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Rhubarb & Raspberry Clafoutis
L'il re-post from last year for Bastille day celebrations (la Fete Nationale), I know in the northern hemisphere it is the middle of summer - but for my southern mates I thought a warm pud might be appropriate! I'm aiming to shoot an easy, cheesy pasta recipe in the next few days - so check back in at the weekend for that, and in the meantime - have a good one! :) (Obviously I have always been a sucker for rhubarb and custard...!)
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I'm writing this a bit later in the day for a change, coffee in hand, weak sunlight streaming in the window and, as hoped, Dougie is snoring gently and intermittently farting in his bed at my feet. (Dougie is Henry's border terrier in case you weren't sure!). He seems to be rocketing along with his recovery, eating well (free range chicken and rice...), taking his meds (kind of), sleeping lots but generally in a pretty perky state. The next step is to have his stitches removed next Wednesday and further blood tests to see if there is an underlying disease which caused his gallbladder issues. Meanwhile - it is all go in Melbourne with Pog finally starting his interior design course on Monday, and I am (fingers crossed) assuming not-much-news is good news from Rich. I started my day with a bloody lovely yoga session, so have no excuse not to now get my act together and have a good day, testing my next lot of recipes for
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This clafoutis recipe is one I put together for my fortnightly Dish web contribution, and I have to say it is damned delicious. I love tart rhubarb, and when combined with the sweet raspberries then topped with soft vanilla custard it really is a great dessert. The clafoutis is super easy to make, and quick too, if you roast your rhubarb in advance. The trick is not to serve it straight away as the custard needs time to set up a little - but then don't serve it cold either, because by then the custard will have set into a slab! Just give it 5 minutes or so, then serve with a lovely big scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
400g rhubarb, washed and trimmed into 4cm pieces
1/3 cup caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
finely grated zest of 1 orange
2 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
200g fresh raspberries
1 tbsp butter
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/3 cup flour
200ml whole milk
100ml cream
2 tbsp icing sugar
Preheat oven to 180˚C. Lay rhubarb in a single layer in the base of a large baking dish. Mix 2 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla, zest and juice and pour over rhubarb, tossing gently to coat. Cover with tinfoil and bake for 12 minutes, or until just soft. Remove from the oven, add raspberries, toss gently and leave to combine and cool.
Butter a 23cm round ovenproof dish (a deep oven-proof frying pan can be used). Whisk flour, remaining sugar, eggs, yolk, milk, cream and remaining vanilla until smooth. Blob rhubarb and raspberries into the prepared dish (reserve any rhubarb juices to drizzle over ice cream if you wish when serving) and pour over custard mix. Bake for 40-45 minutes until just set in the middle. Remove from the oven, leave for 5-10 minutes to rest and set up, then dust with icing sugar and serve with vanilla bean ice cream. Serves 6
Mr Dougal Tuck - aka Dougie :)


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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Jerusalem municipality approved building plans on Wednesday for 558 new homes in the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians want for a future state.
A municipality spokeswoman said the local planning committee had approved requests by private contractors for the construction work in the settlements of Har Homa, Neve Yaakov and Pisgat Zeev.
The three settlements are in a part of the West Bank that Israel annexed to Jerusalem, in a move that has not been recognized internationally, after capturing the territory in the 1967 Middle East war.
The Palestinians have said that expansion of Israeli settlements, which most countries deem illegal, could derail U.S.-sponsored peace talks which resumed in July after a three-year break.
The municipality spokeswoman said that the initial plans for the new dwellings had been approved years ago.
The Palestinians are seeking a state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, and the enclave is now run by Hamas Islamists opposed to the present peace drive.
Har Homa and Pisgat Zeev are in one of the areas in the West Bank that Israel says it intends to keep in any future land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians.
Three weeks ago, Israel published tenders for 1,400 new homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now said at that time that Israel had announced plans for 5,349 new homes in those two areas since the peace talks restarted.
(Writing by Maayan Lubell, Editing by Jeffrey Heller)

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MOUNT CARMEL, Ill. --- Mount Carmel High School cross country standout Grady Wilkinson Wednesday signed a scholarship form to attend the University of Southern Indiana.
"USI stood out because they have an exceptional cross country program," said Wilkinson following the signing ceremony which took place among family and friends at MCHS. "It is just so close to home and it's so state of the art I couldn't pick anything else."
DECATUR, Ill. – Mt. Carmel's two runners in the IHSA Class 1A cross country sectional fell short of qualifying for this weekend's state meet in Peoria.
In the boys sectional run, sophomore Grady Wilkinson finished 20th overall, but not among the top seven individuals not on an advancing team. His time was 16:09.52. Jon Davis of Fithian-Oakwood won the sectional crown in a time of 14:43.11.
Monticello won the team championship with 48 points. Also advancing to state as a team was second-place Shelbyville (73 points), Tolono Unity (3rd with 83), St. Joseph-Ogden (4th with 113) and Urbana University (5th with 190). Robinson missed qualifying with a 6th-place finish. Olney wound up 11th.
In the girls race, the Lady Aces' Madeline Jones finished 61st in her first sectional appearance, with a time of 20:46. Sophomore Anna Sophie Keller won the sectional title in a time of 16:44.
St. Joseph-Ogden won the team championship with 84 points, topping runnerup Decatur St. Teresa's total of 106. Also advancing to Peoria as a team were: Monticello (3rd place with 117 points), Urbana University (4th with 119) and Tolono Unity (5th with 134).
OLNEY, Ill. - Addison Drone finished 14th in the varsity girls race for the best Allendale finish in Thursday's cross country meet against Olney Middle School, Olney St. Joe and Fairfield.
Drone covered the 1.8-mile course in a time of 15:43.
Megan Hoeslze finished 23rd with a time of 17:47, one spot ahead of Faith Witsman (17:51). Other finishers included: Carly Capehart (30th, 19:54), Madison McIntire (31st, 19:56), Allyson Armstrong (32nd, 20:25) and Meredith Jones (33rd, 20:30).
FAIRFIELD, Ill. - There was a new challenge facing the Mt. Carmel cross country teams on Wednesday in Faifield.
"The three-mile course showed slower times, but our runners had a great race considering the hills throughout the course we have not been up against this year," said Aces coach Steve Perry after the five-team Fairfield Invitational.
ALLENDALE—The Allendale boys cross country team won the championship of a three-team invitational here Monday.
Gehrig Jones (time of 15:09), Jonas Martin (15:22), Chase Keepes (15:33) and Max Zimmerman (15:53) finished fourth-to-seventh, respectively, to lead the Yellow Jackets past Olney St. Joe and Fairfield.
In the girls meet, Addison Drone (15:42) led Allendale with a third-place finish. Megan Hoeslze (16:36) took eighth.
In the junior varsity boys race, Keir Curtis led Allendale in 10th place, while Olivia Stinson's sixth-place finish topped the JV girls.
The Yellow Jackets run at Olney Thursday at 4 p.m.


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Intro editA list of exercises for those learning Tcl
Description editIn the process of Learning Tcl, it can be helpful to have a set of reference exercises that serves as an additional resource to other curricula. The following is a list of exercises that can be practiced in order to become a more proficient Tcl programmer.After an exercise is complete, post your work somewhere and ask the community to try to break it. You can learn a lot this way!
Guidelines for Contributors editThe exercises should be written so as to maximize their educational value. Each exercise should try to introduce at most one concept not yet introduced by previous exercises, with the minimal amount of specification necessary to illustrate the concept. It should be possible to write a solution that doesn't require much auxiliary code, and the solutions should not take pages and pages of code, or be highly interactive.
Exercises edit
- interpreter-provided variables
- Write a script that, when evaluated by tclsh, displays the variables provided by the interpreter, along with the value of each variable, as a list where the name of the variable is the first item in the list and the value is the second item. Display each list on a separate line. In the case of array variables, display each variable/key combination as name1(name2), along with its value as described above.
- no procs
- Write a procedure that returns all commands that are visible to the caller that are not procedures.
- random number
- Write a procedure that takes the arguments minimum, and maximum, and returns a random integral $number such that $minimum <= $number <= $maximum
- random string
- Write a procedure that takes the argument length, and returns a string of random lower and upper case letters of that length.
- random guesses
- Write a procedure that takes the argument integer, which is any integer, and randomly chooses numbers from 0 through that integer until it randomly chooses a number equal to integer, and returns the number of "guesses" it had to make.
- re-order
- Write a procedure that takes one argument, $word, which is a single English word, and re-orders the letters so that they are in alphabetical order ("A" before "a", and "a" before "B").
- 7sum
- Write a procedure that takes any number of arguments, interprets each as a base-7 integer, and sums them. key principles: interpret strings in some arbitrary way.
- decimal number
- Write a procedure that takes one argument, interprets that argument as a decimal number, and returns that decimal number, or if the argument doesn't make sense as a decimal number, returns an error value of NaN. Key principles: Make sure Tcl doesn't treat a number as an octal number.
- Sierpiński triangle
- Write a procedure that prints a Sierpiński triangle to the terminal using some text character.
- list search
- Write a procedure that takes the arguments list, and term, and finds term in the list in the smallest number of steps, without using lsearch, of course. Now write a procedure that takes the arguments chan and term, and finds term in the list that is the content of chan, without reading the content too far beyond the first occurrence of term.
- range search
- Given a command that returns true for all integers in some range, and false for all other integers, write a procedure that takes x, direction, and cmdprefix, and returns the last integer in direction away from x, for which cmdprefix returns true. For example, myproc 13 + [list list string is integer] returns 4294967295. Solution at Binary Search.
- fullglob
- Write a procedure that that takes the arguments directory and pattern, and returns a list of files, each whose name relative to directory matches the glob-style pattern, including any glob-style patterns in any directory component in pattern. For example [fullglob /name/of some/otherdir*/fname*] might return /name/of/some/otherdir1/fnameA /name/of/some/otherdir2/fnameA. Write both a version that performs this task using a recursive strategy, and a version that does the same using an iterative strategy.
- fulltreeglob
- Write a procedure like fullglob, except that it additionally searches the entire directory tree of each directory that matches the full directory components of pattern for files or directories whose basename matches the last component in pattern. Write both a version that performs this task using a recursive strategy, and a version that does the same using an iterative strategy.
- number sign class
- Write a procedure that takes one argument, a number, and returns -1, 0, or 1, indicating that the number is negative, zero, or positive, respectively. The procedure may contain exactly one command, expr, which may use the if-then-else (?...:) operator at most one time. Bonus Round: Add an additional constraint: The if-then-else operator may not be used.
- timer
- Write a program that displays elapsed time to a terminal. Use an event-driven style. Enter the event loop at the end of the script with vwait forever. Use after to schedule elapsed time updates. Provide a mechanism to pause and resume. Estimated code length: 40 lines.
- dedent
- Write a procedure that takes one argument, $text and removes the common leading whitespace characters from all the lines of $text. When determining what is common whitespace, don't use the contents of lines containing only whitespace, and remove all whitespace from such lines
- eight queens
- Write a procedure that takes no arguments and generates a list of eight positions in algebraic notation, such that queens placed at those positions could attack any other position but could not attack each other.
- fibonacci series
- Write a procedure that generates a fibonacci number list of specified length. Extra credit: write a version that uses recursion, and one that doesn't.
- classroom average and spreadsheet
- Write a program which runs on the terminal. The program mimics the work on an Excel spreadsheet of students in a classroom. You will have 4 columns in this spreadsheet. the columns are the student name, the first exam mark, the second exam mark, and the third exam mark. Your program must have a menu system to allow the user of the program (the teacher) to update or delete any student record. It also must allow updating any mark in the spreadsheet. The teacher must be able to print the final mark of each student on a fifth column. The final mark is just the average of the three exams. For this exercise,and to save the spreadsheet, you may use either Sqlite3 database OR you can use a normal comma separated values ASCII text file using the Tcl command [open spreadsheet.txt w]. PYK 2015-02-24: This exercise is a little broad compared to the other exercises, and doesn't meet the "introduce at most one concept not yet introduced by previous exercises" criteria. Hopefully other contributions will be a little more directed.
Tk Exercises editThis section may eventually have its own page, but is included here for the time being.
- file browser
- Write a file browser that includes two visual components: a label indicating the current directory and a listbox below the label showing the files in that directory. Use the [pack] geometry manager.
- file browser2
- Add a window to the right of the directory indicator and file list that shows the contents of the file if it is text. Hint: the directory indicator and file list into a frame. Hint: pack the content window to the right side, and let the frame containing the directory indicator and file list continue to pack by default to the top.
- restaurant cashier and point of sale
- Write a small tk application having a number of buttons. Each button will have its text mentioning the name of the meal . Clicking the button ads the meal to a listbox and the total price will be updated. If you select a listbox item and press delete key, it must remove that item and the total price must be updated too. The total price must always be displayed on a label. Hint: use a global variables for the total price and for the lis of selected items. Also, use grid layout. When you delete from the listbox, you take a copy of it as a list variable then you delete at the select position then you delete the whole listbox then you set the listbox again with the updated list variable.
- agenda
- Write using the calendar widget and the sqlite3 database an agenda. The agenda is a text note versus its date. Selecting a date from the calendar shows today's notes in a text widget.
See Also edit
- 7GUIs
- could be useful learning exercises for GUI techniques.


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Tara (Rowlyk) Hohenshelt '97 begins her second stint as assistant coach of the Nittany Lions for the 2017-18 season, returning to Happy Valley after spending the past five seasons as a high school head coach in Virginia.
From 2014-17, Hohenshelt served as the head women's lacrosse coach at Western Albemarle High School in Crozet, Virginia. During her time as head coach, she led the team to three-consecutive Virginia 4A South Region Championships from 2014-16 and a pair of State Semifinal appearances and a runner-up finish in 2015. Hohenshelt was twice named Conference and Region Coach of the Year in 2016 and 2017 as well as earning US Lacrosse Virginia-Charlottesville Coach of the Year in 2017. Hohenshelt coached 21 All-State honorees and two Charlottesville Conference Players of the Year during her time at Western Albemarle.
Prior to her time at Western Albemarle, Hohenshelt helped the Covenant School in Charlottesville, Va. capture the 2013 VISAA Division II girls lacrosse State Championship and was named Coach of the Year during her lone season as head coach. Hohenshelt also coached the VISAA Division II girls lacrosse Player of the Year along with five All-State honorees during that 2013 season.
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The challenge of collecting and acting upon customer data across multiple channels remains a big issue for marketers, with just 22% of companies having a framework for analysing multichannel customer journeys.
This is one of the findings from Econsultancy's Online Measurement and Strategy Report, produced in association with Lynchpin, based on a survey of more than 800 companies and agencies.
More from the report after the jump...
Using data to drive decision making
Thanks to the growth of analytics tools and the increasing number of channels, companies are gathering more data than ever, but the real challenge is to make sense of this data and use it to produce actionable insights.
According to the report, 62% of companies say that less than half of the data they collect from web analytics tools is useful for guiding business decisions, though 10% find more than 75% to be valuable, so they must be doing something right...
Approximately, what percentage of the web analytics data you collect is useful to your organisation for driving decision-making?
The average amount of web analytics data thought to be useful for driving decision-making is approximately 43%, a slight drop from 44% in 2010.
Tracking customers across channels
In an increasingly multichannel world, the amount of data that can be collected presents a real challenge, but also a massive opportunity to gain a single view of the customer as they move between channels.
Potentially, this 'single view' would allow companies to provide more relevant marketing to individuals, improve the quality of customer service, and understand how and why customer switch between channels.
However, according to last year's Multichannel Customer Experience report, only a small minority of companies are close to achieving this.
We surveyed more than 500 company and agency respondents, and though 90% of companies see the importance of providing a joined up customer experience, just 4% claim to have actually achieved this.
The Online Measurement report found that just 22% of companies (and 28% of agencies) have a framework in place for analysing cross-channel customer journeys.
Does your organisation have a framework for analysing customer journeys that cross online and offline?
Barriers to measuring multichannel data
We also asked respondents about the barriers which were preventing or hampering their efforts to measure customer journeys across offline and online channels, and there were three main issues.
Lack of resources
This problem was frequently cited by respondents. Many companies are unsure of how to put an appropriate framework in place, and some companies do not see the value of doing this.
Lack of buy-in from senior management
A common barrier, neatly summed up in this quote:
Senior Management don't have time to listen to how the relationship between online and offline is so important and what we can gain from it.
Lack of quality data
The lack of compatibility between offline and online data was an issue. To quote one respondent: 'Television commercials, TVRs and media stats are square pegs, online analytics are round holes'.
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Any feedback on how often this year's useless data is the same as last year's useless data?
When they are the same, there is an obvious opportunity to save money.
Hi Peter, not sure exactly what you mean here but certainly the study has not shown any evidence of improvement in the ability to translate data into something meaningful.
There is often nothing wrong in the data itself,or the tools, it just becomes meaningless if it is not interpreted within some kind of over-arching reporting framework which relates to business objectives.
Just as companies get to grips with one source of data, there are more tools and information requirements which cloud the picture. So there is frustration out there, but also an appetite to get to grips with data and implement a meaningful and coherent measurement strategy.
There is certainly an onus on vendors and agencies to help make sense of the information.
We should take a lesson from the Google researchers who have addressed this issue by creating their own framework HEART for online channels http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36299.html
With the online channel being measured effectively then triangulating other channel data can more easily be achieved.
In my experience most organisations still:
Deliver haphazard and chaotic customer experiences.
Don't recognise that managing customer experience is a strategic imperative.
Fail to appreciate that customers are empowered like never before.
Talk about customer centricity but don't practice it.
Are neglecting to systematically manage the customer experience.
Introduce customer experience initiatives but lack staff commitment.
This is starting to be addressed, slowly but surely as Customer Experience Managers are looking at frameworks for their organisations like Google's HEART and beginning to build executive level dashboards to pull the multi-channel data into a single view.
Am I the only one who finds this alarming? 22% of respondents answered "Don't Know" to the question "Does your organisation have a framework for analysing customer journeys that cross online and offline?"


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We live in a culture of violence. There is no quick and easy way out. And yet there is a path for walking away from it, one step at a time.
Most of us are helplessly entangled in one form of violence or another, as witness, victim, or perpetrator. It could be systemic, inter-personal or internal violence, spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical violence. Because I have become violent, I understand violence from the inside, and now my personal recovery from violence is strengthened by sharing it with others. If I do not work it, if I do not live it and give it away, I lose it. There is no going back. This my challenge to you: if I can be on the path of recovery, you can be also. If we can do it, our entire culture can do it. In fact, we are doing it, a culture of nonviolence and peace is within our reach.
A culture of peace is a culture of collaboration. I know from my own experience that I cannot be self-centered and participate in a collaboration. I must surrender my ego, my vanity and most of all, my distrust. I must acknowledge and release my self-centeredness. This is the key to not only personal recovery but also the cultural recovery from a dependency on control, domination and violence.
The recovery process described in this book didn't teach me to love directly, it guided me to places of safety where I could let go and get out of my own way. I compare it to a process so soft and gentle it is like the un-balling of a fist or evaporation of water from a dish. That metaphor has become an acronym for me where the letters of L.O.V.E. represent Letting Old Vanity Evaporate. I am talking here about slowly learning to surrender to the present moment, trusting oneself and others. The act of surrender opens the doorway to affection, empathy, compassion and gratitude. This is what I mean by "win." When I win, when I let go of my own inner limitations, all my relationships win, everybody wins, including my so-called "enemies."
The title of this book, "Love Always Wins," is then not a description of how to defeat an enemy or compete for getting what I want out of my relationships -- how to extract the goodies. Nor is it limited to a description of how relationships work at their best when the goodies are shared. It is to me a description of how I evolve, change and grow. As far as I know, there is no other way -- there is no shortcut -- to learning how to love than surrendering to the process, letting go of old self-serving fears, defenses and rigid beliefs, letting go of narcissism. --- David Hazen


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The first of the Central Park 5 to speak publicly recalled prison life yesterday as a rough time when he had to keep looking over his shoulder.
"It was rough in prison," Yusef Salaam, one of the five men who had their convictions overturned in the 1989 Central Park jogger rape case, said at a press conference in Harlem with the Rev. Al Sharpton.
"It was a horrific six years. You have to watch your back. There are people dying all around you," he said.
Salaam promised to speak more after he finishes a hip-hop and poetry album, and said that his "innocence was proved in the verdicts that were revealed when this was overturned."


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Pro-life students at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, have been banned from setting up an official group affiliated to the students' union, raising further concerns over freedom of speech on campuses.
Despite effectively censoring pro-life opinions, the ban was enacted on the grounds that the groups' mere existence would "contravene equal opportunities" as the pro-life students may "harass" others. There is no indication that they have done so in the past.
A minute of a meeting of the University of Strathclyde Students' Association (USSA), seen by Herald Scotland, said: "Anti-choice groups actively use intimidation and fear tactics to harass people entering abortion clinics.
"The establishment of anti-choice groups would directly contravene equal opportunities policy by giving them a platform to harass students. This in turn violates their safe space.
"Allowing an anti-choice group to form would be a barrier to freedom, equality and body autonomy for those with uteruses on campus and therefore not only violate existing standing policy, but also act against the interests of a large amount of the student population."
The move means that the group will not be able to access funding for promotional events, nor attend conference. The group is particularly angry about the decision because they had previously applied for funding but were told they had to affiliate with the union first. The union then passed the blanket ban on all "anti-choice" groups.
Students are also concerned about what the decision means for freedom of speech.
Jamie McGowan, a pro-life student from Strathclyde, said: "It is deplorable that a modern university is incapable of facilitating debate on a societal or medical issue such as abortion.
"Ironically, they will happily take positions on politics, but refuse to allow political debate and we feel this policy is a violation of freedom of speech."
Chloe Lindsey, an English student at the university added: "The suppression of freedom of speech has no place in a university which claims to be liberal and forward-thinking."
However, Raj Jayaraj, president of USSA, defended the ban as the union's policies make it clear that access to abortions is deemed fundamental to women's equality, and that groups contravening policy are not allowed to affiliate.
He added: "If a society representing the British National Party came on campus then we would not allow them to affiliate."
The row comes as Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, confirmed that the Scottish government are exploring ways to allow Northern Irish women to access free abortions in Scottish NHS hospitals. Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland except where the pregnancy poses a direct threat to the mother's life or long-term health.
Around 2,000 women a year travel from Northern Ireland to Britain to obtain an abortion, paying between £400 and £2,000 for the procedure at a private clinic.
Sturgeon said: "I was asked a question specifically in parliament about the scenario where a woman from Northern Ireland chooses to access an abortion in Scotland and whether they should be charged for that or not," The Guardian has reported.
She continued: "Now I said that we would explore that, so we are looking in terms of the process and will discuss with the NHS what would happen now routinely, and whether there are options to change that, to make the process safer for the women concerned.
"My view is that if a woman is going to access an abortion then the important thing is that it is as safe as possible … I am not putting a timescale on it but I will report back to parliament in due course."
Speaking to Breitbart London, Bow Group research fellow Jon Stanley, who lives in Edinburgh, warned that attitudes and policies adopted in Scotland quickly make their way into the rest of the UK.
Liberal policies are passed "through Holyrood [the Scottish Parliament] first, then it's established, then you've got a beachhead for raising it in the rest of Britain. That's the model, and people in England need to wise up to that.
"If you don't tackle these things in Scotland, they make their way down to you before long."


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This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlands - this captivating book explores the process of heritage conservation from theoretical initiation to practical expression. It traces the threads from…
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WOMEN WE LOVE: Beanie Feldstein
Written by Kyla Killackey
Beanie Feldstein exploded onto screens and straight into our hearts in Greta Gerwig's breakout hit Lady Bird and hasn't stopped since.
Honestly, we have been obsessed with this wonderful gal and think everyone deserves to experience this amazing human being, so here's a run down of what you need to know about Beanie.
After playing a wild sorority sister opposite Zac Efron in Neighbors 2, Beanie (short for Elizabeth) walked right into our hearts as Saoirse Ronan's BFF in the Oscar-nominated Lady Bird. Her performance as a high school senior was both authentic and hilarious, and audiences around the world took note. As soon as she finished production, she flew straight to Broadway to begin her role as Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! with Bette Midler. NBD, right?
Beanie grew up in Los Angeles, 10 years younger than her closet sibling... which just so happens to be Jonah Hill. I know, take that in; once you know these two angels are related, the world just makes sense again.
She performed in her first musical at just 5 years old and has been hooked ever since. It also helps that her best friend is Ben Platt, who also recently made his Broadway debut to rave reviews in Dear Evan Hansen. Together, the pair are quite honestly living out their wildest dreams, and they couldn't be happier.
Most recently, Beanie made a notable cameo in Maroon 5's star-studded music video "Girls Like You" alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Ellen Degeneres, and Gal Gadot, just to name a few. She's currently shooting her next big movie Booksmart, directed by Olivia Wilde, which is expected to be released in 2019.
Beanie is just beginning what is sure to be a long and distinguished career and is certainly a woman to watch!
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Like astronaut-training schools, many football camps require clean uniforms, specialized headgear, and a willingness to send small objects into orbit. Seek a higher level of gridiron learning with today's Groupon: for $149, you get admission to the Antoine Cason two-day football camp held by Sports International Football Camps (a $299.97 value). Camp is held July 12 through July 13 at John Glenn High School in Norwalk, and includes an autographed football and T-shirt. Attendees must register for camp by May 15.
The team of trainers at Sports International Football Camps help mold 7- to 18-year-old players into Canton-bound ballers through intensive small-group instruction. The Antoine Cason two-day camp gives potential pigskin purveyors a crash course in offensive and defensive skills from San Diego Chargers defensive back Antoine Cason, talented high-school coaches, and a mob of disgruntled footballs. Nascent Heisman candidates perform many of the same small-group drills taught by NFL coaching staffs. Attendees receive a complimentary camp T-shirt, which can be autographed by Cason, but must bring, rent, or manufacture their own playing gear, which includes helmet, shoulder pads, mouthpiece, one light and one dark jersey, and football shoes (equipment rental is available for an additional $41, not included with the price of this Groupon).
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MechWarrior Online Unleashes 12 vs. 12 Combat
Do you like mechs? Do you enjoy battles where a dozen people square off against a dozen more? If you answered yes to both those questions, you're about to let out a squee of delight.
See, MechWarrior Online, the upcoming mech battler from Piranha Games, has just added the long-awaited 12 vs. 12 battles.
Bryan Ekman, creative director at Piranha, said a few words about this. "The 12 vs. 12 gameplay changes combat dramatically. Players now have a deep bench of options for a variety of strategies, more creative attacks and defense schemes and can alter their combat strategies in greater variety for each environment. This is true MechWarrior combat."
The game's newest update also adds a new map, Terra Therma. Here's what a recent press release had to say about the map: "Drop in on this tumultuous moon where pilots will be faced with ever-changing tectonic activity and violent volcanic eruptions. Rich in natural resources, Terra Therma is a valuable outpost – so valuable that 'Mech pilots, 'Mechs and expensive automated extraction technologies are considered expendable. The battle for the resources on Terra Therma will be as vicious as the landscape itself." It sounds intense.
And if all of that wasn't good enough, the new hero mech, the Golden Boy, was just added.
MechWarrior Online is still in open beta, due for a September 17 launch.
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Gibeon Meteorite and Dinosaur Bone 8mm Comfort-Fit Titanium Band and Sizing Ring, Size 7
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Also known as gem bone, it is the fossil of animal bone that contains gem quality minerals. Its unique color variations and patterns are caused by minerals such as chlorite, chromium, iron-oxide and manganese that enter the cells during formation. Gem bone specimens can be traced back to dinosaurs who roamed the earth around 150 million years ago.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday asked the government not to rush the passage of the nuclear liability bill in parliament under the US pressure.
'Please accept the amendments that we have moved, we need to live with the head held high,' BJP leader Jaswant Singh said in the Lok Sabha, participating in a debate on the controversial bill.
Jaswant Singh said 'we should not allow the US to dictate things' and claimed that the government was 'not candid enough' and was trying to rush the bill through parliament.
'You are committing the country and the future generations to nuclear power programme. Please, therefore, consider the future generations of India and not simply the present president of the United States,' he said, referring to the scheduled visit of President Barack Obama to New Delhi in November.
'Please give the country, people what is due. We have to consider suppliers liability with caution. Why are you hustling parliament and everyone? It is clause 17 B which is the bone of contention. We will examine the amendments brought in by the government,' he said.
'It is a very serious issue and we cannot take it with any degree of casualness,' he said.
The former external affairs minister also appreciated the government's efforts to address the concerns of the opposition and in particular mentioned Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
A domestic legislation of civil nuclear liability is the last step in the implementation of the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement.


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In the New Orleans Advocate of July 16, there was an ad placed by the Wildlife Conservation Society. This ad stated that 96 elephants are killed in Africa every day. In addition, two of the conservationists, Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels, are quoted as saying, "If we do not act, we will have to shamefully admit to our children that we stood by as elephants were driven out of existence." Let's put these 96 elephants into perspective. In the U.S. alone, 3,000 unborn children are murdered every day. While we rush to save the elephants, and hurry to rescue the blue whales, we are forgetting that our future is slowly disappearing, one abortion at a time. If we do not put an end to abortion, we may be left confessing to the elephants that we did nothing as our children were murdered. It irks me that in today's society, animals are worth saving, but unborn children are not. I do want to make it clear, however, that I do not think we should stand by and watch as elephants are hunted to extinction. I simply believe we ought to do something about the murdering of the next generation, before we worry about the elephants.
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I've been away from beautiful Bombay for the past two months. The visa process that was supposed only take two weeks dragged on forever, but I am now back in the city, and to stay.
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We read books and use the power of story in an attempt to understand the delicate underpinnings of humanity. But occasionally we find ourselves lost in a book that helps us understand ourselves. Its words string themselves so tightly alongside and within our own reality that it is extraordinarily painful and alarmingly magnificent to absorb them.
Meredith Hall's memoir, Without a Map, was exactly this kind of book for me. It was such a personal read that I fell asleep holding it when I finished and have yet to bring myself to return the book to the library. Just writing about it feels like an unexplained betrayal of sorts.
Hall, a naive girl from a small New Hampshire town, tells the story of being ostracized from her community, church, and family when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Forced to give up the baby for adoption, she graduates from high school and then proceeds to literally wander the ends of the earth, numbed, angry, alone, scared, and desolate, searching for a way to embrace and understand her all-consuming pain.
At a glance, Hall and I seemingly have only two things in common: New Hampshire and teenage pregnancy. At seventeen years old, I too took a pregnancy test and sat, stunned and alone, wondering what to do. From the outside, our stories look different beyond that point: Hall's family shunned her. She gave up the baby. She lived a life full of student protests, hitchhiking, fishing on the seas, backpacking through Europe and the Middle East, and ultimately being reunited with her son and becoming a university English professor. My story took a different twist: my family supported me and encouraged me to keep my baby girl. I moved back home, waited tables, and raised my daughter on a food stamp-provided table in government housing. I curled up with her each night, stroking her silky hair, reading her stories, watching stars from the front yard, falling in love with every glimpse of her deep, knowing eyes, not knowing that one day she would flee to Chicago for college, tromping through the world with the fierceness I once imagined.
But teenage pregnancy comes at a great cost, no matter the outcome. Friends will abandon you. Churches will make you feel shameful and disgusting. Fathers will estrange you. Avenues of escape disappear in screams of labor. And dreams of traveling the world, dating handsome foreign men, writing books, and living off from adventure are entirely washed away.
When you are thrust into womanhood before you are ready or aware, you lose your childhood, regardless of the outcome. And while two pathways may look different, they both mirror the same process and pain of loss and discovery
I once confided in a friend that I would like to write a memoir about my experiences, but I didn't know where to begin and I wasn't really sure where anything ended. I remember his eyes meeting mine as he clearly told me that life stories often begin before we can remember and sometimes never end—and that it is up to the writer to decide which parts to include. But taking on a woven past of joy and struggle, illuminating love and disappointment is never an easy task.
Yet Hall masters this.
Without a Map is written without a map—it does not follow a prescribed story arc, nor does it tidy up every fragment of Hall's scattered life. It is told in scraps and pieces of memory, sometimes a day taking up pages, sometimes an entire period of years in her life only holding a paragraph together. It is a study of pace and focus. We never know if she made it to India. We don't know who James is, exactly. We're not sure why she's in Newfoundland or what she sees in Genoa or what happens to the soldiers in Lebanon. And it's okay. Her glimpses of memory remind us that life does not tidy up after itself, thank you very much. She reminds us that sometimes the most insignificant people leave significant impressions, and that sometimes it only takes the nod of a stranger in a lonely place to allow for insight. Hall's craft is alarming as it jumps through time and perspective, and yet refreshing as it lulls readers back and forth. What at first feels like not enough information gives way to a larger picture of the heartache and struggle she experiences. It is at once stark and intricate.
In the end, we realize that this is not actually the story of Meredith Hall's life. Rather, it is a story about the importance of remembrance and memory. She stresses that wisdom is impossible if we do not reconcile with our pasts and that while others choose to forget, she "churn[s] memory to understand" (197). She understands that denying the past is denying ourselves. It is a difficult concept to come to terms with, but I remember the very day I began to reconcile with my past, too. One day you wake up and realize that you can live with regret or you can embrace the beautiful that sits expectantly in front of you. Regret is a tricky creature to release—it always tries to seep back in, loyal and dedicated.
I will not forget the pain of poverty, regret, and abandonment of teenage pregnancy. But like Hall, I will continue to embrace my past with open arms, because out of it came the single most beautifully interesting young woman in the world and a history rich with hauntingly wonderful and heartbreaking stories.
Hall declares she would never choose to forget. She says, "I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die" (217).
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Plants KS2 Science. Save time searching the internet for great science KS2 plants interactive teaching resources, let us do the work for you.
How Seasons Affect Apple Trees Video
An explanation of how an apple tree survives during the different seasons. In the spring, the presenter, Tony Hirst hears the sound of bees, he explains how bees drink nectar from the apple trees and by doing so spread pollen from the tree. He then moves on to summer, showing how apples grow until they fall from the tree. In the autumn, the leaves change colour and the presenter describes the difference between evergreen and deciduous trees.
Life Of Plants Lesson Plan
David Attenborough looks at the lengths plants go to in order to survive. Lesson plan with powerpoint, activity sheets and video.
Parts Of A Flower Interactive
Enjoy the interactive flower dissection activity and find out more about the flower petals, sepals, carpel, nectaries, receptacle and stamens.
Plants - Make A Book Interactive
An interactive template to write and illustrate your own information book about plants and trees.
Plants - Mock Web Site Interactive
One of a set of TESiboard, non-fiction, mock web sites to support reading for a purpose. This one contains information about plants and trees.
The Plant Detective Interactive
An interactive presentation, suitable for Key Stage 2 (8-11 year olds) describing the different parts of a plant. The plant detective covers topics such as: Reproduction, Photosynthesis, Adaptation.
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For patients seeking information about CoolSculpting ® or cryolipolysis, many of those patients search for specific terms related to the procedure. Such a search probably brought you here. When seeking criolipolysis on the web, it is understood that you are searching for information about fat freezing, also known as cryolipolysis or under the device name of CoolSculpting ®.
CoolSculpting ® is a form of fat freezing using applicator devices on the patient's body for targeted fat reduction. The process of freezing fat is known as cryolipolysis. This cryolipolysis, as perhaps you searched for criolipolysis, causes the frozen fat to crystallize.
Crystallized fat dies and the body's immune system targets the dead cells for permanent removal from the body as waste. To do this, the immune system triggers the release of enzymes which travel to the dead fat cells, then converting them to lipids. These lipids are liquefied fat able to travel through the body and out of it as waste, just as lipids in food you eat are eliminated.
Criolipolysis is painless. Criolipolysis only freezes fat and not other tissues such as skin and muscle, as fat freezes at a higher temperature than those other tissues. So, the fat is frozen but the other tissues remain healthy.
The elimination of fat frozen during criolipolysis takes about 60 to 90 days. During this 90 days following your fat freezing treatment, you will live your normal life and not experience any side effects of the procedure. Once the fat is eliminated at the end of this time period, you will see the permanent results of your criolipolysis.
Is criolipolysis safe?
Criolipolysis is a safe procedure which provides documented results. The Food and Drug Administration approved criolipolysis, under the correct term of cryolipolysis and the technology name of CoolSculpting ®, for use on patients as of 2010. This approval means that the FDA has confirmed that claims made by Zeltiq, the manufacturer of CoolSculpting ®, are accurate. It also means that the treatment has been determined as safe for performance on patients in the United States.
Since 2010, criolipolysis has been performed on over 425,000 patients per year worldwide. In actuality, the device was used around the globe as early as 2005, but not in the United States before its approval by the FDA. Since 2005 and in global use, there has not been a single incident of injury or serious complication from criolipolysis using CoolSculpting ® reported from anywhere in the world.
This is remarkable and unusual for medical devices and treatments, as most will experience some incidences of injury or illness among patients. Indeed, because of these results, criolipolysis can certainly be called safe.
Is Criolipolysis expensive?
Criolipolysis is not expensive. CoolSculpting ® only costs an average of $750 per area in the United States. This is very inexpensive when compared to liposuction, which averages over $4000 per patient. It must be said that criolipolysis does not provide the custom sculpting a plastic surgeon can perform as part of liposuction. However, fat reduction of criolipolysis is permanent and effective for patients seeking spot treatment of fat reduction.


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Teaching Is Ripe for Machine Assistance
Technological advances over the last two decades mean that machines are practically knocking on employers' doors. Futurists predict that about half of total U.S. employment is at risk of computer automation. Already, computer software can prepare taxes, drive cars, write news articles, and compose poetry that the average person finds indistinguishable from human prose. As artificial intelligence increasingly takes on human work, the most valued and secure jobs available to our students will be those that require sophisticated human skills, such as solving problems creatively and managing complex social interactions.
Educators are starting to consider how to change schooling to meet these modern demands. But the implications of our new technological and social reality go beyond updating content and instructional strategies.
The technologies transforming our students' lives also have major implications for our 3.1 million K–12 teachers in the U.S. Increasingly, technology can take on teaching tasks like lecturing, grading, and delivering targeted instruction. Based in part on experiences where education technology failed to live up to its hype, some worry that with these advances, overzealous tech outsiders will pitch technology as a low-cost substitute for teachers.
But those who understand education know that high-quality teaching is much more than lecturing and grading multiple-choice tests. The real impact of artificial intelligence on education will be as a powerful complement to high-quality teaching.
Good teaching is demanding and complicated work that is ripe for technological assistance. When I joined the Teach For America corps as a middle school math teacher in Kansas City in 2009, I was eager to help my students break through barriers caused by racism, poverty, and unequal access to human capital. But realizing those aspirations proved to be incredibly difficult as I wrestled with the daily challenges of teaching.
In addition to the demands of delivering classroom instruction, teachers spend their mornings, afternoons, and evenings creating high-quality lesson plans, giving expert feedback on projects and essays, and honing their skills with professional development. Add on the work of coaching sports teams, tutoring students at lunch, connecting with parents, and being caring and trusted adults for students who need advice or emotional support, and top-notch teaching quickly becomes complicated and exhausting.
Fortunately, technology can and inevitably will help. Much as hydraulic excavators augment a builder's physical strength for moving earth, or high-powered telescopes magnify an astronomer's power to see beyond the stars, innovations in education can amplify a teacher's capability to affect students' lives.
First, technology can multiply a teacher's capacity for differentiated instruction. Many adaptive learning platforms not only tailor computer-based learning experiences to students' individual learning needs, but also provide teachers with real-time, actionable data to help them intervene with struggling students. Organizations are developing algorithms that build daily custom learning schedules for students and recommend lesson plans to teachers based on students' current levels of content mastery.
Second, technology can streamline and automate some routine teaching tasks so that teachers have more time during the school day for the human aspects of teaching. As technology tackles attendance, direct instruction, practice activities for basic skills, and some types of grading, teachers can focus more on mentoring, coaching, giving expert feedback on performance tasks, and creating rich learning experiences based in projects and real-world applications.
This is happening in many more schools and systems than you might imagine if you've been out of the classroom for a while. Educators developing pockets of innovation everywhere are proving how technology can empower teachers to engage their students in high-quality learning experiences.
But all too often, schools and districts still become enamored with technology for technology's sake without a clear rationale for how technology fits within a broader vision to empower teachers. To harness the potential of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, teachers and school leaders need to continually have the following question at the forefront of their thinking: "How can I leverage the comparative advantages of expert teaching and smart technology to maximize teacher impact?"
Fundamentally changing your teaching practices is not easy. Beyond learning new tools and classroom procedures, you often have to redefine some of your notions of what it means to be a teacher. It can be hard to stop being the primary source of content instruction for your students, or to trust software, lesson materials, and assessments that you didn't create yourself. Another major hurdle is getting comfortable with the degree of failure and tenacity you experienced as a new teacher as you figure out how to make new instructional approaches work for you.
But most teachers I've met who have made the shift will tell you that although change is hard, it is worth it. Once they experience how technology amplifies their ability to connect personally with their students and meet their students' individual needs, they never want to go back.
As we move into the future, one of the most important gifts we can give students is the confidence and ability to thrive in a novel and complex world transformed by artificial intelligence. In the years to come, the teachers who are likely to make the biggest contributions to their students' academic and life outcomes will be those who have stopped feeling threatened or burdened by technology and instead are finding ways to use technology to amplify their teaching.
About the Author
Thomas Arnett is a Teach For America alum (Kansas City '09) and a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that studies business model, policy, and technology innovations in K–12 education and other social sectors. His research focuses on the changing roles of teachers in blended-learning classrooms and innovative approaches to teacher preparation and professional development. He also serves as an elected board member for the Morgan Hill Unified School District in Morgan Hill, California.


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In Stockbridge, roundabout proposal begs question: Go with flow, or change status quo?
STOCKBRIDGE — Chelsea Huff watches traffic move through the notoriously tricky intersection of Routes 7 and 102, by the Red Lion Inn, pointing out driving errors in real time.
Interrupted on her walk downtown by a curious reporter, the Stockbridge resident eyes a van traveling west on Route 7 stopping at the intersection to make a left that will keep him on the same route. The van halts, even though it is the only vehicle at the three-way stop without a "stop" sign.
"People travel and they sort of stop; you're not supposed to stop. It's like, 'Just go through, go through,'" said Huff, 32, motioning toward the traffic.
The awkward, wide meeting of Routes 7 and 102 and Pine Street leads to confusion, aggressive driving and, increasingly, motor vehicle accidents. At a recent special town meeting, Stockbridge Police Chief Darrell Fennelly told residents that in the past 10 years, there have been 78 crashes at the intersection resulting in 13 injuries. Two of these accidents took place in February of this year: one involved three vehicles, and the other sent a person to the hospital, he said.
Stockbridge is searching for an engineer to conduct a traffic study of the intersection and propose safety upgrades there that preserve the character of the town — a balancing act that the 279-year-old town has been grappling with for years. There is no consensus in Stockbridge on how traffic there should be improved, or if it even needs improvement, according to residents interviewed downtown Wednesday.
The proposal that has received the most attention, so far, is the installation of a modern roundabout, a small traffic circle that would keep vehicles moving, all in the same direction, through the intersection.
But "modern" and Stockbridge go together about as well as lacquer and antiques, so the town is exploring its options.
"I really hope something happens there," Huff said. "I'm in favor of [a roundabout], and a lot of people in town are, too. The people who aren't, they must not have to take a left [off Route 7/South Street] at that intersection."
Stockbridge is entrenched in its well-preserved, pre-American — the town was founded before the Revolutionary War — and early-American history. The community draws in tourists as well as people looking to lead slower-paced lives. Residents still pick up their mail from the post office.
To many people, the idea of putting a roundabout in the center of town is ridiculous.
"I don't know what the solution is, but it's not this," said resident John Morse, 80, who was at the post office Wednesday with his wife, Lynda. "Can't they get someone to direct traffic down there?"
"People say [the intersection is] confusing, but not more confusing than a roundabout," said Lynda Morse, 70. "A roundabout is a no-go."
"It would turn the town into something different than what it is," her husband added. "That's too urban for Stockbridge."
Safe, efficient
While a roundabout isn't the only proposal for the Routes 7 and 102 intersection, transportation professionals are touting the traffic design's safety and efficiency.
"There's about an 80 percent reduction in severe crashes — those causing personal injury and fatalities — so it's really important as a safety measure," said Stephen Savaria, senior project manager at Fuss & O'Neill, a Western Massachusetts engineering firm.
"They are cheaper, I believe, to install and operate," said Cole Fitzpatrick, a research engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst civil engineering department. "You don't need power like you would with a stoplight, and it can be more aesthetically pleasing — you can do a planting, put up a sign."
The traffic design also gets a nod of approval from Adams Police Chief Richard Tarsa Jr. His town has the only roundabout in Berkshire County.
"It works really well," Tarsa said of the two-year-old roundabout at Route 8 and Friend Street, "and I had my doubts."
Tarsa was concerned that the odd traffic design would increase accidents — and it did, for a while. But now that drivers have gotten used to it, Tarsa said, accidents in the area are down. Roundabouts could benefit Stockbridge as well, he said.
"I travel through [the Stockbridge intersection] there myself quite a bit, and I think it would work. I think it could be a good solution to their traffic problems there," Tarsa said. "It's not like a rotary, like the one in Agawam. It's just a roundabout designed to keep traffic flowing."
Mixed reviews
Indeed, there was a learning curve when it came to drivers getting accustomed to the roundabout.
On Wednesday, people along Park Street in Adams gave the traffic circle mixed reviews.
Evan Bates, owner of ARh+Lab Tattoo on Park, said he grew up near the Route 8/Friend Street intersection and, as a result, witnessed a number of tragic accidents.
"I've seen people die, stuff like that," said Bates, 38. "The highway's bigger now, it's better than it used to be. It was super congested, but I hear now out-of-town truckers blast right through it."
Tarsa said that, in Adams' first winter with the roundabout, a few truckers did have trouble seeing the new, short feature in the snow and that, occasionally, a distracted driver will cause an accident at the intersection, but the crashes have been less severe.
"People weren't too sure who should yield to who, and our accident volume did go up in the beginning," he said. "We did have a few in the early stages, but it righted itself out."
"I think this made a big difference to the people going east-west," said Randy Cormier, 48, owner of Bohemian Road on Park Street. "It seems to be steady."
Jonathan Jangrow, 43, owner of Straight Edge Barber, also on Park, said a traffic light would have been a better solution for the intersection.
"I think it's fine, though," he said in between a conversation with a friend outside the shop.
"I hit a pole there the other day," his friend noted before taking a quick walk to the other side of the street.
"You need to know how to drive first," Jangrow laughed.
Not a rotary
Roundabouts have become the darlings of traffic design because of their safety and efficiency. The design has been popular in Europe since the 1980s, said Savaria, the Fuss & O'Neill engineer, but didn't cross the pond until the 1990s. Since then, Americans have been slow to adopt roundabouts, perhaps scared off by the similar-looking, giant rotaries built in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
In Western Massachusetts, two good examples of the high-speed (30 to 50 mph), weaving traffic pattern employed in rotaries are in West Springfield, before the bridges going into Springfield. The behemoth at Routes 5 and 57 in Agawam, which Tarsa mentioned, is a good one, too.
Roundabouts are different from rotaries in that they are smaller and there is no weaving of traffic between vehicles exiting and entering the circle. The small diameter and specific exit/entry angles in roundabouts help to keep traffic speed around 15 to 20 mph, Savaria said.
The reason roundabouts are considered a safe traffic design include the slow speed, single-direction traffic and reduced potential points of collision.
In just about any four-way intersection, Savaria said, there are 32 spots where vehicles can collide, but in a roundabout, there are only eight.
"Collisions can still occur for all the reasons they do: distracted driving, impaired/under the influence, or just ignoring the regulations," Savaria said, "[but] because they're going in the same direction, going slowly, the severity of the collision is greatly reduced."
For pedestrians crossing a roundabout, crosswalks typically are placed to connect with islands that separate entering and exiting traffic. The idea is that the slow-moving driver will be able to spot and stop for pedestrians, and people on foot will only have to cross one direction of traffic at a time.
Other options
If Stockbridge residents decide that something needs to be done to calm traffic at the Red Lion Inn intersection, a roundabout isn't the only option. The most popular among residents interviewed Wednesday was having a police officer direct traffic during the busy summer months.
Another suggested making the intersection a clearly marked four-way stop instead of the three-way stop that's there now.
"Would it be un-Rockwellian to have a traffic light?" opined resident Stephen Tournas. "All they'd have to do is put a stop sign in; it's the simplest solution, and it would make it like most intersections."
Town officials are waiting for the results of a $15,000 intersection traffic study before moving ahead with making plans for the intersection. Whatever is proposed, resident Katie McTeigue, 52, knows how she'll vote at town meeting: "Unless it's something to beautify or preserve it," she said, "I think the town should stay just the way it is."
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Former Penton CEO Named to Top Post at F+W
David Nussbaum tapped by ABRY Partners to lead company.
David Nussbaum, a former CEO of Penton Media when it was a standalone publicly traded company, has been named CEO of F+W Publications, the Cincinnati-based publisher of a diversified array of enthusiast media products.
Nussbaum replaces David H. Steward as chairman and CEO.
The company is owned by ABRY Partners, the Boston-based private-equity firm with which Nussbaum worked when he was CEO of Penton. ABRY owned a controlling stock position in Penton.
F+W owns nearly 60 magazines, including the graphic design magazine How and leading magazines in antiques, coin collecting, scrapbooking, firearms and knives, and more. It also has nearly 3,000 books in print and operates numerous book clubs.
"F+W is one of the most dynamic media companies in the enthusiast media sector," Nussbaum said in a statement. "The combination of very unique content, highly specialized industry experts, and its powerful community allure, ensures that F+W has a tremendous amount of growth potential."
The move to F+W is a bit of a departure for Nussbaum, whose career is overwhelmingly skewed to b-to-b media. He was CEO of Penton from June 2004 through the company's sale to Prism Media in early 2007. He had been at Penton since 1998.
In recent years, Nussbaum has come to be known as highly e-media focused. In fact, his stated purpose with the creation of his post-Penton company, Sundance Enterprises, was to identify and acquire e-centric businesses.
That focus is well suited to the task at F+W, according to Peggy Koenig, managing partner at ABRY. "By building an entrepreneurial culture at Penton, focusing on digital media, and leveraging the company's powerful brands, David and his team engineered a strong turnaround of Penton," she said. "We believe the same focus on staff, communities, and customers will further foster F+W's powerful place in the enthusiast media category."


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Clozapine - I was told that this drug has a dramatic positive effect in 10 out of 15 people who take it. Is this true? Does this medication really extinguish schizophrenic issues?
Clozapine - I was told that this drug has a dramatic positive effect in 10 out of 15 people?
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I don't know the exact statistics but yes clozapine is very effective in treating schizophrenia. Only drawback about it is some people do not prefer the constant monitoring which is required to check for side effects. But it definitely works very well.
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