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Create an Image of Your Partition
Creating a Backup Image with Partimage
Although the dd command is a great option for creating images of partitions, it creates a bit-by-bit copy so that it also copies empty space, making your partition large and slow to create. Partimage has the advantage of only copying your data to the image. This is good news in terms of time but also it reduces network resources if you transfer the image across the network to a network backup device. Partimage provides several options in terms of compression including gzip and bzip2 for best compression and restoration options. There are two components of Partimage, the client that can either create a backup image and store it locally or send the image across the network to a backup server.
Configure the Client
The first thing you will need to do is to install the partimage program on the local machine. If you have an Ubuntu machine the program is in the repository.
sudo apt-get install partimage
Once you have installed Partimage as root run the program as root.
sudo partimage
You will see that it must create the /dev/dm inode, click Yes to continue.
Now the opening screen will be available. One of the issues with simply doing the backup on one machine is that you cannot create the image on the same partition that you are running the program from. If you only have a swap partition, a /boot partition and a / partition you will not be able to create an image for /. Therefore you would need to use a network server connection. However, in this example, this is a good way to understand the program, you can see a USB drive is located at /dev/sdb1. This is used as an example so that you can become familiar with the program. Select the partition you want to use. All images are based on partitions, not folders. You must select the image name and location. In this example the image will be placed in the same directory as when you execute the command. If you wanted the image to be placed on a drive that was specifically created for backups and called /bk, you would change that line to read:
Be sure to select if you are saving or restoring an image or MBR. When this is set click F5.
The next window will allow you to choose the compression level. The three options are no compression, gzip or bzip2. The best compression occurs with bzip2 but you will have problems restoring a MBR with bzip2, so that must be a consideration. Other options include checking the partition before saving, entering a description of the backup and overwriting a previous backup automatically. You will also see split options for the images and options of what the machine should do after completion. The completion options are really related to if you are using a Live CD so you can complete the image and reboot the server.
Here is the bug report if you choose to use bzip2 for a Master Boot Image (MBR).
You will get a summary of the process about to be done.
When the process is complete you will get a verification.
Partimage seems to be a stable program that does what it says and is easy to use, have you looked at other options out there? Be sure to test before you depend on any backup program.


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BILLINGS, Mont., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A United Airlines flight hit severe turbulence while descending toward Billings, Mont., Monday, injuring several passengers and crew members, officials said.
United Flight 1676, a Boeing 737-700, landed in Billings at 1:23 p.m., completing its flight from Denver with its 114 passengers and crew members.
MTN reported passenger Bill Dahlin said the plane dropped sharply and without warning, apparently surprising not only the passengers but the crew.
"There was a lot of screaming, a lot of hollering," Dahlin said, adding he thought the crew "somewhat panicked."
"I think they were trying to assess things themselves so they really didn't offer any explanation because of what happened so quickly," he said.
He said one woman hit the ceiling so hard she cracked a panel and he heard another woman call out for her baby after possibly having lost control of the child.
United officials said three crew members and a number of passengers were injured, KUSA-TV, Denver, and the Billings Gazette reported.
United spokesman Luke Punzenberger said the airline's "primary focus is assisting out employees and passengers who were injured,and our flight safety team will review what happened," KUSA-TV said.
United spokeswoman Christen David said Flight 1676 was jolted while descending into Billings, the Gazette said.
"The flight encountered severe turbulence upon descent into Billings, Montana," she wrote in a release. "Three crew members and a number of passengers were injured."
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said it wasn't immediately clear how many passengers were injured, the newspaper said.
Gregor said the flight's captain called a medical emergency as the jetliner approached Billings.
"The plane landed in Billings without incident," Gregor said in an email.
Emergency crews and the airport fire department responded, the Gazette said.

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Recent studies of past climate and streamflow conditions have broadened understanding of long-term water availability in the Colorado River, revealing many periods when streamflow was lower than at any time in the past 100 years of recorded flows. That information, along with two important trends -- a rapid increase in urban populations in the West and significant climate warming in the region -- will require that water managers prepare for possible reductions in water supplies that cannot be fully averted through traditional means. This National Research Council report assesses existing scientific information, including temperature and streamflow records, tree-ring based reconstructions, and climate model projections, and how it relates to Colorado River water supplies and demands, water management, and drought preparedness. The report concludes that successful adjustments to new conditions will entail strong and sustained cooperation among the seven Colorado River basin states. The report recommends conducting a comprehensive basinwide study of urban water practices that can be used to help improve planning for future droughts and water shortages.
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- Based on analysis of many recent climate model simulations, the preponderance of scientific evidence suggests that warmer future temperatures will reduce future Colorado River streamflow and water supplies. Reduced streamflow would also contribute to increasing severity, frequency, and duration of future droughts.
- Measured values of streamflow of the Colorado River and its tributaries provide essential information for sound water management decisions. Loss of continuity in this gaged record would greatly diminish the overall value of the existing flow data set, and once such data are lost they cannot be regained.
- Several hydroclimatic studies project that significant decreases in runoff and streamflow will accompany increasing temperatures.Other studies, however, suggest increasing future flows, highlighting the uncertainty attached to future runoff and streamflow projections.
- Steadily rising population and urban water demands in the Colorado River region will inevitably result in increasingly costly, controversial, and unavoidable trade-off choices to be made by water managers, politicians, and their constituents. These increasing demands are also impeding the region's ability to cope with droughts and water shortages.
- Technological and conservation options for augmenting or extending water supplies although useful and necessary in the long run will not constitute a panacea for coping with the reality that water supplies in the Colorado River basin are limited and that demand is inexorably rising.
- The 20th century saw a trend of increasing mean temperatures across the Colorado River basin that has continued into the early 21st century. There is no evidence that this warming trend will dissipate in the coming decades; many different climate model projections point to a warmer future for the Colorado River region.
- The interstate cooperation and initiative exhibited by the Colorado River basin states in their February 2006 letter to the Secretary of the Interior is a welcome development that will prove increasingly valuable and likely essential in coping with future droughts and growing water demands.
- These reconstructions, along with temperature trends and projections for the region, suggest that future droughts will recur and that they may exceed the severity of droughts of historical experience, such as the drought of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- Tree-ring-based reconstructions of Colorado River flow indicate that extended drought episodes are a recurrent and integral feature of the basin's climate.
- covering hundreds of years, have transformed the paradigm governing understanding of the river�s long-term behavior and mean flows. These studies affirm year-to-year variations in the gaged records.


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I am in almost total agreement with what you write.
I dealt with the environment and global warming in my Evangelicals and Science (Greenwood 2008). Despite being written 2 1/2 years ago what I wrote still stands with Inhofe as the main troublemaker in the US, "Lords" Monkton and Lawson over here
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From: Rich Blinne
To: John Walley
Cc: Christine Smith ; firstname.lastname@example.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Theology of AGW WAS The Climate Science Isn't Settled
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:32 AM, John Walley <email@example.com> wrote:
One last thing I promise. I also just thought of another point I wanted to make as well. I hope this doesn't count as using up all my posts for the day but its just that the intellectual dam has broken for me and I am now being flooded with questions.
How do we reconcile AGW with Christian theology when there appears to be a significant representation of anti-Christian philosophy in the movement, i.e. Al Gore and his Gaia theory?
Al Gore isn't a proponent of Gaia theory. That's James Lovelock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock Al Gore's a Baptist.
Isn't this the obvious fulfillment of the scripture that says they worshipped the creation rather than the Creator?
No. Over the past 30 years the environmental movement has gotten more mainstream and more explicitly Christian. Organizations that are both Christian and environmental are like this: http://www.creationcare.org/
Christian environmentalists differ from the New Age ones like Lovelock by stressing the concept of stewardship. For example, you can find the care of the land and the creatures on it in the Sabbath Regulation of the Ten Commandments. Humanity is to use Creation but not abuse it. As such, business is not to be completely unhindered, able to abuse their resources without giving them any rest. One of the sins of Old Testament Israel was failing to give the land a rest. The quote about liberty on the Liberty Bell was from the Jubilee proclamation in Leviticus 25.
The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan. The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.
How can we trust him and his new age and anti-Christian supporters and where do we draw the line between truth and deception? Isn't there some truth to Cameron's skepticism about this all being a political ploy to gain control of the world's systems?
No. But there is and was a political ploy. Starting in the late 60s and early 70s the tobacco companies had a problem with the science that was reaching a stronger and stronger consensus that cigarette smoking causes cancer. So, they hired people like Fred Seitz to spread the message that the science was uncertain to keep the tobacco companies from getting sued. The very same people moved into organizations like the Marshall Institute. During the 80s this organization focused on attacking physicists who were skeptical that SDI would work. After the Cold War ended the focus turned to environmental issues and the same M.O. of saying the science is uncertain and therefore we shouldn't regulate any companies and by the way CO2 is actually good for you. This constellation of groups started receiving money from the oil and coal companies, for example the Western Fuels Association and ExxonMobil. These organizations have interlocking boards of directors. Other groups closely associated are the Heartland Institute, the Greening Earth Society, and Friends of Science. The people that show up multiple times on the boards or advisors in these are include Tim Ball, Sallie Balliunas, Willie Soon, Pattrick Michaels, and Fred Seitz.
All of these organizations have one goal, keep industry completely unregulated. Two weeks before the Nobel Prize in chemistry was issued on work that showed that CFCs destroy the ozone hole these groups said that the science was uncertain and we shouldn't be regulating any companies. The ban on CFCs was a smashing success which had also a little known beneficial side effect on global warming because CFCs are the worst kind of greenhouse gas.
President George HW Bush introduced cap and trade of sulfates to solve the acid rain problem that was quite huge and was a major stick in the eye with Canada. The groups again jumped in said the science was uncertain and it would trash the economy and BTW don't regulate the coal industry. Again, smashing success. A 2003 OMB study found for every dollar spent 40 dollars was saved on health car costs due to acid rain. It also came in under original cost projections and ahead of schedule.
The IPCC was progressing quite fine in 1996 when Fred Seitz (of the tobacco lawsuits fame) did a hit piece in the WSJ on 2 June 1996 accusing Benjamin Santer of malfeasance. This prompted the following official communication from the American Meteorological Society
25 July 1996
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer
PCMDI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-264
Livermore, CA 94550
Dear Ben:
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the American Meteorological Society and the Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), we take this opportunity to support you and the other scientists who have participated in the preparation of the recent IPCC report, Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change. We are aware of the tremendous effort you and other climate scientists from many countries around the world have put into this document, and the thought, care and objectivity which have characterized the process throughout.
We believe that attacks on the IPCC process in general, and you in particular, such as occurred in the editorial-page piece in The Wall Street Journal by Frederick Seitz (Attachment 1), have no place in the scientific debate about issues related to global change. Dr. Seitz is a prominent scientist, but his expertise is not atmospheric sciences and he was not involved in the IPCC process. The Wall Street Journal essay is especially disturbing because it steps over the boundary from disagreeing with the science to attacking the honesty and integrity of a particular scientist, namely yourself.
There appears to be a concerted and systematic effort by some individuals to undermine and discredit the scientific process that has led many scientists working on understanding climate to conclude that there is a very real possibility that humans are modifying Earth's climate on a global scale. Rather than carrying out a legitimate scientific debate through the peer-reviewed literature, they are waging in the public media a vocal campaign against scientific results with which they disagree.
We believe that it is important to separate two issues. The first one is the scientific question of how and why climate changes. The second question is, if the climate is changing and humans are causing part of this change, then what should societies do about it. The appropriate arena for debating the first, scientific question is through peer-reviewed scientific publications--not the media. However, the appropriate arenas for debating the second question of public policy are the media and political fora, because answering the second question is inherently a public and political process. And it is the responsibility of the scientific community to participate in the public and policy processes as well as in the scientific process.
The recent exchange in The Wall Street Journal is an example of why attempting to carry out a scientific debate in the media is inappropriate. In response to the Seitz opinion piece, you and 40 other scientists prepared a careful, thoughtful response, which is reprinted in its entirety below (Attachment 2). This letter was printed in The Wall Street Journal with minor changes, but without the names of the 40 distinguished scientists who supported your rebuttal, including the other three lead co-authors of Chapter 8.
More significantly, a letter supporting you (Attachment 3) from Dr. Bert Bolin, Chairman of the IPCC, and Co-chairs of IPCC Working Group I Drs. John Houghton from the United Kingdom and Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho from Brazil which strongly supported your letter was edited so severely that less than half of the original letter was published. Eliminated from the original version was the crucial part explaining the IPCC review process (which was the stated basis for the Seitz attack) and the key, reviewed and agreed-upon conclusion "our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is currently limited....nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate."
This example illustrates why essays based upon opinion and other communications in the media or other forms of popular public debate are inappropriate mechanisms for legitimate scientific debate. Letters and opinion pieces can be written by any individual, and one opinion piece can carry as much or more weight in the public's mind as a letter signed by 40 scientists who have passed scientific muster over many years by publishing on the topic in the peer-reviewed literature. By necessity, letters and opinion pieces in the public media must be short, simple and non-technical, and supporting scientific data or theories cannot be provided. Contributions to the public media are not reviewed by scientific experts and can make assertions and statements that are totally without scientific foundation. And finally, key parts may be edited or removed altogether, leading to the possibility that serious changes to the meaning of the contribution may be introduced.
The larger debate related to what actions should be taken by the nation and the world in response to global change will take place in the public and political fora; and it is our responsibility as scientists to take an appropriate role in that larger debate, as you and others have done. What is important scientific information and how it is interpreted in the policy debates is an important part of our jobs. We appreciate your efforts in this respect as well. That is, after all, the very reason for the mix of science and policy in the IPCC.
In summary, we restate our strong support for the integrity and openness of the IPCC process and for you and the many other scientists of diverse views who have participated objectively and in good faith in providing this valuable assessment of the state of our knowledge about climate change.
Dr. Susan K. Avery
UCAR Board of Trustees
Dr. Paul D. Try
American Meteorological Society
Dr. Richard A. Anthes
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Dr. Richard E. Hallgren
Executive Director
American Meteorological Society
cc: Dr. Frederick Seitz
See my bolded paragraph. What happened almost 15 years ago continues today. By undermining the science the true costs and benefits of the various alternatives get obscured. Then policy makers don't have good advice what is best for all the citizens they represent. Furthermore, the goal of the group of no regulation at all costs is patently unbiblical.
And wouldn't that be consistent with the anti-christ's agenda? Don't we have to wary of that in our rush to get on the AGW bandwagon? I think that is why we need to decouple our AGW beliefs from the religious fervor it is often accompanied with and look at this rationally and with reason.
The anti-christ's agenda is to get Christians to accuse Christians and it seems to be working very well right now. I agree that this should be looked at rationally. You have legitimate concerns -- like all Christians do -- about how much any policy would cost, particularly to those who can least bear them. Scientists and particularly scientists who are Christians need to provide the best information possible so that we don't just have "feel good" policies but policies that actually help people. My concerns is the organizations I discussed above are feeding the fears and not contributing positively to solving this difficult and complicated problem.
Thanks to those that have indulged me in this.
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A line of portable heaters that can overheat and cause a fire are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include defective bicycle forks and riding lawn mowers.
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DETAILS: Optimus Tower Quartz heaters. The front section of the top has the brand name Optimus, a power light, a caution light and two dials. One dial turns the heater on or off and selects the power of either 750 watts or 1500 watts. The other control knob selects the heat range between high and low. The rear section of the top has fire, high temperature, and shock warnings and diagrams of the heater being used in 750 watt mode and 1500 watt mode. Model number "H-5232" is on a silver sticker on the bottom of the heater below the words "Optimus" and "Quartz Heater." They were sold at Family Dollar Stores from September 2012 through December 2012.
WHY: They can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
INCIDENTS: 10 reports of overheating, including some reports of temperature knobs melting. The firm has not received reports of injury, fire or property damage.
HOW MANY: About 19,640.
FOR MORE: Call Family Dollar Stores at 800-547-0359 or visit www.familydollar.com, then click on Product Recalls in the Help section at the bottom of the page.
DETAILS: Surly Pugsley bicycle forks, made by Aprebic Industry Co. Ltd., of Taiwan, a wholly-owned brand of Quality Bicycle Products Inc. The recall involves 100mm and 135mm bicycle forks made of tubular chromoly steel. The 100mm bicycle forks were sold individually only. They are black, have triple water bottle mounts on each side, rack/fender mounts on the top and bottom and have date code 2012 03 20 stamped on the steerer tube. "Surly" is printed on both legs of the fork. "Pugsley" is printed on the fork's packaging and on the frame of bikes with the recalled forks. The 135mm forks are black, yellow or red and are stamped with date code 2012 06 19 on the steerer tube. Model number FK3175, FK3181 or FK0706 is printed on the packaging for forks sold individually. Surly Pugsley bicycle models FM3110-3114, FM3175-79, BK3110-14 and BK3175-79 were sold with the recalled forks as original equipment. The bicycle's model number is printed on the bicycle's packaging. They were sold from May 2012 through February 2013.
WHY: The bicycle fork can bend above the disc brake mount, posing a fall hazard to the rider.
INCIDENTS: One report of a fork bending above the disc brake mount. No injuries have been reported.
HOW MANY: About 975.
FOR MORE: Call Surly Bikes at 877-946-9333 or visit www.surlybikes.com and click on the Safety Recall button for more information.
DETAILS: 2012 and 2013 Toro Z Master Commercial 2000 Series ZRT riding mowers. The mowers are red and black. "Toro" and "2000 Series" are printed on the side and "Z Master Commercial" on the front of the mowers. When viewed from the operator's seat, the model and serial numbers are on a metal plate located at the front of the mower, below the seat, on the right-hand side. The following models and corresponding serial numbers are included in this recall: model number 74141 with serial numbers ranging from 312000101 to 312000784 and 313000101 to 313000364; model number 74143 with serial numbers ranging from 312000101 to 312000881 and 313000101 to 313000432; and model number 74145 with serial numbers ranging from 312000101 to 312001178 and 313000101 to 313000443. They were sold at Toro dealers nationwide from January 2012 through April 2013.
WHY: The idler pulley can rub against the mower's fuel tank, posing a fire hazard.
INCIDENTS: Six reports of incidents. No injuries have been reported.
HOW MANY: About 3,700 in the U.S. and 60 in Canada. About 2,600 units were previously recalled in the U.S. and 30 in Canada in November 2012.
FOR MORE: Call Toro at 855-493-0090 or visit www.toro.com and click on Product Recall Information on the bottom right-hand side of the page for more information.
DETAILS: Touch Point portable baseboard convection heaters made by Foshan Guanmei Electrical Co. with number model BBC-1500 and date code 0611. "Touch Point" can be found on the front of the product and the model and date code can be found on a silver sticker on the back side of the product. The heaters were made in June 2011 and sold at Meijer stores from September 2011 through February 2013.
WHY: The heaters can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
INCIDENTS: Two reports of overheating, including one report of a fire that resulted in minor property damage. No injuries have been reported.
HOW MANY: About 4,560.
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Y Combinator will limit the number of early stage startups in its Winter 2013 class.
In its last batch, the accelerator produced more than 80 companies.
YC founder Paul Graham writes on the accelerator's blog that in Summer 2012, YC simply grew too fast and "more things than usual broke" when it increased the number of startups from 66 to 84.
When selecting YC's upcoming Winter batch, Graham says they were much more selective and paid closer attention to what some of the predictors to failure are.
This news comes just a few days after Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced that the accelerator would cut down investments in each company by half. Under the new fund, YC VC, YC will only invest $80,000 in each startup instead of $150,000.
"We're decreasing the amount invested because experience showed $150k was too much," Graham wrote last week.
"It's good for startups to get some amount of investment automatically; it lets them continue working on ideas that still look like ugly ducklings on Demo Day. But $150k was more than the successful startups needed, and it sometimes caused messy disputes in the unsuccessful ones."
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Superintendent Pamela C. Brown says that five years from now, 80 percent of Buffalo's students should be graduating from high school – a goal she acknowledges is "aggressive."
That would mean increasing the city's graduation rate by nearly 30 percentage points in five years in a district where the graduation rate has long hovered around 50 percent – a feat that would be considered miraculous in urban education.
"It is an aggressive objective. I know that and I don't take it lightly," Brown said. "But where do we set it? Sixty percent five years from now? That isn't good enough for the children of Buffalo. That wouldn't be good enough for my child. That's not good enough for anybody else's child."
During an hourlong meeting with The Buffalo News editorial board Friday, Brown said she will emphasize data-driven decision-making to elevate Buffalo's results to meet the 80 percent level, which is the state standard for four-year graduation.
She drew on her experience as a central office administrator in Philadelphia to provide one example of how that might play out.
In Philadelphia, she said, the district identified all the seniors who were one or two credits short of the required number for graduation.
"We had our counselors get on the phone and call the parents of every one of those 1,300 students and tell them, 'Your son or daughter needs just one or two credits to graduate. We are going to offer your child the opportunity to make up those credits in summer school,'?" she said.
About half of those students made up the credits they needed during summer school, she said, and most of those students graduated at the end of the summer.
"That's just an example of using data to drive the planning that you do – having access to the kind of data that you need to determine what the need is and then being able to strategize on how to meet it," she said.
The superintendent noted that the district's overall student performance is far below what it needs to be, with less than one-third of elementary and middle school students proficient in English and math.
She emphasized the need to change the culture of the district to one in which everyone believes that all children can succeed academically. She said she already has begun modeling that belief and instilling a sense of urgency in her staff regarding the need to improve student achievement.
Brown offered few specifics regarding exactly how she plans to dramatically improve student outcomes.
Her primary achievement toward that goal so far, she said, has involved making two changes in the central office. She filled a vacant community superintendent position by appointing former Bennett High School principal David Mauricio.
And she reconfigured central office staffing to create "academic support teams" – consisting of existing directors, supervisors, support teachers and other staff – designed to better serve the needs of the schools.
"Yes, we are utilizing the services of mostly the same people [who have been in the district for many years]," Brown said. "I believe leadership makes a difference. I believe doing the right kind of work with the right kind of focus and monitoring the impact of what you're doing makes a difference."
She said she wanted to have time to assess the leadership capacity of the existing central office staff before deciding whether to bring in her own people.
"I will take advantage of that authority to bring in my own people, to some extent, in the next couple of months," she said. "We have to make sure our children and our staff members are benefiting from the right kind of leadership."
Student attendance remains a major concern in the district, she said. The district in 2011-12 improved its attendance rate by 2.6 percentage points, to 89.3 percent; she plans to achieve a comparable increase again this year, she said.
Brown cited some ways to improve attendance, including: educating parents about the importance of their children attending school; making sure there is "high-quality instruction" in the classrooms; and providing incentives and recognition for good attendance. She said she is planning a citywide initiative to improve attendance, but did not provide specifics.
She has asked Say Yes to Education to fund a study to investigate the root causes of student absenteeism.
Many teachers have said they would like to see the district reinstitute a policy that required students to attend class at least 85 percent of the time to sit for a Regents exam or be promoted to the next grade.
Brown said that cutoff – which translates into missing no more than 28 days of school a year – would be too lenient. Chronic absenteeism is considered any number of absences beyond 18 days.
"If there were a cutoff point, I'm not sure it would be at the 28-day mark," she said, adding that she does not support having that type of policy. "I think about the student who might have missed 28 days but still mastered the skills and concepts for that grade level. For me, [having that type of attendance policy] would be more of a punitive action than one focused on doing what is best for the child."
The superintendent said she looks forward to having a positive relationship with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and its president, Philip Rumore. District officials have "initiated some talks about initiating contract negotiations again." The teachers contract expired in 2004.
The district is still deciding whether to appeal a judge's decision that said the district's decision to involuntarily transfer 54 teachers from failing schools violated the teachers contract, she said.
"We are in a difficult situation," she said. "We are bound by state and federal regulations to comply. At the same time, we have a collective bargaining agreement we have to adhere to. In this case, it's difficult or next to impossible to do both."
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagle tennis team gained another win this weekend, defeating the Belmont Bruins, 5-2, Sunday afternoon to remain unbeaten in Ohio Valley Conference play at 2-0.
Tech captured the doubles point after senior Syrym Abdukhalikov and sophomore Alejandro Augusto rallied from an early deficit against Bruins Henrique Norbiato and Fernando Mussolini. The pair won their match, 8-7 (3).
The pair was left on the court to battle it out for the doubles point after Tech and Belmont split the other two doubles matches. Tech claimed an 8-3 win at No. 2 as Vasily Eremeev and Artem Tarasov downed Renato Antun and Navarro Veys. Belmont's No. 3 duo of Bruno Silva and Henrik Claesson took an 8-2 win over Alvaro Cintas and Arturo Santa.
In singles play, Abduhkalikov lost his first set to Norbiato, but closed out the No. 1 spot in dramatic fashion by winning the final two sets, 6-4 and 6-2.
Augusto won the No. 2 spot in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. Junior Vasily Eremeev also won in straight sets, capturing the No. 4 spot, 6-1, 6-2. Freshman Orthon Lima earned his second singles victory of the season by defeating Henrick Claesson in the final two sets of the No. 6 spot, 7-5, 10-7.
Tennessee Tech continues its homestand Thursday, March 21 at 1 p.m. against Jacksonville State.
Tennessee Tech 5, Belmont 2
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Cookeville, Tenn.
No. 1 – Syrym Abdukhalikov (TTU) def. Henrique Norbiato (BU), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
No. 2 – Alejandro Augusto (TTU) def. Renato Antun (BU), 6-3, 6-4
No. 3 – Fernando Mussolini (BU) def. Alvaro Cintas (TTU), 6-0, 1-6, 6-2
No. 4 – Vasily Eremeev (TTU) def. Navarro Veys (BU), 6-1, 6-2
No. 5 – Bruno Silva (BU) def. Arturo Santa (TTU), 6-2, 6-2
No. 6 – Orthon Lima (TTU) def. Henrik Claesson (BU), 4-6, 7-5, 10-7
No. 1 – Abdukhalikov/Augusto (TTU) def. Norbiato/Mussolini (BU), 8-7(3)
No. 2 – Eremeev/Tarasov (TTU) def. Antun/Veys (BU), 8-3
No. 3 – Silva/Claesson (BU) def. Cintas/Santa (TTU), 8-2


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And so I resolved to take a photo this morning. But then I forgot and turned the leftovers into a salad, so now I've got nothing to take a photo of. So here's another photo of me on holiday:
|Yes I don't look too fat here until you have a look at where my back ends (bottom right)
Anyway, it was an approximation of a thing I got off River Cottage Bites and it's a nice curry although it'll make your house stink like the local Taj Star.
The really interesting thing about it is that I implemented some advice given to me, indirectly, by the film director Gurinda Chadha, who said on some cooking programme that her family always cooked chicken with the skin off. She said "I don't know why," but I do.
It's because chicken skin is unbelievably greasy and curry doesn't need to be any more greasy than it already is. So last night I skinned the chicken drumsticks before browning them as normal and the result was superb.
So here we go, the River Cottage Bites chicken curry, for about 4 people
8 chicken drumsticks (or thighs)
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 can coconut milk (I use those small turqouise ones from Waitrose)
1tsp coriander seeds
1tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
1 tsp ground turmeric
2 tsp ground cumin
1 fresh chilli, seeds in or there's no point
1 2cm square of fresh ginger
1 small onion
1 Grind together the seeds, the turmeric and the cumin and toast gently in a dry pan until the kitchen smells like the set of Slumdog Millionaire. It seems like a shiteload, but just tip it all in.
2 In a food processor, whizz up the ginger, onion and chilli to make a paste. Add some oil to the pan that the spices are cooking in and then tip in this paste. While that's cooking gently for about 10 mins, bloop into the processor the chopped tomatoes and coconut milk and whizz. Leave it there for a bit.
3 Skin the chicken and brown in a pan for about 4 minutes each side. Arrange in a baking dish
4 When the paste/spice mix has had about 10 mins, add in the tomato/coconut mixture and wibble this around until it's all bubbling. Then taste - it will be bland as hell, but spicy, so add salt bit by bit until it starts to taste like something nice. In the end I added - no joke - about four big pinches of salt, but it's best to start small.
5 Pour this mixture over the chicken and bake in a 180C oven, uncovered, for 1 hour.
Very nice re-heated, or cold. The leftover sauce makes a really delicious light curry dressing when mixed with yoghurt, cucumber and mint.


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Lots of playoff headlines yesterday and today.
The big news on Sunday came out of Middlebury College, where in the wake of the men's basketball team's convincing 89-73 takedown of Albertus Magnus on Saturday night, the NCAA awarded the 26-3 Panthers a sectional tournament this weekend. (See details on that game and photos from the Panthers' Friday win over Morrisville in our Monday paper.)
LEICESTER — After a lifetime of service to his town, Bob Oliver on Monday evening will spend his last town meeting sitting at the front of the Leicester Meeting House with the other members of the Leicester selectboard.
ADDISON COUNTY — As schools around the county scramble to keep up with rapid developments in information technology, leading educators have repeatedly voiced concern that education models embraced 10-20 years ago aren't cutting it anymore. And students who don't fit the traditional education mold are getting left behind.
VERGENNES — The John W. Graham Emergency Shelter for the Homeless is seeking volunteers to work with clients to increase their chances of finding — and keeping — permanent housing.
Shelter officials are preparing to launch a mentorship program for area folks to provide friendship, support and guidance to homeless individuals and families who can be overwhelmed by the bureaucratic hoops and transportation hurdles involved in acquiring housing and employment.
MIDDLEBURY — The American Hospital Association (AHA) has recognized Porter Medical Center President James L. Daily with its 2012 Grassroots Champion Award.
MIDDLEBURY — The Gailer School, an innovative independent middle and high school in Middlebury, will close its doors for good this spring, with leaders citing declining enrollment and a strained budget as the primary reasons for the difficult decision.
"Between the struggling economy and the shrinking demographics of Addison County, it has made it really difficult for the private secondary school to recruit enough students," said Gailer Headmaster Lonny Edwards.
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Montpelier's Eastern Development Corp. now has until June 30 to market its still-undisclosed plans for the town's 34.9-acre parcel at the junction of Routes 7 and 22A.
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According to the Bureau of Prisons, the annual average cost per prisoner in 2008 was $26,000 at the federal level and $24,000 at the local level. Small states like Rhode Island and Vermont estimate their costs much higher, about $35-$45,000 a year. This is two to three times our per-pupil cost for public education.
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The Chase
|The Chase
Ricardo Diaz informing Tommy Vercetti that a Sharks gangster who stolen 3% of his merchandise, which is as bad in his mind as stealing 100%.
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|Sharks Thief
|Starfish Island, Vice City
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Arrest of Tommy Vercetti
Death of the Sharks gangster
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The Chase is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City given to protagonist Tommy Vercetti by drug baron Ricardo Diaz from his mansion on Starfish Island, Vice City.
Tommy Vercetti, having impressed Ricardo Diaz by acting as his protection with the Cubans from the Haitians, goes to Diaz' mansion on Starfish Island at Diaz' request. There Diaz, the local drug baron, tells Vercetti that one of his associates from a local gang has stolen three per cent of his merchandise, which he claims is as bad as stealing one hundred per cent. Diaz tells Vercetti to follow him, to locate his main hideout so they can kill him another time.
Vercetti leaves Diaz' mansion and heads towards the mans apartment, located in a building in Vice Point. The man then runs to the roof and begins to shoot at Vercetti with a Kruger and barrels of explosives in an attempt to kill Vercetti. Vercetti, however, continues to pursue him to the end of the block, where the man jumps off the roof and on to a skip, from which he gets into his BF Injection where one of his men are waiting. The two drive off but are followed by Vercetti, who also jumps off the roof and gets on to a nearby scooter or a vehicle of his choice. Vercetti continues to follow them, being shot at along the way (although the PIGs at Vice Point will fight back), as the men drive past the North Point Mall and then to their base on Prawn Island, where the man enters his large run down house.
(Diaz' Mansion, Tommy Vercetti and Ricardo Diaz)
Ricardo Diaz: Come on, baby, go! Yeah! Yeah! Arrrr! Stupid Horse! I'll chop your head off! Grrrr...Who is this dickhead?
Tommy Vercetti: Tommy Vercetti. You remember me.
Ricardo Diaz: Excuse me. I'm a little anxious. Never trust a goddamn horse! You do a good job - you work for me now.
Tommy Vercetti: I work for money.
Ricardo Diaz: As I said, amigo. You work for me now.
Tommy Vercetti: I work...
Ricardo Diaz: Shut up! Some Judas has betrayed me. He thinks I don't know how much money I should be making, but stealing 3% is as good as stealing 100%. No one does this to me. NO ONE. You follow him from his apartement and you see where he goes! Later, we kill him.
(Starfish Island, Tommy.)
Tommy Vercetti: This asshole thinks he can mess with me? If this is the best Vice City has to offer, this is gonna be easy.
(The thief's apartment, The Thief)
The Thief: Ooh, shit!
(The roof, The Thief and Tommy)
The Thief: Loser! Too slow, grandad!
Tommy Vercetti: You better keep running asshole.
The reward for completing the mission is $1,000 and the mission Phnom Penh '86 for Ricardo Diaz is unlocked. The Stubby Shotgun is also unlocked for purchase at the North Point Mall Ammu-Nation Store.
- The Sharks Thief has the animations of a normal male pedestrian instead of a normal gangster/criminal.
Tommy Vercetti outside the apartment of the Sharks Thief.
The Sharks gangster shooting Tommy Vercetti with a Kruger.
Tommy Vercetti chasing the Sharks gangster across the roof tops.
The Sharks gangster getting into his BF Injection after jumping off the roof top to the skip.
Tommy Vercetti following the Sharks gangster from Vice Point while being shot at.
Tommy Vercetti following the Sharks gangster to his large house.
The Sharks gangster entering his large house on Prawn Island.
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A private detective investigating a series of thefts gets called to a larger case when a prominent dean is murdered.
Low-key Phil Oxnard, who has by chance come to detective work in his retirement years, seems the ideal man to solve the idiosyncratic robberies at a small, private college where discretion is highly desired. After all, his wife, confidante and co-detective, Paula Oxnard, has taken a semester-long job there as a guest lecturer. The thefts, in which the valuables reappear in odd locations accompanied by poetic clues as to the thieves' identities, is quaintly old-fashioned and far more fitting to a time when the Hardy Boys would have been called in. When the dean shows up dead, however, college officials ask Oxnard to see what he can find out. It seems there are plenty of faculty members, administration officials and sundry campus employees who were unhappy with the murdered dean, and it would be ideal if Oxnard can find out who the killer is before any serious damage is done to the school's reputation. He uncovers a misappropriation of funds from a national charity and begins to believe the murder may be more than a simple campus disagreement. This is the third book in a series featuring the Oxnards, and O'Donnell has obviously spent time studying the plot recipes of quaint, British-style tea-cozies. In the Oxnards, he has created a likable and dryly witty couple who is charmingly comfortable with each other. This is the sort of mellow detective yarn that appeals to readers who prefer the violence to take place offstage and delight when a Miss Marple-style sleuth identifies the villain in a library full of assembled suspects.
Slow, steady rhythm and polite demeanor feeds this charming mystery.


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Senate rejects firearms on more federal lands
The Senate has rejected an effort to expand the use of firearms on the heavily visited lands of the Army Corps of Engineers in a congressional victory for gun control supporters.
The vote for the proposal by Sen. Tom Coburn was 56-43 for the legislation, but that fell short of the 60 votes needed.
The measure would have let people carry guns onto Corps property for any legal purpose. They currently can only be used there for activities like hunting or target shooting.
The agency oversees nearly 12 million acres containing dams, lakes and trails used for recreation by 370 million visitors annually.
The Oklahoma Republican said the right to bear arms should be the same on Corps property as it already is in national parks. Opponents said the weapons could threaten critical facilities like dams and flood control projects.
The Senate killed an effort last month expanding background checks for more gun buyers.


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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Giuseppe Bernardo's Naturalization Papers
I was so excited when hubby brought in the mail Saturday! Along with an unwanted bill, he handed me the long awaited naturalization papers for his great-grandfather Giuseppe Bernardo. Of course I flung the bill and opened the manila envelope immediately.
After getting Paolo Michele Mangiafico's naturalization papers back in March I expected to learn the marriage date for Giuseppe from his papers; and I did. I also learned something new. Giuseppe was in the Italian Army.
The first set of papers had a form entitled Certificate of Arrival. This one has a Certificate of Examination. Giuseppe had a form called Affidavit in Support of Petition for Citizenship Based on Military, Naval, or Sea Service, where Paolo had one called Declaration of Intent.
Giuseppe entered the Italian Army January 18, 1917 and was discharged in December 1918. Googling around I found a website called War-Diary.com. I was able to find one for an Italian soldier that might shed some light on what Giuseppe may have gone through.
Giuseppe's lawful entry for permanent residence in the United States was at New York on February 28, 1908 on the vessel Principe di Piemonte. He did not stay put however. I have found three different passenger lists for him, but I think there is another one that I haven't been able to find. There must be one for 1920 after he was discharged from the Italian Army because his wife and three kids came over in Feb of 1920 to join him.
So back to searching ship's lists. I will not be defeated!
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Health-Care Reform and the Continuing Care Hospital Model
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision on the health-care form law in June. Whether the law remains intact or is repealed, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network is focused on providing high-quality post-acute care with the best possible patient outcomes.
One of the goals of the health-care reform law is to reduce health-care costs to the Medicare program. Good Shepherd supports this goal and is working to find ways to provide care that are more cost effective while improving care quality and patient outcomes and satisfaction. We will continue to do this whether health-care reform is affirmed or repealed.
One of our strategies is to move away from care that is provided in silos, where each provider just focuses on the level and type of care it provides, rather than collaborating with other providers to offer the best care options to the patient.
One possible way to break down the silos and achieve better outcomes at a reduced cost is the continuing care hospital model. To understand the continuing care hospital model, you first need to know that post-acute care has evolved to include multiple licenses for levels of care (inpatient rehabilitation hospital, long-term acute care, skilled nursing facility). These separate licenses have resulted in separate rules and regulations for each level of care that arbitrarily constrain the ways that we can deliver health services. The current rules and regulations for each licensed level of care make care more complex and costly.
By merging post-acute levels of care under one roof with one set of rules and regulations, the continuing care hospital model would eliminate silos of care and give providers like Good Shepherd greater ability to provide patients the level of care they need at the right time. This would reduce the cost of care, improve quality and enhance patient satisfaction.
The health-care reform law stipulates that the Medicare program conduct a test of the continuing care hospital. We hope that test will occur to prove that it is more cost-effective to provide post-acute care in an integrated manner.
Another important way to break out of siloed thinking is for acute-care and post-acute care health systems to collaborate. Good Shepherd is constantly looking for ways to do that in the Lehigh Valley region.
Whatever the future brings, Good Shepherd will continue to seek to partner with our area acute-care systems to find ways to provide quality patient care in a cost-effective manner.


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Twins Kyra and Mya Cooper stood on a podium in blue racing jerseys, arms lifted above their heads, bicycle helmets removed to reveal blond and brown ponytails. A gold medal was looped around Kyra's neck; Mya's was adorned with silver. It was May 27, a beautiful spring evening at a Devon bicycle park and the twins' mother, Shauna Paisley Cooper, and father, Greg Cooper, cheered their seven-year-old daughters' first mountain bike race and, perhaps more important, their inheritance — a family love of cycling.
Quadriplegic mom proud of her adventurous mountain biking twins
EDMONTON – Twins Kyra and Mya Cooper stood on a podium in blue racing jerseys, arms lifted above their heads, bicycle helmets removed to reveal blond and brown ponytails. A gold medal was looped around Kyra's neck; Mya's was adorned with silver.
It was May 27, a beautiful spring evening at a Devon bicycle park and the twins' mother, Shauna Paisley Cooper, and father, Greg Cooper, cheered their seven-year-old daughters' first mountain bike race and, perhaps more important, their inheritance — a family love of cycling.
"I've never been as proud of them as I was that night. They were so confident, standing on that podium. I could see so much self-esteem," says Paisley Cooper.
They were competitors 552 and 553 in the Little Rippers category. They whipped twice around the course with 13 other riders, taking tight corners and zooming down hills. Greg ventured into the trees that lined the race course to watch his daughters while Paisley Cooper sat with a crowd near the finish line.
Once an obsessive mountain biker herself and fiercely competitive, Paisley Cooper was elated when Kyra crossed the finish line, first among the female riders.
She moved the joystick on the electric wheelchair that has afforded her movement for the past six years, and went to congratulate her daughter.
On July 13, 2008, Paisley Cooper was flying down Rabbit Hill, training for a mountain bike trip to British Columbia with her husband and friends. She had spent two glorious hours biking on the sun-drenched hill when she rode toward an obstacle. The jump had an "out," an option to ride around it on a smooth trail. But by the time Paisley Cooper realized she didn't want to take the jump, it was too late — she braked and braked and braked, but couldn't stop in time.
She launched into the air and landed on her head. The bike fell on top of her and, at the time, she couldn't figure out why she couldn't move it off.
Despite her helmet, Paisley Cooper had broken her neck — a C6 complete spinal cord break.
Imagine a figure standing with each arm extended to the side and draw a line from the tip of one thumb to the tip of the other. That's the dividing line for Paisley Cooper between sensation and nothing. She has no feeling beneath her nipples. While she can use her biceps, she has limited strength in her triceps. Her fingers are paralyzed, but she can move her wrists.
The athlete, wife, 34-year-old mother of toddler twins had lost control of her legs, bowels, the ability to sweat.
I met Paisley Cooper two months after the accident at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital. She has shiny brown hair, a wide smile, and a dry sense of humour. At the Glenrose, she was gaining strength and skills, learning to master basic movements as a quadriplegic.
Greg and the twins would come to the Glenrose every afternoon to visit and play. The toddlers would bring their mom exercise balls and catch rides on her wheelchair. When it was time to say goodbye, they climbed onto Paisley Cooper's lap to give her hugs and kisses. Of course, they didn't understand the enormity of what had happened and, in many ways, they still don't.
"I don't want my daughters to grow up and say, 'I missed out on this because my mom was in a wheelchair,'" she says.
Paisley Cooper was always an athlete. At six years old, she raced her shiny red bike around the block and asked her mom to time her. She once hit a car in the back alley, hopped back on the bike and tore around the block even faster to beat her time.
She played soccer for 25 years and, before the twins were born, she and Greg spent their holidays mountain biking. Those vacations gave her the satisfaction of knowing she could propel herself to amazing heights, and an adrenalin rush she describes as addictive. She loved working out, being on a team, and being competitive.
"My identity prior to my injury was as a strong athlete. I'd call myself an athlete first. And I can't identify myself as an athlete anymore. I identify myself as a stay-at-home mom," says Paisley Cooper, now 40. "My life is cut in two segments, my first 35 years and my next 35 years."
The daily routine for a stay-at-home mom — in a wheelchair or not — has a hectic rhythm. For Paisley Cooper, the day starts when a caregiver arrives at 6 a.m. to help her out of bed, into the shower, and through physiotherapy. Paisley Cooper does her hair and makeup while the caregiver preps the family's dinner and packs lunches for the girls. The caregiver returns in the evening to get Paisley Cooper into bed.
While Greg pitches in, staff at the Glenrose taught him to separate the roles of caregiver and husband.
Still, it was Greg, a pipefitter whose friendly smile comes easily, who went househunting after the accident to find one that could be made wheelchair accessible. It was Greg who kept a witty and informative blog for family and friends while his wife was in rehab. Greg ordered a custom sticker decal for their minivan, which shows a woman in a wheelchair accompanying the stickers of two young girls, a dad, and a cat.
A good attitude can make a difference in their lives, but so can technology.
Paisley Cooper keeps an iPad with her at almost all times, as she can type quite easily on the monitor. The couple customized their minivan two years ago so Paisley Cooper can wheel herself to the steering wheel without assistance (she and her daughters recently drove to Kelowna for a holiday without Greg). And this spring she had a colostomy bag inserted, eliminating the need to spend two hours in the bathroom each morning waiting for a bowel movement.
"I've got a poop bag here and a pee bag here … it's wonderful because I'm completely independent," she says.
It's a long way from her first days at home after six months at the Glenrose — an environment where she was getting better every day, and doctors and physiotherapists and psychologists were always available for advice and encouragement. It felt like a newborn had come home and the couple "barely knew how to change diapers."
Paisley Cooper soon fell into a deep, deep depression. It took months before she woke up one morning and said, "This is stupid. If I'm going to be here, I'm going to be engaged."
Almost six years later, she calls herself an ordinary soccer mom. Greg interjects: "You're not a regular soccer mom. You're one of the crazies."
The residential cul-de-sac in Spruce Grove where the Cooper family lives is idyllic. Kids wheel through the neighbourhood on bicycles, families play basketball at driveway hoops, and street hockey games take over on summer nights.
Paisley Cooper expects her children to move their legs even if she can't move hers. The twins ride their bikes to the local pool for swimming lessons while Paisley Cooper wheels alongside in her wheelchair. They do gymnastics, play ringette, and ride a zip line into the water at their favourite lake. On a recent July night, they were doing cartwheels in the driveway and perching on the edge of their mom's hand-cranked bike.
Would it ever have been possible to stop these girls from riding bikes? Of course not. They got on two wheels, like most kids, at about three years old.
A few years later, when some boys set up jumps in the cul-de-sac, their mom said, "No."
But as the twins got older, it became clear they didn't just like riding bikes. They were good at it. When a friend suggested this spring the girls take a course through the Devon Mountain Biking Association, Greg was excited — he had long wanted to hit the trails again with his family. Paisley Cooper was "apprehensively excited" and she let them go.
The course taught the basics: how to ride over a log, how to shift gears properly, how to brake on a steep hill.
"I saw them doing so well. I thought, 'This is so good, that they can enjoy riding as much as I did.'"
The year after her accident, Paisley Cooper returned to Rabbit Hill.
She took a picture at the base of the grassy slope where she fell. The wooden obstacle that caused the crash had been removed; a rolling expanse of green takes up the bulk of the photograph. Seated in her wheelchair, she appears pretty, peaceful, pensive.
"I have to stay away from the internal dialogue of, 'Why did I go down that trail? Why did I go down that trail? Why did I go down that trail?' Because there's no answer."
When she was first in rehab at the Glenrose, Paisley Cooper asked her psychologist: Would she let her daughters ride bikes?
Now, the girls are preparing for their second mountain bike race. Like any mom, she worries. But not every mom has gone through a traumatic, life-changing experience on a bicycle. The psychologist at the Glenrose told her it's her job to teach the twins about the risks of mountain biking and how to do it with skill.
"I feel really good that their skill is good, that they can do it. I have to trust that they're going to be taken care of because I've given them the skills and I've seen that they can do it and I just have to let it go."
Before they head out, she always says, "Be safe." And they always reply, "Mom, don't worry."
On a family camping trip to Cold Lake this summer, Paisley Cooper donned a life-jacket and sat in the middle of a giant inner tube being towed behind the family boat. There's a photograph of her in the water, beaming. Since becoming quadriplegic, she hasn't enjoyed swimming. But tubing? She loves it.
"Because of the speed. And because you might fall out."


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Kakigori is one of those Japanese foods that just never appealed to me. I've been visiting Japan for a decade and have successfully managed to avoid going in the summer time, so kakigori was never a must try on my trips and, anyway, I never liked Slush Puppies and I'd assumed that kakigori would be similar to these. Wrong! It's more like eating a fruit sorbet.
Last year our Spring trip to Tokyo and Sendai was abruptly cancelled and our 'stopover' destination became the place we stayed for a vacation. We spent a lot of time at the Bangkok Isetan, it was the closest we could feel to being in Japan and we felt comforted there. Anyway, up on the top floor was a Japanese style cafe which had a lovely selection of desserts. My husband chose the strawberry kakigori and shared it with our very young daughter. It looked amazing and tasted wonderful. Nothing like I'd imagined.
This year our Spring trip did go ahead and just before we left to return to the UK we stopped at the BIC Camera outlet store and picked up a kakigori manual ice shaver for about 500yen.
And this is how I got started on making kakigori at home.
Ice shavers can be bought quite inexpensively (under $10 in the USA), the ice does need to be shaved - it's not the same as making crushed ice. You can approximate shaved ice to try kakigori without specialised equipment by freezing a block of water and then scraping the ice with a metal knife or spatula (easiest way is probably to freeze water in a stiff sturdy container and scrape away at the top of the ice, removing the 'snow' periodically). It is a hassle, but at least this would give you the opportunity to work out if you like kakigori before buying an ice shaver.
When looking for a kakigori syrup recipe I found this page:
http://allabout.co.jp/gm/gc/188150/ and ran it through a translation engine.
The underlying method is to make a sugar syrup (1.5 measures of sugar to 2 measures of water - you just heat up the sugar and water until the sugar dissolves and leave the syrup to cool) and combine this with fresh fruit ( the recipe is for one kiwi fruit, a teaspoon of lemon juice and 40-50cc of the sugar syrup). Use a liquidiser or stick blender to turn the fruit and syrup into your kakigori sauce.
You can use the same method to make a sweet sauce from a wide variety of fruit - I've used it on plums and the one I will be recommending here: strawberries.
I'd suggest blending together the fruit first, taste it for sweetness and then add as much or as little syrup and/or lemon juice as you wish. Lemon juice is definitely optional with most fruit.
If you can, try and chill your sauce and put in something that will pour easily.
If sugar doesn't appeal and the fruit isn't sweet enough try honey or any other sweetener or natural syrup (I suspect fresh pineapple, maple syrup and a little fresh mint would make a fine kakigori sauce).
If you're a family with different tastes you could always make a sugarless fruit sauce and keep a little jar of sweet syrup at the table to be added individually.
This is all you actually need to make a delicious shaved ice dessert. Shave your ice in a bowl until you have a very generously sized mound (it will shrink a little when the sauce is added). Take your sauce and pour it all over the ice. Eat with a spoon. You might like to have a straw handy as you can drink the dregs.
I wanted to go another step as a classic kakigori topping is strawberry and milk. For this I needed condensed milk. Unfortunately, commercial condensed milk is usually made with powdered milk and I'm not that fond of it. I found this recipe and got wonderful results.
(I actually used a little less sugar - may even use less next time around and freeze it in small batches as less sugar may make the condensed milk more likely to spoil if kept for a long period)
I cooled the condensed milk and used a funnel to pour it into a cleaned and sterilised old condiment 'squeezy' bottle with a silicone diaphragm in the dispenser (a honey or maple syrup jar might be appropriate). This lets me pour out the condensed milk in a stickiless even stream.
So this is what we had yesterday. Shaved ice. Fresh strawberry syrup. A scribble of home made condensed milk over the top.
You can go further if you wish. Kakigori can go the parfait route. If I really wanted to beef up the strawberry milk kakigori I could have added anko and little bits of mochi. More appealing to me would be to make cubes of fruit jelly/jello/kanten) and periodically scatter them onto the shaved ice as the shaved ice mound was being formed so that you have little squidgy surprises as you eat the kakigori.
Another variation for a deluxe kakigori is to make the ice blocks out of fruit juice or even tea instead of water.
There's a nice article which describes the different types of shaved ice desserts available in New York and has a few recipes for anyone needing more inspiration
But for those of us in the North, summer is nearly here. It's a perfect time to try this wonderful seasonal speciality.
And, as I'm new to making kakigori, if anyone has more suggestions or recipes to try I'd love to learn more (particular those that are toddler friendly).
I had some wonderful kakigori, or shave ice as they call it there, in Hawaii. I think it's all about the syrup really. My favorite ready-to-go syrup is undiluted Calpis (Calpico) though I realize it's not for everyone. ^_^
The Big Onigiri.
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We love Calpis so will definitely be giving that a try. Thank you!
(maybe it would be nice also with certain fruit purees - I enjoyed the peach Calpis I tried last month)
Looks yummy now that I know it has real fruit in it! At first glance I thought it was that horrible stuff they sell in America that tastes like antibiotic flavouring. If you know what I mean - the sugary fake fruit stuff they add to medicine for kids.
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red bean/ogura, a bit coconut milk, condensed milk, fragrant syrup, taste great, too..
DO you know the factory web-site for the swan ice shaved machines in Japan
The commercial Swan ice shavers are made by Ikenaga Iron Works based in Osaka.
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One Direction Competing With … One Direction?
One Direction seem to be splitting the charts in two directions. The U.K. heartthrobs have been charting consistently since their infectious debut, 'Up All Night,' hit retailers in March, and now they're competing with another One Direction.
Confused? Apparently so are a lot of record buyers.
Billboard reports that the 'X Factor U.K.' alumni are currently at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, moving 66,000 copies last week, but another One Direction are making their way up the Heat Seekers chart at No. 48 with their album 'The Light,' selling 6,000 total cumulative copies.
Turns out, it's the same California-based One Direction that are suing Simon Cowell and SyCo Records over the 'What Makes You Beautiful' singers' band name. "We may not have Simon Cowell's machine behind us, but we have many loyal fans," the U.S. version of One Direction told Billboard. "We thank them for supporting our albums, and we intend to stand up for the right to Rock and Roll!"
The American One Direction formed way back in 2009 — a full year before the U.K. 1D even met — filed a trademark on the band name before their British counterparts did. However, in a recent interview Harry Styles and Zayn Malik said, "We're not changing our name."
We have a feeling the American One Direction may come around … Perhaps after this free P.R. and maybe a hefty settlement to tide them over.


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Teen Drinking
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Some kids start to drink alcohol at a young age. They think it is part of becoming an adult. They also think drinking is not that bad because so many people do it. They feel it is not as bad as taking drugs. It is easy for kids to get liquor by using fake identification.
Parents may start to notice a change in their child's behavior if the child starts drinking. Kids who drink sometimes stop doing things they normally liked to do. They may keep telephone calls and meetings a secret and not want anybody to touch their things. They act moody and do not have the same eating and sleeping habits.
Parents need to stay involved in their kids' lives. They should talk to their children about their problems to be aware of any changes.
Parents can be the best protection. Children who get a lot of love can feel good about themselves. It helps them resist doing bad things even when other kids are doing them. Parents can also help set a good example by not drinking and driving. They can have firm rules in the home that everyone follows.
Give the children good ideas on how to say "no" to drinking, even when they are at a party. Try not to overreact or panic if the child tries alcohol. How you handle it can affect their attitude. It may be helpful to talk to other parents about setting up curfews and rules about parties or other events.


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How to see yellow-eyed penguins for free at Shag Point
Have we got a seal for you! Check out Shag Point, Waitaki District, North Otago - a fur seal and yellow eyed penguin colony.
Over the horizon, past the curve of the earth, the great stone statues on Easter Island are staring across the Pacific in the same direction you are - towards South America.
But the statues can't move. When you stand on these headlands, you'll understand why Maori called this magic place Matakaea - "wandering gaze."
If your gaze doesn't wander then you're made of stone too; call yourself a statute and rent your head to the pigeons.
Shag Point's Matakaea Reserve is stunning. Want to see yellow eyed penguins - the world's rarest? Come here.
They swim ashore, late every afternoon. Just a few remain on the mainland and Shag Point's a popular breeding ground between October and February.
It's also fur seal central. Two minutes from the first car park and you're at the edge of the land. This is the seals' place. They glide beneath the waves, sleek, smooth, beautiful as mermaids.
They shuffle up the rocks, shaking themselves dry like puppies. They roll in the sun, flippers flopping, not a care in the world. No-one hunts them now. They're safe. We're welcome to watch.
And look out for the old schoolteacher's house and sod cottage at Shag Point when you turn left about 15k south of Moeraki. Shag Point was a coal mining town and residents reckon "the weather's always better here".
Actually, the whole place is pretty cool.
Shag Point/Matakaea Reserve: Wander and gaze, gaze and wonder. This is the real sea world. And admission is free!
SHAG POINT/MATAKAEA SCENIC RESERVE: Left off SH 1, approx 15k south of Moeraki
More info from the Oamaru i-SITE, Cnr Thames Highway and Itchen Street


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