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What is Companion Care?
Companion care is used to describe the companionship and help with errands and light household chores, typically provided in your home by a paid home companion.
Home companions allow family members or others who might care for you on a regular basis to have needed breaks.
Besides spending time with you, home companions will often:
- Run errands and shop for you
- Drive you to and from doctors' appointments
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning
- Prepare or help you to prepare meals
- Give you medication reminders
Companion care is typically for seniors who are healthy and independent enough to stay in their own homes. Home care agencies provide companion care, but companion care can also be provided by relatives, friends, neighbors or others on a paid or volunteer basis. Companion care can also be provided to residents of assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Companion care is different than non-medical home care, which helps seniors who need help with routine tasks that they used to be able to do on their own such as bathing, grooming, mobility, and managing and taking their medicines.
What Is Companion Care Like?
As you age and have a harder time getting out of the house, you may begin to feel isolated and even lonely. A home companion will visit you on a regular basis and spend time with you. They can also help you to get out more by taking you to the grocery store, doctors' appointments, or to social events.
If you don't feel like going out, they will usually run errands and take care of your shopping for you. They will also help you with housekeeping, laundry and cooking. It really depends on what you need and want.
Home companions do not provide medical care, although they can do things like remind you to take your medications and help you to do exercises and stay fit.
Is Companion Care Right for Me?
Consider these statements below to determine if they describe you:
- I am still relatively healthy.
- I like having my own living space.
- I like being independent.
- I do not want to leave my home.
- I prefer to live on my own, but do not have a relative or friend who can stay with me all the time.
Daily Living
- I need help getting in and out of the bathtub or taking a bath or shower.
- I need help getting dressed.
- I need assistance with personal grooming.
- I get my medicines mixed up or can't remember when to take them.
- I can no longer cook or need help preparing meals.
- I can no longer drive or can only drive very short distances.
- I no longer feel safe in my home.
- I feel isolated in my home.
If all or most of the Independence statements apply to you, but not the Daily Living statements, then Companion Care may be a good option for you.
If most or all of the above Independence and Daily Living statements apply to you, and you do not need regular nursing or medical care, then consider these options:
- Non-medical home care if you are able to stay in your home
- Assisted living if you are unable to stay in your home
If most or all of the above Independence and Daily Living statements apply to you, and you also need regular nursing or medical care, then consider these options:
- Skilled nursing care if you are unable to stay in your home
- Medical home health care If you are able to stay in your home
What to Expect from Companion Care?
Home companions will spend time with you and do things with you that you enjoy doing, such as playing games, going for walks, or taking you to family and social events.
Their services may vary, but will typically include:
- Running errands
- Shopping for you or taking you shopping
- Driving you to and from doctors' appointments
- Light housekeeping and cleaning
- Preparing or helping you to prepare your meals
- Reminding you to take your medication
Costs for Companion Care
Home care agencies typically charge for companion care based on an hourly rate. Some also require a minimum number of weekly or monthly hours.
Since companion care is a non-medical service, it is not covered by Medicare. The care is usually paid for by the senior receiving care or by their family. Some long-term care insurance may also cover or partially cover companion care services.
According to Genworth's Cost of Care Survey, the National Daily Median cost of in Home Care (also known as Homemaker Services) in the United States is $138 per day.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina's attorney general said Tuesday.
Attorney General Henry McMaster said he and his counterparts in Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, Texas and Washington state — all Republicans — are jointly taking a look at the deal they've dubbed the "Nebraska compromise."
"The Nebraska compromise, which permanently exempts Nebraska from paying Medicaid costs that Texas and all other 49 states must pay, may violate the United States Constitution — as well as other provisions of federal law," Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.
McMaster's move comes at the request of Republican U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
'We have serious concerns'
In a letter to McMaster, Graham singled out the deal to win Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's vote on the massive health care bill the Senate is expected to adopt Thursday. Nelson held out as fellow Democrats worked to get 60 votes to foreclose a GOP filibuster and the bill was amended to shield Nebraska from the expected $45 million annual cost tied to expanding Medicaid programs.
"We have serious concerns about the constitutionality of this Nebraska compromise as it results in special treatment for only one state in the nation at the expense of the other 49," Graham and DeMint wrote.
Nebraska wasn't alone in getting Medicaid breaks. Vermont, Louisiana and Massachusetts also got help with their programs.
Along with Texas, officials in Washington, Alabama, Colorado and Michigan confirmed they were working with McMaster.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he wasn't sure what could be done while the federal legislation remained under debate. Officials in the other states did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, Tennessee's Republican Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey called for his state's attorney general to investigate the deal.
Ramsey, McMaster and Michigan's Mike Cox are running for governor in their states.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
"Whether in the court of law or in the court of public opinion, we must bring an end to this culture of corruption," McMaster said. The negotiations "on their face appear to be a form of vote buying paid for by taxpayers," he said.
Video: Health care reform will be an Obama victory
'We'll assist anyone'
McMaster is encouraging a South Carolina citizen to step forward to sue to challenge the measure if it is signed into law. "We'll assist anyone to the extent that we're able," McMaster said.
'We'll assist anyone'
Also Tuesday, U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said Republicans need to stop complaining about deals their colleagues made.
"Rather than sitting here and carping about what Nelson got for Nebraska, I would say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: Let's get together and see what we can get for South Carolina," Clyburn said.
For instance, Clyburn expects states will get more help covering Medicaid expansion costs. Critics say the federal government's coverage of 91 percent of those future costs will disappear, leaving states with huge holes in their budgets. Clyburn says the legislation the federal share should be 95 percent, with states picking up no more than 5 percent.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said the federal legislation is "well intended," but called it "fundamentally flawed in the same way the stimulus efforts were in that the states and the taxpayers are left footing the bill."
Sanford this spring was the nation's only governor to take a state legislature to federal and state court to block federal stimulus money.
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Canes Agree to Terms with Brett Bellemoreby Ken Preston / Carolina Hurricanes
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Bellemore, 25, made his NHL debut with the Hurricanes on March 21, and registered two assists and seven penalty minutes in eight NHL games during the 2012-13 season. The Windsor, Ont., native also scored two goals and earned 11 assists (13 points) in 68 AHL games with the Charlotte Checkers in 2012-13. He led all Checkers defenseman with a plus-11 plus/minus rating, and his 87 penalty minutes also led team blueliners.
The Hurricanes drafted Bellemore (6'4", 210 lbs.) in the sixth round, 162nd overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. In four full professional seasons with Carolina's AHL affiliates in Albany and Charlotte, he has notched six goals, earned 32 assists and accumulated 312 penalty minutes.


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New concerns have been raised around the globe that the plight of the world's most brutally persecuted religion has not been sufficiently addressed by world leaders, and that the persecution which confronts that faith is growing worse each year. That persecuted faith is Christianity.
A recent article for the Christian Post gives a sense of the level of persecution which confronts Christians around the world:
Dr. Carl Moeller told The Christian Post at an event on rising religious intolerance abroad that Christians are "the most persecuted in the world" when the nonprofit examined religious groups suffering from increased persecution.
"In terms of sheer numbers, the large size of the Christian populations around the world, where they're repressed or restricted… Whether you count martyrs, those killed, or you count those living in regimes, sizable Christian populations live under extreme restrictions in places like China, Indonesia, and of course the Middle East," said Moeller.
The fact of widespread anti-Christian persecution is hardly disputable; in August 2011, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life issued a report demonstrating that the restrictions faced by practitioners of various religions was dramatically on the rise:
Restrictions on religious beliefs and practices rose between mid-2006 and mid-2009 in 23 of the world's 198 countries (12%), decreased in 12 countries (6%) and remained essentially unchanged in 163 countries (82%), according to a new study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Because several countries with increasing restrictions on religion are very populous, however, the increases affected a much larger share of people than of states. More than 2.2 billion people — nearly a third (32%) of the world's total population of 6.9 billion — live in countries where either government restrictions on religion or social hostilities involving religion rose substantially over the three-year period studied. Only about 1% of the world's population lives in countries where government restrictions or social hostilities declined.
Among the world's 25 most populous countries — which account for about 75% of the world's total population — restrictions on religion substantially increased in eight countries and did not substantially decrease in any. In China, Nigeria, Russia, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam, the increases were due primarily to rising levels of social hostilities involving religion. In Egypt and France, the increases were mainly the result of government restrictions. The rest of the 25 most populous countries, including the United States, did not experience substantial changes in either social hostilities or government-imposed restrictions.
Under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, a series of annual reports to Congress began, and a United States Commission on International Religious Freedom was established during the Bush administration.
As of April 2011, Patrick Goodenough of CNSNews reported that the Obama administration had not as yet designated a single "country of particular concern," while the previous administration had identified eight such countries mere days before the end of Bush's second term:
Despite the strong urging of Washington's religious rights watchdog, the Obama administration has not designated a single "country of particular concern" (CPC) for religious freedom violations since taking office 27 months ago.
The last time any country was designated as a CPC was on January 16, 2009 — four days before President Bush left office. On that day, then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named as CPCs eight countries — Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Uzbekistan. All had been designated previously.
Despite the Obama administration's inaction, those eight still stand, although some actions resulting from the designations have expired.
Today, 16 nations are on the list of "countries of particular concern" — and it is a "who's who" of Islamist and Communist states, where the primary targets of religious persecution are often Christians. As Fiorello Provera (the vice chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament) wrote in a recent article:
In almost every part of the world, reports emerge on a daily basis of Christian communities falling victim to harassment and persecution. …
In 2012, the organization Open Doors, which is devoted to focusing on the plight of Christians, designated Muslim-majority countries ― including Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and even the Maldives ― as some of the world's worst offenders. In Pakistan, the country's notorious blasphemy laws are frequently used against Christians to settle personal scores or extort financial gain. The shocking assassinations of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's minister for minority affairs, and the governor of Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, ensured that anyone who speaks out on this topic can expect swift retribution.
Yet the problem is not limited to the Muslim world. In China, according to the organization The Voice of the Martyrs, persecution of Christians rose significantly from 2010 to 2011. Unofficial house churches are especially vulnerable to official harassment or raids by the authorities. …
There is an obvious reticence by international bodies even to acknowledge the problem. But according to the Pew Forum, at least 10 percent of the world's Christians ― 200 million people in 133 countries ― live in societies as a minority group. Unless action is taken to address the issue, hundreds of communities that simply wish to practice their religion peacefully will face profound psychological and demographic consequences, fleeing into exile to preserve their faith.
As President Obama grapples with the "evolution" of his stance on gay "marriage," matters of genuine persecution remain unaddressed. The Canadian government is preparing to follow in the footsteps of the Bush administration and establish its own Office of Religious Freedom, but now the President of one of the largest Christian nations in the world remains silent on the persecution endured by millions of Christians.
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The AT&T Blackberry Z10 Cell Phone is an interesting device. I have to admit I wanted to get on the bash wagon several times and join the rest of the sheep out there with my gripes and issues. I realized after a few days with it that the gripes and issues are really about change than anything else. At first glance you see what looks to be a "YAAD" (Yet another Android Device). It really isn't though, it's Blackberry OS 10. It's based on QNX which is a unix based operating system (just like Android) but it is not Android. The problem is… it's a lot like Android in many ways and because of that it sets unrealistic expectations at first glance. It is purely psychological and if you can unhinge that desire to feel like you are on an android device, and keep your mind open to the Blackberry OS 10 you can have a much better experience.
That doesn't sound like much of a sales pitch and it isn't. This is a review, and I could care less how many of these sell based on what I write. The idea here is to get you the information you need to make a buying decision that you won't regret. I have to say that I can sum up everything in one sentence. Here it is: "If you have been a Blackberry Fan/user for years, you will likely love this phone."
For everyone else (Android/Apple/restofthepie) the Blackberry Z10 is going to take some getting used to. It is different, the way you do things are different. In this case different isn't always better, but sometimes it is. Messaging seems to be better on the Blackberry Z10 (over Android and Apple). The User Interface is a hybrid between Android and Apple. I wouldn't call it better, but it contends mildly. With Android and Apple phones you can figure out what you need to do without prior knowledge. Sometimes it takes a few minutes but you can get there from here. With the Blackberry Z10 you will find that more often than not you are looking up things… like how to make a phone call… Oh sure it is evident when you boot the phone, but if you get stuck in a few places (back buttons, option buttons, seem to be non-existent) it takes a few minutes to figure out how to get to the dialer and that kind of sucks.
The Blackberry Z10 needs to have a few buttons (soft or hard) to over-ride where you are in the logic path. Without them it is easy to become lost in a maze of selections that do not have an obvious path back. In fact, my single largest complaint is there is no home button. That said it's because everything is gesture based.
You swipe up to get to the task manager and swipe left to get to your app list (or home for a lack of a better place/name). If you are somewhere and you can't find your way out, you swipe up again and you will get a list of running applications. You can close the apps by hitting the little x in the bottom right hand corner of the minimized version of the running app. If you want to get to home from there you swipe left and the home screen appears. From the lock button position you just swipe up and you get the app list (what I've been calling home).
The home screen isn't really a home screen like you expect from an Android or iPhone. There is no running widgets that give you wallpaper and various sized widgets you can fit on your home screen. Rather they use that task manager as a bit of a solution to that… It allows apps to have content on their minimized thumb in the task manager. So you can have your weather app and clock app running… when you swipe up to see the task manager you will see weather content and the time from your clock app in addition to whatever else is running on the phone at the time. When you swipe left you get the app list which is a set of icons for apps that you have currently installed on your Blackberry Z10.
In closing… I'm not a fan at all. I can see why people would appreciate it if they are used to it. The UI is too kludgy and I don't like the limited app market (which I haven't even mentioned in the review). I honestly think it is a case of too little too late. What I mean by that is I doubt at this pace Blackberry will ever be a real majority player in the global phone market again and I don't see it growing its user base beyond the fans/users it already has. Perhaps that is short sighted or harsh… I don't know. I do know that I would never own a Blackberry Z10, I do know I don't care a lick for the Blackberry OS 10, and I do know it has nothing to do with the carrier AT&T. Verizon, T-Mobile (and soon Sprint) all carry them. Are a lot of people buying them? They are selling between 750,000 and 1 million units a month. To put that in perspective Android phones shipped 162.1 million in Q1 of this year alone. Apple shipped 37.4 Million Q1, but those numbers are down because everyone knows that Apple will be releasing their new phone in a few months and the people who are purchasing iPhones now are either not in the know or without a phone and need one now.
I give the Z10 a solid 2 stars out of 5. If you are a Blackberry fan/user and you want to upgrade this is a sharp phone. The Z10 is well constructed, sturdy, the screen is sharp and clean, and the phone does everything you would expect a phone to do. My rating represents my personal subjective view of the Blackberry OS 10 and my dislike for it. If the Z10 was running Android I would have loved it. If you are not a Blackberry Fan I would stick to Android or wait for the iPhone 5s (or whatever they are going to call it).


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Five ways to capture returns from the high yield bond market
While high yield bonds have recovered sharply from a difficult start to the year, there are still a number of ways that investors can capture compelling value.
In January and early February markets suffered one of the worst starts to a year in history, and credit spreads1 in high yield bonds2 widened aggressively.
In March and April however, sentiment recovered sharply and credit spreads were squeezed tighter again. Valuations in European and US high yield are now closer to long-term averages again.
Relative value opportunities
We believe that even with high yield trading closer to fair value, investors should still be well compensated for holding these bonds through short-term volatility.
Furthermore, there are still ways to capture relative value if investors look across currencies, sectors and ratings categories.
Below are just a few examples of how to capitalise on current market dislocations.
- High yield bonds in the BB rating bracket offer very attractive value compared with investment grade BBB rated bonds as the European Central Bank's (ECB) asset purchases now include non-financial BBB rated European corporate bonds. Despite lacking the direct support of a price-insensitive buyer, we believe that BBs should see a "trickle down" effect of the ECB's activity.
- Financials have lagged non-financials in the opening of 2016 with the insurance sector, in particular, having struggled. An element of this underperformance is due to concerns surrounding capital market exposure, with a range of big European banks reliant upon access to capital markets to generate profits. If these markets are closed, profit margins can suffer, but we feel that the worries surrounding the theme may now have gone too far.
- Credit spreads in the US are materially wider than in Europe, and some sectors of the US market are starting to look attractive on a relative basis comparing similarly-rated credits. This comes with the important caveat that overall US debt levels (or leverage) are much higher than in Europe as reflected in the proportion of lower-rated credits as the percentage of the market. The US is further along the credit cycle3 and as a result, merger and acquisition activity has risen and leverage has climbed. While we are happy to selectively add to US high yield, we do so with this leverage difference very much front-of-mind.
- After a sharp rally in commodities there are still some remnants of value. We look for those companies which can survive and prosper in a world of low energy prices; where yields remain elevated, we are happy lending to those metal and mining companies that do not require a rapid rise in commodity prices.
- We would expect US interest rates and government bond yields to rise over the next 12 months as services sector inflation is above 2.5% p.a., some energy prices have already risen by over 50% and the Fed is patently behind the curve. With potentially higher interest rates, certain sectors like banking should benefit, whilst others, such as property, may struggle.
High yield offers diversification benefits
With the market looking fairly valued, finding the most compelling way to gain access to high yield bonds is challenging, but there are still opportunities.
Investors should also remember that from a strategic perspective, high yield bonds could offer solid returns and important diversification benefits irrespective of the short-term market backdrop.
1. The yield spread is the difference in yield between different types of bonds (for example, between government bonds and corporate bonds). Credit spread denotes the difference between corporate bonds and government bonds.↩
2. A high yield bond is a speculative bond with a credit rating below investment grade. Investment grade bonds are the highest quality bonds as assessed by a credit ratings agency. To be deemed investment grade, a bond must have a credit rating of at least BBB (Standard& Poor's) or Baa3 (Moody's). Generally, the higher the risk of default by the bond issuer, the greater the interest or coupon.↩
3. A credit cycle denotes the changing access to credit by borrowers over time. Credit cycles typically start with a period in which funds are easy to borrow; characterized by lower interest rates, lowered lending requirements and an increase in the amount of available credit. These periods are followed by a contraction in the availability of funds. During the contraction period, interest rates climb and lending rules become stricter, meaning that less people can borrow.↩


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AN investigation is underway after an arson attack on a barn close to a controversial ex-offenders' hostel in Edenfield.
Firefighters were alerted to a blaze at a disused barn near to Chatterton Hey, Exchange Street, at around 4pm on Wednesday, according to Lancashire Police.
Two men were seen around the property, around 45 minutes earlier, who detectives are keen to trace.
Det Con Phillip Pilkington said: "We think that this fire was started deliberately after the building was accessed.
"Thankfully no-one was hurt but we are particularly keen to speak to two men who were seen near to the building around the time of the fire, which we think was started around 3.15pm.
"I would appeal to those who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously in the area around the time of the fire, or similarly anyone with any information that may assist us with our investigation to contact us."
Villagers fought a lengthy campaign in late 2011 against proposals by the Langley House Trust to introduce convicted ex-offenders to the property.
An initial proposal to allow convicted paedophiles to the property was dropped after a public outcry and a lack of support from Lancashire Probation Trust.
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Aiolos Engineering saved time and costs in the development of a 100-meter long wind tunnel by using CFX computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software instead of physical testing. Building and testing a scale model was ruled out because it was expensive and required more time than was allotted for the design of the entire facility. By creating a CFD model of the wind tunnel, Aiolos was able to evaluate many design parameters in a fraction of the time required to design and build a model wind tunnel and to implement a test program. Engineers used CFD to evaluate different wall divergence angles and roughness conditions of the test section to meet a key design challenge: to achieve a reasonable trade-off between the axial static pressure and velocity gradients over the full range of train shapes and sizes. "Ideally, both the static pressure and velocity should be constant along the entire length of the test vehicle," says Trevor Bender, aerodynamicist at Aiolos Engineering. "With CFD, we could perform many trade-off studies to find the optimal balance between those two factors."
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"I enjoy introducing students to complex ideas and big questions and helping them understand how these ideas and questions relate to our experiences in the modern world."
What's so important about teaching history to Transylvania students?
History is the study of human experience—it links the past to the modern world by investigating culture, politics, the economy, and much more. It gives us a clearer picture of who we are and how we got here.
Greg Bocketti has seen countless history students ponder those big questions and move on to become not only historians and teachers, but medical practitioners, bankers, lawyers, and insurance agents.
"History asks students to think with all the parts of their personalities—with all their senses as economic, political, social, and cultural actors," he says. "It asks them to understand people with experiences outside their own. The protagonists of history are actors in the past, whether in this country or others."
Bocketti's research interest is in Latin American history, and he teaches unique courses related to that field, including History of Brazil, Sport in Latin America, and Public Celebration in Latin America. He encourages his students to explore those subjects in a thoughtful way, and it shows in their work.
"Students have helped me clarify my thinking about historical subjects, which has made me a better writer and better historian, asking new questions and thinking more deeply about the significance of my work. I especially enjoy reading students' work and hearing students' ideas about the subjects we study, because I always learn from them."
Transylvania's small classes make it easy for students to interact personally with their professors. As they pursue their study of history, they may also find that they have more in common with their professors than they realized.
As Bocketti points out, Transylvania students of history have the opportunity to "work with teachers who are active in the field and engaged with the same set of challenges students face—working with sources closely, thinking about historical questions, and honing their critical writing skills." For his part, Bocketti wants to help his students develop their "habits of thinking," as well as their research and communication skills.
And if they happen to find the answers to some of those big questions along the way, perhaps we'll all have a better understanding of the conflicts and complications that shape this human drama.


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4 halved, pitted apricots
1 cup flour
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature, divided use
1/3 cup sour cream, at room temperature
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste (or extract)
1/2 teaspoon roasted ginger powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, at room temperature
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, beat 7 tablespoons of butter and light brown sugar until creamy. Add the egg, sour cream and vanilla paste, beat thoroughly. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder ginger and salt. Add to the sour cream mixture and beat until well incorporated. The batter should be very fluffy and slightly sticky. Use the remaining tablespoon of butter to heavily coat the bottom and sides of a heavy duty 8 inch baking pan. Sprinkle the dark brown sugar over the butter, top with the halved apricots placing them pit side down. Arrange the apricots so they are evenly distributed in the pan, then top with cake batter. Smooth the cake batter to all of the edges and make sure no apricots are peeking out. Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely, then invert to serve. Hint: Run a butter knife around the end of the pan if having trouble with the release.


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- March 2014: Cooking Resource Center under construction in Biharwe - Kawesa Mukasa, director for the Solar Connect Association, reports that construction is underway for the Renewable Energy for Cooking Resource Center located in Biharwe, Uganda. The center will provide all types of fuel efficient cook stoves, both solar and biomass, and will be fabricated at the center. The center will also distribute information on renewable energy for cooking and train young people to create small scale enterprises in fabrication and distribution of solar cookers and efficient biomass stoves. The construction of the Renewable Energy Center is being funded by SCA with support from Solar Cooking Netherlands and Wilde Ganzen.
- August 2013: Uganda NGO with proven profitability plans for expansion at new location - Henk Crietee, from Solar Cooking Netherlands, was in Uganda for two weeks in early August to evaluate Solar Connect Association (SCA) project activities. During Crietee's visit, a piece of land was secured in Mbarara, on which SCA will construct a building to house a new Renewable Energy Center. Integrated solar cooking appliances will be produced, advertised and sold from this new location, which will offer better exposure for their products to local residents, tourists, and political opinion leaders. While SCA has shown itself to be relatively self sufficient in terms of covering operation costs, through the sales of solar cookers, hay baskets and rocket stoves, they cannot afford yet to construct a new building. Participation by Solar Cooking Netherlands with help in securing the land has been appreciated. Donors wishing to help contribute to the building construction can contact Solar Cooking Netherlands. This fledgling effort is another example that demonstrates solar cooking, and related integrated cooking methods, can be a successful business by incorporating local manufacturing, sales, and long term consumer support.
- February 2013: SCN-KoZon reports their Uganda partner, Solar Connect Association, under the direction of Kawesa Mukasa, has his promising ISC Small Enterprise, is now making a profit and is completely financially independent. Thirty people are generating income by manuafacturing, public promotion and marketing activities, all combined with intensive ISC sale programs. We are really very impressed by their work and consider this as a model for other ISC initiatives. SCA has been invited by NGOs in Ethiopia/ and Addis Ababa University to perform an ISC training to thirty young people and future small enterprise employees on the Improved CooKit, April 1-5 in Ethiopia; In Ethiopia SCN-KoZon together with partner HoA-REC (Horn of Africa Regional Environment Center), twenty Renewable Energy Centers for Rural Households are being built and developed. In all the centers integrating solar cookers will be part of the small enterprise. HoA-REC and SCN-KoZon assigned Fikirte Regassa Beyene being SCN-KoZon representative in Ethiopia and becoming ISC expert for Ethiopia. She has an important innovative and organizational responsibility.
- December 2012: A new Solar Cooking Business is started in Awra Amba, Ethiopia an exceptional community north Ethiopia. Together with Solar Cooking Netherlands the action plan is completed and the construction of the production centre is started in the village's distinctive building style: a wooden construction finished with a mixture of available loam and soil. The production of CooKits, hay baskets and wood-saving stoves is to start next spring. Solar box cookers will be introduced and produced as well. After about three years, the project will be financially independent.
- November 2012: Solar Cooking Foundation in the Netherlands promotes the Integrated Cooking Method in Rural Ethiopia - The Solar Cooking Netherlands project in Ethiopia to promote the Integrated Cooking Method included using the Cookit, heat retention baskets, solar box cookers, solar dryers and water pasteurization indicators (WAPI). In addition to these appliances, SCN-KoZon further integrates and promotes energy efficient stoves including the Mirt and Tikikil stoves. Read more at: Solar Cooking Netherlands addresses Energy Problems in rural Ethiopia.
- Febuary 2012: The first National Project Steering Committee (NPSC) organised by HOAREC/N took place in Addis Ababa. The NPSC has the overall responsibility on quality control, development and - assurance related to the objectives of the European Union RET / EE project for Integrated Solar Cooking in Ethiopia in three areas. The target group is 10,000 households. Solar Cooking Foundation the Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) is Associated Partner in this project and member of the NPSC.
- October 2011:HOAREC/N organized an Inception Workshop for all participating partners and a launching meeting as formal kick off of the European Union RET / EE project for Integrated Solar Cooking.
- August 2011:European Union (EU) approved a large project on renewable Energy . Objective of the EU project: development of 20 Renewable Energy - and Energy Efficient Technology (RET / EE) Centres spread over three districts in Ethiopia. Integrated Solar Cooking will be integral part of the production, promotion, marketing and distribution in the different areas. Solar Cooking Foundation the Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) is Associated partner in this project. Main responsibility of Solar Cooking Foundation the Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) is transfer of ISC and Social business know-how.
- October 2011: Solar Cooking Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) has placed second the for most sustainable project in Ethiopia in a contest sponsored by Ethiopia Projects. This is a collaboration between SEM ENNOS and ENVV. SCN-KoZon is very proud to share this prize: See YouTube video with SCN-KoZon in the picture.
- October 2010: Solar Cooking Foundation the Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) restructures and makes a change to business approach.
For over 6 years, SCN-KoZon has supported solar cooking projects in East Africa, i.e. Eritrea, Ethiopia (PISDA), Somalia, and Uganda (SCA). Initially, SCN-KoZon projects roughly adhered to the folowing scenario: Local NGO's submitted requests to SCN-KoZon. Upon approval by the Board, SCN-KoZon started the fundraising process. During all these years, Wild Ganzen added a financial support of 70% gross to all donations obtained by SCN-KoZon.
The woman in the projects buy CooKits, wood-saving cooking appliances, and hay baskets at subsidised prices. At the monthly cooking meetings, led by locally chosen female instructors, women learn the "new cooking methods". The NGOs handle public promotion so that support is increased in the various regions.
Even though the NGOs were enthusiastic about the results of solar cooking as a solution to the consequences of deforestation, SCN-KoZon gradually recognized that in no way did it produce a fully sustainable approach. Indeed, the NGO in the project country remains financial dependent. SCN-KoZon faced the challenge of reaching a business approach together with its local partners. This must lead to a financial independent position. For SCN-KoZon this means a change from a charitable, coordinating and counseling approach to an advisory, supporting role.
The solar cooking projects did already have quite a lot of experience with production, marketing, information and education, a sound basis for a business approach. This paved the way to integration into the local economy. Women's central position in all local economy activities grows steadily as well. This enables SCN-KoZon to reduce its financial support over a period of 3 to 5 years! SCN-KoZon's support for all new projects focuses on a business cost-covering developement.
- July 2010: Hans Le Noble reports record CooKit sales. For the third year running, Solar Cooking Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) has worked together with Solar Connect Association (SCA) in Uganda. In addition to information delivery about and lobbying for the use of solar energy and wood-saving cooking techniques in Uganda, SCA produces and sells the complete range of related cooking appliances. SCA also takes care of the requisite training for the users, mainly women, in the Mbarara district in southern Uganda, close to the borders with Rwanda and Tanzania. SCA is by now active in 10 rural villages and has a smoothly running shop plus information centre in the town of Mbarara. In the past 2 years, nearly 4,200 households (about 25,000 people) switched to solar energy and wood-saving cooking techniques. It is expected that in the current year another 2,200 households will follow. A household thus saves on average €0.50 per day or €180.- per year, a considerable amount for "low-income" households! Millions of kilos of charcoal and firewood are saved annually! Hence less deforestation! The Mbarara programme is supposed to reach its break-even point by the end of 2010 and will from on then continue to operate as an independent and self-supporting unit. Energy-saving cooking will then become an accepted and sustainable alternative for a large part of the Ugandan population and will reduce its need for development aid. In November 2009, Hans Le Noble paid a working visit as (PUM) Netherlands senior expert to the SCA Mbarara project. Improved or new production and marketing techniques such as direct selling, market expansion, production outsourcing and attention to quality and design were recommended, discussed and implemented. All this has contributed to the record sale of 750 CooKits in the 4th quarter of 2009! Two instructors/marketers work fulltime in Mbarara together with 14 female instructors and 1 instructor (indeed, one man!) on a commission basis, plus another saleswoman/instructor in the shop. Demonstrations and training meetings were organised every day in villages as well as in town. To promote even further 'integrated solar and fuel-saving cooking', a sales and distribution centre is to be opened in the Kampala region, hopefully as early as in 2010. This centre will buy the solar CooKits from the Mbarara production centre, which will create a sounder production basis. Financing discussions are under way with other NGOs. The objective is to distribute 2,200 CooKits in the first 12 months of 2010.
- March 2010: Besides working with their own projects, SCN-KoZon has developed a relationship with the Cooking with the Sun Foundation, KoZon, to intensify their efforts to promote solar cooking in Africa. KoZon has been working since 1997 in French- speaking West and Central African countries. A demonstration of the Cookit oven in Eritrea by KoZon prompted them to begin a program there. Combined with the efforts of SCN-KoZon, they have established more solar cooking educational possibilities for the English-speaking countries of Uganda, Ethiopia, as well as Eritrea.
- March 2010: A comprehensive guide to solar cooking produced by Solar Cooking Foundation the Netherlands is now available. Included are sections on the use of the solar CooKit oven, a water pasteurization instrument(WAPI), a heat retention cooking basket, and also information on cooking for a six person household. See more information at: Integrated Sustainable Solar Cooking
- 2007 - December 2009: In Uganda, the Solar Connect Association (SCA) initiates and implements successful solar cooking projects under leadership of Mr. Kawesa Mukasa, director of the SCA. He works together with his secretary in Kampala and his project team in Mbarara, in the south of Uganada. Solar Cooking Netherlands gives know how and financial support. The project in Mbarara [since 2007] aims to reach a cost-effective and preferably profitable operating account by the end of 2011 at the latest. To succeed it is vital to arrive at a cost-effective Resource and Production Centre in Mbarara where all Integrated Cooking products are made under own control or contracted out or bought on the local market. In this manner the local economy benefits as well. In 2008 more than 4000 CooKits are sold to 3800 families. This means 20,000 people consume solar-cooked food [at a average of 6 persons per household] and a yearly saving of roughly 9000 tons of firewood. Clara Thomas, chairman of SCN-KoZon, introduced a direct selling method, though which groups of women in the villages are invited to information sessions, demonstrations, cooking lessons, meal sharing, and instruction in water pasteurization and the use of the Water Pasteurization Indicator (WAPI). This has been very successful. To enhance durability of the Cookits, the cardboard side of is coated, the borders are reinforced with adhesive tape and the sun reflecting aluminium sheets can now be glued perfectly smoothly with new techniques. In the Kampala region another project is in preparation. The meaning is to start this project as a for-profit enterprise.
- September 2009: The outcome of the conference in March is a large scale Integrated Sustainable Solar Cooking project in 4 countries of the Horn of Africa. It is a three year plan in eight clusters: six in Ethiopia, one in Djibouti-Somalia and one in Sudan. Abiye Ashenafi [HoArec] will manage the project and SCN-KoZon is cooperating partner, trainer and advisor. On this moment SCN-KoZon's Jacomine Immink and Clara Thomas have designed manuals for instructors and end-users. They contain many visual materials for illiterate people. In cooperation with Wietske Jongbloed [KOZON] , a comprehensive manual for the production of Cookits and Water pasteurization Indicators [WAPis] . The expectation is that the project really start in 2010. On that moment 10.000 Cookits and WAPis will be needed. The manuals will be translated into local languages.
- March 2009: In Ethiopia the pilot project of PISDA and SCN-KoZon has been very successful. on this moment 1500 households use wood-saving cookers. At the monthly PISDA meetings, participating women motivate each other to sell CooKit bread and cakes at the local market. A new production- and training centre has been opened and has been visited through representatives of Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre. The success of this project has inspired Janny Poley, the first secretary of the Embassy of the Netherlands. On her initiative a working conference with a department of the University of Addis Ababa has been organised on the 13 the and 14 the of March.
- Febuary 2009: Schenking van Entre Femmes voor Stichting Solar Cooking - Nieuwsblad voor Huizen
- 2007: This year Solar Cooking Netherland was active in Ethiopia, Uganda, Puntland/Somalia and Eritrea. There was a fruitful cooperation with lacal NGO's and women. There was a integrated approach, which included how the market works, how to fit in the local market,local production through women and to earn income for women. A save-and credit foundation has been esthablised directed on independence of all the people who are involved.
- November 2007: Solar Cooking Netherlands (SCN-KoZon) has teamed up with Partnership for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (PISDA), a local non-governmental organization, to introduce solar cooking in four rural villages around Debre Zeit. PISDA has worked with female heads of households on a number of projects, such as tree planting, fuel-efficient wood stoves, and savings and credit associations. SCN-KoZon's Clara Thomas, along with PISDA's Ato Guillilat, left early mornings on a two-wheeled horse wagon to visit the four rural villages. They first introduced solar cookers to village elders, and then spent a week training a group of solar cooking instructors. A year-long initial program was agreed upon to ensure continued follow up in the form of monthly collective solar cooking meetings to share experiences and advice. The project will likely expand next year. A local solar fabricator in Addis Ababa — Bereket Solar — will produce CooKit solar cookers by hand for the project. Towards the end of 2007 he will transfer his experience and knowledge to the women in rural areas so that they can make their own CooKits. Injera, a pancake-like bread, is a local staple that cannot be cooked with simple solar cookers. (It requires a 60-centimeter diameter pan and baking temperature of at least 220°C.) A research program is underway to find a solar method for baking injera. The present cooking culture does not permit introducing collective solar injera baking through a large bakery or otherwise. In the meantime, injera will continue to be baked three times per week on a fuel-efficient wood stove.
- March, 2006: The Eritrea solar cooker project organized by the foundation Solar Cooking Netherlands continues to spread solar cooking knowledge in the Anseba region. As of January 2006, women from eight villages in the region, who previously purchased CooKits, attend monthly classes to further their skills and work through any issues. SCN-KoZon hopes to extend these classes to 32 more villages in the region by the end of 2006. Local women are fabricating CooKits in the city of Keren. One hundred CooKits have been made, and more are in the works (pending re-supply of aluminum foil, which must be imported). According to SCN-KoZon representative Janine Pater, local fabrication is important: "This is a major step forward in accomplishing the objective that now, and in the future, everyone in Anseba will be in a position to buy and/or make a CooKit without restriction."
- November 2005: An Eritrea solar cooker project organized by the foundation Solar Cooking Eritrea Netherlands (SCEN) recently edged out 300 nominees to win an award for small-scale development projects. The award, presented by Dutch organizations the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO) and the Wild Geese Foundation, carries a monetary value of nearly $6,000. SCEN won based on project quality, thoroughness of the organization, efficient working methods, financial transparency, and the "for women, by women" aspect of the project. This year SCEN hopes to enable 4,500 families to solar cook with simple panel-type solar cookers based on Solar Cookers International's "CooKit." Thus far, 1,500 women have been trained, of which 700 have purchased CooKits for about $3.50 each. A new project coordinator, appointed by the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW), will organize future workshops and follow-up activities, and supervise a store where solar cookers are produced and sold. Project beneficiaries include low-income women in the Anseba region, and internally displaced persons in the Gash Barka zone. SCEN chairwoman Clara Thomas is currently organizing follow-up meetings with new solar cooks to collect feedback and discuss challenges and success. According to Ms. Thomas, evaluation and adaptation are essential. "In this way," she says, "a tradition of thousands of years of firewood cooking can be transformed to solar cooking with purely the sun as heat source." At least one woman in the Hagaz village seems already convinced. Of her experiences thus far, she says, "We prepare goat, rice, lentils and shiro in the CooKit and the taste is excellent!"
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Announcing the F# Compiler + Library Source Code Drop
Right in time for the first F# in Education Workshop in Boston, I'm very glad to announce that the long-awaited source code drop for an F# 2.0 compiler and core library are now available, as part of the F# PowerPack.
This release reinforces the commitment Microsoft are making to F#, including F# in Visual Studio. As explained in my PDC10 lecture The Future of F#, we have a clear vision for F#, indeed a ground-breaking one, and are investing in it, and we are deeply committed to shipping F# "in the box". That is the real focus of F#: a quality experience of functional programming in Visual Studio, and that is what our team are driven to achieve and what we work for.
To augment this, we are glad to be able to provide a compiler/library source drop. From an engineering perspective, we're doing this for one major reason: tool development - a source drop enables the F# community to develop and contribute a range of tools to the F# and Visual Studio ecosystem. These could be UI tools such as code visualizers, or editing tools such as refactorings, or new ways of executing, hosting or interpreting F# code, or indeed whole new F# editing experiences. There are also some secondary reasons for the source drop, in particular we understand the role that open source versions of languages can play in education and research circles, and as a result can give extra reach to a Microsoft-sponsored language technology. F# in particular has attracted interest from some of these communities, with keynotes at Eclipse Summit Europe, Splash/OOPSLA, JAOO and QCon, and numerous invitations to talk at universities.
This source code is under the Apache 2.0 license and is published as part of the F# PowerPack codeplex project, which is now also under the Apache 2.0 license. The F# PowerPack now includes libraries, tools and the compiler/library source code drops.
I'd like to take a moment to explain the F# team's approach to this. Firstly, the source for the F# compiler in our MSI/CTP releases has been available for some time, in the releases themselves, so in that sense there's not much new in this release. Secondly, we've always made sure we have a free download binary release of F# available, and will continue to do that, and that should still be the main way you "get" a release of F#. However, we've long discussed making compiler+library source available in a different way.
After some discussion, we've decided to do this via a "code drop" model, where we make available versions of the compiler+library code logically matching each release of the F# language itself. In the F# team, releases of F# are matched to coincide with releases of Visual Studio itself: using this release cadence simplifies our development processes and gives clarity to language versioning. This means the code we are making available today is for the F# 2.0 language, released in April 2010, including the small changes for the MSI tools updates through November 2010. We expect to make matching code drops if/when service pack(s) of Visual Studio 2010 are released, though sometimes it may take a while for us to get that out the door.
As this release is a code drop, it does not contain binaries. This means you still get F# from fsharp.net, so the place to "get" F# doesn't change with this release.
- To get or learn F# 2.0, or learn why F# is important, go to fsharp.net
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April 17, 1783, Colbert launches raid on Fort Carlos, Arkansas. About 2 a.m. on the morning of April 17, 1783, British Captain James Colbert, along with a group of 82 British partisans, launches a surprise attack on the Arkansas post of Fort Carlos (modern-day Gillett, in Desha County), located on the banks of the Arkansas River. The "Colbert Raid" was the only Revolutionary War action to take place in Arkansas.
Colbert launched the British attack on the Spanish-controlled fort in response to Spain's decision to side with the Americans during the revolution. Forty Spanish soldiers defended the fort with help from their Quapaw Indian allies. After a six-hour battle, Spanish Commander Jacobo Du Breuil ordered a sortie, which forced the retreat of the British contingent.
The raid took place nearly two months after America's preliminary peace treaty was signed with Great Britain, but word of the peace treaty did not reach either the British or American troops located in the Mississippi Valley until well after the raid. The area did not become part of the United States until 1803; in 1800, the Spanish ceded it to France and the French in turn sold it to Thomas Jefferson as part of Louisiana Purchase three years later.
The first European to recognize the value of this location, at the intersection of the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, had been a French trader, Henri de Tonty. In 1686, he established the Poste de Arkansea near a Quapaw Indian village in the area.
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Robert Wallace: Spycraft
Robert Wallace, the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, discusses his new book Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda.
Spycraft tells the story of how technology that would not appear in the public marketplace until decades later was often used to further the American intelligence-gathering cause. The book traces the development of spy gear from secret writing and bugging devices to subminiature cameras and covert internet communications.
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30 Winners to be Recognized at the Pre-Game Ceremony of the 2013 MLB All-Star Game on July 16th on FOX and A Winner to be Featured in 'PEOPLE'; Nominations Accepted Beginning Today at TributeforHeroes.com
Major League Baseball and PEOPLE magazine today announced the "Tribute for Heroes" campaign, a national initiative that recognizes veterans and military service members and builds upon both organizations' commitment to honoring our country's heroes. Beginning today and running through May 17th, fans are encouraged to visit TributeforHeroes.com to nominate an active or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States or Canada for the chance to represent their favorite MLB team at the 2013 All-Star Game.
Once all the nominations are reviewed, three veterans/military service members per Club (90 finalists) will be selected by MLB, PEOPLE, and a celebrity panel of judges, who will be announced at a later date. Fans will then be encouraged to vote online from June 9th through June 30th for their Club favorite. All 30 winners, one representing each MLB Club, will be announced on July 10th. They will be included in All-Star Week festivities and recognized during the All-Star pre-game ceremony leading up to the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field on July 16th on FOX. A "Tribute for Heroes" winner will be featured in PEOPLE magazine the week of the MLB All-Star Game.
The "Tribute For Heroes" campaign will support Welcome Back Veterans (welcomebackveterans.org, powered by MLB.com), an initiative of Major League Baseball and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, which addresses the needs of veterans after they return from service. Major League Baseball has committed more than $23 million for grants to hospitals and clinics that provide post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatment to veterans and their families in a public/private partnership with "Centers of Excellence" at university hospitals throughout the country.
As part of its 2013 charity initiative, "PEOPLE First: Help America's Veterans," PEOPLE magazine is partnering with Welcome Back Veterans and three other nonprofit organizations that are committed to providing assistance to military men and women, and will feature them in multiple editorial stories in PEOPLE throughout 2013.
"It is our privilege to honor the returning veterans and active military service members who risked and continue to risk their lives to protect our great nation," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. "Major League Baseball is proud to use the national stage of the Midsummer Classic to celebrate the courage and sacrifices made by our Veterans and active military service members."
"For close to 40 years, PEOPLE has told stories of everyday heroes whose acts of courage, commitment, strength, and compassion have changed the lives of others," said PEOPLE Managing Editor Larry Hackett. "PEOPLE is thrilled to be part of 'Tribute for Heroes,' a campaign that gives back to the brave men and women who have served in the military." PEOPLE Publisher Karen Kovacs adds: "We are excited to continue our partnership with MLB, an organization that shares PEOPLE's commitment to recognizing the selfless work of everyday individuals across the country. We encourage all fans and readers to nominate a veteran in their community."
Currently, Welcome Back Veterans funds programs at The University of Michigan, Rush University Medical Center, Duke University, Emory University, Weill Cornell in New York City, UCLA and the Boston Red Sox' Home Base Program at Mass General Hospital in Boston. These institutions are developing new programs and strategies to improve the quality, quantity and access to PTSD and TBI treatment for veterans, particularly those returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.


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Letter to the Editor: Antics of school officials disturbing
As a former teacher in the parish, I am disgusted by the antics and actions of the Lafayette Parish School Board through the leadership of the board chair and superintendent. These individuals are selected and elected to lead our schools — one through policy and the other through direct supervision. Their behavior has indicated that they are more interested in selling our schools to charters, rather than supporting the teachers they manage.
Our school board denied several charter school applications; however, Superintendent Pat Cooper undermined their decision by testifying on behalf of these charter schools. This is rank insubordination. This is not the first time this superintendent subverts the authority of the board.
The superintendent should recognize his role as a subordinate to the majority decision of the board; however, he has been given a ticket to be willfully insubordinate because of the inaction of the minority.
The board chair's votes indicate an inability to follow the will of his electors. It seems that he does not recognize the disproportionate representation of African-American males in the central office. He has sold out his community by his inability to recognize a need for new leadership in the superintendent's chair. Shame on the board members that buy the nonsense that the superintendent is selling!
Pat Cooper has violated board policies, yet board members, most specifically the chair, have turned a blind eye to these improprieties.
There is much talk about voters taking action during the election. It is my hope the voters oust Shelton Cobb in an effort to bring their voice back to the boardroom. This will give the board the votes it needs to oust Cooper and bring in a visionary.
I hope that the board gives Katie Landry the opportunity to clean up the mess and destruction brought by Pat Cooper and his unprofessional deputy, Sandra Billeaudeau.
Jamal Taylor


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After two close-call finishes, Gary and Will's Amazing Race luck ran out Sunday when they were eliminated after initially taking the wrong way to the Pit Stop. "We weren't close at all, but we knew we had to keep trying until Phil [Keoghan] told us we were eliminated," Will tells TVGuide.com. The self-professed super-fans of the Race are disappointed they didn't put up a better showing for fellow die-hards, but the substitute teachers say they are proud of one thing.
Amazing Race's Caitlin and Brittany: We still don't understand how we got so lostThat wasn't a very suspenseful finish like last week since you guys had to go back to take the boat to the Pit Stop.
Gary: Yeah, we were maybe 30 minutes behind [Trey and Lexi]. We knew we were far behind because when we saw them at the boat landing, they were nice enough to let us know the taxi driver had sent us to the wrong side of the river, so we had to take the boat back and take another boat back to where we are, and that took a while. How did you bypass the boat ride section?
Gary: The clue was very interesting. The top part said, "Make your way to the next Pit Stop at the boat landing." The middle part said you must go to a certain side of the river, take a boat across the river, then walk to the Pit Stop. We had shown our cab driver the clue. We had folded it because the important information was the middle paragraph ... so he would just see that section. However, at one point, he got out of the taxi to ask for directions and we think he unfolded the clue and showed someone the top part of the clue, which just say go to the Pit Stop, so that's how we ended up driving to the wrong side of the river.Do you think it was that that did you in or choosing the cotton Detour since you did pass Trey and Lexi on the road?
Will: The cotton did take a bit of time. I think that's when Trey and Lexi ultimately passed us up since they did iron. But we don't know the time frame on the iron either. The mattress did take a lot of time, but I thought we kept a good pace on it. Ultimately, we were so far behind from the Roadblock that it hurt us. We were responsible for our own demise.Gary: Yeah, and we took that taxi to the Pit Stop.Why did you have so much trouble with the Roadblock?
Gary: Well, it was 101 degrees in Bangladesh that day. I know how to use the [putty] to repair the bus ... but I had to scrape it off and start it over twice. It wasn't the best surface to put it on. But it was what everybody else had to work with too. I wasn't the only who had difficulty with that.Will: I think they were doing it a different way Gary was used to working with it.Gary: It took probably two and a half hours. It was quite humid and quite oppressive, but it was something we all had to do.Did you think you could make another comeback after your past two finishes?
Will: We definitely thought we were still in it when we passed Trey and Lexi. We just kept trucking and hoped we would beat them. At some point, they passed us, but we didn't see that.
Amazing Race's Amy and Daniel: The stars weren't aligned for usIt was nice of them to tell you the right direction about the boat since they could've easily screwed with you.
Will: Yeah, they were very helpful to us on the Race.Gary: Trey is a great guy. All the teams — they are all fantastic. I mean, Amy and Daniel set up an organization for disabled athletes. We were helping back and forth with Trey and Lexi the whole time. I gave him one of my shirts because he needed one. We exchanged food at one point. We tried to be positive with all the teams.Rob and Sheila told me you guys had an alliance and they were upset that you broke it when you didn't tell them where the abacus was.
Will: At the time, we thought maybe Rob and Sheila and us were the last two teams, and we didn't really want to race them head-to-head, so we figured we shouldn't tell them where the clue was. It's a race, you know? We had an alliance, but if it's just us two left, we're not going to let them beat us by telling them where the clue was. We love them, but we couldn't tell them when we didn't know if we were last or not. When there's no danger of elimination, you can keep up that alliance, but the rules go out when you don't know.Gary: If we had known the Chippendales were still out there, we would've definitely told Rob and Sheila where the clue was.A lot of fans are upset that you didn't run to the Pit Stop on the second leg.
Will: What happened was, at the bull race, Gary got hurt, and his foot was swollen. I told him to get medical attention, but he was so afraid to ask for medical attention because he thought it would get us thrown out of the Race, so he couldn't run. We couldn't run through the market area.Gary: We didn't want to give medical any chance to hold us back. I kept my foot on ice at the hotel. I slept with my shoe on, so it wouldn't swell up. We're bikers, so we had this thing called biofreeze, which I kept on my foot so I wouldn't feel anything. We're not making excuses, but it did hurt quite a bit.Did that affect you the next two legs?
Gary: A little bit. It was better because we had a longer Pit Stop.
Amazing Race's Rob and Sheila: We got screwed overAs super-fans, how disappointing is it to go out early?
Gary: We wanted to win for ourselves, but we really wanted to win for all the people who love the show. It was the ultimate experience of my life. The Race is so much harder in person than it is on TV. The hardest part is going from Point A to Point B. You don't understand all that's involved in going from one place to another.Will: We are extremely proud that we treated all the locals well. We stuck to their cultures, we stuck to their lifestyle. It's not their responsibility to speak English; it's our responsibility to communicate with them as best we can, whether with signs or in their language, because we're in their country. We were very generous with our money too. Gary: Yeah, the average wage in Bangladesh is like $600 a year. The money we gave them might have helped them out for a month, I don't know. The people in Indonesia and Bangladesh had smiles on their faces and were laughing. They were making the best of a really horrible economic situation. Even though we couldn't speak their language, there is a universal language of smiling and nodding your head and giving thumbs up. Will: Yeah, and I mean, the taxicab drivers aren't racing for $1 million dollars. I think people forget that. Our pedicab driver in Indonesia was an older gentleman and we just kept handing him money and hopefully that made up for all the hard work he did for us.You pre-paid him before he dropped you off at the Pit Stop.
Gary: Yeah, as we were racing the girls, I just kept reaching in and giving him more money, I guess, as an incentive to go faster and as a way to thank him for busting his butt to get us to the Pit Stop. He really busted his butt for us and that finish was even closer than how it appeared.What are you up to now?
Will: We're still depressed that we're no longer on the show! [Laughs]Gary: At the school I'm teaching at now, the kids really got behind the show. We had Amazing Race Friday before the premiere. Every week, we talk about it. I'm really happy I'm in this profession where we can talk about it and they can learn about the world.


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Gothenburg, Sweden, 12 April 2016: SKF has introduced its new Lincoln SL-32HV high-vent injectors for applications requiring faster venting. In addition, these injectors provide improved functionality in cold temperatures and enable the use of heavier greases.
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Designed as an educational device, the Raspberry Pi has fast-become one of the hottest pieces of tech this year. It's small but mighty, packing the power of a Pentium 4 into a credit card-sized unit.
The Raspberry Pi includes 256MB RAM, USB, LAN and HDMI ports and an SD card slot. Running Linux, it can be used for word-processing, software-writing or even server-hosting. Not bad for the cost of a takeaway.
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Who Won the Week: Duke, UC Irvine and Texas (sorta) …Posted by Kenny Ocker on December 21st, 2012
Who Won the Week? is a regular column that will outline and discuss three winners and losers from the previous week. The author of this column is Kenny Ocker (@KennyOcker), an Oregon-based sportswriter best known for his willingness to drive (or bike!) anywhere to watch a basketball game.
WINNER: Duke
The week couldn't have gone much more perfectly for the Blue Devils than it did. Achieve top ranking? Check. Land a top recruit? Check. Win both games handily? Check and check. Yes, Duke should probably send some flowers to Butler for knocking off preseason favorite Indiana, but who would have looked at the two teams before Saturday and thought the Hoosiers were better? Outside of the state of Indiana, I'm guessing few would. The Blue Devils (11-0) have the nation's best body of work, and have dominated it in such a fashion that they look to be the nation's top team convincingly, and this is before prized prospect Jabari Parker picked Mike Krzyzewski's squad over Michigan State and BYU. On the court, Mason Plumlee, who has led Duke in rebounding 10 times so far, carried his team to an 88-47 win over Cornell with 18 points and nine rebounds Wednesday and followed that up the next night with 21 points and 15 boards in a 76-54 win over Elon. And as an added bonus, the youngest Plumlee, freshman Marshall, already made a brief return to the court against Cornell coming back from a foot injury.
(Related winners: Mason Plumlee, Butler. Related losers: Indiana, Michigan State, BYU, Cornell, Elon, and especially North Carolina – more to come.)
LOSER: Eastern Kentucky
The Ohio Valley's Colonels started their season off hot, winning nine straight games before a weekend matchup at also-undefeated Illinois. The major-conference team expectedly pulled Eastern Kentucky apart, winning 66-53, but it was what happened next that wrapped up a bad week in Richmond, Ky. On a rare road trip to a MEAC school, the Colonels were tripped up by North Carolina A&T, who pounded the ball inside while shooting 55 percent from the field and stifling Eastern Kentucky's guard-oriented offense by holding it to 40 percent shooting. The Bulldogs also nearly doubled up the Colonels on the glass, sealing the game. So much for a hot start.
(Related winners: North Carolina A&T, the 457 Bulldogs fans who watched the game in person. Related losers: Murray State and the Ohio Valley Conference, which both need every break they can get come March.)


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