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October 3, 2013
Columbus State birthday party sweet celebration
Columbus State celebrated the anniversary of its first day of classes on Monday, September 30—the first day that the Columbus Area Technician School opened for business in the basement of Central High School in 1963.
Students and employees were invited outside onto the courtyard to enjoy music, a talent show, a flash mob dance, a huge birthday cake, a cupcake-baking competition, and lots of free anniversary giveaways. President Harrison and Chancellor John Carey were the guest speakers, and students participated in a trivia contest, donated to a food drive, and signed a "Completion Commitment" banner promising to finish their college degree. Student Engagement and Leadership (SEaL) dropped off more than 300 pounds of donated food items to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank after the celebration.
To see more, take a look at two videos produced by Columbus State's Mark Van Horn, and student video blogger Jeffrey Tucker!
Columbus City Council honors Columbus State on 50th Anniversary
Not only did the campus celebrate Columbus State's 50th anniversary on September 30, so did the Columbus City Council. The full council unanimously passed a resolution that both recognized the occasion and celebrated the college's academic programs, community partnerships and economic impacts on central Ohio.
The resolution was introduced by Councilwoman—and former Columbus State student—Priscilla Tyson. Coincidently, the resolution was passed around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 30. That's about the same time evening classes would have been meeting on the very first day of classes on September 30, 1963!
Open Forums begin for vice president position
Candidate 1: Carol Thomas
Open Forum is scheduled for Monday, 10/7 @ 2- 3 p.m. in WD, Ballroom.
Carol Thomas currently serves as Columbus State's interim Chief Information Officer. She served in a similar capacity at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Mass., and has provided assessment, planning, and other consulting services for many other community colleges as General Manager with CampusWorks Inc.
Prior to focusing her professional efforts in the community college arena she served as Vice President of Information Technology at New England College in Henniker, N.H., Director of Information Systems in Admissions and Financial Aid at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., and Development Manager at the SICAS Center in the State University of New York in Oneonta, N.Y. She has expertise in enterprise resource planning systems, including Colleague and Banner, and the associated business process and organizational focus necessary for success.
She is committed to the use of technology to support an institution's mission and vision through good planning and stewardship of resources. With more than twenty years of experience teaching with and about technology in traditional, fully online, and hybrid formats at the graduate and undergraduate levels; managing and improving complex systems implementations; and providing leadership, planning, and budgetary oversight to a diverse set of institutions Thomas has achieved a reputation as a thoughtful manager, innovative leader, and committed educator. She is a published author and regular presenter on a wide array of technology topics. She holds a Master of Arts in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from New School University in New York and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from State University College at Oneonta.
Candidate 2: Rick Mickool
Open Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, 10/9 @ 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Nestor Hall Auditorium.
Chief Information Officer
Wittenberg University
For over 20 years in various roles, including CIO and CTO at Babson College, Northeastern University, and Wittenberg University, Rick has provided IT vision and leadership that has supported institutional change and success. Rick has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on the topics of distributed learning, on-demand and cloud service delivery, and re-engineering in higher education. In 2013, Rick was awarded a CC-NIE networking infrastructure planning grant by the national science foundation to build a science DMZ at Wittenberg University.
Rick enjoys teaching both on-ground and online courses and has been an adjunct lecturer at Bristol Community College, Newbury College, Babson College, Northeastern University and Wittenberg University. He holds a BS from Babson College and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Candidate 3: Brian Rellinger
Open Forum is scheduled for Tuesday, 10/15 @ 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.in the WD Ballroom.
Brian A. Rellinger is a chief information officer with more than 16 years of experience in higher education. He has a balance of people and technical skills, a strong focus on customer support, and is able to work in team environments to provide the best possible experience for students, faculty, and staff. His background includes working in a large, public state institution as well as a small, private liberal arts university, and is a proponent of statewide collaboration to reduce IT expenditures.
He believes that communication and collaboration are key components of a successful IT department, as they enable relationship building across academic and administrative units. His experience includes classroom design, mobile technologies, ERP system implementation, and strategic planning.
Brian obtained his B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. at Bowling Green State University, and is currently working on his dissertation to complete the requirements of Doctor of Education. He lives just south of Delaware, Ohio, with his wife and two children, and enjoys running.
For additional information, please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianrellinger/
Mental Health Fair is October 9
Counseling Services and the Wellness Initiative will offer the inaugural Mental Health Fair, open to the Columbus State community, on Wednesday, October 9, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Nestor Hall Student Lounges. Areas of interest will include mental health, drug and alcohol, stress and anxiety, coping skills, support groups, community referrals, and meditation and relaxation techniques.
October is Disability Awareness Month
Throughout the month of October, Columbus State's Disabilities Services Department will offer a number of special events and resources for students, faculty and staff. You can also follow Disability Services on Facebook for inspirational quotes from people with disabilities, and to find links to resources, and important information about the disability community.
Disability Services and Advising Services will collaborate during the month, with advisors located in Disability Services to help registered DS students with registration for Spring Semester.
Posters around campus will feature famous people who have disabilities,
their inspiring stories and quotes. The National Anthem will be signed in American Sign Language at all home volleyball games by students in the Interpreting Department.
Throughout the month, faculty and staff can learn more about Read Write and Gold software for students with reading and writing difficulties, learning disabilities, and for those with English as their second language. The schedule of information sessions is on the Disabilities Services website.
A "Recognizing and Supporting College Students with Autism" workshop will explore Autism and higher education and practical guidelines for teaching and working with students who are autistic. It will use feedback from participants, student work samples and case studies to discover what is most helpful when working with students on the Autism spectrum in the higher education classroom. Workshops are offered:
Thursday, October 24, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in DE 106 Register here or Friday, October 25, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in WD 1094 Register here
Students can also attend a session on Job Interviewing Skills for Students with Disabilities on Wednesday, October 23, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Eibling 101 Conference Room. Students can register by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
A film series titled Reelabilities will be shown at various locations in Columbus. A schedule can be found online here: http://columbus.reelabilities.org/films.
Harrison to serve on committee to determine spending requests for colleges
For the second time, President David Harrison will help determine how state funding for capital construction projects should be divvied up between campuses in Ohio. He joins six other college and university presidents who will collaborate on spending requests for the 37 public institutions of higher learning in the state.
While a total amount of funding for the next two-year capital projects bill has not been announced, it's expected to at least match the $400 million spending plan that was available for 2012.
Last year, Ohio State President Gordon Gee headed up the collaborative effort between the institutions. It was the first time a governor had college presidents decide collectively which campus building projects should be funded. Previously, each would submit a wish list.
With Dr. Gee now retired, Ohio University President Roderick McDavis and Southern State Community College President Kevin Boys will co-chair the committee.
Learning Management System (LMS) Faculty Forum demonstrations continue
Attention faculty! Are you interested in finding out more about the latest learning management system (LMS) software from Blackboard and Instructure Canvas? If so, please join us for these LMS Faculty Forums:
Instructure Canvas > 2 - 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7, in CT 107
The New Blackboard (SP 13) > 3 - 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9, in CT 107
Instructure Canvas > 2:30 - 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, in CT 107
The New Blackboard (SP 13) > 2:30 - 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, in CT 107
All are welcome to attend these software demonstrations and Q&A sessions. Also, all forums will be recorded and available for on-demand online viewing; more details will be available soon.
Second Portfolio nears deadline
full year in the making, the college's second Systems Portfolio is nearing the November 1 finish line. The 125-page report, a component of the AQIP accreditation pathway, updates college operations and improvements by answering 137 questions.
Staff and faculty from every corner of the college submitted research for the nine AQIP categories: Helping Students Learn, Accomplishing Other Distinctive Objectives, Understanding Students and Other Stakeholders Needs, Valuing People, Leading and Communicating, Supporting Institutional Operations, Measuring Effectiveness, Planning Continuous Improvement, and Building Collaborative Relationships.
C.A.R.E.S. Advocacy Training to be offered
Are you interested in advocating for students and/or developing your active listening skills? This unique professional development course offered October 18, November 22 and December 13 focuses on equipping employees to become trained Columbus State C.A.R.E.S. advocates. Advocates are prepared to respond to students facing extraordinary situations, such as financial, academic or personal difficulties. After the completion of this training, employees will be better equipped to help students navigate many of the resources and opportunities offered at Columbus State and in the community. Register here: http://web.cscc.edu/is/employeetraining/courses-category.asp?C=63
For more information about Columbus State C.A.R.E.S., please visit http://cscc.edu/campus-life/cares/. For more information, please contact Kimberly Rhyan at ext. 2674 or Dr. Ameena Mu'min at ext. 2818.
New FAQ's published about STAR Forms
This semester Disability Services introduced a new Student Testing Agreement Request (STAR) Form, which students have used to communicate their accommodation needs to instructors, and to assist Disability Services in the processing of accommodated testing. For a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the STAR form, please visit the Disability Services Announcements!
Online course on assessment begins next week
How can our classroom assessment practices help students learn and make our teaching more effective? Discuss this and more in "Assessing Learning," an open online course (in Blackboard) beginning Thursday, October 10. All employees, especially faculty, are invited to participate. The course includes units on:
Deep Learning and Assessment
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Providing Feedback
Developing Rubrics
The main objective is to identify and explore questions and issues of interest to the participants through online discussion. To learn more about the course design, expectations and to register, visit the event registration page. For information on either program contact Rich James at ext. 2175.
Banks recognized by PTK, Trustees
At the last Board of Trustees meeting, Tywan Banks was given the Phi Theta Kappa Center for Excellence award for 10 years of service as an advisor of the Alpha Rho Epsilon Chapter at Columbus State.
Banks, who is a faculty member in the Multi-Competency Health Department, earned his associate degree in Medical Laboratory and his master's degree from Ohio University. He has worked with Phi Theta Kappa since 2003.
College Completion Coaches volunteer at car show
In honor of the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance this past month, Columbus State and AmeriCorps College Completion Coaches joined the Columbus Division of Fire at the 3rd Annual Firefighters 4 Kids Classic Car and Motorcycle Show.
The event was held at the Columbus Division of Fire Training Complex and proceeds benefited the Firefighters 4 Kids Christmas Toy Drive. More than 120 classic cars and motorcycles were on display, and the beautiful weather encouraged a greater turn out than past years. More than 15 volunteers worked alongside firefighting cadets, firefighters and their friends and family, to contribute to the event's success. The College Completion Coaches are funded by a grant received from the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC). The retention and completion program is made up of Americorps volunteers who serve as student advocates and provide success coaching under the supervision of Dr. Jan Rogers, student services advisor and COLS instructor, and Marisa Vernon, assistant director of Advising Services.
Housed in Advising Services, AQ 116, coaches are linked to several sections of COLS 1100 and 1101, referred to as the "embedded model" of coaching. As part of the Americorps service philosophy, coaches Layla Arnold and Kimberly Randall are also committed to encouraging COLS students' participation in service projects as a way to engage them and foster their academic success.
From top left, Columbus State student Autumn Thaboun and AmeriCorps College Completion Coaches Layla Arnold and Kimberly Randall join other volunteers at the Firefighters 4 Kids Classic Car Show.
The Library Endorses "Banned Books Week"
The Library is pleased to endorse "Banned Books Week," an awareness campaign sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and other organizations. It was founded in 1982 and, according to ALA, its primary emphasis is on "the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them." The Library has created a LibGuide to Banned Books Week celebrating the freedom to read. The guide may be visited at: http://libguides.cscc.edu/bannedbooks?hs=a.
Also in the Library. . .
During the month of October, Media Services will host the annual A/V interactive museum and display in the Media Studio on the ground floor. This year's display will include vintage and modern video game systems that students can learn about and play. There will be display pieces, ready-to-play game vintage game consoles, a video on the history of video games, and a PowerPoint presentation. The exhibit will be open during studio hours, which are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Mon. through Fri.


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Last week, Japanese game mag Famitsu gave us our first look at an unexpected new fighting game — Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena. Based on Atlus' role-playing game series, the arcade fighter plucks characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4 for 2D fighting fun.
Now, thanks to Atlus and developer Arc System Works (BlazBlue, Guilty Gear), we more screens, this time much larger, much prettier and full of the lovely Chie Satonaka. There's tons of artwork here too, plus a little bonus Engrish if you're not so much a Persona fan, but a fan of Japanese developers putting the words "Free Pray" and "Color Priset" in their screen shots.
Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena hits Japanese arcades early next year, with versions for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 planned for 2012. It will be playable at Tokyo Game Show next week.


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Nearest Town: OakleySite Size: 814 acres
Highlights: Raptors, Shorebirds, Songbirds, Upland Birds, Waterbirds, Waterfowl
Access: Year-round. Access free of charge.
Directions: From Burley, S on ID 27 for 20 mi; R (W) on 1600 S; follow signs 7 mi to WMA.
Description: Lying along Big Cottonwood Creek, which drains from the South Hills, Big Cottonwood WMA is a premier place to see Idaho's juniper country birds: Juniper Titmouse, Plumbeous Vireo, Western Scrub-Jay, Bushtit, Gray Flycatcher, and Ash-throated Flycatcher. Glimpses of introduced gamebirds can be quite productive. Ring-necked Pheasant, California Quail, Chukar, Gray Partridge, and Wild Turkey can be seen.
More Information: IDFG (208) 324-4359Mini-Cassia Chamber of Commerce (208)679-4793 fishandgame.idaho.gov/cms/wildlife/wma/bigcotton/
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Graduate Catalog
2014 – 2015
Office of Graduate Studies
McKelvie Hall, 102 W. Rosedale Avenue
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2943
Fax: 610-436-2763
Revised June 2018
309 Recitation Hall
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
Dr. Wandry, Chairperson
Dr. McGinley, Graduate Coordinator
Vicki A. McGinley, Ph.D., Temple University
Donna Wandry, Ph.D., University of Florida
N. Kim Doan, Ph.D., University of Virginia
Tara C. Guerriero, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Corinne Murphy, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Claire Verden, Ed.D., Arcadia University
Beatrice A. Adera, Ph.D.,University of North Texas
S. Christy Hicks, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Mary Houser, Ed.D., Fayetteville State University
Dean Schofield, Ph.D., University of Virginia
York Williams, Ph.D., Temple University
The Department of Special Education offers the master of education in special education (in traditional or online formats), post baccalaureate Pennsylvania teacher certification in special education, a graduate certificate in autism studies, and a graduate certificate in universal design for learning and assistive technology (online program).
Students must apply to be admitted to candidacy after the completion of 12 semester hours of work at West Chester University, including EDF 500 or 501 and two courses from the special education program. Grade point averages must be consistent with standards required in graduate studies at West Chester University (minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0).
*This area of concentration has an optional certificate program. Certificate programs may require special admission and additional course work for certificate completion. Contact the host department for details.
Note: Applicants to the M.Ed. in special education who show evidence of Pennsylvania state teaching licensure issued prior to 2013 or teaching licensure from another state may be required to complete EDA 541/542 and/or EDA 505 to fulfill PDE Chapter 49.3 guidelines.
Students must apply to be admitted to candidacy after the completion of 12 semester hours of work at West Chester University, including EDF 500 or 501 and two courses from the special education program. Grade point averages must be consistent with standards required in graduate studies at West Chester University (minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0).
Note: Applicants may be required to take EDA 542, prior to core special education (EDA) courses. This is determined through advisement and transcript review.
The applicant must have the following:
Students must do the following:
A. Students already possessing teacher certification in an approved area of study must have the following:
Note: Students may be admitted provisionally without these courses; however, they must take them within the first two semesters of graduate work.
B. Students who wish to pursue certification in special education at the post-baccalaureate level at WCU must follow these requirements:
Students who do not already possess a teaching certification in one of the approved areas of study listed above may not be admitted into the post-baccalaureate certification in special education. However, with evidence of admission into teacher certification in another approved area of study (early grades preparation, middle grades preparation, grades 7–12 content area, or reading specialist), students may concurrently take courses toward their special education certification listed below. Upon completion of their initial certification in the other approved area of study, students will need to reapply to WCU as a post-baccalaureate certification student in special education and take any remaining course work needed to complete the special education certification. Department advisement is necessary for this process.
Note: Evidence of Chapter 49.13 competencies must be met. If this is not present, or if course work does not meet these competencies, students may need to take additional course work, under advisement.
This certificate is being offered for practitioners and parents alike who wish to earn a certificate of specialization in autism spectrum disorders. The program provides participants, who currently (or may in the future) work with individuals with autism spectrum disorders, the skill sets necessary to build and work within an interdisciplinary approach to effective and empirically based treatment of these individuals. Interdisciplinary areas covered include communicative disorders, kinesiology, psychology, and special education.
Admission requirements are a bachelor's degree from an accredited, four-year, degree-granting institution and a 3.0 GPA.
Required courses include EDA 503, EDA/SPP 521, EDA 530, EDA 544, KIN 587, and PSY 521
Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended the Certificate in Autism program.
The certificate in UDL/AT provides professionals, parents, and other community members instruction and training in assessment, pedagogy, and technology that support the students who rely on UDL and AT for learning.
Admission requirements are a bachelor's degree from an accredited, four-year, degree-granting institution and a 3.0 GPA.
Required courses are EDA/EDT 517, EDA/EDT 519, EDA/SPP 521, EDA 522, EDA 542, and EDT 500.
Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended the Certificate in Universal Design for Learning and Assistive Technology program.
The following courses may be taken as electives by anyone in a graduate program, subject to approval from the department and the student's adviser.
503 Family Systems in Special Education: Field and Seminar (3) This course bases its objectives on the knowledge of families of children with disabilities as essential for the child's education. The family is studied so that the teacher can best know how to work with diverse families and family systems.
504 Advanced Methods of Low-Incidence Disabilities (3) The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the essentials of the systematic instruction of functional life skills for learners with severe disabilities across the domains of a functional curriculum. A field component is required in the class.
505 Advanced Methods for High-Incidence Disabilities (3) This course is designed to prepare teachers to work with children with high-incidence disabilities. It provides an overview of curriculum and instructional methods. Emphasis is placed on understanding and analysis of learning problems and academic interventions.
506 Legal Issues in Special Education (3) This course presents information on legislation that governs the delivery of special education services. Attention will be given to teachers' challenges in implementation and compliance, and writing legally sound individualized educational plans and service agreement plans.
507 Diversity Within the Context of Disability (3) Required for the post baccalaureate and M.Ed. programs in special education, this course gives students an opportunity to explore different race, social class, gender and ethnic group orientations in relation to disability status in order to educate all children effectively. The course will cover desirable changes in attitude perceptions, understanding, and practices when working with exceptional children, youth, and families.
508 Introduction to Early Childhood/Special Education (3)This course is an overview of the field of early childhood special education (ECSE). We will explore the processes of early intervention including screening, assessment, instructional programming, integrating children with and without disabilities, and family involvement. Emphasis is placed on assessing and promoting the development of cognitive, language, social, self-help and motor skills.
509 Single-Subject Research (3) This course addresses the application of research methods commonly referred to as single-subject design to problems in education.
510 Collaboration (3) This course will prepare teachers in inclusive strategies and effective skills for collaboration. Students will learn practical methods to support the needs of all students in the K-12 classroom. Teachers will understand the importance of collaboration in the planning and evaluation of educational programs of children with disabilities in the general education classroom.
511 Inclusion and Collaboration (3) The purpose of this course is to prepare teachers to cultural changes evident in American public education with respect to inclusion and the education of students with disabilities. Students will examine their beliefs about inclusion and collaboration, hear new perspectives on these philosophies, learn how to work collaboratively with other professionals, and learn practical methods to support all students in the classroom.
513 Career Development and Transition Systems Structures (3) This course will address post-school support structures that serve students with disabilities as they transition into adult life, stressing legislative foundations, interagency linkages, school-business partnerships, referral processes, and seamless systems of service delivery. The teacher practitioner as change agent will be an underlying theme.
514 PreK-8 Aspects of Transition (3) This course will address support structures that serve students with disabilities as they transition from homebound to and throughout the PreK-8 school system. PREREQ: EDA 542.
515 Middle/Secondary Career Development and Transition (3) This course addresses lifespan issues for persons with disabilities, stressing assessment, planning, and instructional strategies that promote successful movement to and through adult roles. PREREQ: EDA 542.
516 Curriculum and Instruction for Individual Learning Differences I (3) This course is designed to prepare students to assist children and youth with disabilities achieve skills in academics and functional life domains. PREREQ: EDA 542.
517 Technology and Universal Design for Learning (3) This course provides an introduction to the principles of universal design for learning (UDL), the incorporation of assistive technologies to accomplish UDL, and strategies for its inclusion in diverse instructional settings. Crosslisted with EDT 517.
519 Introduction to Assistive Technology (3) This course focuses on the awareness of assistive technologies as it relates to education, communication, vocation, recreation and mobility for students with disabilities. Crosslisted with EDT 519.
520 Introduction to Autism: Understanding Autism and the Interdisciplinary Process (3) This course addresses the principles and strategies involved in an interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of individuals with autism. Faculty from the departments of Communicative Disorders, Kinesiology, Psychology, and Special Education provide students with an opportunity to reflect upon the characteristics of individuals with autism spectrum disorders within the individual discipline and how to work successfully within an interdisciplinary setting.
521 Assistive Technologies for Communication and Participation (3) This course will present various types of communication disorders and the impact of high- and low-level technology, specifically augmentative and alternative communication systems and assistive technologies to support the child with disabilities in the K-12 classroom. This course is cross-listed with SPP 521.
522 Integrating Assistive Technology in the Classroom (3) This seminar/field experience is the final course in the assistive technology certificate program. Designed for educational professionals, it is focused on the integration of assistive technologies into the K-12 classroom.
523 Curriculum and Instruction for Individual Learning Differences II (3) This course is designed to support students in the research, development, and implementation of instruction for students with disabilities. PREREQ: EDA 516 and 574.
529 Communication Development and Assistive Technologies for Students with Disabilities (3) This course will provide a broad overview of normal and atypical communication development among students with disabilities, including the impact of high- and low-level technology. PREREQ: EDA 542.
530 Teaching Children with Autism (3) This course serves as an in-depth analysis of the unique education needs of students with autism spectrum disorders. Students will learn about the educational issues surrounding autism spectrum disorders including history, etiology, current legislation, instructional strategies, and issues related to transition. In addition students will develop a working sense of classroom assessment and intervention strategies specific to educational settings for students with autism spectrum disorders.
541 Foundations of Special Education (3) The study of children whose intellectual, physical, social, and/or emotional characteristics are significantly different from those of children whose needs are met through regular educational routes.
542 Foundations of Special Education (3) This course is designed to acquaint the prospective teacher with the historical legal evolution of the field, special education processes, and the characteristics of individuals with disabilities.
544 Classroom Management (3) Exploration of current practices in the management and modification of behavior. The professional's role in achieving a better basis for meaningful communication with the special child. Problems that may interfere with teacher effectiveness are discussed. PREREQ: EDA 542 or equivalent.
573 Assessment in Special Education (3) Diagnostic procedures and subsequent educational prescriptions useful with students experiencing learning difficulties. PREREQ: EDA 541 or equivalent.
574 Assessment and Special Education (3) This course is designed to introduce students to instructional assessment in special education and the development of relevant education plans to meet federal regulations. PREREQ: EDA 542.
580 Contemporary Issues and Trends (3) Current trends, problems, and issues in special education, teacher education, research, and administration will be explored. Emerging concepts relating to special education will be emphasized. PREREQ: EDA 541 or equivalent.
581 Practicum: Special Education (3) Offers students an opportunity to put skills gained through course work into practice under supervision from the department. Weekly seminar required. PREREQ: EDA 541 or equivalent.
582 Special Education Modified Student Teaching and Seminar (1-3) This is a required course for students pursuing special education certification at the post-baccaluarate level. The student will have direct experience with students with disabilities receiving special education services. PREREQ: EDA 516, 529, 542, 544, 574, and 514 or 515.
590 Independent Study (1-3)
591 Final Project (3) This course will provide the student the opportunity to learn how to evaluate and interpret published research, to conduct a critical research review, and to develop and produce an original research paper. Offered on a two-semester basis with each part carrying three credits. PREREQ: EDF 500.
592 Workshops in Special Education (1-3) A number of these workshops will be focused on inclusive instruction and strategies.


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In the last week, I've gotten several requests to promote Kickstarter publishing campaigns here. You can take a look at current children's publishing Kickstarter campaigns on their site. At this time, I'm not willing to promote specific campaigns, since I don't feel that they fit into the scope of this blog.
I think a lot of the new appeal of funding books this way has to do with stories like this one about Seth Godin raising $130,000 for his next book. Perhaps they didn't hear the ending of that story, where he returned to working with a publisher rather than self-publishing as he had in the past.
So, I've added a new clause to my review policy, so that it now addresses Kickstarter campaigns. It states that I will not be participating in promotion of such funding campaigns on Kickstarter or any other site of that sort.
So other bloggers, what are you doing with this sort of request?


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Have you ever felt like your girlfriend wasn't really there? In Notre Dame's Manti Te'o's case, she actually wasn't.
Following the incredible Deadspin story that exposed Te'o's girlfriend as an elaborate hoax, social media users have begun sharing photos of themselves posing with invisible girlfriends -- similar to the Eastwooding trend that popped when actor Clint Eastwood conversed with an invisible Barack Obama at the RNC.
'Teoing,' as it's been dubbed, is also the subject of a new Tumblr, which curates photos of people hanging out with fake girlfriends, along with meme-y photos and references to Te'o's embarrassment.


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Walk It: MapQuest for People Without Segways
Save for HopStop and Google's recent introduction of mass transit features, Internet mapping services have been largely targeted toward those traveling by car. In England, however, it seems that citizens still engage in the ancient practice of walking places. Capitalizing on this primitive practice, map site, Walk It, has been launched in Central London, Birmingham, and Edinburgh (the later two are still in beta).
The site is something of an environmentally-friendly and health conscious alternative to Google Maps and Mapquest, providing users not only with a walking route and trip time, but the number of calories they can expect to burn. The concept behind the service is really fantastic one--a practical and easy way to address two big problems in society: environmental devastation and obesity.
Sadly, I'm nowhere near central London, at the moment, and as such, can't give a very hand-on review of the app. I just put in the request for PC Magazine to fly me out to the UK, so I can give you guys a really in-depth review of the service. I'll let you know how that turns out. Cheerio.


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January 2006 - Newsletter 81
40 Years (It could have been life)
It's all a bit of a miracle really but in 2007 we celebrate 40 years as a professional band. Plans are afoot to commemorate this momentous occasion although Pete insists I put 'God Willing' on the bottom of all the contracts these days. We are working on a DVD/Video with snips from current events and, hopefully, pieces of film from years gone by. Jenny Biggs brought the camera along to our New Year Celebration to capture the atmosphere of a Yetties type knees up and hopefully she and Phil will visit us at our Halsway Manor Weekend in February. We will probably set up one or two interviews with old friends as well. I have been in touch with Jim Lloyd, who was our manager for 13 years. He now lives in Australia but will be over here for a while in the summer and, hopefully, we will catch him during his stay. Mac has found a short clip of us dancing at a festival when were in our teens. 'The Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca Junior Folk Dance Display Team' rides again. It will be very interesting to see if we could actually dance back in those days or whether people applauded because we were quite unique. The folk dance scene in Dorset tended to be dominated by ladies who had lost their husbands and loved ones in the trenches of the 1st World War and to have us youngsters leaping about all over the place must have been a bit of a shock. However, we were encouraged very much by Bill Rutter, the local organiser of the English Folk Dance & Song Society, and anyway, we thoroughly enjoyed cuddling the girls without getting our hands slapped. Well, tis only natural.
The other thought is a 2007 calendar with pictures of 'Yetties Through The Ages' at the top of the each month. I promise here and now that there will be no baring of anything untoward. Not even a hint of indiscretion. Who said 'Shame'?
Old Yetties LPs
It's wonderful how the system works. No sooner am I getting low on supplies than someone comes along with another batch of LPs. Thank you so much. I can assure you that I find good homes for them where they will be much appreciated. I have managed to re-house quite a few over the last couple of months and it's very satisfying. The latest estimate for Halsway Manors' new library and someone to run it as a proper research establishment is £250,000 so I need to sell quite a few more at a fiver a go to raise enough cash.
LPs in stock at the moment are: Keep A Runnin'; Our Friends The Yetties; Dorset Is Beautiful; The World of The Yetties; All At Sea; The Yetties of Yetminster; The Village Band; Up In Arms; Let's Have A Party; Up Market; In Concert; Dorset Style; A Little Bit of Dorset, A Proper Job and The Yetties. If you would like any of these to add to your collection please ring 01935 814611.
Halsway has a considerable stock of Folk 78 records, which I sorted about 3 years ago. It was always my ambition to make CDs of them but the technical knowledge was way beyond my limited expertise. However, Deryck and Anthea Deane, who live near Halsway volunteered to have a go and, bless 'em, they have not only cleaned them all up and put them onto CD but they have produced a CD for sale of some of the best tracks. The records that are over 50 years old are now out of copyright so we are not treading on anyone's toes by doing this and the results are great. You have to bear in mind that the musicians involved were the tops at the time, some of the arrangements are by Cecil Sharp and the conductor on several tracks is none other than Ralph Vaughan Williams. There are also a couple tunes on the Northumbrian pipes by the King of Pipers, Jack Armstrong.
Library Country Dance Tunes CD1 can be purchased by sending a cheque for £12 made out to 'Halsway Manor' (this includes postage) to Halsway Manor, Crowcombe, Taunton, Somerset, TA4 4BD.
Memory Lane (Norway)
People pay a lot of good money to cruise the fiords of Norway and good luck to them say I but the prospect has not attracted me since out tour over there in 1985. The organisers of a Folk Festival in the port of Harstadt had, somewhere or another, seen a video of us sweating away at a village barn dance and this prompted them to book us. We asked for an itinerary before we went but this was not forthcoming and when we arrived we realised the reason why. In summer, north of the Arctic Circle Norwegians don't sleep very much. Those we met seemed to drink plenty of well-doctored coffee and keep going and they expected us to do the same. Because of the video we weren't involved much in the main festival. We spent a lot of time travelling from village to village. The classic day of the week went something like this. Sing until 2 in the morning then get up in time to catch the 7a.m. ferry up the fiord. After 2 hours get off and carry all our gear to the middle of the village and wait for a bus to 'O'. Well, let's be honest you feel a bit of a pillock stopping every bus and saying 'O' to the driver. Eventually we got the right response and we wandered off around the lanes of Norway. The bus stops and the driver shouts out 'O' and starts piling our instruments etc. out the door. We are at a cross roads with not a house in sight. Then in the distance we see a car, it turns out to be our taxi. Shove everything into the back and climb in. The taxi sets off down a little track which looks as if it is normally only frequented by tractors and pulls up at a tiny quay on the side of a fiord. We get out, the taxi disappears back along the track and we are left scratching our heads once again. Then across the fiord comes this little boat with a gentleman waving to us merrily. There is big drop from the quay to the boat but we make it without sinking the accordion or ourselves. Chug, chug, chug across the fiord in a boat which is obviously not built for more than two people and a dog. The water is just about below the gunwales but stand by to bale at any moment. We get to the other side and lo and behold there is a tractor to take us to the village of Flaxtovo (I'm sure I've spelt this wrong but you won't find in on the map so who cares). The result a mid-summers day concert at midnight on a hill in the drizzle with the whole population of the village present. A total of 42 Norwegians having a ball.
Yetminster Fair
Goodness knows how many years we have been running this club but we still have to keep plugging away because even the people of Sherborne don't seem to know about it. The idea is to give people a platform on which they can perform to a very friendly audience. It's the way we started all those years ago in the Folk Clubs and it's great to be able to help others to show off their talents. We are particularly pleased with some of the youngsters over the last few years who we have seen blossom into excellent musicians and singers. One example is 14 year old John Blackmore who some of you will have seen at our Christmas Concerts in Sherborne. When he was on stage you could hear a pin drop, the audience were enthralled.
Most times we rely on artists just turning up but now and then we book professional guests. On the 5th of April, for instance, we have John Connolly from Cleethorpes who wrote such folk classics and Fiddlers Green and The Punch & Judy Man. Last time he came the place was packed and he gave a cracking night.
Other Folk Clubs
There were hundreds of these around the country when we turned professional. We could have worked every night of the week but these days you have to dig a little deeper to find them. One such has just come to my attention. The Wessex Acoustic Club meets at The Mount, Blandford Road, Corfe Mullen on Saturday nights. They have booked John Connolly for April and have an impressive list of artists booked this year. Judy Cook from the USA; Sarah Grey and Kieron Means; Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies; Cloudsheet (a Duo from Australia) and many more. If you are interested ring John Butcher on 01202 690856, Kathy Dunn on 01202 732239 or log on to their web site at http://wimborne-acoustic.co.uk.


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Lynn Peterson heads north to run Washington DOT
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Well, here's a bit of a surprise. Lynn Peterson has been named by Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) as the new director of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT).
Most recently, Lynn has been serving as Governor Kitzhaber's chief transportation and sustainability advisor - a post she took after resigning as the elected Chair of Clackamas County.
From Governor Inslee's statement:
We need an innovative approach to fixing a transportation network that is outdated and hampering our economic growth, said Inslee. Lynn has the experience, creativity and leadership skills to help Washington build a transportation system for the 21st century. And well do that in a way that more efficiently moves people and goods and reduces carbon emissions.
Peterson helped manage several of Oregons statewide transportation initiatives including the Willamette Valley Passenger Rail Plan, Kitzhabers 10-year Energy Action Plan including Oregons portion of the Electric Highway from B.C. to Baja and acceleration of commercial fleet turnover to alternative fuels, and more.
I am honored to have served Governor Kitzhaber and the citizens of Oregon, said Peterson. Together, we have made significant progress leveraging more investment for Oregon communities to meet their economic, social and environmental goals with less revenue. These values hold true for all citizens in the Northwest. I am pleased to be joining Governor Inslees Cabinet to help meet his desire to efficiently and cost-effectively build safe and healthy communities everywhere in the State of Washington.
As an elected official and as an activist, Peterson had a track record of supporting sustainability. PubliCola's Erica Barnett called her appointment a big win for bike and transportation advocates. Barnett cited BlueOregon contributor Evan Manvel - another Oregonian who has recently headed north (to serve as a policy advocate for the Cascade Bicycle Club) - who said she has "a long record of thinking about our issues and working to improve transportation. ...While she's a traditional engineer, she has an ability to think beyond the old road-building approach and see how congestion pricing, transit choices, biking, and walking can make the whole system work."
While Peterson's appointment might be a surprise, it's not really a surprise that he'd select a strong environmentalist with a professional background in highway engineering as the leader for WSDOT. After all, Inslee is known as a strong environmentalist, including authoring a book on clean energy -- and campaigned heavily on making Washington the sustainability capital of the country. As a result, the Washington Conservation Voters engaged in their most aggressive, most expensive campaign ever on behalf of Inslee's candidacy.
This would seem to have a big impact on the CRC project as well - since Lynn is a strong supporter of light rail and non-automobile forms of transit.
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Southington Police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a suspect that allegedly robbed a Mobil Gas Station at Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike.
Police received an armed robbery call on Monday, Dec. 23 at 3 a.m. at the Mobil at 1869 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike.
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This page reviewed June 12, 2018
Background:The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) has established State ambient air quality standards (State standards) to identify outdoor pollutant levels considered safe for the public. After State standards are established, State law requires ARB to designate each area as attainment, nonattainment, or unclassified for each State standard. The area designations, which are based on the most recent available data, indicate the healthfulness of air quality throughout the State. Further information can be found on the State Standard Area Designations page.
In addition to State standards, the Federal Clean Air Act requires the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to set national ambient air quality standards (federal standards, national standards, or NAAQS). The federal area designation maps and tables reflect these federal standards. Further information about the federal standards and area designations can be found on the Federal Standard Area Designations page.
We maintain an e-mail mailing list for Area Designation activities. As announcements, reports, and other information are posted to this website, we will send e-mail notifications to everyone on the list. If you wish to receive these notices, you can subscribe by visiting the Area Designations List Serve web page and following the instructions there.
STATE STANDARD AREA DESIGNATIONSHealth and Safety Code (H&SC) section 39607(e) requires the Board to establish and periodically review area designation criteria. H&SC section 39608 requires the Board to use these criteria to designate areas of California as attainment, nonattainment, or unclassified for the State standards and to review these area designations annually. The Board makes area designations for ten pollutants: ozone, suspended particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, sulfates, lead, hydrogen sulfide, and visibility reducing particles. The Board reviews the area designations each year and updates them as appropriate, based on the three most recent complete and validated calendar years of air quality data.
FEDERAL STANDARD AREA DESIGNATIONSThe U.S. EPA designates areas for each pollutant for which there is a national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). ARB publishes maps of these area designations for informational purposes; the most current federal nonattainment area designations are found on the U.S. EPA website.
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EXCEPTIONAL EVENTSExceptional events are natural or unusual events that can overwhelm existing control strategies for man-made pollution. If such an event occurs and U.S. EPA agrees with the State's exceptional events determination, data that would have caused an exceedance of a federal standard is excluded from determining compliance with the standard. Examples of exceptional events include, but are not limited to, wildfires, high winds and dust, volcanic activities, stratoshperic ozone intrusion, structural fires, and fireworks.
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ROCHESTER -- Federal Savings Bank President and CEO James J. O'Neill, Jr. is pleased to announce the Bank's pledge of $100,000 to support the YMCA of Strafford County's capital campaign for a new 27,500 square foot facility located at 35 Industrial Way in Rochester.
The YMCA was awarded Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA) tax credits for its new facility. The tax credit program enables businesses to invest in economic or community development projects in exchange for a state tax credit worth 75% of the donation.
For almost 160 years, the YMCA of Greater Manchester, with branches in Manchester, Goffstown, Londonderry, Portsmouth and Rochester, has focused on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Across the country, Ys engage 21 million men, women and children – regardless of age, income or background – to improve the nation's health and well-being, and provide opportunities to give back and support neighbors. The goal of the YMCA project in Rochester is to provide programs and services for all families by implementing a sliding fee scale based on household income. The organization is expecting to provide 40 percent of its members with financial aid at the new Rochester facility.
"Federal Savings Bank is proud to contribute to this worthy project that will undoubtedly make a difference for Strafford County residents," said O'Neill. "FSB has pledged its allegiance to support local businesses and non-profits that make the greater Seacoast area a better place to live and work. We are proud to have this opportunity to give back to our wonderful community," he added.
Federal Savings Bank Dover/Rochester Branch Manager, Mary Henderson, serves on the YMCA of Strafford County's Board of Directors. "The services offered by the YMCA are so important to the residents of Strafford County and this new facility will provide for additional and enhanced programs and services, particularly in the area of childcare and youth development. I'm proud to have Federal Savings Bank play such a major role in the completion of this great community project," she noted.
The YMCA of Strafford County is now open at 35 Industrial Way, just off Exit 14 of the Spaulding Turnpike. For more information, visit www.yogm.org or call 603-332-7334.
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ROCHESTER -- Federal Savings Bank President and CEO James J. O'Neill, Jr. is pleased to announce the Bank's pledge of $100,000 to support the YMCA of Strafford County's capital campaign for a new 27,500 square foot facility located at 35 Industrial Way in Rochester.


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Resetting the Dopod 700
You can perform a soft reset or a full reset. During a soft reset, the device is restarted and
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What Can LinkedIn Do for Me?
LinkedIn has been around since 2003, and many people use it differently. The question of what it can do for people seems to be a very popular question. In short, LinkedIn is a professional networking site with an executive representation of Fortune 500 companies. It is a great way to find people and is a great way to read someone's business history in a single screen. The site also helps you to understand who they know and network with.
Some interesting facts you probably did not know about LinkedIn:
- The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven.
- The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes.
- People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five.
- All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees.
1. Building your Reputation. LinkedIn is a great tool for people to outline their experience, accomplishment, organizations and network. Too often I have seen incomplete profiles. A crucial element to get LinkedIn to work for you is to make sure your profile is 100% complete. Include all your previous employers, groups you belong to, your "advertisement", websites and other important information. LinkedIn is also becoming a place where employers find candidates, so if you are job hunting, this may be the place for you.
2. Find Qualified Candidates. You want to find the best candidate because it will benefit the company, but weeding through all the applicants can be exhausting. Well, how about using your network to find employees? LinkedIn has a great job posting board, which is also very inexpensive. Even if you don't want to field unknown candidates, you can send out an email to all your connections.
3. Find New Connections. Have you ever felt like sometimes you see the same people at the networking events? Would you like to meet new people? Use LinkedIn and do a search. For example, let's say you want to meet Architects. I just go to LinkedIn and type "Architects" in the search box. LinkedIn will search your contact's contacts and return the results. The best part is it shows you how you are connected to the person, which can then be used for introductions. LinkedIn also provides results of what they call 3rd degree friends. Essentially, your contact has a contact that knows the architect. It seems complicated, but it is a great way to expand your network and your friend's network. Try a search, see what happens. LinkedIn also has introductions, a tool they offer to give you an introduction to a person you want to meet.
4. Increase your Google Ranking. Ever wondered how people's names come up so high up on Google searches? I don't have the secret Google formula, but can tell you a well written LinkedIn profile earns a high rank on the page. The more information you have on LinkedIn (or Blog articles), the better your Google ranking.
5. Scope out Competition, Customers & Partners. Most people use Google or another search engine to see what information they can find out about their market. The market includes your customers, competitors and partners. LinkedIn is a great tool for research. Another key advantage is to see what groups your customers or potential customers belong to.
6. Groups. LinkedIn just added a new tool to search groups. The groups range from networking groups to Alumni groups to Company groups. Groups can be a great tool for networking. There are many different ways to use the groups and their members as leads into conversations. As a plus, when you join a group you can show the group on your profile. The benefit could be others see the group and find they have a common thread with you.
7. Recommendations. LinkedIn has created a system where your contacts can recommend you. Leverage the power of LinkedIn to get recommendations and be sure to give them as well.
8. Help Others. Use LinkedIn to introduce people you think would be a good match. You can easily do introductions to the people with LinkedIn's inMail. The nice thing about giving a contact more connections on LinkedIn is that no one wants to be the person with the least contacts....so help out a friend and send them a contact or two that makes sense for them. Part of helping others can be helping them use LinkedIn.
9. Use it on the go. LinkedIn is configured to be able to use it on your handheld device. While you waiting at the airport, doctor's office or another waiting area, log into LinkedIn and network from anywhere. Just go to linkedin.com.
10. Get answers to tough business questions with a little help from your real friends. Small business owners deal with challenging questions on a slew of topics each day. LinkedIn Answers and Groups let you find answers to those vexing questions quickly by tapping into the wisdom of your network (LinkedIn tells me there are over 200 different categories on Answers including one dedicated to small business and over 2000 groups on small business related topics). Wondering whether your recent office purchase is tax deductible? Check out hundreds of questions on related topicshere.
I hope this helps you take LinkedIn beyond the usual uses and makes you and your business even more successful.


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It's totally understandable to be wary of the upcoming Mass Effect anime. The track record for these kind of adaptations is... spotty at best.
So it's awful nice of FUNimation to share this nine-minute clip, giving us an extended look at how the flick is shaping up.
It's... well, it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost is out on DVD (and Blu-Ray) on December 28.


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You can probably guess that Coloud's headphones are going to put style over substance, especially at that price-point. Nonetheless, for people who don't feel the need to spend hundreds on Sennheisers or Denons, a bit of off audio quality or tinny bass won't be too much of a problem. Surprisingly, they even have an inline-mic on the headphone cable, for receiving phone calls.
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fosborn_ wrote:Charles has a disription of it at his qdl site
GaryN wrote:rickard, here is a book you may be interested in, "Cosmic Machinery in An Electro-Magnetic Universe". The author has some well reasoned and researched material, though it is a little dated in some respects now. Can only find one source for it, maybe become a collectible?
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jacmac wrote:Kevin:No-thing moves, all displaces
You use "displace" where others use "move".
Is there a difference ?
Why do this ?
Presently all think in terms of mass moving in nothing by a mythical force called gravity.
Instead try to think in terms of displacement in a solid, where mass is not the solid.
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Seeds or Seedlings?
Seedling or seeds? Which is the best choice for your garden? It's certainly easier to plant a vegetable garden by buying little plants and placing them gently into rich soil with your own green thumbs. Some seeds require planting in a protected place and transplanting and thinning. Some seeds are more trouble than others. The seeds that are super small or those that take months to mature from seed call for a gardener with a lot of patience. Choosing to use some seed in your garden will most likely add quite a bit more variety to what you have in your plot.
Most gardeners choose to buy plants like tomatoes, peppers and eggplant rather than plant from seed. When it comes to the decision of seeding or seedling, there are two basic questions: Does the vegetable transplant well, and is your growing season long enough for the vegetables to mature when planted from seed?
For example, tomatoes need four or five month to mature from seed, which is certainly not a problem in our part of the world. If you begin your garden late in the season, you may need to choose little plants and try seeds next season. Root plants with taproots don't usually transplant well so need to be seeded directly into the soil. Quick growing plants like peas and squash are great when just seeded directly into that rich dirt in your garden.
The seed package gives you most of the information you need. Just read the information on the back to learn whether to direct seed or give the seed a head start.
Vegetables that are usually directly seeded are beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, garlic, lettuce, micro greens, okra, peas, pumpkins, radishes, squash turnips and watermelons.
There are a handful of vegetables that aren't usually grown from seed at all. Grown "vegetatively" are artichokes, asparagus, garlic, onions, potatoes, rhubarb and sweet potatoes. Vegetables that transplant well are basil, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage cauliflower, celery, chives, collards, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, mustard, okra, onions, parsley, peppers and tomatoes.
So your choices are direct seeding, seed starting or purchased plants. No matter which choice or combinations you make, it is important to plant as early as possible. Your wonderful vegetables will have a long season to mature without fighting the late summer heat. Weeks and weeks of homegrown tomatoes and peppers and all things fresh are our reward!


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In a recent poll released by Public Policy Polling, there was a lot of interesting information gathered about the 2014 governor's race. But nothing so interesting as what it said about independent Eliot Cutler's chances. First, here are the highlights regarding the top three Democrats:
- Mike Michaud, who represents Maine's second district in Congress, is the strongest in all five of the three-way general election match-ups that were tested. In a race between Michaud, Gov. Paul LePage and Cutler, Michaud was within 4 points of beating LePage, and he had the governor receiving his lowest overall vote total of 34 percent.
- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, is within 6 points of beating LePage, but very interestingly she pushes Cutler to his lowest vote total among all other contenders (down to 23 percent).
- And former Gov. John Baldacci, while a bit further behind LePage than the others, has the Democratic nomination locked up if he chooses to run (leads all comers by 7 percent or more).
But perhaps the most significant news in the poll is about Cutler. In a straight-up, head-to-head race against LePage, Cutler would receive the fewest votes of all the match-ups. Michaud would beat LePage by 21 percent; Baldacci would beat him by 15; Pingree would win by 13; but Cutler only leads by 8. More significantly, the three Democrats are all comfortably over the magical 50-percent line, while Cutler is held to 49 percent. That means that he can't lose a single vote, and he needs undecided voters to come his way to win. The others do not.
However, the most significant news for Cutler, and the one I found the most surprising, is what happened when he was tested against the likes of someone like me and Attorney General Janet Mills. While neither of us are Democratic slouches, neither have we run statewide races nor held federal office and hence cannot be counted as a top-tier candidate like the above three. About half the people know us, and about half of them like us. It would be expected that someone like Cutler, who is better known and has run statewide, would garner a ton of votes against folks like us (kind of how independent Angus King did against Democrat Cynthia Dill in the U.S. Senate election this fall).
But in this poll, when Cutler was tested against LePage in a three-way that listed Janet or me, he only received 32 percent of the vote and trailed LePage by five points. That means that Cutler starts the race five points behind LePage even when there is a Democrat in the race receiving the same or fewer votes than Democrat Libby Mitchell received in 2010.
In PPP's polling a year ago, Cutler was beating LePage by 8 points in almost the exact same scenario. He has dropped 11 points since then. Needless to say, if I was working on his campaign, and I saw these numbers, I would definitely smell trouble and start to question whether he could actually win.
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*This David Thorne email skit thing is one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile.
I don't even know how to explain to you what it is, but it's funny.
* It Get's Better (a must see)
Is a video filmed by Apple employees that encourages kids who are being bullied, who are gay, transgender, etc - that it will get better. I wish everyone could see this!
* Fran Domínguez (a photographer)
His photos are with such attitude...it's not about the girl really, "but a lifestyle" he says. Would be fun to have a feisty photo shoot with him!
*A Watch
Seriously considering this.
*Blog Tips
A list of 369 blog tips, tricks and resources. Did you find anything good?
* a lovely, little shop spring sale
15% off your order with the code LOVELYSPRING! (I'm waiting for this to arrive)
My favorite posts here this week:
2x2: The Color Red - adding some red to my wardrobe
Advanced Style - a new kind of street fashion blog


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Summer has finally arrived in its full glory in London. Everybody is out enjoying this lovely warm weather outside. Finally we can go out without sweaters and coats. Hope all my friends are enjoying the summer too.
I think it was an year ago when we were back home ,I saw a cookery show in Kairali TV(Malayalam channel) and the hostess Laksmi nair prepared this dish.I scribbled the recipe in a book.I tried this recipe last week and it was delicious.Those who can follow malayalam please find the recipe video here. For others here is the recipe...
Chicken - 1 kilo
Onion -4(sliced in round)
Tomato- 2
Green chillies -4
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Redchillypowder - 1 tbs
Cashew nuts - 50 gm
Kasoorimethi - 3/4tsp
Ginger - (chopped lengthwise ) 1 tbs
Oil - 2 tbs
Cumin powder - 1/2 tspFor gravy
Onion -3
Garlic - 1 1/2 tbs(chopped)
Tomato -1
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Tumeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Ginger - 1 tbs
In a saucepan add all the ingredients for the gravy and add 1 cup of water and cook well.Allow it to cool .Blend it in a blender to get a smooth paste. Add chicken to this gravy , add 1/2 tsp of garam masala and salt.Cook the chicken.
In another saucepan take some oil and add the sliced onions (round shaped),ginger and green chillies and saute well.Add the tomatoes and saute again.Add all the spice powders and saute till raw smell goes.Finally add the chicken gravy and mix well. Allow it to boil for few minutes. Finally add the cashewnut paste and bring to boil.Turn off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.


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Live Review: Three Nights of SFJAZZ with Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Eldar and Sophie Milman
Now in its 26th year, SFJAZZ has been key in bringing both older jazz legends and younger jazz luminaries to San Francisco audiences in a number of venues around the city. The fall season of SFJAZZ lasts over a month, but to highlight the festival's diversity and taste, I chose to attend three consecutive nights showcasing the breadth of talent available in a short span. Two older stalwarts of the avant-garde, Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor, and two younger stars of the new breed, Eldar and Sophie Milman.
Oct. 23 – Archie Shepp at Herbst Theatre
On the first night, Archie Shepp gave a rare U.S. concert appearance at the Herbst Theatre. The Herbst Theatre is one of the finest locations utilized by SFJAZZ—it's just the right size, the sound is good, and the theatre itself beautiful—and it befits legends like Dewey Redman or Andrew Hill, both of whom have played there in recent years. This was, it must be said, a very special treat for Shepp's Bay Area fans, many of whom have waited years to see him in person, sustaining instead on repeated listenings of landmark albums like Fire Music, Attica Blues, and—appropriately—Live in San Francisco.
Shepp will probably live forever unfairly in the shadow of John Coltrane, who took the young saxophonist under his wing and signed him to Impulse Records. I say unfairly because it's hard to imagine Coltrane, would he have lived, to be as carefree as Shepp has been after Coltrane's death. In the years since, Shepp has played R&B, sung standards, and dabbled in funk.
Shepp is now 71, but right from the start of Thursday night's show, he displayed that he is still in command of his horn. He also showed that after 40 years, he's still not immune to Coltrane's shadow; nearly every song had its own Coltrane counterpart.
A quick-paced opener placed Shepp in explorative sheets-of-sound mode, while his band drove a pounding modal form with intensity and skill; it could have easily fit on Meditations. Shepp then sang a relaxed "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," which could have found a home on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Other moments throughout the night drew inevitable comparisons to Kulu Sé Mama, Coltrane Plays the Blues, Coltrane's Sound, and Lush Life.
But another essential way that Shepp has carried on Coltrane's legacy is that his appearances are inseparable from the full emotional palette of the black experience in America. Beauty, fury, jubilation, humor and sorrow all play key roles in Shepp's music. Shepp explains the unexplainable through his music; the feelings that words cannot contain. To hear him is to know a history of civil struggle and racial injustice.
Not everyone is a fan of this. During "Mama Rose," which contained an intense poetic recitation about motherhood, love, riots, banana pudding, ex-cannibals, dreams and revolution, including the line "Your vagina split asymmetrically between the east and the west," a group of people sitting in the balcony leaned in, consulted each other, and bailed.
After "Trippin'," a 12-bar blues in which Shepp channeled James Brown's epic wail in singing about canceling his email and cutting off his cell phone, Shepp announced that his contract with SFJAZZ called for an intermission. Any folks who might have left missed the best portion of the evening.
Opening his second set with "Ujamaa," an incredible composition, Shepp gave his most intense solo of the concert while his first-rate band kept apace. Clutching the microphone and crooning in an Earl Coleman style, Shepp's "Lush Life" was rendered with a wide-open verse, with Shepp conducting the band into a Latin-rhythm chorus. Billy Strayhorn famously wrote the ode to weariness when he was just 16, but Shepp turned it around and sang it giddily, at 71, as if he was a teenager. Switching to saxophone, he quoted "Well You Needn't" in a solo that sometimes reached for high notes that didn't come.
Shepp continued with a song written for his cousin, who was murdered in a street fight when he was 15—a rather happy song, actually—and closed with "Burning Bright," containing an impeccable solo by the song's composer, pianist Tom McClung.
The rush of applause was too strong to deny, and Shepp returned to center stage—minus drummer Ronnie Burrage—to play a breathy "In a Sentimental Mood," the closing track of Live in San Francisco. Serene and delicate, it closed the evening perfectly, with a solo tag of dancing runs.
In the brief moment between the song's end and the cascade of applause, an audience member yelled out, "You're beautiful, Archie!" Simple and perfect.
Oct. 24 – Cecil Taylor at Grace Cathedral
The next night, it was Cecil Taylor at Grace Cathedral. Consecrated in 1965 by Duke Ellington, the massive church was blessed with jazz from the start, and for 22 of the past 26 years, SFJAZZ has been using it for concerts they call "Sacred Space." Pharaoh Sanders is among those who've performed solo inside the cathedral, using no amplification whatsoever. The effect is stunning.
Taylor was announced to the stage, but for the first few minutes, all that could be heard was his voice over a loudspeaker.
"A S B M. A S B M. In Canal. In Canal You. In Canal You Long."
It was Cecil Taylor, all right, doing his crazy Cecil Taylor thing and slowly making his way toward the piano.
"A Gene. A Gene Splits Into 28 Paragraphs. One Second Is Equal To 28.10 Electrons Equaling One Volt Is The Electric Motive In Proportion To Rhythm," he continued, occasionally making long, gurgling sounds like a constipated alien.
When I last saw Cecil Taylor, at an SFJAZZ appearance at the Palace of Fine Arts in 2001, he held a similarly scattered conversation with himself; I thought, at the time, that he might have been studying some new form of chemistry. But no. Apparently he just likes to ramble.
Well-known for celebrating sharp bursts of percussive staccato passages, Taylor sat at the piano and instead drove straight into full-bodied, cascading playing, like he simply had too much music in his head gushing forth all at once. Inside the church, with sculptures of the crucifixion on the walls and a general atmosphere of reverence, the juxtaposition of religious tradition against fevered chaos was weird and funny.
Alas, the performance was stellar. What might have been choppy and percussive in any other venue came further together by Grace Cathedral's natural seven-second reverb, and Taylor played off this effect, often hammering as many notes as possible into those seven seconds. His usual stabs in the gut became deep punches; his abrasive pelts of hail multiplying upon themselves into thunderstorms. His audible moaning and breathing echoed across the vault.
Taylor stopped playing, and the crowd applauded. A 40-something guy in a Hawaiian shirt sitting in front of us took a shot from his flask, and offered it to his considerably younger girlfriend, wearing a beret. She shook her head. Taylor then began playing again, in what sounded like a continuation of the exact same song.
When Cecil Taylor speaks in a foreign musical language of constant discord, are there ears enough to make out what he's saying? The show was sold out, but it was unavoidable to contemplate just how many in the crowd viewed Taylor simply as a cultural curiosity. Between each of five pieces, Taylor shuffled and rearranged his sheet music, and it was hard to figure out why he even had it in the first place. He couldn't possibly have been following it.
All of this sounds like a total dis, but it's not. I've long loved Cecil Taylor—possibly because I can't put into words exactly why—and even after a spate of souring on him as of late, he won me back into his world on Friday night. His total expressiveness, his thundering command, his emotional presence and his singular, powerful musical vision on display reawakened me to his brilliance. The venue certainly helped.
At the end of the set, Taylor tried to leave the stage but the applause was too strong. He sat down and played again, another short minute-and-a-half chapter in the neverending song, and finally shuffled his hunched, frail body to the back room of the church.
He stayed there for over an hour after the show was over, muttering in one giant monologue to a small group of assembled fans.
Oct. 25 – Eldar and Sophie Milman at Herbst Theatre
Back to the Herbst Theatre on Saturday night, for a decidedly younger lineup: 21-year-old piano prodigy Eldar and 24-year-old chanteuse Sophie Millman.
Eldar is famous for sounding like Art Tatum—rapid-fire runs, mind-boggling changes in key and tempo mid-song, a strong left hand—and his first number, "I Should Care," demonstrated this in dazzling fashion. Everything that is great about Eldar was encapsulated in this first number; he played it antagonistically but respectfully, tackling the standard to the ground and working it over with hyperactive stride, incessant and precise runs, left-hand jabs and full-fingered clusters.
Though he could never possess Tatum's swing, Eldar makes up for it in technical command; this is why he's more Vladimir Horowitz than Oscar Peterson, and indeed, he has a very classical touch on the keys. But his mind is that of the explorer, the improviser who steps through every possibility at an unbelievable pace. Were it not for the opening melody, no one could have recognized "I Should Care" as imagined by Eldar.
This is what's great about jazz: taking something old and making it new again. Unfortunately, Eldar's focus shifted into presenting something new and making it sound old: his next song, "Insensitive," was an original composition marked by unprovoked chord changes, a plodding form and little to no melody. This is how things stayed, as Eldar performed solely original compositions in the same vein for the rest of the set.
The third song, for example, featured nonstop busy drumming, jabbing bass lines, and a chaotic Eldar flying all over the piano. But the overall presentation was that of a garbled, very academic attempt, including the use of a 1970s-sounding synthesizer on top of the piano. If this is the way Eldar's career is moving—away from dazzling standards and into post-post-fusion gobbledygook—then Sony must be nervous about their young star. Perhaps they're trying to replace the Bad Plus. Maybe they're trying to win over Rush fans. Who knows?
Up next was Sophie Milman, who, like Eldar, was born in the former Soviet Union. Moving to Israel at age 7 and then to Canada at age 16, Milman lived an upended youth in areas of global tumult, discovering solace in listening to American jazz records. This is her history, which she tells in magazine articles, on radio shows, and from the stage.
Luckily, she's not just a good NPR story. She's also a wonderful singer.
Opening with "It Might as Well be Spring" in a strapless leopard-print dress, red leather heels and gold earrings, Milman immediately hit all the right Anita O'Day-June Christy-Chris Connor notes with enough of her own style to warrant the comparison. Her appealing voice, airy but not overly husky, took on adventurous trills and jumps. She conducted her band, whooped at their solos, snapped her fingers and constantly jittered her arms and tapped her heels.
Milman had just spent a week at the Blue Note in New York with Eldar—they really are a curious co-billing, other than the "young" and "Soviet" angle—and she was glad to finally have some time in San Francisco. "You guys are very, very lucky," she remarked at one point. "We're going home to Toronto to blizzards."
"People Will Say We're in Love" was delightful, and a subtle vibrato eked into Milman's voice during "I Concentrate on You." Then Milman told the story of her life, and how she never fit in with the other kids in Israel who couldn't understand her obsession with jazz, and dedicated the next number "to all the kids growing up who used to pick on me." It is a song, she explained, that she sings at every performance.
"Bein' Green," as made famous by Kermit the Frog, is not a terrible song. But it is essentially a sad song, and despite Milman's familiarity with the tune, it showed her emotional limitations. "Bein' Green" is one of those curiosities that works in the hands of, say, Frank Sinatra when he's 63—but not so much in the young, peppy hands of Milman.
"Here's a great Bruce Springsteen song," Milman then announced, and "I'm on Fire" continued the feeling that Milman might occasionally be in over her head. "I'm on Fire" is a creepy song—the pleading of a tortured stalker to ravage the untouched beauty of a young girl. Completely changed from the original, with minor-key chords, the arrangement brought out that creepiness. But it felt like Milman let the arrangement do all the work—she sang it sultry rather than tormented.
But these were unimportant diversions from what Milman does best. Redemption was found in a soulful, "Maiden Voyage"—esque arrangement of "Love for Sale," and Milman once again had the crowd in the palm of her hands. After all the sleepy Norah Jones tranquilizing on the "jazz" charts for the last eight years, it's nice to see an inventive young singer bringing back flair and pizzazz to jazz singing. Here's hoping more folks discover her talent.
So there you go—three days of the SFJAZZ festival. The complete schedule for SFJAZZ, including teasers for their upcoming Spring season, can be found at their official website.
Tags: 2008, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Concert, Eldar, Grace Cathedral, Herbst Theatre, Live, Review, San Francisco, SFJAZZ, Sophie Milman


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Posted: Mar 25, 2014
BALTIMORE – The baseball game between UMBC and George Washington at Barcroft Park in Arlington, Va., scheduled for Tuesday, March 25, has been postponed due to inclement weather in the Baltimore-Washington metro area. A make-up date has not yet been announced.
UMBC's game on Thursday, March 27 against Navy is still on as scheduled for a 3:30 p.m. start at Alumni Field on the Retrievers' campus.
The Retrievers' contest at Georgetown, which was originally scheduled for March 18 at Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, Md., has been moved to May 7.


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Anthony Gill Architects
Level 6, Suite 61
61 Marlborough Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Tel +61 (2) 9699 8712
The project involved the redesign of an existing 38sqm one bedroom apartment in a Harry Seidler building in Potts Point. The aim was to create a space that would suit a couple with a young child. The existing joinery (not original) was demolished leaving only the masonry walls to the bathroom which remains untouched. A new joinery element was inserted to re-configure the space, addressing the issues of privacy, storage and a lack of living space inherent in an apartment of this size.
Residential Design (National)
Australian Interior Design Awards 2012
Residential Design (NSW)
Australian Interior Design Awards 2012
Apartment Unit or Townhouse
Houses Awards 2011
High Commendation
Idea Awards 2011
Photographer - Peter Bennetts