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The second article in a four-part series on autism
by Sue Ann Rybak
At first glance you might not notice that 22-year-old Jacob "Jake" Diamond, of Chestnut Hill, has a severe form of autism. At 6 feet tall and 230 pounds, he is built like a linebacker. It's easy to see why people might be afraid of him, but his gentle blue eyes quickly put any visitor at ease.
"Jacob is essentially nonverbal and non-aggressive in any way," said Ella Diamond, Jake's mother. "We do have rudimentary communication using a letter board on an iPad. A lot of people are afraid of Jake. He is a big guy who flaps his arms around a lot."
Jake used to have a very active social life until last year when he turned 21. From the age of 6 until he turned 21, he attended Pathway, a nonprofit private school in Norristown that serves students with neurological impairments – including autism spectrum disorder.
"Jacob's life has changed dramatically for the worse," Diamond said. "He went from going to a campus where he encountered hundreds of people doing different activities all day long to sitting at home."
Diamond said she had noticed some social regression in Jacob since he stopped going to school.
"Jake's more of a normal kid than not," she said. "He wants to hang out with people his own age. After Jake left school, we tried to carve out a life for him in the community."
The reaction to the Diamonds attempts to involve Jacob in a few volunteer programs in Chestnut Hill, however, were heartbreaking. Some local institutions flatly refused to let Jacob participate, even though a parent and licensed caretaker would be supervising him the entire time.
Jacob loves walking in the park, gardening and going to the gym. Unfortunately, besides dealing with the challenges of autism, Jacob also has epilepsy.
"We've gone through the gambit of medical options," Diamond said. "Nothing has controlled his seizure activity."
According to the website www.autism-help.org, one in four children with autism will develop seizures.
Diamond, who has lived in Chestnut Hill for 35 years, said the extreme stress and isolation she and her husband experience as parents of an adult child with autism is the most devastating.
"Roy and I never go out socially together," she said. "The fact that Jake doesn't have a place to go every day impacts our family hugely."
The Diamonds struggle daily to overcome the stigma associated with adults with autism.
"People are more accepting of a child with autism," Diamond said. "As people like my son get older, people are more comfortable with isolating them and putting them away than integrating them into the community. It's just mind-boggling to me the amount of discrimination people openly show to my son."
Rosemary Mullaly, program coordinator for the Chestnut Hill Autism Initiative Network (CHAIN) at Chestnut Hill College, said one of the problems is that there is a lack of public awareness and research on adults with autism.
"Let's be honest – when little kids are cute and autistic that's fine," said Mullaly, whose 10-year-old son has autism. "But, when you put a face on autism that's a big, overweight kid who says inappropriate things in public, then people are not so sympathetic anymore."
Mullaly said human beings spend most of their lives as adults, but "the majority of research goes into identifying, developing and curing autism"
"If I was a parent of an 18-year-old right now, I would be freaking out," Mullaly said. "The cost of doing nothing far exceeds the cost of doing what needs to happen, which is to give dignity to the person, improve their quality of life and provide the supports they need."
An autism epidemic
In 2004, Estelle B. Richman, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, created the Autism Task Force to examine the services available to individuals with autism. At that time the number of individuals in Pennsylvania diagnosed with ASD had risen more than 2,000 percent from 1989 to 2004. Roy Diamond, Jacob's father, was a member of that task force.
The 2004 Autism Task Force Final Report stated that "to terminate the supports for improved communication, management of sensory/movement challenges, educational opportunity, social and community integration, occupational and behavior consultation services (and therefore gains by children with autism) available until the person reaches 21 is cruel, cost ineffective and discriminatory in light of the commonwealth's strong commitment to the continuing education of non-disabled adults through its public university education system."
Adults with autism have no entitlements to any services. The report also noted that, with the proper support, "many (if not most) adults living with autism can become productive, tax-paying citizens."
The report found that a majority of adults with autism live at home until families are unable to care for them, and they "are often sentenced to a life in an institution."
"It's like falling off a cliff," said Holly Kofsky, a board member of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Autism Society of America who chairs the chapter's adult services committee. "In Pennsylvania, they are expected to be cured at 21 because there are no services,"
Many adults with autism require 24/7 care, and when their services are cut, their parents are forced to quit their jobs.
Kofsky said single parents of an adult child often have no other choice but to quit their job.
"They end up collecting welfare," she said. "The money they receive from welfare could have gone into day services for their loved one. It doesn't make sense the way we have it set up."
According to Kofsky, the cost of institutionalizing just one individual with autism for a year would be approximately $240,000, and the state is obligated to pay for such institutionalization.
"Most families and individuals with autism don't want that," Kofsky said. "They just want a little help."
A study by the Organization for Autism Research and the New York Center for Autism found that "the potential of individuals with autism to become employed and engaged adults is limited more by the failure of the systems charged with supporting them than by the challenges associated with having autism."
"Adults with autism, despite their challenges, are able to live in the community and have meaningful lives outside of an institution," said Roy Diamond, Jacob's father.
Diamond said that when his son was diagnosed in 1992, the incidence of autism was about one in 10,000.
"It was a much more difficult world," he said. "There were no programs for children with autism. Twenty-five years ago, parents were still institutionalizing their children because medical professionals said 'they would never be able to live outside of an institutional environment.'"
Diamond said parents thought otherwise, and in 1975 Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, also known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of the Federal Special Education Entitlement Grant.
The purpose of the federal entitlement grant program is to provide funds to ensure that eligible students with disabilities received a free and appropriate public education that included special education and related services designed to meet the individual's needs.
"It was a really lonely and groundbreaking time," Diamond said. "Those days it was a miracle simply live outside institutional walls. But, it wasn't enough to have a holding cell in a neighborhood house – they were human beings with the capacity to work and form social relations."
He said there is now an "explosion of people with autism."
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that one in 88 children suffer from autistic spectrum disorders (ASD).
"Autism remains a mystery," Diamond said.
He added that when many parents learn their child has autism it can seem like a death sentence.
"Parents go through the same Kubler-Ross stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance," he said.
He said in one of the early stages you are convinced you can fix it.
"The implicit hope is that if you can address autism at an early age you can cure it," Diamond said. "Unfortunately, it's not true."
Autism affects not just the individual with autism, but the parents, siblings and other members of the community.
"Our trajectory as parents in our lives is so vastly different than our friends," Ella Diamond said.
"Parents of kids with autism have to live forever. This is not a story with a happy ending."


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Dressing up like characters from pop culture, while cool, looks like a lot of work. Cosplay doesn't have to be hard, though. If you're willing to have fun with it, you can make all sorts of costumes with stuff you have lying around the house.
Such is the idea behind the My Half Assed Cosplay Ideas, a Tumblr by Patrick Dean dedicated to cosplay ideas for folks on a budget, or folks who want to cosplay casually. Most ideas don't require much effort — at least, relative to the kind of effort that a perfect cosplay recreation would take. All the ideas on the Tumblr are illustrated, and they briefly detail what items/process you'd need to make the costume. They also show that, with a little creativity, you could probably make any costume out of everyday stuff (or stuff you can buy cheaply from a thrift store).
Take a look at a few examples:


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Mike - PPC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
Bagela Asphalt Recycling unit
Professional Paving & Concrete (http://www.wepavetheway.com) is a mid-sized business in the Chicago-land area - focusing on the surrounding suburbs - that specializes in rehabilitation of asphalt and concrete surface areas for commercial & industrial buisness' with parking lots.
We are a trendsetter in our industry. In the last twelve months we have acquired a unique piece of equipment (called a Bagela Asphalt Recycling unit) that allows us to produce Hot-Mix Asphalt (HMA) year round. It is typical in our market place that major asphalt producers shut down asphalt production operations from mid-December until mid-April leaving a (4) month void where Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) is not available.
It is our desire to inform our market place that we have - with this Bagela unit - the capabilities of producing/supplying Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) during the ( 4 ) month down time - thus being able to provide long-term patching of asphalt surface areas that otherwise would be either neglected or temporarily patch with traditional cold mix patching materials until the asphalt producers open back up in the Spring and produce Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA).
For your reference, this unique piece of equipment is named Bagela Asphalt recycler. Information and pictures can be found at the following URL: http://www.bagela.de/asphalt.recycl…glisch.htm
This is extremely unique in our marketplace & sets us apart!!
Our target audience is property, operation and/or maintenace managers as well as owners themselves of commercial and/or industrial facilities such as commercial office centers, health-care facilities, retail centers, shopping centers as well as the municipal sectors such as schools, universities, park districts, local goverment institutions. In a nutshell - any business or institution with commericial pavement maintenance needs.
It is important to stress that this is a service that will benefit them in addressing their pavement patching needs YEAR ROUND!!
We will be providing all copy that is required - similar to what is on attached marketing cards. We want the abilty to add/delete field pictures as we see fit. This card will mostly be printed & mailed from a mailing house in mass quantities.
This new service will mainly be supplying self-produced Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) for our Infra-Red patching unit while the HMA plants are down for the winter season. This card needs to portray that HMA will be available & installed by our company throughout the winter season - providing longevity of asphalt patching traditionally reserved during the regular season when the HMA plants are operational.
Previously we have done a mailing campaign of oversized cards to highlight specific products or services (find attached - as a reference only - our existing service cards). Our goal is to come up with a design and tag line that is fresh, new and different to portray our message across to our target market. FYI - we are also considering a new company logo design as well.
The Pavement Network logo - shown on the right side of company logo on all our marketing literature - should also be included on the advertising piece.
The winning submission should submit PDF format in hi-res along w/ Photoshop, PSD non-compressed & compressed. Pantone color specification is also appreciated.
Payment Methods
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(WQOW) – Governor Scott Walker has won the Republican nomination for governor in Wisconsin.
According to the Associated Press, Walker defeated his challenger Robert Meyer, who was not actively campaigning.
Walker spoke to supporters in Waukesha Tuesday night before the votes were even counted, thanking them for their vote and asking for it again in November.
"Starting tomorrow, Rebecca Kleefisch, and I, and our team will be traveling the state. We're going to travel the state of Wisconsin laying out very specifically our plan of action for the next 4 years. It's simple, we call it, Keep Wisconsin Working for Generations to Come. Are you ready to help us implement that plan?"


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Salesian Boys and Girls Club
Labor Wines goes to San Francisco – The Inaugural Pushback Dinner Series
We had to pleasure of being asked by our good friend, Nick Floulis of Pushback Wines to join him as he launched the Pushback Dinner Series, Inaugural event held at Don Pisto's in North Beach. This is a very unique and fun restaurant, created by our friend Pete Mrabe, which is serving modern Mexican cuisine with classic flavors in a traditional Italian neighborhood in San Francisco.
The event was the first of its kind, bringing together 4 wineries and their wines, 4 chefs and pairing their wares with 4 different animals, to create a out of this world wine dinner and event. Once the concept was introduced to the public, it was sold out in 4 days! This is amazing and blew everyone away that would be participating that night.
The evening's chef were Travis Cook, Sous Chef at Park Tavern; Paolo Guisti, Sous Chef at Firenze by Night; Eric Corbin, Sous Chef at Tony's Napoletana and Pete Mrabe, Chef/Owner of Don Pisto's & Chubby Noodle; the wineries represented were Nick Floulis of Pushback Wines; Tom Rees, Owner/Winemaker Pine and Brown Winery; Juri McCorkle of City Cellars along with myself and the animals were Duck, Boar, Goat and Lamb.
To kick off the event, each of the wineries brought out their wines, to introduce them to the guests as they arrived and set the mood. Once this successful ice breaker was introduced, guests then made their way to the dining room and were introduced to the evening by Nick, which is when he then let everyone know of the 'surprise' course that they would be enjoying. This bonus course, which was actually the 1st course of the evening, was each of the chef's interpretation of Albacore Tuna as a welcome paired with the 2011 Sauvignon Blanc from Pine and Brown.
Second course was a Duck Salad that included three different presentations and preparations of the duck on the plate, along with the delightful Pushback Wines, 2011 Rose of Cabernet Sauvignon; a perfect combination.
Finally, it was our turn to come to the plate and we introduced to the guests, our Labor Wines, 2010 Pinot Noir that was being paired with Pete's Faux Pho – a Pork broth, topping Smoked Pork Shoulder and white beans served with Bacon Cracklings. I know that this was our course to participate in, but let me tell you – the dish was amazing and the pairing was fantastic!
The most creative dish of the evening was a fantastic interpretation of Goat Sugo served with Grilled Polenta Sausages. I had never thought to, nor had I ever heard of anyone stuffing casings with polenta, however Chef Corbin decided to try it out and it was a delicious success. The City Cellars, 'Gianna' 50/50 blend of Malbec and Petit Verdot from Paso Robles had a wonderful structure and tannins to complement the richness of this dish. I promise you that I will definitely look to try this in the future on a menu or in my kitchen.
The final savory course of the evening was by Chef Guisti – Grilled Lamb Chops, Heirloom Tomato Salad with Cucumbers. The lamb was cooked perfectly, presented beautifully and guests were blown away by the composition of the dish. The Pushback Wines 2007, Napa Cabernet Sauvignon had great flavor and backbone to complement the dish overall.
Another surprise of the evening was the final course. There was no sweet course on the original menu, so a plan was hatched with the great folks of 15 Romolo, a Speakeasy/Cocktail & Dessert Bar down the street, who decided to offer guests a complementary dessert and a pairing of 3 different cocktails to wrap up the night. After a short walk, guests were delighted by a true San Francisco treat and a nice, mellow vibe to finish the evening.
Overall, it was an amazing experience to be with all of these gentleman who are so caring of the North Beach community and to be invited to participate in the first one. The real highlight of the evening was the donation of all of the proceeds from the night's dinner to the Salesian Boys' and Girls' Club of North Beach. The chance to make a real difference in the area with children who deserve it was fantastic!
We look forward to continuing to support the Pushback Dinner Series and learning about the many chefs and wineries who are going to follow in the footsteps of the inaugural event. They've already decided, since the first one sold out so quickly, that they're hosting a 2nd one in October! Fantastic and best wishes to the guys.
If you have a story, pictures enjoying Labor or would like to place an order, feel free and share with us on Facebook or via Twitter. As well, you can always email me directly, firstname.lastname@example.com or call on cell, 702.466.0987.
Everything takes Labor to accomplish. Labor Wines – A Labor of Love.


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Keeping the promise it made on Aug. 9, Aspyr Media on Monday shipped LEGO Star Wars. The title uses old-fashioned LEGO building blocks to tell the story of the last three Star Wars movies -- also known as "the prequels" -- in a kid-friendly way.
Players can control over 50 characters from the films, from Anakin Skywalker and Yoda to Darth Maul and General Grievous, as they make their way through 17 levels of action, including levels that allow them to fly ships. A secret level is available for gamers who achieve certain objectives.
LEGO Star Wars features "Drop In/Drop Out" gameplay that allows a second player to join the action and take control of a character whenever they want. Free Play mode enables players to use unlocked characters in any level and switch between them at will. Jedi knight characters can use the force to move and assemble LEGO bricks into different objects; other characters have their own special skills. While the game doesnit use dialogue from the movies, it does employ authentic sound effects.
The game is rated "E" for "Everyone" and costs US$29.99. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.3.8 or higher, a G4 or G5 1.2GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 2GB hard drive space, 32MB Video RAM (Radeon 8500 or GeForce FX5200 or better) and a DVD drive. Aspyr notes that the game runs best on an iMac G5 or a Power Mac G5 with 64MB Video RAM.


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Student Learning Outcomes
SLO Timeline
This timeline will be revised periodically to reflect the progress Las Positas College makes towards its Student Learning Outcomes goals.
Year 1
Fall 2004
- Task Force convened.
- Completed working Draft of Core Competencies.
- Created web site for LPC Intranet.
Spring 2005
- SLO training conducted for all faculty.
- Web site transitioned to Internet.
Year 2
Summer 2005
- Task Force participation in "Doing Assessment That Matters: A Leadership Institute" at U.C. Berkeley.
- Interested faculty began Pilot Projects on SLOs and Assessment at course and assignment level.
Fall 2005
- Flex day: faculty presentations of proposed SLO pilot projects.
- Implementation of 10 SLO pilot projects by LPC faculty.
- 5 SLO-focused department workshops.
- Assessment Philosophy Statement drafted and submitted to Faculty Senate for approval.
- Task Force's "Student Learning Outcomes: Report and Recommendations" drafted, revised and submitted to President Halliday and Faculty Senate.
- Complete semester-by-semester action plans for two-year trial of proposed SLO and assessment cycle at LPC.
- Campus-wide casual inventory of courses and Core Competencies in preparation for revised edition of institutional outcomes.
- Updates to LPC's SLO Website
Spring 2006
- Flex day: faculty presentations of SLO pilot project assessment results and modifications for improved teaching and learning.
- Meetings with Curriculum Committee Chair and Staff Development Chair to coordinate SLO activities and plans for next year.
- Coordination with Staff Development to support 7 SLO department workshops to be held over the semester.
- Revisions made to "Student Learning Outcomes: Report and Recommendations" based on Senate, Curriculum and Staff Development feedback.
- Faculty Senate approval of Assessment Philosophy Statement (2/22/06)
- Research, analysis and evaluation of technology support for SLOs and assessment reports. Presentations by elumen, Trac Dat and WEAVE.
- Budget and human resource recommendations for student learning outcomes efforts at LPC submitted to President Halliday (3/2/06).
Year 3
Summer 2006
- Purchased license to use eLumen software.
Fall 2006
- Worked with the vendor, LPC and District ITS to configure eLumen.
- Trained faculty to develop and collaborate on SLOs during 2nd half of town hall meeting.
- Convened a vanguard group of faculty that will serve as lead faculty members on SLOs
- Hired an adjunct faculty member to deliver training on SLOs and eLumen.
- Conducted a Flex Day training session.
Spring 2007
- eLumen Assessment
- Develop additional course-level SLOs and assessments
- Begin to develop program-level SLOs
- Develop assessment tool(s) applicable to SLO
- Develop additional SLOs (all courses?)
- Most advanced train on eLumen
- Examine course-level SLOs for all disciplines
- Measurable outcomes?
- Ensure correlation b/t course-level SLOs and course outlines
- Mentor disciplines that need help
- Begin to develop institutional outcomes
- Begin to develop processes for considering SLOs in institutional decisions (budget priorities, facilities, planning, etc.)
- eLumen Training workshops
- Assessment workshops
- Program-level SLO workshops/discussions (for Vanguard)
Year 4
Fall 2007
- Develop student learning outcome(s) for the 10 courses identified as needing to be completed (work with fellow faculty on an agreed upon outcome(s) for each of the 10 courses)
- Develop the appropriate rubric(s) and assessment(s) to accompany your student learning outcome(s) (this can be done with fellow faculty or individually by instructor)
- Work with Tina Inzerilla or Lauren Hasten to input the above two bullets into the eLumen system for all 10 courses
- Timeline: one course completed in September; 4 courses completed in October; 4 courses completed in November; one course completed in December. This is a draft timeline – you may certainly work ahead if you so choose.
- The objective is to have a total of 10 courses from each discipline/cluster that have outcome(s), rubrics and assessments placed into eLumen by the end of Fall 07.
- Faculty may choose to get started on this over the Summer. The Office of Academic Service and Research and Planning are willing to assist you with that.
Support available:
- Fall 07 begins with a Flex Day activity on August 16th that will train any of you not yet trained in the process, or work with those of you ready to input into eLumen. If you have not started on ANY SLOs we strongly suggest you attend this session and bring one or more of your course outlines to practice.
- The first division meeting will have some time allotted to SLO work; the deans will provide the time and each division will have an SLO mentor/trainer there to assist the division.
- The hour after Town Meetings will be devoted to SLO writing and will be scheduled in the MDB with breakouts for disciplines. These are committed times to SLOs and not to other meetings.
- Tina Inzerilla or Lauren Hasten will provide technical assistance throughout Fall 2007 and Spring 2008. Lauren has been given increased release time to help complete our revised plan.
Spring 2008
- Implement two of the 10 courses (1&2) over the spring semester (this is where you run the assessment, gather the results and make some type of recommendation and enter that into eLumen)
- Disciplines that have more than 10 courses need to create an SLO plan for 2 more courses
(11&12) each semester until they have plans for all courses. For example, English
has 20 courses listed in the catalog. After the initial planning for 10 courses in
Fall 07 they will have 10 remaining courses to plan.
With two courses being planned each semester, it will take English 5 semesters to complete plans for their remaining courses and 10 semesters to implement assessments for all their courses. Anthropology has 5 courses and they will be done planning all courses in Fall 07 and will have assessed all their courses in under three semesters. Once Anthropology gets to the end of their courses they will start at the beginning again, rotating in and out two courses each semester.
Year 5
Fall 2008
- Disciplines will Implement 2 new courses (3&4) and rerun the 2 they did the previous semester (1&2).
- Disciplines with more than 12 courses will create an SLO plan for two new courses (13&14).
Spring 2009
- Disciplines will implement 2 new courses (5&6) and rerun courses 3&4. Courses 1&2 will go out of rotation.
- Disciplines with more than 14 courses will create an SLO plan for two new courses (15&16)
Year 6
Fall 2009
- Continue SLO Assessment Cycle.
Spring 2010
- Campus dialogue about the SLO model and future implementation. Based upon our experience we may want to revise our model.
Year 7
Fall 2010
- Designate that the 2010-2011 academic year will be the "Respect and Responsibility" theme year in attempt to get more SLOs written for that core competency.
- Faculty Flex Day workshop, Town Meeting presentation on Respect and Responsibility
- Decide on the continued use of eLumen
Spring 2011
- Hold a 'closing the loop' workshop on Faculty Flex Day.
- Begin working with Instructional Program Review Committee to incorporate SLOs into Program Review
- Create web forms to increase the ease of entering SLOs, data, and program outcomes
Year 8
Fall 2011
- Incorporate SLOs into annual Program Review Update
- Goal: Reach Proficiency level on WASC rubric by end of academic year so this can be detailed in Midterm Report
Spring 2012
- Faculty Flex Day theme "Assessment Day"
- Fully incorporate adjuncts into the SLO process
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- Review program review updates pertaining to SLOs
- Generate new SLO questions for the next annual program review update
- Deans email disciplines lists of courses without SLOs, courses not assessed, and degree/certificate outcomes not created/assessed
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Andrew P. Klein, president of Harford County based Klein's ShopRite of Maryland, and Marshall J. Klein, vice-president of operations of Klein's ShopRite, were recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, July 20.
The two Harford County businessmen joined Mrs. Obama in celebrating nationwide commitments from major food retailers to open grocery stores that provide healthy, affordable food to millions of people who live in areas that do not have easy access to fresh, nutritious food.
One of the grocery stores reflecting this initiative is a new Klein's ShopRite under development in Howard Park in northwest Baltimore, near the intersection of Northern Parkway and Liberty Road. The store will be the first in an urban setting for the Klein family, whose stores can be found around Harford County and also in nearby Jacksonville inBaltimore County.
It was to commemorate the development of the Howard Park store and more like it across the country that the Kleins and other retailers were honored by Mrs. Obama, the Kleins said in a news release.
"The commitments you are all making today have the potential to be a 'game-changer'," Mrs. Obama told the group. "Parents should have fresh food retailers right in their communities — places that sell healthy food at reasonable prices!"
"Lack of access to fresh food has been a silent problem for years," Marshall Klein said at the ceremony. "It is one of the single largest factors determining family health, and the Klein family is excited to be a part of the effort in helping to make a difference."
Across the country, 23.5 million Americans – including 6.5 million children – live in underserved communities that do not have readily obtainable fresh foods at reasonable prices. Mrs. Obama will be making special announcements in support of significant expansion of access to healthy and affordable food in these areas as part of her "Let's Move" campaign.
According to the company, the new Klein's ShopRite will be a state-of-the-art grocery store, and will feature several new innovations in healthy foods, including a culturally inspired International Foods department, a health clinic, a social services office and a fully-staffed pharmacy. It is expected to bring 275 new jobs to its community, while serving a population of 75,000 who live near the store.
Klein's ShopRite of Maryland is headquartered in Forest Hill, and operates six ShopRite supermarkets in Harford County and one inBaltimore County.
The family-owned business was founded in 1925 in Fallston. Andrew Klein and Marshall Klein are the grandson and great-grandson, respectively, of the founder, Maurice Klein, and several members of the fourth generation of the Klein family are operating the family business. Klein's ShopRite at the Festival at Bel Air recently inaugurated "ShopRite from Home," the first Harford County-based on-line and phone-in grocery ordering and delivery service.
Klein's ShopRite is a member of the Wakefern Food Corporation, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States. Founded in 1946, the cooperative is comprised of 47 members who individually own and operate more than 230 supermarkets under the ShopRite banner in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.


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YANKEES: Robinson Cano homers twice, New York snaps five-game skid
MINNEAPOLIS -- Robinson Cano homered twice and Andy Pettitte broke Whitey Ford's club record for career strikeouts to help the New York Yankees snap a five-game skid with a 10-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.
Zoilo Almonte had three hits and two RBIs as the slumbering Yankees offense woke up with seven runs in the last two innings to reach double digits for the first time since May 10.
Struggling reliever Jared Burton (1-6) gave up three runs and three hits while getting only one out for the Twins, who coughed up another eighth-inning lead. Ryan Doumit had two hits and two RBIs.
Cano also had a double, a walk and three RBIs for the Yankees, who totaled 13 runs during their losing streak.
Pettitte allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. Joba Chamberlain (1-0) pitched an inning of scoreless relief for the win.
Scott Diamond gave up two earned runs and seven hits with five strikeouts in 6 2-3 innings for the Twins, who took a 4-3 lead into the eighth thanks to a solo homer by Chris Parmelee in the sixth.
But Burton, an effective setup man since joining the Twins last season, was shaky again. He gave up a double to Cano to start the eighth, then couldn't get speedy Ichiro Suzuki on a bunt single. Burton tried to pick off Suzuki at first base, but his throw sailed past Justin Morneau and allowed Cano to score and tie the game.
Almonte followed with his go-ahead single past a drawn-in infield, and New York cruised from there.
The Yankees haven't looked much like the Yankees of late, running out relatively no-name lineups filled with youngsters and journeymen while their stars mend on the disabled list. They had lost 13 of their previous 18 to fall into fourth place in the AL East, and Pettitte looked nothing like the consistent lefty he's been for most of 18 seasons in the early going Monday night.
He needed 41 pitches to get through the first inning. He gave up a two-run single to Doumit and allowed another run to score when he slipped to the ground while trying to field a comebacker from Oswaldo Arcia. Pettitte threw the ball over first baseman Lyle Overbay's head, allowing Doumit to score from second base for a 3-1 lead.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi had Preston Claiborne warming in the bullpen in the first, but Pettitte was able to settle down after that rocky inning, breezing through the next four to keep his team in the game.
Cano's second homer of the night, a two-run shot the opposite way, tied the score 3-all in the third, and Pettitte made some more history in the fifth. He began the night needing two strikeouts to pass Ford for the Yankees record. After fanning Clete Thomas in the third inning, Pettitte broke the record by getting Morneau swinging in the fifth for his 1,958th career strikeout.
The Twins were missing Josh Willingham with a left knee injury, and Joe Mauer struck out in a pinch-hitting appearance in the eighth.
NOTES: It was Cano's third multihomer game this season and the 13th of his career. ... Twins RHP Mike Pelfrey gave up two runs and two hits with six strikeouts in six innings during a rehab outing for Class-A Cedar Rapids. ... Twins GM Terry Ryan on Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who has tormented the Twins over the years and is retiring after this season: "God bless that man. He's been a tremendous closer. But it's not going to break my heart to see him go off into the sunset."


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Connecticut seems to be New England's tornado alley, and the Connecticut River Valley a particularly favorite twister path.
Tornadoes like Monday's have become, alas, a familiar sight in this state. Connecticut had the greatest tornado density in New England — the most per 10,000 square miles — from 1991 to 2010, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
Monday's tornado took the Connecticut River Valley path, tearing off parts of a sports dome in East Windsor, tossing tobacco netting on homes and trees in Windsor Locks as if playing a prank, and making drivers in Windsor feel like they were in Wichita. Fortunately, it spared lives.
What is it that makes the Connecticut River Valley such a twister magnet? The 1979 tornado that, like Monday's, ran by Bradley Airport still ranks as the costliest on record in the Northeast. It killed three people and destroyed a lot of property, including vintage aircraft at the New England Air Museum.
Sadly, Hartford County residents now have to add tornado tips (www.ready.gov/tornadoes) to their repertoire of survival techniques in what feels like weirder and weirder weather.
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Sandusky's NBC interview possible confession to sex crime under Pa. law
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky proclaimed his innocence on national television Monday night, saying he isn't a pedophile and that the worst mistake he made was showering with children.
But under Pennsylvania's child protection laws, what Sandusky admitted to in an interview with NBC's Bob Costas could fit the definition of indecent exposure. If children under 16 were involved, it could be a first-degree misdemeanor with a maximum punishment of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Indecent exposure fits under the definition of a child sex crime, according to Pennsylvania state law.
Title 18, Chapter 31 of the Pennsylvania state code defines indecent exposure as when a person exposes his or her genitals "in any place where there are present other persons under circumstances in which he or she knows or should know that this conduct is likely to offend, affront or alarm."
The law considers that exposure to be a second-degree misdemeanor. But the law also says: "If the person knows or should have known that any of the persons present are less than 16 years of age," it's a first-degree misdemeanor.
Multiple calls to Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, seeking comment were not returned Tuesday.
According to a state grand jury presentment, Sandusky met the alleged victims through The Second Mile, the charity he founded in 1977 to help underprivileged children throughout Pennsylvania.
Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing at least eight boys over a 15-year period whom he met through Second Mile. He surrendered Nov. 5 to charges in the 40-count indictment.
Revelations in the Sandusky case have roiled Penn State's football program and cost its longtime head coach, Joe Paterno, and the university president, Graham Spanier, their jobs. It's still unclear what the full impact of the scandal might be on Penn State, or who else might be charged in an ongoing state grand jury investigation that led to Sandusky's indictment.
In the interview with Costas on Monday, Sandusky said he was innocent of the charges.
"I could say that I have done some of those things," he said. "I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them, and I have touched their legs without intent of sexual contact."
Asked if he regretted anything, Sandusky said, "I shouldn't have showered with those kids."
"That certainly sounds like indecent exposure to me," said Nicholas Cafardi, a law professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh who's written about child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests and the church hierarchy's decades-long effort to conceal it.
Cafardi said Sandusky could try to argue that he didn't know any of the children were uncomfortable with showering with him, or that communal showering among athletic teams is normal. But Cafardi said there's a stronger argument than not for charges of indecent exposure.
"This was not a team use, but a private use of the shower room, hence not acceptable as normal," he said.
"A reasonable person would likely be offended, affronted or alarmed by such a sight," said Patrick Corbett, an attorney in Bellefonte, Pa., who has taken many child protection cases. He isn't related to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who started the investigation of Sandusky as state attorney general, nor does he have clients in the case.
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There are so many linkys now days and I am here to finally say that I just don't have enough time to always link up with every one of them. I link when I can, when I have something worthy of linking up, and when I know that I have time for the commenting. When I get behind in the commenting I have to put linking aside all together.
As a blogger who also runs her own linky, I am ALWAYS reading, commenting, and sharing on almost every blog post I read. Sometimes to the point that I don't even have time to write or read anything besides those blogs.
And I love to read.
And I love to write.
And I love blogging.
I have a gazillion things to write about but I just haven't had the time to write about them. There's 24 drafts in my draft folder right now. What does that tell you?
I have 2 T-ball games, dance classes, T-ball party, awards ceremony, Memorial Day glamping, two graduations, hair and car appts in the city, dress rehearsals, a dance recital and then preparing for our first big summer vacation…all in the next 3 weeks. I am sure I am missing something in there.
So yes, this is indeed why I have decided that I must let go of the linky guilt. Even the blogging guilt. That's the great thing about this being my blog…I can do what I want to with it.
Same goes for those of you who sometimes may not have time to link with #momsterslink. I indeed understand and don't take it personally. As long as I see you all linked up from time to time I am happy.
We are all busy not only with blogging but with home, kids, spouses…LIFE!
Linkys are a lot of work to run. For those of you considering starting one, I would suggest that you understand that most of your blog reading will be done reading the blogs that link up. And if your linky is successful it will become harder to have time to write and network.
I have tried putting myself on a blogging schedule but it inevitably gets messed up due to my husband's work schedule because on his days off there's stuff to do and I know for awhile there he thought I was having a love affair with my blog.
I am also trying to gather more knowledge for my love of photography and design. Which sometimes with my OCD can become completely time consuming due to perfection and getting something exactly how I want it or watching tutorials to learn something new.
I encourage everyone to let go of the linky guilt if you are suffering from it. If you host one and need a break then take one. BREATHE. There's so much more to life than linkys. Buuuuut…it is the best way to find your blogging posse, get your blog read, and meet new bloggers.
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Standards provide a basis for policies, rules, and procedures that are essential for providing systematic programs and services to any special population of students. While standards may be addressed and implemented in a variety of ways, they provide important direction and focus to designing and developing options for gifted learners at the local level.
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Our customers are utilities in Switzerland. However, the leaflet will go out to their customers. So, the target audience is just about every energy customer in Switzerland.
We require 4 different versions of the leaflet: one with prizes (attachment 1), one without prizes (attachment 2) and both of them additionally in black and white. So, make sure that both leaflet designs look good in colors and in B/W.
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Please redesign the two images (energy efficiency scale and comparison: "Ihr aktueller Verbrauch" vs. "Deine Gemeinde").
The leaflet is in German, so you probably can't read it. However, to give you a clue about its content, I translated the texts in attachment 3.
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Thursday, 22 November 2007
Summer Trifle
As this week's host of Weekend Herb Blogging, it seemed about time I got around to my own entry. I've chosen to indulge in the abundance of beautifully ripe stone fruit and glut of raspberries that are one of the greatest joys of summer. Such glorious produce requires little preparation, which is fortunate as there is nothing worse than a steamy summer kitchen. It does, however, benefit from the addition of some luscious summer flavours. I've chosen to feature the fruit in a light summer trifle that is a perfect finish to any meal. It begins with the traditional cake base and while I've chosen to use leftover sponge, really any cake will do. The traditional custard has been replaced with layers of rosewater scented greek yogurt. I can think of no scent more suited to summer evenings. The raspberries are macerated in sugar and balsamic to give them a sensational intensity of flavour while the stone fruit needs nothing more than its own aromatic juices. The sweet and tart juices the raspberries have been steeping in make the perfect soaking alternative to sherry for the sponge. This layered creation is light enough to be a regular treat yet with such an intensity of colours and flavours it makes the perfect dinner party indulgence.
Summer Trifle of Stone Fruit and Raspberries
Serves 2
1 cup raspberries
1 cup peeled and diced stone fruit (peaches, nectarines and apricots all work well)
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp sugar
1 cup greek yoghurt
1 tsp rosewater
leftover sponge, chiffon or butter cake (or really any plain cake) cut into wedges
Set aside a few raspberries to garnish. In a small bowl combine the rest of the raspberries, balsamic and 1 tbsp sugar and set aside to seep. In another bowl combine the greek yoghurt with the remaining sugar and rose water. I will often double this component as the rose water yoghurt is a perfect aromatic accompaniment to many desserts or simply on its own.
In an individual or a larger serving dish begin by layering cake wedges to form a thin layer. Top with a little of the raspberry syrup and half the raspberries. Spoon over a layer of rosewater yoghurt, using about half a cup. Top with a stone fruit layer before another layer of cake. Repeat with remaining raspberries and yoghurt. Garnish with reserved raspberries and serve.
Just a reminder to email your Weekend Herb Blogging entries to me by Sunday and check back for the roundup on Monday.
22 comments:
- SUGARCRAFT INDIA said...
Any alternative for greek youghurt and can we make that at home too?
- 23 November 2007 at 5:54 am
- Genie said...
Truffle, that trifle looks simply delightful! You're making my mouth water for sweet, summer fruit. That's one of the great things about reading food bloggers on the other side of the world -- getting to watch you guys move through the opposite seasons! Thanks for hosting WHB this week, too. :-)
- 23 November 2007 at 6:20 am
- katiez said...
WOW, that looks soooo Good! I'm saving the recipe for next summer. I adore peaches and nectarines.
Gorgeous presentation, too!
- 23 November 2007 at 9:23 am
- Amanda at Little Foodies said...
Beautiful. I love trifle and this would be a great alternative to have on a more regular basis.
- 23 November 2007 at 10:05 am
- Ivy said...
Hi, I discovered your blog today at Kalofagas' and your summer trifle looks fantastic. We use rose water a lot in Cyprus but it's a pity I have to wait for next summer (it's autumn in Greece, where I live) to try it. Do you think I can try it with other fruit? Ivy, www.kopiaste.blogspot.com
- 23 November 2007 at 10:23 am
- Gloria said...
This is a very nice dessert, looks so yummy, fresh and delicious. We are in summer too. Gloria
- 23 November 2007 at 11:50 am
Your recipes are very interesting because I always look for new ideas. Thank you and greetings from lavaterra.blog.de
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- 23 November 2007 at 12:00 pm
- Kalyn said...
That does look so delicious. I love Greek yogurt! There is no lovely fruit like that available here right now, so I'm trying not to feel too envious.
- 23 November 2007 at 3:16 pm
- Agnes said...
Mhmm delish! I love summer fruits.
- 23 November 2007 at 3:37 pm
- Anna said...
i want this right now.
perfect combination: a creamy peach melba with a hint of fragrant rose.
can you tell i liked it?
- 23 November 2007 at 4:35 pm
- Cindy said...
Oh, great work Truffle! The word trifle brings to my mind tasteless supermarket sponges and chemical red jelly... ick. Stone fruit and rose water are much more my style.
- 23 November 2007 at 4:49 pm
- Cynthia said...
I loooooooooove trifle. I like your summer version.
- 23 November 2007 at 7:10 pm
- Truffle said...
Sugarcraft India- Any thick yoghurt will do really!
Genie- Thank you so much and thanks for the entry.
Katiez- Thanks! I'm going to be popping by for some winter inspiration soon!
Amanda- I'm so glad you like it!
Ivy- Thanks for popping by! I'm sure it would work with any fruit.
Gloria- Thank you! I just love summer fruits.
Lavaterra- That is very kind! I'm so glad you enjoy them.
Kalyn- It's fantastic, isn't it? I could eat it on its own. So creamy!
Agnes- me too! Thanks for reading.
Anna- I love the way you describe it. Thanks for popping by.
Cindy- I'm also not a fan of the traditional version for that reason. This one uses flavours I find much more appealing.
Cynthia- Thanks so much!
- 23 November 2007 at 9:17 pm
- Wendy said...
Yum! I adore trifle! This looks gorgeous. And I reckon it would a perfect dessert for my shepherd's pie...
- 24 November 2007 at 12:41 am
- winedeb said...
Sounds so light and refreshing and looks beautiful! And the stemwear that you used is lovely! My wine glasses are usually filled with the white or reds, but now I may have to make room for your beautiful dessert! Wonderful photos!
- 24 November 2007 at 5:02 am
- Big Boys Oven said...
looks so beautiful done!
- 24 November 2007 at 7:47 am
- Deborah said...
Peaches and raspberries are one of my favorite combinations. This looks wonderful!
- 24 November 2007 at 11:12 am
- Nora B. said...
Hi Truffle,
This is the only kind of trifle I like! And let me tell you how crazy I am going with the stone fruits. I eat a few apricots, nectarine or peaches a day. And mangoes too :-)
I hope that you've been doing well.
x nora
- 25 November 2007 at 3:35 am
- ejm said...
Oh this looks good! I really like the idea of adding the balsamic vinegar. And rosewater scented yoghurt! Wow.
- 25 November 2007 at 2:45 pm
- Lucy said...
Yoghurt rather than custard - brilliant substitution, Truffle.
Lovely for the hot nights to come. Even the name is seductive...
- 25 November 2007 at 8:16 pm
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Delicious, Truffle!
I really love fruit desserts.
- 26 November 2007 at 5:10 am
- Squishy said...
Wow just gorgeous. Well done and nice combo of flavours there mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
- 26 November 2007 at 10:58 pm


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Photo of doodled Chinese passport is a fake
Corrections and clarifications: The original version of this story stated a Chinese man was stuck in South Korea because his son had made drawings on his passport. A story update included speculation that the photo was fake, which later was confirmed by The Wall Street Journal, citing an official from the Chinese embassy in Seoul.
A Chinese man can't leave South Korea after his 4-year-old son drew all over his passport, reports The Telegraph.
The boy apparently drew over his father's passport picture, scribbling eyes, a mouth, a beard and extra hair — making the man unrecognizable.
The entire passport page is covered in images of animals, flowers and other drawings.
The man had posted an image of his defiled passport to the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, asking for help. "It is so depressing ... Solutions? Help???" the man wrote, reports The Telegraph.
But the photo could very well be a hoax, according to Kotaku.com, which notes that a four-year-old does not draw that well and there is no smearing of the ink.
"Closer examination of the markings reveals that the 'ink' remains constant in thickness. If you've ever dealt with MS Paint, these lines should be familiar," according to Kotaku.
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ANTIOCH — Seven men were shot Saturday evening by an unknown suspect at an Antioch home, authorities said.
Officers responded about 11:50 p.m. to reports of a shooting in the 5500 block of Cedar Point Way, Antioch police Sgt. Santiago Castillo said. Five shooting victims were found at the home, and they were taken to various hospitals for treatment.
According to Castillo, two other victims later arrived at separate hospitals and were determined to be part of the same shooting. All seven victims are expected to survive their injuries.
Police have not identified the shooter at this time, and the circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately released. The names of the injured victims were withheld in respect to the pending investigation.
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"If nothing is going right, turn left"
We live in an era of accelerated knowledge. In modern elite level sports and in particular in football, input from the backroom staff (medicine and science practitioners) is considerable and influences the coaches' decision-making process. However, it appears that there is a huge gap between knowledge gained in the lab or via research and actual benefit for the team in the field. As an example, injuries incidence in elite football players remained unchanged over the last 10 years. This was despite the growing number of scientific papers on prevention over the same period and the fact that some clubs are using injury prevention programs regularly. Another example, again in elite football, is related to the effect of congested fixture on performance. As most of you know, congested fixture will possibly result in performance decrements despite the fact that training and recovery methods have been substantially improved over the last years. Are we heading in the right direction? Should we start thinking differently?
Why injuries incidence remains stable?
With reference to the first example above, a number of reasons may explain the relatively low effectiveness of injury prevention programs on the injury incidence in elite football. Some of these factors are: the lack of applied research which is real-life questions driven, the inability to translate current research into effective practice, the relatively low players' compliance with the prevention training. If player's commitment with the specific exercise program is an issue (as some researchers and practitioners suggest) we should concentrate more on understanding our players rather than on developing exercise drills. Knowledge from social sciences might help in understanding our players better. In extension to that, it is assumed that the lack of fresh ideas and of the 360o view might also be a factor. As in other expertise knowledge from other areas, outsiders' knowledge, could add value and help in finding solutions to current challenges.
What can we learn from the outsiders?
In terms of injury prevention and risk detection approaches in elite footballers, the majority of strategies so far are fragmented. Screening tests, mostly performed at the start of season and in isolation to the game context, are correlated with the injury incidence throughout the season. However, to link any injury with its risk factors we should at least analyze the specific movement and the context (e.g. time of match, style of play) that it occurs. For that reason, we must integrate measures and data from movement and performance analysis, energy system function, psychological status and previous training principles. This requires a dynamic and holistic approach in data analysis. Several business units of a dynamic nature use approaches to deal with big data and reach meaningful conclusions, being, for instance, the risk of taking a decision, prices/budget forecasts, consumers behavior etc. I am sure that modern sports have to learn a lot from these practices.
USA navy wanted to use the most advanced tools to screen their pilots' ability to perform well under high psychological stress. This initiative was driven by the strategic objective to reduce the human lives losses and financial cost in case of fatal events. Their research showed that certain proteins are valid candidate molecules to identify individuals who can perform well while under high stress. I am not claiming that we should use exactly the same genomic approach as in pilots but this knowledge from outsiders might help us to improve the tools we use in football.
Football can learn from top business
Business owners in the City of London wanted to know which biological factors affect the traders' decision making. If they are able to identify the influential biological markers next step would be to manipulate them towards the optimal level. Saliva samples were collected from the traders every morning and were analyzed for testosterone and cortisol concentration. The saliva hormones daily variations were plotted against their performance (money profit and losses). The results showed that the traders were making profits in the days that testosterone concentration was high. This is particularly relevant to elite sports where all actions should align to optimize performance at a certain time of day.
What's next?
To my view we should rethink the way we approach, plan and execute science in modern sports. To provide effective solutions to coaches/managers, being tools to injury incidence reduction and performance enhancement, we should also look at other areas and places. Knowledge from outsiders might help.
George Nassis holds a doctorate degree in exercise physiology & sports science and has long experience as a physiologist and head of performance in football. He has extensive experience on the integration of sports medicine and science for injury prevention and performance enhancement. George has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals (h-index=18).


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The expansive tidal wetlands that once circled the edge of San Francisco Bay served as natural buffers against flood events. Unfortunately, San Francisco Bay has lost more than 85% of its tidal wetlands. Once established, newly restored wetlands act as giant sponges, absorbing floodwaters during storm events and slowly releasing runoff back into the Bay.
Because of historic land subsidence in Silicon Valley, some of California's most valuable business real estate is at risk of tidal flooding. The Restoration Project will construct a series of levees coupled with tidal marshes on their outboard side. Once established, these outboard tidal marshes will be the first line of flood defense and will help protect the levees from storm wave action and tidal surge.
Restored tidal wetlands also increase the flood carrying capacity of local creeks, flood control channels, and rivers. By scouring the mouths of these waterways and reestablishing their connection to historic flood plains, new tidal marshes will help maintain existing flood control infrastructure.
Tidal Marshes Grow as Sea Levels Rise
Tidal marshes develop by gathering sediments and growing vegetation as sea levels rise. As sediment washes into newly opened salt ponds, it accumulates and begins to establish new tidal plains for marsh vegetation.
The South Bay is an excellent place for sediment deposition and this bodes well for the development of new tidal marsh. Studies have shown that marshes in the South Bay remained intact, even between 1940 and 1960 -- a time when sea level was already rising and the land was subsiding rapidly due to groundwater extraction in Santa Clara County.
Once tidal marshes are established they become very efficient sediment traps. In effect, they tend to preserve themselves as they age, provided that enough sediment is available in the Bay. For this reason new tidal marsh areas are likely to keep pace with changing sea level conditions.
Tidal Marshes Capture Carbon
Because tidal marshes are such biologically productive habitats, they capture significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Unlike many freshwater marshes, tidal saltwater marshes release only negligible amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. As a result, the carbon storage benefits of tidal salt marshes may exceed those of freshwater marshes. Tidal marshes may be more efficient per unit area than trees when it comes to removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Given enough sediment, tidal marshes continue to grow and pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as sea levels rise. While specific research is needed to quantify the carbon sequestration capacity of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, there is no doubt that restoring tidal marsh is an effective method for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and helping to reduce the effects of climate change.


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The same James Masing who claim that there are basis to defend the NCR lands (Going to court running on Common laws) over encroachment by those who are given Provisional Leases by the State Government (via Land Code provision)now revel his true colour: he want more aggressive methods to `develop' NCR lands! More land grabs if he has his ways. Watch out!
Tuesday November 30, 2010
Sarawak to double oil palm plantation area
By JACK WONG
KUCHING: Sarawak, which recorded its fastest pace in opening up land for oil palm cultivation in the past one year, targets to double its plantation area to two million hectares.
State Land Development Minister Datuk Dr James Masing was optimistic that the new target could be reached by 2020, making Sarawak the biggest crude palm oil producing state in Malaysia.


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Google has made an interesting new acquisition that suggests it may be attacking Amazon's shipping business.
It just bought BufferBox Inc, a Y Combinator startup, for an undisclosed sum. BufferBox is a kiosk that can be placed in local venues around the nation for self-service parcel pick-up. In other words, if BufferBox becomes popular, you could walk into your local CVS and pick up a package you ordered from an online merchant.
This is a product -- not a talent -- acquisition. BufferBox will continue operating within Google.
"We're going to keep doing BufferBox," Google engineering director Steve Woods told Financial Post. "We're not going to go into great detail about our future plans, but we think there's a real exciting space beyond this amazing start with boxes, and the idea of touching consumers as part of their end-to-end experience is something we're going to explore together. I don't think we would say even definitively what it's going to be, but we're going to do some great things together."
BufferBox had plans to undercut even the cheapest shipping services and deliver packages to its kiosks for $3 or $4. (USPS costs about $5.25 per package. UPS and FedEx cost more.) It also planned to set up 100 kiosks around the Toronto area in 2013.
So, what does Google want with a shipping company?
The Economist has one idea.
"Google is experimenting with a service that would let folk find goods online, order them and have them delivered within a day for a modest fee," The Economist wrote this morning. "This seems similar to Amazon's hugely successful 'Prime' service, which costs $79 a year to join in America. Rather than try to replicate the e-commerce giant's extensive network of warehouses, Google is looking for partnerships with shipping companies and retailers instead. But if it is serious about taking on Amazon, it may ultimately have to buy a logistics firm. At $69 billion UPS has a market value less than a third of Google's; it is valued at less than twice the search giant's cash pile."
The Economist implies that Google could jump whole hog into fulfillment and logistics, and that it could becoming the back-end ecommerce delivery system for the world.
Of course, that is an entirely different business than the business Google is in right now. And it's not clear why Google would want to be in that business, especially with so many other promising opportunities to invest in.
So, what do you think Google wants with a startup like BufferBox? Is this really the beginning of a full-on shipping war between Google and Amazon?
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Add Nicaragua to the list of countries no longer sending soldiers for training to a U.S. Army school in Georgia.
School of the Americas Watch reported that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega decided to end his country's participation in the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the Americas.
The institute trains troops in state-of-the-art security practices and provides human rights education.
A delegation of SOA Watch activists, including founder Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois, met with Ortega this week to push for the withdrawal. The organization announced Ortega's decision Sept. 6.
SOA Watch was founded in 1990 to call for the school's closing amid claims that the U.S. Army officials teach the Latin American soldiers tactics to suppress civilians. The effort began a year after the army in El Salvador murdered six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador.
"We're very encouraged. This has energized our movement," Father Bourgeois told Catholic News Service this morning from his home just outside the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., WHINSEC's home.
"To have Daniel Ortega … say that Nicaragua will not participate in the future is a big deal," Father Bourgeois said.
Nicaragua joins Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela in withdrawing from the school.
Lee A. Rials, WHINSEC public affairs officer, downplayed the announcement.
"It's a choice the country made and they can choose what they like to do," Rials told CNS this morning.
He said Nicaragua's involvement in the school had dwindled in recent years — sending just a few trainees during fiscal year 2011 and none in 2012 — and will have little impact on the school.
"It's not at all significant in the fact that we have this year more students than we've ever had before (at more than 2,200)," Rials said." I think throughout the hemisphere we're pretty well known for what we offer and what people gain by coming here."
Rials attributed the decision to an apparent change in leadership of the Nicaraguan army, saying that just a few years ago the top military leader in the Central American nation told a visiting WHINSEC official "we need this school."
SOA Watch activists plan to continue visiting officials in other nations. Next on tap, Father Bourgeois said, are Brazil and Peru.


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Dear Kohls, Target, Macy's, Old Navy, Best Buy, Toys-Я-Us and any other major corporation open early on Thanksgiving:
Thank-you for the recent flyers I received in the mail. Although you might offer some super sales on specific products (if I arrive at your doors during the wee hours), I regret to inform you I will not be there. I have a previous engagement. One that involves a snuggly blanket and a leisurely breakfast (complete with steaming coffee). It's not completely because I think you're wrecking your employees' Thanksgiving holiday by opening your doors at 3a.m. (although you are for many of them). It's not totally because I think the holiday commercialism reflects America's excess (because it does). It's more because I think it's absurd (yes, I am aware I am defying a major gender role with this statement). The title you gave the day after Thanksgiving is enough to deter me. You do not meet my needs at this time.


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In simplest terms a bubble sort:
1. iterates through a list a values, swapping adjacent values that are out of order.
2. while swapping occurs, repeat step 1.
Simple code for this might look like:
do { swapped = false; // flag to indicate if any swapping occurred for(i=0; i<size-1; i++) { // loop though all but the last element of the array // compare the current element to the next element // this is why the loop stops at the second to last element if (compare(list, i, i+1)>0) { // if the current element is greater than the next element swap(list, i, i+1); // transpose current and next values swapped = true; // set the swapped flag } } } while(swapped); // continue until no swaps occur
While not the most concise sort, the elements are easily broken down and explained. Once offered to students as a reasonable way to sort small sets of data, it is now often dismissed altogether. Somewhat unjustly.
The term "bubble sort" was coined in 1962, by K.E. Iverson in "A Programming Language". Prior to Iverson, algorithms for a "transposition" sort exist, but he gave it the name. This name does get applied retroactively at times. Iverson is fond of this sort, preferring it to some other of its class, explaining it in some detail and also enumerating the logical variants.
Knuth, on the other hand, is instrumental in demonizing the humble algorithm, stating "the bubble sort seems to have nothing to recommend it, except a catchy name" ( Donald Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3 [1973] ). Knuth finds that "compared to straight insertion, bubble sorting requires a more complicated program and takes about twice as long!" That's his emphasis. I'd argue that this is somewhat subjective. Knuth gives his examples in his own brand of assembly for the hypothetical MIX computer. But Knuth does get the algorithm correct, which is more than can be said for others.
An influential book (Aho, A. V., Hopcroft, J. E., and Ullman, J. D., The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms [1974]) will soon offer this code for a bubble sort (Example 1.9. Fig. 1.13):
procedure bubble ( var A: array [1..n] of integer ); { bubble sorts array A into increasing order } var i, j, temp: integer; begin for i := 1 to n-1 do for j := n downto i+1 do if A[j-1] > A[j] then begin { swap A[j - 1] and A[j] } temp := A[j-1]; A[j-1] := A[j]; A[j] := temp end end; { bubble }
The code appears to be based on one of the qualities of the sort, "The net effect of each pass of the inner loop of statements is to 'bubble' the smallest element toward the front of the array." And as the code goes out of it's way to produce this particular effect, it essentially offers a backwards and somewhat lobotomized selection sort.
And much confusion follows.
You now have two different sorts claiming the same name. One of the qualities of the bubble sort is it's best case O(n) (the swapped flag exit after the first pass), which the above faux version simply doesn't have. That best case claim is pervasive and many papers have been written, looking at the wrong code, asserting it doesn't exist. Which, of course, it doesn't if you're looking at the wrong code.
A quick google of bubble sort will only add to the confusion. One early hit is "Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis" ( http://www.cs.duke.e...ble/bubble.html ), the paper that actually led me to Iverson as the programmer zero. It notes the false bubble sort. It also references the above textbook that offers the wrong code in the first place.
When faced with such conflicting information, we must go to primary sources. Iverson is the primary source here. His "code", the first representation of a "bubble sort", uses a swapped flag. Knuth, while critical, does agree on the algorithm. This is the real bubble sort, the one with the flag.
The bubble sort, while unarguably not the best algorithm, is arguably not the worst, either. It is simple and offers an approachable introduction to sort algorithms. It's quality of stopping when the list is ordered is useful, though other sorts can do the same trick. The quality of moving towards order during each pass, though perhaps not the most efficiently, has value.
For reference, Iverson:
6.5 Bubble sort.
The basic operation of the bubble sort is the comparison and possible transposition of a pair of adjacent items so as to place the smaller
of the two keys earlier in the sequence. ... In particular, the smallest item is bubbled to the top. Successive stages repeat the process, but since the jth stage brings the jth smallest item to the jth position, the (j + 1 )th stage need not treat the first j positions. I t is clear that v(x) - 1 stages suffice, but it is advantageous to allow termination at the end of the first stage during which no transpositions occur.
The basic operation of the bubble sort is the comparison and possible transposition of a pair of adjacent items so as to place the smaller
of the two keys earlier in the sequence. ... In particular, the smallest item is bubbled to the top. Successive stages repeat the process, but since the jth stage brings the jth smallest item to the jth position, the (j + 1 )th stage need not treat the first j positions. I t is clear that v(x) - 1 stages suffice, but it is advantageous to allow termination at the end of the first stage during which no transpositions occur.
Iverson's book doesn't actually give computer source code so much as a flow charted exercise in untypeable symbols that was his idea of what a programming language should be. Strangely, it was actually implemented and called APL (A Programming Language). A small, dedicated, user base still exists. Perhaps they also bubble sort...
Those who get it right:
Bubble sort, also known as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that works by repeatedly stepping through the list to be sorted, comparing each pair of adjacent items and swapping them if they are in the wrong order. The pass through the list is repeated until no swaps are needed, which indicates that the list is sorted.
-- http://en.wikipedia....iki/Bubble_sort
-- http://en.wikipedia....iki/Bubble_sort
Definition: Sort by comparing each adjacent pair of items in a list in turn, swapping the items if necessary, and repeating the pass through the list until no swaps are done.
-- http://xlinux.nist.g...bubblesort.html
-- http://xlinux.nist.g...bubblesort.html
Those who don't... I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. There are many and some are worse and more righteous than others.


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