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"Constructing new identities around Languages and Media", 10th International Conference on Semiotics, Volos, 2013.
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"Supporting mobile learning through interactive video: ViMoLe ", International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE), Andorra la Vella, Andorra, IEEE Xplore, 10/2012.
"An impossible mission? ISPY, a network platform for language learning through spy games", IADIS, Lisboa, 2012.
"Language learning resources and developments in the Second Life metaverse", International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, vol. 3, issue 5, no. 5, pp. 496 – 509, 2011. Abstract
"Personalizing the online video intake in an ubiquitous language learning scenario", UMAP Adjunct Proceedings, Girona, España, UMAP, pp. 16–18, 2011.
"Tailored training in mobility: interactive video and device-specific usage patterns", ICALT 2011, Athens, USA, IEEE, pp. 652–653, 2011.
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"Reinventing Bots automated avatars for language interaction in Second Life", Eurocall 2010, Burdeos, Francia, Université de Bordeaux, pp. 88, 2010.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Admitting a failed project, the Orioles yesterday made room for first baseman Will Clark's return to active duty by designating 26-year-old rookie third baseman Willis Otanez for assignment. The move, announced after the club completed Monday's six-hour trek from Baltimore to Orange County, Calif., effectively severs Otanez's ties to Otanez the organization one season after he drove in 100 runs at Triple-A Rochester and less than two months after the club exposed its delicate pitching staff in order to protect him from a waiver claim.
Otanez batted .213 with two home runs and 11 RBIs in 80 at-bats, most of them coming as the replacement for Cal Ripken during the Iron Man's four-week stay on the disabled list.
The club leader in home runs this spring, Otanez carried his reputation as a free-swinger from Rochester to Baltimore, much to the frustration of manager Ray Miller. Otanez struck out 16 times, compiled a club-low .273 on-base percentage and struggled to make adjustments at this level. Miller eventually backed away from using him when he perceived Otanez carrying his offensive problems into the field.


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The 40-year-old AHDI handled international sales on four seasons of the original, U.S.-set hit "Ghost Hunters," which was a hot ticket for AHDI.
Continuing Sci Fi's expansion into nonscripted fare, the 13-part "Ghost Hunters International" follows an intrepid band of real-life, debunking ghoul hunters to some of the best-known haunts in Europe.
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My 11 year old daughter has had type 1 for one and a half years. For the last nine months, she has been taking nine and a half units Lantus in the morning and Humalog with meals, with an insulin to carbohydrate ratio of one-half for every 22 carbohydrates.
Something very strange occurred over the past 48 hours. On Monday, she received her normal amount of insulin. After lunch on Monday and for the next 48 hours, we could not keep her blood sugar above normal for over one hour. We stopped all Humalog. During the night, on Monday, we checked her blood sugar every hour. She needed to consume 65 grams of carbohydrates throughout the night. On Tuesday, we gave her the Lantus, but no Humalog. Throughout the day it took over 300 grams of carbohydrates to keep her blood sugar over 100 mg/dl [5.6 mmol/L]. Usually, my daughter only eats about 120 grams of carbohydrates a day. After all those carbohydrates, today she woke up at 400 mg/dl [22.2 mmol/L]. What would cause this to happen? She has not been sick or had any major changes in routine. Could this still be part of a honeymoon? The nurse suggested that she was just finishing a growth spurt, however she has only grown one centimeter in the last three months.
I do not have a ready explanation. The possibilities that I have seen in the past include that:
- Unbeknownst to you, extra insulin was given whether on purpose or by accident. Only rarely have I seen a child or another caregiver admit initially to extra insulin, but the truth emerged much, much (sometimes months) later when the mistake was seen as "safely over";
- A gastrointestinal illness is about to erupt and that the low glucoses reflected a degree of intestinal dysfunction. Watch out for some loose stools.
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Longbenton Air Cadets are on cloud nine after being recognised as the top performing training squadron in the region for a record breaking fifth year running!
Only the Longbenton Squadron has been in poll position on the training grid for more than three years in a row.
The Squadron, based on Marquis Close, Benton, underwent its annual rigorous inspection along with the 34 other units across the Durham Northumberland Wing. It has achieved 17 BTEC qualifications, 18 STEM Awards and 25 Duke of Edinburgh Awards to name but a few.
Cadet Gavin Davies, 14, says: "We get to do lots of different activities like flying, climbing, leadership courses, sports and engineering.
"The activities are really hard sometimes, but they're so much fun and it's a great feeling when you achieve your goals and earn qualifications."
"We've had an amazing year," says Alexia Whalley, 18. "We've enjoyed celebrating the organisations 75th anniversary, taking part in a project that seen us document our squadron's history and some of us have even been lucky enough to visit RAF bases around the world!" added Alexia.
The High Sheriff for Tyne and Wear, Mr John Mowbray OBE was on hand to present the Durham Trophy to the youngsters at a special celebratory dinner. He says: "Longbenton Squadron is a top squadron and it has proven this consistently, both locally and nationally, over a lengthy period of time.
"It is a testament to the adult volunteers and leadership that it remains a top performer with its young people engaged in and making the most of the many opportunities offered, which I know will put them in good stead for their future."
Officer Commanding, Flight Lieutenant Gary Richardson, 34, says: "It is an absolute privilege to command Longbenton Squadron. The young people are a pleasure to work with; they show drive, dedication and desire to achieve and try new opportunities. The volunteer staff give their time in such a positive and creative way that allows each individual young person to be the best that they can be."
Gary added, "Visitors tell me that the Squadron is very infectious with a great team spirit among everyone here. My aim is to keep that optimistic mentality and ambition to ensure that we always deliver relevant and fun training that makes a positive difference."
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Christian Ministry Seeks to Raise 'Culture Warriors' through Contest
There is a need for more believers to effectively live out their Christian worldview within our culture, says the leader of an apologetics ministry.
"Our media is dominated by people immersed in the secular humanist mindset," notes Anthony Horvath of Athanatos Christian Ministries.
"The evidence of this is present in books, movies, TV shows, music, as well as in newspapers and cable television," he says. "The resulting culture perpetuates itself and creates a climate of cynicism - to say the least - regarding the claims of Christianity."
Now, imagine if more Christians were writing movies, books, and the news.
"This alone might not save a single soul, but it would help create a climate where the Christian message is better received," Horvath says.
To encourage writers to represent their Christian beliefs through arts – in particular through fiction – Horvath's ministry is hosting a contest to identify writers who can write quality fiction that represents the Christian worldview either explicitly or implicitly.
"C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Dorothy Sayers, and G.K. Chesterton are examples of Christian authors whose stories reflected their Christian outlook," notes Horvath. "The remarkable thing is that secular audiences enjoy their work as much as Christian audiences do."
Chris Jones, a theater critic for the Chicago Tribune, would likely concur.
"The Christian allegorist C.S. Lewis is to agnostics what the conservative writer David Brooks is to liberals. He's about the only one they can stand," Jones wrote in a review of "The Screwtapes Letters," a Lewis novel-based theatrical performance that is currently reaping success at the Mercury Theatre in Chicago.
"Even those who abhor most religiously oriented literature – people who wouldn't be caught dead reading 'Left Behind' or other apocalyptica – are ready to give Lewis some space in their lives," he added.
And it is works such as Lewis's that society needs more of, says Horvath.
"Readers let down their defenses when reading stories or watching movies and this provides an opportunity for the author to present ideas and themes that readers might otherwise have dismissed," he says. "This is true for both Christians and non-Christians, but the secular community is more deliberate in exploiting this reality."
The problem, however, is that Christians have mostly been unsuccessful in casting the Christian worldview into mainstream media, though Christian music and books have been seeing more success in recent years.
"A lot of Christian entertainment is incubated in a bubble and often the script isn't challenged creatively the way a mainstream Hollywood script is vetted by director and producer and (for better or worse) studio," says Christian writer, director and producer Dan Merchant.
Furthermore, Christians sometimes push too hard on "shoving" the gospel into stories and forget that people want to be entertained, adds Phil Cooke, president and creative director of Cooke Pictures.
"We need to be far more subtle in our storytelling," he says. "After all, Jesus didn't tell 'Christian' stories. He told stories about people's lives, and they were powerful and compelling."
And those are the kind of stories that Athanatos Christian Ministries will be looking for as it receive contest entries this month through May 15, 2009.
Though the amount of the awards are not so impressive (top prize is $500), the ministry still hopes to inspire young Christians to take up the pen and promote the Christian worldview through fiction and create a culture of quality writing reflecting that worldview.
Winning entries will be compiled into an anthology and published. The anthology will be distributed to every single author who entered a story, at no additional cost.
"We want every contributor to see what a winning story looks like so they can learn from it and improve their own writing ability," Horvath explains.
Winners of the Athanatos Christian Writing Contest will be announced on Aug. 1, 2009. Anthologies and awards will be disbursed beginning Sept. 1, 2009.
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Astro-Vision Futuretech Pvt. Ltd., the pioneer in astrology software development has announced the launch of the new version of LifeSign Mini, a free astrology software (also known as kundli software). The long awaited release of LifeSign Mini version 126.96.36.199 is intended for all types of users including beginners as well as expert astrologers, catering to many astrological requirements.
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It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff.
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You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.
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September 20, 2017
As the U.S. Senate considers yet another version of healthcare reform legislation to change the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," NYSSBA, in partnership with the National School Boards Association (NSBA), urges local school board members to contact their U.S. Senators and congressional representatives and urge them to oppose legislation or provisions that place arbitrary caps on how much Medicaid funding a child receives. Take Action Now
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NYSSBA Letter on DACA
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My grandfather was a great carpenter and woodworker who built custom doors and windows. As a small child, I remember visiting him in the carpenter shop with a wood burning stove going and saw dust on the floor so thick that it was like walking in snow. I guess this woodworking attachment was instilled in me at an early age.
My first real job in high school was working in a family owned lumber yard. I enjoyed working there and used it as a stepping stone to get a job with a small home builder a couple years later. Back then we did everything from the foundation footings to roofing. Home construction has changed quite a bit since then, the tools and the material technology, not to mention all the new building codes.
My career path took me in a different direction after those years in construction but I never lost my affection for carpentry. Over the years I helped my family and friends reroof their houses, put on siding, install drywall, hang doors, and everything in-between. I took a class in cabinet building and over the years built a number woodworking projects in my garage and basement.
When my job took me to Nashville, Tennessee, I volunteered for a couple of Habitat for Humanity builds that my company sponsored. Working with the Crew Leaders, other volunteers, and homeowners got me attracted to doing more.
When retirement drew closer and closer, Habitat was in the back of my mind as a way to give back. My family and I have been fortunate in life and the Habitat concept of building homes for deserving families only made perfect sense. Personally helping to build a house makes you feel like you have accomplished something real and tangible. Unlike giving to some mammoth organization where you do not know where or how your assistance is being used, with Habitat you know exactly where and how your support affects another family on a local level. Working with volunteer groups is extremely rewarding. Being asked to become a Crew Leader, along with becoming a member of Construction and Safety Committees, fills me with a tremendous amount of self-worth and a desire to do more.
I particularly enjoy teaching or instructing volunteers with little or no construction experience. It is fun to see a volunteer's face after they learn something new and have that sense of accomplishment.
I cannot say enough about the other Habitat volunteers and staff that I have the honor to work with daily. This dedicated group of men and women really care about building a well-constructed house. Their attention to detail gives the impression as if they are building the house for themselves or a family member.
In my two short years of volunteering with Habitat of Waukesha I have already worked on nine houses! That is nine families who will probably become homeowners for the first time in their lives and families who will be able to call their new, well-built house "home."
This gives me a warm feeling that is infectious and, I hope, contagious.
Earl Baumann began volunteering with Habitat in 2006. He worked with Megal Development for over 40 years as a real estate broker and manager of their construction department, while working part-time in a residential design business. These three components of real estate, construction, and design made Earl a perfect fit for Habitat, and he was looking to help us out. "Waukesha Habitat is a growing organization, and I felt my knowledge could be of help," he said. Earl, of course, ended up being a natural on the build site, and quickly ascended into a leadership role, guiding and training fellow regulars, business groups and community volunteers. He went above and beyond his role as volunteer, acting as volunteer construction manager until we hired one as full-time staff.
Earl's favorite parts of volunteering? The families, and the other volunteers. "Meeting the families that occupy these homes is most rewarding to me," said Earl. "I enjoy seeing the children who benefit from having a home to return to and feel safe. And the volunteers who build the homes- their hearts and attitudes are in the right place."
Earl volunteers three days a week almost every week, and his thousands of volunteer hours over the year has helped Habitat Waukesha County move from a house-a-year organization to one that will build six homes this year and will soon assist dozens of other families with home repair.
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Most Habitat for Humanity affiliates have a paid, full-time construction manager. For many years, Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County did not. Instead, we relied on a group of 10-15 volunteer leaders (the "crew leaders," or as we affectionately call them, "the saints") to run our build site. Not only is Don Pike a member of the saints, but is a leader among those leaders.
Don began his volunteer work with Habitat in 2001. "My family and I have been blessed through the years," Don said. "So just before I retired I was looking for some way I could give back to others." Don had worked on several home construction projects while doing charity work with his church. He heard that Habitat was in need of volunteers, and decided it was the right fit for him. Don has since put in several thousand hours of volunteer work building 14 homes with Habitat, including almost 800 hours of service last year. This, on top of babysitting his young grandchildren several times a week.
Habitat builds three days a week for eight hours a day, and it is a very rare sight to not see Don on site for every minute of it. He arrives early to help plan the day out, and spends his off-time helping to make the actual plans for how the home will be built. When on site, he is meticulous in making sure the house is built correctly. Put simply, Habitat couldn't build as much as we do without him. Not only does he use his construction knowledge to physically build the house, but he uses his charm and kind attitude to help new volunteers integrate onto the build site and teach them how to build. From college students to a group of bank employees to individuals who have retired and want something to do, Don guides the hundreds of community volunteers who work on our site each year. This adds up to thousands of hours of additional volunteer work that is made possible by Don's contributions, and he is often listed as one of the best parts of volunteers' build experiences, keeping them coming back for more.
One of the most satisfying parts of the job for Don is being able to work side by side with Habitat homeowners and volunteers, getting to know them personally. "My favorite part of volunteer work is meeting so many great people, those we help and those who are volunteering," Don said. "At Habitat it is being able to do something I enjoy while helping a family in need get a home, plus getting to know them and working with such a great bunch of volunteers. What more could I ask for?"
Don has had a great impact on the Waukesha community and is the epitome of the mission guiding Habitat affiliates around the world: building homes, building hope, building community.
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Connecting Quadratic Functions and Quadratic Equations
Lesson 8 of 16
Objective: SWBAT describe graphical and algebraic methods for determining the x-intercepts of a quadratic equation.
Big Idea: We can use the graph or algebraic methods to determine the x-intercepts of a quadratic function. The x-intercepts can be rational or irrational.
To begin class, students complete Warm-up: Converting Quadratic Forms to practice converting among quadratic forms and begin to link the process of solving quadratic equations to the work we have done so far with quadratic functions [MP2]. Students are given 15 minutes to complete this Warm-Up while I project an online timer on the board. They can work with table partners to get the work done and solutions are projected on the board when the timer goes off.
The work we do in translating among the various algebraic forms of quadratics and the graph addresses several Common Core Content Standards as well as MP7. I discuss the content alignment of this work in the video, Supporting Standards with Quadratics.
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Concept Reinforcement
Recommendations for learning progressions within the Common Core Standards for Math suggest that students are often confused about the difference between equations and functions and are therefore confused about the difference between solving, simplifying and factoring. Therefore, I draw attention to this distinction as we transition from working with quadratic functions in general to solving for values of x that make the function equal to some value.
I initiate this discussion by sending Quick Poll: Conceptual Questions About Quadratic Functions to students via the NSpire Navigator system. The questions in these polls are designed to reveal whether students are clear on the following concepts [MP2]:
- The algebraic form of a quadratic function has two variables
- Setting the y-value of a quadratic function equal to some number results in a quadratic equation that can be solved in several ways.
- There can be 0, 1, or 2 solutions to a quadratic equation in one variable, but there are infinitely many solutions to a quadratic equation in two variables. The collection of solutions forms a parabola if they are plotted in the coordinate plane.
After revealing the poll results for each question, I leave time for a discussion of each concept and why students answered the way they did. Practicing discussing these concepts out loud helps students refine their thinking, so I include several opportunities to "turn to your partner and explain" during this discussion [MP3].
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After reinforcing the idea that replacing "y" with some number leads to a quadratic equation that can be solved, we consider the best methods to use when trying to determine the x-intercepts of a quadratic equation.
- If the function is in intercept form, we can set y=0 then use the zero product property
- if the function is in vertex form, we can set y=0 and take square roots of both sides of the equation
- If the function is in standard form, we can set y=0 and use the Quadratic Formula
I walk students through several examples of solving for the x-intercepts using the methods presented above. I frame each question in the context of functions so that students will understand the connection between quadratic functions and quadratic equations [MP6].
Although my initial examples will have rational x-intercepts, I will move to examples with irrational x-intercepts and also include an example of a quadratic function that has no x-intercepts. Students have not yet been introduced to imaginary numbers, so for now we will avoid this topic. Some of the examples I use in this discussion are included in the resource Examples for Finding x-Intercepts.
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Practice and Extend
To practice the skills learned in the day's lesson, students will cycle through Stations - Finding x-Intercepts of Quadratic Functions. These stations are tables for four that have multiple copies of exercises printed on half sheets of colored paper (one color for each station). I use stations for practice when there are a few distinct skills that are best learned by practicing each individually before seeing them mixed together in a problem set.
I know the students well by this time of the year and can easily assign them to groups in which they will be most likely to stay on task and help each other persevere [MP1]. I choose this type of "productivity" grouping for this activity and give each group 3 or 4 students so that there are 8 groups in all. Each group will cycle through 4 unique stations (there are two of each). The stations will be organized as follows.
- Station 1: find the x-intercept(s) of the following quadratic functions presented in intercept form. Sketch a quick graph of the function after you have determined the intercepts.
- Station 2: find the x-intercept(s) of the following quadratic functions presented in standard form. Sketch a quick graph of the function after you have determined the intercepts.
- Station 3: find the x-intercept(s) of the following quadratic functions presented in vertex form. Sketch a quick graph of the function after you have determined the intercepts.
- Station 4: sketch the graph of the following quadratic equations without using the graphing calculator (quadratic functions in each of the 3 forms will be presented). Label the x-intercepts, where they exist.
I give students a quick overview of the problem types found at each station, reminding them that they should pick up a paper for their folder at each station they visit. Each group will start at one of the 4 stations, spend 8 minutes at each station, and then rotate to the next station. I use the overhead timer to make everyone aware of how much time is left. After the timer rings, each group advances to the next station.
As students work, I use the 3-Cup System to encourage perseverance provide help where it is needed [MP1]. The goal of this activity is for students to practice solving quadratic equations and make connections between the concept of a quadratic functions and a quadratic equations [MP2].
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Closure and Assignment
With the few remaining minutes, I ask if any questions came up during the station activity. If there is sufficient time, I will do one or two of the problems on the board. If not, I tell students to look at the answer key on Edmodo before the next class period to see if that answers their question. The first part of the next lesson can also be used to answer questions on the station activity.
The homework assignment is to complete Finding x-Intercepts of Quadratic Functions, a set of 12 excercises in which students solve quadratic equations in order to find the x-intercepts of quadratic functions presented in standard, intercept and vertex forms.


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Do you want to become a regular arsonist when it comes to burning body fat? According to the latest study on Men's nutrition, health and weight loss, Japanese researchers found that men who lift weights before doing cardio exercising tend to lose fat and get leaner muscle faster, then men who do cardio first and then lift weight. By lifting weight first, those men burned twice as much fat as those who only pedaled first. The explanation is that resistence training stimulates the release of fat0burning hormones. It's like pouring kerosene on your inner fire.
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Diet or Exercise, Conflicting Messages?
The latest research on weight loss shows what most people already knew…it's a combo of diet and exercise. According to a University study, scientists found that weight loss study participants all lost an average of 22 pounds through diet, exercise or both. But they did find one big difference.
Those who included exercise in their weight loss programs were able to specifically target belly fat. In fact, the diet plus exercise group shrank their abdominal fat cells twice as much as those who only dieted. Abdominal fat cells have different amounts of metabolic enzymes than other parts of your body, causing them to be more responsive to exercise.
Healthy Dieting
I have been working out with a personal trainer for the past 8 months. I started off 1 day per week and increased it to 2. While my actual weight is not changing I do notice that my clothes are fitting me better. I try to avoid my scale at all costs. I even put it into my garage so I would not be tempted to jump on. The mark I use now is not a numeral but the way I look and feel in my own skin and in my clothing. WHile exercise is important one watching their weight cannot avoid the "diet". That four letter word that we all hate.
A healthy diet is an important part of any fitness plan. To help you in your weight loss and goals for fitness I came across this handy chart to help aid you in determining how and what you should be eating.
A healthy nutritional balanced diet is also key to losing weight. Following a clear chart for dieting showing the amount of simple carbs to complex carbs and everything in between can keep you on track for losing weight. There are six primary categories food is assigned too: Complex Carbohydrates (starches and fiber), High Quality Protein, Non Starch Vegetables, Simple Carbohydrates, Milk/Soy, Fats and Water.
We all hate diets, but following this chart seems to be a great way to improving weight loss and becoming a thinner, healthier you!
Body Care Products that are as Good as Gold
Peaceful Mountain is a company based in Boulder, Colorado that specializes in organic remedies that help relieve a wide range of maladies. One product I have tried is Arnica Gel that has been proven amazing both pre and post workout to help increase blood flow to the muscles that I have used. This gel has helped sooth the soreness that develops the day after you have worked out when the lactic acid has build up. The best thing about these products is that they don't compromise the kidneys as some other remedies have been known to do. The combination of Arnica, Confrey Root and St. Johns Wort works magically. The company suggests using it at the first sign of muscle aches, stating that if used at the onset, it may help prevent a full blown spasm!
This natural formula can be found at www.peacefulmountain.com for about $11 a tube. A small price to pay for the pain. 🙂 You can also find this product at Whole Foods or a local health food store.
Forget the lowfat food!
Recently I took my 7 year old daughter to a nutritionist after my pediatrician gave her a scare telling her that she was "very very unhealthy". We had gone to the pediatrician for a physical, which we do every year before school starts and as usual they took her weight. She weighed 84 lbs when she should (according to the chart) weigh about 70 lbs for her height and build. My daughter looked at me when the doctor told her about her unhealthy weight gain and did not shed a tear. I actually thought she was not really taking it seriously at all, until we got into the car. The she cried and asked if what the doctor said meant she was going to die. 😦 . I took issue with the way the doctor addressed the issue, but don't want to get into that now.
While my daughter likes her food, her problem is portion control. I tend to cook very healthy foods. I rarely EVER fry anything, I always bake and with very little oil if any at all. After undergoing blood testing to find if the inherited thyroid condition was causing her weight gain (which it was not), we went to see a nutritionist. One piece of advice she gave me that made a HUGE difference is that you should never purchase any food where the sugars are 50% or more of the Carbohydrates. People are always buying lowfat items, thats a big mistake. When something is lowfat they overcompensate for flavor by adding sugar! Sugar is metabolized in the body and stored in the body as fat. One of the main reasons a lowfat processed food does not help with weight loss.
Next time you reach for that bag of school snacks, check out the sugar to carb ratio. Go for the regular version, not the lowfat, and keep the portions under control.
Hidden Fat
Here's a warning to the slim people who feel comfortable because they have the right "weight": being slim doesn't necessarily mean you're okay health-wise and that you're far from acquiring any of the much feared diseases. If your daily food intake is more on the junk food and greasy side and/or you're living a sedentary lifestyle, there's a high chance you can have internal fat collected in your heart, liver, pancreas, and certain muscles which can trigger the deadly diseases like various heart conditions and diabetes. Having the proper numbers on the scale and fitting into your ideal clothes doesn't mean you should rejoice and be complacent. Exercising daily is a big big necessity to be able to burn any internal fat that may be forming. Eating healthy food is also essential to make sure you are not deficient on all the nutrients you need.
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Gaining Healthy Weight
Sometimes it seems to me that 99% of people in this world would like to lose weight. Some would simply like to, many are desperate to. But what I seldom encounter are people who would actually like to gain weight because they lack the proper pounds. If you're one of them, here are just three of the things you need to work on to start the process.
Cut down on fatty and greasy food. Sure, eating a lot of fast food, sugary sweets, and the like can help you gain weight, but it won't be the type of weight you want. You'll end up being even unhealthier because the risk for deadly diseases increases every time you consume unhealthy oily foods and food high in trans fats like pastry products and processed meats.
Consume a lot of protein. Protein builds muscle tissue. Since your goal is to have more healthy muscles to increase mass and weight, make sure you focus on foods that are good protein sources such as chicken, fish, low fat dairy products, healthy meats, and nuts and seeds. Of course, your meals still have to be well-balanced so make sure you're also consuming all the other important vitamins and minerals to stay healthy.
Weight train. Many people have the misconception that doing any form of exercise will just make you lose weight. Weight training and weight lifting can actually do the reverse by building on muscles not akin to those of heavy bodybuilders but just enough to increase your weight and add body mass and strength. Weight training helps convert additional calories into muscle rather than fat. It also stimulates appetite.


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Financially strapped Scranton's 2013 budget contains hefty raises for six city employees, including the part-time solicitors of the administration and council.
The budget comes following a summer in which the city narrowly avoided a financial meltdown, at times unable to pay its bills or convince banks to loan it money. There are no layoffs or salary cuts in the budget.
Administration solicitor Paul Kelly and council solicitor Boyd Hughes each would receive a $15,000 pay hike next year due to their having significantly increased workloads with the city, said Mayor Chris Doherty. Their city workloads have been cutting into their private practices, the mayor added.
Mr. Kelly's salary would go from $52,500 to $67,500, or a 29 percent raise.
Mr. Hughes' salary would rise 33 percent, from $45,000 to $60,000, though he would not receive health benefits.
"They work more hours with us," Mr. Doherty said of the two solicitors. "They've been working long hours and they will next year, too."
Four full-time employees, including the fire chief and three business administration employees, also would have their pay partly restored to their former levels before their salaries were cut in 2011 and 2012 by the council supermajority led by council President Janet Evans, the mayor said.
Fire Chief Tom Davis would get a raise of $16,258, or 24 percent, from $67,228 to $83,486. This hike also is partly attributed to a statutory rank differential of what a chief earns relative to his subordinates, the mayor said.
Business administrator Ryan McGowan, finance manager Mary Lou Murray and human services director Gina McAndrew also each would get a $10,000 raise, as follows: Mr. McGowan's salary would rise from $53,550 to $63,500, or 19 percent; Ms. Murray's pay would increase from $37,400 to $47,400, or 27 percent; and the salary of Ms. McAndrew, an attorney who also is the city's PEL coordinator, would rise from $36,000 to $46,000, or 28 percent.
These employees also had hefty workloads and often worked weekends, as this year was particularly busy year for the city because of its financial difficulties, agreed the mayor and Mrs. Evans.
"I want to keep knowledgeable people in place," Mr. Doherty said. "It's in the city's interest to keep them."
Mrs. Evans said, "We were able to overcome many differences and keep the city operating during one of the most challenging years it's faced and people who worked the hardest deserve to be paid for their skills. For example, Boyd Hughes is arguably the best attorney the city has employed in a very long time."
Mrs. Evans said some of Ms. McAndrew's subordinates who are union members earn more than her, and the business administrator is arguably the most important job in city government.
Resident Gary Lewis, who during this year's financial meltdown of the city became active and has advocated for the city filing Chapter 9 bankruptcy as a solution, said he can understand raises for business administration employees who previously had salaries cut. But Mr. Lewis believes that pay hikes for the solicitors are unjustified because along with their salaries they have received fees this year from city borrowing packages.
"You're talking about granting raises in a town where you're going to have a deficit (in 2013) that you're going to close with borrowing," Mr. Lewis said. "I can rationalize a raise for a guy like Ryan McGowan. I can't rationalize raises for Boyd Hughes and Paul Kelly. I don't think they deserve anything. They've billed for work above and beyond what their salary is."
In defending Mr. Hughes, Mrs. Evans said, "He's been very successful in his dealing with the Scranton Parking Authority and saved a great amount of money for the city on that one issue alone. He handles all of the city's financings. He really has carried the ball on a number of issues."
Asked if the prior cutting of administrative salaries that are now being raised was a mistake, Mrs. Evans said, "No, I don't believe so because it was a situation where we had hundreds of employees, particularly public safety employees, who hadn't received raises in eight years. How does one justify many years of increases in management positions when the remainder of workers were frozen year after year."
Ms. Murray declined to comment, while efforts to reach Mr. Kelly, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Davis, Mr. McGowan and Ms. McAndrew were unsuccessful.
The budget, though presented by the mayor to council on Thursday, was a joint budget that both sides prepared together, officials have said. In the absence of a council meeting this Thursday, the budget is expected to be introduced by council Nov. 29. The budget proposal is not set in stone and amendments may be made, although the mayor and Mrs. Evans do not expect any major revisions.
Some other highlights of the budget include the following:
n The budget would increase $24.3 million, or 29 percent from $85.3 million to $109.6 million. The steep rise has been attributed to new borrowing and refinancing necessary to cover a landmark state Supreme Court arbitration award of $17 million due to the city's police and fire unions, to provide a $5 million increase in the city's mandatory minimum pension obligation, and to pay off interest of a $14 million tax-anticipation note the city will obtain next year.
n The city expects to borrow $25 million in 2013 to fund the back pay and pension increase.
n The budget contains a 12 percent real-estate tax hike, as well as increases in the real-estate transfer, business privilege and mercantile taxes, and a new commuter and amusement taxes. A 1 percent commuter tax must first be approved by a court and the city has a Dec. 10 hearing on its petition.
n The city has negotiated with Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore a deferred payment of $1 million in landfill fees in 2013, the mayor said. The city budgeted $1.5 million in landfill fees in 2012, but is only budgeting $500,000 in 2013. The mayor said the city has worked out a deal with Keystone to pay back the $1 million by paying $333,000 in each of 2014, 2015 and 2016, Efforts to reach a Keystone representative were unsuccessful.
n The city is negotiating to have its parking meter program run by Standard Parking, which recently merged with Central Parking System, the firm that now runs the city's parking garages. The city would lease its on-street meters to Standard.
"You need one entity in control of the garages and meters for pricing and to make it work with technology and having a business entity attuned to this," Mr. Doherty said. The fate of six parking-meter collection/enforcement employees remains unclear. These six were shifted a few months ago from the unraveled Scranton Parking Authority to City Hall. The takeover of the city's meter program remains under negotiation with Standard and efforts to reach a representative of that firm were unsuccessful.
n The city is budgeting to receive $1 million from "yellow" parking tickets. The city budgeted $700,000 from these parking tickets in 2012, but as of October had only collected $258,000.
n The city is budgeting $1.9 million in parking meter collections. The city budgeted $1.4 million in 2012 but by October had only collected $700,000. An increase is foreseen through a parking meter upgrade that would allow for credit-card and/or remote payments.
n The city's new parking tax is expected to raise $225,000 next year. That is less than half of the $500,000 in new parking tax that had been budgeted as a revenue this year. The tax had not been enacted until mid-year and by October the city had only collected $40,000 in this new parking tax.
n A new amusement tax has been budgeted to generate $200,000, or about $500,000 less than officials initially believed would be possible. "We put in what we think is likely to happen," Mr. Doherty said.
n The city next year expects to receive $1.3 million in payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) donations from nonprofit institutions. This amount is significantly higher than the amounts of PILOTs that the city typically has annually received. For example, the city this year budgeted $183,000 in PILOTs and by October had received $204,000. In case the city falls short of its ambitious PILOT goal for 2013, the $1.3 million has been placed in a contingency fund that would be used to make up any PILOT shortfall, the mayor said.
n The city is planning to store abandoned and/or towed vehicles on a city-owned lot behind the police headquarters, and as a result has budgeted as a revenue $300,000 in new fees from such vehicles. Mrs. Evans said that is a conservative estimate of how much the city would reap in such fees.
n The city is budgeting as a revenue $1.9 million in building permits, much of which is expected to come from permits for construction and improvements by Geisinger Community Medical Center. In 2012, the city budgeted $1.3 million in building permits, but by October had only received $439,000.
n The city is budgeting as a revenue $600,000 in a "repayment from Ice Box development." Mr. Hughes first raised this issue during a council meeting earlier this year, when he claimed the city has been owed $600,000 under a lease of land to BRT Ice, the developer of the Ice Box development at the corner of Providence Road and West Olive Street. Mr. Doherty said, "There's an agreement in place and the development has been successful." Mrs. Evans said, "That was one of council's suggestions (to pursue the BRT Ice payment) and we discussed it with the mayor and he was in complete agreement that the time has come that the debt must be paid." Reached by telephone, BRT Ice developer Bob Burke said he was not aware of the city's claim that it is owed $600,000 by BRT Ice and otherwise had no comment about it.
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I guess there is some sort of app for charting your fertility on your phone, but the thought of using it makes me want to kill myself. I have this feeling, a terrible one, that if I do not do EVERYTHING within my power to get perfectly pregnant, the cruel, Tyra Banks-esque gods who oversee earthly pregnancies will decide I don't WANT it bad enough, and I won't get pregnant.
Because I have been going to 12-step meetings for 9 years and actually WORKING the steps and whatnot, I have conjured myself a pretty cool Higher Power, or HP, or god, or Universe, or whatever you want to call it.
My awesome god – part guardian angel, part invisible friend and part Stevie Nicks – wants me to have EVERYTHING I want, all the time, forever. That doesn't mean I'll get it. Me and my HP have an understanding – I don't know the whole story of my own life, I only know a little bit of it, and even that little bit is muddled with my own wild passions and desires.
So even though my HP is totally 100% on my side and would love me to have EVERYTHING I want, all the time, forever, it just isn't always possible, because it doesn't always fit with the PLAN.
Oh, my god!
My god is not a mean trickster god, nor is she a humorless taskmaster judging my pregnancy attempts and punishing me with infertility if I don't kill myself trying. I KNOW this. And I still harbor an irrational fear that if I don't download the ovulation app that makes me want to die, well, then, I don't DESERVE a baby, and the gods will see to it that I never get one.
Really, the most interesting thing about this whole insemination process has been delving into the darkness of my own psychology!
Me and Dashiell head toward the Witch Store in the Mission, certain they will have Diva Cups. Incidentally, Dashiell has a TERRIBLE god. Dashiell's god punishes her all the time, for the slightest infractions.
In fact, it is probably Dashiell's god who is threatening to tie my tubes if I don't download the ovulation app, but you know what? He doesn't work for me. I got my own god and I have told Dashiell numerous times that she should trade hers in for a friendlier deity.
My Stevie Nicks god is a total Luddite, and the thought of a downloadable ovulation app exhausts her, too. I imagine her up on a cloud in a hankercheif-hemmed lace dress, sipping peach nectar and sighing with relief saying, "Girl, I didn't want to have to deal with that app either, go read a fashion magazine and forget about it!" I love my Higher Power.
In the Witch Store -- a place my Higher Power would LOVE -- I locate the Diva Cup, on the bottom of a wooden shelf stocked with creams and ointments. I didn't expect it to be so BIG. I'm going to stuff that thing inside me? Really? And it's not going to feel like stuffing a dog toy up my vagina? Because that's what it kind of looks like to me, those dog toys you stuff with treats and the dog has to dig them out.
A Kong. Like a cross between a Kong and some medical device made for people whose bladders have failed them.
Separated at birth?
Also, the Diva Cup comes with a lapel pin! A little daisy with the word "Diva" underneath it. This, for many reasons, kills me. Firstly, "Diva" is right up there with "Rock Star" under phrases I wish to never hear again. Also, each summer, me, Rhonda and our friend Vinnie take a weekend in Provincetown, a trip he deems Diva's Weekend. Me and Rhonda truly do not know if he is being ironic or if he is serious when he forbids us to play anything but Madonna, Cher and Barbara Streisand on the drive down the Cape. We're afraid he isn't, and so we just roll with it, even purchasing rainbow stickers that say DIVA at the gay bodega on the main drag.
But really, I mostly find it hilarious that the makers of a cup meant to CONTAIN MENSTRUAL BLOOD think that their customers would want to advertise their choice of menstrual blood containment with a bit of jewelry. I'm all for killing the stigma of menstruation -- in the 90s I ran a grotesque little personal experiment which involved me simply not wearing ANYTHING when I got my period and bleeding all over the place to make people DEAL with the fact that WOMEN MENSTRUATE!
That was during one of the more extreme peaks (valleys?) of my Lesbian Feminist Nervous Breakdown. So, I'm down, ya'll. I just don't know that a flowered lapel pin that says DIVA is the way to do it.
But I'm not using that cup to capture Aunt Flo, I'm looking for it to keep Quentin's sperm up in my vagine! Only -- I thought it was bad to have ANYTHING sharing space with the sperm? Because sperm are more finicky than a chemically sensitive lesbian at an Al Anon meeting? How come this here Diva monstrosity gets a free pass?
Oh, who knows! A woman from Arkansas told me she popped one of these in after insemination, went to bed and woke up pregnant, so I'm doing it. All I do is collect buckets of occasionally conflicting fertility information and do my best to implement it all so that Dashiell's mean god doesn't punish me with childlessness!
The sales witch who brought me to the cups shows me that they are two different sizes -- one for women who are over 30 or have had kids, and one for younger women or women who haven't.
"I'm not really using it for my period," I tell her, "I'm using it to help me get pregnant."
"Oh . . . " She looks at me with confusion. "You put it up there after you have sex?"
"Yeah," I said. To say anything else would force me to face my annoyance that this woman, working in an infamous, lesbionic witchery shop in a pretty gay neighborhood A.) Isn't up to date on the methods women (lesbians) may use to get themselves pregnant, B.) Presumes her customers are straight, and C.) Thinks Dashiell, standing handsomely beside me, is either a man, or a straight girl -- ? -- or perhaps my younger brother? It's all too much to grapple with.
And speaking of stressful grappling, I'm not going to shove that Kong into my vagina. I don't even see how it will help -- it's deeper than I imagined, and the sperm will just pool at the bottom and get killed by whatever sperm-unfriendly synthetic material it's made from. The only person who told me to use it was that one woman in Arkansas and she was probably some sort of fertile Myrtle.
That's what my mom calls ladies who get pregnant real easy. Fertile Myrtle.
Fertility Candle!
Instead of buying the Diva Cup I buy a copy of Janet Spiller's New Moon Astrology, so I can get regular with my new moon wishing rituals. I buy a green candle for fertility, and a white candle for a sick friend. Soon it will be my birthday, and me and Dashiell will be going up to Northern California, to stay in the rustic Hotel Arcata that has claw-foot bathtubs, and I want to get fun bubble bath.
Don't ask me why we're going to drive six hours to take a claw-foot bubble bath when I've got such a tub at home; I guess I just want to get out of town.
We come across one of my favorite bath treats, a Love Spell Fizzy Melt by Apothekerri.
"Well, you're warned," I tease Dashiell, waving the love spell bath thingie at her. "If you get in the tub with this, you might fall in love with me."
To my confusion, Dashiell does not make a joke in return. She looks ... sheepish! Guilty, even! "What?" I ask her. "Why are you turning all red like that?"
"Well ... I just ... maybe, when we were first dating, I put a love spell on you?"
"WHAT?" I am utterly shocked. Dashiell is a very open-minded and open-hearted person, but she also tends more toward the logical and rational than the witchy and woo woo. SHE put a love spell on ME? I am utterly dazzled, dazzled and charmed. Flattered that she wanted my love so bad she would turn to the fickle services of the occult for assistance.
"Remember I went on that ghost tour with work, around Halloween?"
"Yes," I say.
"Well at the end they passed around this, like, voodoo doll, and everyone made a wish on it, and I wished that you would fall in love with me."
"You did!" I remember where we were with each other around Halloween, how I was falling in love with her. The thought of her wishing for my love and keeping the wish a secret all this time makes me giddy.
"Babe, I'm sorry!" Dashiell looks seriously pained. "Is it bad? I don't want to put a spell on you! I've felt guilty for it the whole time!"
See, this is what I mean about Dashiell's god. Maybe her god is mad about it, but I'm pretty sure my HP is high-fiving me right now. Even though it's true that you shouldn't cast love spells because they tamper with another's free will, this is a rather new philosophy. The history of magic in all its many tradition offers up many love spells. You just have to be prepared for the consequences, which in Dashiell's case means having to spend the rest of her life with me.
"You're so powerful!" I coo at her, hug her and kiss her face. "Don't feel bad, I'm so happy it worked. I love being in love with you. I had no idea you were such a wizard! Or, a druid! A Manwitch!"
NEXT WEEK: Where's my Clomid?!?


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Since 2001, SOA Architectes have been practising and asserting diversity by drawing upon Pierre Sartoux and Augustin Rosenstiehl's distinctive backgrounds in architecture, design, ethnology, urbanism and conceptual art. This collaborative approach marks each engagement by incorporating a rigorous theoretical, aesthetic and sociological assessment, itself the result of the analysis of relevant geographical and social factors.
Beyond these initial considerations, the practice also seeks to assert an architecture of poetry, dreams, and joie de vivre.
The practice attempts through its work to reveal the qualities of the site in which it intervenes whilst developing the symbolic and narrative aspects of each brief. An environmental prospective is also formulated with proposals combining both advanced technologies and time-honoured savoir-faire.
Our production is defined by three guiding intentions: • to develop a strong theoretical approach based on an architectural and sociological analysis; • to further an architectural and urban aesthetic which is both innovative and respectful of context; • to proceed with a fair and environmental approach from inception.
Recently winners of several competitions, the practice demonstrates this contextually sensitive approach, specific to site and brief.
Augustin Rosenstiehl and Pierre Sartoux are EUROPE 40 UNDER 40 2011 Award winners (Europe's emerging young architects and designers) and visiting professors at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais.
Urban farming
Since 2005 and in particular after having won the Cimbéton competition with the Living Tower project, the practice runs a research workshop on the topic of Urban Farms. These prospective works that question the issue of urban agricultural density and production are conducted as case studies which lead to in depth scenarios and worrying implications.
In 2012, SOA founded the Agricultural Urbanism Lab (LUA), association working in the field of urban agriculture in terms of research and development.
This work is carried out in cooperation with several professionals and researchers.
We regularly attend lectures and symposiums such as "Green Cities" ENSCI (National Institute for Industrial Design) City of Paris 2010, "Green?Up" la Sapienza di Roma Italy 2010, "Babel3" St Sebastian Spain 2008, "Perspectives for the Sustainable City" Paris 2008. We also take part in television programmes and documentaries such as 8 pm News TF1, one o'clock News France 2, web tv, and contribute to a number of newspaper and web articles and publications.
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In 2009, in response to a request by the Franco?Lebanese company HAR, the practice initiated research on the concept of a residential tower destined for the Arab World. Based on traditional architectural codes of the Maghreb, the Mashreq and the Fertile Crescent, the aim is to develop a model for a contemporary tower which can adapt to requirements of the world's various Arab regions.
A number of dominant features characterise the AYA tower, such as the open air roof terrace, the inertia of a tower built entirely of thick walls and apartment plans associating traditional spaces (dorqa, iwan, majillis) with contemporary spaces.
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In 2003, the practice undertook a study of French prisons with the intention of abolishing the traditional prison model which has existed for the past 200 years. Through a number of proposals associating inside and out, the purpose of the study was to inspire future penitentiary centre designers. The plan was to place the individual back at the heart of the system, to introduce a currently inexistant sense of urbanism and to reintroduce ordinary codes of living spaces, working environments, sports facilities, etc. This research, carried out under Gabriel Mouesca's exceptional supervision, led to a publication with Urbs publishers (Xavier Gonzalez).
We are often asked to participate in debates such as International Prison Observatory, Prison Justice, radio broadcasts (France Inter, Radio Libertaire), delinquency prevention campaigns, and contribute to multiple articles, newspaper and web publications. The practice is committed to continuing this research.
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The Kasen Williams Recruiting AdventureAugust 2, 2010
Kasen Williams, the No. 1 wide receiver in the country, (according to Scout.com) is now down to his top five college choices. In no particular order these are the five schools: LSU, Florida, Notre Dame, California, and Washington.
Getting a recruit like Williams could change a program and help them recruit better players, or give them a playmaker at the receiver position that is a much needed position for most teams.
Williams says that all schools have an equal chance right now and it will come down to a couple of items.
One is the business school at each school which Williams wants to major in, getting along with fellow players at each program, what type of offense they run and what quarterbacks and receivers are in front of him.
Going to an LSU program, he would be playing with quarterback Jordan Jefferson for a couple of years because he is only a sophomore. Also, LSU runs a pro-style offense which might appeal to Williams because of the offense he ran in high school.
Florida provides John Brantley, a young quarterback taking the reigns the reigns this year. The Gators also run an offense that Williams has never ran, but it wouldn't be hard for him to learn it and it could give him touches at other positions than wide receiver.
Notre Dame is a legendary program that has been on a little bit of a slide but still has relevance as one of the biggest programs in the country. The fighting Irish has young Dayne Christ at quarterback, who Kasen Williams could play with. They also just got a new coach, Brian Kelly, from Cincinnati, where they ran a spread offense. Williams might like a spread type of offense with the ball being thrown at him a lot more than a pro-style.
The Golden Bears play in California which is close to Washington so location might play a part in Williams decision with Cal. Cal also has Kevin Riley, a senior, playing quarterback this season, and is looking to improve upon an OK year in 2009. The Golden Bears run a pro style offense and Williams seems keen to that idea.
Last is the Washington Huskies. The Huskies is the home school for Williams; his father went there and played football. Williams lives in Sammamish, Washington, which is about a 30 minute drive to the University of Washington. The Huskies are also a rising program with new coach Steve Sarkisian behind the reins. Sarkisian runs a pro style offense which goes wells with Williams. Also, young quarterback Nick Montana, (yes that's Joe Montana's son) is a freshman this year and seems to be the quarterback of the future.
If I had to take a guess what his top three out of those would be I would say: Florida, Notre Dame, and Washington.
And if I had to choose where he is going to school I would take the Washington Huskies as his pick and not just because I am a Huskies fan.
Williams' dad played at Washington and the program is rising fast. Many other recruits are very interested in the program and Sarkisian is becoming a very good coach. It also doesn't hurt that Jake Locker is their quarterback this year and is a Heisman candidate, all while bringing attraction to the Huskies.
So with the type of offense being ran at Washington, the rise of the program, the bright future they have with recruiting, the location, and his dad having previously played there, Washington looks like they could get this superstar in Kasen Williams.


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Recipe: Matcha ice-cream
A delicious summer dessert
Summer has well and truly arrived and what better way to beat the heat than to make your own ice-cream?
In Japan, one of the most popular ice-cream flavors is matcha, or green tea.
Ideally one would use an ice-cream machine to churn and freeze the mixture, however with a little extra effort it's possible to make matcha ice-cream without one.
Ingredients (Serves 4)
- 100 ml milk
- 5 g matcha
- 7 g corn starch
- 50 g granulated sugar
- 100 ml fresh cream
Put all of the ingredients other than the fresh cream into a pan and place on a low heat.
Mix with a whisk and once it has thickened, turn off the gas and allow the mixture to cool.
Place the cream in the bowl and whisk until thickened (it should still drip slowly from the whisk). Pour the now cool matcha into the cream.
Pour the combined ingredients into a plastic container and freeze for 3 to 4 hours.
Scoop the ice-cream from the container and serve.


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When you adopt a new cat, be sure to ask for its health records. Then schedule a general checkup with a veterinarian to ensure your kitty has a clean bill of health.read more
If your Twitter timeline is a boring stream of people complaining about their bosses, taking pictures of their lunch, or checking in to every single place they go, you may want to follow a cat or two. It's refreshing, cute and just plain fun. Here are my recommendations of who to follow.
@IamButton: Button is a sharp-witted comedian kitty. Her profile says, "Fist bumps are so last year. I do head bumps," and she tends to talk hairballs and other things we love about cats.
@CathyKeisha: This cat has cattitude and a spitfire personality. For bonus entertainment, check out her blog.
@BabyPatches: Baby Patches reigns queen of the cute cat language. You'll find some cats tweet in English, and others speak in a kind of "cat version" of it, each with its own twist. This one is my favorite.
@MooForPresident: Keep an eye on this guy. He's announced his candidacy for president because, as he says, "It was only a matter of time before we elected a cat president, and that time is now."
@Sockington: This is the king of all cat Twitterers. Sockington may be the cat that started it all. He has almost 1.5 million followers or, as he likes to call them, his "Socks Army."
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Dorian Wagner is the founder of YourDailyCute.com and a blogger at The Cat's Meow. She is the proud mom of two cats. Her blogs have previously appeared on The Daily Cat.
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Marine Police Unit (MPU), turned their RIB's nose downriver and opened up the throttles.
The results were rather spectacular: I'm not sure what the official line is on power boats racing on the Thames but its said that all you need for a race are two boats heading in the same direction and in this case there were three of them.
I don't know which one won, but I'm guessing their colour would be black.