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Co-authored by Mary Saph Tanaka, MD, MS
One of the most commonly cited reasons people give for not eating healthy is that healthy food "costs too much." With the average consumer spending only about $7 per day on food according to the 2008 US Department of Labor Statistics, it may seem near impossible to get the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day on such a tight budget. But that's not necessarily the case. With a little bit of planning, a family of four can get by on about $28 per day ($7 each) including a wholesome breakfast, lunch and dinner and even a few snacks along the way.
Let us show you how. The recipes are setup so that you can save money and optimize nutritional value by substituting vegetables and meats based on what is in-season or on sale and are based on a family of four. Cost estimates are based on purchase of the generic brands, when available, at non-sale prices at a large supermarket chain. Also check out the sidebar for some other cost-cutting tips that are sure to help boost your family's health without bankrupting your budget.
5 Tips to Boost Your Family's Health on a Budget
Put every food dollar to excellent use by adopting some of the following
cost-cutting tips whenever possible.
- Eat at home more often. Not only does it cost less, but you also have better control over portion sizes and can freeze any leftovers for another day when you don't have time to cook.
- Don't go to the grocery store on a whim. Rather, check what you already have in your refrigerator and pantry and have your shopping list in hand. This will help you avoid overbuying. First Lady Obama's Let's Move Initiative offers an easy-to-use grocery list template that will help boost the nutritional value of your purchases. It's available online.
- It seems obvious, but only buy food that you're actually going to eat. And then actually eat it. If time gets away from you and you've got some rotting fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator, think of creative ways to use it – how about tomatoes to make a marinara sauce or ripe fruit for a smoothie?
- At the store check packages and perishable items for expiration dates and try to pick the latest one possible (these are usually kept in the back of the shelf as the grocer is trying to offload the stuff that will go bad first by displaying it more prominently).
- Teach your children the value of a food budget. Take them shopping with you and teach them to use price, actual need, nutritional value and portion size to determine buying decisions.
Make Your Own Oatmeal ($0.80)
Basic Oatmeal Recipe
2 cups uncooked oats
3 cups of water
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Bring water and salt to boil over medium heat. Add oats and stir. Cook for 5-7 minutes, or until most of liquid is absorbed.
"Banana bread" Oatmeal: ($1.60)
2 ripe bananas ($.70)
2 tablespoons brown sugar ($.10)
-Cook basic oatmeal as instructed above. Add 2 tablespoon of brown sugar to basic oatmeal recipe. Peel 2 ripe bananas into a bowl and mash with a fork. Finally, add bananas to oatmeal and cook for another 5 minutes.
Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal: ($3.40)
1 cup of frozen strawberries ($2.00)
2 tablespoons of brown sugar ($.10)
1 cup of nonfat milk ($0.50)
-Cook basic oatmeal as instructed above. Add 1cup of nonfat milk to oatmeal and stir. Add 1 cup of frozen strawberries to oatmeal and cook for another 10 minutes.
Peaches and Cream Oatmeal: ($3.40)
1 cup of frozen peaches ($2.00)
2 tablespoons of brown sugar ($.10)
1 cup of nonfat milk ($0.50)
- Cook basic oatmeal as instructed above. Add 1cup of nonfat milk to oatmeal and stir. Add 1 cup of frozen peaches to oatmeal and cook for another 10 minutes.
Yogurt Parfaits ($4.50)
2 cups of plain nonfat yogurt ($1.80)
1 cup of frozen fruit ($2.00)
¼ cup of sugar ($.20)
½ cup of water
1 cup of raisin bran cereal ($.50)
Bring frozen fruit, honey and water to boil over medium heat in a pot. Cook for 15 minutes, until fruit is like jam. Put fruit into a bowl to cool.
To prepare parfaits: In a glass, place ¼ cup of yogurt at the bottom. Place 1 tablespoon of fruit mixture. Place another ¼ cup of yogurt on top, followed by 1 more tablespoon of fruit mixture. Sprinkle ¼ cup of fiber cereal on top. Repeat with another 3 glasses.
Breakfast Spinach and Egg Sandwiches ($3.85)
4 whole wheat English muffins ($1.30)
4 eggs ($1.00)
2 cups of baby spinach ($0.80)
½ cup of shredded cheddar ($0.75)
Place pan over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to pan. Place 2 cups of baby spinach into pan and stir for 1 minute. Break open eggs into a bowl and beat gently. Pour eggs into pan with spinach and cook for approximately 4-5 minutes, until eggs are cooked. Sprinkle cheese over eggs/spinach and turn off the heat. Divide egg mixture into 4 servings. Place 1 serving of egg mixture in English muffin.
Grilled Chicken Pita Wraps with Creamy Bean Spread ($8.00)
2 whole wheat pitas, separated into 4 pieces ($1.00)
2 chicken breasts ($5.00)
2 cups of baby spinach, washed and dried ($.80)
2 medium carrots, shredded ($.20)
1 can (15 ounces) cannellini beans ($1.00)
To prepare bean spread: Place 1 can of cannellini beans (including water in can) in a blender. Add salt and pepper to taste.
To prepare chicken: Cut each chicken breast in half widthwise (so each chicken breast is thinner). Heat pan on stove at medium heat. Sprinkle each side of the chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Place 2 tablespoons of olive oil in pan. Put two pieces of chicken in pan and cook for 6-7 minutes. Flip chicken and cook for another 6-7 minutes, until well cooked. Repeat with remaining two pieces of chicken. When chicken is finished cooking, lay flat on cutting board and cut into ½ inch strips.
To prepare wraps: Spread 2 tablespoons of bean dip over pita bread. Next, place ½ cup of spinach over the pita bread. Place carrots and cucumber in the middle of the pita bread. Place chicken strips next to pile of carrots/cucumber. From one side of the pita bread, roll the pita bread. Cut wrap in half and serve.
Spinach and Portabello Mushroom Whole Wheat Pita Pizzas ($8.00)
4 Whole Wheat Pita Bread ($2.00)
1 cup of tomato sauce ($.50)
1 cup of shredded mozzarella ($1.50)
1 bag (28 ounces) frozen spinach, defrosted ($2.00)
1 large portabello mushroom, sliced thin ($2.00)
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Place ¼ cup of tomato sauce on each pita bread and spread evenly. Top pita bread with vegetables. Sprinkle ¼ cup of cheese on top of vegetables. Place on baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes, until cheese is melted.
Broccoli and Black Bean Pita Quesadillas ($8.00)
4 Whole Wheat Pita Bread ($2.00)
2 cups of shredded cheddar ($3.00)
1 large broccoli crown, cut into small pieces ($.50)
1 can (15 ounces) black beans, drained ($1.00)
Place 2 tablespoons of olive oil on pan over medium heat. Place broccoli in pan and cook for 3-4 minutes, until tender.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Open pita bread in half. Sprinkle one layer with cheese. Place layer of broccoli and ¼ cup of black beans on top of cheese, then sprinkle another layer of cheese on top. Put 2nd half of pita bread on top. Place all quesadillas on a baking tray and place into oven for 10 minutes.
Pork and Vegetable Whole Wheat Chow Mein ($12.00)
1 pack of whole wheat spaghetti, cooked according to package. ($1.75)
2 boneless pork chops ($4.00)
½ medium onion, sliced ($0.50)
2 medium carrots, cut into ¼ inch slices ($0.20)
2 large broccoli crowns, cut into small florets ($1.00)
1 large red pepper, cut into thin strips ($2.50)
3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped ($0.25)
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, grated ($0.50)
1 cup of green onions, chopped ($0.50)
¼ cup of soy sauce ($1.00)
½ cup of water
To prepare the meat: Slice the pork into thin slices, approximately ¼ inch in width.
Place 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Place onions, ginger, garlic in pan and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add sliced meat to pan and cook for 3-4 minutes or until meat is almost cooked. Add vegetables to pan, then soy sauce and water. Cook for approximately 2 minutes. Lastly, add cooked noodles to pan and mix all ingredients well. Cook for another 2-3 minutes and then serve.
Baked Whole Wheat Pasta with Turkey and Spinach ($12.00)
1 pack of whole wheat short pasta (penne, rigatoni, macaroni), cooked ($1.75)
2 cans (15 ounces) of tomato sauce ($2.00)
1 cup of shredded mozzarella ($1.50)
1 pound ground turkey ($5.00)
1 package (28 ounces) frozen spinach, defrosted ($2.00)
Cook pasta as instructed on label. Place 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Place ground turkey in pan and cook until browned, approximately 7-9 minutes. Transfer cooked ground turkey into large mixing bowl. Place defrosted spinach in bowl with turkey and stir. Add tomato/marinara sauce. Add cooked pasta and stir. Pour contents of bowl into a large baking casserole tray.
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Place dish into oven and cook for 30 minutes. Remove dish from oven and sprinkle cheese on top. Return dish to oven and cook another 15 minute, until cheese is melted.
Mediterranean Chicken and Garbanzo Bean Soup ($12.00)
1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans, drained ($1.00)
1 large chicken breast ($3.00)
2 medium zucchini ($3.00)
2 medium carrots ($0.20)
1 can of tomatoes ($1.00)
1 sweet potato ($1.50)
1 bunch of kale ($1.00)
1 medium onion, diced ($1.00)
1 tablespoon of cumin ($0.20)
1 tablespoon of cinnamon ($0.20)
3 cups of water
To prepare vegetables: For zucchini and carrots, cut each in half lengthwise, then cut into ¼ inch pieces. For kale, cut into ¼ inch ribbons. For sweet potato, cut into half lengthwise, then again in half lengthwise. Then, cut sweet potato into ¼ inch pieces.
To prepare chicken: Slice chicken breast in half lengthwise, then again in half lengthwise. Then, cut chicken into ¼ inch slices.
Place a pot over medium heat. Place 2 tablespoons of olive oil in pot. Put onion in pot with cumin and cinnamon. Cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add chicken to onions and stir. Next, place zucchini, carrots, sweet potato and stir. Add canned tomatoes and garbanzo beans to pot, followed by the 3 cups of water. Turn heat to low-medium and let simmer for 30-40 minutes.
Once vegetables and chicken have cooked for 30-40 minutes, add kale and stir until wilted.
Creamy Garlic Bean Spread with Baked Pita Chips ($3.25)
1 can of white beans (also known as cannellini beans) ($1.00)
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 tablespoons of water
3 garlic cloves ($0.25)
Place all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Serve with baked pita chips, vegetables or as an alternative to mayo on sandwiches.
Baked Pita Chips ($2.00)
4 whole wheat pitas ($2.00)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut each whole wheat pita into 8 wedges. Place in bowl and toss with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place pita wedges on a baking tray evenly and put into oven. Bake for 15 minutes, or until pita chips are crispy.
Strawberry-Banana Yogurt Smoothies ($3.10)
2 ripe bananas ($0.70)
1 cup of plain yogurt ($0.90)
1 orange, peeled ($0.50)
½ cup of frozen strawberries ($1.00)
Place all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Divide into 4 glasses and serve.
Baked Cinnamon Apples ($2.40)
2 apples, cored and cut in half ($2.00)
4 tablespoons of brown sugar ($0.20)
4 teaspoons of cinnamon ($0.20)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut apples into half and remove core. Place apples on a baking tray. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/8 cup of brown sugar over each apple half. Bake apples for approximately 25 minutes.
Recipes in this blog post are provided courtesy of Mary Saph Tanaka, MD, MS. For additional healthy recipes and healthy alternatives, check out ACE's Healthy Recipes online database. You can search specifically for budget-friendly healthy recipes and many other health and diet considerations.


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Richard Youngs – Amaranthine (Mie Music) 2012
Richard Youngs is a British experimental/ avant garde musician who has been plying his trade for a number of years. From what I read, each of his records is unique and his discography does not follow any one style. I've seen his name a heap of times in publications like the Wire but this is my first experience with his music – and what a ride it is. When the first track started I thought for a micro second that there was a saxophone being abused in some way until it becomes startlingly apparent that the wail is actually his voice. That voice blew me away: an instrument which in itself is a mix of crooner and post-apocalyptic folk artist. It is a strange and oddly compelling voice and lays the foundation for each of the tracks. The songs themselves are extraordinary. Post experimental clatter and guitar experimentation is held together by the lilting drone of his voice. There is a sniff of the hippie about him and in many ways this is music which I usually steer clear of but I have listened to this about three times a day for the past week and I love it. Amaranthine has done for weirdo folk what Jim O'Rourke's Insignificance did for AOR. I'll go out on a limb and say that the first two tracks of Amaranthine (Hopeless Warriors and State I'm In (California)) are two of my favourite songs period.
I cannot stop listening to this right now and you won't find a better place to find a bamboo flute being rocked than on this. It's drone, folk, percussive clatter and outsider music in one lovely package. Another cracking release from Mie Music.
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I'm still wrestling a mountain of crochet to the ground. Two baby blankets and an afghan (especially requested) for Vivian are in progress and due in April. My library chair is surrounded by project bags; I hope I can meet all of the deadlines with beautiful finished gifts. Roxy is enjoying the process as she knows I will be in one place for a while. She hangs out in her crate while I crochet.


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FDA Approves Leeches as Medical Devices
WASHINGTON – The government has lent its seal of approval to a marketing an age-old medical device — leeches (search).
The Food and Drug Administration (search) said Monday that Ricarimpex SAS (search), a French firm, is the first company to request and receive FDA clearance to market the bloodsucking aquatic animals as medical devices.
Leeches are already widely used in American hospitals, and companies that raised and sold them here before 1976 were allowed to continue doing so. However, the medical device law passed that year required newcomers to the field to seek approval.
For many people, leaches conjure up the image of Humphrey Bogart removing the bloodsuckers from his legs in "African Queen," but FDA reports that leeches can help heal skin grafts by removing blood pooled under the graft and restore blood circulation in blocked veins by removing pooled blood.
Indeed the use of leeches to draw blood goes back thousands of years. They were widely used as an alternative treatment to bloodletting and amputation for several thousand years. Leeches reached their height of medicinal use in the mid-1800s.
FDA noted that today they are used in medicine throughout the world as tools in skin grafts and reattachment surgery.
Medicinal leeches — Hirudo medicinalis — normally make their home in fresh water.
In considering the Ricarimpex application, FDA said it analyzed the use of leeches in medicine, evaluated safety data provided by the firm and studied how the leeches are fed, their environment and the personnel who handle them.


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[Updated at 3:03 p.m. ET] Adam "MCA" Yauch, a founding member of the pioneering rap band the Beastie Boys, has died after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, the band's publicist said Friday. He was 47.
Yauch revealed in July 2009 that he had surgery for cancer in a salivary gland and a lymph node.
What is salivary gland cancer?
Yauch's death comes less than a month after the Beastie Boys were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Because of his fight with cancer, Yauch did not attend, Rolling Stone magazine reported.
The Beastie Boys - Yauch, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond - did not perform that night. But Horovitz read a letter from Yauch to the audience.
"I'd like to dedicate this to my brothers Adam and Mike," Yauch wrote, according to Rolling Stone. "They walked the globe with me. It's also for anyone who has ever been touched by our band. This induction is as much ours as it is yours."
Yauch's cancer delayed the release of the band's most recent album, "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two," for two years. It was supposed to come out in 2009 but instead was released in spring 2011.
The Beastie Boys' debut album, 1986's "Licensed to Ill" - featuring the singles "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)," "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," "Paul Revere" and "Brass Monkey" - was the first rap album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard album charts.
Yauch was a founding member of the group, which played for the first time at his birthday party in 1981, according to the band's Facebook page.
He converted to Buddhism in the 1990s after visiting Nepal and hearing the Dalai Lama speak in Arizona, he told the Buddhist magazine Shambhala Sun in 1995.
As a Buddhist, Yauch became an advocate for Tibetan freedom, organizing concerts involving the Beastie Boys and other acts to raise money for the cause, including the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1996. Several similar concerts followed.FULL STORY


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SACRAMENTO — A nurses' union urged state lawmakers Wednesday to set a minimum level of charity care for all nonprofit hospitals in exchange for their lucrative, tax-exempt status.
"We are calling on state officials to pass legislation to rein in the abuses we have seen," said Michael Lighty, public policy director for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
CNA released a study Wednesday concluding that beyond what they delivered in charity care, California's nonprofit hospitals in 2010 received more than $1.8 billion in government subsidies and benefits from their tax exemption.
Lighty spoke during the first hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Charity Care and Nonprofit Hospitals, chaired by state Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro.
Questions about the nonprofit status of hospitals have heightened since an investigation by this newspaper last year found that the responsibility of caring for the poor and uninsured falls largely on the East Bay's financially ailing public hospitals, despite the large tax breaks for nonprofit hospitals.
Lighty criticized what he called "a woeful lack of specific requirements on nonprofit hospitals" and noted that top executives at many such institutions have multimillion-dollar salaries.
He urged legislators to require nonprofit hospitals to use at least 8 percent of their combined operating and nonoperating revenue for charity care, generally defined as free or discounted services for low-income, uninsured patients.
The proposal drew immediate criticism from an industry representative who argued that charity care is just part of the community benefits nonprofit institutions provide.
Hospitals point out that they spend millions of dollars on services other than charity care such as health vans, free screenings, no-cost surgeries, support for clinics and programs, classes and research.
"Flexibility allows hospitals to respond to the unique needs of a community," said Anne McLeod, senior vice president of health policy for the California Hospital Association.
Setting a charity care requirement, she said, could harm places that need higher levels of support. Others pointed out that a charity care standard would be a minimum and hospitals could spend more.
A state audit released last week found that though nonprofit hospitals must file annual community benefit plans, no standards exist for what can be included or the methodology for valuing the benefits.
In estimating the value of community benefits, some hospitals include such things as child care, medical research, nurse training, unpaid bills, and shortfalls in Medicare and Medicaid funding, the audit noted.
If lawmakers want to tie tax-exemptions to community benefits, they should consider imposing requirements and a standard for determining the value of community benefits, the audit said.
Betty Yee, a board member of the State Board of Equalization, said she became interested after hearing that charity care at many nonprofit hospitals is similar to that of for-profit institutions.
A 2007 investigation by this newspaper found that in three of the five years reviewed, the average for-profit hospital had higher levels of charity care than the average nonprofit.
Corbett said the committee will continue trying to determine if taxpayers are receiving a fair deal and if standards are needed.
Speakers noted that the national health reform law will reduce the number of uninsured people, but millions nationwide will remain uninsured, so charity care will still be needed.
The California Nurses Association brought several busloads of its members to the hearing.
"The citizens, the taxpayers need to realize what is going on at these hospitals," said Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto, a registered nurse at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley.


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LSU releases non-conference basketball schedule
BATON ROUGE – LSU men's basketball coach Johnny Jones released the Tigers 2014-15 schedule of non-conference games that includes tournament action in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a second-straight appearance in the ESPN College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon and home games against Texas Tech, UMass and Southern Miss.
"We feel that we have put together a very challenging non-conference schedule that has several demanding games for our LSU basketball team," said Coach Jones, who will enter his third season at LSU. "We think there are a number of exciting matchups that our fans will enjoy watching in the Maravich Center and we feel our non-conference schedule, including our trip to the Virgin Islands where we will have three games in four days, will certainly prepare us for Southeastern Conference and postseason play."
The Tigers won 20 games a year ago and 39 in Jones' first two years, the most by any coach in their first two years at LSU. LSU advanced to postseason play for the first time since 2009, getting to the second round of the NIT. The Tigers won a road game at San Francisco before losing to eventual finalist SMU.
LSU will have eight home games in the non-conference portion of the season starting with a Nov. 15 game with Gardner Webb before the already announced 8:30 p.m. CT nationally televised ESPN2 game with Texas Tech at the Maravich Center on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
LSU's other home game in November will be on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (Nov. 29) against McNeese State.
In December, LSU will face UMass on Dec. 2 in a rematch of the 2013-14 season opener in which the Tigers fell, 92-90, in Amherst. The Minutemen went on to win 24 games last year and advance to the NCAA Tournament.
The Tigers will also host Sam Houston State (Dec. 13), Charleston (Dec. 22 in the first of a home-and-home series) and Southern Miss (Dec. 29). Southern Miss won 29 games a year ago and advanced to the NIT quarterfinals. LSU closes out its non-conference schedule with a Jan. 3, 2015, game against Savannah State.
The Tigers' trip to the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam in November had already been announced, with LSU meeting Old Dominion in the opening round on Nov. 21 at 5:30 p.m. CT on CBS Sports Network. LSU will then meet Illinois State or Weber State on either Nov. 22 or 23, with a final game against one of four teams – Clemson, Gardner Webb, Seton Hall or Nevada – on Nov. 24.
LSU will travel to West Virginia in the SEC/Big 12 challenge that will also be on the ESPN networks and LSU will finish up another home-and-home series on Dec. 18 when it travels to Birmingham to take on UAB.
Prior to the season opener, LSU will host a free-to-the-public exhibition game in the Maravich Center on the eve of the LSU-Alabama football game - Friday, Nov. 7 - against Morehouse College.
Game times and broadcast networks for the non-conference schedule will be announced along with the Southeastern Conference schedule of games later this month.


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As regards the election, I'm feeling more optimistic than at any time since the first flush of Lathamania around New Year. Howard looked like a beaten man on TV tonight, and with more than a week still left to go, I think that will sink in with enough voters to make the required difference.
Howard has nothing coherent to offer. His foreign policy is to follow Bush to catastrophic failure[1]. Domestically, he has accepted that the public want services more than tax cuts, but he's too much of a Thatcherite to change his own thinking. The result is an incoherent spray of spending promises, targeted tax breaks, and so on. The result is that his $6 billion has been generally derided, and Latham's $3 billion generally applauded. And of course his reputation as a responsible economic manager is gone for good.
Against this, there's the fact that incumbent governments tend to survive unless there's a really compelling reason to throw them out. Howard may not be much good, but there isn't a recession on and the Iraq catastrophe doesn't affect us directly. Until now, I've felt these considerations to be evenly balanced. Now, however, I think the odds are significantly in Labor's favour.
fn1. Our only hope here is that our jihadist enemies have shown themselves more than a match for Bush in both stupidity and capacity for pointless evil. Their brutal atrocities, many committed against fellow-Muslims, have largely, and perhaps completely, offset the support they have gained as a result of the invasion of Iraq and Bush's continued backing of Sharon/Likud against the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians. A large number of Muslims, I think, have the same view I do: "a plague on both your houses".


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Snowflower, my newest Priest has suddenly found her raison d'etre, no longer does she languish abandoned part way through a quest chain.
Instead she burns with purpose, driven by a need to leave behind the world she knows and explore what lies beyond the mist.
I'm not a huge fan of instanced start zones. My Death knights tend to get stuck early on because despite my love of being bad, I hate feeling trapped for so many levels and to be honest, stealing horses and slaughtering "innocents" who by their very nature can't make lv 1s and call you names soon grows old. If only all NPCs were like a certain Miss Ellia Ravenmane. Gilneas was fun the first time around although the Goblin start zone had me feeling like I was playing the wrong game but the Pandaren start has some how managed to engage with me on a personal level. I won't go into details as to why now because that's a post and a half in it's own right but somehow whilst wandering along, the atmosphere has managed to breathe life into character I was leveling for turtle mounts. She's become a living breathing opinionated entity in her own right.
There is no one factor which has helped create this shift in her character, meeting the Great Turtle helped and of course the sheer beauty of the landscape played it's part.
Ultimately though, the Forest of Staves was perhaps the biggest influence on her fledgling personality. Snowflower's staff will never grow along side her ancestors but where-ever she ends up, she'll carry their memories forever.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2013 -- Flanked by four children from across the country, President Obama today unveiled a sweeping plan to curb gun violence in America through an extensive package of legislation and executive actions not seen since the 1960s.
Obama is asking Congress to implement mandatory background checks for all gun purchases, including private sales; reinstate a ban on some assault-style weapons; ban high-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds; and crackdown on illicit weapons trafficking.
The president's proposal also includes new initiatives for school safety, including a call for more federal aid to states for hiring so-called school resource officers (police), counselors and psychologists, and improved access to mental health care.
Obama also initiated 23 executive actions on gun violence, policy directives not needing congressional approval. Among them is a directive to federal agencies to beef up the national criminal background-check system and a memorandum lifting a freeze on gun violence research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"I intend to use whatever weight this office holds to make them a reality," Obama said at a midday event in a White House auditorium. "If there's even one thing that we can do to reduce this violence, if there's even one life that can be saved, then we have an obligation to try.
"And I'm going to do my part."
The announcement comes one month after a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., left 26 dead, including 20 children. Obama called it the worst moment of his presidency and promised "meaningful action" in response.
The proposals were the work of an Obama-appointed task force, led by Vice President Joe Biden, that held 22 meetings on gun violence in the past three weeks. The group received input from more than 220 organizations and dozens of elected officials, a senior administration official said.
As part of the push, Obama nominated a new director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which leads enforcement of federal gun laws and has been without a confirmed director for six years. The president appointed acting director Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, to the post, if the Senate confirms him.
The administration's plan calls for aid to states for the hiring of more school resource officers, counselors and psychologists. Obama also directed the Department of Education to ensure all schools have improved emergency-response plans.
He also called on Congress to make it illegal to possess or transfer armor-piercing bullets; it's now only illegal to produce them.
"To make a real and lasting difference, Congress must act," Obama said. "And Congress must act soon."
Officials said some of the legislative measures Obama outlined could be introduced on Capitol Hill next week. The price tag for Obama's entire package is $500 million, the White House said.
"House committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations," a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said in response to Obama's announcement. "And if the Senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that."
The proposals are already being met with stiff opposition from gun rights advocates, led by the National Rifle Association, which overnight released a scathing ad attacking the president as an "elitist hypocrite."
"Are the president's kids more important than yours?" the narrator of the NRA ad says. "Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school?"
Obama has questioned the value of placing more armed guards at schools around the country, although his proposal does call for placement of more police officers at public schools. The NRA opposes most of the other gun restrictions Obama has proposed.
"Keeping our children and society safe remains our top priority," the NRA said in a statement after Obama's announcement.
"Attacking firearms and ignoring children is not a solution to the crisis we face as a nation," the group said. "Only honest, law-abiding gun owners will be affected and our children will remain vulnerable to the inevitability of more tragedy."
Hurdles for Gun Laws in Congress
Many members of Congress from both parties are also skeptical that some of the proposed new restrictions on gun sales can be effective, much less pass.
"Nothing the president is proposing would have stopped the massacre at Sandy Hook," Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said. "President Obama is targeting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat and gun owner, told a Las Vegas TV station Friday, "Is [the assault weapons ban] something that can pass the Senate? Maybe. Is it something that can pass the House? I doubt it. So I think there are things that we know we can do."
Before the announcement, the White House downplayed challenges facing individual aspects of gun-control proposals -- most notably the assault weapons ban -- stressing that no single measure can solve the epidemic of gun violence sweeping the country. They also pointed to successful steps on guns already taken on the state level.
New York State, for instance, approved the nation's most stringent gun-control law Tuesday, tightening a ban on assault-style weapons and beefing up protections to keep guns from the mentally ill.
Obama might travel the country seeking to leverage popular support for his proposals to urge action in Congress, officials said. He is also expected to mobilize his network of campaign supporters to participate in advocacy on guns.
"This will not happen unless the American people demand it," Obama said today of his plan. "If parents and teachers, police officers and pastors, if hunters and sportsmen, if responsible gun owners, if Americans of every background stand up and say, enough, we suffered too much pain and care too much about our children to allow this to continue, then change will come. That's what it's going to take."
Dozens of kids have written to the president about gun violence, officials said, including 8-year-old Grant Fritz of Maryland, who wrote in a letter released by the White House, "there should be some changes in the law with guns. It's a free country, but I recommend there needs be [sic] a limit with guns."
"Their voices should compel us to change," Obama said of the children.
Obama was joined for his announcement by seven cabinet secretaries, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, other local law enforcement leaders and mayors, and the families of victims and survivors of the Newtown shooting.
Many of Obama's proposals have strong support in the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll released Monday.
Eighty-eight percent of Americans favor expanding required background checks to buyers at gun shows; 76 percent favor checks on anyone buying ammunition.
New restrictions on high-capacity magazines are backed by 65 percent of Americans in the poll, with 58 percent supporting a ban on the sale of assault-style weapons. Thirty-nine percent oppose such a ban.
The NRA's proposal to place an armed guard in every school received 55 percent support in the survey.


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Most creatives aren't excited about data. But I actually think that 'true data' is going to set us free.
Right now, because data-gathering on advertising effectiveness is in its infancy, we are living in an age of seriously shoddy data.
We are measuring things like 'recall', which may or may not translate into sales. We are measuring things like 'persuasiveness'... which we can only measure after we've deliberately exposed someone to an ad, so we have no way of knowing if the consumer would have looked at the ad if we hadn't asked them to.
Which is why so many of the ads that pass research are 'saying all the right things' but don't actually work in the marketplace, where they are competing against (in the case of TV) seven other ads in the break, a toilet, a smartphone in the viewer's pocket, the conversation of someone else in the room, and the chance to make a cup of tea.
I am hugely encouraged by the data being generated from YouTube's relatively new 'skippable ad' feature.
The average skip rate for YouTube ads is greater than 80%. Source.
But an insider tells me that within that 80%, there's a huge variation. The most popular ads are skipped only 10% of the time. While the least popular are skipped 90% of the time. In other words, some ads are NINE TIMES as engaging as others.
This just confirms what we creatives have known in our bones, since time began.
That creativity works.
In the future, technology and data will be able to tell us exactly who saw a marketing message (in whatever medium) and then, from their subsequent purchasing behaviour, whether that ad was effective.
When this happens, creativity will finally triumph.
All the advertisers who thought that it was enough to simply say whatever they wanted to say, and gave insufficient thought to engagement, will be shown empirically to be wrong.
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Cub Scouting is a program for boys and girls in kindergarten through fifth grade whose overall mission is to help young people build character, learn citizenship, develop personal fitness, and contribute to the academic development of the children who participate. Cub Scouts are part of a pack. The Cub Scout pack belongs to a church, a school, or some other group of people in the community or neighborhood. This group makes sure your pack has good adult leaders, a place to meet, and exciting things to do. The pack is divided into smaller groups called dens. Each den has about six to eight youth. All of the Cub Scouts in your den are in the same grade and may even go to the same school.
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Scouts BSA is available to youth who have earned the Cub Scout Arrow of Light Award and at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10, or who are 11, but not yet 18 years old. The program achieves the BSA's objectives of developing character, citizenship, and personal fitness.
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Venturing is a youth development program for young men and women who are 13 and have completed the eighth grade, or age 14 through 20 years of age. Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults. Venturing is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between youth, adult leaders, and organizations in their communities. Local community organizations establish a Venturing crew by matching their people and program resources to the interests of young people in the community. The result is a program of exciting and meaningful activities that helps youth pursue their special interests, grow, develop leadership skills, and become good citizens. Venturing crews can specialize in a variety of avocation or hobby interests.
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Sea Scouts is a specialized program for young men and women who are 13 and have completed the eighth grade, or age 14 through 20 years of age. The program focuses on water high adventure and personal development. Sea Scout units, called ships, focus on sailing and cruising either sailboats, power vessels or paddle sports. Youth in these ships sail, row, canoe, keep boats in shape, cruise the local waters of Galveston Bay or sail on long cruises far from home. Some SCUBA dive, but all are active in camping, social events, regattas and annual seamanship contests or rendezvous.
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Stevenson, Adlai
|Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
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|5 February 1900 at 11:55 (= 11:55 AM )
|Los Angeles, California, 34n03, 118w15
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|16°36' 05°54 Asc. 02°53'
American politician and statesman. An intellectual and moral giant, he ran for president of the U.S. in 1952 and 1956.
Growing up in the rural surroundings of Bloomington, IL, Adlai's family had political ties dating back to the American Revolution. His paternal grandfather was V. P. under Grover Cleveland, his dad was the Illinois Secretary of State and his mom, a Republican, had family ties to Abe Lincoln. He traveled extensively in Europe as a young man and was not particularly successful in school as he failed his entrance exam for Princeton University three times then attended preparatory school at Choate Academy in CN and went on to Princeton where he was the editor of the "Daily Princetonian" and a member of the Quadrangle Club.
He graduated in 1922 after which he attended Harvard Law School. In 1924 he returned to Bloomington to work as an assistant editor of the "Daily Pantagraph," a newspaper his great-grandfather had started, because the ownership of the paper was in probate. While working there he reentered law school at Northwestern University and in 1926 graduated and passed the Illinois State Bar exam. He was hired by Cutting, Moore and Sidley, an old, conservative Chicago law firm. He made partner by age 35 and was earning $20,000 per year.
As a popular member of the Chicago social scene, he was a suave, urbanely sophisticated and articulate young man, joining clubs and civic organizations which furthered his political aspirations. He began government service in July 1933 when he became the special attorney assigned to Jerome Frank, general counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in Washington, D.C. In 1935 he returned to Chicago and the practice of law and became the chairman of the Chicago branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, often known as the White Committee. In 1940 Stevenson was offered a position as special assistant to Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. December 1943 and January 1944 he was on a special mission to Sicily and Italy for the Foreign Economic Administration to report on the country's economy. After the war Stevenson accepted an appointment as special assistant to the Secretary of State to work on a proposed world organization. He went to London as Deputy U.S. Delegate to the Preparatory Commission of the U.N. He held the position until February 1946.
In 1947 he defeated the incumbent Illinois governor, Dwight Green, in a landslide. In 1952 while still governor, he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at their convention in Chicago. Although his distinctive speaking style earned him the reputation of being an intellectual, he was defeated by Dwight Eisenhower. After the defeat and prior to returning to a law practice he traveled throughout Asia, the Middle East and Europe, writing about his travels for "Look" magazine. He was once again nominated by the Democrats in 1956 and again lost to Eisenhower on 11/06/1956. In December 1960 John Kennedy offered Stevenson the position of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. which he accepted only after Dean Rusk was named Secretary of State, a position he had hoped to fill. In April 1961 he suffered the greatest humiliation of his career when he was misled by the White House and publicly said the C.I.A. was not involved in the Bay of Pigs attack in Cuba. During the summer of 1961 he traveled throughout Latin America to convince leaders that Castro was a threat. October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis he confronted Soviet Ambassador Zorin in an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Stevenson addressed the Economic and Social Council in Geneva 7/12/1965 then flew to London for his last official duties.
Stevenson met and married Ellen Borden, a socially prominent debutante nine years his junior, in 1928. They had three sons, Adlai III, born 1930, Borden, born 1932 and John, born 1936. Ellen wasn't happy as she didn't like politics and after they divorced in 1949 he took other women "friends" on his trips.
Stevenson was overweight with poor eating habits and after lunch and a U.S. Embassy broadcast in London on 7/14/1965 at 4:00 PM as he took a brisk walk, he felt faint, fell and died of a heart attack in St. George's Hospital.
- friend relationship with Roosevelt, Eleanor (born 11 October 1884)
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Eisenhower, Dwight D. (born 14 October 1890)
- other kin relationship with Stevenson, Adlai IV (born 4 November 1956). Notes: Grandkin
- Work : New Job 1941 (Assistant Secretary of Navy)
- Work : New Job 1945 (Assistant Secretary of State)
- Work : New Job 1949 (Governor of Illinois)
- Work : New Job 1961 (U.S. Representative to the U.N.)
Source Notes
Church of Light quotes Mabel Smith, a black housegirl who helped with the birth and said "three to five minutes before Noon."
(Prior information gave 3:36 PM, rectified by Wilmer in AA 3/1956; 7:40 PM by Pryor in AFA 10/1971 and 11:02 AM by Keane in P.A. AA 11/1952 quotes a letter from him that states, "Cannot find any reference to time.")
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind (Intellectual giant)
- Traits : Personality : Principled strongly (Moral giant)
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Three sons)
- Vocation : Business/Marketing : Product Marketing (Steel industry)
- Vocation : Law : Attorney
- Vocation : Politics : Diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to U.N.)
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee (Secretary of Navy and State)
- Vocation : Politics : Public office (Governor of Illinois)
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book
- 1900 births
- Birthday 5 February
- Birthplace Los Angeles, CA (US)
- Sun 16 Aquarius
- Moon 5 Taurus
- Asc 2 Gemini
- 1965 deaths
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind
- Traits : Personality : Principled strongly
- Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3
- Vocation : Business/Marketing : Product Marketing
- Vocation : Law : Attorney
- Vocation : Politics : Diplomat
- Vocation : Politics : Government employee
- Vocation : Politics : Public office
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The girls find their secret summer spot at a nearby abandoned golf course. At the course, Nell and Lydia's sneaky summer plans turn into a path to self-discovery in this coming-of-age novel. The girls learn about the value of friendship as they expose concealed secrets. Will the girls continue to hole up in their hidden haven, or will they realize that running away does not always make their troubles vanish?
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One of the more colorful X-Men titles on the stands is Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force. Replete with gorgeous visuals (courtesy of artists like Jerome Opena) and steeped in X-Men lore, Uncanny X-Force has been a rock-solid read for fans of full-blown mutant insanity.
io9 recently caught up with Remender to chat about the conclusion to the "Dark Angel Saga," an eight-part yarn he's been spinning for the last few months. With the finale in comic shops next week, Remender elaborated on the creative method that transformed the good-natured (if angsty) X-Man Archangel into a crazed villain with aspirations for global armageddon.
First off, "Dark Angel Saga" encompasses so many bizarre corners of the X-Universe. How did you formulate this roller coaster ride through the history of the X-Men?
I'm versed in it, I'm a nerd. When I was a kid, the X-Men were my jam. In 1984, I mowed lawns to save up money for back issues of Secret Wars. I extrapolated on what was already there — after we killed Kid Apocalypse [in the first arc of Uncanny X-Force], it almost became A Beautiful Mind situation in connecting the dots. For example, "What is Archangel?" "What is Apocalypse's true connection to the Celestials?" There were all of these things that were always hinted at, but never cohesively explained.
You see the seeds of the "Dark Angel Saga" in the first ten page of Uncanny X-Force. Psylocke is inside Warren Worthington's head, fighting Archangel as a separate entity. I wanted the very extreme ending of the first arc — Fantomex's murder of Kid Apocalypse — to have a domino effect. You can go back in time and kill Hitler, but what worse person rises because of that? What is this new chain of events from these decisions? These events were Chekhov's rifle on the mantel.
People always ask me, "Where should I start on Uncanny X-Force?" Unfortunately, I write big mega-arcs, so I tend to say "Issue #1!" The book is built like an HBO series. I wouldn't tell people to start at Season 3, Episode 4 of The Wire.
In the "Dark Angel Saga," you put the X-Men from The Age of Apocalypse through the wringer. Were you surprised about the amount of alternate dimension superheroes you could kill with impunity?
That was all part of a whole other plan. In Uncanny X-Force #19.1, I'm launching the Age of Apocalypse ongoing series. It's all leading to something in that issue. Editor Jody Leheup and I were working together pretty closely with an idea that he had, and then we integrated it into both the "Dark Angel Saga" and also the Age of Apocalypse series. That's the inverse of our world: instead of 200-300 mutants left, there are 2000-3000 humans left. The rest of the world is populated by mutants. It follows a band of humans and few mutants who are familiar to us. But yeah, I don't slaughter characters willy-nilly for shock value.
I really liked how you took the Blob — the ultimate doofus villain — and made him one of the most formidable bad guys in the Age of Apocalypse.
I love the Blob. This version allowed for a dirtier approach. He's been fiddled with in the laboratories of the Dark Beast. He's way more depraved than our Blob, he's covered in acne, and he uses his powers in a lot of strange ways.
Fantomex was introduced in Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men and then fell off the radar for a few years. Since then, you've made him one of the marquee X-Men characters again. How'd that work out?
Matt Fraction and Jason Aaron had really gone to bat to get the character back in play. By the time, I took on Uncanny X-Force, he was someone who was around. The fun part's been taking a lot of characters who may have a central commonality and then finding all the interpersonal connective tissue. I'm digging through Fantomex's collective history with Wolverine, Deadpool, and the Weapon Plus program. We'll be exploring that next. We will see some new Weapons that have been created in the last 30-40 years.
I know you can't give away too much, but what will the team's status quo be post-"Dark Angel Saga?"
It will stay a lot the same. They will have new responsibilities, but they'll be trying to maintain their secrecy and preemptive takedowns of villains before they can twirl their mustaches and reveal their schemes. There are four issues in Otherworld coming up. Greg Tocchini, who is a genius, will be illustrating that.
The Otherworld's the dimension between all dimensions, where Captain Britain and the Captain Britain Corps protect the Omniverse. I like that there's a door that leads to every dimension in the Starlight Citadel. That's why I put Captain Britain in my upcoming run on Secret Avengers.
Does that mean we'll see a crossover between Uncanny X-Force and Secret Avengers?
That would be a pretty cool thing, a pretty natural connection there. If I were to be writing those two books and have characters like Beast who are teamed up with Wolverine on other teams, Captain Britain who is related to Psylocke, a whole cast of characters that are all interconnected, I might cross them over at some point. Who knows?
What are Rick Remender's top X-Men story arcs?
Obviously a couple hundred issues of Chris Claremont X-Men. We'll definitely see some things from the Australian years reflected in Uncanny X-Force. I'm going to be using Lady Deathstrike quite a bit. We'll see an Excalibur reunion of sorts in the Otherworld arc, so I'm drawing from that stuff as well. Let's see, Chris Claremont, Grant Morrison, and I would be an asshole to leave out Louise and Walt Simonson who created the foundations of this Apocalypse mythology that I've been building upon.
Uncanny X-Force #18 will be out Wednesday, December 14. You can read our brief history of all things X-Force here.


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Microsoft will give Office 365 customers the option to receive new and improved features considered to be significant before they are made generally available.
Customers who opt into the program, called First Release, will get these important updates at least two weeks before their scheduled rollout.
To sign up, Office 365 admins can go into the "service settings" area of their management console and turn on the First Release option, Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday.
Microsoft is surfacing the option gradually in the admin consoles and expects it to be visible to every Office 365 eligible customer within the next week. Within the next few months, Office 365 admins will be notified when the first batch of early release enhancements will be available to them.
First Release is available to business and academic users of Office 365, but not to customers of other editions of the suite, such as the Office 365 Government Community Cloud for U.S. government customers.
The enhancements distributed early via First Release will apply to the Office 365 user experience, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online. Other Office 365 components, like Lync Online, Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 ProPlus, aren't included in the program for now.
The First Release features won't be considered to be in beta status, but rather as "fully tested and supported," according to the blog post.
Microsoft also announced a new Web page that lists many recent enhancements to Office 365, as well as those that have been announced but not yet delivered.
"The public roadmap will be your best source of truth for product enhancements coming to the service," wrote Office 365 group product manager Jake Zborowski in the blog post.
The public road-map page is an attempt by Microsoft to keep Office 365 customers better informed about changes and enhancements to the suite, which can be hard to keep track of because they're being delivered continuously and at a rapid pace.
"Just as we transformed our development processes, we need to transform our communication processes regarding changes and future updates to the service," Zborowski wrote.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Math Facts Race!
Spring Break is a fabulous thing! I hope that everyone either had or is having a wonderful break!
My team and I have found that this group of second graders are very competitive! I came up with this game (using water bottle caps of course) that my competitive kids will love! Students will use a timer, they will set the timer for one minute or two minutes and see how many math facts they can find and record during that time. They can race against a friend or just race against themselves trying to get more math facts in a smaller amount of time. They can do addition or subtraction! Another way to do it would be to use a stopwatch and have students see how long it takes them to come up with the 30 facts and then see if they can beat their own score over time. This would work great as a fast finisher for high students or as extra math practice for those students who struggle. All the students in between will love it too!
I made up the addition and subtraction recording forms. They can be found here : )
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This is a great idea I will be saving caps this summer. Appreciate the free printable too.ReplyDelete
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I am going to make this for my third and fourth graders. I am also going to add some basic multiplication and division facts. Thanks for the tip.ReplyDelete
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Thanks for the great idea! I have all of my family saving bottle caps for me now! :) Do you happen to have the printable for multiplication, too? I can make one but thought I'd ask you first.ReplyDelete
You're Welcome! I don't have a multiplication recording sheet, sorry.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 9:43 PM
How do you have a race? Are the same 2 kids using the numbers at the same time? DOes one go first and the other 2nd, and if that is the case, won't they see the equations the first person made. I love the idea but would like some input on the best way to do it.ReplyDelete
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Which numbers are you using for the bottle caps? How many sets of each number? Do you have an answer key for the facts so the students can check their work?ReplyDelete
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The SIIG 10-Port USB Station has a simple aesthetic with an integrated night light. Credit: David Wise The , , or the are fairly run-of-the-mill when it comes to appearance but still decently stylish. These chargers all have clear plastic dividers, putting the visual focus on your devices and not the charger itself.
However, we did appreciate that the , the , and the at least are offered in a few color options to better match your current decor and preferences. The Apple Mag, Safe pairs perfectly with other Apple products. Credit: David Wise The is also very stylish, with a matching white and silver look to go along with many other Apple products.
When cutting clutter on your work desk and charging area at home, creating your own charging station might not be the first thing to pop into your mind. But believe it or not, creating one isn't too difficult. In this article, you'll discover 10 clever and unique charging station ideas that you can craft easily.
A Charging Station for the Whole Family If you've got multiple connected devices in your household, you can easily eliminate this mess by turning a shoebox into a charging dock for the entire family. Decorate it to your liking, and cut out holes for USB charging cables on the front and another hole on the lower corner of one end of the shoebox for the power strip cable.
Alternatively, you can use a wooden box. But instead of having the cable holes on the front, drill them into the bottom for a cleaner look. 2. His and Hers Charging Station This his and hers DIY charging station is a sure way to cut cable clutter and get your spouse to stop moving your charger from one power outlet to another.
You can even create your DIY letter tray. So, you can get one that tickles your fancy (or is big enough to hold your gadgets while they charge). 5. Wooden Charging Station Add rustic vibes to your desk or charging area with this wooden charging station. Find a wooden box (these are pretty much everywhere, and you can pick any design you love).
Put your power strip in the box, plug in the chargers, and place a wood shelf with holes to hold your devices while they charge. Close the lid whenever your devices are charging, and messy cables will never be a concern again. Related: Creative and Low-Budget PC Cases to Make This Summer 6.
Then, decorate the box to complement your kitchen décor. You can use paint, shelf liners, or even just a quote. Add a shelf to create more room for the charging devices. 8. Picture Frame Phone Charging Station This inexpensive DIY hack turns an ordinary picture frame into not only a charging station, but also a functional device holder perfect for watching as you cook or do the dishes.
Fit a thick cardboard piece in the frames, and cut holes for your charging cords on both the cardboard and frame's backing. Stick two pieces of trim along and across the width of the frame, and voila! You'll have a fully functional charging station and device holder. Even better, they'll cost close to nothing—compared to what you'd have paid for an accessory with similar features.
Cell phone charging stations are a great way to clean up the mess of cables in your kitchen, living room, bedroom, or wherever you typically charge all of your devices. This is a great system to keep the entire family's devices charged and accounted for. With shorter cables and a unified charging system separated by dividers, you can simultaneously charge everything while remaining organized.
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MASA Annual Meeting and Luncheon — Reservation Deadline April 25, 2014
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Welcome to Azawad, Africa's Newest Country
Forcibly "founded" by Tuareg rebels, this breakaway from Mali will face some significant challenges.
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The Tuareg rebels on April 6 declared their independence from Mali and announced the formation of the state of Azawad. That action was condemned or ignored by the international community.
In a thoughtful article, William Moseley, a professor of geography and African studies at Macalester College, puts Azawad in the context of the larger issue of Africa's colonial borders. He recalls the arbitrary nature of Africa's borders, most of which were inherited from the colonial period, especially from the 1884-85 Berlin conference. He also recalls the relationship between the Tuareg people and the Mali government, which he characterizes as "uneasy." But, he notes, Azawad was created by force, and that it remains unclear whether it has the widespread support of the inhabitants living within its territory. Then there is the question of what the boundaries of the new state might be. And this political drama is being played out against the backdrop of anticipated famine.
Moseley urges dialogue among the Mali government, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA - the 'government' of Azawad), and the international community. He suggests that many in the south of Mali may not see the north as worth a war. Should Azawad continue to insist on independence, he suggests that it be countered with force only if the MNLA refuses to follow a democratic process in building the new state.
Moseley is right in urging dialogue. But, for now, the Tuareg rebels seem to have most of the cards. They are well-armed and they defeated the earlier efforts of Mali's government to defeat them, thereby leading to a military coup in Bamako. The restored, constitutional government of Mali is still finding its feet and faces elections. It is hard to imagine a regional force could defeat the Tuaregs in an extraordinarily difficult fighting environment that bridges the Sahel and the Sahara. If it can hold the support or acquiescence of most of the population in the Azawad territory, MNLA is likely to be able to stay in power despite the opposition of the African Union or the Economic Community of West African States.
But, the elephant in the living room may be the Sahelian drought. UN agencies and humanitarian organizations are continuing to try to energize the international community to respond to what could be a major tragedy. With respect to Azawad, famine could cut many ways. The MNLA might be unable to feed its people, eroding support for Azawad. On the other hand, the ECOWAS states are likely to be distracted from concerted action on Azawad as they attempt to organize famine relief for their own people.
This article originally appeared at CFR.org, an Atlantic partner site.


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Southwestern Announces Plans to Reinstate Its Football Program, Add Varsity Lacrosse for Women
October 25, 2011
October 25, 2011
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Southwestern University will reinstate football and add women's lacrosse to its roster of NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports, thanks to $6 million in gifts from two former student-athletes.
Joe Seeber, a 1963 graduate who played basketball while he was at Southwestern, has pledged $5 million to launch the new programs and San Antonio businessman Red McCombs, who also attended Southwestern and played football, has pledged $1 million. Joanne and Brent Austin of Houston also have made a gift to support the new programs.
"As the oldest University in Texas, we realize the importance many people place on football," said President Jake B. Schrum. "There are many bright young men who want to play football in college who find NCAA Division III appealing. It is important for us to be back in the game. Additionally, Southwestern was on the forefront when we added men's lacrosse as a varsity sport. It naturally follows that women's lacrosse would also become a varsity sport at Southwestern. Both Mr. Seeber and Dr. McCombs were varsity athletes at Southwestern and their generosity is representative of the culmination of their love of amateur athletics and their commitment to Southwestern. We are deeply grateful to them and to all who have joined this effort."
The new Southwestern football team will play its first game in the fall of 2013. The new women's lacrosse team will begin competition in the spring of 2014.
Glada Munt, director of intercollegiate athletics at Southwestern, said adding intercollegiate football and women's lacrosse will bring Southwestern's complement of athletic teams to 20, on par with the university's peers in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS). The addition of both programs is expected to strengthen student recruiting, with football attracting, conservatively, 60 to 80 male students and lacrosse adding 20 female student-athletes. This will help Southwestern reach its goal of having 1,500 students by 2015.
Birmingham-Southern University added football in 2008 and now has more than 100 players on its roster. Texas Lutheran University reinstated football in 1998 and had 153 students report for practice this fall. Hendrix College has announced plans to bring back football in 2013.
According to the National Football Foundation, eight new college football teams took the field for the 2011 season and 16 more programs are set to launch between 2012 and 2014.
Southwestern previously played intercollegiate football from 1908 to 1951 and was a charter member of the Southwest Conference. The Southwestern football team gained national attention during World War II when Southwestern was home to a Navy V-12 program. With the help of players from schools such as UT, Baylor, SMU and TCU, Southwestern went 9-1 during the 1943-44 season and defeated the University of New Mexico in the Sun Bowl in January 1944. The Pirates won the Sun Bowl for a second consecutive year the following season.
Southwestern will join the University of Dallas as the only two universities in Texas to offer varsity lacrosse for women. In 2010, it became the first university in Texas to offer varsity lacrosse for men. Southwestern added varsity softball for women in 2008-2009.
Southwestern plans to use land it owns on the east side of its campus to build facilities to support the new programs, including two new practice fields, a 15,000 square-foot field house, and a new track to support the university's track and cross-country programs. The university also plans to upgrade the existing locker rooms in the Corbin J. Robertson Center for field sports.
Jerry Brody, vice president for student life at Southwestern, noted that the NCAA Division III Philosophy Statement says Division III athletics places "special importance on the impact of athletics on the participants rather than on the spectators." However, he noted that if developed correctly, football will be an asset to campus life.
"Football will add an additional social opportunity for students and provide another reason to stay on campus on weekends," Brody said. "It also will provide another vehicle for students, parents and alumni to come together during parent and homecoming weekends."
Brody said he expects football will boost alumni support and engagement with the university and also help boost its visibility.
Southwestern plans to play its home football games at the new Georgetown stadium complex.
"I've already learned of two local companies that want to sponsor our football team," he said.
Munt said economics is one reason so many small universities have added football recently.
"Once fully functioning, Southwestern football not only should be able to sustain itself financially, it should generate a surplus that could be used for other university priorities," she said.
Munt noted that the GPAs of student-athletes at Southwestern are comparable to the rest of the student population and graduation rates are consistently 7 percent higher than other students. She attributes the latter statistic to the fact that athletes want to stay in school to play their sport and the support athletes receive from their coaches.
Munt said that within a week after football was announced, she had received inquiries from four prospective football players. She also had received applications from 20 prospective football coaches and expects that number will go into the hundreds. Munt has appointed volleyball coach Hannah Long, who comes from a family of football coaches, to chair the campuswide search committee for the new coach.
The gifts to support the new athletics programs will be counted toward Southwestern's Thinking Ahead campaign, which seeks to raise $150 million and now stands at $123 million in gifts and pledges. McCombs has previously given $1 million to the campaign to support Southwestern's academic program.
Seeber said the motivation for his gift came from the two years he spent as president of The Association of Southwestern University Alumni, during which time he traveled across the country talking to alumni about their experiences at Southwestern.
"There are many places you can get an education, but not many places transform lives the way Southwestern does," Seeber said. "This isn't about football - it's about transforming lives."


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NEW YORK- Former NBA player Dennis Rodman will train a North Korean basketball team that will play a pair of exhibitions against a U.S. team in the isolated country in January, Rodman said on Monday following his second visit to North Korea this year.
Rodman also told a news conference North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "wants to change" and said he would conduct the first-ever television interview with Kim, a man Rodman has called a friend.
Rodman met with Kim in North Korea during his five-day trip that ended on Saturday. It followed a four-day visit in February, shortly after North Korea conducted its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. resolutions.
Rodman said he was going back to North Korea for a week in December to assemble a North Korean team and train it for two games against an American team on Jan. 8, Kim's birthday, and Jan. 10. He did not identify the teams.
Kim's date of birth remains publicly unconfirmed and he is believed to be 30.
Succeeding his father and grandfather as leader of the secretive and impoverished Asian country, Kim has presided over two long-range rocket launches and a nuclear test in February, which drew condemnation from around the world.
At that time North Korea said the test had "greater explosive force" than those it conducted in 2006 and 2009.
The goal of the games was "to open doors," said Rodman, an expert rebounder and defensive player who won NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls and was known for his flamboyant hair styles, cross-dressing and relationship with Madonna.
"This country is not bad because the marshal (Kim), now, he wants to change," Rodman, 52, said of Kim. "If you meet the marshal over there, he's a very good guy."
According to Rodman, Kim told him: "I want you to go over to America and say, 'Guess what?' We want people to come over here because we're not a bad country.'"


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Egypt Independent
|Photo credit: Ali Mustafa
By Ali Mustafa
TORONTO — Mohammad Mahjoub first arrived in Canada in December 1995, fleeing political persecution in his native Egypt, where he was imprisoned and tortured by the Hosni Mubarak regime. He was granted refugee status in 1996.
Shortly after settling in Toronto, he met and married Mona al-Fouli, and had two children, Ibrahim and Youssef.
It was not very long, however, before his new life in Canada took a nightmare turn for the worse.
"I was on my way to work. I was about to cross the street when suddenly, I found several vehicles around me and many police officers saying, 'Police! Police! Police!'" recounts Mahjoub. "I was looking right and left, and then found out I was the target. I was arrested right away without knowing why. It was like a Hollywood movie."
On 26 June 2000, Mahjoub was arrested on a "security certificate," a controversial legal mechanism housed under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which the Canadian government has used to indefinitely detain five Muslim men without charge or trial on the basis of undisclosed, "secret" evidence. Together these men later became known as the "Secret Trial Five."
Between Canada and Egypt
Mahjoub most likely first attracted the attention of the Canadian government after his name was mentioned in a wiretapped phone conversation between one of the later security certificate detainees, Mahmoud Jaballah, and another individual.
Shortly afterward, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service began to share information about Mahjoub with the Mubarak regime's General Intelligence Service.
Apparently intent on extraditing Mahjoub back to Egypt, Mubarak's security forces arrested and jailed three of his brothers in the summer of 1997. Between 1997 and 2005, they were arrested, released, and re-arrested no less than 25 times.
At the center of the Canadian government's case against Mahjoub is the fact that he was listed as one of 107 people summarily convicted by an Egyptian military court in the 1999 "Returnees from Albania" trial, in which defendants were suspected by Egyptian intelligence of being national security threats or having ties to Islamic fundamentalist groups and many were kidnapped from abroad and secretly returned to Egypt.
Based on what is known to have been a forced confession provided by another defendant in the case, Mahjoub stood accused of being a key member of an Al-Qaeda-linked group in Egypt known as the Vanguards of Conquest.
Within a matter of hours, Mahjoub was sentenced, in absentia, to 15 years imprisonment in a trial that has been internationally condemned for failing to meet a minimum standard of due process.
After Mubarak was toppled in January 2011, the case was reopened, and many of Mahjoub's co-accused have since been cleared of any wrongdoing and freed.
The West's war on terror
Meanwhile, in Canada, Mahjoub had served seven and a half years in a Canadian maximum-security prison, nearly three of them in solitary confinement. As of today, he has never been charged with any crime.
"The conditions of my detention were very harsh — because of my background, my skin color, my religion, my beard and so on," claims Mahjoub.
Nevertheless, he says it was not until the events of 9/11 — and the heightened climate of Islamophobia that followed — that his torment in detention truly began.
"After September 11, 2001, my whole life was turned upside down ... I didn't have anything to do with September 11 — I was in detention 15 months before then," he affirms. "The day after September 11, they put me in solitary confinement, and took off all my clothes, except for a suicide-watch gown."
"I was in a dark cell, without access to a toilet or light for 15 days. I was treated very badly by my jailers at Metro West Detention Center. ... One of the staff even asked a detainee to harm me. He used very ugly language towards me. He said, 'You are a fucking Muslim terrorist. People like you should be killed.'"
Mahjoub says he suffered physical abuse, repeated death threats and even attempted sexual assault by prison staff in the segregation unit.
Family pains
Yet, despite everything that has happened to him over the course of the past 12 years, it is only when he begins to talk about the impact of the case on his family that his composure becomes visibly shaken.
"Detention affects the family completely. ... For instance, the kids grow up without their dad. They don't know who their dad is, because when I was detained, my two sons were very little. One was two and a half, and the youngest one was only a few months old."
In 2006, Mahjoub was transferred to a new, multimillion-dollar facility in Kingston, Ontario, built specifically for security certificate detainees and dubbed "Guantanamo North."
A February 2007 landmark ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada deemed security certificates to be unconstitutional. Yet, less than a year later, the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper managed to successfully introduce a slightly amended version of the same law.
Mahjoub and the other security certificate detainees were again back to square one.
Mahjoub was finally ordered released on house arrest later in 2007. However, it was far from a happy family reunion.
Strict bail conditions attached to his release placed a heavy burden on his wife and sons, who were required to physically monitor him at all times and were even themselves placed under constant government surveillance.
"My wife and stepson were playing the role of my jailer, and they were jailed with me as well. They couldn't leave me by myself at all. They were detained with me 24/7," he recounts.
"It is very difficult to explain how harsh, how terrible the conditions imposed on me and my family were. Let's say I can handle it, as a man, I already spent years in detention — three of those years in segregation — but my wife and my little kids can't. They are human, like anybody else. Why should these conditions be imposed on them?"
Rather than continue to subject his wife and sons to further humiliation and punishment, he requested to be returned back to detention at "Guantanamo North" in June 2009.
In November of that year, Mahjoub was again ordered transferred to house arrest — but by this time, his marriage was over. Unable to cope with the constant invasion into the family's private space, his wife decided to leave him and take the children with her, he says. He has not been allowed to see his sons in over two years.
"My apartment window had a sensor. Whenever I wanted to smell fresh air, I had to call my jailer to open the window. If I wanted to close the window, I had to call my jailer again," insists Mahjoub.
"I wasn't even allowed to speak to people in the street. I still have a GPS band on my foot, 24/7. There was a two-way video camera inside my place, in addition to the security camera outside of my residence. My phone is tapped," he says. "Detention, in my opinion, is much better than here. They kill you slowly, step by step. ... It has many negative impacts on me mentally, physically and emotionally."
Suspended justice
The Federal Court recently ruled that the presumption of innocence in security certificate cases does not apply, since no charges exist in the first place.
As a result, Mahjoub exists in a state of legal limbo: He faces either indefinite detention without charge or trial in Canada, or deportation back to Egypt, no matter what threat of torture or other human rights violations may await him there.
Yavar Hameed, one of Mahjoub's lawyers, says defending his client under such exceptional circumstances has been anything but easy.
"Mr. Mahjoub has for 12 years remained with the most severe bail conditions in Canadian history. But because it's colored by what the ministers call national security, it somehow justifies the greatest kinds of violations to his life, liberty, and security that we've ever seen," Hameed says.
From the time of his arrest in 2000 until 2006, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service admitted to listening in on confidential phone calls between Mahjoub and his lawyers in a breach of the solicitor-client relationship. Canadian intelligence also systematically destroyed or concealed key evidence in the case, only further adding to the long list of factors that make any sort of fair hearing for Mahjoub virtually impossible.
In the summer of 2010, the Department of Justice illegally seized 14 boxes of confidential court documents belonging to Mahjoub and his defense team, which they then transferred to their own offices before proceeding to sort, analyze and copy the materials inside.
"If this is their behavior, what's the difference between Mubarak's regime and this regime here?" asks Mahjoub. "If their attitude is the same, there is no difference. Why do they call themselves a democratic society?"
In December 2012, Mahjoub experienced a major breakthrough in his case, when an Egyptian court overturned his previous conviction in the 'Returnees from Albania' trial. As a result, he no longer has any outstanding charges or convictions against him anywhere in the world.
On 7 January, the Federal Court lifted many of Mahjoub's remaining bail conditions. He hopes that this year his security certificate case will finally be quashed, once and for all.
This piece was originally published in Egypt Independent's weekly print edition.


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|Tokyo Marui - SCAR-L
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Manufacturer: Tokyo Marui (Japan)
The Tokyo Marui - SCAR-L is 1 of the latest in their Recoil line of AEG's. Like the TM SOPMOD and SOCOM series, these AEG's have a Recoil systems, which give the user a more realistic feel when fired. They also use the same type of magazines and the standard 30/82 round ones will stop the AEG from firing when empty which is another realism feature. Freedom Art makes a convertor so you can use older style M4/M16 AEG magazines with this new recoils series as well, but they won't stop the AEG from firing when empty.
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Movie Review: The Way
Emilio Estevez's uplifting story of life and purpose
En español | A story about a father and son, The Way succeeds in large part because it stars Martin Sheen, the real-life father of the film's writer and director, Emilio Estevez. It is also the tale of a literal journey that leads to a spiritual, personal transformation, and that is territory that Sheen — survivor of both addiction and heart disease, parent of a wayward son, devout Catholic — knows well. Sheen makes this film work, though he couldn't have done it without his son.
The Way begins with Tom (Sheen), a widowed ophthalmologist, filling his days with work and golf. He argues with his only son, Daniel (Estevez), who has decided, at almost 40, that he's not going to complete his doctoral dissertation but is instead going to set out to see the world. "You don't choose a life," the son tells his dad, "you live one."
Tom is on the golf course when he receives a call on his cell phone from a police officer in the border town of St. Jean Pied de Port in southern France informing him that Daniel was killed in a storm in the Pyrenees along the Camino de Santiago. Each year, thousands of "pilgrims" from around the world trek 500 miles from France across northern Spain to the town of Santiago de Compostela, where the tomb of St. James is housed in the main cathedral. As fellow travelers, they journey together, but motivated by infinitely diverse goals, they each complete an interior passage alone.
Tom travels to St. Jean Pied de Port to collect his son's remains and is drawn to complete the odyssey that Daniel had just begun. Along the way to Santiago, he meets a trio of pilgrims — Sarah, an angry divorcee from Canada (Deborah Kara Unger); Jack, a frustrated writer from Ireland (James Nesbitt); and Joost, a hilarious gastronome from Holland (Yorick van Wageningen) — and comes to know himself, through them.
The Way is by no means a perfect film. At times, the dialog is forced, and the characters — especially Jack, a caricature of Don Quixote if there ever was one — are overplayed. Some of the subplots are heavy-handed. For example, Sarah makes this journey in part to assuage the guilt she feels over having had an abortion; Martin Sheen, in real life, is opposed to abortion. Sheen is also known to hand out rosaries, as does a priest Tom encounters on the road to Santiago.
But following this motley crew of pilgrims is a funny, heartwarming armchair-travel adventure. The scenery of the Galician countryside will take your breath away. And the message underlying The Way — that it's never too late to change — will inspire you. It sent me from the theater to my computer to explore the possibilities of one day walking the Camino de Santiago on my own.


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