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Lesson Study is a structured, collaborative professional development intervention with evidence showing that it improves mathematics instruction among K-12 teachers. Lesson Study provides a framework for instructors to actively investigate how to improve learning in their classrooms. Resources from
The Community College Research Center and Education Northwest are collaborating to adapt a pilot project at three community colleges in Oregon to test the usefulness of the lesson study professional development model in higher education.
This brief provides educators with the background, rationale and evidence for implementing an uninterrupted, 90-minute literacy block as part of a comprehensive approach to teaching reading in elementary schools.
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This report presents the results of a study that examined the efficacy of professional development for teachers using the 6+1 Trait Writing model with respect to improving student writing skills. To achieve this purpose, a randomized experimental study was conducted in 2003-2004 in grades 4 to 6 to
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Issues and Answers is an ongoing series of reports from short-term Fast Response Projects conducted by the regional educational laboratories on current education issues of importance at local, state, and regional levels. Fast Response Project topics change to reflect new issues, as identified
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http://mmajunkie.com Japanese superstar Yoshihiro Akiyama (13-4 MMA, 1-3 UFC) isn't planning on shedding any sexiness, but he will look to drop about 15 pounds.
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Akiyama made his professional debut in 2004 and quickly rose to prominence while fighting under the K-1 and DREAM banners. While controversy followed Akiyama from his judo career into a few hotly-debated bouts with Kazushi Sakuraba and Kazuo Misaki, Akiyama continued to rise in popularity throughout the Asian market.
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Starbucks is expanding its empire to the single-cup coffee maker market.
The company announced March 8 that it would launch sales of an at-home premium single cup machine in the fall. The new Verismo will brew espresso, lattes and coffee.
Starbucks says the machine features Swiss engineering and a patent-pending high pressure extraction capability and will use a variety of coffee and milk pods.
"The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry," said Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman, president and ceo. "We have long believed that the biggest prize within the segment is a high-pressure system that would give us the opportunity to deliver Starbucks-quality espresso beverages at home and at work for customers who desire the Starbucks espresso experience outside of our stores."
Verismo will be available online and at select Starbucks retail stores, as well as specialty retailers. Espresso and brewed coffee pods will be available in a range of Starbucks roasts, along with a variety of milk pods.
Starbucks entered the premium single-cup market with Starbucks VIA Ready Brew instant coffee in 2009 and extended its presence by teaming with with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters to provide Starbucks K-Cups for the popular Keurig machines last fall. (Starbucks will continue to make K-Cups for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.)
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Spike Lee's 'Red Hook Summer' headed to theaters, but in what form?
"Red Hook Summer," Spike Lee's polarizing coming-of-age movie that prompted fierce debate at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is headed to theaters.
Executives at the boutique distributor Variance Films have reached an agreement with Lee to release the film theatrically beginning this August. The director financed the movie independently and shot it in secrecy on Brooklyn streets over a period of 19 days last year.
In an interview, Variance President Dylan Marchetti told 24 Frames that the movie will aim to play in as many as 30 markets, "and not just one theater in each market." Variance is a small New York-based distributor that has previously released the Michael C. Hall and Brie Larson indie "The Trouble With Bliss" and the Chinese action pic "Let the Bullets Fly."
"Summer" centers on a boy who arrives in a Brooklyn housing project to live with his preacher grandfather. For about two-thirds of its running time, it's a gritty and music-heavy street drama about an assortment of neighborhood characters, with the occasional reference to Lee's seminal "Do the Right Thing." But the film in its last section takes a turn to the shocking, as a main character is revealed to have committed a heinous act that involves sex and Bible scripture.
The shift elicited arguments that ping-ponged around the theaters and restaurants of Sundance after the film premiered. (The initial screening was made even more controversial when Lee took to the stage and engaged in an outburst in which he said that he made the movie independently because Hollywood studios "know nothing about black people.")
Asked if any of the controversial moments of the film have been changed, Marchetti said he couldn't comment and referred all requests to Lee. The filmmaker was traveling and not available for comment. [Update, 5:12 p.m.: Marchetti followed in an email to say that the movie has "been tightened up a bit since the Sundance showing, but no key scenes have been removed. It's still as powerful and controversial as what you saw at Sundance, if not more so."]
The author James McBride, who wrote "Red Hook Summer" with Lee, had previously told Lee he didn't believe the provocative scene involving the Bible and the sex act should have been included in this way.
Lee, however, remained defiant. "It was one of the most difficult scenes I've ever done," he told 24 Frames at the festival. "But I knew it had to be done. It would have been cowardly and gutless and punkish to not deal with it straight on."
The announcement continues a spate of deals for Sundance movies that has continued long after the festival ended.
More than 40 movies that played the Park City, Utah, gathering have come out or will come out in theaters. Even in the last month, several films, including Jonathan Kasdan's youth romance "The First Time" and the teen documentary "China Heavyweight" received deals, from Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Zeitgeist Films, respectively.
It remains to be seen, though, how many of the Sundance deals will bear box-office fruit; a number of them come from small distributors and will get only token releases.
Marchetti said he had yet to settle on all the details for the release for "Summer," and also was undecided on whether to submit the movie for a rating with the Motion Picture Assn. of America. "We don't need to do it, so I'm not sure that we would," he said. "But even if we didn't, we'd make sure to warn people in some way about the adult content."
Sundance 2012: Spike Lee says studios 'know nothing about black people"
Sundance 2012: Spike Lee made 'Red Hook' because Hollywood wouldn't
Sundance 2012: Spike Lee's co-writer joins the race conversation
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We can understand why so many mediocre bowls line our on-screen guides every December and early January: They're lucrative for everyone (well, almost everyone) involved. Local dignitaries in moderate-sized middle American metropolises gotta eat. But we could really do without all the specious shilling. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen, NPR's Mike Pesca airs his grievances with particular reference to Shreveport's AdvoCare v100 Independence Bowl, whose spectators are pictured above.
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Queen musical coming to the U.S. stage
A musical built around songs by the rock band Queen has found a kind of magic abroad, charming European audiences for years. Now, its producers hope another group will finally go gaga for it -- Americans.
Eleven years after "We Will Rock You" debuted in London and spawned tours in Australia, Japan, Spain, Russia, South Africa and Italy, its first North American tour kicks off this month.
"We decided to take our time," says producer Jane Rosenthal, whose Tribeca Theatrical Productions, which she co-founded with Robert De Niro, will put the show on the road. "We decided to let America wait."
Boasting an original futuristic story by British comedian and writer Ben Elton, the show contains 24 of Queen's biggest songs including "Another One Bites the Dust," "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," "We Are the Champions," "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You."
Elton worked with the surviving members of Queen and the family of the late singer Freddie Mercury to write a love story in a dystopian future studded with "perhaps the most theatrical rock music of all time."
The tour launches in Baltimore on Oct. 15 and hits more than a dozen states and Canada over the next year, ending next summer in Los Angeles. It will star Brian Justin Crum and Ruby Lewis.
Set in a future when musical instruments are banned, individuality is taboo and everything is controlled by an international corporation, a small band of rebels wants to break free from the mindless dance music and celebrity gossip - called "gaga" - that's imposed from above.
A hero emerges -- Galileo Figaro -- who teams up with a girl - Scaramouche (both names are lifted from the lyrics to the rock opera tune "Bohemian Rhapsody") -- and together they seek to resurrect real rock music. Songs include "Radio Ga Ga," "Under Pressure" and "A Kind of Magic."
"This is a way of taking this spectacular deep and rich catalog and being able to tell stories with it," says Rosenthal. "It defies any demographic."
Critics in England were less than kind when the show began its run in 2002, with the Times saying it was "so awful, it's almost entertaining" and the Guardian calling it "ruthlessly manufactured." The Daily Mirror went so far as to say that "Ben Elton should be shot for this risible story."
But "We Will Rock You" simply wouldn't bite the dust. The show is still on in London's West End and has spawned several tours through 17 countries, playing to over 15 million people. A stripped-down version opened in Las Vegas in 2004 but lasted only a year.
Elton, who helped write the groundbreaking TV comedies "Mr. Bean" and "The Young Ones," was initially approached by the surviving members of Queen to help them write a musical about Mercury. He immediately thought that was a terrible idea.
Instead, inspired by the Legend of King Arthur, "The Matrix" and George Orwell's "1984," Elton penned a satirical story that tweaks corporate show business for sucking away individuality. He has been able to update certain sections of the script to stay technologically relevant over the years, adding jokes about Facebook or Twitter as they got topical.
"Because it's a satire and a comedy, the terms of reference change," he says. "I'll probably bang a twerking gag in for a month. It won't last long. The show can contain that."
For the U.S. tour, he's also replaced the song "One Vision" with "You're My Best Friend" at the top of Act 2. "There's an opportunity to reinvent the show and we take it," Elton says.
Rosenthal says "We Will Rock You" was ahead of its time and now with gizmos like auto-tune and Google Glass, the time in America may be ripe. She also hopes to show Yanks that Queen's music is more than the stadium-rocking "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions."
"The U.S. knows probably 11 to 14 songs," she says. "We forget that they wrote 'Who Wants to Live Forever' or 'No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young).' Queen music is beautiful. It tells stories. It's fun."
Adds Elton: "This is really the beginning of the American journey. It's as it should be."


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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Coastal cities Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Coastal cities Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message hotsalsaJoined: 17 Mar 2003 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 9:53 am Post subject: Coastal cities Hello! I've been researching cities where I'd like to work in and have narrowed it down to Ulsan, Masan and Busan. Any comments on the living conditions in these cities would be most welcomed or if you can suggest some other cities on the coast. thanks! I tried to scan the postings to make sure I'm not repeating the question, but sorry in advance if you've already answered this before. Back to top bucheon bumJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:06 pm Post subject: just curious, why are you interested in masan and ulsan? Why not Mapo, Gangneung, or Sokcho? I've personally never been to Masan or Ulsan but from what i've heard they're not the nicest spots in the country. Back to top yodanoleJoined: 02 Mar 2003Location: La Florida Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 7:00 am Post subject: coastal cities I lived in Masan for one year, Pusan for one year and Ulsan for 5 years (not continously). I am about to start my sixth year in Ulsan. That works for me. However, Pusan would be my recommendation, especially for a first timer, or someone who enjoys "Western" things. (Pusan is more of an "international city". It is really big (Korea's largest port city), and there are a few more luxuries (non-Korean food, Pusanweb, foreigner activities). Ulsan would be second (one million people, the Detroit of Korea, little cultural activity, but some friendly people). Masan wasn't my cup of tea. Masan is a smaller port city, not many non-Korean activities. But, the bottom line, IMHO, is that overall there isn't THAT much difference. For example, Why do I like Pusan? It has a Burger King! Back to top hotsalsaJoined: 17 Mar 2003 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:07 am Post subject: coastal cities I am looking for the nicer beaches, not necessarily the cities with the most "western" things/restaurants etc. Although I know that for my first year I don't want to be in a small town either. Ulsan seemed like a good compromise with a pop. of 1 million, beach and close to Busan. But I will look into the others. Thanks for the suggestions! Back to top Man of ChangwonJoined: 02 Feb 2003 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 8:40 am Post subject: Good beach in Korea(except maybe Jeju). Good luck. The beaches here are average to say the least. I had a fight with a korean man the other day who tried to tell me that Haeundae beach was better than every beach in Australia. He obviously hasn't been to Australia. Haeundae and Gwangali beach in Busan are so-so but in summer forget. Half of Seoul comes down to sit on 10 centimeters of sand each. It is ridicuolous. Forget abou the beaches in Masan, polluted and I'm pretty sure the same goes for ulsan. Try Gangwon-do, Jeju-do, or southwestern Jeolla nam do. You obviously haven't been to Korea. Back to top weathermanJoined: 14 Jan 2003Location: Korea Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 4:10 pm Post subject: Man of Changwon wrote: [For] Good beach[es] in Korea try southwestern Jeolla nam do. . Yeah, that is if you like tidal flats, no surf, and very little rocking eye candy.Last edited by weatherman on Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:04 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top Man of ChangwonJoined: 02 Feb 2003 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 10:32 pm Post subject: There is no surf in Korea at all. Thye closest place for good surf is the north coast of Japan. I've done the trip twice. It is worth it after seeing the piss poor conditions here. Back to top sidJoined: 02 Feb 2003Location: Berkshire, England Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:53 pm Post subject: I think I drove through Masan on my Korea road trip last summer. Can't remember anything about the place, but it is the closest city to Goje-do (island) which is very nice. Some quiet, scenic little beaches if you have the wheels to get there. Back to top gajackson1Joined: 27 Jan 2003Location: Casa Chil, Sungai Besar, Sultanate of Brunei Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: Drat - i was all set to jump in here & suggest Changwon, as a city. But you need nice beaches in the South??? Urrrr. . . well, as a beach I like Sonjeong, just up above Hyundae, but it can get just as crowded. I have never been to the beaches in Ul-san area, so cant speak for them personally. I HAVE spent time on beaches in je-ju, which would be ok, if you could live on an island that small for a year. Maybe, Ko-je do as a possibility? But I can't speak for the cities or job opportunities. I guess the reason for the beach might be important, as well. Swimming, tanning, watersports, the atmosphere, etc.? I am now in the outskirts of Seoul, and the weather is warming, which is very frustrating - I am a daily sunbather type, but if you try to do it anywhere but a beach here, people will stre, laugh, call their friends, call the police, poke you to see if you are drunk/dead, etc. *SIGH!!!* Good luck, Glen Back to top mack the knifeJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: standing right behind you... Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 12:47 am Post subject: sokcho on the east coast is nice and there are decent beaches all up and down the east coast. on the other hand, they're closed most of the year because of our wonderful neighbors to the north. if you want beaches (and a nice atmosphere to boot) you had better stick to cheju-do or sokcho (the biggest, [i]nicest[/i] "small town") you could live in without getting Klaustrophobia. 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The new gondola, named Gondola 1 after Vail's original gondola in the same location, will carry 10 passengers in cabins featuring heated seats and Wi-Fi.
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Rick Spear, president of Leitner-Poma of America, calls Gondola 1 a "tremendous advancement in lift technology."
More than half of the gondola will be manufactured at the Leitner-Poma plant in Grand Junction. The cabins and a few other portions of the gondola will be constructed in Europe.
Vail Mountain Lift Director Clyde Wiessner said the construction is looking good and is on schedule.
Construction began April 16, the day after the resort closed for the 2011-12 ski season. The first step: disassemble the Vista Bahn chairlift, which took 37 days.
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The museum archaeologist's lot can be varied and since being restructured to the role of Collections Manager my role is broader than pure archaeology. However, this has given me the scope to develop some really interesting and exciting projects and one of them is to do oral history interviews with as many archaeologists who have dug on our site at Verulamium as I can. There are several aspects to this project, a bit of hunting around and trying to track people down, then going along and interviewing them using our digital Marantz recorder and then coming back to the museum transcribing interviews.In the morning I found myself looking through the transcript of an interview in order to try to find some quotes to go with historic photographs. I'm slowly pulling together all of this research for a book which I hope to publish, we have interviews with archaeologists who worked with Mortimer Wheeler right the way through to our present day District Archaeologist. Many of today's most respected archaeologists worked at Verulamium and these interviews are a record of their experience, life as a digging archaeologist and the town at the time.It's fascinating work, not the least seeing some of our most interesting and exciting objects being excavated. For example, the image to the top left is from the 1930's of the hypocaust currently in Verulamium Park
and here is one of the excavators talking about it:
"…we were all rather excited about the hypocaust… and I was one of those who had the fortunate opportunity to crawl along the channel, under the pavement, between the pilae which supported it. I struck matches to see where I was going, and found myself under the centre of the mosaic…"
Helen Carlton-Smith 1980
Another aspect of my work is to work on the museum documentation system. I am currently trying to improve the records by adding photographs and as much additional information about objects as I can. The afternoon was spent taking photographs of metal medieval and post medieval artefacts and then integrating them into the database.Of course, in between this there was the usual stream of public enquiries which are rich, varied and interesting. I tracked down a map which detailed all the WWII air raid shelters in St Albans and did a bit of research on the local dairy for someone. I was also part of the team which considered some new objects for acquisition- some historic CND banners.I often wonder what an oral history interview with me would sound like in fifty years!


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The Haskell implementors' workshop is a forum for those involved in implementing Haskell systems, infrastructure, libraries and tools, generally for people involved in implementing Haskell technology, to share their work and discuss future directions and collaborations with others.
In 2014, the Haskell Implementors Workshop will be co-located with ICFP 2014 in Gothenburg.
The workshop does not have proceedings. Talks and/or demos are proposed by submitting an abstract, and selected by a small program committee. The workshop will be informal and interactive, with a flexible timetable and plenty of room for ad-hoc discussion, demos, and impromptu short talks.
Proposals for talks and demos should be submitted via Easychair under https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hiw2014 before the deadline (use "abstract-only" submission).
We are aiming for 20 minute talks with 10 minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. For more details see the Call for Contributions in full.
The workshop will also give opportunity for lightning talks organised on the workshop day. These talks will be 5-10 minutes, depending on available time, and do not require prior proposal submission.
Important Dates
- Monday, 14 July, 2014: Talk Proposal Deadline (anywhere on earth)
Monday, 21 July, 2014: Notification
- (a couple of days after 21 July): Notification (sorry, we are delayed)
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- Jost Berthold - co-chair (University of Copenhagen)
- Kevin Hammond (University of St.Andrews)
- Gabriele Keller (University of New South Wales)
- Paul Liu (Intel Labs)
- Rita Loogen (Philipps-Universitat Marburg)
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I was very intrigued with the thought of being done with diapers early than the norm. I cannot stand to clean a poppy diaper. A close friend of mine had lent me a book on Infant Potty Training when I was pregnant with my first child. I read the book and thought, there is no way that I am going to do that because that just seems like to much work. So for the first 5 months of my son's life, we did the normal diaper changes. But around 5 months of age, I started to see a pattern to my son's pooping pattern. I would breastfeed him and he would always poop right after he was done feeding. Some one had given me a potty seat that fits on top of a regular toilet seat so I thought, what the heck, I will just give infant potty training a try.
Step One: Develop a signal word and show sign while child is peeing or pooping
I decided to just work on poop, since I hated changing poopy diapers the most. After my son would finish breastfeeding, I would say the word potty and sign potty in sign language as he was pooping. This way he started to associate these two cues (the word "potty" and the sign language for potty). I did this for about a month.
Step Two: Put your child on the potty when he starts to pee or poop (while using your cue word and sign language)
The day my son turned 6 months old, I decided I would finally give infant potty training a real try. After I was done breastfeeding my son, I took his diaper off, placed him on the potty seat, and said potty and signed potty at the same time. Apparently all my hard work for the past month had paid off because my son pooped and the potty! I could not believe it. From that point on, he has always pooped on the potty. He poops on the potty about 95% of the time. He still has an accident every now and again, but it mostly my fault for ignoring his need to go. I still take him to the potty after he eats. He does not always need to poop, but it has become a ritual we do. If my son does not need to go, he will say, "all done", and at which point I know that it is time to take him off the potty.
Step Three: Your child communicates to you the need to use the bathroom through sign language or words.
The ultimate goal is that you child would tell you that he needs to use the bathroom without you having to take him to the bathroom at set times. Even though I have been signing potty to my son since he was 5 months old, he does not consistently tell me in sign language that he needs to go, which is why I still put him on the potty after each meal. He is now 17 months old, and he is telling me he needs to go more frequently, but not consistently.
What I wish I had done
What I wish I had done was also work on getting my son to pee in the potty early on. I decided to only tackle pooping in the potty. I have attempted to teach him to pee in the potty, but I believe that I missed that magical window where it is easier to train peeing in the potty. My son will pee on the potty about 50% of the time I put him on the potty, but I believe he does not have any control over his bladder muscle yet because I never helped him to develop it. He is also not aware that he is urinating half the time (at least that is what I think). I have decided to take pee training with "bottomless toilet training" or a "bare bottom week". Essentially, during bare bottom week, you allow your child to run around without a diaper on. Every time he or she starts to pee, you whisk them to the toilet to finish peeing. You reward them for peeing on the potty with some kind of a prize (m&ms, candy, juice, etc.). I plan on doing this once the weather warms up so my son will not be cold running around half in the nude.
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I am so glad that I decided to poop train my son. I think it will make when I finally tackle pee training even easier. My hope is to have my son completely potty trained before my twins are born at the end of April. Let's just hope the weather warms up in time for me to start my "bare bottom week." If I am successful, my son will be 19 months old and completely potty trained. Let's hope it works! I would be one happy mama to have my toddler out of diapers before I start diapering two newborns again!
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Study Finds Good Marriages More Likely for Teens of Happy Homes
A UT Dallas study has found that people who come from families with members who are encouraging and engaged with one another tend to have marriages with more positive outcomes later in life.
Dr. Robert Ackerman's team based its conclusions on a study of youths whose progress was tracked for 17 years.
Dr. Robert Ackerman, an assistant professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and his colleagues looked at data from participants in the Iowa Youth and Families Project. The long-term study tracked them from youth through adulthood. Ackerman examined findings regarding family interactions from the time participants were in middle school.
"The results suggest that growing up in a family that resolves conflict through clear, warm and assertive communication may have benefits for adolescents' outcomes in later marital relationships," he said.
The study was published online in Psychological Science. Researchers analyzed the participants' videotaped interactions with their families when they were adolescents. Those videotaped situations were coded for indicators of positive engagement: pro-social behavior, listener responsiveness, effective communication, assertiveness, and warmth or support.
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Brain Sciences
The researchers then looked at questionnaires and observational data from the same participants 17 years later. They determined that participants who came from families with more positive interaction were less likely to express hostility to their spouses. Their spouses also appeared less hostile.
About 280 participants and spouses took part in the study.
"I think that studying more positive behaviors is important because it may shed more insight on how to better enhance romantic relationships," Ackerman said.
Previous research has tended to focus more on the negative long-term effects of divorce and hostile family environments. Few studies have looked at the positive results that a happier environment could foster, Ackerman said.
"I think that one of the more impressive features of this research is that it shows that even after accounting for the continuity of individual differences, the overall nature of the family climate still matters for later marital outcomes," he said.
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This instant ready dessert by Amy Atlas is a real after dinner dairy treat. Its also the perfect "chill and wrap" hostess gift that will be gobbled up by kids and adults alike.
Make sure you cut all of the squares evenly. I like to cut these peanut butter treats on the diagonal to form a diamond shape. Enjoy! Marlene
- Ready Time : 0 min
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 18 tablespoons unsalted butter or Earth Balance divided into 12 tablespoons melted and 6 tablespoons softened
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅜ teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces good-quality semisweet chocolate such as Ghirardelli, finely chopped
- ⅜ cup heavy cream
1. In a medium bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, the 12 tablespoons of melted butter, and the granulated sugar and stir until the crumbs are thoroughly moistened. Firmly press into bottom of a 9- × 9-inch baking pan. Use the bottom of a measuring cup to help press the crust down.
2. In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the peanut butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla, salt, and the 6 tablespoons of softened butter until completely combined. Spread over graham crust and smooth the top with an offset spatula. Chill until set, at least 1 hour.
3. Meanwhile, heat the chocolate and cream in a medium microwave-safe bowl, stirring with a whisk every 30 seconds, until chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Pour the chocolate over the peanut butter filling and evenly spread with an offset spatula. Jiggle the pan to smooth out the chocolate. Chill until set, about 1 hour. Using a hot, wet knife, cut into 1-inch squares and arrange on a rimmed tray filled with multicolored candy.
Image Source: From SWEET DESIGNS by Amy Atlas. Copyright (C) 2012 Amy Atlas and The Stonesong Press, LLC. Photography by Johnny Miller. Published by Hyperion. Available wherever books are sold. All RIghts Reserved.
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- TNA has added Madison Rayne to their official roster page after her return on Thursday's Impact Wrestling. She has also been added to the talent roster for January's European tour.
- Matt Hardy recently spoke with The RCWR Show and gave some advice to TNA's creative team:
"The first thing I would say to TNA is with your story telling and the personas and characters you are are telling stories for TV, be sophisticated. Make sure there's continuity in every story you're telling because the viewers are more intelligent in 2013 than they've ever been. There is so much information accessible to everyone who watches wrestling on TV. You can go online, you can Google anything. You can find out everything. So when you're on there and you're portraying a story of these two characters that are wrestling and ultimately it is good vs evil, you know, it is bad vs the hero and in this era of golden TV with shows like Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men, whatever the show is, wrestling repeats are bad which is good storytelling.
"You have a specific universe. Walking Dead, there's a walking dead universe where zombies live, you know but the show sets up parameters and they give you rules and guidelines and you know kinda what the extent of the cast can be, and everything makes sense. Sure viewers watching it know this is a fictional show but as long as everything makes sense, there is continuity they enjoy it. Because viewers want to be entertained, That translates totally over into the wrestling business and it's been tied to the wrestling business for so long that it's just been likewell it's just wrestling.
"We can either throw this out or forget about this, lets drop this storyline or lets not let this guy go away, what about the fans? They'll forget about it, they'll forget about it. You cannot insult the wrestling fans intelligence because they are smarter now than they were then. So professional wrestling, my advice to TNA would be make your stories as strong as possible and make sure there's continuity. Don't insult the viewer's intelligence."


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The Today Show considers the new Viking 7 Series Range a splurge that's worth the high price.
This is like the Ferrari of ranges. This is going to make you feel like a gold medalist in the kitchen and the price is certainly high. This is something that would literally be in the listing for your house if you ever sold it. What we love about this is the amount of BTUs that you get. The standard BTUs on these burners would be 7,000. This one has upward of 23,000. So searing, the heat you're going to get on this thing is amazing.
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Chiefs, Scott Pioli part ways
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The Kansas City Chiefs announced that the team has parted ways with general manager Scott Pioli.
"After several productive conversations, we made the difficult decision to part ways with Scott Pioli and allow him to pursue other opportunities," Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said in a news release. "Scott has been an invaluable member of the Chiefs family since joining us in 2009, and we sincerely appreciate his tremendous contributions over the last four years.
"I would like to thank Norma, Clark and the Hunt Family for the opportunity that they gave me four years ago. I'd also like to thank the players, coaches, scouts and countless other employees, throughout the organization and at Arrowhead Stadium that have worked so hard during my time here. I would also like to genuinely thank Chiefs fans.
Pioli released a statement saying that he felt that he didn't accomplish what he set out to do.
"To the Hunt family -- to the great fans of the Kansas City Chiefs -- to the players, all employees and alumni, I truly apologize for not getting the job done."
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|Ideally located in the centre of the vibrant small beach town of Kata,
on the lush south west side of the island. A luxurious elegant boutique hotel, ideal for couples.
A small stroll from one of Phuket's finest beaches, offering white sands and crystal clear waters of the Andaman.
Discover the nearby shopping plaza's, idyllic restaurants and colourful bars that this quaint beach town has to offer.
Each room has a stunning pool view and balcony with deluxe rooms having direct pool access (ground floor only).
Chanalai Romantica Resort is an ideal choice for those who want a quiet retreat close to all key attractions.
With regular taxi services and buses to Phuket town and the busy night life area of Patong.
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'Tis the Season to Be Bullish
Stocks have been on quite a run lately, and with the holiday season in full bore, evidence is mounting that the rally will continue through the end of the year. Steve Russolillo reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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I ... good Monday morning is the MoneyBeat show I am Paul vignette ... take a look at the stock market on the style quiet Monday for stocks and to the Dow down there ... twenty seven color twenty eight points if you like very little ... Nasdaq all loved it's really basically flat Emilia that ... has to be down a little bit soft slow start ... see you ... in on the noodle consider that the market has been up ... to this right Steve Russolillo eight weeks in a row eight weeks in a row for the stock market crash ... it's not it's a great time for the retailer has been the holiday sales out to ... build our that's fine with the market a little little little nonplussed ... but a great time to pull us a great time for the bulls as we wrote this morning it is the season to be bullish and I really has been that way for quite some time now ... as you mentioned that the SB five hundred up eight weeks in a row the longest streak since two thousand and four ... and has only been to a nine week winning streak since two thousand so ... really just the relentless push higher year over the past few months ... but people are expecting in December when you look in a lot of the seasonal tendencies ... December is the very very good among the stocks in over the past thirty years ... Essen P five hundred up about two percent in December ... ah that's the best of the year ... up about eighty percent of the time so ... you have all these are historical patterns that say that the market should be ... should continue Valley near ... the end of the year not a slow start on this Monday morning and basically the staff lot really a lot of data this week though we had La ISN manufacturing index up this morning ... to in a little bit hot hotter than expected ... oddly see what's coming up so I personally have ... hit a new home sales jobless claims on its conduct over GDP the revision of the inking ... and on Friday ... the GDP a lot of people expecting that ... the third quarter cutting through it more than three percent which actually would be so be revised higher the initial essence of that we've seen but ... the Friday jobs report is really the one to watch because that is ... Avici the monthly employment would is always in focus but this one perhaps will but more in focus because people are saying ... if it's the strong numbers stronger than last month's quarter four thousand jobs and if it stronger than that perhaps that could be good enough for the Fed to start tapering now lot of question marks around that will see but ... if the I think that it is the number is above two hundred thousand ... and the revisions from the previous month's book melted Lee ok ... there could be enough on the table for the Fed to make a move now that's that's the ... that the Fed meeting coming off at the meeting and a couple weeks the summer seventeenth and eighteenth its its two-day meeting ends the last meeting of the year ... and this is the last meeting where ... Ben burn Anqi will the Fed chair you you mention a couple things in your in your story this morning MoneyBeat you mentioned on the economy earnings in the Fed ... everybody knows the Fed drive the stock market ... no one seems very worried about the key of a December taper Steve Russell and never look the other forty piece to put that everybody is exceedingly bullish everybody is buying right now ... is on the hill is talking December taper Morgan Stanley strategist Adam Parker came out with this twenty fourteen outlook today and said that the Essen P five hundred will pay twenty fourteen in twenty fourteen the eleven percent he has been a dead he had been apparent U turn more bullish past year but previously to love because their and St ... he's turned full circle and in his note ... he has the section that says quote tapering is good and he said that in over tapering signals that the economy's getting better ... and a rising interest rates are a good thing in the ghetto will sort some fall slowly but ultimately this is a good sign for the market so ... that might be a bit of a stretch I don't know will see Annabelle see how this all plays out but ... the lowlights of the tapering is good is certainly a contrarian viewpoint the market by now ... I steamers alone to stuff think you're a much ...


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Apostate Film Productions in conjunction with Walt Disney's Red Letter Department presents Commies: The Musical—a musical of epic heretical anti-capitalist proportions set in a time when Communistic Socialist Justice was just reaching into the jugular of America's heartland. This musical begins with a young Jim Wallis singing this number (The World Will Know) in the hopes of getting America's God-fearing youth to go on strike in protest against America's God-ordained Capitalism:
Counting the costs from the riots that he incited Wallis gains a loyal band of followers including a young Tony Campolo. The plot really thickens when Wallis and Campolo encounter the heretical Social Gospel thought of Walter Rauschenbusch and both Wallis and Campolo begin thinking unbiblical thoughts about the Word of God which leads them to seriously ponder Jesus' life and teachings. Soon Wallis and Campolo begin organizing and create the Red Letter Christian Union which seeks to 'promote these evil unbiblical values such as peace, building strong families, the elimination of poverty, and other important social justice issues.' In celebration of their Organized Union and their newly found Socialistic ideas Campolo pleads with the new Red Letter Christians to Seize The Day:
Somehow this song gains the attention of Brian McLaren as he dreams up a vision to unite Red Letter Christianity with his brand of Emergence Christianity. Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo catch wind of this idea and agree to meet with McLaren as they plan to unite in the theme of the Kingdom of God. Soon the Red Letter Christians and Emerging/Emergent Christians organize into an even bigger and stronger Union. Commies: The Musical ends with the whole cast singing a paen to their vision for a Communistic Kingdom of God to be unleashed upon the earth Once And For All:


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All along the Pacific coast of North America and as far south as Costa Rica, people with little or no scientific background have volunteered to raise money for the program and collect the sea water samples needed to test for radiation.
The crowdsourcing, citizen-scientist program is the idea of Ken Buesseler, a research scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the world's biggest private-non-profit oceanographic agency. Buesseler began his career studying the spread of radioactivity from Chernobyl in the Black Sea and has been working with Japanese scientists since mid-2011 to understand the spread of radiation from Fukushima across the Pacific Ocean.
Buesseler said in a phone interview from Japan that he was motivated by public concern over radiation from Fukushima and his frustration at the reluctance of the U.S. government to fund a program to measure radiation that is expected to arrive on the West Coast this spring.
He said because the radiation levels are expected to be low, federal U.S. officials didn't consider it a priority. As well, radiation in the oceans fell into the bureaucratic cracks: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's responsbility extends to oceans but not radiation; the Department of Energy is responsible for monitoring radiation but not in the ocean.
"No one wanted to take responsibility," he said.
To educate the public about Fukushima, he set up the website www.OurRadioactiveOcean.org. In November, the number of people going to his FAQ page, as he puts it, started to "go through the roof."
It was about the same time that a YouTube video was posted claiming to have found an increase in radioactivity on a beach near San Francisco. (The radioac tivity proved not to be connected to Fukushima.)
Buesseler said he believes there is a lot of public concern over radiation because people can't touch, smell or feel it, yet they know it causes cancer. Some groups, he said, are taking advantage of that fear to trigger false alarms.
"You can be anti-nuclear and you don't have to scare people about Fukushima," he said. "There have been some really awful scaremongering — showing lesions in fish and things that have never been shown to be due to Fukushima. A lot of false and misleading claims, I think, are out there."
Buesseler said neither he nor Woods Hole has involved non-scientists in a project like this before. Already two months into it, he thinks it's a good way to engage and educate the public. It doesn't replace basic research, he said, but it does add to it.
So far, 22 sites along the West Coast of North America and Central America along with Hawaii have been crowd funded; another 27 are in the process of raising enough money to take at least one sample.
In B.C., the cost of taking a sample, including shipping and testing, is $600. So far, two B.C. sites have been fully funded: one at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on the west coast of Vancouver Island and the other on Haida Gwaii. Money is needed to fund several others.
Before a site is listed on the Woods Hole website, volunteers are asked to kick-start the campaign with $100 to prove their commitment, said Colleen Durkin, the post-doctoral fellow in charge of the program.
Once enough money has been raised, Durkin mails the volunteer a sampling kit. Inside, along with an instruction sheet, is a 19-litre plastic container with a temperature gauge. Citizen scientists are asked to fill the container with sea water, record the time, date and location, and send it to Woods Hole.
At some sites, the entire amount has been paid for by one person; at others, it's more of a community effort with many small donations of $20. Samples are being taken directly from docks and from boats offshore. A California twist is being added at Santa Cruz where samples are being collected by surfboard.
The water will be tested for cesium-134 and cesium-137, both of which were released at Fukushima. Cesium-134 has a half-life of two years, so that any detectable levels in ocean water will be considered to have originated at Fukushima.
Cesium-137 has a much longer half-life, and there is already a background level of cesium-137 in the Pacific Ocean left over from the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests done by the U.S., French and British in the 1950s and 1960s.
If the sea water tests produce readings above the background level, then that will be considered the amount produced by Fukushima.
Buesseler said Fukushima produced two radiation plumes. The first went into the atmosphere in a northeasterly direction where it travelled around the world within the first five to 10 days. Woods Hole at Cape Cod on the East Coast measured very, very low levels of cesium and short-lived iodine-131 10 days after the earthquake, tsunami and meltdown at Fukushima.
The next plume was through the ocean in a more easterly direction. That's what is expected to arrive this spring. It's taken three years, Buesseler said, because that's how long it takes for ocean currents to mix sea water on one side of the Pacific with the other side.
He compared the dispersal of radiation to coloured dye mixing with water. As the currents move the water, especially the Kuroshio that crosses the Pacific, water-soluble cesium mixes with sea water and dilutes and disperses over time and distance.
"It just takes that long for ocean currents to get across," he said.
Reports indicate low-level radiation from Fukushima is getting closer to the West Coast. Tests conducted by John Smith from the Canadian government's Bedford Institute of Oceanography found that as of June, 2013, a tiny amount — 0.9 becquerels — of cesium-134 was measured in a location in the Pacific about 2,000 km west of Vancouver. (A becquerel, or Bq, measures the rate at which radioactive material emits radiation and decays; one Bq = one atom disintegrating per second.)
Four samples taken in January in California and Washington as part of the citizen science initiative showed no detectable Fukushima cesium.The testing at Woods Hole can measure as little as 0.1 or 0.2 becquerels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 in a cubic metre of sea water. In the U.S., the drinking water standard is 7,400 becquerels of cesium per cubic metre; in Canada, the standard is 10,000.
Buesseler said the predicted increase in levels of cesium is anywhere from one extra becquerel to 20 or 30. While he agreed that's a big range, the upper limit is still far below the accepted levels for drinking water.
"I would not be concerned swimming in those waters or eating seafood," he said. "I personally don't have concerns about human health and safety from what the levels are predicted to be.
"But without measurement, we won't be able to confirm that level of radioactivity. Since there is debate about doses, even at the lowest levels, it behooves us to get those numbers."
Cesium levels will increase gradually over the next two or three years as the radioactive plume moves east toward the West Coast.
Unlike mercury or PCBs, cesium-134 and cesium-137 don't accumulate in fish and animals and become more concentrated up the food chain. Fish near Fukushima, he said, are still being contaminated because of leaks but as they move across the Pacific, they lose cesium because it's water-soluble. There is some concern, however, on the impact it could have on orcas on the coast because of the large amount of food they consume daily.
Buesseler is concerned about one recent development at Fukushima. Initially in 2011, the amount of strontium-90 was a fiftieth that of cesium. But recently that changed to a one-to-one relationship following a leak from one of the 1,000 above-ground storage tanks used to store water that was contaminated when it was pumped directly into the damaged reactors to prevent a meltdown.
Strontium-90 is a bone-seeking isotope that replaces calcium in fish bones and could become a potential hazard among people who eat small fish bones. It stays in the environment for several years.
Most of the storage tanks are made out of welded steel. The ones that are susceptible to leaks of radioactive water are believed to be 350 improvised, temporary tanks made from steel with seams sealed with plastic materials. Those heavily contaminated tanks, he said, need to be cleaned up before another earthquake and/or tsunami strikes the area.
While strontium isn't being tested for in the Woods Hole crowdsourcing program, all the sea water samples will be stored in a warehouse in case Buesseler does get funding in future to test them for strontium-90.
Buesseler said radiation remains a much more continual and direct threat in Japan than anywhere on the west coast of North America.
"We shouldn't dismiss radioactivity effects," he said. "Radioactivity can be dangerous — but not at the levels we expect on the west coast of North America."
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This Ain't Checkers
This Ain't Checkers is a mission in the episodic content The Ballad of Gay Tony, given to the player by Mori Kibbutz.
Mori explains to Luis that they must go to the Algonquin heliport to get onboard a helicopter. The two jump in Mori's Buffalo. Along the way Mori says that this thing is for 'high roller cats' only. Once arrived, they are greeted by 2 fellow competitors. The helicopter lifts up everyone to South Algonquin where the player must parachute down to their boat.
When done so, Luis must guide the boat through a series of checkpoints until he's guided to land to select a car, each equipped with nitro. The player then must skillfully use the nitro to take them across town to Middle Park. The cutscene ends with Mori making up excuses for why he lost, such as the fact someone 'sabotaged his car'.
Tips & Tricks
- When freefalling, make sure that you only release the parachute when you're in 1st place. This will instantly secure the "Always First" scoring mark - however keep in mind that you must keep 1st place the whole time though too.
- If you have mastered the art of parachuting then land in a boat, this will greatly speed up the process and will secure the "Land in a boat" scoring mark which will contribute to a mission mark of 100%. If you're not so good then try your best to land nearest to a boat. Note, however, that if Luis lands too hard on the boat (or on the dock), he will take damage which will fail another of the 100% requirements.
- After you use a part of the nitro, it will regenerate in some time. The nitro will be usable again when the exhaust fumes go a light purple color.
Video Walkthrough
Secondary objectives
|Target score
|Time taken to complete the mission.
|Player damage
|Damage attained by the player.
|Land in boat
|Land in one the boats after freefalling.
|Always first
|Was always in first for the duration of the race.
- Mori's unique red Buffalo is in the race. Luis can optionally choose to take it during the driving portion of the race; any vehicle chosen Luis gets to keep after the race (though the nitrous function is disabled). This is one of a relative few missions in which a unique vehicle can be obtained without having to fail the mission.
- Rockstar's official website tips for this mission stress that taking a taxi results in any statistics being nullified; however, in reality there is no opportunity offered to actually use a taxi as Mori must be driven to the helipad and after that it's a race.