of something.
Bradley Cooper: That's like my achilles heel,
because I just want to be included.
Zach Galifianakis: Why don't you join the Boy
Scouts or something? If you
Zach Galifianakis: want to be a part of
Bradley Cooper: What? I want to be a part of
this community.
Bradley Cooper: I found like, a fellow person that I fucking love.
Bradley Cooper: I used to go see your stand
up all the time.
Zach Galifianakis: It doesn't really play well.
You know what I mean?
Bradley Cooper: No.
Zach Galifianakis: You play this victim card
that you...
Bradley Cooper: I'm not being a victim!
Zach Galifianakis: Well then what are
you being?
Bradley Cooper: I thought I was being
friends! That's what
Bradley Cooper: friends...you fight with your
brother! I watch you fight
Bradley Cooper: with your brother
all the time!
(interposing voices)
Bradley Cooper: God! All you care about is
your goddamn show, man!
Zach Galifianakis: All you care about is
telling people...
Bradley Cooper: It's like all your fucking ferns man.
Bradley Cooper: It's a fucking joke!
I can't stand it!
Zach Galifianakis: You didn't just throw my
ferns at my face!
Bradley Cooper: Who gives a fuck? All you care about is ferns, and yourself,
Bradley Cooper: you fucking...
Bradley Cooper: I'm so sick of your fucking
ferns, man! It's fucking bullshit!
Bradley Cooper: Bullshit!
Bradley Cooper: I'll call you later.
(show music plays)
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text: EPBC: Get Energy Smart with FarmSmart November 10, 2013 10:10 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email FarmSmart Internet tool, developed by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, previews this week at Dairy Today's Elite Producer Business Conference. An easy-to-use Internet tool will allow you to quickly get an estimate of your dairy farm's carbon footprint by answering eight relatively questions and committing half hour of your time. By doing so, you'll be able to benchmark your farm's carbon footprint against the national average, and get a gauge on whether you might benefit from an energy audit of your farm. That, in turn, could lead to thousands of dollars in annual energy and fuel savings. The tool, FarmSmart, was developed by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, and is available here. It is being previewed this week at Dairy Today's Elite Producer Business Conference in Las Vegas. FarmSmart is a proactive approach to the carbon footprint issue, says Roberta Osborne, manager of the FarmSmart project for Dairy Management, Inc. and its Innovation Center. Grocery brands are already demanding carbon footprint information from farms. Unilever, for example, has developed a 78-page questionnaire, a 65'-long document when the pages are stapled together end-to-end. The detailed survey would take hours to complete. And it's just one of many such surveys being developed by all the major food brands to get carbon footprint data from farms and food suppliers. The FarmSmart checklist asks easy-to-answer questions on your farm's location, herd size, production, farming and feeding practices, manure storage and energy use. Algorithms built into the tool then estimate your farm's carbon footprint score. The data and score are password protected, and can only be shared if the farmer so chooses. The driving force behind FarmSmart is to develop an easy-to-use tool that gives an accurate estimate of a farm's carbon footprint that doesn't take hours to complete, is comparable farm-to-farm, and establishes a benchmark for the dairy industry. Then, as farms improve their energy efficiency over time, the industry can demonstrate it is making progress. Dan Rice, who partners with three neighbors, completed the FarmSmart checklist in about 30 minutes. Prairieland Dairy, near Firth, Neb., milks 1,500 cows, processes its own fluid milk and has a composting operation that sells soil amendments to consumers and landscapers. "We market our own milk, and we have thousands of customers tour our farm and processing plant each year," he says. "We get sustainability questions every day from these folks, so it's really important that we start this conversation. "If we don't define what sustainability in the dairy industry is, the retailer will. At the same time, retailers don't care what score I get, but they want to see improvement over time," he says. By using the FarmSmart tool, he was able to establish a baseline carbon footprint for the Prairieland Dairy operation. He also completed an energy audit, which identified areas of low-hanging fruit where energy savings could be grabbed quickly. For example, by switching to low-temperature detergent for his milk equipment wash, he was able to eliminate the need for one water heater. The energy auditors also noticed that one of his electric meters was still on a higher rate than his other four. He also replaced a diesel engine on his manure irrigation pump with an electric motor. And he's replacing lights with higher efficiency bulbs as the old bulbs burn out. All told, he realized $18,700 per year in annual energy costs savings, decreased electrical use by nearly 100,000 kWh and reduced his carbon footprint by 75 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. That's the equivalent of taking 14 cars off the road or enough energy to power nine homes. While those saving might not be huge in the grand scheme of things, the effort demonstrates to customers that Prairieland Dairy is committed to local sustainability. Back to news


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Library History page 2
In 1936, the library moved to the rear room of the City Hall and later that year was turned over to the town to be administered by the Town Council. It remained there for [25] years until the Post Office facility on 5th Street was vacated in 1961. For the first time since its founding, the library was on a ground floor, street-facing location separate from any other business.
It would stay there until the fall of 1973 when the former Kalona High School (later the junior high) building was renovated into the Community Building.
Given the school's former auditorium, the library truly became a resource-reading facility with a wide bank of windows, copious bookshelves, a librarian's office, storage facilities and considerable space for growth. There was even room for a children's alcove complete with table and chairs.


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Peter Jackson is leaving Middle-earth long enough to stop by Comic-Con International in San Diego.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker will appear in the pop-culture expo's grandest arena, Hall H, to tout the Dec. 17 release of the final chapter of his second J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. As you might have judged from the more-dramatic-than-"There and Back Again" title, it promises to be the most action-packed of the "Hobbit" films, with the Benedict Cumberbatch-voiced dragon Smaug on the loose, and Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen's Gandalf caught up in a multi-way struggle for the treasure of Erebor.
That presentation, scheduled for July 26 at 10 a.m., also includes more from the studio's upcoming slate.
Postapocalyptic visionary director George Miller will show the crowd an early look at "Mad Max: Fury Road," starring Tom Hardy ("Inception," "The Dark Knight Rises") in the iconic title role that Mel Gibson originated in Miller's original 1979 "Mad Max." The filmmaker has directed all the franchise's installments, the last being 1985's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome." (His credits between "Mad Max" action pictures include "Babe: Pig in the City" and two "Happy Feet" animated features.) "Fury Road" is due out in May.
Warner Bros. will also offer a peek at Andy and Lana Wachowski's "Jupiter Ascending," a sci-fi adventure starring Mila Kunis ("Black Swan") and Channing Tatum ("22 Jump Street"). The "Matrix" trilogy filmmakers' latest is now scheduled to be released Feb. 6, after it was announced last month that it was being pushed back from the pre-Comic-Con date of July 18.
It's as yet unannounced what actors from those three films may join the panel presentation. The Warner Bros. schedule did not mention any events for Zack Snyder's 2016 "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice," for which production recently started.
And the studio isn't waiting until the convention's big Saturday to show all its wares: Steven Quale's upcoming tornado thriller "Into the Storm," starring Sarah Wayne Callies ("The Walking Dead") and Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield in Jackson's "Hobbit" films), gets an early screening July 23 at 10 p.m. at the Gaslamp 15 theaters, a few blocks away from the San Diego Convention Center.
Comic-Con International runs July 23-27.
– Blake Hennon | Google+ | @LATHeroComplex
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'Batman: The Complete Series' to get Comic-Con preview
'The Flash' first look: Grant Gustin's full Flash costume
'The Flash' will zip all over The CW
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'Gotham' series casts young Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle
Ben Affleck makes Batman debut: Fans react
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' renewed for second season


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The Communal Table: Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, it's that time of year again -- when we #pullupachair for the virtual Thanksgiving Potluck hosted by our friends at the Food Network. Last year we contributed Sonali's Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese, but this year we've decided to take on dessert. Pumpkin pie, to be exact.
Meta Given's Pumpkin Pie is a quintessential Thanksgiving classic with a "Genius" twist: swap out condensed milk for fresh cream and milk to make a pie that only needs a quick 25 minutes in the oven. We know that cooking Thanksgiving dinner is no small feat, but you'll be thankful that you saved enough time to squeeze in a glass of wine before your guests arrive.
Get more Thanksgiving recipes below from our food friends on the internet, and follow the virtual feast on Twitter: #pullupachair
Cocktails, Appetizers, Salads and Breads:
Devour: Maple Pecan Baked Brie
Liquor.com: Spiced Thanksgiving Cocktails
FN Dish: Black Pepper-Pomegranate Molasses Glazed Turkey
YumSugar: South-Meets-West Squash Casserole
Food Republic: Caramelized Onion and Prosciutto Macaroni and Cheese
Healthy Eats: Kid-Friendly Gluten-Free Honey-Cherry Stuffing
Food52: Meta Given's Pumpkin Pie
Food.com: Maple-Frosted Pumpkin Bars
BlogHer: Pumpkin Spice Caramels
Thanksgiving Leftovers:
EatingWell: Turkey and Leek Shepherd's Pie
The Daily Meal: Ultimate Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Sandwich
Eatocracy: Stuffpuppies


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Neighbors raise fuss over winery application
Commissioners are committed to wading into what some of them called a "can of worms" when they again take up a measure to expand the county's agri-tourism ordinance to include smaller parcels in rural residential zones, not just true farm tracts in exclusive farm use zones. They may or may not also have to wade into a fuss being raised on Walnut Hill by a winery proposal submitted by Edward Fus, owner of the Three Angels Vineyard on Three Trees Lane.
Fus owns almost five acres in an AF-10 zone — agriculture/forestry, 10-acre minimum.
He is looking to construct a combination winery and dwelling on the tract, with the basement featuring equipment to produce and store wine, the ground floor a kitchen, restrooms and tasting facility, and the upper floor family living quarters. He is also seeking permission to host three tasting events, each lasting for up to three days.
In the application, he goes on to seek authorization to begin the events-hosting prior to construction of the winery, using vineyard land equipped with a pair of bathrooms for worker use, one of them handicapped-accessible. However, the staff has ruled that out, saying, "Tasting events are not allowed on undeveloped property in the AF-10 zone."
Except for the bathrooms, the only structures on the property right now are a greenhouse and wooden storage shed, and the staff considers that undeveloped.
Fus said he is considering seeking a continuance on the hearing, giving him more time to work with neighbors on concerns they have aired. "I'd rather work with the neighbors than work against them," he said.
As of Monday afternoon, he had not yet made a decision.
Some neighbors are opposed the winery, some to the events and some to both. Most wineries hosting such events are sited on larger parcels zoned for exclusive farm use, they note.
To complicate matters, use of his site, located at the end of a gravel road, is subject to a set of covenants, conditions and restrictions, known in the real estate realm as CC&Rs. Opponents say his plans are in flagrant violation.
The staff said CC&Rs constitute civil agreements between neighboring property owners, thus are not enforceable by the county. However, it said the planning commission might want to make any approval subject to legal resolution of that issue.
Fus is currently producing his wine, carrying the Angel Vine brand name, at Carlton Cellars, a custom-crush facility. He said he would like to develop his own facility on the Amity area tract in question.


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So you're at a cocktail party, and, like at most cocktail parties, there are a handful of conversations happening around the room. Yet, despite the dull roar of laughter and discussion, you have no trouble focusing on the voice of the person with whom you're speaking. You see her eyes and lips moving and you understand every word she is saying. But as often happens, you begin to lose interest in the conversation. And though you continue to nod your head and say things like, "Uh-huh, Oh really?" you consciously turn your attention to the uproarious banter of a more enticing conversation happening elsewhere in the room.
How is it that in a blink of an eye, we're able to selectively refocus our auditory attention to a distant conversation, while ignoring the conversation that's happening right in front of us? The answer, it turns out, is a mystery
According to Tony Zador, a Professor of Biology and Program Chair of Neuroscience at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the brain mechanisms responsible for any kind of attention, whether visual or auditory, are probably not fundamentally different. However, the challenge of understanding how the brain goes about selectively listening to one cocktail party conversation over another is twofold. The first issue is one of computation: "We have a whole bunch of different sounds and from a bunch of different sources and they are superimposed at the level of the ears and somehow they're added together and to us it's typically pretty effortless to separate out those different threads of the conversation, but actually that's a surprisingly difficult task," says Zador. Scientists were able to program computers to recognize speech in controlled situations and quiet rooms as far back as ten years ago, says Zador, but when deployed in real world settings with background noise their algorithms fail completely. Humans on the other hand have evolved to effortlessly break down the components of an auditory scene.
The second issue is one of selection. When we listen to one conversation over another, we are choosing to redirect our auditory attention, but neuroscientists have yet to discover how the routing of these decisions happens. Scientists know that sound waves are received by a structure in your ear called the cochlea. Within the cochlea there are neurons that are exquisitely sensitive to minute changes in pressure. Together, these neurons act in the cochlea as a spectral analyzer—some are sensitive to low frequency sounds, others are sensitive to middle frequency sounds and others are sensitive to high frequency sounds—and each is coded separately along a set of nerve fibers that lead to the brain's thalamus. The thalamus acts as a "pre-processor" for all sensory modalities, converting distinctly different input from the eyes and ears into a "standard form" of sensory input before passing it along to the cortex of the brain.
"Where we really lose track of [the input] is when they enter into the early parts of the sensory cortex," says Zador. "Attention is a special case of that kind of general routing problem that the brain faces all the time, because when you attend to let's say your sounds rather than your visual input or when you attend to one particular auditory input out of many, what you're doing is your selecting some subset of the inputs. In this case, the input coming into our ears and subjecting them to further processing and you're taking those signals and routing them downstream." How that routing happens is the basis of Zador's research.
Ultimately, Zador says would like to understand how attention works in humans, but the neural activity of rodents is more easily manipulated and analyzed than that of primate monkeys or humans. To study the auditory attention of rodents, Zador's designed a special behavioral box in which his colleagues and he have trained rodents to perform attentional tasks. The setup looks like a miniature sized talk-show set, in which the participant—a rat—is asked to choose between three ports by sticking his nose through a whole. When the rat sticks his nose through the center port, he breaks an LED beam that signals a computer to deliver a specified type of stimuli, such as a high or low frequency sound. When the computer presents a low frequency sound, for example, the rat goes to one of the ports and then gets a reward, a small amount of water. If the rat breaks the beam and receives a different frequency sound he goes to the other port and gets a reward. After a while, the rat understands what he is supposed to do and more quickly reacts to the differing frequencies. Then, Zador challenges the rat by masking the frequencies with low levels of white noise.
Zador's experminent demonstrates that rats can take sound stimuli and use it to guide their behavior from one port to the other. It also provides a basis for Zador to present the rats with more complicated tasks that demand the rats' attention, like manipulating when the high or low frequency is presented and how much it is buried in a cacophony of distracter sounds. Zador has found that when the rats ramp up their attention in expectation of hearing the sounds, the speed with which he responds to the target is faster than if the target comes unexpectedly. This, he says, is one of the hallmarks of attention: an improvement in performance as measured either by speed or accuracy. Zador has also found that there are neurons in the rats' auditory cortex whose activity is especially enhanced when the rats expect to hear the target compared to when that same target is presented, but at an unexpected moment.
In better understanding the neural circuits underlying attention, Zador may be paving the way for better understanding disorders like autism, which is, in large part, a disorder of neural circuits. "We think that the manifestation of the environmental and genetic causes of autism is a disruption of neural circuits and in particular there is some reason to believe that it's a disruption of long range neural circuits, at least in part, between the front of the brain and the back of the brain," says Zador. "Those are the kinds of neural pathways that we think might be important in guiding attention." One of the ongoing projects in Zador's lab is to examine in mice the effects of genes that scientists think, when disrupted, cause autism in humans. "We don't really have final results yet, but that is because these mice have only very recently become available," he says. "So we're very optimistic that by understanding how autism affects these long range connections and how those long range connections in turn affect attention that we'll gain some insight into what is going on in humans with autism."
The Takeaway
The brain's ability to selectively focus on certain aspects of auditory scenes continues to perplex neuroscientists, but a continued effort to understand the neural circuits underlying attention in rats is giving scientists a better understanding of disorders like autism.
Understanding selective auditory attention in the brain may also help scientists begin to better comprehend other modalities of attention, such as visual attention, which psychologists have shown play a crucial roll in our ability—or lack thereof—to perform seemingly mundane tasks like drive and talk on the cell phone.
More Resources
— Nature article giving a more in-depth description of Tony Zador's rat experiment (2010).
— More information on the relation between auditory perception and Autism at the Laboratory for Research into Autism.
— A computational model of auditory selective attention (2004).


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The State Fair
Lesson 15 of 21
Objective: SWBAT: • Use multiplication and division to solve problems involving equivalent rates. • Use tables to represent and describe relationships. • Apply different strategies for explaining comparisons between quantities.
Big Idea: Which store offers the best deal for tickets to the state fair? How do you know? Students apply what they know about equivalent rates to answers questions.
Do Now
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to review what they know about comparing rates. I want to make sure that students understand that they can compare rates that have a common measurement. For instance, some students may calculate the amount of time it takes each runner to run a mile and then compare to see who runs the mile in the lowest time. Other students may create equivalent rates showing how long it takes each runner to run 6 miles. The runner who runs 6 miles in the lowest time is the fastest.
As students are working on the do now, I walk around and see what strategies students are using. I use this time to identify students who are using different strategies. When we come together, I call these students up to the front to show and explain their reasoning. I ask the class if they agree or disagree with the student's work. Students are engaging with MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
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Before students work with their groups, I want to review these questions together. Students participate in a Think Write Pair Share. I want students to write down their ideas so they can use this as a resource if they struggle with the next set of questions.
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The State Fair
- Before this lesson, I use data from the previous lesson's ticket to go to Create Homogeneous Groups. Students work in groups of 2-3.
- I give each group a Group Work Rubric. This way I can silently give them feedback on their cooperation throughout the work time. This will be their citizenship grade for the day.
- I have calculators ready if there are students who are still struggling with multiplying and dividing. Even if they use the calculator, they must first set up and label the rates.
Students move into their groups. I call on a student to read the situation. I call on a different student to read question 1. I re-emphasize that there are different ways to solve this problem. It is important that students show their work.
As students work, I walk around and monitor student progress and behavior. I take note of different strategies that students are using. I will use this information to help me during the closure. Different groups will work at different paces and that is fine. My goal is for all groups to complete question 1 and show their work. Students are engaging in MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively, MP4: Model with mathematics, and MP5: Use tools strategically.
If students are struggling, I may ask one or more of the following questions:
- What is the problem asking?
- What do you know?
- What specifically is your question?
- What notes did you write down for the questions at the beginning of the packet?
- How much do the ticket booklets cost at each store?
- Which store charges the most for a booklet of tickets?
- Does this mean that the tickets are most expensive at City-Mart?
- What makes it hard to determine which store has the best deal?
- What strategies have you used in problems similar to this?
- How could you make it easier to see which store has the best deal on tickets?
If students need extension, I may ask them one or more of the following questions:
- How are these problems related to finding equivalent rates?
- Suppose you own a store and decide to sell tickets to the State Fair as well. You decided to keep the ticket booklet price competitive with the other stores in town. How many tickets would you include in one booklet? What price would you charge for a ticket booklet?
- Karen's school collected exactly 300 tickets from these stores as a donation for the students. List the number of booklets each store could have donated if all the stores donated at least one booklet.
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Closure and Ticket to Go
I use what I noticed during the group work time and I call students up to show and explain their strategy for finding the best deal. As students present, we create a list in their packet of the different strategies. These strategies could include:
- Find unit rates
- Find same amount of tickets, then compare cost
- Find the same dollar amount and then compare number of tickets (This was more complicated with the prices in this problem)
- Think about them as fractions and find common denominators
- Make a table
I have students star the strategy they used. I want them to circle a strategy they did not use, but that makes sense to them. I ask them to use this strategy to answer the question in the do now.
I pass out the Ticket to Go and the HW The State Fair.


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Thanks to a generous College Access Challenge Grant, teaching University of Montana Western students how to manage their finances will be a campus-wide effort.
Meghan Flanary, a 2013 UMW graduate, started her job as Financial Literacy Program Coordinator in early January at her alma mater.
The Financial Literacy Program is made possible by a grant designated to the Office of the Commissioner of Higher Education by Montana Governor Steve Bullock. The grant goal is to establish a campus-based approach to financial literacy that is consistent across the Montana University System.
In her new position, Flanary will work with students, as well as faculty and staff, and conduct campus-wide financial literacy training. She says the training has many components, including budgeting and spending, loan deferment and repayment, and enrollment choices and debt management. The overall goals are to reduce student loan debt, prevent default of loans, decrease time to complete degrees and to promote overall student success. Training is tailored to meet the needs of individual students and groups.
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"We are focusing on incoming students, but recognize that students who will graduate soon have financial literacy needs as well," says Flanary.
Montana Western's grant proposal was co-authored by Ilene Cohen, Director of Student Success, and Ricki Jones, Director of Financial Aid. The proposal was based on institutional enrollment and need, and scored a 96 percent, which was the highest of any campus financial literacy proposal. The exceptional score meant the University of Montana Western received the maximum amount of funding possible. Nine other MUS campuses received the grant.
As the program expands, focus will be on fields with high debt rate and low post-grad income in addition to offering financial education across the board. Students who are almost at their borrowing limit will be targeted as well. The program will continue to focus on teaching students how to budget and ways to save money through financial management.
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The Integrative Lipid Metabolism, Inflammation, and Chronic Diseases Training Program (hereafter referred to as "Training Program") is designed to provide research training for pre-doctoral students in the broad and expanding discipline of lipid metabolism, with a particular emphasis on the relationships among lipid metabolism, inflammation, and chronic diseases.
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Happy Booday to Me
Spring has sprung, but instead of flowers, it brings with it some monsters in the making.
In between puppy chaos, I've managed to experiment with some new figures, changing up my style a bit which has been fun. I'm excited to see how they come together, and trying to think outside the coffin...er...box...a bit when it comes to my designs. Now, none of these are revolutionary, but I think taking a step to the right of my usual style is a good thing.
And it's about time I was hit with inspiration. Show season is sneaking up quickly and like old Mother Hubbard, my cupboards are bare.
It's my birthday today. I almost forgot about that too. When you're spinning wildly, time has a way of being elusive.
Today I am off to lunch with a friend (and perhaps a stop for a pint or two) while Yetch babysits Monkey Boo. He's been away to Denver all week, leaving the pup and I on our own. I took the opportunity to do some crash course puppy self-control lessons by staying with my mom and her pack of dogs. Monkey is pretty good around the older dog but wants to wrestle full throttle with Padfoot the Irish Wolfhound. Paddy can fit her whole head in his mouth (even though they are the same age). She doesn't even blink at his size. Even Paddy recognizes she's a wild pup (as you can see from the picture below).
Yetch made me a cake from scratch (yay Yetch) and has taken the reigns of puppy care for the day. I love the little whirlwind but could use a break. In fact, part of my Birthday may indeed be spent laying on the couch, relaxing. It doesn't sound very exciting, but when you've been trying to stay one step ahead of a rambunctious puppy for a week on your own, it starts to sound like a bit of heaven.
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I'm sorry to say I didn't see that you had a birthday on Friday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We hope
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Your lil Boston is absolutely adorable! My sister is a fan of the breed and currently has 3.
They were rescued from local shelters where they weretaken from 2 seperate mills.
Anyway, have a great day and again such a lovely HAPPY APUPPERZ!
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Happy Birthday Friday! The new stuff looks good. The Pic of Paddy & the Pup is hilarious :)
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The demented dog photo is hilarious. When it comes to attitude, size doesn't matter to a dog:)
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Your little Monkey Boo is adorable. And your new TOT'er is very cute, with his little treat bag (or was it a she?)
Hope to see more of you around soon! It IS almost halfway to our favorite time of year...
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Happy (Belated) Birthday!
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Smoking ban works well ...
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I was overjoyed to hear that the authorities have decided to ban smoking in public housing. My concern is how they planned to enforce the new rule. I came up with a few suggestions.
Some kind of patrol might work. Uniformed men and women could patrol the hallways and sniff at the doors and look for butts. They could call themselves the butt patrol. Another way would be to have some kind of mechanical sniffer installed in each unit. Jack-booted and flak-jacketed brown-shirt types would stand by (like the fire department) and wait for the sniffer to go off, and when it did they could bust open the offenders' door with a battering ram and drag him or her off to some kind of gulag where their smoking habit would be brainwashed out of them.
Another way would be to have neighbors turn each other in. As an incentive, you could reward the informers with a free month's rent. This method worked well behind the Iron Curtain. Smokers deserve no less, they being the scum of society.
After the smokers are eliminated, they can go after the soda drinkers and consumers of trans-fats.
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Judicial hopefuls address TEA Party
Candidates for the three judicial positions for the 16th Circuit Court District shared their views on what the right judge can do at a recent Starkville TEA Party meeting.
On Nov. 2, voters in the 16th Circuit Court District, consisting of Oktibbeha, Lowndes, Noxubee and Clay counties, will go to the polls to select three circuit court judges.
Place 1 candidates include Incumbent Judge Jim Kitchens and Attorney William Starks.
Place 2 candidate Lee Howard is unopposed.
And the newly-created Place 3 candidates are Lee Coleman, Bob Marshall and Nebra Porter.
All candidates were given an opportunity to address the group and participate in a question and answer forum.
Of the candidates, Kitchens, Starks and Coleman attended the meeting to state their position and share what they hope to achieve if given the opportunity to serve the District.
William Starks
William Starks grew up in Starkville and graduated from Mississippi State University before graduating from law school at Mississippi College.
Starks said he feels he can bring fairness, integrity and innovation to the judgeship.
"The judiciary is one of the three major branches of the government and spends less than one percent of the total budget," Starks said. "One way I can help is to work with the drug offenders. Many times we arrest them and give them little supervision. I think we need a drug court where first offenders, simple possession, receive an assessment that might include rehabilitation, training and education to help them to not relapse."
Starks said it would probably pay for itself if the program can get offenders back on track and they are able to work and pay taxes.
"Some judges think their job is to put people in the penitentiary," Starks said. "I think that if we can save someone from repeating the same cycle over and over again, it will save money."
Starks said he also thinks the use of technology can speed the system up by using electronic filing. "The Golden Triangle has many complex issues and everything we can do to use common sense to make our court system better is good," Starks said.
Jim Kitchens
Incumbent Judge Jim Kitchens has served as the 16th District Circuit Court Judge fir Place 1 for eight years. He is from Caledonia, and moved to Starkville in 1981, living in the Sessems dorm and Rosehill Apartments while attending MSU. He graduated with an economic degree from MSU and a law degree from Mississippi College.
"I have enjoyed the many things I get to do as your District Court Judge," Kitchens said. "I am involved in a variety of service clubs in the Golden Triangle and love to make it a better place for all of our citizens."
Kitchens said over the course of his eight years of service, he has tried 150 jury trials, with only four decisions reversed. He has also handled about 10,000 non-jury cases, with only 11 decisions reversed.
"My record on appeals is excellent," Kitchens said. "I try my best to be careful."
Right now, Kitchens said they have 118 cases on the docket in Oktibbeha County. In addressing the rehabilitation issue brought up by Starks, Kitchens said the program can be expensive to set up.
"Wanting to rehab drug offenders is very expensive, usually hiring four more people and counseling for addicts," Kitchens said. "I am not the best person for this because I think if you don't do anything, you don't get addicted."
Kitchens said he uses existing programs such as Community Counseling, who know all the programs and the best places to go to get help for people without incurring additional costs to the taxpayer.
Lee Coleman
Lee Coleman is running for the newly-created Place 3 position. He said a fair and impartial trial is all that a candidate can promise in this position.
"That is really about all that you can say," Coleman said. "A lot of folks really need more than a fair trial, but that is all I am able to promise them. "
Coleman said he supported himself through his senior year of high school when his parents moved back to West Point.
"Hard work taught me the value of a dollar and how to be independent and self-reliant," Coleman said. "There are going to be people in court who are facing tough economic times and need someone who can understand that. I am grateful for the opportunities I had to learn to work and take care of myself."
Coleman is a graduate of The University of Mississippi, graduating 11th in a class of 90.
(After graduation) I went back to West Point and felt a moral obligation to go into public service to pay the tax payers back for the academic scholarships I received to go to school," Coleman said.
Other candidates
Porter declined an invitation to speak. She is running for the Place 3 position. Marshall was attending a funeral and could not attend. He is also running for the Place 3 position.
The Daily News will be publishing other information about these candidates this week.


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Increased meowing may mean that your cat is suffering from hyperthyroidism, a common condition among older felines. Schedule a checkup with your veterinarian to have this checked out.read more
Deciding how and why to vaccinate your cat is a tricky proposition. The American Association of Feline Practitioners publishes the most widely used guidelines based on the recommendations of the Feline Vaccine Advisory Panel.
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