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For something different, I thought I would gather up some of the titles that have been featured on the blog (and in the book) and offer them to you all. Note, it's just the books, not the bookmarks inside.
Black Beauty, from "Treasure This Letter"
"Double Vision"
"Martha My Dear"
"Rationalization Nation"
I'll also throw in a signed copy of my book:
Contest closed, winner announced shortly.
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|Northwood HS
Lindsay Gankema played in a total of 12 games, starting one... She scored the only goal against #16 Santa Clara, making it a close battle and tough loss for the Gauchos (1-2)... Had two shots in the season, one of which was on goal.
Gankema played in 12 games as a Freshman, but did not start any...She recorded two shots, both of which were on goal.
Lindsay Gankema attended Northwood High School in Irvine, Calif....Played for Steve Tatone and Chris Wooley...A four-time All-Sea View League choice...Named Northwood's Offensive Player of the Year following her senior season in 2010...Was her school's Defensive Player of the Year in 2007 and 2008...On the club level, she was a member of the Irvine Strikers...Helped the Strikers to the U15 U.S. Club National Championship, the USYS U14 national title, the USYS U13 title and a pair of State Cup championships...The Strikers were a six-time Coast Soccer League title winner, a three-time CSL League Cup champs and a four-time Surf Cup champions...Played ODP from 2004-08...In 2009, Gankema was ranked among the top-100 players by Top Drawer Soccer...Top Drawer Soccer also named her a top-20 player in Cal South...Also competed in track and field and Lacrosse at Northwood High School.
Lindsay Rose Gankema was born October 17, 1991 in Laguna Hills, Calif....The daughter of Mary Ann and Dennis Gankema...Also played lacrosse in high school...Would like to major in physics and aspires to a job in that field.
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Four sewing room essentials to improve your productivity
If you love to sew and are fortunate enough to have a spare room in your house that can be devoted to the craft, you'll need to ensure that the space meets every one of your needs. But what exactly are the essentials for a well-equipped sewing room? Here are a few ideas to get you on the right track.
1. A spacious table. You'll certainly need a place to spread out your materials and actually get down to business, and a large workspace will provide that.
2. A comfortable chair. When you're putting the finishing touches on that garment or painstakingly stitching a complicated project, you don't want your rear end going numb on an uncomfortable chair. Look for plenty of cushioning.
3. Roller shades for windows. When the room gets a bit dark or the sun starts bothering you, all it takes is a small tug to adjust these window treatments, then you're back to work. Solar Shades are perfect for reducing glare, but not eradicating your view.
4. Plenty of storage. You don't want the sewing room to fall victim to loose thread, yards of fabric and dangling ribbons, so make sure each item has a proper place to be stored. You'll also be able to find things more easily.


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Recall 13V081000
The Third Row Seat May Not Latch Correctly
Recall Details
The third row seat can experience rust at the seat anchor mechanism mounted to each rear wheel well. As a result, the seat may not fully latch into its seating position. If the vehicle is hit from the rear, an unlatched seat may increase the risk of injury. Dealers will install new third row seat latch striker mounting brackets to correct this concern.
Our Quick Take
Ford is recalling certain vehicles sold or currently registered in states where salt is used to de-ice the roads. Due to rust, the third row seat may not fully latch into is seating position.
What Should You Do?
Owners of affected vehicles will be notified beginning March 27, 2013. If you experience problems latching the third row seat, or you don't received recall notification and you feel you should have, please contact your Ford dealer. They may ask for your vehicle identification number (VIN), so please have it handy when you call. The Ford recall number is 13S01.


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Akter, M. Shahriar and Rajasekera, Jay and Rahman, M. Mahfuzur (2010) Serving the poor by marketing information: developing a village phone model for Bangladesh. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2 (3/4). pp. 288-309. ISSN 1756-9850
Alsajjan, Bander and Dennis, Charles (2010) Internet banking acceptance model: cross-market examination. Journal of Business Research, 63 (9). pp. 957-963. ISSN 0148-2963
Anderson, Deirdre and Vinnicombe, S. and Singh, V. (2010) Women partners leaving the firm: Choice, what choice? Gender in Management, 25 (3). pp. 170-183. ISSN 17542413
Ardley, B. C. and Taylor, N. (2010) The student practitioner: developing skills through the marketing research consultancy project. Marketing intelligence and planning, 28 (7). pp. 847-861. ISSN UNSPECIFIED
Ardley, B. C. and Ardley, M. K. (2010) The Lincoln Magna Carta: marketing a document that changed the world. The Marketing Review, 10 (3). 287 -302. ISSN 1469-347X
Armstrong, Steven J. and Fukami, Cynthia V. (2010) Self-Assessment of Knowledge: a cognitive learning or affective measure? Perspectives from the management learning and education community. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 9 (2). pp. 335-342. ISSN 1537-260X
Atherton, Andrew and Kim, Jun Yeup and Kim, Hyeyoen (2010) Who's driving take-up? An examination of patterns of small business engagement with Business Link. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 28 (2). pp. 257-275. ISSN 0263-774x
Atherton, Andrew and Smallbone, David (2010) State promotion of SME development at the local level in China: An examination of two cases. Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship, 2 (3). pp. 225-241. ISSN 1756-1396
Bakker, Arnold B. and Bal, Matthijs P. (2010) Weekly work engagement and performance:a study among starting teachers. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 83 (1). pp. 189-206. ISSN 0963-1798
Bal, Matthijs and Lange, Annet De and Jansen, Paul G W and Velde, Mandy E.G. Van Der (2010) Leeftijd, het psychologisch contract, en werkattitudes: een meta-analyse. Gedrag en Organisatie, 23 (1). pp. 44-72. ISSN 0921-5077
Bal, P. Matthijs (2010) Oudere werknemers en het psychologisch contract: vier wijze lessen voor organisaties die hun oudere werknemers willen behouden. Tijdschrift voor HRM, 13 . ISSN 1388-1302
Bal, P. Matthijs and Chiaburu, Dan S. and Jansen, Paul G. W. (2010) Psychological contract breach and work performance:Is social exchange a buffer or an intensifier? Journal of Managerial Psychology, 25 (3). pp. 252-273. ISSN 0268-3946
Bal, P. Matthijs and Jansen, Paul G. W. and Velde, Mandy E. G. Van Der and de Lange, Annet H. and Rousseau, Denise M. (2010) The role of future time perspective in psychological contracts: a study among older workers. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 76 (3). pp. 474-486. ISSN 0001-8791
Benneworth, Paul and Charles, David and Madanipour, Ali (2010) Building localized interactions between universities and cities through university spatial development. European Planning Studies, 18 (10). pp. 1611-1629. ISSN 0965-4313
Bittencourt Bastos, Antonio Virgilio and Menezes, Igor (2010) Intention to stay: a component or an outcome of organizational commitment? Estudos de Psicologia, 15 (3). pp. 299-307. ISSN 1413-294X
Bosworth, Gary (2010) Commercial counterurbanisation: an emerging force in rural economic development. Environment and Planning A, 42 (4). pp. 966-981. ISSN 0308-518X
Bosworth, Gary and Mcelwee, Gerard (2010) Exploring the strategic skills of farmers across a typology of farm diversification approaches. Journal of Farm Management, 13 (12). pp. 819-838. ISSN 0014-8059
Burgin, Shelley and Hardiman, Nigel (2010) Ecoaccreditation: win-win for the environment and small business? International Journal of Business Studies, 18 (1). pp. 23-38. ISSN 1320-7156
Canavari, M. and Centonze, R. and Hingley, Martin and Spadoni, R. (2010) Traceability as part of competitive strategy in the fruit supply chain. British Food Journal, 112 (2). pp. 171-186. ISSN UNSPECIFIED
Chit, Myint Moe and Rizov, Marian and Willenbockel, Dirk (2010) Exchange rate volatility and exports: new empirical evidence from the emerging East Asian economies. World Economy, 33 (2). pp. 239-263. ISSN 0378-5920
Dennis, Charles and Jayawardhena, Chanaka and Papamatthaiou, Eleni-Konstantina (2010) Antecedents of internet shopping intentions and the moderating effects of substitutability. The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 20 (4). pp. 411-430. ISSN 0959-3969
Dennis, Charles and Melewar, T. C. (2010) Special issue on places for people in a turbulent world [guest editorial]. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 6 (2). pp. 76-78. ISSN 1751-8040
Dennis, Charles and Morgan, Alesia and Wright, Len Tiu and Jayawardhena, Chanaka (2010) The influences of social e-shopping in enhancing young women's online shopping behaviour. Journal of Customer Behaviour, 9 (2). pp. 151-174. ISSN 1475-3928
Dennis, Charles and Newman, Andrew and Michon, Richard and Josko Brakus, J. and Wright, Len Tiu (2010) The mediating effects of perception and emotion: digital signage in mall atmospherics. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 17 (3). pp. 205-215. ISSN 0969-6989
Espinosa-Goded, Maria and Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus and Ruto, Eric (2010) What do farmers want from agri-environmental scheme design? A choice experiment approach. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 61 (2). pp. 259-273. ISSN 0021-857X
Floyd, David (2010) Car scrappage. Economic Review, 28 (2). p. 10. ISSN 0265-0290
Fuller, Ted and Warren, Lorraine and Thelwall, Sarah and Alamdar, Fizza and Rae, David (2010) Rethinking business models as value creating systems. Leonardo, 43 (1). pp. 96-97. ISSN 0024-094x
Hack-polay, Dieu (2010) Marriage among Britain's black African refugees. Finnish Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 5 (1). ISSN 1796-6582
Hardiman, Nigel and Burgin, Shelley (2010) Adventure recreation in Australia: a case study that investigated the profile of recreational canyoners, their impact attitudes, and response to potential management options. Journal of Ecotourism, 9 (1). pp. 36-44. ISSN 1472-4049
Hardiman, Nigel and Burgin, Shelley (2010) Preliminary assessment of freshwater crayfish as environmental indicators of human impacts in canyons of the Blue Mountains, Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 30 (4). pp. 770-777. ISSN 0278-0372
Hardiman, Nigel and Burgin, Shelley (2010) Recreational impacts on the fauna of Australian coastal marine ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management, 91 (11). pp. 2096-2108. ISSN 0301-4797
Hardiman, Nigel and Burgin, Shelley (2010) Visit impacts and canyon management in the Blue Mountains, Australia: canyoners' perspectives and wilderness management. Managing Leisure, 15 (4). pp. 264-278. ISSN 1360-6719, ESSN: 1466-450X
Hingley, Martin (2010) Networks in socially embedded local food supply: the case of retailer co-operatives. Journal of Business Market Management, 4 (3). pp. 111-128. ISSN 1864-0753
Hingley, Martin and Boone, J. and Haley, S. (2010) Local food marketing as a development opportunity for small UK agri-food businesses. International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 1 (3). pp. 194-203. ISSN 1809-6945
Hingley, Martin and Lindgreen, Adam and Beverland, Michael (2010) Barriers to network innovation in UK ethnic fresh produce supply. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 22 (1). pp. 77-96. ISSN 0898-5626
Hingley, Martin and Sodano, V. (2010) Channel management and differentiation strategies in the supply chain for fresh produce. Journal of food products marketing, 16 (1). pp. 129-146. ISSN UNSPECIFIED
Huffman, Sonya and Rizov, Marian (2010) The rise of obesity in transition: Theory and empirical evidence from Russia. Journal of Development Studies, 46 (3). pp. 574-594. ISSN 0022-0388
Irawati, Dessy and Charles, David (2010) The involvement of Japanese MNEs in the Indonesian automotive cluster. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 10 (2/3). pp. 180-196. ISSN 1470-9511
Kelliher, Clare and Anderson, Deirdre (2010) Doing more with less? flexible working practices and the intensification of work. Human Relations, 63 (1). pp. 83-106. ISSN 0018-7267
Lindgreen, A. and Hingley, Martin (2010) Challenges and opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) arising from ethnically, racially and religiously diverse populations. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 22 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN 0898-5626
Menezes, Igor and Bittencourt Bastos, Antonio Virgilio (2010) Conception, development, and validation of the Behavioral Intentions of Organizational Commitment Scale (BIOCS). Avaliação Psicológica, 9 (1). pp. 119-127. ISSN 2175-3431
Menezes, Igor Gomes and Bastos, Antonio Virgílio Bittencourt (2010) Psychometric properties of Behavioral Intentions to Remaining with the Organization Scale (BIROS). Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia, 10 (3). pp. 800-817. ISSN 1676-3041
Menezes, Igor Gomes and Gomes, Ana Cristina Passos (2010) Organizational climate: a historical review of the construct. Psicologia em Revista, 16 (1). pp. 158-179. ISSN 1677-1168
Ness, Mitchell R. and Ness, Mitchell and Brennan, Mary and Oughton, Elizabeth and Ritson, Christopher and Ruto, Eric (2010) Modelling consumer behavioural intentions towards food with implications for marketing quality low-input and organic food. Food Quality and Preference, 21 (1). pp. 100-111. ISSN 0950-3293
Newbery, Robert and Bosworth, Gary (2010) Home based business sectors in the rural economy. Society and Business Review, 5 (2). pp. 183-197. ISSN 1746-5680
Newman, Andrew and Dennis, Charles and Wright, Len Tiu and King, Tamira (2010) Shoppers' experiences of digital signage - a cross-national qualitative study. International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications, 4 (7). pp. 50-57. ISSN 1975-9339
Owens, Jonathan D. and Price, Liz (2010) Is E-learning replacing the traditional lecture? Education and Training Journal, 52 (2). pp. 128-139. ISSN 0040-0912
Park, Eerang and Boo, Soyoung (2010) An assessment of convention tourism's potential contribution to environmentally sustainable growth. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18 (1). pp. 95-113. ISSN 0966-9582
Pearce, Jeremy (2010) Directors' duties of care, skill and diligence in Vietnam. Bond University Corporate Governance ejournal . ISSN .1836-1110
Rae, David (2010) Universities and enterprise education: responding to the challenges of the new era. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 17 (4). 591 -606. ISSN 1462-6004
Reast, Jon and Lindgreen, Adam and Vanhamme, Joëlle and Maon, François (2010) The Manchester Super Casino: experience and learning in a cross-sector social partnership. Journal of Business Ethics, 94 (S1). pp. 197-218. ISSN 0167-4544
Roberts, Joanne and Fuller, Ted (2010) International business: past, present and futures. Futures: Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies, 42 (9). pp. 901-909. ISSN 0016-3287
Schalk, René and Van Veldhoven, Marc and de Lange, Annet H. and De Witte, Hans and Kraus, Katrin and Stamov-Rossnagel, Christian and Tordera, Nuria and Van der Heijden, Beatrice and Zappala, Salvatore and Bal, P. Matthijs and Bertrand, Francois and Claes, Rita and Crego, Antonio and Dorenbosch, Luc and de Jonge, Jan and Desmette, Donatienne and Gellert, Franz Josef and Hansez, Isabelle and Iller, Carola and Kooij, Dorien and Kuipers, Ben and Linkola, Pertti and van den Broeck, Anja and van der Schoot, Esther and Zacher, Hannes (2010) Moving European research on work and ageing forward: overview and agenda. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 19 (1). pp. 76-101. ISSN 1359-432X
Vortelinos, Dimitrios (2010) The properties of realized correlation: evidence from the French, German and Greek equity markets. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 50 (3). pp. 273-290. ISSN 1062-9769
Warren, Lorraine and Fuller, Ted (2010) Capturing the dynamics of co-production and collaboration in the digital economy. Leonardo, 43 (2). pp. 200-201. ISSN 0024-094X
Yalta, A. Yasemin and Demir, Ishak (2010) The extent of trade mis-invoicing in Turkey: did post-1990 policies matter? Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development, 31 (3). pp. 41-66. ISSN 1308-7800
de Lange, Annet H. and Yperen, Nico W. Van and der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M. Van and Bal, P. Matthijs (2010) Dominant achievement goals of older workers and their relationship with motivation-related outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 77 (1). pp. 118-125. ISSN 0001-8791
Fuller, Ted (2010) Entrepreneurship as social change: a third movements in entrepreneurship book [Chris Steyaert and Daniel Hjorth (eds)]. International Small Business Journal, 28 (5). pp. 528-530. ISSN 0266-2426
Charles, David and Benneworth, Paul and Conway, Cheryl and Humphrey, Lynne (2010) How to benchmark university community engagement. In: The community engagement and service mission of universities. NIACE, Leicester, pp. 69-86. ISBN 9781862014572
Farrell, Helen and Bosworth, Gary and Newbery, Robert (2010) Networking among rural tourism entrepreneurs. In: The Sustainable World. The Sustainable World . WIT Press Wessex Institute of Technology Press, Southampton, UK. ISBN 9781845645045
Hall, Bronia (2010) The experience of stakeholder participation in tourism planning: operationalising 'best practice'. In: The sustainable world. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment . WIT Press, pp. 655-673. ISBN 9781845645045, 9781845645052
Hingley, Martin and Lindgreen, A. (2010) Living with power imbalance in the food supply chain. In: Delivering Performance in Food Supply Chains. Food science, technology and nutrition . Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 37-61. ISBN 9781845694715
Koronis, Epaminondas and Ponis, Stavros (2010) Managing the risk of knowledge transfer in outsourcing organizations. In: Managing risk in virtual enterprise networks: implementing supply chain principles. IGI Global: Business Science Reference. ISBN 9781615206070
Mcmanus, John (2010) Risk management. In: Encyclopedia of software engineering. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 9781420059779
Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Herron, Rebecca (2010) Constructed conversation: the Lincolnshire active learning approach. In: Taking part? Active learning for active citizenship, and beyond. NIACE Publications National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Leicester. ISBN 9781862014350
Owens, Jonathan and Dawson, Julie (2010) The underlying test: human, organisational and technical considerations adjoined with critical success factors when implementing ERP: a cases study of a UK SME. In: Organizational advancements through enterprise information systems: emerging applications and developments. Information Science Reference, pp. 134-155. ISBN 9781605669687
Rae, David and Gee, Simon and Moon, Robert (2010) The role of an entrepreneurial learning team in creating an enterprise culture in a university. In: Handbook Of Research In Entrepreneurship Education. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 274-296. ISBN 9781848440968
Ruto, E. and Scarpa, R. (2010) Using choice experiments to investigate preferences for cattle traits in Kenya. In: Choice experiments in developing countries: implementation, challenges and policy implications. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 244-260. ISBN 9781848440036
Simpson, Mike and Taylor, Nick and Padmore, Jo (2010) Marketing in small and medium-sized enterprises: an introduction. In: Entrepreneurship marketing: principles and practice of SME marketing. Routledge. ISBN 0415573769
Simpson, Mike and Taylor, Nick and Padmore, Jo (2010) The role and relevance model of marketing in small and medium-sized enterprises. In: Entrepreneurship marketing: principles and practice of SME marketing. Routledge. ISBN 0415573769
Voase, Richard (2010) Visualizing the past: Baudrillard, intensities of the hyper-real and the erosion of historicity. In: Culture, Heritage and Representation: Perspectives on Visuality and the Past. Heritage, Culture & Identity . Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, Surrey, UK, pp. 105-123. ISBN 9780754675983
Atherton, Andrew and Price, Liz and Gray, David and Bosworth, Gary (2010) The relationship between rurality, skills and productivity in the East Midlands: final report. Project Report. East Midlands Development Agency.
Atherton, Andrew and Price, Liz and Gray, David and Bosworth, Gary (2010) The relationship between rurality, skills and productivity in the East Midlands: summary. Project Report. East Midlands Development Agency.
Bosworth, Gary (2010) Employment and skills in Newark and Sherwood. Technical Report. Newark and Sherwood District Council / Enterprise Research and Development Unit, University of Lincoln.
Price, Liz (2010) Higher education in Northern Ireland: a review of evidence. Technical Report. University 4 Derry, Northern Ireland.
Vilalta-perdomo, Eliseo Luis and Montaudon-Tomas, Cynthia (2010) Modelo de evaluación del impacto de centros de incubación y desarrollo emprendedor en comunidades rurales del Estado de Guanajuato. Project Report. Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología del Estado de Guanajuato.
Bregoli, Ilenia (2010) Effects of DMO's coordination on destination brand identity: a mixed method study on Edinburgh. In: ATLAS 2010 Doctoral Colloquium, 2 November 2010, Limassol (Cyprus).
Dilmperi, Athina and Asteriou, Dimitrios (2010) An econometric examination of the determinants of wine consumption in Greece. In: XVII European Association of Wine Economists Conference, 9-12 June, 2010, Palermo.
Dilmperi, Athina and King, Tamira and Dennis, Charles (2010) The determinants of music consumption: physical vs digital. In: 17th Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science Conference, 2-5 July 2010, Istanbul.
Hall, Bronia (2010) Stakeholder participation groups within the context of sustainability. In: THRIC 2010, 15-16 June 2010, Shannon College of Hotel Management.
Hall, Bronia (2010) The experience of stakeholder participation in tourism planning: operationalising 'best practice'. In: Sustainable Tourism 2010, 5-7 July 2010, Wessex Institute of Technology.
Hingley, Martin (2010) Building stakeholder value in socially responsible food supply: a case study of the retailer co-operative approach in the UK. In: XIth International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, 6 - 8 April 2010, Moscow.
Hingley, Martin and Boone, Julie and Haley, S. (2010) Factors affecting growth and success of small-scale local agri-food businesses. In: 9th International Conference on Chain and Network Management, May 2010, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Hingley, Martin and Boone, Julie and Lindgreen, Adam (2010) Development of local and regional food networks: cases from the UK. In: 26th Annual Conference of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group, 2 - 4 September 2010, University of Budapest, Hungary.
Jackson, Jennifer and Herron, Rebecca (2010) Challenging inequality? Vertical interventions to horizontal problems? A study of a healthy living centre within Lincolnshire Probation. In: OR52: UK OR Society Conference, 7-9 September, 2010, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Mayo, Marjorie and Mendiwelso-Bendek, Zoraida and Packham, Carol and Jones, Vaughan and Cock, Juan Camilo (2010) Building third sector research capacity to address the challenges and opportunities of active citizenship: focusing upon social cohesion, working with established communities as well as migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. In: The Ninth International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, July 2010, Istanbul.
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Rydzik, Agnieszka (2010) Experiences of migrant women in tourism employment. In: 3rd Annual Academic Associate Poster Symposium, May 2010, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
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Segon, Michael and Booth, Chris and Pearce, Jeremy (2010) Ethics, bribery, corruption and management in Vietnam. In: World Business Ethics Forum, 27 - 28 October 2010, Macau.
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Hardwick, Jialin (2010) Entrepreneurial networking, trust process and virtual networks. PhD thesis, The Robert Gordon University.
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Jackson, Jennifer (2010) Evaluation of the role of the Oasis Family Resilience Worker. [Project]
Farrell, Helen and Price, Liz (2010) East Lindsey Active: Green Exercise project evaluation. University of Lincoln.
Lakshmi, Geeta (2010) Islands in the stream: why mutual cooperation is necessary in the Irish sovereign crisis. University of Lincoln.
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Lakshmi, Geeta (2010) The etymology of sovereign crises and the random walk. University of Lincoln.
Lakshmi, Geeta (2010) The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak: a wildebeest in the making? University of Lincoln.


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Congress Actually Helping The Internet, Rather Than Mucking It Up?
from the could-it-be? dept
- It will make permanent a capital gains tax exemption on the sale of certain kinds of small business stock that is held for at least five years. In other words, it will encourage long-term investment in startups, which is just the kind of investing we should be encouraging (rather than quick flip type investing, which is more about gambling on changes, rather than investing in economic growth).
- It decreases corporate taxes on new businesses during their first three years of profitability -- again making it easier for young companies to grow and to reinvest their own profits in jobs and growth.
- While it doesn't do away with crippling government regulations for small businesses, it does require a cost-benefit analysis of the economic impact of many of those regulations on startups.
- It implements a simplified form of the startup/founders visa -- which is about helping non-Americans start companies and create jobs in the US. We've talked about the startup visa in the past and why it's a good idea. No matter how you feel about other immigration issues, this one is pretty clearly about having immigrants create jobs in the US (rather than elsewhere).


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Miguel (Feat. J. Cole) - All I Want Is You
The official video for Miguel's single "All I Want Is You" featuring Roc Nation's own J. Cole
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Melges 24 European Sailing Series Arrives In Torbole, Lake Garda
25 July 2013
Torbole, Italy - The International Melges 24 fleet is gathering in Torbole, Italy in preparation for the third leg of the 2013 Melges 24 European Sailing Series which will be hosted by the Circolo Vela Torbole from 26-28 July 2013. Twenty-eight teams from 13 nations, and as far afield as Japan and Turkey will compete on the legendary waters of Lake Garda which are a favorite with the Melges 24 crews.
European Sailing Series leader Riccardo Simoneschi, sailing ITA819 Audi Ultra, will be hoping to make it three wins out of three and retain his overall series lead, but there are plenty of teams determined to try and prevent that happening. Leading the challenging pack are Italy's Matteo Balastrero aboard ITA639 Giogi who arrives at this regatta as reigning Italian Champion and Denmark's Rene Bruun, DEN664 BNI, who is currently lying second in the series and would love to get another good regatta under his belt. Double Olympian Chris Rast aboard SUI654 EFG Bank, Estonia's Ants Haavel in EST826 Freddy, and Germany's Kicker Schafer sailing GER582 No Woman No Cry, head up the exceptionally strong fleet of contenders who will be hard on their heels.
With the Magic Marine Melges 24 European Championship being held in just a few weeks time in Medemblik from 15-23 August, this weekend's regatta will also be a useful indicator of form for that event and a great opportunity for the teams to put in some extra training.
Registration for Torbole Melges 24 Week will open on Thursday 25 July with racing running from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 July 2013. Eight races are scheduled for the series and up to four races can be sailed each day with a discard being introduced once six races have been completed. Further information including the full entry list is available from www.circolovelatorbole.com.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Fans of MIT field hockey can catch tonight's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) contest against Babson live on the web through streaming video.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christmas cookies
My friends Cathy and JoAnne and I usually get together one day in December and turn out hundreds, maybe thousands, of cookies. It's a big, steamy, messy day and we have a lot of fun doing it. This year we couldn't find a single day that suited us all, so we ended up making them separately, then meeting for lunch and trading them. This was actually far more efficient, since we weren't standing in line for the oven and trying to figure out which cookie pan belonged to whom. Also, we all decided that we really didn't need THAT many cookies. Still, I missed the companionship of our traditional cookie day.
The cookies I decided on were two new ones: Dorie Greenspan's rugelach and a cranberry-pistachio icebox cookie from Gourmet. They are both excellent, flavorful, buttery cookies that make a great addition to a holiday cookie platter.
First, the rugelach. I love rugelach. I love the rugelach recipe in Rose's Christmas Cookie cookbook, which I've made often, but I decided to try Dorie Greenspan's recipe, which gives Rose's recipe a real run for the money. I don't know if Dorie is related to Alan, but I'm pretty sure she's done more good for the world than he has.
Her rugelach recipe has a lovely cream cheese and butter base, which comes together easily in a food processor.
The dough gets shaped into a disc and refrigerated for at least a few hours.
After that, you roll it out into a big circle. I'm kind of a whiner about rolling dough out with a rolling pin. My friend Cathy is a whiz with the rolling pin. It looks so easy when she does it. I just don't have the technique. If I were called on to do a demonstration of rolling pin skills, I'd want to use Cathy as a body double. Or an arm double anyway. Still, it worked out fine.
Well, you can see that my circle is not too circular; it's an unknown geometric shape. But it didn't much matter after I cut the dough into triangles and rolled them up.
These rugelach are brushed with melted apricot jam, then sprinkled with cinnamon-sugar, and strewn with currants, chocolate chips, and pecans. They're rolled up, brushed with an egg wash, and sprinkled with sparkly decorating sugar. They come out of the oven golden, crisp, and sparkly. Too pretty to eat. Almost.
While I was tending to the rugelach, I had the icebox cookies--which were actually delicate shortbreads--shaped into oblongs and resting in the refrigerator.
This is a thick, crumbly dough, filled with pistachios and dried cranberries, made spicy with cinnamon and citrusy with a goodly amount of orange peel. The crumbly dough doesn't necessarily want to be shaped, but it can be whapped into submission. A dough scraper is very effective at whapping.
After a few hours in the refrigerator, the dough is ready to be brushed on all four sides with an egg wash and sprinkled with sugar. I used white, red, and green sugar--I thought the red was the prettiest.
At this point, it looks like an odd glittery cucumber, but after the cookies are sliced and baked, the colored sugar is much less peculiar.
Cathy made chocolate-cherry drops and her grandmother's fabulous recipe for fruit and nut cookies. JoAnne made linzer bars and miniature black-and-white cookies. Now I have a lot of cookies. Jim has efficiently made his way through a number of them, and I've stashed some in the freezer to give away. I may have to make another batch of those rugelach this weekend, though--just to make sure I have enough to give away.
Happy holidays, everyone!
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I am so pleased to see you made rugelach, and that you made them from Dorie's book. That's where I got my recipe and they actually looked like yours! I was so pleased with them as I'm not a big cookie maker, we don't go in for this tradition of cookie making, although it is starting to filter over here gradually, thanks to the likes of Nigella Lawson. Have you heard of her, she is a popular cookery writer at the moment. I like the look of your other cookies, anything with nuts goes down well with me. I just made a Bundt cake from Dorie's book, it has a swirl of fruit and nuts through it and tastes good, very good in fact, only problem I had was getting it out of the tin without it breaking! I just took the coward's way out and covered it well with icing sugar! Jeannette.
*waves to Marie*
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...rugelach! They look soooo nice! Is this recipe in Greenspan's "Baking From My Home To Yours?" I still don't own it, but the longer I am without it, the more I think I really need it. :-)
On that note, if anyone could give a shout out as to what baking book they used the most this year, I would very much appreciate it! I am trying to be more selective of the books I buy; I am hoping to limit it to the ones I would really use.
Happy, happy holidays to Ms. Marie and everyone who posts here. It is such a nice group and I enjoy reading everyone's responses.
Laura NYC
- Melinda said...
I've been waiting for your millions of cookies post! I see the recession has pared you down a bit.
I've never made rugelach or tasted them either! But I must say they look mighty good. And since it is in my Baking DG book, I should try them out.
The cranberry-pistachio shortbreads are beautiful! Perfect Christmas cookies for both colours and flavours. (and I have never made these, either!)
I applaud your adventurous cookie baking. I wish I had a cookie exchange group and a baking buddy. Jeannette should live closer to me!
To Laurie, her baking book question: I have used Dorie's Baking book and Sherry Yard's Secrets of Baking. Both are really good books that I have bought in the last year.
(I use all of RLB's books and Peter Reinhart's, Bread Baker's Apprentice, but I have had those for a longer time.)
I wish everyone a lovely Christmas and a peaceful New Year. Cheers
- jini said...
i wish i'd known about the use of whapping when i made the speculaas. the pictures tell a sad tale, but they had a wonderful taste. i made the double chocolate-cherry drops that won the strib's cookie contest and they were superb!!
i haven't made rugelach, but i love them, and guess i'll have to try baking them. the shortbreads look really good, and luckily i have both ingredients on hand, so maybe....
i am busily sewing an apron for a christmas present so my baking is on hold for a few days.
happy holidays!
That does it! Dorie's rugelach have been calling to me since I bought the book when it first came out. Sunday I'm going to a latke party and these rugelach are what I will bring to share. Breadbasketcase is my absolute favorite blog and I go into withdrawal when there's no new entry for a week -- or longer! Happy Holidays to everyone!
- breadbasketcase said...
Oh, I've definitely heard of Nigella Lawson, but I don't think I've ever tried one of her recipes--that's an omission I should try to fix soon, because I know she's got an enthusiastic following. Cookies are a good tradition. You can freeze them and then have just a bite or two of something sweet when the mood strikes, as it so often does.
Yes, it's from Baking From My Home to Yours. I got it for a Lazy Bakers challenge, and I've been quite pleased with everything I've made from it so far. I know what you mean about cookbooks. I have so many that I thought I MUST HAVE, only to make one or two things from it and not be overly impressed.
I never heard of Sherry Yard's book. Does it really have "secrets" of baking? Like secret passwords and magic formulas? If so, I'll definitely get it. Sounds like a good source for a Lazy Bakers project. Speaking of which, I am going to pick a bread, perhaps out of a new baking book that I might possibly get for Christmas.
Where are your pictures? I want to see them. Yes, Cathy's chocolate cherry drops were the ones from the Strib, and they were excellent. Sewing an apron? That sounds very impressive to me--a person who can barely sew a button back on a shirt.
So are you making the rugelach today (Saturday)? Let me know how they turn out for you. I thought the dough was so good I could eat it plain, but why would I when it's chock-full of all the other good things.
And thanks for the nice compliment!
I made the same cherry pistachio cookies from a different recipe (an old sugar cookie dough that I just added the fruit and nuts to).
I baked mine naked and cooled them completely. Then I painted the edges with corn syrup and rolled them in chocolate jimmies. I'm not sure if colored sugar would melt into the corn syrup. ...but if it didn't, I bet it would have more vibrant color.
- Melinda said...
Oh, goody!
Breadbasketcase, you asked that I let you know how the rugelach turned out. Well, Saturday evening I made the dough for both of the cookies you made and baked them off Sunday morning. I did change the ice box cookies to pistachio/dried cherry since I don't care for dried cranberries. Then I took half of each batch to a latke party a friend was having this afternoon. Everybody raved over the rugelach They truly are worth the effort! Thanks so much for giving me that extra little push I needed!
- breadbasketcase said...
Thanks for checking back in. I'm so glad they were a success! I made another batch this weekend because I gave most of the first batch away, and they were so good. As I was eating one this afternoon, I told Jim happily, "I could eat a billion of these." Fortunately I didn't make a billion.
I still have one dough disc to make up, but somehow between now and Christmas Day, I need to make at least one more recipe. Maybe not a billion, but I think I could eat that many of them too. I even splurged and used Sarabeth's Peach-Apricot jam instead of cheapie Smucker's. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm....
- Doughadear said...
I woke up this morning thinking which cookie I will bake today? Will it be my new favourite Cranberry Pistachio Ice-box cookies, which I made for the first time last year and loved or Lora Brody's Rugelach which I got from Epicurious and also is in Rose's Christmas Cookies? Then I checked out your blog and there they were in full colour the cookies I was going to bake, what a coincidence! These cookies are so good that they made it in my personal Tastebook that I ordered through the Epicurious site.
I've only used turbinado sugar for coating but I think your cookies look very festive with the coating of red and green sugar. Your rugelach by Dorie Greenspan look really nice I may just try that recipe also.
Merry Christmas to you and your family and best wishes for the new year.
- Chai18 said...
i never thought of rugelach as a xmas cookie, but then again i guess anything can be, yours look amazing, happy holidays.
- breadbasketcase said...
I've never tried Sarabeth's jam, but I agree that it's worth it to pay the extra $ to get the best. I've been experimenting with different butter, and I think I like Organic Valley and Lurpak the best.
That's funny! We must be kindred spirits--or kindred palates anyway. I keep meaning to check the two rugelach recipes to see how similar they are, but I haven't done it yet.
Well, I guess you wouldn't think of a recipe perfected by Jewish grandmothers as a Christmas cookie, would you? But they work awfully well as any-time-of-the-year cookies.
- evil cake lady said...
BBC, I am one of the few who haven't tasted rugelach before, but yours look so good! Happy Holidays! ECL
- Doughadear said...
Hi Marie,
So I was going to make Lora Brody's Rugelach today but after seeing your rugelach I decided I would give Dorie Greenspan's recipe a try. I ended up making two batches because I wanted to use up the entire package of cream cheese. I made one dough portion as per the recipe, one portion without the chocolate and two portions without the chocolate but added golden raisins instead. They turned out beautifully and taste wonderful.
Funny you should mention kindred spirits/palate as that is what I thought when I saw your blog. I am not kidding.
All the best.
- breadbasketcase said...
You have a treat in store for you! They are really delicious, and fun to make too, even though they require a rolling pin, which in most cases is the opposite of fun.
Good idea to vary the fillings. I think I'll try that the next time I make them. I like the golden raisins that are in Lora Brody's version, but I also like the mini chocolate chips in Dorie Greenspan's. Did you taste all your different combinations and permutations? If so, which one did you end up liking best?
- Doughadear said...
I can honestly say that they were all equally delicious. I think next time I may try adding dried cranberries.
- breadbasketcase said...
Yes, dried cranberries would be good. Or dried cherries. Maybe almond paste instead of jam? Or candied fruit to make them really Christmas-y? I suppose there's no end to the possibilites; some would probably work and others would make you wonder why you decided to mess around with a good thing.
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ACC Summer Recess: Maryland TerrapinsPosted by mpatton on July 19th, 2012
Over the next four weeks we'll be taking a step back and looking at each team in the ACC to assess where each program — and the conference as a whole — stands before we totally turn our attention to the 2013-14 season later this fall. Today's target: Maryland.
Where They Stand Now
Unfortunately it appears to be "two steps forward, two steps back" for Mark Turgeon's Terrapins. Last season Maryland became a darkhorse contender on the backs of a solid coach, Terrell Stoglin, Alex Len's improvement, and a very good recruiting class. Then Stoglin was suspended for violating team rules, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the sophomore guard who had many public confrontations with Turgeon last season went pro rather than sit out next year. Maryland also suspended Mychal Parker, who took his talents to Loyola though he probably won't be academically eligible there. With a disappointing 17-15 season in the rearview mirror, Turgeon's Terrapins need immediate improvement to keep the suits in College Park from getting nervous. Speaking of suits in College Park, keep an eye on athletic director Kevin Anderson, who was reportedly headed to Stanford before everyone denied the claim and leading to this tepid retraction.


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* The elephant is the largest land animal. (= Elephants, as a group, are the largest land animals.)
* I enjoy the opera. (= I enjoy going to and listening to operas in general.)
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June 2007
Getting in Touch with Parents Statewide
States and PIRCs have the challenge of ensuring that all parents statewide receive information. Thus, PIRCs need to consider how to effectively communicate with parents and other constituents who are beyond easy geographic reach.
No matter where a PIRC locates its office(s), some portion of its targeted audience(s) is likely to live too far away to easily take advantage of any office-based meetings, trainings, or other resources. Conventional methods for delivering information long-distance, such as direct mailing or sending information to schools and asking that it be sent home with students, may be successful in reaching some parents. But even when written materials are sent in the home language of a family, this method is not reliable in reaching or being effective for all parents, especially those most in need of the information. Moreover, these methods preclude parents being able to ask questions, and PIRCs have no way of knowing whether the information has been understood. Thus, while such communication strategies may have a place, each of the five PIRCs selected for this guide chose to augment them. This section covers how PIRCs are using technology and school-based "parent centers" (not to be confused with the PIRCs themselves) to make information easily available for as many parents as possible.
Use Technology to Communicate
The highlighted PIRCs are using technology to extend their reach: Web sites because they offer important flexibility in communicating complex and, often, evolving information, and videoconferencing because it enables PIRCs to bring farflung parents and educators together without travel costs.
Web sites. Many education Web sites discuss accountability standards and other NCLB-related information. The trick in creating a useful Web site for parents is to make sure the information is both relevant and clear to a wide range of people. To help ensure that its Web site is as useful as possible for its intended audience(s), the Indiana Partnerships Center has included a survey on the bilingual site. The survey includes both user satisfaction questions and a prompt to find out what kinds of additional information parents and educators would like on the site. In addition to considering the responses as it continues to develop its site, the center sends users a packet with information related to their stated interests. Initially, very few users completed the survey. So when the PIRC recently revamped its Web site, the survey link was renamed "Freebies," and those clicking on the link learned that if they completed the survey they could receive books, kids-eat-free coupons from local restaurants, a tote bag, or informational CDs about parent involvement. Subsequent to this change, the center began receiving about 10 responses a week from both educators and parents. The information compiled from these surveys is used to continue tailoring the Web site and center offerings to more closely meet the needs of its client base.
At the time the information for this guide was researched, IDRA was about to launch a Web site aimed at helping parents decipher and understand accountability data for schools across Texas. As planned, the Web site would allow the public to access test scores from all the schools in the state, as well as to get additional school information, such as the percentage of bilingual staff and the percentage of resources dedicated to special education. Additionally, the Web site would offer a bulletin board to field questions, with responses offered in both Spanish and English. (The organization is planning eventually to have the whole site available in both languages.) As part of its planning process, IDRA staff was working with parents at ARISE, a community-based organization serving Latino immigrants, to vet the information on the Web site and, thereby, ensure its usefulness. The biggest challenge they said they were facing was to translate the education jargon into terms that are meaningful for the lay person; in doing so, they drew heavily from their conversations with the ARISE parents.
Videoconferences. Although Web sites often include chat rooms and sometimes even have video capabilities, these technologies do not offer the immediacy of human contact and dialogue available in face-to-face gatherings. Videoconferences provide a middle ground, allowing people to come together and feel more personally connected without having to travel long distances. Years ago, IDRA staff started meeting via videoconferences and began to consider how this technology also might be used for training and information dissemination to the public. In 2000, IDRA received funding from a foundation for its PIRC to start this practice in collaboration with other parent or family outreach organizations, such as Project READ and the IDEA South Central Collaborative for Equity. Since then the PIRC has been hosting live, interactive videoconferences whose purpose is to bring together educators and parents from across the state to discuss education issues, such as NCLB. In doing this, the PIRC benefits from the fact that each of Texas's 20 regional education service centers, arms of the Texas Education Agency charged with helping school districts to improve student achievement, already had videoconferencing equipment and that, increasingly, individual schools have video technology that allows them to join in. The sessions tend to be two hours long, with presentations given in both English and Spanish. Conference materials are sent in advance to each participating location.
A chief benefit of convening so many people from so many different regions is that in addition to building a common information base, participants can share stories, ideas, and advice. A sense of extended community reinforces the notion that participants are not working alone on these issues. One member of a focus group for this guide who had participated in an IDRA-facilitated videoconference is the executive director of a local nonprofit organization and, also, the mother of two boys enrolled in Texas public schools. She said, "sometimes I feel a sense of hopelessness, but to know everyone in Texas is going through the same thing is wonderful!" The Director of IDRA's PIRC says he thinks the videoconferences have produced a "leveling effect" because parents and educators from all over Texas are talking and listening to each other as equals.
Establish and Coordinate Conveniently Located Parent Centers
For four of the PIRCs highlighted in this guide— the Indiana Partnerships Center, the Utah Family Center, and the PIRCs run by ADI and IDRA— making sure parents have a conveniently located place where they can pick up NCLB- and other education-related resources and can meet and talk with other parents or with school staff is seen as a basic strategy for further engaging parents in efforts to improve education. Such places are broadly referred to as parent centers (spelled in lower-case and, as noted earlier, not to be confused with the PIRCs themselves). Although some PIRCs operate some sort of parent center at their office, it is more common to have such centers located at a school or in the general vicinity of several schools. The point is to locate them as conveniently as possible for parents. In some instances, PIRCs operate parent centers themselves, as the Utah Family Center has done, for example. In other instances, they encourage and support schools to set up and operate their own parent centers, as the Indiana Partnerships Center and the ADI and IDRA PIRCs have done.
Some school-based parent centers consist of little more than a bookshelf of materials in the waiting room of a school office; others are more elaborate and self-contained, with comfortable seating and coffee at the ready, books and other materials that can be taken or checked out, and a computer, VCR or DVD player available, which visitors can use for informational purposes. Some have no staff, some are run by a changing cast of volunteers, and some have an actual staff member. Minimally, the purpose of such parent centers is to distribute information and to make parents feel welcome at a school or, if the center is located off campus, to make them feel more comfortable with the U.S. education system in general. Ideally, every school would house its own parent center, but given the limited resources of most schools (including time, funding, and space), parent centers are less common than many educators and parents alike would want.
Some PIRCs, such as the Indiana Partnerships Center, have stepped in to help schools establish and coordinate school-based parent centers that offer a range of parent-friendly materials as well as workshops and trainings on topics of interest to that parent clientele. Indiana now has some 75 parent centers, most in Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS). This is a district whose superintendent has required that all Title I elementary and middle schools develop parent centers staffed with trained "parent liaisons" responsible for setting up and maintaining the centers, including working directly with parents to help them get needed education information. At the time the study underlying this guide was conducted, the district had asked the Indiana Partnerships Center to train 57 new parent liaisons for this role. Initially, IPS's parent centers were funded through contributions from local companies and other small grants, but the district has since begun using Title I funds to support the liaison positions. The Indiana Partnerships Center uses its PIRC grant (as opposed to additional funding it has received from other sources, such as private foundations) to provide technical assistance for the centers along with NCLB materials and other resources for stocking the centers.
The experience of the Indiana Partnerships Center suggests that school-based parent centers that get the most use tend to be located in an easily accessible area, close to a school's front door or parking lot, for example. However, if an optimal location is not afforded—one IPS parent center is located in a former broom closet—just remember that it is more important to have a concrete area where parents know they can go to get the help they need. As the associate director of the Indiana PIRC notes, "Just do it! Just open the space and don't worry." (See "Setting Up a Parent Center" on p. 24.)
IDRA's PIRC also works with representatives of schools and community organizations, and parent outreach personnel who request help in setting up parent centers, and it has helped establish 30 centers over the past eight years. The PIRC offers this service as a technical assistance package that includes three days of planning and follow-up that, similar to the Indiana Partnerships Center, includes supplying materials for the center, training for setup of the center, and training on using computers to find pertinent parent resources. The services also include a choice of many Spanish-English trainings, such as parent leadership training, an invitation to participate in local and regional parent leadership networking meetings, and training of trainers for parents and parent-involvement staff to help plan and conduct workshops for parents.
Setting Up a Parent Center
For those interested in establishing a school-based parent center with NCLB- and other education-related resources available for parents to use on site or to check out, the Indiana Partnerships Center created a simple checklist for what needs to be done. The following is adapted from that checklist:
Steps for setting up a parent center:
The Utah Family Center takes a slightly different approach. From the center's inception, its executive director has recognized the need for PIRC-established and -operated satellite offices that would serve as parent centers so parents in other parts of the state, particularly in its more isolated areas, can have easy access to needed resources. The PIRC has operated with a central office in Salt Lake City. At the time of this study, the office was located in space donated by the PIRC's fiscal agent, the Utah Parent Teacher Association, in its own building. In their common space, the two organizations ran a parent resource center. However, the PIRC also runs nine satellite offices as parent centers elsewhere in the state, seven of them housed in local schools, and all of them staffed with a paid coordinator. All of the satellite centers offer the same baseline information and resources for parents, as well as additional resources or services tailored to local needs.
The first six of Utah's nine satellite centers opened in 1998 and were fully funded (including the coordinators) through the Utah Family Center's original PIRC grant. In 2002, the center received an additional PIRC grant and was able to add three more centers, for which it budgeted to cover only materials and resources, not coordinators. The goal was to have communities take more ownership, with local districts figuring out how to fund coordinators. Districts stepped up: one center has been staffed with a worker from Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA); the coordinator position at another center, located next to a low-performing school, has been funded partly by the local district's Title I money and partly by the Utah Family Center's PIRC grant; and the position at the third center has been paid for by school-level Title I funds. Materials for all of the satellite centers are covered through PIRC funds, and the facilities are all donated by local districts.
Through the Solid Foundation (SF), the ADI PIRC's cornerstone program for building community and parent involvement at a school, the PIRC has been helping participating schools set up a family resource library. With accommodations ranging from a few comfortable chairs and a bookcase located in a hallway to an entire classroom dedicated to parent resources, these libraries focus primarily on providing materials that parents can use in working with their children (e.g., NCLB information, books on tape with cassette players, lists of community resources, parenting books, family games). In addition, some of the larger libraries serve as places for parents to convene informally or for parents and staff to come together for Solid Foundation trainings. Although various school staff (e.g., teachers, the principal) and volunteer parents ensure that the centers are organized and well stocked, the resource libraries do not have permanent staff available to answer questions or help parents find resources. Instead, they function as lending libraries that operate on the honor system.
Tailored services. One benefit to having parent centers as localized as possible is that they can be tailored to meet the needs of their respective communities. For example, each Utah center has a local advisory board to help identify community needs and how best to meet them within the limits of funding and other resources. (see fig. 5, Utah Family Center: Brochure From Satellite Parent Center With Tailored Services, on p. 26.) These advisory boards are made up of a range of people varying slightly from center to center, but usually including four to five parents; the regional director of the Utah PTA; a representative from the district superintendent's office, who might be the Title I director; and, if there is a university nearby, a representative of it as well. Broad membership on a parent center advisory board helps ensure that a center understands and serves the needs of its community.
Figure 5. Utah Family Center: Brochure from Satellite Parent Center With Tailored Services (inside panels from open three-fold brochure)
Granite School District Family Center Facilitates student learning by providing support to District families
|A collaborative effort by Granite School District, Utah Family Center, PTA and Community Action Program
In serving economically disadvantaged populations, PIRCs invariably run into families in need of much more than the education-related information and services that PIRCs normally provide. Some families need help with much more basic needs. While generally speaking, other types of agencies (e.g., public, nonprofit, church-based) are set up to address those needs, some PIRCs have seen a role for themselves, recognizing a link between family conditions and children's school performance. For example, parents who do not have jobs may have more trouble providing healthy food, let alone school supplies; homes without showers or washing machines cannot ensure children's cleanliness or health; and no access to a telephone limits communication between home and school. As one PIRC staff member notes, "If the parents feel better, the child feels better." Thus, a number of PIRC-facilitated parent centers offer resources not directly related to education. For instance, centers in both Indiana and Utah offer resume and job-placement help for parents.
Utah's Monument Valley Satellite Center, located on a Native American reservation in southern Utah, has gone a considerable step further, addressing families' basic needs through a variety of services that have included use of an on-site shower and washer and dryer, use of a telephone (for parents with a phone card), and use of one of the center's six computers for writing resumes, printing documents, and searching for information and jobs.
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It's hard to pin down a reason why the Phazer sometimes gets overlooked-especially in light of the immense popularity the original Phazer experienced in the 1980s. Afterall, the Phazer still creates a lot of interest. Just about every snowmobiler has a Phazer story.
Today's Phazer has big shoes to fill. The Phazer MTX, Yamaha's latest version of the storied Phazer, has been working hard to fill those shoes since it was introduced four years ago. While some might consider it blasphemy to even compare the 2010 version to the 1980s Phazer models, we think today's consumers should judge the 2010 model on its own merits.
As for the talk about what sleds are ideal for winter recreationists who are looking for an entry-level snowmobile, the Phazer MTX is worthy of a look.
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The Phazer MTX offers a choice for snowmobilers not quite ready to break the 100-horsepower mark but who want more power than what's offered in the fan-cooled mountain class. The Yamaha Phazer MTX offers 20 more horsepower than the mountain fan class and a host of more features than a fan-cooled machine.
The Phazer is also the only four-stroke sub 100-horsepower liquid-cooled snowmobile available. The powerplant features a two-cylinder, 499cc four-stroke that churns out 80 hp. That's about 40 hp less than a 600 two-stroke and 50 hp less than the next biggest Yamaha four-stroke, the Nytro MTX. For someone new to the sport or who is not looking for a high horsepower sled, 80 hp will feel just right.
The Phazer four-stroke delivers smooth power with a little kick (torque), thanks to the engine's advanced fuel injection system that helps its run smoothly and efficiently throughout the powerband. Throttle response is good for an 80-horsepower engine but for anyone used to riding a two-stroke and then jumps on a four-stroke, the throttle response might feel a little different. It doesn't take long to get used to, though.
The horsepower is one advantage the Phazer MTX has over the mountain fan class but another is the footprint-or track length-that this machine sports. At 14 inches wide, the Camoplast Maverick is the narrowest track of any mountain sled but it is 144 inches long and has a lug depth of two inches. That will allow you to explore deeper snow and go higher on the mountain than a 136-inch, thanks mostly to the deeper lugs (compared to the Polaris Trail RMK's 1.25-inch deep lug). The actual footprint of the Phazer MTX is slightly smaller than the Trail RMK's, so it's the deeper lugs that provide the added traction.
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Additionally, the Phazer has a decent set of shocks on both the front and rear suspensions, which helps it soak up the bumps fairly well. You'll bottom the Phazer out in the really rough stuff if you're riding aggressively but in the small chatter bumps and moguls, the HPG shocks do a good job of smoothing out the ride. The rear suspension is a second generation ProMountain, Yamaha's trademark mountain rear skid.
For being what is considered an "economy" sled, the Phazer does come with some nice perks, which include a decent, tall, narrow seat. The seat, in combination with the YZ dirt bike-inspired handlebars and rider-forward riding position, make the Phazer a fun stand-up-and-ride sled. Transition is easy from sitting to standing, allowing the rider to ride more aggressively compared to the mountain fan sleds.
It's tough to overlook the electric start, which comes standard on all Yamaha four-stroke sleds and is just a nice touch, especially when it's really cold. The Phazer also comes standard with push button electric shift reverse.
Although the 2010 Phazer MTX is basically the same as the 2009 version-save for a new graphics package-the price has gone up $500, pushing the retail price of the machine past the $8,000 mark. That puts it very roughly in the middle of the mountain fan segment and the 600 class price-wise. Interestingly enough though, the Phazer MTX is actually within a few hundred dollars of a couple of the least expensive 600cc mountain sleds. It's just the cost of a couple of the higher-end 600s that raise the average price of the 600s to around $9,200. So, at least on paper, the Phazer MTX probably should be closer in price to the 600 class because when it comes to features, this model offers more of what you'd find on a 600 than on the mountain fans, thus justifying at least part of the cost.
Wrap all those features and the price tag together in one package and the Phazer MTX presents another option for entry-level riders. And that's worth talking about.
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