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I know it’s still October, but I’m missing my kids and I have Thanksgiving on my mind. It’s no secret that I love to cook, and I especially love to cook for other people, so I’m already planning the menu and counting down until Thanksgiving break!
It’s funny that even though Thanksgiving dinner is a really huge deal for most of us, it’s one of those meals where people have definite taste expectations. My own family is pretty adventurous in their eating, but if I try something really different for Thanksgiving, there is often a sense of disappointment…”but where are the regular mashed potatoes…”, or “what’s with the apples in the stuffing…?” So I try to not stray too far from our traditional dishes. I’m guilty of it myself. I’ve tried millions of stuffing recipes and although I’ve found some really good ones, on the big day, I really prefer the version I grew up with – onions, celery, and carrots with regular old white bread. So I’ll probably take a chance and make my Curried Sweetpotato Bisque, for a special starter, but mostly I try to get creative with my appetizers. They’re kind of like the little jewels on the crown of Thanksgiving dinner. This one is pretty, and perfect for nibbling on between any football games and dinner. It features sweet, ripe pears, which are a favorite fall fruit, and Montasio Cheese, which as I mentioned in my last post, is my new favorite, imported Italian cheese.
I’ve seen recipes for fancy Parmesan crisps using melted and baked Parmesan cheese, and since Montasio is a similar hard cheese, I decided to experiment with using it to make a basket shaped tartlet to hold some sweet pears. I’m happy to say this cheese worked perfectly! I love the mild flavor and savory, spiciness of this cheese with the pears. Can’t wait for Thanksgiving!
Line a baking pan with a Silpat silicone baking mat. Set aside a mini muffin tray.
Shred 2 oz of the cheese in a food processor fitted with a shredding blade. Pour cheese into a bowl and set aside. Change blade to chopping blade and grate remaining 2 oz of cheese. Add 1/2 tsp chopped rosemary and process until cheese and rosemary are finely grated and incorporated. Mix all cheese together and combine well.
Working in batches, 4-6 at a time, place 1 1/2 Tbs cheese mixture in mounds on the Silpat, and lightly press down with the back of a spoon until even thickness, about 2" rounds. Bake for 6-8 minutes or until cheese is melted and just starting to turn golden at the edges.
Remove from oven, and let cheese cool for 30 seconds or so, just to set. Working quickly, lay one round of cheese over the muffin tin opening, and gently press in to make a basket/tartlet shape. Repeat with remaining rounds. Let cool, and gently remove cheese tartlets from the muffin tin. Repeat with remaining cheese.
Set aside cheese tartlets to cool.
In a saute pan, melt butter, and add chopped pears, honey, nutmeg and rosemary sprig. Saute until pears are soft and slightly caramelized. Remove from heat, and let cool a bit.
Remove rosemary sprig from pears. Spoon 1 tsp of pear mixture into each tartlet.
Sprinkle with a few chopped pistachios.
When making the cheese tartlets, work in small batches, as the melted cheese will set up quickly. Tartlet shells can be made several hours in advance and kept in an airtight container. Fill with pears just before serving.
Have you started to plan your Thanksgiving menu yet?

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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I have a short-term project. Can I rent the hardware needed to use Canvas?
Our Total Set-Up Package can be rented for 2 weeks at a time, at a cost of $100 plus shipping. This includes all of the hardware you need to scan spaces with Canvas, delivered pre-assembled and ready-to-scan.
If you decide to keep the rental hardware (which would be the same as our Total Set-Up Package), your rental fee will be credited toward your purchase. To schedule a rental, please email support@canvas.io with your desired dates.
The Canvas Rental Program is a new program we are piloting for homeowners (who typically would only need to scan their house once), multi-location projects (where you might want to send the hardware to someone in another city or state to do the scans), and short-term projects. You'll receive everything you need in one box, delivered ready-to-scan.
The cost of the rental is $100 for 2 weeks (plus shipping both ways). A deposit of $699 will be charged against your credit card, and then refunded once all equipment is returned in good condition.
The iPad will come pre-assembled and professionally calibrated — all you'll need to do is install the Canvas app! You get to skip to Step 4 of our Getting Started with Canvas guide (and watching our scanning tutorial video).
We still strongly recommend doing some practice scans before you take Canvas on a live project, so that you can get comfortable with scanning technique, how to break up rooms, etc. when you're not under pressure at a job site. Please note that the Scan To CAD service is not included in the price of the rental. For more information on Scan To CAD, please read: What is Scan To CAD?
If you had a great experience and want to keep the hardware: awesome! We can simply charge your card for a Total Set-Up Package ($799), net of any rental fees and return shipping paid, and it is yours to keep.
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Important: While we always conduct quality checks on every unit we send out via rental, this does mean that you are purchasing previously used hardware. Since the rental fee goes to our costs for shipping, logistics, kitting, etc, we are in effect giving you $100 off because it is used.
Rentals are subject to hardware availability, so you may need to wait for a unit to be ready. The fastest way to get the hardware required for Canvas is always buying directly from canvas.io, where you can typically expect delivery within a few days. Rentals are also only currently available within the United States.
To schedule a rental, please email support@canvas.io with your desired dates.

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Sinotruk CNG/LNG trucks & Sinotruk CNG/LNG Tractor Truck_Shanghai Tairan_Weichai engine,Weichai power,D‘long SHAANXI,HOWO SINOTRUK,North BENZ,Foton AUMAN!
The headquarters of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd. (CNHTC) is located in Jinan city, Shandong Province, P. R. China. It is the cradle and leading production base of the heavy-duty truck industry in China. It is famous for developing and manufacturing the first heavy duty truck -- “HUANGHE” brand vehicle model JN150 in China, for successful introducing the “STEYR” heavy duty truck production project, and for setting up a joint venture with VOLVO to manufacture the heavy duty trucks with up-to-date international level.
CNHTC was founded on the basis of Jinan Automobile Works (JAW). JAW was founded in 1935, and mainly manufactured spare parts of trucks. It started developed and manufactured heavy-duty truck in 1956 and became a manufacturer of heavy-duty truck in China. -- “HUANGHE” brand vehicle model JN150 with payload 8 tons in April 1963, ended the history that heavy-duty truck cannot be manufactured in China. Chairman Mao Zedong visited this sample truck when he surveyed Jinan on April 4th, 1963. Commander Zhude signed the name of “HUANGHE” for this truck. Since then, CNHTC manufactured several hundred thousand units of heavy-duty trucks, made an important contribution to the developing of civil economy.
At present, CNHTC has Jinan Truck Co., Ltd., Jinan Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., Jinan Power Co., Ltd., Jinan Axle Co. Ltd., Jinan Special Vehicle Co., Ltd., Jinan Bus Co., Ltd, and Huawo Truck Co., Ltd. in Jinan Area for manufacturing and assembling of truck CBU, manufacturing and processing of engine, axle, gearbox, wheel, propeller shaft, cab trimming, seat and so on components and parts, and producing and manufacturing task of bus and special vehicle. In Shandong Area, there are Qingdao Special Vehicle Company, Taian Wuyue Special Vehicle Company, Jining Refitting Vehicle Company and Jinan Park Machine Company for manufacturing of special trucks and refitting trucks. Out of Shandong, there are Hangzhou Truck Engine Works of Jinan Power Co., Ltd., Chongqing Fuel Pump & Nozzle Factory and so on. The Technical Development Center at the Jinan headquarters, which is a state level enterprise technical center, supplies powerful technical support for the R & D of CNHTC’s products. Besides, CNHTC also has been managing subsidiaries such as real estate company, import & export company, Hong Kong company, finance company, Xinhai vouching company, and property management company etc. CNHTC also possesses a listed company, namely, A stock “G CNHTC”.
In Jan. 18th, 2001, through a number of reforms and restructures, CNHTC has built a new corporate system and made the company operate actively.
Since reformation and reorganization, CNHTC has raised its sales profit from CNY 6.2 billion to 23 billion Yuan. The production and selling of truck CUB raised from 7000 to 45000, the market share was improved from less than 4% to 18% and reached three “Number one” in China: number one in the segment of heavy tractors sold in China, number one in the segment of large power engine (>300hp) sold in China and number one in the segment of heavy duty truck equipped with engine (more than 10 liter) in China. In 2005, under the descending condition of production and selling for heavy-duty truck domestically, CNHTC still kept increase properly, and promoted its market possession for 4%, the sales amount reached 150 million USD.
In July 15th, 2005, the “Top 500” in the mechanical companies in China was announced and CNHTC ranked 17th. And in “Top 500 of large-size” in mechanical companies, it ranked 15th. From 2004 to 2005, several national leaders, Mr. Wu Bangguo, Mr. Wang Zhaoguo, Ms. Wuyi have visited CNHTC in succession, they all praised the development of CNHTC and put forward ardent expectation.
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Weichai Power ("Weichai Power" or "the Company"),is founded by Weifang Diesel Engine Factory together with domestic and foreign investors.

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text: Whether its and upcoming new band or a cover band. We can help you create the best video to capture your memories. We can capture a video from both an aerial perspective as well as a ground perspective. We will then process the video to the template that you prefer or custom template that we can design for you. The finished product will be an incredible video that you can share as a corporate presentation for marketing purposes or a fabulous video that you can tuck away for future use.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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This project is about extinction of flowers because of the lack of pollination by bees. Here, our hero bee is traveling from one flower to another while carrying pollens from flower and matching it with right flower type to get point and to survive.
Celissa, who seeks for a change in her life, is now on a challenge.
Protect the last species of a group of living being by moving your one or more fingers away from outer threats on order to maintain its race. Move them into the vortex to teleport to another level. Whenever the group of species come across a threat, the group will be parted onto two. Protect them as much as you can. Otherwise the living beings will face extinction!

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Eat the Rainbow color chart will get your child thinking about how different foods come in different colors! This is a fun way to teach healthy eating habits and maybe even encourage a new food to try. That’s a win-win!
While not pictured, this post contains a free Eat the Rainbow activity printable. Be sure to grab it at the end of the post!
Sound familiar? I am certain I hear this phrase more than I can count. If only I got a dollar every time. So my response back?
I want my children to have this phrase in their mind as they begin to make choices on their own. I also want my children to understand which foods help their bodies grow and which foods help their minds think.
This means that although my children enjoy cookies and treats, they also enjoy red peppers and apples.
So sometimes, it may take this small conversation starter to get them on their way.
Remember that even the most basic exposure to new and healthy foods have a huge impact on your success as you teach healthy eating habits to your preschooler. So what seems like a small and simple conversation starter to the adult has a positive impact on the child. So don’t skip this step.
Talking to your child about food will teach healthy eating habits!
We keep this chart up in our kitchen as great visual and it takes seconds to make. I also keep this concept in mind when I am packing for a long car trip or school lunch.
Remember, you can grab a printer friendly version at the end of this post and then you have a copy ready for each day!
For this preschool activity, your child will take a look on their color chart to discover new foods for snacks. They will also have fun checking off the colors as they go throughout the day.
This step makes them feel like big kids, but also helps them feel like they have control over their choices, even though there is going to be some strong encouragement from a parent or caregiver.
For prep, I simply found a large piece of white poster paper.
Next, I drew colored squares with boxes to check off beside them. I made sure we had some different colors in our refrigerator and pantry.
When I first introduced this activity, our fridge was not fully stocked, yet we were still able to find foods that matched our needs, so don’t think this activity can only be done after a grocery haul.
When my preschooler asked for a snack, I shared the Eat the Rainbow chart with him and gave him a small overview of the colors we have already eaten that day.
And guess what he picked? A carrot. Score!
Now initially, he was determined to have Pirate Booty. And I get that! I love some Pirate Booty myself.
But I was able to steer him in a different direction once I introduced the Eat the Rainbow color chart.
With a little redirection, he made a healthier food choice. Sure, he came back for Pirate Booty later in the day, but I also knew that he snuck in some vitamin A and antioxidants beforehand.
The goal? Having children internalize this so that it begins to become their every day thinking with independent food choices.
You will love having this Eat the Rainbow color chart on your fridge. It really is such a fun and inviting way to teach preschoolers healthy eating habits.
It is a great reminder to myself, and my children to keep our eating habits balanced. It also helps our children make independent decisions on their food choices without our restriction. Like I said. It’s a win-win for everyone!
Want a FREE Printable of this Eat the Rainbow Activity?
It’s s cinch to make a chart of your own, but if you’d like a printer-friendly version, you can grab it by clicking the image below.
Looking for More Food & Nutrition Printables?
Here are a few more ideas for you to teach healthy eating habits! You can use these for circle time or for your Food and Nutrition preschool centers.
Even More Food & Nutrition Activities!
So many fun activities to choose from, all to help with your preschool lesson plans!


text: Trench by ASOS DESIGN, Its the return of the mac, Fully lined, Notch lapels, Double-breasted press-stud fastening, Removable self-tie belt to cinch in the waist, Functional pockets, Regular fit, A standard cut for a classic shape. Giving you the confidence to express your individuality, ASOS DESIGN interprets major trends, adding a unique ASOS spin from our London design team. All the denim, dresses, jackets and pieces you need - including our fit ranges ASOS Curve, Tall, Petite and Maternity and our ASOS DESIGN Makeup collection - to invent a style that's all yours, then switch it up again tomorrow, making every day, night and everything in-between as extraordinary as you are. Your life is eclectic and unexpected and, now, so is your wardrobe.

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text: The final St. Jacobi concert before their Christmas concert will be November 9th at 4 PM. It will feature Michiyo Tanaka and the Praise in the Wind Singers. St. Jacobi is on 4th Avenue at 54th Street, and the concerts are free and open to the public.


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After creating a simple Maybe monad in Ruby, a colleaque noticed I could have just used try (I wasn’t aware try supports blocks). I think the method was even meant for such cases.
If any of the expressions params, build_query, run_query etc. returns nil, the chain is halted and nil is returned. It still throws exceptions if a values is not nil and method does not exist, which is just like it should.
This simplistic implementation (unlike Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(object)) doesn’t handle cycles in objects.
Where it says: without loading a bunch of records should say: without loading a bunch of columns/attributes Considering that record usually is a row.
Note that the version of leente and timdorr are probably vulnerable to SQL Injection (through attribute param).
Probably you want to look into with_lock instead of handcrafting SQL.
this means that a list of arguments is automatically converted to an array. There is no typo in the description above.
although the select method interprets this as a single argument, and places it into an array (due to the splat operator), this is then passed to the _select(*fields) method, which immediately calls fields.flatten!
So either a list or an array may be passed, both will work.
The above example would have given us the countries sorted by name in descending sequence.
3rd example is a trap.
error when an unsupported type is requested.
If the result returned from the block is an Integer, the output will include a message about that number of “rows” in addition to the elapsed time.
#=> "-- Some complex, custom work"
#=> "   -> 52880 rows"
So I can find it when I look next time.
So that next time I look I find it.
A 404 error for the favicon will be thrown on pages where there is no layout if there isn’t a favicon in the public folder.
A situation would be when a controller method is used to render an image and the user chooses to open the image in a new tab bypassing the layout and the favicon_link_tag.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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today i bought a geforce 6800gt ddr3 256mb and im testing it, but i have a little problem.
I have p4 3.2 1500 ram ddr 400 geforce6800 and a power supply of 450W. Minimun requirements for geforce = power supply 300W or higher.
I need to buy another power supply????
Your SAI (UPS) will need to be replaced with a bigger model. The computer is fine and card are fine. They are just drawing a little too much power from the SAI.
I find it hard to believe that a 450 watt power supply can't handle a 6800Gt in that build of PC.
I survive quite happily with my BFG 6800GT o/c in a similar setup with a 350 watt p/s that came with my Antec case.
How many beeps do you get, or is it constant?Do UPS power supplies have more stingent operating limits before they complain?
Yes but the Antec PSU's outperform many of the other cheaper brands even when they have a lower rated output. Antec is a very good brand...a few others...but lots of **** on the market.
My 330W Antec TruPower is rated better than contemporary 400W supplies by reviewers. Go figure.
I had the same problem whith my "450w" psu when i bought my 5900xt. The problem is that the stated power rating is the output acheived at room temp not at the normal operating temp of 40-50c!
You could either buy a nice expensive psu which will last for years or buy buy a "cheap and nasty" 600w which will run enough watts for a couple of years.
The beep is from SAI, im sure. Only beep when im playing PF, americas, desktop, etc... works excellent. The SAI =400VA/240W.
First ill try other power supply from a friend.
I had to go up to 550w.....Happy with it now though. Good luck!


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No, not Bruce Wayne. We mean Mr. Bruce who helped our friends Jamin and Ashley Mills from The Handmade Home. After purchasing a 40 year old home, the Mills (logically) elected to have the home’s HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system and ductwork checked. Mr. Bruce, who you can see working on the system, has been in the heating and AC repair and maintenance business, coincidentally, 40 years. Was it serendipity?
He was totally amazing. He’s kind of our new best friend, Ashley expressed on her and Jamin’s blog, The Handmade Home. She said that Bruce was a good sport and let the Mills gang take pictures of him while he checked their home’s heating and air conditioning system. Looks to us like he was having fun.
As we expect all of our NATE-certified technicians to do, Bruce took his time to explain everything, and if he wasn’t certain they understood, the Mills said he carefully explained it again.
Just like the Mills, a vast amount of homeowners have to make choices that affect their heating and A/C systems, beyond which system to buy, such as (like the Mills) when [buying|purchasing|investing in]30] a home, do you keep the existing system, or does it need to be replaced?
While Bruce wasn’t able to provide answers that were all happy and rainbows, he was candid and explained that the decisions made when choosing which heating and A/C system to install in your home affects your indoor air quality and the health of your kiddos (and their lungs!).
Bruce made us proud when he helped the Mills family with their recent AC safety inspection and tune-up service. If you have an older system you want to upgrade, have concerns about your indoor air quality, or want a seasonal tune-up, call Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning today and we’ll get you set up with one of our stellar technicians, just like Bruce!

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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It was a busy weekend for Harry Potter and Young Adult book lovers at the UK’s Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC), hosted at London’s Film and Comic Con. YALC is now in its third year, with authors Katherine Webber and Katherine Woodfine coordinating the three-day convention in association with charity BookTrust and London Film and Comic Con.
The program kicked off on Friday, July 29, with a day packed full with events. There is so much going on at YALC with a jam-packed scheduled of panels, workshops, agent arena events, and signings, that it can be hard to pick what to go to! It’s impossible, without the use of a Time-Turner, to get to everything, so choices have to be made. It’s great there’s such a diverse range of events over the weekend – there really is something for everyone.
Here are some of my panel and workshop highlights.
Author Patrick Ness was in conversation with Sarah Shaffi and young actor Lewis MacDougall, who stars in the upcoming adaptation of Ness’s novel, A Monster Calls. This was a great insight into the making of the film and the way that the book was brought to life by the creative team. The audience was also shown a trailer for the film, whetting our appetites until the film comes out (fall in the US and New Year’s Day in the UK).
This workshop gave us a chance to think about classics we love in a different way and focus on the characters whose stories aren’t told and should be given a chance to tell their side of the story. It was great fun to see what characters everyone came up with – there was a wide range of characters discussed from Argus Filch and Ginny Weasley to the witch in Hansel and Gretel.
This was a fantastic panel featuring a range of YA authors talking about female friendships in their books and the importance of representing these in fiction. This was an inspiring panel, complete with an all-important poll to see how many members of the audience were Team Taylor and who was Team Kardashian! There was also plenty of discussion on feminism and lots of embarrassing stories shared.
A jet-lagged David Levithan and Nina LaCour took to the stage to talk about their recently released collaboration, You Know Me Well. This was an inspiring panel, with talk about what inspired the book, San Francisco pride week, LGBT YA fiction, and much more.
This was a new event for YALC and represented a range of YA authors and audience members who had signed up to take part by reading their own poetry. The range of poetry on offer was remarkable, and some of the first-time readers wowed the audience with their poised performances.
This was a great discussion between an author and her agent about the process of taking a book from an early draft to publication. It was clear that there was a fantastic relationship between Meredith and Danielle, and they were both very open and honest and willing to answer many questions from the engaged audience.
On Sunday, July 31, it was great to see everyone embracing the Harry Potter theme, celebrating the Boy Who Lived’s birthday, and taking part in MuggleNet’s Harry Potter Party, a day jam-packed with activities. There were many activities going on throughout the day, including Potions Making with YA author Melinda Salisbury and hunt the Snitches and fantastic beasts, which were hidden around the YALC floor.
We also had a What Harry Means to Us wall, which was completely covered in messages by the end of the weekend and showcased all the reasons why we fell in love with Harry.
The day concluded with our Potter party on the main stage, with some party games, a cosplay competition (complete with a special guest), and a quiz.
The weekend ended with the awarding of the annual House Cup, which was shared between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
Congratulations, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw! Until next year, then… who will claim the cup in 2017?
Overall, the weekend was incredibly inspiring. It’s so great to see book lovers out in force, celebrating everything they love about reading and writing. It was clear to see that YALC is one big community, full of a diverse range of people who love books and want to celebrate that.
Were you at YALC? What was your highlight of the weekend? Let us know in the comments!
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into the woods, living deliberately: Who's Your Teacher?
This morning I was talking with my friend Pollyanna. We've known each other since our first kids were babies. Jake was less than 6 months old and her daughter was nearly 2 months old. I had specifically chosen a playgroup of first time moms with babies who were younger than Jake. I knew already that something was different about my son, and the longer we could "look normal" while I figured out what was wrong, the better. Of course the playgroup was all girls, and they all passed him by in a matter of months, but by that time I had somehow managed to rope in a few women to be my friends, in spite of my different, but beautiful boy. While I don't see all of those women now, I know that in addition to Pollyanna, I could probably call at least two of them right now and they would help me if they could. It was, for the most part, a great group of people.
So, of course our first children are all the same age, and should be going into the same grades, etc. When I was talking with Pollyanna, I had to ask what grade her daughter was going into. Perhaps if I were a better friend, I would know these things, but mostly, I realized, I should know because my son should be going into the same grade, or it should be close, maybe he should be in the grade above hers. I should be at least as accurate as to be within 2 years...and I had no idea; just couldn't come up with it without asking, or starting to do some math, or counting all of Jake's teachers, which would just put me in a dark place because I am still not over kindergarten.
And while my conversation was such a nice welcome home after so many days away from my community, my tribe, after I hung up I was melancholy. A piece of my heart, in spite of being so full of joy it could burst, was sad. This has nothing to do with Pollyanna, or either of her beautiful, talented children... in fact I should celebrate the problem I have... I will never need to worry about what grade Jake is going into ever again; as long as he stays at WunderSkool, it will never matter. He may change classrooms, and certainly, at eighteen or so he will switch to the adult program, but as long as he is a part of that program, it just won't matter. All that matters there is his development, his needs, his growth, his happiness; the things that are important.
So why the frowny face jennyalice?
Markers, milestones, certification, progress checks... they are those bits of childhood that made our parents proud, or got us grounded. The little slips of paper in the mail from the state, "Your child is gifted." or "Your child meets the state standards for reading." There was the "N" for "needs improvement" I received erroneously in second grade, right before spring break, which made me lose my sh*t so badly that I cried all the way home on the bus (having looked at my report card even though you weren't supposed to look at it before your parents did...). That little "N" made me so upset that my dad, who was somehow home, and not at work, drove me back to school so he could speak with my teacher who thankfully was still there. Those report cards, checking the list on the wall the week before school started to see who your teacher would be, the anticipation of a new desk...shopping for school supplies and back-to-school fashionable clothing purchases... I don't really need to worry about any of that for Jake. None of it.
I buy clothes in the fall because he normally has grown so much over the summer it's a necessity. I clean out his backpack and lunch box, because they are filthy, but he's been using the same backpack and lunch box since I put him on that little yellow short bus 7 years ago. He will go to the same classroom, at the same school, for a very long time, and he can't even tell me if he has apprehension about the one new thing he'll have tomorrow... the bus driver.
I'm not grieving really. I'm not feeling all that left out. I just noticed. I noticed that we are different at our house, again. Even in the simplest ways, our house will continue to run differently than other houses with kids the same age. And while we will go through many of these little things with Jake's little sister, we aren't racing to Target today to get Jake a pencil case, and some wide-ruled paper.


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RGN - Mingaladon Airport (RGN) 7.8 miles from Yangon, MM.
There is 1 airport in Yangon. Mingaladon Airport (RGN) is Yangon’s primary airport with at least domestic flights and international flights departing from its runways every week. As of today, airlines operate out of Mingaladon Airport (RGN). Mingaladon Airport (RGN) is 7.8 miles from Yangon and offers nonstop flights to cities.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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Emily's Blog: Goodbye 2012 and Hello 2013!
So it is that time, that the year 2012 has ended. It is a time to reflect on what I have done in that year and make achievements for the coming year. For me 2012 was a great year. I have done so many things I couldn't believe I would do. Firstly, I went to Germany twice which was amazing and had so much fun!
Further more I have become closer to all of my friends and when I leave, it will be so sad, as most of us will be going to different sixth forms and will not see each other. Although I pretty excited as it will be different to the college I have been to and I will be meet new people. But it will feel rather strange to not see them everyday, but hopefully we will all still keep in touch.
I have now seen a musical called "Billy Elliot" which was awesome, which also makes me want to see another one.
What I want to try and achieve is grades, and good ones this will be one of my resolutions. To study hard, sometimes within me I can not be bothered but in life you have to be bothered to get to places you want to be.
As well I want to get a little bit healthier. I need to have the motivation to drink more water, although not tasting great. It does do wonders for your skin, hair, nails and makes you feel alot better too.
Another one is fruit, I love my vegetables but fruit is something that I could pass on. I wouldn't just pick up an apple and eat it same for bananas. Unless being it like mangos, raspberries, grapes or strawberries. So I want to eat more fruit!
I love cooking and I have some recipes which I want to complete. Firstly I want to make my own homemade pasta since my Grandma gave me a pasta machine. I want to get more professional and decorate them and make super pretty. I want to be more adventurous with what I cook too!
Lastly YOLO it is a phrase which I am sure all you youngster and maybe even the old ones are familiar with. I want to live and love my young life to the full. I want to take some risks and jump off of a plane (I would actually like to this, obviously connected rope of some sort) but yes. Otherwise in my old age I am sure to regret something I should of done when I was younger.
Hope 2012 was good for you and that 2013 is even better!


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Are we raising a breed of ‘dyslexic’ foreign language learners?
All teachers who have taught dyslexic children at some point in their career will know how challenging it can be to keep them engaged and motivated, how low their self-confidence as language learners usually is, how frustrated they often get as they struggle to make sense of what they read. But hang on, doesn’t this description also apply to quite a few of the language learners we teach?
Well, in fact, one may argue that many of our students do exhibit a form of deficit in their foreign language competences akin to a disorder called ‘Phonological dyslexia’, described by Ellis (1984) as the inability ‘to read unfamiliar words or non-words aloud, suggesting impairment of grapheme-phoneme conversion and/or phonemic assembly’. In other words, ‘Phonological dyslexics’ are individuals who are not able to sound unfamiliar words out. This inability to convert graphemes (letters) into phonemes (sounds) – unsurprisingly – seriously impairs these individuals’ reading comprehension skills.
What is equally interesting – and tragic – is that only 7.6% of Erler’s informants reported they felt ‘happy’ when reading French aloud in lesson; the vast majority of the students felt negatively about decoding and spelling written French.
Another interesting finding by Erler was that 75 % of the total sample Year 7s thought that it was indeed useful to know pronunciation and 63% stated that they were aware of subvocalizing to sounds when reading in French, confirming what we know about automatic phonological loop activation in working memory during reading (in simpler words: whether we are aware of it or not, the brain automatically converts letters into sounds as we read, even when we are not reading aloud).
These findings are dispiriting for several reasons. Firstly, because, as much L1 and L2 research clearly indicates (e.g. Stanovich, 1980; Bryant and Bradley, 1983; Sprenger and Casalis, 1995; Gathercole and Baddeley, 2001) decoding skills are crucial to comprehension of written texts and poor readers often exhibit serious deficits in their deployment. Heaps of research indicate that a child’s early knowledge of phonological awareness is a strong predictor of their fluency in later years (Stanovich, 1986). Muter and Diethelm (2001) found that students of French as a foreign language who were able to tell where syllables in a word begin and end were more proficient readers than those who didn’t.
Secondly, as I have argued in many of my posts and will write about more extensively in my forthcoming book ‘Breaking the sound barrier’ (Conti and Smith, 2017), phonological awareness is crucial in listening comprehension in that it helps the brain make sense of the speech flow by identifying word-boundaries, intonation patterns, etc.
Thirdly, and more tragically, as Erler’s concluded, the students she investigated exhibited decoding deficits (in French) comparable to those symptomatic of dyslexic reading impairment. Now, students who are de facto dyslexic are less likely to have high levels of can-do attitude and self-confidence in language learning, both strong predictors of success in language learning (Macaro, 2007). Could this be one of the reasons why many of our students don’t enjoy learning languages? Could addressing this major deficit enhance their motivation? I believe so.
7.Phonemic awareness skills (see picture below) are not focused on explicitly in the early years of L2 instruction, yet I have found that primary and year 7 students benefit greatly from practising them and research shows clearly that they prime the connection of sound to print.
9.Students are rarely – if ever – tested on their decoding ability or phonological awareness (to assess progress in these areas). This is a serious shortcoming considering how pivotal this set of skills is for language learning effectiveness and success; I found that including opportunities for assessment (e.g. old school dictation or short transcription tasks) has increased my students’ focus on decoding skills and their motivation to learn them.
These and more common shortcomings of decoding skill instruction will be dealt with in greater depth in my next post.
Many foreign language students in England appear to have poor decoding skills. This hinders the development of their reading and listening fluency whilst seriously denting their confidence. As I have written in my forthcoming TES article ‘Enhancing MFL learner motivation – the road less travelled’, one of the most important reasons why our students lack confidence and motivation may relate to their inability to make sense of the target language, be its grammar or its decoding/pronunciation.
One of the group of students I have been trialling my decoding-skill training program with reported to me the other day that they were so much happier to be finally able to read out written French following a set of specific spelling-to-sound rules. They felt empowered by the decoding pinciples they had been taught, as the constant -often random – guessing frustrated them. I do believe that in languages like French and English, where spelling-sound correspondence can be challenging, a students’ sense of efficacy as a decoder can substantially enhance their motivation.
In conclusion, much more effort and thought should be put into effective decoding-skill instruction, which should go beyond the teaching of sounds through gestures, a few tongue twisters and listening or singing along to song; a principled framework should be arrived at, which integrates phonics instruction organically and systematically with the teaching of grammar and vocabulary and extensive practice across all four skills to ensure long-lasting retention and automatization.


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On the back of the last two LPs, you’d expect Mirror Might Steal Your Charm to place moments that genuinely thrill alongside some badly-advised missteps. Sure enough, that’s what we get. This is an erratic piece of work that works better when it sticks to power pop on tracks like Call the Dogs Out and No Destination (credit where it’s due, too, for the furious psych punk of Voodoo Luck).
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Well we have decided a little late to throw up the registration for the final track day of 2009. BUT unless we have 30 people registered the event is not going to happen. The price is a steal of a deal at only $140. Registration can be found here.
Are there licensing requirements for this?
"Open to all driving abilities."
While it's open to all abilities, is this a good event for a total track newbie?
Well hopefully we will see you out next season a little more. There might be bigger things next year including a western Canadian professional championship with real prize money. Unlike the drift events where all you actually get is a huge novelty check with a dollar amount on it.
Still lots of spots left, it should be a great time.
Forecast for Thursday onwards is dry and plus temperatures!
I figured OMAC would be there... he's been running their whole series.
I'll be there doing more than "playing photographer" for once and I was trying to get *other* people to come out for one last sunny trackday before we have to switch to our winter setups!
if i didn't have my winters on already then i would've signed up..
It's gonna be +14, you've got a wagon for a reason.
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they aren't even mounted on the rims yet, haha.. figured since it's snowing already, i'll cheap out for now and mount them in spring..
Forecast is beautiful, and it should be warm enough for everything to be dry, but oh well.
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Is Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century a left-wing book?
Yes and no. It depends on how you define left wing.
If you believe the litmus test of being “left” is opposition to capitalism then the book may be interesting and important, but it is not left wing. If, on the other hand, you believe capitalism is a dynamic economic system worth preserving, but in need of a tune-up, you would likely have a different answer. In the range of political/economic opinion allowed in the corporate North American media the book is certainly at the left end of the spectrum.
But perhaps there is another more important question to consider. Is the book useful, including to those who think an alternative to capitalism is both desirable and necessary? And the answer is an unequivocal yes.
Strangely, it’s not primarily for the reason you may think, if all you know about the work is what you have read or heard in the mainstream media.
While most of the commentary has been about the book’s take on inequality and the author’s prescription (a tax on capital) for controlling the problem, the really unique and useful aspects of Piketty’s work are his insistence on what might be called “reality-based” economics and his straightforward, easy-to-read language.
Unlike the obscurant writing and “fairy-tale” premises that typify most works of economics, Piketty bases his arguments in actual data and sets out to explain them in a style that is accessible to a broad range of readers.
Imagine that! Economics for everyone, including those of us who insist that theories should be tested in the real world! Refreshing, almost scientific.
If Piketty can do it we should hold all economists to these standards. Imagine no more theories of perfect competition where all buyers know everything about all sellers, but instead explanations of what really happens when individuals suffering from a lifetime of brainwashing come up against the might of multinational corporations. Imagine economics that explained the world as lived by ordinary people in a fashion that most of us can understand.
This threat of a good example explains much of the “emperor does so have clothes” reaction of orthodox academic economists and their fellow travellers in the business press to Piketty’s book. Then you add in the overwhelming evidence presented in Capital that inequality does exist, has grown over the past three decades of neoliberal reform, and is likely to grow much greater — and yes sir those apostles of greed sure are angry.
So, the book is important and you should read it, but … let’s just say one should be aware of its limitations.
Contrary to what you might assume based on the attacks from certain quarters, the author does not advocate socialism — unless you believe socialism can be defined as simply trying to be nice to everyone and sometimes using the government to override the power that capitalism gives rich people.
Piketty is firmly in the camp of those who would save capitalism from itself. While he does argue too much inequality is bad because it threatens democracy and leads to revolution, or at least economic nationalism, there is no question he supports the system. He frequently and explicitly praises capitalism as the best economic system because it produces the most growth. There is no mention of an environmental crisis and its link to inequality and an economic system that values greed above all else until the very end, almost as an afterthought. He does not deal with environmental limits to growth.
Still, the book provides all sorts of useful information about the last 200 years of actually existing capitalism. Its offers a glimpse of what the study of economics should be. Piketty seems to be on the side of ordinary people and even makes mention of economic democracy.
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Mainly an upgrade, it works very good for counterstrike and all other games really.
I bought this because I wanted a system that could handle games for the next few years without a problem, and this has only been good since purchasing. It overclocks decently (i5-4690k's overclock better) and runs cool.
Bought mainly for looks, and while its quiet, temps are average. Mounting is solid and a overall a good purchase if its on sale.
It's a motherboard, was cheap, ASRock high quality, mostly black, full sized ATX, and doesn't come with bloatware (You have to manually download and install their apps). I would go with a more expensive board if someone is looking to do heavy overclocking and wants more of a futureproof build.
Ram is Ram, got it used and works fine.
Fast enough to boot windows within 20 seconds and loads games very fast. Had this for a while and shows no signs of speed reduction.
Bought this used for a build and just use it for storage. Not a bad drive, but their are much better purchases.
Amazing for the price, highly recommend for all non-SSD budget builds.
Great card for 1080p, actually a little overkill to be honest. I did not want any games to be bottlenecked, so this offered enough to last many years. The 3.5 bug doesn't effect me and I got a partial refund, so no regrets here. Runs cool and quiet. Only complaint is that it doesn't have a backplate for the price.
Very good budget case, even comes with decent fans. Bought this so I wouldn't have to worry about banging it up while transporting often, but wanting a good looking case with a window. Also, the window provides full coverage of all the good parts, including the PSU, GPU, heatsink, and rear fan without showing any wires. Very good design on Corsairs part.
Crazy expensive, but runs efficiently and silent. The cables are hard to press in and the information sticker is detracting but it overall looks good.
Windows 8.1 adds extra speed and efficiency for gaming and provides everything I need. Still waiting for Windows 10 though.
Loud, but pushes air good. I would replace these with better fans in the future.
Its an IPS monitor, so it has that. Good size for 2 feet distance and has enough settings to customize it to the user.
Great keyboard, keycaps break too often.
Everything was bought over time, not with a one time budget. But yeah, it would be amazing. Not worth it for my future (especially with high res monitors becoming cheaper).
Hi i loved your build by the way, its very minimal and clean....May i ask why you chose that case??? And also how in the world did you get a "partial refund"???
This was a while ago, but I chose the case because it was a good price, offered a lot of room to work with, and had a cool looking side window. The partial refund was back when people were freaking out about the GTX 970 glitch, which now has been settled in a class action law suit.
Dat case and neat cable management, unf! +1!
Thanks! The key is to not use that many wires and stuff everything in the back then use velcro.
Nice Build! I got to ask where you found that strap/handle system you have around your case?
it has the website written right on it lol :P also a quick 2 second google reveals that it is for sale from other sites such as amazon, frozencpu, kustompcs etc. although I wouldn't order from frozencpu for the time being, lots of rumors about them atm.
This may solve my case selection problem for my Upcoming Build(TM). I've been looking for a case that had handles or handle-like things already built in, and everything I've found is either out of stock or too expensive. This would make an excellent compromise.
Yep, and the strap is fully adjustable so it will fit any case size no wider than what I have.
I actually got it off of amazon, they used to only sell it in one place so as soon as I found out they had them their I jumped on it.
Nice build +1. Where did you get a 4670k that cheap?
Nice Build, would you wanna trade knives?
do you get coil whining on your gpu?
Only when using synthetic stress testing, but yes a little bit. Not as bad as my old 660ti though.
nice build! everything seems to be in working order, well done! like others have said, I would prob sell that monitor on eBay or something and grab an AOC 144hz monitor on amazon, they are quite cheap I believe, about £170 here in the UK.
Thanks! I got the CPU/Mobo at Microcenter, and the 970 line was partially refunded money.
Love this build. Needs a new desk.
You should get a 144Hz monitor if you want to play csgo to its full potential.
That's a pretty good inventory for a silver 2...do I smell a smurf?
What sorta fps do u get with that?
This is a great build, considering the fact that it's future proof :) Maybe upgrade the gpu much later on but right now, the specs you have will do you good. But I must ask, is it just for CS:GO? If it is, then you should have gotten a lower budget gpu, idk, a gtx 750 would be good.
Where did you buy your video card from?
This was from a while ago, but anyone who bought a GTX 970 before the 3.5GB memory glitch was able to get a partial refund from Amazon/Newegg. Newegg gave me something like 70 dollars back for complaining. Obviously you can't do this anymore since the problem is well known.
GTX 970 cards are still advertised to contain 4GB of VRAM, but the way the cards are created (since they are 980 boards) only 3.5GB of the VRAM runs at full speed, while the rest is used from much slower system memory. So when a program tries to use more than 3.5GB of VRAM, problems such as freezing, glitching, and crashing may occur. This doesn't happen with 98% of games, but when pushing the card to its limit these problems sometimes occur. It's still not a huge issue, but something to keep in mind.
Could you provide the clearance of your CPU cooler? And did you have to raise it at all to fit the RAM?
Sorry for the late reply. The CPU cooler fits in any case that has a 120mm exhaust fan in my experience. Most motherboards with 4 ram slots will not allow the stick closest to the fan to fit without having to raise the fan. I have 4x8GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance ram in my current build and I had to move the fan up for it to fit. No clearance problems with my Fractal Design Define C.
They are wicked comfortable, the software does not do too much besides turning on and off the 7.1 SS and works great with multiple devices, and sounds great with accurate sounds in games. Care to explain why you don't like it?
Counterstrike brought all of my friends closer after we moved out for college. Sometimes its not about the game, but who you play it with.


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I've a problem when running simulations for LEED v4. It works perfectly fine with and without permanent shadings.
But when I use "detailed dynamic shading" the shadings aren't calculated. It’s like they don't exist in the model. When I change the Glazing state "on" and "off" values there is no change.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I've no groups and have tried both with complex and simple geometries.
I've even tried the same settings for the shading in DIVA for rhino 2.0. and there the automatic shading works fine.
Also, I only get the "Daysim Simulation Report" every 10th time..
Apologies for the late reply. This is a bit of a confusing issue in DIVA. The metric for the LEED v4 calculations (IES-LM-83's sDA / ASE calculations) specifies some very strict dynamic shading control systems, so DIVA will always use those when you run a sDA metric. This is where the little popup asks you to select nodes for each room, and this is completely separate from the detailed dynamic shading in DIVA. The second issue at play here is that the detailed dynamic shading calculations (in Daysim) only allow you to use up to two shading controls, whereas the LM-83 / sDA shading controls allow an unlimited number of rooms for whole-building analysis.
Basically, the detailed dynamic shading in DIVA only works with climate-based metrics other than sDA, which is kind of special in DIVA. As per the metric definition, if I recall correctly, automated control systems that will be put into the real building can be used for sDA calculations, but this isn't possible in DIVA right now.
Thank you for the help and all the information.
I might have to use the option 2 instead. Values between 300 and 3000 lux... etc.
Is it possible to change the "LEED Addendum IEQ 8.1" to fit these values instead of the 10fc - 500fc values?
We have an option to load in simulation results for LEEDv4 option 2 from right-clicking on the Metrics button.
The simulations need to be run manually however using the appropriate climate data as per Option 2's requirements. This part has not been implemented into DIVA automatically yet. It will produce a result to run the LEED2009 clear-sky simulations and load them in via this method, but it would not quite meet the simulation requirements of v4 Option 2.
I apologize for all my questions.
I've been trying to do the sky settings manually. Using this discussion as a tutorial to find the values for "direct normal irradiance" and "diffuse horizontal irradiance".
I'm a bit surprised that the morning is brighter than the afternoon. Is the data output correct? Can I use these values?
(the weather data file is from Copenhagen) Or which sky should I use instead? Clear Sky with Sun (CIE Clear Sky)?
I received help from an expert on LEED.
I checked through the Grasshopper definition that you used. I tried it out with the weather data from Copenhaguen and I got the same results as you.
* It finds out what is the lower level of SkyCover from the weather data for the given dates.
* It finds out how many of the 62 days checked (considering spring and autumn together) have that minimum level of skycover.
* It averages the direct horizontal radiation and the direct normal radiation for all these dates.
kl 15: DNI: 574.5 Wh/m2 DHI: 104.5 Wh/m2"
Thanks for the update. I am glad that you got some favorable results. I find the LEEDv4 Option 2 inputs a little weird, but probably better than what happened in the previous version of LEED.
I made the original definition and I found this topic by a coincidence. Thanks for correcting this. Next time, I'd love a comment in the original thread also to correct it ;-).
Any chance you can upload your corrected gh definition?


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Drive to Sipalay – The perfect holiday fun on Sugar Beach!
Roll your suitcase into The Garage and make yourself comfortable. This spacious room offers a comfortable king-size bed and a standalone single bed. You will quickly forget about the strains of everyday life. Shift down a gear and let there be light!
Our cozy Garage offers all the comforts you could wish for after a long journey. Take an invigorating shower in the large bathroom with its separate toilet. Cool down and put your feet up on your private veranda overlooking the garden.
THE GARAGE – The ultimate vacation!
The Garage – Flexibility is our strength!
While The Garage is crazy and unusual – comfort and functionality are crucial to us. The Garage features a safety deposit box, a minibar, a snack basket, windows with mosquito screens, an inhouse movie system, a DVD player, a hairdryer, wall sockets everywhere and fans in the room as well as on the veranda. Of course, the Garage also has a spacious private bathroom with shower and separate toilet.

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all about me & my mcphees: Time 4 A Reunion!
Paul, you and your family are amazing. Thank you so much for putting so much time and talent into the video and cover of Granny's book. The video made everyone cry and our family can't quit talking about it. It was definately a highlight. Also, thank you so much for putting together the DVD of the library. I haven't seen it for a year and it helps me to see what Jimmy is doing. Nora is SOOOO cute and I love Katie. Love you!!!


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The registration process for the II MUNRFE Regional Conference has no specified rounds. There is only one deadline, when the process will be over – 25th of April, 2011, 23:59 (GMT +09:00). So, starting from this day the registration is opened. The only people in each MUNRFE Club who have the right to apply for registration are the President with his Presidential Team. Each Club is restricted to request no less then one permanent member of the SC but no more than two. Individual registration is in order but registration in teams is more preferable. In order to register the State, your President or his Vice-President should send the request to savenkov_doc@mail.ru. After 5 days this State will be distributed.
The Secretariat respects the principle “first come – first served”. Only by-name registration is in order, so that you need to have exact people, who will go to the Conference for sure, in order to register the State. No beforehand registration will be allowed. But, we will allow our Clubs to request no more than 5 States (15 places) for MUNRFE newcomers. This procedure will be allowed since the 1st of April. When you will have delegates to fill requested States, please, inform the Secretariat as soon as possible. Moreover, delegates not from MUNRFE are highly welcome. If you are not from MUNRFE, send your request to savenkov_doc@mail.ru and after 5 days the State will be distributed.


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The Victorian Curriculum F-10 sets out what every student should learn during their first eleven years of schooling. The curriculum is the common set of knowledge and skills required by students for life-long learning, social development and active and informed citizenship.
The Victorian Curriculum F-10 includes eight learning areas and four capabilities. The learning areas of the Arts, Humanities and Technologies include distinct disciplines. The capabilities represent sets of knowledge and skills that are developed and applied across the curriculum.
The Victorian Curriculum F-10 includes both knowledge and skills. These are defined by learning areas and capabilities. This curriculum design assumes that knowledge and skills are transferable across the curriculum and therefore are not duplicated. For example, where skills and knowledge such as asking questions, evaluating evidence and drawing conclusions are defined in Critical and Creative Thinking, these are not duplicated in other learning areas such as History or Health and Physical Education. It is expected that the skills and knowledge defined in the capabilities will be developed, practised, deployed and demonstrated by students in and through their learning across the curriculum.


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Fishburne is pleased to announce that the Caissons PG Basketball Team has hired a new Assistant Coach. Franklin Kipps Birckhead, who goes by “Kipps,” will pace the sideline along with Head Coach Ed Huckaby during the 2010-2011 basketball season. Coach Birckhead is a native Virginian, attended St. Anne’s Belfield School in Charlottesville, the University of Virginia, and is currently working on his Master’s of Science in Sports Leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Again, if you haven’t already done so, please check in with me so I know I’ve got the right e-mail address for you. You can also reach me on my cell at 540-910-3031.
Q: What am I supposed to do this summer?
A: Send me an e-mail once per week to let me know how much you’re run. I’ll respond with some guidance for the following weeks, but this will not be complicated and overly involved. Simplicity is at the heart of this program. Also, follow the guidance below.
It was great to see everyone here for Graduation! I took lots of photos and have posted them all to our Facebook profile. I would like to encourage all parents who aren’t already to become a “Fan” of our Facebook page. Even if your son has now graduated from FMS, I hope you will stay involved as part of the greater Fishburne community. If you see an image you like (and you have a PC) you can “right-click” and select “Save Image As” and that JPEG should download. I’m certain you can do the same on a Mac I just don’t know exactly how.
The physical science bridge building project combines math, science, and art. Bridges were evaluated on teamwork, functionality, strength, design, creativity, and artistic merit.
As with many of the great engineering structures around the world, bridges are often as much a work of art and a reflection of culture as much as engineering serviceability.
Submit your article and class notes for the next Quadrangle!
It’s time to start work again on the next edition of The Quadrangle. Your articles and class notes make the publication great. Please try to keep article submissions to 450 words or less. We’ll do our best to get as many submissions into The Quadrangle as possible. With that in mind, there might not be room for all submissions. Fishburne reserves the right to make final edits and placement decisions.
It was a blustery but otherwise nice day for the Virginia Independent Conference Track and Field Championship at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg.
Ninth-seeded Lozie Goolsby surprised the high jumpers by clearing 5 feet and claiming a fourth-place finish, which is impressive for somebody so young. He just began high jumping a couple of weeks ago. If there was an award for best young athlete, he would have won it, hands down.
The Waynesboro Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) met at the Shiloh Baptist Church this past Sunday to honor local students. Keynote speaker, Alphonso Bowers, asked students to look beyond entertainers and athletes as role models and find family members, teachers and outstanding community leaders to emulate. The top two students of color graduating from five local high schools were honored during the event. Cadets Jonathan Vincent and Cletus Moffi represented Fishburne during the ceremony and received awards for their tremendous academic performance. Everyone at FMS is proud of Cadets Vincent and Moffi for their hard work.
Fishburne deployed over 50 cadets to Winchester, VA on Saturday, located in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley, to participate in the Apple Blossom Festival. It was a hot and humid day reaching a high temperature in the upper 80s. Cadets were outfitted in their parade dyke of coatees and tunics… not really designed for this extremely hot climate. The corps was resupplied with water in the staging area by Mr. and Mrs. Richer which really helped the cadets perform beautifully. The corps was relentless and persevered during the three hour event, never lowering their performance standards.


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Earlier this summer I was asked to provide a vegan dessert for a party. I already had some homemade sorbet on hand — I’ll post about that at another time — but I wanted something more traditionally sweet as well. So I searched for some recipes and found this list of Oh She Glows’ top 21 vegan desserts of 2011, and on it found this recipe for vegan chocolate chip cookies, and so I tried it.
This particular recipe is a pretty simple substitution project: replace the butter with a vegan spread, replace the eggs with flaxseed and water, and make sure the chocolate chips don’t have dairy.
As for the chocolate, semisweet chocolate chips should be made without dairy, or you can get a fancy high-cocoa chocolate bar without dairy and chunk it up. Check the ingredient list. I used Trader Joe’s semisweet chips.
If you’re experienced with baking chocolate chip cookies, this one will be easy as pie. The only variation in technique from the regular recipe is for the flaxseed egg. In a cookie, eggs provide binding and texture as well as supporting the leavening provided by the salt and soda. The flaxseed substitution — 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed plus 3 tablespoons of water to make 1 egg equivalent — provides excellent binding and just a tad less leavening, which means that your cookies will sink a wee bit more as they cool than the non-vegan kind will. This is not a bad thing by any means.
The cookies were a big hit at the party. I want to make them again but I think next time I’ll cut the cinnamon and bump up the vanilla. The cinnamon, I think, is intended to help mask the absence of a strong buttery taste, but it was a little more cinnamon than I wanted; I think vanilla will fill that hole nicely. I could add a drop of almond extract too, though not more — a little of that goes a very long way.
So I heartily encourage you to surprise the vegans in your life with fresh-baked cookies. And at some point, perhaps closer to the holidays, I plan to build on this to see if I can make vegan Igor Bars.
I can hardly believe it’s been about four years since I last posted here. Well, I can believe it, it’s just embarrassing. But I am reviving the blogs, and will be sharing more of the yum.
And what exactly is Recipes of the Yum? At its simplest it’s a counterpoint to Recipes of the Damned, but it’s also a celebration of good food. My preferred focus will be food I’m cooking — that’s the “recipes” part, after all — but I will not hesitate to post great food photos from my excursions out and about.
And the Yum is democratic, small-d. Or ecumenical. Inclusive. I don’t generally have the budget for filet mignon and fancy restaurants, but they’ll appear here if I get the chance. As will simple home cooking, or particularly good retail bakery offerings, or taco truck. (You would not believe the taco truck in our neighborhood. The sauce! The rojo sauce should be sold on its own. Or licensed, or given away free as a jump-start to world peace.) I have my snobbery but it’s quirky and individual, and I try not to impose it on others.
So, welcome back to the Yum. I’ll be catching up with some recent cooking, and pointing to my new Zazzle store, Little Shop of the Yum, which will feature my photos. You can check those out on my Flickr page, and if you see something you’d love to buy as a mug or postcard or something, let me know!
My apologies for going so long without posting. I will be too occupied to post here for about another week, but then expect to catch up.
In the meantime, please go check out my newest blog, 107 Cookbooks, in which I am cooking at least one thing from each of my 107 cookbooks by June 30, 2010. Check it out!
I squeezed on some lemon and sprinkled on a bit of spice and sugar. Then I added a topping of rolled oats, flour, brown sugar and butter.
Baked it at 375 for about 35 minutes; I could probably have let it go a bit longer but it was looking very bubbly and I didn’t want to risk burning.
Tonight I had a chance to cook with the cast-iron grill pan; it’s been a while since the weather has been pleasant enough to make it seem sensible. So I decided to grill chicken thighs, which I rubbed with a mixture of spices: ground ginger, turmeric, oregano, basil, garlic powder, salt, pepper and paprika, plus some lemon zest. I can’t tell you the amounts; I just fiddled with quantities until it smelled right and I had enough in the bowl to coat all six pieces. I also did corn on the cob–the ears came pre-shucked at the produce stand or I’d have done them in the husk.
I also made a side dish of soba with kale. You start by boiling some soba noodles until they’re almost done (you could use udon too) and then draining them and setting them aside. Rinse and stem the kale, and chop it into modestly sized pieces; some of the water should cling to the pieces, or you can tip the water from the cutting board into the bowl. Not a lot, just maybe a tablespoon’s worth.
Heat a skilled with some toasted sesame oil; when it’s fairly hot, add a couple of minced cloves of garlic and roughly half a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, and saute for a few minutes until the garlic starts to look a bit toasty. (I would say until it smells good, but seriously once you open the bottle of sesame oil you’re already at that point.) Then add the kale–carefully, getting a fair number of pieces into the pan first before any water can hit the hot oil. If the kale is overloading the pan, let some wilt a bit before adding more pieces, which won’t take long. Toss the kale with the garlic and red pepper, then cover the pan, lower the heat and let steam for about 5 minutes. Then add the soba and toss it together so the kale, garlic and red pepper flakes are well distributed among the noodles; use two forks if necessary to get the noodles separated. Keep on the heat for a minute or two more, then serve.
Sorry for the long hiatus; I was on vacation and didn’t find time to post anything, though you can find some pictures at my Flickr site (including of some good food we enjoyed). We got home last night and I was happy to be back in the kitchen this evening.
Now that the warm weather is upon us I will be more regularly doing the home version of a salad bar. We have a lovely Tupperware salad bowl that we got for our wedding all those years ago, and it does a great job of keeping lettuce fresh. We have adopted a habit of keeping the different salad ingredients in separate containers (so that when your cucumber goes bad in a few days — and it will — it doesn’t take the rest of the salad with it). So I tore up lettuce leaves and chopped up a few other items.
Then I got to work on Chili Burgers, a recipe from Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites. You start by sauteeing onions and garlic in olive oil, then adding shredded carrot, chili powder and cumin.
Meantime, you drain and rinse canned red kidney beans (1 30-ounce can or 2 15-ounce cans), though of course you could also use the equivalent quantity cooked from scratch and cooled.
You mash the beans with a potato masher, then add 2 tablespoons each of Dijon mustard, soy sauce and ketchup. Then mix in the sauteed vegetables.
Add 1 1/2 cups of rolled oats and mix well, then shape into 8 patties.
At this point in today’s cooking I wrapped four of the patties in wax paper and then aluminum foil and stuck them in the freezer; they cook wonderfully from frozen. I heated some olive oil in a pan and cooked the remaining four patties about 6 minutes on each side.
I rounded out the meal with salad and corn on the cob.
Because “Julie & Julia” will be opening. Who’s in NYC who’d like to get together and go on opening night?
Recently I read Mark Bittman’s new book Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating. Bittman gives a lot of good background for why one should reduce one’s consumption of processed foods and of meat in particular, and he describes the strategy that he adopted for doing, so, which he calls “Vegan Before 6”: quite simply, he eats no animal products (meat, dairy or eggs) before 6 p.m., and then eats whatever he feels like after that.
Of course, as he notes, there are other ways to change your eating habits, but this is fairly simple. Nothing is forbidden; you just have to wait until 6 p.m. to eat certain things, which is not a great hardship. You can make exemptions; he allows himself to have milk in his coffee, for example, which makes it more likely that he’ll keep the rest of his pre-6-p.m. diet vegan. And he found that after he had adopted this habit for a while, he was far more likely to minimize the amount of meat or dairy in his dinner as well. Bittman says he lost more than 35 pounds before he stopped weighing in and started focusing more on his overall health and the fit of his clothes.
The other part of his plan — possibly the more important part — is to cut out processed foods. This goes together with the vegan portion of the day, really, since it’s far easier to ensure a dish is vegan when you assemble it from fresh ingredients than if you have to analyze ingredient labels on packaged food. It also means that knowing how to cook is fairly important, and is probably where most American readers would become resistant (if they hadn’t already freaked out at the term “vegan” and assumed they were being asked to move to communes and start wearing hemp clothing exclusively).
I’m very lucky: The building I work in recently opened a very good (and inexpensive) staff cafeteria. If I come in from my pre-work gym visit and want something to hold me until lunch, I can toast bread and spread it with chunky peanut butter, and buy diced fruit by weight. If I want lunch, there’s a large and diverse salad bar, and the “action station” often features stir-fry with tofu as the protein. I have a lot of great options. If I get too fretful about the question of whether the bread at the toast station might be made with casein and I want to have greater control, I can pack my own food pretty easily.
I’ve been trying this for about two weeks now, with very little slip-up; one day I brought in leftovers from a pasta salad that had feta, and today I ate a leftover slice of the pizza I made last night. We also had one weekend day when we felt like following our old habit of going out for a diner breakfast of eggs and bacon, but we decided that day would be “vegan after breakfast” instead of “vegan before 6.” Easy as pie. What is interesting to me is that I’ve had a couple of other situations where I was tempted to break the “vegan” rule and found it not very difficult to stay firm — not because I was strict about it but because I had specifically decided that I was not going to beat myself up about it if I broke the rule. I think that’s really a key: For some people, a rigid rule is an effective guide, but for others it’s a provocation, and it helps to understand your own personality here before you try to make any change in your food habits.
I haven’t really lost any significant weight, but I am feeling good. I will continue to post occasional updates, especially if I do start to take off weight. And I’ll be looking more diligently for vegan recipes to share.
I made pizza last night. We had watched an episode of Food Detectives that investigated whether the water in New York City pizza crust makes a difference (it does), and that made me itchy to make dough. So I decided to try a thin crust base. I hand-pushed and manipulated the dough more than I rolled it, and the base of the pizza was fairly thin, but the edges were still thick — sort of a hybrid of deep-dish and thin crust. I think to try a real thin crust I need to either make a 3/4 size batch of dough or get a baking stone, or perhaps both.
I laid on a moderate base of sauce and topped it with Yves veggie pepperoni, sliced kalamata olives, and plenty of mozzarella. It was very good.
It’s been a while since I posted and I’m going to do a series of relatively short posts rather than one encyclopedic one. So this is a short cooking-oriented post, a stir-fry I made the other week.
I sliced and salted half an eggplant and let it stand a bit, then rinsed and dried the slices and cubed them.
I also chopped up some other vegetables, including mushrooms, broccoli, bell pepper and onions. I didn’t feel like adding meat or egg and I didn’t have any tofu, so for a bit of protein I made a peanut butter sauce, a mixture of peanut butter, hot chili sauce and soy sauce, eyeballing the proportions and mixing until the smell was right and the consistency seemed to be what I wanted.
Still no wok. I added vegetables in ones or twos to cook, adding the broccoli fairly late (when the pan was fairly full and the vegetables would be putting off a fair bit of steam) and letting it cook a few minutes before adding the sauce.
Then I mixed in the sauce and let it all cook together a bit.
I added some red bell pepper and parsley and let it cook for just a moment or two longer before I served it up over rice.

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Great sailboat rentals near Marina di Leuca, Puglia.
Step onboard a sailboat for an unforgettable experience in Marina di Leuca, Puglia.
Get ready for a fun adventure when you hit the open water onboard a sailboat in Marina di Leuca, Puglia. Rent or charter a sailboat with or without a captain and experience the joy of exploring the water by wind power. From hourly, half-day, full-day or multi-day sailing excursions, you are sure to create memories that will last a lifetime. Marina di Leuca, Puglia is a wonderful sailboat rental destination.


text: Swans represent grace and beauty on many levels. They are associated with love, poetry and music. The swan was sacred to Venus, the love goddess in Roman mythology. The swan was often pictured singing to a lyre in Greek tradition. In Celtic tradition the Swan represents the Soul, our eternal essence.


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We Don't 'Do' God: Secularism and the NZ State. Panel: Rev Dr Lynne Baab, Glyn Carpenter, Dr Bryce Edwards, Assoc Prof John Stenhouse.
Eli Berman (UC San Diego) and Joseph Felter (Stanford, US Army Special Forces) discussed how their empirical work to understand the impact of civilian casualties on subsequent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan influenced a major revision of Commanders Emergency Response Program (CERP) policy.


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I forget sometimes why I wrote a particular song . . . if I'm lucky one of my friends might remind me . . .
When I told the guys at the studio that I wanted to record a new take on this song I'm pretty sure they did an inward eye roll . . . . (you did, didn't you?). But it turned out ok.
I haven't played this song in over a year. Not even in my own home.
I stumbled across this sermon today. One of my friends gave it a few weeks ago. The kid and I were out of town. A shooting had taken place close to my house . . . a shooting that made it to all the major news outlets . . . even the BBC.
So I wasn't there to hear this sermon. But I sure am glad I heard it today. I remember again why I love this song and John 1:5.
Man. I am like anybody else. I go looking for the trouble instead of hearing the part that Jesus saw fit to repeat again and again - blessed, blessed, blessed . . .
There's a bright light and it expresses itself in terms of our joy, which is more than a shallow happiness.


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When a home suffers a water damage event, a mold infestation can quickly arise and spread throughout a home in 48-72 hours. Because mold can produce allergens and irritants, you will want a professional that has training and experience to properly resolve the mold infestation. If you suspect that your Bridgewater home or business has a mold problem, SERVPRO of Northeast Somerset County can inspect, assess and remediate your property.
We live and work in this community too; we might even be neighbors. As a locally owned and operated business, SERVPRO of Northeast Somerset County is close by and ready to respond to your mold damage emergency. We are proud to be an active member of the Bridgewater community and want to pitch in and help make our community the best it can be.
To keep the mold spores from spreading further, we will use various mold containment procedures. Our professionals may use physical barriers and negative air pressure to isolate the contaminated area and to help prevent the mold spores from spreading through your Bridgewater, NJ home or business. Also, we’ll turn off the property’s fans and heating and cooling systems to prevent the spread of mold.
SERVPRO of Northeast Somerset County will use a variety of cleaning techniques and products to clean your furnishings and personal belongings. Since mold infestations also cause a persistent musty odor, our professionals are also trained to remove odors and provide deodorization using fogging equipment.
Here at SERVPRO of Northeast Somerset County we understand what it takes to properly remediate a mold situation in Bridgewater, NJ. Encountering mold can be worrisome for any homeowner, but SERVPRO is here to put your mind at ease. We have the right tools and trained professionals to get the job done right. Give us a call at (908) 222-2020 and we will be on our way to help.


text: Uber is expanding its back-office presence in Poland, with a new Business Support Centre in Lublin. Uber will hire 40 specialists to support its business operations in Krakow. General Director of Uber in the CEE region Robbie Khazzam said that Poland is the 3rd largest market for Uber in Europe.


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We all need a general textbook to help us get by when we either need to refresh knowledge or look up something. There is plenty of choice, we could look up online resources and many of them are free but are they up-to-date or regularly assessed? They may well be but never forget that there are some really good traditional textbooks out there. Sometimes they cover specific areas such as medicine, surgery paediatrics etc but it can take considerable expense and time to build up a library to cover all the major specialties.
So step forwards this book, now I am not saying that it is the ultimate one stop shop for all medical issues that is impossible. However it is good source of well written advice and guidance for primary care practitioners in particular (though plenty here for secondary care) and has a lot going for it. On the down side, it is an American book (nothing wrong with that) and of course will not be 100% relevant to UK practice. However there is plenty here to interest a UK practitioner.
I reviewed the PDF version of the book which means I can access it on my computer and more importantly on a mobile device, in my case an iPhone which proved most helpful in my every day practice. One disadvantage was that I was not able to copy and paste information from the PDF document – which is a shame.
Another advantage of this book is that it comes out every year, so that means it is constantly refreshed and updated. I would suspect that a user does not need to buy it every year as one copy is likely to remain relevant for some time. Looking at the chapters and the text, it is fairly obvious that the subject areas are covered are substantial and huge and the detail is pitched just about right for a GP. It is not too detailed but certainly gives a good description of the topic, ideal for quick delve in and read around.
There are 42 chapters and over 1,600 pages of text and considering the cost of the book, is good value for money. Interestingly the kindle edition available from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0071806334/ref=rdr_ext_tmb which I would guess would be similar to the digital edition I reviewed, is £28.75 at the time of writing of this review.
This is a good general textbook of medicine and a number of associated specialities, (check out the table of contents of Amazon) and for the cost, I think represents fair value for money for the interested healthcare professional.


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Redan, GA list of housing resources we have uncovered: Homeless Shelters, Supportive Housing, Halfway Housing, Transitional Housing, Day Shelters, Low Income Housing, Residential Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers.
Shelter Listings is dedicated to serving the homeless and low-income. We have listed out the shelters and low cost housing services we have in Redan, GA below. This list has homeless shelters, halfway houses, affordable housing, etc. The database consists of over 3,000 listings and includes emergency shelters, homeless shelters, day shelters, transitional housing, shared housing, residential drug alcohol rehabilitation programs and permanent affordable housing.
Redan is in DeKalb County, GA. Search listings by DeKalb County.
We found very few listings in Redan. In that case, here are some local areas that do have shelters or supportive housing of some sort. We provide the full addresses and distince from the center of Redan.
Temporary housing for individuals diagnosed with menal disability.


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