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Entrepreneurship education at school: creative and effective methods and tools - Dublin
1. Become aware of key issues related to entrepreneurship education at school, within the context of blended and cooperative learning and flipped classroom
2. Getting inspired by some of the best practices on how enhancing students entrepreneurial skills, motivation, participation and learning
3. Understanding and acquiring creative methods and tools to implement an effective entrepreneurship education at school
4. Design and develop concrete teaching projects to be applied in learning curriculum and classroom
5. Foster the collaboration, partnership and exchange of experiences and ideas between European schools, teachers and school professionals.
Day 1: Welcome
- Presentation of the course and participants
- Brainstorming and team building
- Key competences and skills for the 21st Century: an interactive introduction
- Cooperative learning, blended learning and flipped classroom in Europe: features, values and best practices
Day 2: Entrepreneurship Education & Project based learning
- Entrepreneurship education as problem solving, decision-making, planning and leadership: a practical workshop
Day 3: Entrepreneurship Education skills and competences through non-formal education
- Entrepreneurship education in STEAM: a practical workshop of some best-practice indoor & outdoor methods and tools of non-formal education
Day 4: Entrepreneurship Education through blended learning
- Websites, web-wares and apps for teaching and learning: an overview
- Innovative ICT-based, digital and web tools to implement the entrepreneurship education
- Web tools and platforms to foster collaboration and team-work
- Practical laboratory: step-by-step process and guidance.
Day 5: A new beginning
- Visit to a significant local school and talk with its relevant staff (upon availability). When this is not available: presentation of the hosting Country educational system
- Cultural visit of the city centre, together with a professional tour leader
- Planning the follow up: future projects together
- Course evaluation & releasing of official course certifications.
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The total number of hours is about 25. Each daily session (average number of hours per day is 5) includes:
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Based on formal, informal and non-formal education, our methodology will try to stimulate active participation, pro-activity, responsibility and sharing of all participants involved. In this way, we aim to build a diverse and stimulating environment for reflecting, working and learning. It has a horizontal and practical approach and will make use of the following tools:
• interactive lessons
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Since this course has several features in common with other courses (as you can check on this platform), sometimes participants will be all together, sometimes with some other participants, sometimes alone, depending on the specific programme. In this way we also intend to foster the cooperation and exchange between them all, as well as the knowledge of other school education systems and practices.
After the confirmation and before starting, we check the previous knowledge and experience of participants, as well as their specific needs related to the topics of our training course. In addition, we will provide some documents and learning contents of our "Library of Methods & Tools" in order to start getting involved in topics and subjects that will be taught.
All participants are expected to maintain access and communication with the rest of their colleagues as well as with the trainer and participate in useful discussions either through the virtual classroom platform and via e-mail. Trainers and company will also be available for any further questions for a period of 5 months after the end of the course, either through e-mail, virtual classroom platform, individual Skype calls, telephone or WhatsApp. By means of all these tools, we aim to get an effective follow-up, to stimulate peer networking, to keep in touch and to share opinions, experiences and practices for unlimited time.
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded with a certificate of attendance, while the Europass Mobility Certificate will be issued upon request of the sending organisation.
The entire training catalogue is supported by an international team of experts in different branches education and training. The coordinator and main trainer of the event is Alessandro Gariano: founder and manager of Enjoy Italy (see here under); trainer of teachers and for educational organisations (110+ in-services trainings provided, 900+ trainees); youth trainer in the context of non-formal education; project designer, project manager and expert of EU Programmes.
Enjoy Italy is an education&training company aiming to animate, stimulate and support the sustainable development of citizens, territories and communities all around Europe. It has been founded by a dynamic and passionate young professional on few but solid values: responsibility, identity, inclusion, sharing, lifelong learning, civic awareness and sustainability. And a vivid passion for both its land and Europe.
Two are the specific areas of its action:
- Education & Training: provision of tools and opportunities for a professional, social and cultural growth. For responsible citizens and communities. Towards the innovation of European education.
The company provided 150+ in-service trainings to 1200+ teachers and professionals and, in addition, 20+ trainings to 500+ trainees in the context of non-formal education.
- Local Development & Destination Management and: assistance to public and private entities in developing vision and goals, providing advice and services during the entire life cycle of a project. For sustainable destinations.
The company has got some relevant experience in the design and management of different projects within several EU Programmes and Erasmus+ KA1 and KA2 in particular, as well as in the education and training field, both at national and international level.
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I have a thing about old letters, images, tawny browns, and filtered light. They remind me of times gone by and the first stirrings of a history written for women, about women, by women. Women's domains no matter how they are parsed were, and largely still are, focused on the home, and relationships among family and a close community. Legacy of any individual woman depended upon artifacts, often fabric ones, and works created in a woman's lifetime, letters and diaries, that were displayed or archived by those that remembered her or those who were shaped by her.
Embroidery samplers created by young ladies to showcase their skill with a needle and thread, as well as appreciation of home and their piety, are often the only medium for their words to echo on after a life is over.
Education and literacy had to come to be routine for the average women, and writing supplies had to be priced such that common people could afford paper, ink and the time needed for writing.
It is easy to forget that mass communication is a most recent development. Histories were carefully composed and facts sculpted for them for centuries. The information that fed and fueled our society and informed our actions and decisions was closely controlled by very small numbers of individuals until but a historical heartbeat ago.
Newspapers and other periodicals increased the amount of information regularly added to our knowledge base at an unheard of rate in the last 150 to 200 years. Propriety shaped much of the content of these publications and filters were everywhere.
In the last 15 to 20 years personal publishing developed in both print and electronic forms. Digital information transmission and storage allowed for the generation and consumption of data at a scale unimagined even a decade ago. The size of the dark web of criminal and underworld activity and deep web of information behind firewalls is unknown, but what is available on the open, indexed web is, by itself is creating not only more information than ever before, but of a type never previously collected: the bits and pieces of women's lives that are creating the first level of a women's history. The legacy we are writing is not only unique, it is expanding into a new niche.
As some of the women who are creating this new cultural information, we have tremendous influence over the very nature of this new thing we are building and the trajectories that will be built upon beyond our lifetimes. This new type and level of influence over communication is fortuitous as several constants of the physical world and humanity's place on that world for the last many centuries are morphing in unpredictable fashion.
We may not be able to anticipate what the future will be, but we have opportunity to influence the changes that are transpiring with an openness and a balance that has not been available to us for millennia if ever.

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Connecting from South Carolina Back to Virginia, Help Finding Parents, Births in New York City, Missing Ancestors
Rhonda's Tips, March 02, 2000
Connecting from South Carolina Back to Virginia
Q: I have a dead end. Seven generations back a Richard HOWARD came to South Carolina after the 1790 census (he is not in the census in S.C.). He died in 1831 and the story is that he came from Richmond, Virginia at the turn of the century. How do I link him to Richmond? If he died at 60 that means he was born around the 1770s. -- Robert
A: When dealing with an ancestor who has apparently migrated into the state where you now have them, you need to be sure to exhaust all possible records. It is important to be able to determine exactly when your ancestor first arrived in South Carolina.
If you have found him in South Carolina when he dies, then you have probably found him in a county. You need to begin in that county tracing back through all available records for that county including land, court, probate, and tax records.
It is also important to research the history of the county. Many of the counties in which our ancestors lived were created from prior existing counties. The family tree of a county can be as in-depth as your own ancestors'. The reason this is important is that the records you may need will be found in the county that was in existence at the time.
What this means for you is that if you have located your ancestor in the records going back as early as the county existed, then you need to turn your attention to the county from which it was created, going on back. In some cases when an individual arrived in a new area and purchased land, that first purchase will list them as being from their original state or prior address. This is the clue you are looking for to make the connection, which hopefully will support your information about him coming out of Richmond.
Help Finding Parents
Q: Looking for my great great grandfather whose son, Isaac Nathaniel FERRELL, tells the enumerator for the 1880 Princess County, Virginia census that he was born in North Carolina and so were his parents. Unfortunately, I have no county. They only thing I can think to do is to try to find Isaac's birth certificate which may have his parents names on it. However, I need a county for this as well, right? I live in Pennsylvania, so would rather do as much research on the Web before actually going to Raleigh for state archives. -- JoAnn
A: Many states did not begin to record vital records until the early 20th century, and such is the case with North Carolina's births and deaths. These same states often have marriage records at the county level going back to the creation of the county. It was through marriage records that widows could prove they were indeed entitled to their portion of their deceased husband's estate (generally known as a dower right).
So, a birth record is not going to be easy to find in your case. However, the first record that you may want to look for is an early census. Depending on the age of your ancestor in the 1880 census, if he would have been a minor still living with his parents in the 1850, 1860 or 1870, then you will want to start there. These census records have been indexed. And many of these indexes have been put on CD and online.
While you don't have the parents' names, you will concentrate on those FERRELLs that are listed in the indexes. You will also want to keep in mind any variant spelling, such as FARRELL. Even if your family swears that it has always been spelled FERRELL, that does not mean that those recording the records spelled it that way. Enumerators seldom asked how to spell a name, they simply wrote down what they thought it should be, based on how it sounded.
Once you have all of these listed, you will then need to begin going through each of the counties. You will be looking for a son around the correct age range for your Isaac. Remember to give yourself a little latitude of a couple of years either way. While we like to think that the enumerators always talked to someone in the know at the house, if your ancestor's family wasn't at home when the enumerator came to call, he was just as likely to ask about your ancestor's family at the neighbor next door.
Births in New York City
Q: I was searching for my grandmother's birth certificate. She was born in New York City on 20 February 1886. The Board of Health has no record of her birth. Didn't all births have to be recorded? I am actually trying to find out more about her parents and I thought the certificate would have their ages. -- Ann
A: While New York did pass a law requiring the recording of births and deaths in 1880, compliance with this law was slow and there are many of the earlier events that did not get recorded. This could explain why you cannot find your grandmother's birth certificate.
It sounds like you have her parents' names already, perhaps from your grandmother's death certificate, then your next step should be to turn your attention to the 1900 census. Your grandmother would have been only fourteen years old, and it is likely that she was still living at home. Fortunately the 1900 census was soundexed. This index will be easier to search if you do have your great grandfather's name, however, if you don't have their names, then you can look through the appropriate soundex code looking for a family with the right surname and a female child with your grandmother's name and age.
The 1900 census will not only give you the age of her parents, but it will also give you their month and year of birth. This was the only census to include this information. It will also include information about where they were born by including either the state or country of birth.
Missing Ancestors
Q: My paternal grandparents don't exist. The weird thing is they've been dead less than 20 years. My father is also dead, and I'm new to genealogy research. A search of the Social Security Death Index produced nothing. I know the names are right. I knew these people in my lifetime. What I am wondering is, since my grandfather worked for the railroad for years and received a pension from them, is that the reason I can't find him? Where do I look to find information about him? -- Kenneth
A: There are many misconceptions about what can be found in the Social Security Death Index. Many people think that it is an index to all deaths in the United States since the creation of the country. In reality, Social Security did not begin until the 1930s, with the first benefit check being cut in 1937. The computerized death index was begun in 1962 and is updated quarterly (however, different companies that offer this database may have a different cut off date). And as you have discovered, not everyone who has died after 1961 is included. There are many reasons why a person may not appear in the index. One of them is if there was no death benefit check cut on their behalf. Another reason is as you suspected, they worked for the railroad.
Railroad employees for many years had their own pension system and even had their own social security number to easily identify them to social security. I bet you will find that your ancestor's social number (if you know it) began with a 700. As a result to find out more information, you will want to turn your attention to railroad records, including the Railroad Retirement Board. To find out more about this, you will want to read an earlier column I did Twigs and Trees with Rhonda: Railroad Records .
Rhonda R. McClure is a professional genealogist specializing in celebrity trees and computerized genealogy. She has been involved in online genealogy for fifteen years. She is an award-winning author of several genealogy how-to books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy, The Genealogist's Computer Companion, and Finding Your Famous and Infamous Ancestors. She may be contacted at [email protected].
See more advice from Rhonda in her columns Expert Tips, Tigs and Trees, and Overheard in the Message Boards.


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Attempted Murder/Mayhem Suspect Identified – September 18, 2012
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HUMBOLDT – The Humboldt County Sheriffs Office has identified the second suspect in last Thursday's Manila machete stabbing case as David Robert Bullwinkle, 31, of Manila.
Bullwinkle is wanted for attempted murder and mayhem. Anyone with knowledge of his location is requested to contact the Sheriff's Office.
The victim is still recovering from his injuries at a local hospital.
Anyone with information for the Sheriffs Office regarding this case is requested to contact Detective Rich Schlesiger at (707) 268-3642 or the Sheriff's office at (707) 445-7251.


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The number of immigrants jailed for deportation in New England plunged last year, despite federal immigration officials' expansion of a controversial program designed to catch illegal immigrants.
While jailings nationally dipped less than 8 percent, federal officials said that in New England they dropped almost 28 percent. A total of 3,644 immigrants were jailed last fiscal year in this region, down from 5,042 the year before.
Federal officials say the figures here and nationwide reflect an effort to focus specifically on deporting recent border crossers and immigrants with criminal records, a narrower subset of the illegal immigrant population.
Advocates for immigrants hailed the shift and are pressing officials to release even more immigrants from jail. But others say that the shift is perplexing because the federal government dramatically expanded the Secure Communities fingerprinting program last year in New England, increasing its ability to detect immigrants here illegally. Some say the expansion was expected to lead to more jailings, not fewer.
One theory is that in New England, and especially in Massachusetts, immigration officials are under pressure to lessen enforcement. "You're seeing less enforcement and that's part of the problem," said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, who has seen the number of immigrant detainees at his North Dartmouth jail decline from 200 a day to as low as 150 a day. "We've become kind of a sanctuary state."
Enforcement is expected to be a major sticking point next year if Congress takes another crack at overhauling the nation's immigration laws. President Obama favors a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants here illegally, including about 160,000 in Massachusetts, according to the Pew Research Center. But critics say failing to enforce immigration law across the United States, and not just on the border, could endanger support for any legislation.
A senior Obama administration official said on Friday that federal officials are enforcing the law, but in a targeted way that ensures that the most serious offenders are deported. Last fiscal year, federal officials deported 368,644 people, a 10 percent drop from the previous year, but 59 percent of those deported had a criminal record, an increase from prior years.
Some 82 percent of those deported from interior states such as Massachusetts had been convicted of a crime. "We've been very clear since 2009 that our focus was going to be on border security and public safety," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Others cautioned that there are other possible explanations for the drop in detentions in New England. Some immigrants may have been moved from Massachusetts and other states to larger immigration jails in Texas or Georgia before being deported. Others might still be facing deportation even if they are not in jail.
And thousands of immigrants are in the midst of deportation proceedings in Boston's immigration court, which is so clogged that some judges are scheduling deportation hearings into 2018.
"It seems that immigration court is busier than ever," said Matthew J. Maiona, a Boston immigration lawyer.
Because the federal immigration system is largely secret, it is impossible to identify the immigrants who were deported, track their court cases, or verify their criminal history.
Advocates for immigrants also remained skeptical of the administration's detention and deportation figures, and have continued to call for the release of even more immigrant detainees. They say the continued deportations are separating parents from their US-born children and creating unnecessary fear as Congress works toward a possible solution for those here illegally. In recent weeks, activists have blockaded immigration jails in New Jersey, California, and Virginia in an attempt to halt deportations. In Massachusetts this year, detainees staged a hunger strike at the Suffolk County jail, which contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house detainees.
"No one who's undocumented should be put in prison like that. That's crazy," said Peter Lowber, a member of the steering committee of the New Sanctuary Movement, a group in Greater Boston that advocates for immigrants and has rallied at Suffolk. "I'm glad the numbers are down. It's outrageous."
But others said the latest statistics suggest that enforcement is weak. "Enforcement is right now about as bare bones as it can get," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based organization that favors tougher limits on immigration. "It's a problem for communities because that's more people who are going to keep trying to come here illegally and settle here illegally. It's more job opportunities lost for Americans and legal immigrants."
She said the decline was especially confusing in Massachusetts, where federal immigration officials expanded the controversial Secure Communities program from Boston to the rest of the state in May 2012. The program automatically checks the fingerprints of everyone arrested by state and local police against immigration databases to identify immigrants subject to deportation.
The Patrick administration opposed the expansion, pointing out that Secure Communities has ensnared many immigrants who have never been convicted of a crime, and Boston's mayor-elect, Martin J. Walsh, has said he would withdraw Boston from the program, if he could. Federal officials have said the program is mandatory.
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Clean Water Coalition Sues State Over Farm Rules
After years of fighting to get farmers to monitor and report what substances they're discharging into the groundwater and ocean — a battle that resulted in approval of a new plan earlier this year — a coalition of clean water advocates is once again turning to the courts to get the state to implement the rules.
Last Friday, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, the Otter Project, San Luis Obispo Coastkeeper, and California Sportfishing Protection Alliance sued the State Water Resources Control Board for agreeing to delay the requirement by the Central Coast regional board that farms of a certain type and size verify the pesticides, nitrates, and other potentially toxic agricultural substances they use.
"These are basic things that should be happening anyway," said Channelkeeper's Ben Pitterle, who explained that unchecked ag discharges have led to unsafe drinking water in some regions and poor ocean water quality that affects species like the otter. "We think people have the right to know who's discharging what into the state waters."
The state board issued a stay on the verification rule as it works through appeals that have been filed by farming interests, which fear the rules would be too costly and onerous.


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ST. LOUIS – Jeff Carter scored twice for the first time since the Stanley Cup clincher, helping the Los Angeles Kings keep the slumping St. Louis Blues down with a 4-1 victory on Monday night.
Brian Elliott has been in net the last four games of the Blues' five-game losing streak, during which time they've allowed 26 goals. Elliott made 19 saves in a surprise start a day after Jaroslav Halak was activated from injured reserve, led the team onto the ice for the pregame skate and was listed on the game sheet. Halak apparently tweaked a groin strain, although the team had no comment on the switch.
Jonathan Bernier was solid with 21 saves in just his second start of the season for the Kings. Los Angeles outscored the Blues 15-6 while eliminating them in five games in the second round of the playoffs last spring en route to the Stanley Cup finals.
Davis Drewiske made it 3-0 at 13:22 of the second period with his first goal of the season on a power play. Alex Steen scored on a power play in the final minute of the second for St. Louis with Andy McDonald earning his 300th career assist.
The five-game skid is the first since Jan. 2-12, 2011, for the Blues, who began the season 6-1. It's their first five-game losing streak at home since Jan. 23-Feb. 6, 2010.
Carter tapped in a backhander on a break-in with Slava Voynov at 8:31 of the first, just the Kings' fifth first-period goal of the season, then got behind defenseman Ian Cole for his sixth of the season early in the second. Drewiske was wide open in the slot off a feed from Dustin Brown.
The Kings are 89-1-10 their last 100 games when leading after two periods, and got insurance on Jarrett Stoll's second goal of the season that made it 4-1 early in the third. Voynov earned his second assist on the play.
Elliott entered the game 3-4-1 with a 3.51 goals-against average and coach Ken Hitchcock said after a 6-5 shootout loss to the Ducks on Saturday that he'd start rookie Jake Allen against Los Angeles if Halak wasn't ready to go. Allen was assigned to Peoria, Ill., when Halak, 3-0 with a 2.10 goals-against average and two shutouts, was activated on Sunday.
The Kings entered as the NHL's lowest-scoring team and matched their season best for goals.
Notes: Carter's last two-goal game during the regular season was March 3 against the Ducks. ... Attendance of 14,498 was the Blues' lowest of the season, more than 4,000 shy of capacity. ... The victory was Bernier's first since March 17, 2012, over the Predators. ... The Blues have scored on the power play in six straight games.


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By Naima Morales Cozier, AIDS.gov Training Adviser
The cultural diversity of communities of color is to be celebrated. We have overcome adversity and barriers at every turn with the hope of change. With this same determination, we face the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Communities of color disproportionately account for an alarming number of HIV/AIDS cases. As an Afro-Latina, HIV/AIDS prevention advocate, and public health professional, I am very familiar with our challenge. The statistics and numbers constantly run through my head: African Americans account for almost half the number of people living with HIV; Latino/Hispanics account for 17% of new HIV infections in the U.S. in 2006; rates for new infection among Native American/Alaskan Natives are higher than whites, though American Indians and Alaska Natives make up 1.5% of the total U.S. population. There is much work to be done.
Minority-serving Institutions (MSIs) of Higher Education (e.g. Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities) have a vital role in the response to HIV/AIDS since persons of color between the ages of 13-24 are one of the groups most affected by the epidemic. Also, this demographic is increasingly communicating online. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project , 93% of young adults are online, 72% use social network sites, and more than 93% own a cell phone. With respect to young people of color, young African-Americans and Hispanics are not only more likely to use cell phones than whites, but are also more likely to access the Internet from their phones. We've begun working with MSIs to provide training and technical assistance about effectively using new media in response to HIV/AIDS. Institutions like Alabama A&M University's student organization CODE 3 Awareness and Albany State University's HIV/AIDS peer educator program continue to inspire me to learn and do more.
In addition to our new media efforts, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has partnered with MSIs to reduce HIV/AIDS disparities. There have been a number of funding opportunities for MSIs that address the health gaps racial and ethnic minority communities face. Various HHS agencies, including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), and the Office of Minority Health (OMH), have funded HIV prevention initiatives. In order to learn more, I spoke with Timothy Harrison, Program Analyst at the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy (OHAP).
Mr. Harrison told me about a stakeholder meeting that was held with MSIs to better understand what prevention activities are happening with federal agencies and offices with existing MSI programs. A second meeting included Federal agencies, MSIs, community-based organizations (CBOs), and AIDS service organizations (ASOs) to discuss HIV prevention program elements and components of a funding announcement. The two stakeholder meetings were crucial to help shape this funding opportunity known as the Minority Serving Institution (MSI) HIV Prevention Sustainability Demonstration Initiative (PDF 152 KB). OHAP hopes this initiative encourages MSIs to think critically and creatively about HIV/AIDS/STD prevention on college and university campuses.
Mr. Harrison noted that between five to eight colleges and universities will be funded. Applicants will be asked to develop a sustainable HIV/AIDS/STD prevention program, implement the program, and document the entire process. He expects the initiative to further increase Federal agency collaborations and opportunities to share lessons learned about prevention programs on MSI campuses. Selected programs will focus on sustainability beyond the timeframe of Federal funding (for more information about the announcement, please email Dr. Chanza Baytop at firstname.lastname@example.com ).
As a graduate of a Historically Black University, I am well aware of the opportunities and need for HIV prevention programs on campus. AIDS.gov is looking forward to working with HBCUs and other Minority-serving Institutions of Higher Education on new media initiatives. Do you have any examples of Historically Black Colleges and Universities using new media to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic? We would love to hear from you.


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A place for folks in Ohio to swap ideas, advice and materials.
Location: Ohio
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Latest Activity: Apr 2, 2013
How many here use season extension to grow longer into the year. We have been using high tunnels and row covers for the past 15 years and grow almost year round here in the Miami Valley.
Started by Lucy Goodman. Last reply by richard maxwell Feb 19, 2013.
What types of vegetables and things are you folks planting this year? Have you been able to get much in the ground yet this spring?
Started by lexirain2001. Last reply by Heather Skerl Spegal Jun 15, 2011.
Hi just joined this group and see that you are asking about garden planting. I have put in some fruting trees and bushes this year and most are doing ok. My Tomatoes, corn, popcorn, watermelon, cantelope and chard, sweet potatoes and herbs are going well too. Have some things to get in but the time sensitive ones are in and doing well. Been really cool for us her just South of Cedar Point. 1 county down we still get some lake breezes here. Supposed to be partly cloudy today but so far is it fair and sunny. Good luck to all on their gardens.
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Climate change looks far more threatening than it did six years ago as the world marches toward a warming of 4 degrees Celsius higher by the end of the century compared to the preindustrial era, said Lord Nicholas Stern, a professor of economics and chairman of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics.
Stern called for new and better climate models and better economic assessments of climate impacts but maintained that the main obstacle to action is political will.
The former World Bank chief economist was critical of his own 2006 review on the economics of climate change, a document considered seminal to climate change discussions, which estimated that the overall cost of climate change would shave off at least 5 percent of gross domestic product growth annually. Stern said that the review underestimated the "immense risk" from global warming. He made a similar admission and warning earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Speaking at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C., Stern painted a gloomy picture of emissions being at the top end of the Stern Review projections, sea ice decline and ocean acidification occurring faster than anticipated, and growing impacts from feedbacks and tipping points not factored into climate models.
The current rate of greenhouse gas emissions will warm the world much more than the targeted 2 degree Celsius above preindustrial levels by the end of the century, according Stern. Even if nations stick to the emissions reduction commitments they made at the 2010 U.N. climate conference in Cancun, Mexico, temperatures will rise between 4 and 5 degrees, causing boundaries for deserts, coastlines and rivers to be redrawn. These issues of human welfare need to be factored into climate models, Stern said.
Life-affecting changes
He drew on the example of climate models that predict a 20 percent loss in agriculture in India with a 4-degree-Celsius rise in temperature. The models do not factor in further deterioration due to loss of snow in the Himalayas that would lead to destruction of rivers or for radical changes in the south Asian monsoon. "Some of the questions we have to ask are what really affects human life -- extreme weather events, inundation, desertification. That's what affects human life," Stern said.
Also missing from current climate models are the lasting and dynamic impacts of extreme weather events. "Some close friends in Pakistan tried to describe to me with what happened in the floods in 2010. They said development was put back by 20 years. If you put back development by 20 years every 10 years, you are going backwards," he said.
Similarly, according to Stern, economic assessments underestimate impacts of climate change, place a modest price tag on carbon, and don't make room for loss of capital, labor and land in the future. The economic scenarios fail to recognize that future generations may be poorer and growth could be reversed, he said. He called the discussion of discounting in climate change "purely awful."
Another major failure of economic policies, he said, has been the pricing of hydrocarbons. "You cannot believe two things together -- that the price of hydrocarbons is right and the world has a 50-50 chance of holding to 2 degrees [Celsius]," Stern said.
The economist said that world has to make the transition to a low-carbon economy with innovation, investment and dynamism. "We have to see this alternative path as a new energy industrial revolution. We must divide emissions output by a factor of seven or eight," said Stern pointing to the fast-falling costs of solar energy technology as evidence that it can be done.
Technical progress is needed not only in alternative energy technology but in hydrocarbons, as well, and for developing other lower-emission bridge fuels, like natural gas, in the move toward fossil fuel-free economies, he said.
Political inaction on climate change may have been largely due to the global economic crisis, but Stern was emphatic that growth and climate management are not antithetical. "We must be very careful to think of development, mitigation and adaptation as together. Sometimes they get separated out. That's a logical and policy mistake of great magnitude," he said.
Climate change on the agenda for IMF, World Bank
Stern said it is time for governments to invest in low-carbon growth with clear and credible policies and instruments to manage risks. "We can't portray this as an artificial horse race of growth on the one hand and climate responsibility on the other," he said.
The political environment for action on climate change in 2014 is as good as it is going to get, said Stern, with U.S. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande promising action on reducing emissions, promoting clean energy and pricing carbon.
The IMF's chief managing director, Christine Lagarde, and the World Bank's vice president of sustainable development, Rachel Kyte, also spoke at the event, throwing the combined weight of their institutions behind climate-smart economic policy.
Lagarde said that the IMF's core mandate is to provide policy advice and technical assistance to countries on all issues directly and indirectly related to issues of growth, and climate change is central to revenue raising, sustainability and stability. "The same goes when we offer some expertise on carbon pricing. We must get prices right. It has many ramifications in terms of climate change and revenue raising," Lagarde said.
Lagarde and Kyte said that it is the role of global financial institutions to provide poor people the cushion when climate change pulls the rug from under their feet. Therefore, Kyte said, "It is not bizarre, odd, weird or off point for the IMF and the World Bank group to be talking about climate change as the next big economic risk."
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500


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Lambda Chi Alpha — 515 West Jennison Street
Alpha Kappa Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha was founded in 1918 on the Wabash campus. Since then, we have initiated 1,446 brothers. We have a rich history of academics, athletics, and extracurricular activities, and continue to be very competitive academically on campus as well, maintaining a house GPA within the top three living units. Not only are we one of the largest fraternities on campus, we are a house of leaders. Brothers and associates are active in Student Senate, Newman Center Catholic club, Society of Physics Students, Unidos por Sangre, AMPED, and Alpha Phi Omega. We also have seven members of the Sphinx Club as well as several captains of Wabash athletics teams.
We have brothers who perform exceptionally in swimming, track, baseball, basketball, football, rugby, the wind ensemble, the jazz band, the glee club, Wamidan, Spanish club, the biology society, and the chemistry club.
Contributing to the Crawfordsville community, the brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha frequently volunteer at the local Boys and Girls Club and our local animal shelter. We also provide canned goods through the Lambda Chi Alpha national food drive, recognized by the fraternity on a national scale for our involvement. Members of Lambda Chi Alpha know how to keep busy and make a difference our campus and in the local community.
Lambda Chi Alpha Leadership
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Notable Alumni
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Halloween brings forth many thoughts a creepy critters and spooky beasts that make our imaginations run wild and our nightmares seem like a reality. Cast your vote below on the creature that gives you the shivers. Be sure to check in on Friday for the results!
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Church in Vrhovlje pri Kožbani
The village Kojsko prides itself on the oldest winged altar, whereas the Church of Saint Andrew in Vrhovlje prides itself on the oldest frescoes in the Brda region. They are found on the walls of presbytery.
Among other motives, scenes from the life of the Holy Family can be observed, as well as scenes of other saints and apostles. The images of angels with various instruments belonging to the second half of the 15th century are a special attraction.
The church is situated at the top of the hill and is of the so called Primorska type – the roofed space in front of the entrance, which used to be covered with stone plates ( called škrle in the Primorska dialect ), and the bell tower with the spindle, are typical of these churches.


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There's a lot of activity going on in the animal world this summer.
We're keeping a close eye on the salmon that are making their journey north to spawn in Alaska and we're also checking on the guinea fowl "keets" that are beginning to hatch in Nebraska.
Around July every year, salmon begin to swim upstream to spawn. In Juneau, Alaska, Steep Creek is a great spot to watch this event.
The U.S. Forest Service has placed a live-streaming "fish-cam" in Steep Creek. We could spend hours watching the video, waiting for the chance to see salmon rush by in the stream! It's definitely something you don't want to miss!
For more information about salmon runs, visit the USDA's Steep Creek Fish Viewing site.
Guinea Fowl
What do you think of when you hear "guinea fowl"? Do you picture a light, medium-sized bird that loves eating the insects and pests that destroy your crops? Do you think of a "watchdog" that makes a loud call at the slightest disturbance?
If you guessed those traits, you're thinking of a guinea fowl!
Recently, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County saw some guinea "keets" start to hatch. Check out their "egg cam" to get a closer look.
If you're interested in adding a guinea fowl to your farm, read The Prairie Homestead's post about them.
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Dr. Christina Catlett was working in the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital when word came of a shooting just floors above. Paul Warren Pardus had killed his mother, shot her physician and then taken his own life.
The facility quickly locked down amid fears that the shooter was still active, but Catlett and her colleagues went right back to work on their patients, now among them wounded colleague David B. Cohen.
"My first concern was for my patients and staff," Catlett said.
Law enforcement officials say people confronted with public violence must decide whether to run, hide or fight. But at a national symposium hosted Friday by Hopkins, experts said the 2010 Baltimore incident raised important questions about how medical professionals can stay safe as they care for vulnerable patients.
Dr. Gabor D. Kelen, who heads the department of emergency medicine and serves as the director of Hopkins' Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response, said in an interview that there is no centralized set of guidelines for hospitals. He hopes to create a reference for others to follow.
"What should I, as an individual do, if I feel someone on my floor has a gun? … We've had it in the back in our minds. What if this really does happen, what am I supposed to do?" he said. "We're cautiously optimistic that we will find some reasonable, meaningful steps to take to the staff."
Hospitals, like other public places, are trying to reconcile how to improve security while maintaining an open, welcoming environment.
In addition, symposium participants said, institutions face increasing concerns over liability for what happens on their property, but are limited in their ability to restrict firearms because of constitutional concerns.
James G. Hodge Jr., a professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and a conference participant, said that "hospitals are really vulnerable right now." They tend to have less security than courthouses and other public places. "In a setting where emotions are running high, these events are predictable," he said.
Hospitals around the country have dealt with violent incidents. In Long Beach, Calif., a hospital pharmacy employee killed two colleagues in 2009. An Akron, Ohio, man fatally shot his wife in a hospital in what authorities described as a "mercy killing" in 2012, according to news reports.
And just last month, a man took his own life inside the lobby of a New Jersey hospital emergency room.
Kelen said the Johns Hopkins shooting in September 2010 "really got us thinking in a very serious way."
"Hopkins did have a plan. Hopkins did execute it," he said. "This was a normal guy who had been visiting his mother and all of a sudden had gone off. It wasn't easy to recognize."
Shortly after the shooting, Kelen, Catlett and two other researchers studied hospital shootings and found that they are rare occurrences and that most "involve a determined shooter against a specific target."
Kelen said high-tech security devices are not very effective, given the amount of medical equipment — such as wheelchairs — that must pass through hospital entrances. Also, he said, it is impractical to screen critically injured or seriously ill people who need urgent treatment.
Hodge said hospital officials are still looking for better ways to vet patients and other visitors.
Medical facilities are increasingly held responsible under "premises liability," he said, under which plaintiffs can win civil awards because of hazardous conditions. Premises liability is no longer restricted to the physical condition of the property, but whether violence can be prevented there, Hodge said.
It can be difficult to restrict guns entirely, he added. For instance, Hodge mentioned that Florida failed adopt a measure prohibiting guns at public hospitals because of Second Amendment concerns.
Other facilities now require training for staff, including nonsecurity personnel, while some in New York City and Detroit have installed metal detectors, and others have reduced the number of public entrances and hired additional security, creating environments similar to federal office buildings, he said.
One veterans hospital in Portland, Ore. is screening patients and visitors, he said, looking for potential psychiatric concerns in hopes of heading off danger.
People across the Hopkins' campus back in 2010 were ordered to shelter inside of rooms, uncertain whether a shooter was roaming the hospital corridors.
The emergency room was placed on lockdown, doctors began treating Dr. Cohen, and the department prepared for additional victims.
"It definitely feels different when you know your colleagues are affected," she said.
Police later determined that the gunfire ended quickly with the suicide, but the fear of an active shooter in a hospital building shut down the entire medical campus for several hours.
Catlett, who has been at Hopkins for 19 years, serves as the associate director of the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. She said staff are instructed to protect themselves first so they will be in place to care for victims.
But Catlett said those orders can be difficult to follow, because medical professionals instinctively put their patients first.
Since the shooting, Catlett said, she pays closer attention to patients' behavior, and said she relies on communication skills to help de-escalate potentially dangerous situations.
"I would always want to protect my patients first," she said. "I'm an emergency room physician."


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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Illuminating Fashion * The Morgan Library, New York * 20 May - 4 September 2011
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Monday, 30 May 2011
Free Draw - Gertie Wandel Cross Stitch Pattern Book to Give Away
To enter the draw just click on the flying angel below and tell me your idea of stitching heaven. The winner of the draw will be notified next Monday. Good luck!
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Sunday, 29 May 2011
Whether A Christian Woman Should Be Educated
This last cut is from Amsterdam, its maker is unknown and it was cut in 1686. All these images can be found in Geknipt! a fabulously illustrated Dutch language book which is a precious gift of my friend Erica. The ISBN is 90-5730-517-8. The Museum Martena, Franeker, in the north Netherlands (on the route between Harlinger and Leeuwarden in Friesland) that has a special room reserved to Anna Maria von Schurman - to discover more, click here.
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Saturday, 28 May 2011
The Scissor's Praise - The Work of Ueli Hofer
To see more of his work, just click here.
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Friday, 27 May 2011
Not Just a Pretty Box
This is a rare French musical Sewing Necessaire Automaton of around 1890. It has a key-wind two-air cylinder movement driving windmill sails and a rocking ship on stormy sea, in silk-covered case with ormolu mounts, with deep-purple buttoned satin interior lining, mirror in lid and fitted section for gilt scissors, thimble, stiletto, sewing needle and one missing tool. It measures just 7.75in. (19.5 cm) wide x 5.25in. (13.5 cm) high (the exterior has been restored with antique silk, interior lining and ormolu mounts are original). Musical sewing necessaries are only occasionally found with mechanical scenes fitted into their lids, and this form is particularly unusual.
This amazing necessaire is for auction on 28 May 2011 at Auction Team Breker of Köln, Germany. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or Telephone: +49 (0) 2236 38 43 40
to register your (absentee) bid. The estimate is 2,000 - 3,000 Euros.
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Thursday, 26 May 2011
Pricking - Not Only For Fingers, Not Only For Needlework - For Grand Masters, Too!
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Cat or Dog - Or Errrr?
And just one last word - or to be truthful - nearly twenty. The best cardigan for the chilliest, bleakest days, is always the one your loved one has just taken off!
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Stitched Memories of a Voyage Round the World
Bonhams have some splendid ship embroideries at their auction on 25th May. I particularly took a shine to Martin Forsberg's work entitled: In Memory of My Voyage Around the World - S.S. Memphis City of which you can see a detail above.
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Monday, 23 May 2011
And The Winner of The Official Buckingham Palace Guide Is
Just click here for more details.
And the winner of the Official Buckingham Palace Guide is Celeste from California.
And the winner of the Official Buckingham Palace Guide is Celeste from California.
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Sunday, 22 May 2011
The Sacred History of Knitting and Free Jigsaw Download
Here you can see the Buxtehude Madonna - so-called because the painting belonged to the altarpiece in Buxtehude, near Hamburg in Germany. Mary is knitting in the round as we were taught to knit socks at school - in this way there are no uncomfortable seams. So this fits in with Christ having a seamless garment that was rent and divided as spoil at His crucifixion. In The Sacred History of Knitting, Heinz Edgar Kiewe argues that sackcloth was really sprang - and also that Christ's seamless garment was wrought using a sprang technique.
I hope you enjoy your jigsaw this week. However, sadly, this is not going to work for Mac users. Instructions: Click here next Click Open, then click the .EXE file name and click Run, when you see the jigsaw puzzle, click Play Too many pieces? Try clicking on Trays on the top tool bar to create any number of resizeable trays to sort your pieces ........ you can also click the Cheat button and watch the puzzle solve itself! The software is by David Gray designer of Jigsaws Galore - the powerful jigsaw player and creator for Windows.
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Saturday, 21 May 2011
A Beautiful Deborah Cockin Start from Cristina in Portugal
just click here for more information. Cristina has a lovely stitching blog in English and you can visit her by clicking here.
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Friday, 20 May 2011
The Emma Dent Embroidery Collection at Sudeley Castle, Cotswolds
Samplers and Buttons blog was waxing most enthusiastic to me yesterday about her recent, wonderful visit to Sudeley Castle in the lovely Cotswolds. Situated near Winchcombe (a delightful town just a few miles north east of graceful Georgian Cheltenham), Sudeley Castle is well known for being home to Queen Katherine Parr, fond step-mother to Queen Elizabeth I. It is surprisingly unknown as yet for its wonderful collection of textiles. Nearly 100 years ago Sudeley Castle was rescued from its ruined state and restored by the Dents and the Brocklehursts, two leading textile firms at the time of the Industrial Revolution. To celebrate the restoration a new and extensive exhibition of embroidery and textiles was launched in 2007, built round the Emma Dent Embroidery Collection, one of the finest collections in the country. On display are examples of textile techniques spanning 400 years from a magnificent 17th century Stumpwork casket (with no less than 7 secret drawers), delicate lace, Whitework, costume and furnishings to sumptuous silk wall hangings and woven tapestry. Do visit if you can! For more details click here. For a free information PDF download just click here.
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
Tea Towels, Photography and Torchons
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The Flame of Stitching
This short clip celebrates the artwork called The National Unity Rushnyk, which arrived at the Ukrainian Museum in Manhattan's East Village on Friday 26th January 2008.
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Beaded Purses at Tennants on 21 May
To see more lots at Tennants, just click here.
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A Welsh teacher is accused of an inappropriate relationship with her female students, after she gave them presents, texted them, and took a shower with them.
According to the Daily Mail, Debbie Lloyd-Jones has left her job as head of music at Oakdale Comprehensive School, but she still faces a disciplinary hearing for her behavior with the girls, ages 13 to 16. Among her infractions:
— giving the girls gifts such as teddy bears, key rings, and money, which she asked them to hide from their parents
— sending one girl over 1,000 texts
— telling two girls, "I love you" via text
— showering with female students after a school musical
In the last incident, prosecutor Huw Roberts notes that "there may have been some horseplay and they splashed each other with cold water," but "there is no suggestion of sexual connotations." Lloyd-Jones seems to be accused more of playing favorites than of harassment, though her story has elements of both. Her excessive overtures to a few students must have put the others at a disadvantage, but it also may well have made the girls she "loved" uncomfortable — they may have wondered if their grades would suffer if they didn't respond to her texts and gifts with devotion of their own, sexual or no.
Lloyd-Jones isn't charged with a crime (her ongoing hearing is apparently non-criminal in nature), and it's possible that she'd be punished more harshly if she were male. Probably the same behavior in a male teacher — especially the showering — would be more likely to be seen as sexually threatening. But maybe the lesson of her case is that "being over-friendly to a small group of girls" is damaging whether or not sex enters into it. It can be fun to be a teacher's pet, but it can also rapidly earn you the resentment of the rest of the class, not to mention screwing up the classroom environment for everyone else. Lloyd-Jones definitely needs to learn that trying to make your students into your besties will not end well for anyone concerned.
Woman Teacher 'Shared Shower With Girl Pupils' And Sent One More Than 1,000 Text Messages [Daily Mail]
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Alex Ovechkin's latest on-ice indiscretion netted him a two-game suspension, a sore right knee and a new level of concern from his coach about his "pretty reckless" ways.
The league's two-time reigning MVP was suspended for two games without pay by the NHL on Tuesday for a knee-to-knee hit on
defenseman Tim Gleason in Monday night's 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.
Ovechkin's first NHL suspension will cost him $98,844.16 in salary. He'll sit out Thursday against Florida and Saturday at Philadelphia, although his sore knee might have kept him out of one of the games anyway.
"I regret that this has happened," Ovechkin said in a statement released by the team. "I'm glad that Tim wasn't injured because I never ever want to see anyone get hurt."
The initial concern was Ovechkin would be sidelined longer -- with a serious knee injury. The hit on Gleason was scary, but the Russian forward was back on the ice Tuesday morning in a red Capitals track suit about 25 minutes before the start of practice. He skated for less than five minutes but did not move at full speed. The Capitals said he was day-to-day with a sore knee.
"It's not a bad injury," Ovechkin said. "I thought it was going to be worse, but thank God I can walk, I can skate. Of course, it's a little bit sore, but it's not that serious."
Ovechkin was given a 5-minute major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct for the hit on Gleason, the second time in three games he's been ejected. Last week he was whistled for a 5-minute boarding major and game misconduct for a hit on Patrick Kaleta of the Buffalo Sabres.
Before hearing of the suspension, Ovechkin tried to plead his case. He said he didn't have time to pull back when Gleason changed directions while attempting to push the puck out of the Hurricanes' zone.
"I can do nothing about it," Ovechkin said. "It's just a moment of the game. I turned and realize I don't have time to stop."
Ovechkin was more defiant when asked about his style of play. No one scores goals better, but he also loves to hit. He leads the Capitals with 18 goals, 30 points and 44 penalty minutes. He missed six games earlier this season with an upper body injury, the first time in his career he's had an injury that cost him more than one game.
"I just play my game and I just enjoy my time and I enjoy my life," Ovechkin said. "It's me, and it is what it is."
"I play risky," he said. "I won't try and hit and make some people get hurt, but people sometimes turn right away and I don't have time to realize and stop. What can you do? You can do nothing."
Coach Bruce Boudreau isn't so sure anymore. After two years of essentially letting Ovechkin be Ovechkin, Boudreau said it might be
time for a heart-to-heart talk.
"He's pretty reckless," he said. "It's hard telling a guy that scores 60 goals a year to change the way he plays. At the same time, I don't want to see him getting hurt. Maybe he has to pick his spots a little better. The open-ice hits, you just look around the league. It's not only the hitter, it's the guy that gets hit. ... It's something that will have to be addressed by us, I guess. ... Not only as a coach, but as somebody who admires him, I just don't want him to put himself in harm's way, so we'll see."
Boudreau said Ovechkin isn't trying to play dirty.
"Alex plays hard," Boudreau said. "All the time. I don't think there's a malicious bone of him trying to hurt anybody. He just plays hard and he plays to win every shift. And it's a really fine line between taking that away from him, and I don't see how you can take it away other than talking to him and saying, 'We don't want to put you in that situation any more.' But when he gets out there, he just wants to win so badly he does whatever we can for that team to succeed."


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Okay, I've finally done it -- my first video tasting note. The video quality, admittedly, isn't great for much of the clip, but now that I know my Flip Mino doesn't handle closeups very well, we'll work on that. Maybe I'll even appear on camera one day. For now, I'm just learning the best way to use the camera.
The name New York Wine TV is obviously a working one as well -- pretty boring. But, I want to get more video on LENNDEVOURS and this is one way to do it.
I also know that Evan is at a vertical tasting today with his new Flip camera, so there's another source of sure-to-be-interesting video blogging.


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The Green Schools Conference and Expo is coming up! From March 21–22, education, facilities and green building leaders and advocates will gather in Atlanta, Georgia, for professional development, networking and advancement of the green schools movement.
Register now—early bird pricing ends Jan. 27.
Here are the top five reasons to come to GSCE 2017, broken down for educators, administrators and facilities and building professionals:
- Get ideas for how to make the outdoors your classroom. Learn how you can develop a sense of place for your students in nature, using natural resources and sustainability to teach science and writing. Come away with a toolkit of new teaching habits that are designed to immerse your students in the natural world.
- Tackle the challenge of helping students to apply new concepts. Hear ideas on how to use data to empower student action, and learn how to craft projects that engage students in the concepts of sustainability and stewardship to the environment and their communities.
- Explore how to address math and literacy standards while exposing students to nutritious eating habits with a food preparation and taste test. Strategize ways to make lessons in gardening, the environment and nutrition relevant to students of all levels, and come away equipped with a model lesson that can be calibrated to fit your students.
- Maximize student engagement by using the context of the entire school environment and community at large. Break down the barriers and receive direct instruction in how to make sustainability cross-curricular, student-centered and empowering and fun for learners of all ages.
- Learn to use Visible Thinking Routines and Human-Centered Design to create a mindset of sustainability in your school community. Actively participate in sample activities you can replicate in your own classroom, and collaborate with others in your content area to brainstorm resources and best practices. Problem-solve obstacles you face within your professional learning community, such as time restraints, siloed curricula and the focus on high-stakes testing.
- Go beyond "buy-in" to integrate sustainability with all of your faculty and staff. Learn from experts who have defined an evidence-based professional learning framework that addresses shifting culture and teaching practice through effective, ongoing relationships. Explore how to grapple with the challenges of integrating education for sustainability within the constantly shifting landscape of education standards and with diverse opinions about the value of sustainability integration in our public schools.
- Acquire insight and key lessons in expanding administrative policies regarding wellness and sustainability using the framework of the WELL Building Standard to inform decisions geared at optimizing classrooms to address health, comfort and facilitate learning.
- Learn how to leverage space as the "third teacher" to positively influence the physical, mental and emotional health of students. Hear from experts about the architectural concepts that emphasize quality light, color, materials and acoustics, which reflect the growing national priority to plan and design high-performance school environments.
- Hear what it takes to build successful school–community partnerships to lead a school toward sustainability. Learn how to develop strong guiding principles that help all stakeholders filter important information, discuss options and consider educational models to support the best interest of the community.
- Better understand the innovation that happens when curriculum- and facilities-related decisions are integrated to promote sustainability. Explore a clear pathway for achieving a powerful level of collaborative leadership within a school district. Learn about educational leadership approaches and strategic partnerships that can reinforce school culture and practices that are in alignment with sustainability. Develop systems of measurement and evaluation to ensure desired educational and sustainability outcomes.
Facilities and building professionals:
- Embrace lessons learned by other school districts around strategic energy management. Learn to track data and take on financing challenges, behavior change, and community engagement in your school or district.
- Gain insight into school recycling, composting and other waste management efforts from the custodial perspective, including challenges that arise from the various circumstances facing facilities across the country, and learn how to implement an effective district waste management program.
- Learn how to optimize the connection between energy efficiency, student behavior and hands-on education, focusing on how to balance school population growth with energy demands in a way that engages students and is cost-effective and sustainable.
- Learn to tackle some of the greatest roadblocks to innovative school construction: mixing public and private funding, working within public school regulatory environments, balancing participatory design and the realities of getting a building constructed by looking at the whole campus rather than a single building as the organizing focus, and implementing "bleeding edge" construction technologies that are new even to construction partners.
- Learn how to work in tandem with school food professionals to reduce waste and associated costs. Explore examples of programs for reduction, recovery and recycling and the positive impact these programs have. Discuss how to reduce costs and the environmental impact of handling food and packaging throughout the full cycle of feeding children in school.


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Back on Mandolin Mondays this week, the incredible Alan Bibey is with us to play a fiery solo version of the classic swing and gypsy jazz number "Limehouse Blues," with his custom A40 replica mandolin.
Alan is a mandolinist who needs no introduction! He's made a huge mark on the mandolin and bluegrass world through his work with numerous award-winning projects, including The New Quicksilver, IIIrd Tyme Out, BlueRidge
North Carolina mandolinist Gabriel Wiseman of The JackTown Ramblers and his trusty 2004 Gibson Alan Bibey signature model are both with us this week for a few tasty turns on the old "Bill Cheatham."
Gabriel has been playing music for around 22 years and in that time he has recorded two solo albums as well as an album with The Wind Riders Bluegrass Band. His rhythmic mandolin back up helps to provide the drive to
Alan Bibey joins us this week to celebrate the 94th birthday of his incredible July 9th, 1923 Lloyd Loar mandolin. And what better way to celebrate than with a powerful rendition of a couple Monroe tunes: "Evening Prayer Blues" and "Old Ebenezer Scrooge."
Alan Bibey is a force to be reckoned with on the mandolin. He made a name for himself in bluegrass playing with such groups as The New Quicksilver, IIIrd


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Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be enough for anybody," which he supposedly said in 1981 to note that the 640KB of memory in IBM's PC was a significant breakthrough. Or his alleged comment that if General Motors "had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles per gallon."
The latter is listed at the snopes.com Web site as an urban legend, and Gates has addressed the 640KB quote in interviews. "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time ... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again," he told Bloomberg Business News in 1996. "Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement -- I said the opposite of that."
[ See InfoWorld's special report on Microsoft in the post-Gates era for more analyses and features. ]
To assemble comments Gates actually did make over the years, we poured through the extensive speech archive at the Microsoft Web site, as well as the IDG News Service story archives and other interview sources available on the Internet. Reading over speeches and old interviews provided a reminder that Gates is a visionary, a smart man with a range of knowledge about a lot of subjects.
-- "If I were a guy who just wanted to win, I would have already moved on to another arena. If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?" Playboy magazine interview, 1994.
-- "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." From his book, "The Road Ahead," published in 1996.
-- "I wish I got a chance to write more code. I do mess around. They don't let my code go in shipping products. They haven't done that for about eight years now. And when I say I'm going to come in and write this over the weekend, they don't really believe me quite as much as they used to." Sept. 26, 1997, speaking in San Diego.
-- "Well, remember, I don't own dollars. I own Microsoft stock. So it's only through multiplication that you convert what I own into some scary number." Playboy interview, 1994.
-- "I wish I wasn't [the world's richest man]. There is nothing good that comes out of that." 2006, speaking in Seattle.
-- "I have to say, it's kind of fun to be the underdog (when it comes to search) ... We've done more on this to build a great team then on any effort I can remember," he said. -- at advance08, the Future of Media, May 21, 2008, Redmond, Wash.
-- "And so it's fair to say what's going on today is like the arrival of the printing press, or the telephone or the radio. And these communications tools did have pervasive effects. They made the world a smaller place. They allowed science to be done more efficiently. They allowed politics to be done a new way. They had a modest impact on how people were educated, but people were optimistic that they would make a very big change. Now, the personal computer connected to the Internet is far more powerful in many ways than any of these other communications devices." Harvard Conference on Internet Society, May 29, 1996, Cambridge, Mass.
-- "The PC and the Internet are going to be fundamental. They're not there yet, but we're certainly on a course to do that, and it will be just like the automobile." Windows 98 launch, June 25, 1998, San Francisco.
-- "You know, in many people's cases, they decide they want to pass most of their wealth on to their children, and that's a perfectly legitimate choice. In my case, I think it's better for society and better for my children if the vast bulk of the wealth that I'm lucky enough to be shepherding at this point, if that goes back to causes that are important, things like access to technology, education, medical research, social services, and a variety of things." Interview with Charlie Rose, March 4, 1998.
-- "Well, one of the privileges of success in this country is government scrutiny, and that's OK. I mean, we have a very sexy industry. If you worked at the Department of Justice, which would you rather investigate -- bread or software? ... Our, I guess you could call it, 'dispute' with the Department of Justice is about over whether we need to cripple our products or not. That is, can we take a feature that was once available separate from the operating system, like a browser or a graphical interface or any of the other things we've done, and then integrate that into the operating system so that users don't have to go out and buy those separate pieces and they have one unified product that creates a simple user interface ... So with Windows 98, we're not changing anything we do there. Worst case, they'll ask us to create a crippled product as well as the normal product, and that would be too bad. That would really hold us back, so we're quite confident that won't happen. -- Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., Jan. 27, 1998.
-- "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. E-mail in Russia was very key in allowing people to get together and think about, did they want to revert back to the previous mode of government? In country after country, you can see that having these tools, there has really made a pretty incredible difference. ...
"When I first started thinking about philanthropy, I looked back and studied what some of the foundations had done over history, and looked at what kind of things could really make a difference, what kind of things could have a very dramatic impact. And one of the first causes I got attracted to was the issue of population growth, making sure that families had the information to decide exactly how many children they want to have, and with the goal there that if population growth is lower than it would be otherwise, the follow-on effect of that in terms of being able to have resources for education, for the environment, for every element of quality of life that you can imagine, that that would be a fundamentally advantageous thing." Digital Dividends Conference, Seattle, Oct. 18, 2000.
-- "So partly the reason the U.S. has the leadership we have today is that about 20 years ago, we had a high degree of humility. That is, we looked at Japan and sort of said, 'Wow, is their model superior, is there something about our model that could be strong.' And all these great things benefited from that approach. If during this period we don't retain at least some of that humility and look at what other countries are doing and learn from them, then our relative dominance will shrink faster than it should." Digital Dividends Conference, Seattle, Oct. 18, 2000.
-- "Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do." 1994 Playboy interview.
-- "Yesterday, one of my fine competitors, Scott McNealy, was here talking about the ring market, digital rings. And everybody always says Microsoft is trying to do everything. So I think it's important to state that this is one market that Microsoft will not be involved in." Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Jan. 10, 1998.
-- "The whole PC industry has come together around this launch. Windows XP is the most powerful, fastest, most reliable operating system we have ever done. We've poured literally billions of dollars of development into this new product. That was based on the feedback we had from our users, based on a vision of new activities that the PC could enable. The new security is very important. The privacy control is important. The messaging for real-time connections is a foundation. The new personal digital experiences; really we'll look back and say it's common sense, these are the ways that people deal with information. Together with Office XP, Windows XP will set a new standard for business." Windows XP launch, Oct. 25, 2001, New York.
-- "We are living in a phenomenal age. If we can spend the early decades of the 21st century finding approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits and recognition for business, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce poverty in the world. The task is open-ended. It will never be finished. But a passionate effort to answer this challenge will help change the world. I'm excited to be part of it." World Economic Forum, Jan. 24, 2008, Davos, Switzerland.
-- "Whenever new technologies come along, parents have a legitimate concern about how it's being used. And the Internet had to be high on the list there. You know, my oldest is 11, so we haven't quite gotten into the toughest years in terms of, you know, having Facebook accounts and spending a massive amount of time instant messaging. But I'm sure that's ahead. And we tended to keep our computers at home out in the open so that as the kids are doing things on the computer, they know we're going to be walking by at any point. And by doing it that way, we've avoided having to have much in the way of hard limits, either in terms of time or specific things. We're just all involved in seeing what's going on and talking about what those things are." Remarks to the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, March 12, 2008, Washington, D.C.
-- "Certainly when I was in high school, the computer was a very daunting thing, people talked about taking those punch cards you get in the mail and putting staples in them, so you could defeat that evil machine that was always sending you bills that didn't seem to be correct. And nobody thought of it as a tool of empowerment." University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Feb. 24, 2004.
-- "If I had to say what is the thing that I feel best about, it's being involved in this whole software revolution and what comes out of that, because you can go all over the world and go into schools and see these computers being used and go into hospitals and see them being used, and see how they're tools for sharing information that hopefully leads to more peaceful conditions, and just the great research advances that come out of that." Stanford University, April 25, 2002, Palo Alto, Calif.
-- "When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. We talked about a computer on every desk and in every home. It's been amazing to see so much of that dream become a reality and touch so many lives. I never imagined what an incredible and important company would spring from those original ideas." News conference announcing plans for full-time philanthropy work and part-time Microsoft work, June 15, 2006, Redmond, Wash..


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Passel of new patrol cars on Waynesville's shopping list
The town of Waynesville plans to buy 15 new police cars in the coming year for $500,000, a move that will assign each officer their own vehicle instead of having to share.
Waynesville police officers currently share vehicles, so their entire fleet is essentially in service 24-hours a day, seven days a week. That means vehicles wear more quickly. Although buying each officer their own car will cost $500,000 upfront, the investment will pay off by extending the life of the vehicles and saving on maintenance, according to Police Chief Bill Hollingsed.
Officers will also be able to take their patrol car home with them, allowing off-duty officers to respond to more quickly if called in for an emergency.
The new patrol cars will be financed over a five-year period. The town will make its first payment during fiscal year 2015.
Only Alderman Gary Caldwell opposed the idea, saying it was too costly.
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"It's just so much money," Caldwell said.
He recommended having assigned vehicles for only part of the force, such as the police chief, captain, DARE officer, the three K9 units, detectives, sergeants and lieutenants — but not for all patrol officers.
Caldwell said his thoughts on the program were not a reflection on the police department but were made out of concern for the town's financials, particularly given possible state tax reforms that could take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the town.
"I feel we need to evaluate the realities of our fiscal environment and avoid potentially operating in 'crisis' mode," Caldwell wrote in a letter to his fellow board members.