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For the chocolate glaze: Bring a medium saucepan full of water to a boil, then lower to a simmer. Combine the chocolate and the canola oil in a heat-proof bowl and set the bowl over the simmering water. Stir the chocolate and oil together until they are warm and completely melted. Do not allow the water to boil beneath the chocolate, and do not leave the chocolate unattended.
For the vanilla buttercream: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, paddle the butter on medium speed until it is soft and creamy. Add the confectioners' sugar and paddle the two together on medium-high speed until they are well combined and starting to fluff. Add the whole milk, vanilla and salt. Paddle on low speed to combine, then on medium-high speed until the frosting looks smooth and rich and creamy, 2 to 3 more minutes.
If preparing the buttercream ahead of time, store it in an airtight container at room temperature (about 72 to 75 degrees F is best) for up to 2 days. Otherwise, set it aside until ready to use.
For the sponge cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (or 325 degrees F if you have a convection oven).
Spray 3 jelly roll pans with nonstick spray. Line each with a piece of parchment paper and then spray again, making sure to coat the entire surface of the parchment paper lightly and evenly. Apply the same care to coating the edges of the pan with spray.
Bring a medium saucepan of water to a simmer.
Place the eggs and yolks in the bowl of an electric mixer. Whisk by hand to combine.
Add the brown sugar and vanilla and whisk again to combine.
Set the mixer bowl over the pot of simmering water and gently stir the eggs until they are warm to the touch and the sugar has dissolved. Do not whisk the eggs at this point and do not leave the bowl unattended.
Using the whisk attachment, whisk the eggs on medium-high speed until they are very light, fluffy and thick. This will take about 8 minutes
In the meantime, sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder. Repeat the sifting two more times.
Fold the dry ingredients into the whisked eggs in three increments, being careful not to lose volume in the mixing.
Finally, drizzle in the warm melted butter and gently fold it into the batter. It is ok to lose a little of the volume at this point. However, be careful to not end up with a completely liquid batter as this will bake into a dry, flat sheet that is not pliable.
Spread about 2 to 2 1/2 cups of batter on to the prepared jellyroll pans. Bake the pans for 2 minutes, then rotate them half way and bake for another minute or two. They are done when you can lightly touch the surface of the sponge cake without leaving your fingerprint marked on the surface. Allow the cakes to cool for about 20 minutes.
When ready, dust the surface of each cake with granulated sugar and cover it with another piece of parchment paper. Gently, invert the tray onto your counter, releasing the sponge cake from the tray. Very carefully, peel the parchment paper away from the sponge cake and set the paper down over the cake again. Gently grab the edges of both the top and bottom sheets of parchment and flip the sponge cake back over so the top is facing up again. Now release the top piece of parchment paper from the sponge cake as well. Repeat with the remaining cakes. With a ruler and a steady hand, trim the edges of each cake so that you are left with a rectangle that is 9-by-15 inches in dimension. You are now ready to start filling and cutting your rollos.
Using an offset spatula, spread an even layer of about 1 1/2 cups vanilla butter cream on the surface of one of the sponge cakes. Use a little more frosting if you need to in order to cover all the edges evenly. Using a ruler and a long serrated bread knife or a long chef's knife, cut the frosted sponge cake into 10 rectangles each measuring 3-by-4 1/2 inches. Then, one by one, roll up the bottom of each frosted rectangle towards the top of the rectangle and wipe any excess frosting off of the sides of each rollo with the offset spatula. Place each finished rollo on a tray covered with parchment paper. When finished with all of the sponge cake, place the tray of rollos in the freezer and allow them to set for 30 minutes.
Re-warm the chocolate glaze at this point if necessary. It should be fluid and warm, but not hot.
Using two forks, one for dipping and one for balancing, dip each frozen rollo completely into the chocolate glaze. Lift it out from the chocolate glaze and tap the fork on the side of the bowl several times to force excess chocolate to drip off the rollo. Place each dipped rollo on another tray covered with a clean sheet of parchment paper. Proceed with the rest of the rollos, placing them a safe distance of about 1 inch apart. Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
When the rollos are cold, gently lift them off the parchment paper to release them. Then trim the excess chocolate from each using a small sharp paring knife. Your rollos are now ready to be eaten and enjoyed. Ideally, they should be served as close to room temperature as possible, though some people prefer to eat these cold, or even frozen.
This recipe was provided by a chef, restaurant or culinary professional. It has not been tested for home use.
Recipe courtesy of Elizabeth Belkind of Cake Monkey Bakery, Los Angeles, CA


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Monday, 15 June 2015
One Last Gem from The Maritains
Posted by Supertradmum
I want to share a bit more from the book, Prayer and Intelligence.
This holy couple gives advice to the laity who are caught up in the frenzy of the world.
Here are some points to help the laity when events and time do not allow for contemplation.
1) Throw one's self into one's "littleness" and embrace humility.
2) Abandon one's self to God's mercy.
3) Abandon one's self to God's Providence.
4) Constantly give thanks for all thinks, taking joy in the Lord.
5) Be kind to all creatures, great and small.
6) Abstain from judging others.
7) Enlarge one's heart by admiring, understanding the freedom and variety of how God's ways are in the world.
8) Prepare one's soul for the counsels of perfection , if one is not able to do these (poverty, chastity, obedience) in the same way as religious in the ways outlined below.
9)Work on purity of heart, which "cleanses the intelligence and the will from the imprint of created things...a spiritual chastity"..
10) Work on detachment "which causes us to make use of ourselves and created things 'as if not using them'...a kind of spiritual poverty".
11) Abandon one's self to Providence, "which causes us to cast all our care on God and give us up to his good pleasure....like a spiritual obedience, which penetrates to the most intimate depth of the soul, and, while it makes us free of the whole created world, (and) obliges us to depend in everything on the conduct of the Holy Spirit."
This is the whole perfection series in a nutshell.
In these ways, the Maritains write that one will be able to take up one's cross daily, faithfully following the Lord, and living in His Presence. In addition, one will "adhere with his whole soul...to Him who is above all thought and who wishes to transform us into himself by love."
Actually, I shall return to this book again at a later time,,,as there is more.

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Working toward providing quality, accessible online learning for my students...one small step at a time.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
PLNs....not just for teachers.
After that jargon filled, cliche ridden, Bloom's taxonomy flavored introduction, you must see where I'm going with this.
Illustration : Anna Borska, « Woman Computer Scientist/Kobieta Informatyk », 18.7.2009, Flickr (licence Creative Commons).
Note all words that make a student cringe are identified in quotations.
What if my highschool English students were given the opportunity to pursue a passion of theirs as a "unit" of study? What if the "assignment" were simply to pursue their passion? Take a topic and research it, compile information about it, reflect on it, create on it, share it, act on it. What would the "criteria" be. How would it be "assessed"?
Would this cause them, as I am now, to write a blog post on a Saturday night and peruse their RSS feed for hours while simultaneously taking part in a free online course instead of watching the movie they'd rented earlier?
Okay...now I'm getting silly, but you get my drift (and for the record, I don't do this every Saturday night).
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I wonder how much structure we would have to provide most of our students to make a unit like this work? If it could get them turned on to learning in this way it would be really worth it. I also wonder how many of our students already do have a good PLN and how does the structure of their PLN differ from that of our generation. Food for thought...ReplyDelete
What a great study that would be! Hmmm...Masters here I come?ReplyDelete
Jodie - I'm with you on this. I often find myself following my passion/interest like you do, and sometimes it's at the weekend.ReplyDelete
If this was offered in the right way to the student's, and they could see the perceptable benefits to them (and scheduling it around other activities and responsibilities) then I could see this taking off ... but I can't see the Institution(s) either understanding it or being interested in it.
Pity, we might get better work and results from everyone involved if we centred it around their interest/passion instead of greed or need.
Thanks, and all the best.
I like the way Google approaches this with the 20% rule. They give all of their employees 20% to think about and do whatever they want. There are no guidelines. In that 20% a lot of really great innovations and new thinking has occurred. We use our 20% to write and reflect and enrich our practice. I think this is a necessity for students and unfortunately we aren't providing time for it.ReplyDelete
I didn't know that about Google employees. Very interesting. I wonder if many of my students would know what to do with themselves for that time, or would they be waiting for someone to tell them what to do?ReplyDelete


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Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Clubserving Bedford, Blair, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Elk, Huntingdon, Jefferson, Juniata, McKean, and Mifflin counties
|Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet
by Dr. Stan Kotala
If you're looking for a way to cool off and relax this summer, then I highly recommend a float on the Little Juniata River, affectionately known as the Little J, in Blair and Huntingdon Counties. This scenic and wildlife-rich stream offers some of the best attributes that central Pennsylvania waterways have to offer.
Although the Little Juniata River begins close to 20 miles upstream from Tyrone, near Penn State's Altoona Campus, it is consistently suitable for canoes and kayaks starting at Tyrone.
A great place to launch your canoe or kayak is at the large gravel parking lot on the south side of Route 453 just east of the Tyrone Exit off of I-99. It's fine to leave your vehicle in this lot. The parking lot is separated from the river by only 20 feet of gently sloping woodland, so launching here is very easy. The starting point is a water gap in the long westernmost ridge of Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley Province. To the north of the water gap, the mountain is called Bald Eagle Ridge and to the south it's called Brush Mountain, but it is all part of the same ridge that extends from Willamsport to Maryland.
The Little J is a world-class trout stream that is fished heavily. River courtesy dictates passing behind fishermen when possible. When boats pass over trout the trout will always stop rising, sometimes for one-half hour or more. Also, boaters should speak up when they are still upstream of fishermen and ask which side to pass on. It's also safer if the fisherman knows you are there so that he can stop casting. This will prevent inadvertent body piercings.
Soon after you launch, the calm waters pick up speed under the concrete Rt 453 bridge at Nealmont. Cliffs on your left downstream of this village force the stream to the right and create exciting waves in high water, which ends at the railroad bridge at Tyrone Forge. The next bridge is the one between Tyrone Forge and Ironville, downstream of which are a series of tricky rapids that can swamp a careless boater.
Calm waters soon allow you to regain your composure and enjoy the large groups of mallards and Canada geese that frequently congregate on the still waters before you go under another bridge carrying Rt 453's traffic. This bridge is a signal for you to be on guard for one of the most exciting chutes on the river, which is a few hundred feet downstream. Although the waves are high, you'll likely make it through without taking a plunge if you just go with the flow!
You may need to bail some water out of your boat after the Ironville chute, but you'll have plenty of time to do so as the next section is a long stretch of flat water paralleling Rt 453. You'll pass under the steel bridges at Silver Barn Road and Pine Hill (Irish Flats). Note the shamrocks on the iron work. Take time to enjoy the scenery, especially some of the large sycamores and tulip trees you'll see in this area. Also watch for river birds such as great blue herons, green herons, common mergansers, wood ducks, and belted kingfishers, all of which are constant features of the summertime Little J.
The river then turns right, away from Rt 453 and into a deep gorge heralded by a railroad bridge. The water here is swift and bouncy, with tall cliffs to your right. Listen for the loud "pit-sa" call of the Acadian flycatcher on the hillside and the harsh rattle of the belted kingfisher as he flies along the stream. If you're lucky, you might see the kingfisher make a spectacular head-first dive into the water to catch small fish!
Shortly before you reach the small Schoenberger Bridge, you'll pass a large rock on the right side of the stream. During high water, this rock creates spectacular waves and is a favorite spot for "playboaters" who like to surf the waves.
Those opting for a shorter trip can take out at the Pemberton parking lot on the left side of the river before you pass under the concrete Pemberton Bridge. Parking in this lot is by the courtesy of New Enterprise Stone and Lime Company, so please observe the parking signs. Travel time via the river from Tyrone to Pemberton is about and hour and a quarter. While at this bridge, observe the nests and activity of cliff swallows and barn swallows. Both species nest under this bridge: the barn swallow makes cup-shaped nests while the cliff swallow makes fully-enclosed juglike nests, both species using mud as the construction material. Contrast this with the rough-winged swallow, which uses the crevices in the stone arch railroad bridges for its nest site.
Continuing downstream from Pemberton, you'll be surrounded by forest for several miles. You'll see lots of trout in the water, spotted sandpipers at the riverside, and possibly a barred owl flying across the river, particularly in the early morning or late evening. Sinking Run, a limestone stream that emanates from Sinking Valley, enters the river on the right. Look for old stone foundations of mills, part of a once-bustling forge on the right just before the river makes a sharp left-hand turn prior to entering a long stretch of flat water. Water speed picks up after the next railroad bridge. Listen for the songs of wood thrushes, scarlet tanagers, and yellow-throated vireos coming out the woods on both sides of the river. Interesting limestone outcrops on the left side of stream often are basking sites for northern water snakes, which the ignorant often mistake for copperheads.
After going under a few more railroad bridges, you'll pass the USGS Spruce Creek stream gauge on the right, shortly before entering the village of Spruce Creek. The take-out spot in Spruce Creek is at the parking lot of the white church on the right side of the river just before the concrete Rt 45 bridge. Parking (and a picnic table) in the church parking lot are provided by the church. Donations can be made in the Spruce Creek Outfitter's shop just across the bridge. Travel time via the river from Pemberton to Spruce Creek is 45 minutes.
If you choose to continue on, then you will be rewarded with the wildest and most scenic section of the river, the Little Juniata Water Gap — one of only a few water gaps in the Commonwealth that does not have a road running through it. After passing under the Rt 45 cement bridge you'll see Spruce Creek flowing into the river from the left, followed by a short stretch of open area on your left before entering a deep forested canyon. Here, in Rothrock State Forest's Little Juniata Natural Area, Tussey Mountain rises 1,500 feet above the river on each side, the scenery rivaling anything that our Keystone State has to offer. Bald eagles can often be seen cruising above the river looking for a meal. It's not uncommon to see an otter or a mink in this stretch of the river. You can relax and enjoy the wildlife because, except for the areas at the railroad bridges, the river is relatively gentle in this area, free of the treacherous chutes, rocks, and rapids that make the upper sections of the "Little J" a challenge.
The last take-out point for this trip is the DCNR Rothrock State Forest parking lot in the Little Juniata Natural Area at the end of Mountain Road near the village of Barree. Travel time from Spruce Creek to Barree is one hour.
As you can see, this trip can be broken up into several sections or done as a whole, with trip times lasting from about an hour to a whole day. There are numerous islands on the river suitable for resting and picnics. Further information about the Little Juniata River can be found on the websites of the Little Juniata River Association and the Juniata Clean Water Partnership.
So enjoy the Little J, a remarkable river close to home that lives up to Henry David Thoreau's adage: "The river is by far the most attractive highway."
If You Go: From State College, take Route 26 south to Pine Grove Mills, going straight through the light onto Rt 45 and follow it to Spruce Creek or continue on to Rt 453. Rt 453 parallels the Little Juniata River upstream to Tyrone. If going to the Little Juniata Natural Area, then take Rt 453 to Rt 22 east to Route 305, following it into Alexandria and turning left on Main Street and making a right at the road by the Mead Products factory. Follow this road through Barree, cross a bridge and make the first left, Mountain Road, which leads to the DCNR Little Juniata Natural Area parking lot.
Dr. Stan Kotala serves as the Endangered Species and Wildlife Chair for the Moshannon Group of the Sierra Club.


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Study: Low-Fat Diets Make You Fatter
A thorough research study conducted by the Washington University at St. Louis found that low-fat diets contribute directly to excessive fat storing in your stomach, thighs and bottom. Furthermore, people who attempt to lose weight by severely restricting their fat intake will actually cause their weight to gain because their liver needs more new fat to burn the stored fat in these areas of their body.
Is this not GREAT news?! For so many years we have been fed the lie that eating less fat is what will make us have that slender, healthy body we've always dreamed of. But this new research study proves that theory was not only wrong, but the complete opposite of what they have been telling us!
With this new evidence against the failed low-fat diets that have plagued our society for generations, isn't it time for people to wake up and see effective alternatives such as low-carb as a means for not only losing weight but keeping it off for good? I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that to happen in the medical community or the media anytime soon, though. They're too set in their ways regardless of what new research comes along to debunk every myth they have ever spread to people about weight loss and health.
Researchers in the study add that consuming more dietary fat can be an effective means for burning fat and losing weight in those areas where low-fat has not worked.
Stop the presses! This research basically states that eating fat is a g-g-good thing. People, this is revolutionary! After years and years of being told we need to cut out nearly every gram of fat completely from our diets, now we're being told that wasn't the best way to lose weight. Shazam! There might be hope for solving the obesity problem in this country yet!
So take a wild guess at which weight loss program promotes the fact that you need to eat more fat as part of a healthy way to lose excessive pounds? Hmmm, I wonder what it could be? Oh yeah, IT'S LOW-CARB!!! It seems that Dr. Atkins and everyone who came after him have been right all these years about the role of fat in a successful healthy eating plan. For those of us doing the low-carb lifestyle, this is nothing new. But I do think the medical "experts" and media who have willingly spread this big fat lie about low-fat diets owe all of us low-carbers an apology. Again, don't hold your breath.
The scientists who conducted this study advocated a "balanced diet" (look at the May 3, 2005 blog entry from Jonny Bowden about this subject) and eating less food.
Nobody ever really knows what scientists and doctors mean when they advise people to eat a "balanced diet," but all I know is I get everything I need to maintain my weight just fine on the low-carb lifestyle. In fact, this study concludes that their research vindicates the low-carb lifestyle as an effective weight loss program.
However, when it comes to weight maintenance over the long-term, they conclude the "balanced diet" is the way to go because (and you're gonna love this twisted reasoning) "it's easier to maintain for long periods of time."
Uh, hello? No it's not! I lost 170 pounds doing a low-fat diet in 1999, but the reason I gained back all that weight is because I COULDN'T KEEP IT UP OVER THE LONG HAUL!!! Where do these scientists come up with such idiotic conclusions to their research?!
The researchers in the study call the Atkins approach "extreme" and believe people who are making this their lifestyle choice "could be suppressing other dietary signals important for staying healthy."
Such as? What in the world are they talking about? Dietary signals? Staying healthy?
I'll tell you what, I've never been as healthy in my entire life as I am right now. I exercise 90-120 minutes per day, I eat incredibly delicious foods, I'm breathing good, my cholesterol is way down from where it was, my blood pressure is superb and life is good.
I think if an expert of health is going to make a claim like this, they need to expand upon their comments and say what they really mean. Unfortunately, it is my contention they are merely using these kind of statements as scare tactics to prevent people from starting a healthy low-carb approach to eating. Sadly, that's the narrow-minded politics of weight loss and health that will take much more than a few studies to turn around.
The findings of this study appear in the May 10, 2005 issue of the medical journal Cell Metabolism.
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Emaar Properties has released early designs for Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performance venue destined to be the crowning glory of its latest development: The Opera District.
It is envisioned that The Opera District in Downtown Dubai will generate global exchange through a comprehensive and engaging cultural scene, supported by high-end hotels, elegant residences, a retail plaza and recreational spaces.
While an architect is yet to be announced for Dubai Opera, Emaar's announcement of the project references traditional sailing boats of the Arabian Gulf as a point of design inspiration.
The main stage, orchestra and seating areas are said to be confined to the representative 'bow' of the building along with a sky garden and a number of restaurants, while the waiting areas, taxi drop-off and parking facilities are kept in the 'hull'.
Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar Properties, said: "Dubai Opera, which is central to the new arts and lifestyle district, will be a spectacular addition to Downtown Dubai, already home to global icons such as Burj Khalifa.
"The state-of-the-art opera house and the varied lifestyle components of The Opera District will energise Dubai's events and tourism sectors.
"With the city establishing its global reputation as an arts hub, the new development will also strengthen the 'Dubai Art Season,' which brings together the city's vibrant arts initiatives."


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Creamy Potato and Squash Gratin
Time needed
15 min preparation + 30 min cooking
Serving Size / Yield
6-8 servings
- 2 Medium Yellow Squash, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 lb. Red Potatoes, thinly sliced
- 3 Tbs. Olive Oil
- 4 oz. Reduced-Fat Cream Cheese, finely chopped
- Sea Salt, to taste
- Ground Black Pepper, to taste
- 1/4 C. 2% Milk
- 1/3 C. Reduced-Fat Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- Basil Sprigs, for garnish
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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Lightly grease a round 2-quart baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, combine the squash slices, potato slices, and olive oil, and toss to coat. Spread 1/3 of the squash and potato mixture across the bottom of the prepared dish, then season with salt and pepper. Top by sprinkling evenly with half of the cream cheese chunks. Repeat the layering process, finishing with a third layer of vegetables seasoned with salt and pepper. Pour the milk over the dish. Sprinkle the top with cheddar cheese. Cover with foil and bake for about 30 minutes until cheese is melted and casserole is warmed through. Garnish with basil sprigs before serving.
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Financial Freedom for Every EmployeeWritten by Dian Herdiana on 1:32 AM
You may think you have to be an entrepreneur to achieve your goal of financial freedom, but that is not necessarily true. While it is true that owning your own business is an excellent way to generate passive income, financial freedom is not entirely dependent on business ownership.
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Individual retirement accounts are another excellent way to both save for retirement and generate excellent passive income once you have retired. Most employees are eligible for these types of programs, and even a little bit saved each year can grow to a significant sum over a number of years. The younger you are the more your investment can grow. Don't overlook individual retirement accounts when you striking out on the road to financial freedom.
Even if you are working for someone else, there is no reason you cannot be a business owner as well. Many part time home-based businesses require little effort on your part once they are up and running. Once your part time home based business is off the ground, it can generate excellent passive income with little intervention on your part. Checking out these types of opportunities is an important part of planning for your long-term financial freedom.
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I generally work on my own so it's great when you get the chance to collaborate on a project, which is what happened with the one you'll find in the June edition of Ideas magazine. They had the idea and I came up with the designs and embroidered them – six plates on a tablecloth, each featuring a family member's favourite flower and positioned at their place setting. A sort of six-in-one design, if you want to look at that way.
You'll find complete designs for red and pink roses, two peonies, a fynbos paper daisy in bold blue, a sprig of delicate orchids, pink and yellow frangipani and brightly coloured cosmos (which you often see here growing in great swathes along the verges on road trips). It's up to you if you want to use them individually or recreate the tablecloth in its entirety. Either way, they're a pleasure to stitch and suitable for beginners right through to more experienced embroiderers, so give them a go. You'll find instructions for all the stitches used in my Stitch Directory.
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The European Union launched a challenge to Argentina's import restrictions 4 days ago at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. It is first requesting consultations with Argentina in a bid to have these measures lifted.
The restrictive measures which negatively affect the EU's trade and investment include Argentina's import licensing regime and notably the procedures to obtain an import licence as well as the obligation on companies to balance imports with exports. Consultations give the EU and Argentina the opportunity to discuss the matter and to find a satisfactory solution without resorting to litigation. If no solution is found within 60 days, then the EU can request a WTO Panel to be established to rule on the legality of Argentina's actions.
Three measures which run contrary to WTO rules for a transparent, free and fair trading system will be discussed in particular :
▪ Argentina subjects the import of all goods to a pre-registration and pre-approval regime, called the "Declaración Jurada Anticipada de Importación" applied to all imports.
▪ Hundreds of goods also need an import license and are systematically delayed or refused on non-transparent grounds on the basis of these procedures.
▪ Argentina requires importers to balance imports with exports, or to increase the local content of the products they manufacture in Argentina, or not to transfer revenues abroad. In addition, this practice seems to be a condition for obtaining the license allowing imports of their goods.


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Tangier I learned of an interesting connection between the American Legation, pictured here, and the Civil War.
In December of 1777, Morocco became the first country to recognize the United States. Diplomatic relations soon began and the American Legation, now a museum, was built in 1821.
One early consul was Felix Mathews. Mathews was living in California when the war broke out and organized a Union cavalry force in the California militia to patrol the area. He rose to the rank of colonel.
His service had started earlier than that, however. He had been in the navy and served with Admiral Farragut, who later commanded the Union navy during the Civil War. He spent time sailing the seas and suppressing the slave trade off the coast of Africa. Once he left the navy he went hunting silver in Utah and got into several skirmishes with the Indians.
His real name was Felix Mateo. He was born in Spain and immigrated when he was young. Like many immigrants, he Anglicized his name. Mateo/Mathews was appointed consul by President Ulysses S. Grant, another Union veteran, in 1869. His connections with Admiral Farragut probably played a big part in getting the job.
Home to author Sean McLachlan and the House Divided series of Civil War horror novels. A Fine Likeness, the first in the series, is available now. This blog is dedicated to the Trans-Mississippi Civil War and historical fiction, and occasionally veers off into adventure travel when I go somewhere interesting.
Looking for more from Sean McLachlan? He also hangs out on the Midlist Writer blog, where he talks about writing, adventure travel, caving, and everything else he gets up to. He also reproduces all the posts from Civil War Horror, so drop on by!
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
A Civil War veteran in Tangier
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A 600-hectare dream dies. What's next for food security?
The dream of a 600-hectare commercial-scale food hub in Horse Hill is dead. Done. It's obvious there is no support for it, said Gord Visser, who farms potatoes in the neighbourhood.
Here's a map from Jackie Clark, a berry farmer and nurse, illustrating just what that dream was:
New Map from NEAP with 600 HA Ag Land Res in HH on contiguous best food soil along river #yegfoodag #yegcc @DebMerriam http://t.co/To7OGU6K—
Jackie Clark (@horsehillberry) October 31, 2012
Read more about the new plans for Horse Hill in the in the Edmonton Journal here.
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Here's a map from the new area structure plan, nearly ready for the official city open house Nov. 29. Click on it to see a larger size. The full report should be available at the open house and before the public hearing.
Note that this is a draft as at Nov. 8.
Planners expect it to continue to undergo some changes until it's ready for city council's approval. The public hearing in front of city council is tentatively scheduled for January.
The military green squares (top right, and near the bottom) are the lands marked as permanent agriculture. The large red square mid left is commercial, with the little pink box being the walkable main street planned along Fort Road.
The blue is all of the provincial land and the darker brown is the existing residential. All those existing uses made planning difficult, according to Nancy MacDonald, an urban planner with Stantec.
The full plan suggests opportunities for things like community gardens, edible landscapes, wildlife corridors, and cluster residential development to preserve natural areas. But those details won't be worked out until the neighbourhood structure plan level.
The personal angle
Talking with both sides in Horse Hill, you can feel the stress. It's become a personal split in the community.
The landowners who support development say they used to support their farming neighbours, but then the farmers started selling off their land in the early 2000s. It then seemed hypocritical to argue farming should be preserved.
I asked Gord Visser about that.
It looks like the issue has been divisive among families, too.
What happened was one of farmer passed about two quarter sections on to his son, which is what had been agreed to in his succession plan.
But the son didn't believe in keeping the land in farming, like his father did. So as soon as he got the land, he sold it.
"It's a very difficult question to answer," said Visser. "It appears hypocritical that we're wanting to save lands that we've sold for higher value, and have them put into an agricultural zoning that would devalue them. I would agree with you that it is very difficult. I don't really have an answer."
What next?
When I spoke with Jackie Clark, she seemed really confused about why their lobbying effort failed, despite all the letters and a packed house for every public hearing.
She doesn't see this piecemeal approach as being viable for the long term at all.
She asked me what I thought.
That's difficult for me to answer. I'm not a columnist, so I don't like giving opinions. But I'll say publicly what I'd like to follow – this new North Saskatchewan River Basin plan.
The province has already developed plans for several other river basins in the province. Now Environment Minister Diana McQueen says the province will be looking here.
Coun. Ed Gibbons suggests that's the place to take this fight. If a food hub really is important to the long-term food security, health and nutrition of this city (and capital region), and is residents are behind it, then let's make it happen. But find a place where the soil is both good and affordable, and make it a regional issue.
Farming in the city should be limited to 20-acre (eight-hectare) plots and spread across the city, he says. There's lots of potential for improvement there.
But there is on thing that has become clear through this long debate, said Coun. Don Iveson. "There's huge public interest in nutrition and food security.
"The missing piece is talking about this inter regional context."
What do you think? Leave a comment below, email firstname.lastname@example.com or find me on Twitter @estolte.
Some related links:
Development website: Plan Horse Hill
News: Edmonton adopts Food and Agriculture Strategy
Advocate website: Friends of Farmers
Another view on the issue: Mack Male argues food and agriculture plans are derailed by northeast debate


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The word digs means place of abode or lodging, as in "he has moved into new digs." But why digs?
The word was originally diggings, dating to the first half of the 19th century. The word is glossed in the 1834 Dictionary of American English. And there is this from Joseph C. Neal's 1838 Charcoal Sketches:
I reckon it's about time we should go to our diggings.
And from Dickens's 1844 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit:
She won't be taken with a cold chill when she realises what is being done in these diggings?
The clipped form, digs, makes its appearance by the end of the century. From the 11 May 1893 issue of Stage:
"Being in the know" regarding the best "digs" can only be attained by experience.
But why diggings? It could be a reference to burrow. Or it could be an extension of miner's use to mean a place of excavation, and by extension the place where the miner lives and works. Use of diggings to mean a place of excavation dates to the 16th century. From John Leland's 1538 The Itinerary:
On the South side of Welleden...ys a goodly quarre of Stone, wher appere great Diggyns.
(Sources: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition; Historical Dictionary of American Slang)
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"Plurilingualism is a situation wherein a person who has competence in more than one language can switch between languages – from one language to another and vice versa – according to the circumstances at hand for the purpose of coping with a social matter.
Multilingualism, on the other hand, is connected to situations wherein multiple languages exist side-by-side in a society but are utilized separately.
Plurilingualism is derived from bilingualism. A consequence of plurilingualism is pluricultural competence.
In general, persons who are identified as plurilinguals had had contact with foreign languages through educational institutions; however the education system plays only a small role in the linguistic competence of these individuals".
The ability to interact with different languages makes communicative competence to take a new dimension as it can transfer knowledge from one language to another, it opens the range of resources to facilitate access to information and it allows social relationships.
During this school year I have planned different activities for the students to be in contact with different languages at the same time.
Some of these activities have been carried out with multilingual documents and they evaluate plurilingual strategies that students should be able to use for comparisons in the lexicon, in linguistic structures of different languages and in the making of new words from their own language.
For this, I have used multilingual instructive documents that come with lots of gadgets: a device operating instruction, instructions of a game or a recipe... I have used more complex texts as well: brochures of a castle, a park, a museum or exhibition.
For the activity described here I used the document "Pla d'Emergències davant les nevades" (Emergency Plan before snowfall)", published by the Generalitat of Catalonia in four different languages: Català, Castellano, English and Française
It can be done in two sessions, as long as it we have previously worked this dimension and plurilingualism strategies during all the primary education. I started the activity by reading the text in one language. Then, we observed the structure of the text: title, subtitles, paragraphs, key vocabulary...
Then, we compared the text and its grammatical structure, observing regularities between languages, common structures and common functions. We also practice some strategies for the comprehension of different texts in a multilingual environment.
Finally, I proposed a worksheet with three activities (in my case the instructions are in Catalan, but if the level is good enough it can be written in English), and I left time for solving them (without the help of dictionaries, of course!).
Since the objective of this work is to evaluate Plurilingualism and Intercultural Competence, students worked alone and were evaluated according to a rubric designed for this specific purpose. A self evaluation was also done in order to reflect on the strategies they used to complete the tasks.
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I am going to be taking a Daibetic Course through Florida Hospital's Diabetes Center. It is a 10 hr American Diabetes Association Recognized Program for Self -Management of Diabetes. I will be attending every Monday evening for the month of Jan. 2009. If there is a question that anyone wants me to ask the instructor while I am there…please reply to this blog and I will try to get the answer for you.
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Diabetes is incessant. By body part, diabetic experts are everywhere; feet, circulation, eyes, neurology, etc.
Where do you find the LOCAL experts for the psychological pieces of diabetes?
If it's a cognitive issue, what TOOLS should we practice/build to short-circuit the long term mental effects of diabetes in our future? Where do we get them… ?
Research showing any approaches, techniques working better than others e.g. the long term tools to help for the mental aspects of diabetes?
Where do I find them…
Am not sure. But judging from carb counting, and from what I've noticed, lower carb content is healthier it is. That and lower total carb count = lower insulin dosage for me :)
It is great that you are able to attend. I am sure we will all find what you learn interesting. I would be interested to know if they are going to give any information on using the glycemic index to make food choices. Hope I spelled that right. lol Let us know if they do, please.
It's wonderful that you have this opportunity. The more you learn, the better you will be. I don't have any questions at the moment, but I will now have someone to turn to for help in finding answers. Thanks for letting us know about your classes.
Great idea! I know you'll find that helpful. It's been many years since I went to any type course, and it didn't last but 1 day, if I remember correctly. Had another couple of times with the nutritionist, but that was it. Nice of you to offer to get some answers for us. Thanks.
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We had a great turn out for the Group AGM yesterday at Kim & Gavin's place. A huge vote of thanks was given to them and David for their work over the past few years, along with Stacey and Michael (the 2012/13 committee's ordinary members).
Gavin, Kim and their family are taking a break from the group for the next year, but we hope to see them at an activity in the near future.
We elected a new committee for 2013/14: Stacey W (president), Jan M (Treasurer), Patrick Mc (Secretary), Jonathan C and Mandie M (ordinary members).
The committee have their first meeting next weekend, and will soon be in contact with members to arrange the new calendar of activities.
If you have any questions, feel free to email the group or leave us a comment below.
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Outcome of AGM
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Labels: AGM, Meetings, MSLG, Sustainable Living
Location: Melton VIC 3337, Australia
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AP: An explosion lights up the night sky as the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blows an 11,000 foot hole in the Birds Point levee in Mississippi County, Mo. on Monday, May 2, 2011.


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Q: I want to install some shelves on my living room walls that will hold heavy objects, including books. I want to fasten the shelf brackets directly to studs for extra strength. The walls are covered with painted drywall. How do I find the studs inside the walls? �Stan
A: Locating studs behind drywall isn't usually too difficult, although it can be tricky when walls are covered with a thick coat of plaster or ceramic tiles. The best bet is to buy a magnetic stud finder, a tool that contains a small magnet. When passed over a wall, the magnet reacts to screws or nails used to fasten drywall to the studs, usually moving a needle indicator.
It is important not to drill holes randomly in walls to attach anything, because many walls contain electrical wiring and plumbing pipes that might be damaged. Special care is needed near outlet or switch boxes or near plumbing fixtures. Magnetic stud finders are sold at many home centers and hardware stores and can be bought on the Internet, usually for less than $20.
Once you have located one wall stud, you can generally find others by measuring 16 inches laterally from the first stud. In most walls, studs are installed on 16-inch centers, although in a few walls they are spaced on 24-inch centers. If in doubt, use the stud finder to check. In some cases, studs can be located with a couple of low-tech methods. One is to darken the room, then shine a light close to and parallel to the surface; studs will sometimes stand out as slight ridges in the flat surface. Another method is to thump the wall with the knuckles; a hollow sound means you are between studs, a solid sound indicates a stud is underneath. Contactors and others who need to locate studs frequently often invest in electronic stud finders, which are more sensitive than magnets and can find studs through thick wall coverings. Some electronic finders can also detect pipes and wiring.
Q: I have a large chest of drawers and the two top drawers refuse to open when I pull on the handles. I am afraid of breaking something if I pull too hard. How can I fix this? �L. Stroud
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With the back panel off, you can check for loose side panels that might be jamming the drawers. You can also try pushing out the stuck drawers, which is less likely to break something than hard pulling. Push at the sides of the drawer, not the middle. I have used a rubber mallet to bump the sides of a very balky drawer to move it. Once the drawer is out, examine it and the tracks it slides on for damage. Loose parts must be re-glued or otherwise repaired. Let damp drawers dry out thoroughly before re-using. Sanding the sides of a drawer lightly or lubricating with a thin coat of wax will often improve sliding.
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Stabilizers, also called stand-offs, sell for $40 to $50 at some home centers and on the Internet. A downside is that a stabilizer can make a ladder topheavy and awkward to move from one position to another.


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Does anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause of the following?
25 year old female, 5ft6", 125 lb, non-smoker, non-drinker, no eating disorders. Within last 3 months has developed bilateral knee pain and swelling. Can't sit for more than 10 min. Has had lot of cavities, root canal within last month (brushes at least 2x daily, flosses, uses water pik, teeth cleaning 2x year). Within last two weeks has developed high blood pressure (168/98) and high pulse rate (113). Has also developed white big and middle toes on one foot. Has black ridge lines in some toenails. All labs come back normal. EKG normal. Has history of minor elevated HGB on some prior tests. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Via ignatia web, report on Innovating pedagogy for 2016 from a report by Open University and the Learning Sciences Lab, National Institute of Technology in Singapore.
A short (40+pages) report with following (out of 10 proposed) of relevance to eassessment project.
- Learning through social media
- productive failure (i.e. learning thorough experience and from making mistakes)
- teachback (learning by teaching others)
- Learning from the crowd
- Learning through video games
- Formative analytics (developing analytics to help students improve)
The 2015 report is more traditional, advocating
- crossover learning (formal connected to informal),
- learning through argumentation,
- harnessing incidental learning
- context-based learning
- embodied learning
The 2014 report covered pedagogies now taken for granted e.g.
- massive open social learning
- learning design informed by analytics
- flipped classroom
- learning to learn
- dynamic assessments
- learning through storytelling
- threshold concepts
The older two reports advocate similar recommendations to the annual US of A Horizon reports. Trawling through the innovative pedagogy reports provide a good historical record of how pedagogy has shifted over the last 5 to 6 years.
We will need to mesh some of the above with the work on vocational education pedagogy. There are good synergies across the above and the work of Lucas, Claxton and Spencer. Summaries of the three pieces of work on this blog:
-vocational pedagogy
- remaking apprenticeships and
- practical guide to craftsmanship.
Plus also work from recent 'Learning a trade' project - learning as becoming by learning to do, think, feel and be within the NZ context of biculturalism for example with Maori trades training.
Each of the sub-projects in the eassessment project will integrate at least one if not more of the 'innovative pedagogies' and apply the recommendations from the various international and NZ vocational pedagogy studies.
Learning about elearning, m-learning, eportfolios and topics relevant to my work in curriculum development. Also meanders into research, into workplace learning, apprenticeships and apprentice learning, trades tutors and vocational identity formation. Plus meanderings into philosophy and neuroscience as I learn about how we learn. Usual disclaimers apply. This blog records my personal learning journey, experiences and thoughts and may not always be similar to the opinions of my employer.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Innovating Pedagogy 2016 report
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What to do
The Italian territory is exposed to seismic risk, thus being prepared for an earthquake is fundamental.
Safety depends mainly on the building where you live. If it is an ant-seismic building, it won't be subject to major damages and will protect you. Wherever you are in the moment of an earthquake, it is very important to keep calm and follow some simple rules of behaviour.
With the advice of a technician
Sometimes you might just need to reinforce load-bearing walls or improve connections between walls and floors: to make the right choice, seek the advice of a qualified technician.
On your own, immediately
- Move heavy furniture away from beds or sofas.
- Fix to the wall shelves, bookcases and other tall furniture; hang pictures and mirrors with closed hooks, in order to prevent them to come off the wall.
- Put heavy items on lower shelves; on the higher ones, you can hold objects with double-sided tape.
- In the kitchen, secure the cupboard flaps where plates and glasses are contained, so that they do not open during the shock.
- Learn where are and how to close the taps of gas and water and the master switch of the light.
- Pinpoint safe places in the house, where you can find a shelter in case of an earthquake: doorways, angles of the walls, under the table or under the bed.
- Keep at home a first aid kit, a flashlight, a battery-powered radio and make sure everyone knows where they are.
- Get informed if there is a Civil Protection Plan of your Municipality and what it provides for; should it not be available, ask for it, in order to know how to behave in case of emergency.
- Finally, delete any factor that, in case of an earthquake, can be a danger to you or your family.


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Construction to begin on Belfield refinery in western North Dakota
BISMARCK—Meridian Energy Group announced Tuesday, July 17, it is starting site construction for the Davis Refinery near Belfield, a project that still faces legal challenges.
SEH DesignBuild, which has an office in Bismarck, has been hired to lead civil construction of the site with subcontractors from the local area, according to a Meridian statement. Initial construction activities will include installing erosion control devices, stormwater pond development and other site grading.
The project received a permit to construction from the North Dakota Department of Health Air Quality Division about a month ago.
Three conservation groups that oppose the refinery's location about 3 miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park have filed an appeal to the health department's permit.
Terry O'Clair, director of the Air Quality Division, has said the appeal does not prevent the company from proceeding with construction, but the company would be moving ahead at its own risk.
In addition, a complaint filed with the North Dakota Public Service Commission seeks to halt construction of the refinery. Challenges also are pending related to a permit from the State Water Commission and a zoning permit from Billings County.
Martin Construction of Dickinson will be the primary site developers for civil construction. ABC Fencing of Belfield will install erosion control devices and perimeter fencing.
"It is great to be finally beginning site work for Davis and to be working with these fine local companies as we get the project moving," Meridian CEO William Prentice said in a statement.


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Hello, Bunnies!
Here is the Kawaii Review of the day!
The Kawaii Box for July!
I am really enjoying this subscription service. There are so many different cute things to be had!
Here is what I got in this month's box~
The first kawaii item is this very cute bear drawstring bag. It's a pink bear with a smile printed right on. It actually can hold a lot and possibly a small bento lunch!
I love strawberries as a yummy snack and as a print. Here we have a soft strawberry plush cell phone charm and two hairclips! They totally match the background!
And for us stationary lovers, here are two items that should be in everyone's stock. A mechanical pencil and index stickers! My boyfriend and I love pandas (and I even call him a panda hee hee...). This pencil was very fitting for me! It even has a cap for the eraser end! And the index stickers are super cute and perfect to make sure you never forget where you left off in a book!
Have I mentioned how much I love cell phone accessories? Here are two more in this month's box! One is a Rilakkuma bread charm. It's very squishy and cute and looks just like him if he were baked into a yummy bread. The other accessory is a dust plug with a very cute bow for your phone. It looks a lot better on phones where the earphone jack is at the top rather than the bottom.
Hi-Chew candies are delicious! I have yet to find a flavor I don't like and I have tried a lot of them. This month I got the peach flavored one and it was so good. I am always a fan of peach flavor candies and this didn't disappoint. It actually is one of my top favorite for Hi-Chew.
I also got this macaron!
I found out this macaron is actually a scented eraser! Isn't it cute?
It even comes apart. It actually smells a little like strawberry! Yummy!
Next is this really kawaii sticker sheet. There are a lot of bears and even a little bunny on this. This is just one of the many types of sheets that are available! I'm sure I will get great use out of these when I write to my pen pals~
And finally, I also received this adorable panda sleeping mask. It works really well to keep out any light from when you're trying to sleep.
That's all for this month's box. I hope you enjoyed my review on it. I can't wait to see what the August one will bring!
Which is your favorite from the July box or any of the previous boxes you might have gotten?


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Second, I want to thank you for your kind words, friendship and comments. I'm honoured you think of me as a "Kreativ Blogger", thank you!
I had to think long and hard about this, because I feel that I'm pretty opened (not to say exposed) in here. I re-read a few old posts, my "Hundred Things About Me" list and came up with these seven things you don't already know about me:
- I love sweets, to the point I might feel noxious and think "just one more…"
- I'd be willing and ready to leave this country to go live somewhere else, just to see the world.
- I can't seem to find a nice perfume since I've had my hysterectomy… or at least one that I really like. The ones I used to wear don't suit me that well anymore, or so I think.
- I have a pin collection that my father had started when he visited "Terre des Hommes" at Expo 66. Each of them I remember where I got it from.
- I also have a big scrapbook album with all the post-cards I've received to date. The first one dates back to 1975. Some nights, I just sit and flick the pages and re-read some of them. It's like a little trip back in time and around the world with friends and relatives.
- I tend to coordinate my earrings, bracelets, rings and watch with what I'm wearing. I do this by either their style or their colour. Am I ready to become the quirky old lady or what?
- When counting I often do it on my fingers, and yes I do bookkeeping, but for that I use a calculator. I'm no good at mental calculation, and I'm totally ok with that.


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Only in an upside down topsy turvy world, would budgetary success and jobs saved result in someone possibly losing their job. That is exactly what Governor Walker of Wisconsin is facing right now. Because he dared to challenge and successfully reform collective bargaining laws for public sector employees, he is facing a recall election. The only reason that people would ever recall a governor is corruption right? Wrong.
The following video is a commerical by It's Working Wisconsin and it chronicles the reform measure's successes. That's right, I said successes.
The longer, historically detailed video is available for viewing here.
To clarify: Budgets previously in deficit, are now in surplus. Teachers that were fearing layoffs, are now secure. And the taxpayers are not facing tax increases in a down economy. Fiduciary responsibility yields fiscal prosperity!
So in response, the Dems (Fleebaggers) are whining and plan to recall Governor Walker, because in their world, you punish success and work as hard as you possibly can to bring back failure! I mean, if teachers keep their jobs, and the budget shows a surplus, well that's just wrong people!!!! Yawn…
Send Governor Walker your prayers and if you can, donate to his fight. His is a success story that should be celebrated. Too bad we are living in bizarro world until November 2012…


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The study to determine the cost for the proposed QueensWay is set to begin early next month.
The Trust for Public Land announced the two firms that will lead the feasibility and planning study for the QueensWay, a proposed 3.5-mile bike and pedestrian path that would run between Ozone Park and Rego Park.
The two firms selected, WXY Architecture & urban design and dlandstudio, were chosen out of 29 proposals submitted, TPL officials said at a Tuesday morning news conference in Forest Hills.
Its purpose is to figure out how much it would cost to turn the dormant stretch of land into the green space and determine what the community would want in the proposed pedestrian walkway similar to The High Line in Manhattan. Andrea Crawford, a member of Friends of the QueensWay and member of Community Board 9, said that the response to the proposed parkland has been overwhelmingly positive.
"Whether we're taking our kids to school, eating in restaurants, [or] simply talking to neighbors, the level of excitement in Central and Southern Queens is off the charts," she said. "How exciting is it that we will create 55 acres of new linear park space, when we're being told there is no more park space."
The study itself will take 10 months to complete TPL members said Tuesday. It will be funded mostly through a $467,000 grant given to the organization by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year. An additional $140,000 will come from the Dept. of Environmental Protection towards environmental assessments.
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park) released a statement in the wake of their announcement, restating his support for reactivating the Rockaway Beach Long Island Rail Road Line.
"The current lack of public transit options in Queens is strangling our businesses and hurting our families and I will continue to work with my colleagues and the Governor to completely restore the abandoned rail line," he said in the statement.
Reach Luis Gronda at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 127, firstname.lastname@example.com, or @luisgronda.


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Girls Life Sleepover Party
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Invite your friends to the coolest sleepover party ever with Sleepover Party on Wii! Sleepover Party is the interactive video game that lets you plan and host fun-filled overnight parties with your best friends. With the help of your virtual hostess Aimee, you can plan your party, choose your party theme, build your guest list, create shopping lists, and more. Then have a blast at your very own sleepover party as you play a variety of fun games and activities.
If you're stuck in Girls Life Sleepover Party, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.


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Monday, January 23, 2012
Monday Morning Blues
11 comments:
Awwww so sorry about your baby, hope she feels better. Thanks for the splash of color...just what I needed on this gloomy day.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2012 at 8:50 AM
OH poor thing!!!!!! That is the worst when they have a tummy bug... my oldest had a bad BLUEBERRY disaster once... I felt sooo bad for him. At least she got to enjoy Disneyland! Hope she feels better soon!ReplyDelete
that is the worst! they feel bad, you feel bad. you gotta get the stuff that makes them stop barfing. call your doctor. not sure of the name but our ER doctor friend tells us throwing up does no good.ReplyDelete
Totally jealous about your awesome disneyland experience. How I LOVE disneyland with the kids. such an amazing, fun time.
oh man...i will send you some mom powers to help you make it through this!ReplyDelete
my son was sick a few weeks back, and he says 'mommy give medicine to make me better'........
all you could hear is my heart crumbling
Poor thing :( Glad to hear Disneyland was a blast and hope the little one is feeling better soon!ReplyDelete
Aaaaand cue heart breaking. I hope she feels better soon!!!!ReplyDelete
That just made my heart hurt. Hope she wakes up all better.ReplyDelete
So nice that you had a great family trip. My husband and I often think things like "when we have kids, we are gonna have to take them to Disney...sigh." Good to know it can be great! Soo very sorry about your sweet girl, I am sending her get well vibes :)ReplyDelete
Ohhh, so sorry about lil'G. That is awful at that age when they can't control where they spew and they don't understand what's going on...poor baby. Hoping for a speedy recovery.ReplyDelete
And thanks for the eye candy. You're a supermom!
That seriously makes my heart hurt. Poor babyG!ReplyDelete
Excellent information and facts. Only real difficulty I was basically receiving was viewing the pics. No idea exactly why.ReplyDelete
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Hard to imagine, but "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum has been out dressed by her own youngest daughter Lou Samuel. Lou looks adorable in her pink summer frock while Heidi has hidden her assets in Hammer pants and a baggy black cloak. Heidi looks like she has business on her mind -she the kids are staying in New York while Heidi works there.
Posted by Janet on July 30, 2012
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By mish mash
On July 30, 2012 at
How refreshing! That little doll is walking. No stroller. Kudos to Heidi.
By Christine India
On July 30, 2012 at
JANET dear:
It seems the biggest breaking news is that Angelina is throwing fits and calling off the marriage. And that is because Brad's mommy wrote a letter stating she is against gay rights/marriage and Angie and Brad are pro gay rights/marriage. Is this true?
Heidi's little girl is really cute. Why is Heidi dressed like Amal the tent maker? LOL
By Noblecascade
On July 30, 2012 at
Heidi, your outfit if awful.
By Denise
On July 30, 2012 at
Heidi, as comfortable as that outfit looks, you would be "out" and you know it. That little girl is adorable.
By Tokyo G
On July 30, 2012 at
Whether we like Heidi's latest fashion choice or not, it seems she is in step with the latest trend in her Hammer pants. The Hammer pants are in all the stores here in Tokyo. It's Hammer time…
By Reta
On July 30, 2012 at
Those hideous pants were a fashion disaster the first time around and have been a laughing stock joke and most likely helped greatly to kill the career of the original wearer: M.C. Hammer.
Heidi: PUUUULLLEEZ snap OUT OF IT!
Little Lou is precious as hell! Adorable! I want to squeeze her!
By forrest gump
On July 30, 2012 at
yep, her time in the spotlights are finished & over, folks.
By Strom
On July 31, 2012 at
They dont exactly look alike do they? Somewhere BLACK Seal is working on another blonde to conceive again. Not much good can be said for Heidi's choices. She was obviously born w/ looks but no brains and/ or character.
By kait
On July 31, 2012 at
Intentionally flashing the headlights is so dignified, Heidi.
By Anon1
On July 31, 2012 at
Heidi's been acting a little thirsty lately she's been posing practically nude everywhere and just acting desperate she needs to cut that out..40 year old nip is NOT cute
By Strom
On July 31, 2012 at
Models are the most talentless celebs, they dont have to do anything but be photogenic and are usually so undernourished that dont have much energy.
By dandilion
On July 31, 2012 at
She looks a lot like Heidi.. sweet little girl.
By Eliana
On July 31, 2012 at
What a beautiful little girl and I agree, not in a stroller. She's a gorgeous kid. I like Heidi's sandals. And, Janet? You're still allowing the same racist comments.


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Gliffy is a web based application that is similar to Microsoft Visio. It's still in beta version although you could sign up and try it. They are still planning for the pricing implementation. There will be a free version where it will be ad-supported and comes with a limited set of features and there will be a subscription version that won't show any ads at all. Developers of Gliffy have wisely used the new web technologies so that it would give the user an experience similar to using a desktop application. What's impressive about Gliffy is that you perform an online collaboration and publish it to the web by creating an image of it. Aside from that, you could also track the version history with information such as who edited it and when was it edited.
Here are some of the things that you can do with Gliffy
- Flowcharts
- Development Process
- Floor plan
- Class diagram
- Golf course layout
- Web page layout
- Technical drawing
- Network diagram
- UI wireframe
View the examples here and read the testimonials made by the users here.


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You haven't lived until you've had a robot shart in your ear and followed along in the live setlist thread while it happens.
Mister Charlie told you so.
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at first I voted for Full Metal Jacket... then I thought about Goodfellas for a minute and changed my vote.
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Ainamiss the Hive Queen is a level 48 rare silithid that can be found wandering above ground at The Noxious Lair in western Tanaris. (I have indicated where she can be found in red on the map below.) She drops the typical green item and decent experience for levelers. She shares the same model as Vem, one of the bug trio (optional bosses) in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. She is tamable at level 69 (you must have the top tier talent from the beast mastery tree to tame her) and is an exotic cunning pet. Being the only tamable silithid with this model and color outside of the raid instance makes her especially desirable as a tamed hunter pet.
Ainamiss the Hive Queen can be found with NPCScan. You will need to add it, her NPCScan ID is 47386.
She is pretty obvious when she is up because she is HUGE, but she does patrol so having her id in npcscan won't hurt.
You can also use this macro to help find and tame her:
/tar Ainamiss the Hive Queen
/stopmacro [noexists]
/cast Tame Beast
I can't really guess her spawn timer at this time, but on my patrols flying over the area I have seen her up a couple of times so she shouldn't be too hard to come by.


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Leading up to today's Apple press conference about the iPhone 4, there has been plenty of speculation among press and analysts about what Apple will do or should do to remedy the iPhone antenna issue and the publicity nightmare that has resulted from Apple's response to it.
But what does the public think? TechRepublic surveyed its members on July 13-16 and got 2,257 responses. Of those, over half said that Apple should do a recall of the iPhone 4, despite press reports that Apple is not planning a full recall.
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Jason Hiner is Global Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and Global Long Form Editor of ZDNet. He's co-author of the book, Follow the Geeks.


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I'm thankful for my parents.
Among a host of traits that I admire in both of them is their love of adventure and their never-ending energy to follow through on their dreams.
I frequently feel the pull of wanderlust and attribute it to genetics. My parents can't stay still for very long before they hear the "call of the wild" ;), and find themselves on an amazing adventure - whether it's hiking a peak near home or across the world.
I'm thankful that I understand the value of seeing how small I truly am in the universe. I'm reminded of it when I see a beautiful tree or a snowcap glistening white or the depth of a crevasse that seems to have no end. Have you ever walked across a field covered in white snow and there is no sound at all? My heart pounds just writing about it. And it's not like a "Wo is me, I am trash" feeling, but a humbling, empowering truth. When you realize how tiny you really are, you feel the magnificence of the workings of the world. It's something that's hard for me to explain, but I know it when I feel it.
And I feel it when I venture out into new spaces and experience adventure.
I'm thankful for my parents. They are true adventurers.