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Next month, the world meets in Dubai to discuss the Internet's future. On the docket: basic questions about sustaining this vital resource.
History's greatest invention needs a tune-up. Representatives from almost every nation in the world will soon meet in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to attend the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT or "wicket" as some say). From Dec. 3 to 4, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will host representatives of its 193 member countries, who will discuss high-level issues in telecommunications, like how best to foster continued development of Internet infrastructure across the planet.
The conference originated from two sources, said ITU Counselor Richard Hill. Several developing countries announced that they wanted existing regulations to be modernized. And some developed countries thought many of the outdated regulations could be abolished. "I think it's safe to say there's a general agreement that everyone wants the same thing: more telecommunications and more Internet," Hill said. "But there's some disagreement on exactly how to achieve that. The purpose of the conference is to discuss that and come up with an agreed path forward."
It's generally agreed that the previous WCIT, which occurred in 1988, created a financial and ideological framework that allowed telecommunications and the Internet, in particular, to flourish and support the information-based culture that much of the world enjoys today. The goal of this year's conference is to hone the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), a treaty developed at the first conference that aims to facilitate global interconnection and interoperability of telecommunications traffic across national borders.
Once the wording of the new regulations is decided and each nation ratifies the document, nations will be treated as sovereign entities, free to implement the conditions of the treaty in their dealings with outside nations as they see fit.
The ITU's role in the conference is that of arbitrator. The ITU isn't an enforcement agency, nor is it attempting to control the Internet, as some have suggested. As far as the Internet and telecommunications go, the ITU is simply a watchman, establishing a written interpretation of the will of the world. "Ultimately the stakeholders are the people who use telecommunications, which is all of us," Hill said.
The ITRs cover many different topics. Some of the main points of discussion will be: preventing fraud and cybercrime, promoting equipment standards, reducing the cost of mobile roaming, empowering consumers, protecting the human right of communication, improving telecommunications access for people with disabilities, improving energy efficiency, promoting the responsible disposal of electronic devices, taxation and interoperability.
"On some topics, there's universal agreement already," Hill said. "They just have to fine-tune the language. On other topics, the positions are very far apart." Aside from the topics that nations tend to more or less agree on, there are three main fronts where battles are being fought. One battle pertains to identifying the best method for reducing international mobile roaming rates. The other two battles are related to the financial model and security of the Internet.
Just as Democrats and Republicans will eternally debate the best model for stimulating the national economy, there are two competing philosophies that overarch WCIT's most contentious discussions. One camp wants the market to dictate how telecommunications infrastructure is developed and managed. This camp believes the Internet has worked well so far operating on a privatized, liberalized model and therefore that is how telecommunications should continue to run. The competing philosophy wants increased government involvement in infrastructure development and management as a means to ensure adequate financing, fairness and security.
One of the biggest challenges in creating a treaty that includes nearly every nation in the world is the disparity between the most developed and least developed countries, ITU Director Malcolm Johnson pointed out during a September press briefing. What works well in the U.S. or Japan may or may not work well in developing Africa or developing Asia. Creating a standardized infrastructure framework for the world, therefore, proves very difficult, Johnson said, but making low-cost Internet access available for the world's citizenry is a noble goal worth pursuing and within WCIT's purview.
The United States' main goal for WCIT, U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer stated, is to ensure that the telecommunications and Internet sectors thrive. The U.S. belongs to the philosophical camp of not changing things if they've been proven to work well. Kramer said the U.S. would oppose any major changes to the existing ITRs during the conference, particularly any that would undermine net neutrality or endanger freedom of expression.
The U.S. delegation has strong support, Kramer said, and comprises more than 100 members, including the FCC, U.S. departments of Commerce and Defense, Google, Facebook, PayPal, civil society organizations, free speech organizations, "and a lot of nations that agree with the U.S." The U.S. also has detractors in the conference.
Some of the biggest rifts in ideology were highlighted after proposals put forward by the Association of European Telecommunications Network Operators (ETNO) were attacked by the U.S. and its ideological allies. Among ETNO's proposals was a financial element that would allow a "sending party network pays" model. Whereas the existing Internet model allows the free flow of information, the sending party network pays model requires the party sending information over the Internet to pay a tax to the receiving network operator.
This aspect of ETNO's proposal gained popularity among some developing nations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as some parts of Europe, because it provides an income source for nations that are in the early stages of building out their fixed networks. It sounds like an excellent solution for nations that have few funding options, Kramer said, but such a model would be detrimental to the entire Internet and is ultimately a bad idea.
"I think a lot of [ETNO's supporters] have an old business model in mind," Kramer said. "Many of them are from countries that haven't liberalized, they have primarily a single telephone company and they're used to the old voice model where they can collect that termination fee for accepting traffic from abroad. It's a very old model, it worked very well early on, when you had an environment where people weren't certain about the technology, and a working environment where the paid model was the primary way that things operated."
ETNO responded to its critics in a letter, stating that such a model would not be mandated, but just an option to be used by Internet operators "when commercially suitable." The organization also pointed out that such an arrangement already exists to accommodate "high-value traffic" transmitted in the paid-peering arrangement between Netflix, Level 3 and Comcast. ETNO has stated that it "fully supports the principle of an open Internet and does not believe that its proposal would hamper [an open Internet]."
The problem with even allowing the sending-party-network-pays model as an option, Kramer said, is that it would eventually stifle Internet availability. For example, if Khan Academy, an educational video website, was required to pay a tax each time it sent data to an African nation operating under the sending-party-network-pays model, Khan Academy's owner might decide to stop offering his website in that country. Or alternatively, the company's owner could choose to start charging users subscription fees, as Netflix does, to cover the costs of sending traffic to countries operating under a sending-party-network-pays model. This model would chip away at the free model that has made the Internet so successful, Kramer said.
"Our philosophy very much has been: Allow the markets to be liberalized," he said. "Allow multiple providers of broadband access, whether they are mobile or fixed providers, to provide that service to end users, stimulate competition that drives down pricing, and in turn you get lots of users who are willing to pay for that broadband access. And that should be the model that funds infrastructure development, broadband development and creates a cycle of economic growth where you have more and more broadband access. That creates an Internet economy and Internet access, that creates more affluence that then creates more money in the telecom sector."
He added, "That kind of privatized, liberalized model is the one that has worked not only in the U.S., but it's worked in South Africa, it's worked in Ghana, it's worked in Kenya, it's worked in Korea, it's worked in Japan."
Another departure from traditional Internet governance is a proposal that would send traffic through designated access points as a means to regulate Internet content. Currently organizations like the Internet Society, Internet Engineering Task Force and World Wide Web Consortium work as part of a multistakeholder effort to determine how best to govern Internet traffic and handle security issues like spam, malware and hackers. Proponents of the traditional approach to Internet governance appreciate the competence and agility of small, specialized organizations with stakes in the Internet's continued availability and openness.
The U.S. is content with the current form of Internet governance, Kramer said, and opposes proposals that would put controls on the Internet. "There are over 425,000 different global routes for traffic," he said. "There are 40,000 different network operators serving 600 million websites." The huge number of working pieces that compose the Internet have come to interconnect in such a way so that rates have been negotiated steadily downward through the years, reducing costs for everyone.
"If you force certain routes, you're almost creating a monopoly route," Kramer said. "Prices go back up and then the cost of Internet services go up, the cost of broadband provision goes up, and again it limits the audience that's available." Furthermore, mandating regulated traffic routes also readies the slippery slope to Internet censorship, he said.
One of WCIT's main goals is to find a way to lower rates on international roaming. Some nations favor rate regulation as a way to lower rates. By simply ordering lower rates, rates can easily be reduced. But this is problematic, Kramer said, because service providers might be led to subsidize their losses on lowered international rates by increasing other rates or raising the cost of mobile devices. "We're proposing improved transparency on mobile roaming rates and mobile roaming usage," Kramer said. By making rates and usage data more visible to consumers, service providers will begin negotiating cheaper rates in order to stay competitive, he said.
This conference is a milestone, but it's not the end of discussion about international telecommunications. What happens during the conference will tune the trajectory of discussions about telecommunications and Internet governance.
In the event that ITRs are established that place taxes on the Internet or mandate data checkpoints that could lead to Internet censorship, "the people who would be the most alarmist about this would say that would balkanize the Internet, create a whole bunch of standards and approaches," Kramer said. "You could create a model that didn't honor free speech and democracy, you could create a model that didn't honor economics — all those things would be violated." It would ultimately create a fractured, uncooperative infrastructure. However unlikely, such a scenario is possible, Kramer said.
No one can say exactly how the conference will turn out, but WCIT's most important contribution will be how it establishes precedents for future relations between nations. ¨


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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Released
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"The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB. Using a now fully integrated installation process, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 comes with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions. This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts using composed characters and complex languages; the installation system for Debian GNU/Linux has now been translated to 58 languages." Update: Debian 3.1r6 has also been released. Update II: Screenshots, and how to upgrade to it.

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than 200 state employees were overpaid more than $500,000 by managers who deliberately broke state rules at the troubled California Department of Parks and Recreation, according to a report Tuesday by the state controller.
The report is the latest blow to a department where employees were found last summer to have kept $54 million hidden in two special funds for more than a decade, even as dozens of parks faced closure. Results from additional investigations by the Department of Finance and state attorney general are expected in coming weeks.
The controller's office found that managers broke rules and regulations to pay 203 employees about $520,000 in extra pay over three years. Several dozen other employees were also overpaid more than $63,000 because they worked more hours or in higher-paying positions than allowed.
"The deliberate disregard for internal controls along with little oversight and poorly trained staff resulted in improper payouts to Parks' employees," Controller John Chiang said in a statement. He called for tighter security and authorization requirements to correct a lax standard that "invites the abuse of public funds."
Department spokesman Roy Stearns said the department agrees with much of the criticism and is taking steps to comply.
There aren't enough records to say how many of the overpayments were legal, according to the controller. But auditors found that employees were paid extra money for extra duties for more days than were allowed by state rules or collective bargaining agreements. One employee was shuffled between assignments three times to keep getting the additional pay.
The additional pay is supposed to be awarded only under limited circumstances, for a limited number of days and only with proper documentation. But managers "circumvented rules and regulations" to allow the extra pay, according to the controller. The auditors examined three years ending June 30, about the time the scandal broke.
Other problems involved temporary employees who worked more hours than allowed, as well as employees who did not take a required 5 percent pay cut while they were out of work on leave.
The department said in its official response that the employees who received extra pay were eligible to do so, but that proper procedures weren't followed. It disagreed with several of the controller's findings.
Former parks director Ruth Coleman resigned last summer, a senior official was fired and another quit before he could be disciplined. Three others have been disciplined and more could face penalties as the investigations continue, Stearns said, though he noted that some employees thought they were acting properly as directed by their supervisors.
"For the majority of weaknesses noted, we have already implemented improvements," he said.
Problems at the department first surfaced in July with the disclosure that dozens of parks employees were improperly allowed to sell unused vacation time back to the state.
The controller found that about 90 percent of the buybacks were allowed by two managers who altered payroll records without proper authority.


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What does your Twitter bio say about you? If you're not completely happy with it and you're looking to spice it up a bit, check out this article for some useful tips that will help.
Writing your bio may actually be the most complicated task on Twitter. Well, that and being able to confine your thoughts to 140 characters. It's challenging to tell people who you are, what you do, and why they should follow you in only one or two sentences. It's even harder when you don't particularly like to talk about yourself.
Your Twitter bio must set you apart from the crowd, but make you look approachable at the same time. It has to give people an idea about what you'll tweet and prompt them to click the "Follow" bottom. You must appear accomplished and skilled, without sounding too arrogant or like you're bragging. It should redirect visitors to a website where they can find more info about you. It's also advisable to make it humorous – after all, much of social media is about fun.
Whether you're an individual or you're working to promote a brand on Twitter, you have to give your bio some serious thought. It can make the difference between gaining new followers and turning your potential audience away. To get you inspired, we've gathered some tips that will aid you in your bio writing efforts.
Understand The Basics
First of all, your Twitter bio should be error free – no spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistakes allowed. Run it through a spell checker or ask a friend to take a look just to make sure.
Next, a solid Twitter bio should be consistent and look neat. If you're going for a list-based format, make sure all the elements from the list are separated either by commas, periods, or vertical bars, never a combination of them. When referencing other Twitter usernames, capitalize them when necessary. To make it clearer, @katyperry is fine, since she didn't capitalize any words in her Twitter username; @barackobama isn't, since it's written @BarackObama on the official account.
Choose Keywords Wisely
Bios are searchable. That means it will turn up in search results when people look up yours or your brand's name. You should keep this bit of information in mind when it comes to crafting an appealing Twitter bio. Choose keywords that best relate to your industry, location, and what makes you or your company unique.
According to inSegment , a digital marketing agency based in Boston, these keywords shouldn't be strung together in a list, but should be integrated naturally throughout your bio.
At the same time, however, make sure you avoid buzzwords everyone is tired of hearing: "guru," "driven," "innovative," "enthusiastic," and so on. You can consult a broad list here.
Show People What You Do
Think of it this way: instead of telling people who you are, focus on showing them what you do. For instance, it's much more powerful to say "wrote for Business Insider and Mashable" instead of "I'm a tech writer." Learn how to sell yourself by highlighting your accomplishments. Action verbs will make this easier – you can find a great list of them here. This advice applies whether you represent a brand or yourself. Brands can list their most prominent clients, while individuals should display their achievements proudly.
Learn From Others
Before writing your bio, check out what others in your field are doing, whether they be competitors or Twitter users you look up to. Do some research to study the different types of bios out there, especially from those accounts with many followers. It's OK to analyze the trends in the industry beforehand, as long as you don't copy other's bios word for word. Here, you can find a list of ten amusing Twitter bios to get you started.
But Let Your Own Voice Shine
Now that you have a general idea how you'd like your bio to sound, it's time to craft your own. If you're managing a brand account, think about what best identifies the brand in the industry – accuracy, speed, tradition? Incorporate those values when writing the bio. If you're an individual trying to come up with a clever bio for yourself, think about what makes you special and do your best to communicate that to your potential audience. If all else fails, you can hire a stand-up comedian to do all the hard work for you; you wouldn't be the first.
Update it Often
Now that you're done, don't forget to revisit your bio every now and then. Update it in case you relocate, get another job, or change your industry – or if you come up with a more brilliant version of it.
If you think about it, a terrific Twitter bio is something of a postmodern art form. Don't underestimate it, as a clever one can win over new followers and increase your exposure. You only have 140 characters to make a good first impression. Use them wisely.
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Awesome post. Hope to hear from you more - this is actually decent advice.
I liked it too, Christopher. I never considered the capitalization thing until I read this. Thanks for sharing your insight.


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Really crazy laws in AmericaJuly 12, 2017 14:34
There are some strange laws in America that you probably have no idea about. Here are the four of the wackiest ones that will have you laughing and scratching your head.
Do Not Ride a Bike in a Pool in California
It is prohibited to ride a bike in a swimming pool. When the swimming pools were empty, children starts riding their bikes and skate boards in the swimming pools.
Don't Serve Wine in Teacups in Kansas
Serving wine in teacups in Topeka is forbidden. There are rumor that there was some concern that children were sneaking wine in them and that is the reason for the law.
Don't keep Ice Cream Cone in Your Back Pocket in Alabama
It's illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket. The origin has historical context that makes perfect sense. Horse thieves used to lead horses away with the strategically placed ice cream. They never had to lay their hands on them, thereby not technically stealing the horses, but instead claiming they got lost.
Do not Play with Silly String in Connecticut
Since 1996 there has been a ban on silly string in the town of Southington, Connecticut. Children used to spray it all over the place and it makes the worst mess so this law
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move – Mobility of the Future
Sustainable mobility means massively reducing the use of fossil energy sources as well as CO2 emissions. One option is to convert surplus, renewable electricity into storable energy carriers that are suitably low in CO2, such as hydrogen or synthetic methane, and can be used as fuels for individual mobility and transport of goods. In move, the demonstrator for future mobility, Empa has teamed up with partners from research, industry and the public sector to show how the mobility of tomorrow might work without fossil energy. Our long-term goal is to close the carbon cycle: The emitted CO2 is "recollected" and converted back into energy carriers.
According to the "New Energy Policy" (NEP) of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), by 2050 almost 50 percent of the mileage in the car sector is to be covered by electric vehicles and at least 50 percent by vehicles with combustion engines.
This should slash the vehicles' energy consumption as the majority of it stems from renewable energy. For electro-mobility, the priority is the electrochemical storage of surplus electricity in network or vehicle batteries and its electrolytic conversion into hydrogen for use by fuel cell vehicles. For combustion engine vehicles, surplus electricity should be rendered usable by converting it into synthetic fuels such as methane. This is where our research at Empa comes in.
move, the demonstrator for future mobility, provides examples to show the entire pathway of using and converting surplus renewable electricity for mobility – in the form of hydrogen and, in later stages, in the form of synthetic methane and network batteries. In the case of hydrogen, its pure use as a fuel for fuel cell vehicles and its use as an admixture to natural/biogas for gas vehicles is investigated.
The vehicles that are used in practice within the scope of various projects are equipped with state-of-the-art powertrain concepts and technologies. Besides the optimization of energy conversion and storage technologies, move should also demonstrate which technology is best suited for which "mobility type".


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My mother passed away in 2006 and when she did she left everything to my sister & I. All my sister was about at the time was getting money. Before I was to let her throw everything to the "seven winds" I just made her an offer to buy my mothers home and everything in it. This was a piece that was in the china cabinet and I'm unsure if I even described it correctly as being "art deco". Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. It definitely wouldn't be the 1st time I was wrong.


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It had none of the drama of a triple Salchow, but figures used to count in figure skating.
It had none of the drama of a triple Salchow, but figures used to count in figure skating.
Judges would watch Olympic skaters trace figures in the ice and some of the best showmen and women were knocked from podium contention because they couldn't do a perfect 8.
I'd almost forgotten that little piece of history until I had the privilege to talk with Dick Rodenhiser for Sunday's column on Loring Arena. Rodenhiser, who won Olympic silver in 1956 and gold in 1960 with the U.S. men's hockey team, and I share similar views on how allowing pros to compete in the Olympics has changed things, not for the better. (Although I have a feeling he was amazed by the Russian vs. American shootout Saturday morning. Awesome!)
But while I do miss having amateurs-only, I don't miss watching skaters do the figures. (They ceased to be included in international competition in 1990.)
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Skywatchers should be on alert for possible geomagnetic storms this week that may trigger colorful displays of auroras.
Today on April 11th at 7:16 UT (3:16 am ET) a large, Earth- facing group of sunspots hurled a massive cloud of plasma and charged particles into space. Heading towards our planet at high speed, the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was first spotted by NASA's sun-monitoring satellite , the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and is expected to slam into Earth's protective magnetic field sometime in the early morning hours of April 13th.
According to Spaceweather.com, the front of the storm is already being felt in the form of space radiation (energized protons) speeding by Earth. The high influx of charged particles buffeting the magnetic field can potentially pose a hazard to everything from GPS signals, polar radio communications, power grids and circuit boards on orbiting satellites.
So far indications are that this current bout of space radiation is classified as a minor one– only causing disruption to high-frequency radio chatter in the polar regions.
Of course what everyone wants to know is if they will see any light show in the sky. That will depend on the strength of the storm and the orientation of Earth's dynamic magnetic field when it is expected to hit on the 13th. Skywatchers, especially in high latitudes, should be on alert for possible northern lights. (see also: Pictures: Auroras of February and March)
Best time to try and capture pictures of auroras in general is to head outside between local midnight and pre-dawn hours. Face the northern sky and look for green or red glows emanating from near the horizon. In terms of equipment and technique, all you need to have is a tripod mounted DSLR camera with a wide angle lens, capable of taking exposures of up to 20 seconds with a remote timer. (Related: Did You Hear the Northern Lights?).
We are heading towards the peak activity time in the Sun's 11 year cycle, called solar maximum, over the course of the next few months so there may be many opportunities to catch sight of northern lights. It's important to remember however that we are still in the very early stages of being able to predict precisely when auroral displays will occur, and their potential intensity. But with some patience and luck we might be in for a decent cosmic light show this week.


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Encouraging news from Ed Minnesota, TFA, and Board of Teaching / Joe Nathan's Column
By Joe Nathan
Here's happy news as Minnesotans prepare for a new school year. Both the Minnesota State Board of Teaching and Education Minnesota, the state's teacher union, responded thoughtfully to the recent controversy about Teach for America. At a time when there is widespread rancor about how to improve public schools, these were encouraging responses.
First, the Minnesota Board of Teaching responded positively to parents and principals. These people urged the board to approve a number of Teach for America participants to work in district and charter schools this coming year. More than 100 people packed a hearing room to explain why.
Krystal Centeno, a Spanish-speaking parent from Hiawatha Academies in Minneapolis told the board, via a translator, "I hope you will listen to our principal. Teachers at Hiawatha help our students succeed. "
Eli Kramer, executive director of Hiawatha Academies, explained that he and his leadership team hired traditionally trained and Teach for America participants. In describing the TFA participants, Kramer explained, "They are both college graduates with very strong academic records of their own. They have a demonstrably strong mindset that all children can learn if given the right opportunities. They exude passion for this work, showing that they want to be part of a team that does whatever it takes to close the opportunity gaps that exist in our city."
John Bellingham, chair of the Board of Teaching, voted with the majority, which accepted the waiver requests from Kramer and other school leaders. Bellingham has taught in Faribault for more than 30 years, mostly as a sixth-grade teacher. He has won awards for his work. At the end of the meeting, Bellingham clearly and fairly announced, "We expect to see very few waiver requests next year. You should submit an 'Alternative Route to Teaching Application.' "
Crystal Brakke, Minnesota TFA director, replied that she heard and would be following up.
There was a second recent important development: an announcement from Education Minnesota. The statewide teacher union said it wanted to "lead the state in honest conversations on what it will take to recruit, train and support high-quality teachers to serve Minnesota's students… These conversations will include voices from communities of color, faith leaders, teacher preparation programs, business owners and other major stakeholders." Education Minnesota wants recommendations developed by April 2014.
In one of her first public statements, newly elected Education Minnesota President Denise Specht commented, "…for too long groups have been working in silos on improving teacher quality and recruiting more people of color into the profession to better reflect the state's increasingly diverse student population… Now is the time for Minnesotans to work together to assure that we have consistent, high-quality, professional teaching standards so we can meet the needs of all students – regardless of where they live or their socioeconomic status." I think Specht is right.
It's too early to know what will be recommended, but this seems like an important statement of openness from Education Minnesota. In a "tweet," Brakke of TFA praised the Education Minnesota announcement.
Kramer of Hiawatha described part of what excellent educators do: "Teaching is incredibly complex and challenging… becoming a great teacher takes time. (Great teachers) build relationships with scholars and families, manage a classroom, plan great unit(s) with great lessons… drive rigorous instruction, and use data to figure out what students have learned and therefore what to do next."
Joe Nathan is a former Minnesota public school teacher and administrator who directs the Center for School Change. Reactions welcome, please comment below.


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Pamela Vail received a B.A. in dance and sociology from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. in dance from Smith College. She is a founding member of NYC-based Yanira Castro + Company, and is also a founding member of The Architects, a performance improvisation quartet, with Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, and Jennifer Kayle (all Middlebury graduates). In addition to working with such artists as Peter Schmitz, Heidi Henderson, and others, she continues to create and perform her own work. She is currently Artist in Residence and Instructor in Dance at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.


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Create a polymer clay angel ornament from AMACO to add a homemade touch to your next Christmas tree.This angels holds red and white candy canes for a bit of holiday color.
- FIMO® Soft Polymer Clay (2 oz. blocks) — White (2), Cherry Red (1), Flesh Light (1), and Caramel (1)
- AMACO® Polymer Clay Template
- FIMO® Gloss Lacquer
- Heart-shaped cookie cutters or rubber stamps — 13/4" and 21/4"
- Heart cutters — 3/16" and 1/2"
- Scallop-edged scissors
- Fun Wire™ Pearlized Gold, 24-gauge
- 22-gauge floral wire
- Gold elastic cord
- Powder blush
- Eye pin
- White acrylic paint
- Ball stylus
- AMACO® PolyRoller or Pasta Machine
- Ceramic tile for work surface
- X-Acto® knife
- Club-shaped or flower-shaped canapé cutter (1/2")
- Darning needle
- Small gold beads
- Unlined index cards
- Pearlescent glitter
- Read template instructions and tips. Write the following headings on an index card: Dress; Wing; Collar; Sleeve; Head; Neck, Hand, Feet; Candy Cane; Red Hearts; and Gingerbread Men. Leave a two inch space under each heading to place the clay balls. Tip: If you are going to make lots of angels, laminate the card for re-use.
- Cut the quantity of clay needed for specific ball sizes. This is easy with the template and drawings that come with it. With the White FIMO® Soft make the following size balls: one 11/8" ball for dress, one 11/8" ball for the wing, one 7/8" ball for the collar, two 5/8" balls for the sleeves. With the Flesh Light FIMO® Soft make one 7/8" ball for head and one 5/8" ball for the neck, hand, and feet. For the candy cane make one 5/8" ball with the Cherry Red FIMO® Soft and one 5/8" ball with the White FIMO® Soft. Make one 1/2" ball of Cherry Red FIMO® Soft for the red hearts. For the gingerbread men make one 7/8" ball of the Caramel FIMO® Soft. Place each piece of clay on the card in its place.
- Condition each piece separately by kneading with your hands to soften. Roll into a ball using the template for measuring the diameter and place back on card. Do Flesh Light first, then White, Caramel, and finally, Cherry Red. Wash hands between colors with cool water and soap.
- CANDY CANES: Roll the White ball into a log 4" long using the ruler on the template then cut in half. Repeat with the Cherry Red ball. Twist a red and white log to make cane. Smooth and curve top. Repeat with other red and white logs.
- RED HEARTS: Flatten the Cherry Red ball between your hands into a pancake. Roll out flat and cut lots of 3/16" hearts (you can use the extras in future projects).
- GINGERBREAD MEN: After flattening and rolling Caramel ball, cut lots of club shapes or flowers. If you're using a club cutter, slice bottom stem to make legs. Make a small hole in each "arm" with a darning needle for threading the elastic cord after baking.
- Pre-bake canes, hearts and gingerbread men for 15 minutes at 265°F (129°C).
- DRESS: Flatten White ball into a pancake a little larger than the heart stamp or cookie cutter then roll out to about 1/8" thick. Press stamp or cutter into clay then cut out with scissors. Top of dress is the point of the heart. Make small box pleat to gather upper part of dress slightly.
- SLEEVE: Roll each White ball into a long cone shape (21/4"). Press fatter end of cone on work surface gently to flatten end. Trim off narrow end so sleeve is 13/4" long. Lay along heart with narrow end at top of dress.
- COLLAR: Flatten White ball into a pancake a little larger than the 13/4" stamp then roll out. Press stamp or cutter into clay then gently lift from work surface and cut out with scallop-edged scissors. Lay heart-shaped collar over dress and shoulders, folding point of heart 3/4" over to back of dress. Press the pre-baked heart in place.
- NECK, HANDS, FEET: Flatten and roll out the Flesh Light ball then cut out four 1/2" hearts. Roll three into three separate balls. Place the fourth underneath the indentation at dress bottom, leaving curves to show as toes. Press dress firmly onto feet. Press one ball down to flatten slightly then press onto collar to form neck. Set the other two balls aside.
- HEAD: Re-roll Flesh Light ball to soften. Push a one inch piece of florist wire into head where it will join the neck. Gently lift the angel and press the head down onto the neck making firm contact. Pierce two holes for eyes. TIP: If you are right-handed, make the left eye first for ease in alignment. Powder cheeks with blush.
- HAIR: Cut ten 21/2" lengths of Pearlized Gold Fun Wire™. Bend each into a "U" shape, cross wires over and pull ends in opposite directions. This will form a loop like a seagull. Hold the middle loop between your thumb and index finger of your left hand. With your right hand, smooth wires down to meet and form bottom of heart. Twist ends together and cut off excess. You only need a 1/4" tail. Make ten or more. Why more? They won't all be the same size and if you have more, you can choose the five that are most alike. Press them into head, placing the most nearly perfect one on top.
- HALO: Cut a 41/2" length of Pearlized Gold Fun Wire™ and bend it around the bottle of FIMO® lacquer to shape. Draw wire together tightly. Hold wires together and turn bottle, not the wires, to form tail. Trim tail to 1/4" and insert into head about 1/4" back behind the top wire heart. Trim the eye pin to 1/2" and push into head just behind the halo. Turn the opening of the eye pin so that the elastic will thread through from side to side and angel will hang straight.
- WINGS: Follow step 8 for dress, but omit pleat. Press four pre-baked hearts into wing. Lift angel onto wings, placing head in center of heart. Gently press head to make firm contact with wing. Slide X-Acto® knife gently under whole sculpture to ease it off the work surface. Press bottom of wing to make contact with back of collar. Lay angel down.
- HANDS: For gingerbread angel, press a small ball of Flesh Light FIMO® Soft to bottom of each sleeve. Pinch ball at free end to flatten and create fingertips. Twist darning needle into hand to make a hole for threading through garland. For candy cane angel, press a small ball of Flesh Light FIMO® Soft to bottom of each sleeve. Place two candy canes on dress. Lift sleeve across canes to hold them in place. Press hand onto candy cane. Second hand is just like gingerbread angels', but with no hole.
- Bake angels at 265°F (129°C) for 40 minutes. Turn oven off but leave angels in until they are thoroughly cooled.
- Use White acrylic paint and ball stylus or end of small paint brush to make dots on cheeks, toes, and hands. Decorate gingerbread men as shown in photograph. Re-dip for each dot so they will each be the same size.
- Glaze gingerbread men with FIMO® Gloss Lacquer. When dry, thread them onto gold elastic cord in this order: gold bead, man, two beads, man, two beads, man, last bead. Thread one end of cord up through one hand and the other end up through the other hand. Make an over hand knot in the cord, guiding the knot down close to the top of the hand using the point of the darning needle. Trim excess cord. Thread piece of gold elastic through the eye pin as a hanging loop.
- Sprinkle glitter onto wax paper. Brush back of angel with lacquer and lay the angel down onto the glitter to coat back and hide any imperfections. Let dry; apply another coat of lacquer to seal glitter. NOTE: Never use clear nail polish on polymer clay. Within a few months it will become very sticky.
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Nov 11, 2011
Love this angel - looks so professional. Where can you buy the proper stamps and cookie cutters?
Nov 02, 2011
@phjohnson 7421419, The template comes with the clay that is purchased for this project. I hope this helps! --Editors of FaveCrafts
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Oct 31, 2011
I would like the templete to make tis project. where do I get it?
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Aug 11, 2011
Esta lindo!!!!!! No creo que se necesite molde, voy a intentar hacerlo. Muchas gracias.
Apr 11, 2011
The directions mention a "template", but I am not the only one who cannot locate it. WHERE is it??
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Nov 07, 2010
Can you please tell me where to find the template ?
Nov 07, 2010
Does anyone know where this craft originally appeared? (magazine, year) I remember there being more photos.
Nov 05, 2010
http://www.amazon.com/Amaco-Polymer-Clay-Template/dp/B000XAJBWK is where you can buy this item. It is for making the correct size of balls needed. I would like to know where ot find the press for the design on this item.
Nov 05, 2010
Help! I can't find the template either.
Oct 29, 2010
That is so cute!! Thank you for sharing with us Cindy @ http://thepurplefroggieclaystuff.blogspot.com/ Over at my blog I'm having a Giveaway and Review on a Paper Shower 6pk and a Paper Shower T-Shirt.. Stop by and sign up to win if you get a chance.. Thank you !!
Oct 24, 2010
I keep reading "template" in the directions but I can't seem to find a template or see a link to a template. This is a real cute project I would like to try. Can anyone help me with the template part? Thanks! Traceyleigh
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Love it love it love it!!!
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The 'Caps earned their sixth straight victory in United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League (PDL) action on Tuesday afternoon at Minoru Oval Park, as they rolled to a 4-1 decision over their Northwest Division rivals Washington Crossfire.
Second-half substitute Cody Cook led the way for the Blue and White, netting a pair of goals to increase his team-leading tally to 10 on the season. Reynold Stewart and Marco Bustos also found the back of the net for Vancouver.
Bustos and fellow Residency midfielder Kianz Froese were both very involved early on – the two players combined for the first real chance of the match in the fifth minute. But a Crossfire defender slid to block Bustos' attempt from inside the 18-yard box, keeping the score level.
Froese had a chance of his own in the 17th minute, as he made a nice run down the left flank, cut to the middle, before putting his shot wide of the right post.
The visiting Crossfire had their first opportunity in the 29th minute, when Hassani Stephenson headed a free kick just wide of the 'Caps net.
Shortly later, Bustos drew first blood for Whitecaps FC U-23. After receiving a nice ball from Brett Levis down the right side, Bustos hammered a low shot into the left corner to give Vancouver a 1-0 lead in the 36th minute.
Washington equalized just before the break off another free kick. This time, 'Caps goalkeeper William Diaz punched the ball out onto the waiting foot off striker Hamza Haddadi, who made no mistake and fired it into an empty cage.
With the score level, Whitecaps FC U-23 took over in the second half thanks largely to the contributions of their substitutes.
Substitute Niall Cousens made his presence felt immediately after coming on for Froese. And in the 70th minute, after Cousens had a crack at a Mitch Piraux corner in the air, Cook deftly picked up the ball inside the box and slotted it in to put the 'Caps ahead 2-1.
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36' – VAN – Marco Bustos (Brett Levis)
43' – WAS – Hamza Haddadi
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90' + 4 – VAN – Cody Cook (penalty kick)
Match Stats
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Saves: Vancouver 2 – Washington 1
Fouls: Vancouver 9 – Washington 5
Offsides: Vancouver 3 – Washington 0
Corners: Vancouver 7 – Washington 4
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Unused Subs
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- 1 boneless pork loin roast, 1 1⁄2 to 2 pounds, trimmed of any excess fat
- Scant cup (about 4 ounces) pitted prunes
- 1⁄2 cup warm unsalted chicken or vegetable stock
- 4 cups water
- 3 tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 bay leaf
- 1⁄2 teaspoon peppercorns
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fennel seed
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 hr
Combine the brine ingredients in a large bowl or 4-cup measure, stirring to dissolve the salt.
Place the meat in a strong, food-grade plastic bag (a gallon-size sealable bag is ideal), pour in the brine, and gather up the bag to surround the meat and expel all the air. Seal the bag and refrigerate 6 hours to overnight. Drain, rinse, and pat dry before roasting.
Insert the tip of a boning knife into the center of the roast from one end and cut a slit about an inch wide. Make a matching slit from the other end. Insert a straight, slender tool (a clean sharpening steel works best, or the handle of a wooden spoon) into the slit and force it through, making one continuous tunnel the length of the roast.
Stuff prunes into the tunnel from both ends. If the roast is in danger of coming apart, tie it in 3 or 4 places with cotton twine. (The roast can be prepared to this point several hours before roasting and refrigerated; if time permits, remove it from the refrigerator a good 30 minutes before roasting.)
Preheat the oven to 400˚F. Place the roast fat side up in a roasting pan and roast to an internal temperature of 145˚F, about 45 minutes.
Remove from the pan and let rest on a platter, loosely covered, while you deglaze the roasting pan as follows. The internal temperature will rise by 5˚ to 10˚ as the roast rests.
Swab out the fat from the roasting pan with a paper towel. Pour in the stock and scrape the pan well to dissolve the browned drippings. Strain the sauce into a warmed bowl, let it settle for a few minutes, and skim the fat off the surface with a ladle.
Slice the roast crosswise and arrange the slices on a warm platter. Drizzle with a little of the pan sauce and pass the remaining sauce on the side.
Serve with Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage to complete the dish.
Serves 4-6
Good to know:
Pork has changed so much in recent decades that cooking times and temperatures in most older recipes should be suspect. The earlier practice of cooking pork until no trace of pink remains (an internal temperature of 175 F or more) was based on a fear of trichinosis, a parasitic disease, and also on much fattier animals.
Today, trichinosis has been virtually eradicated from commercial pork (and any lingering risk is eliminated by cooking to a mere 140 F). More important, today's pork is much leaner than that of a generation ago, and thus less forgiving of overcooking. If you can get over old prejudices, you will find it most flavorful and juicy at the medium stage, when the meat is still slightly pink and the juices definitely run pink. For further insurance against drying, I always brine lean cuts of pork like the loin (see Perfect Roast Chicken, Brining Meats for Moisture and Flavor).
One thing that has not changed is pork's affinity for fruit flavors and sweet and tart mixtures. Prunes are a traditional Middle European stuffing ingredient; dried apricots (plumped in water if especially dry) also work well. Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage makes a perfect accompaniment.
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A malty, slightly sweet ale like Alaskan Amber works well with this, but I prefer the sharper edge of a dry-finishing pale ale or IPA.
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Braised Lamb and Eggplant Cous Cous – Easy, exotic, and a great case for gender bias!
Cous Cous is a tiny, granular type of pasta that is as delicious, as it is simple to prepare. Usually considered Moroccan, this is also a staple in Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. The amazing thing about couscous is how fast it "cooks," and how versatile it is. As long as you have some type of flavorful stock to prepare the Cous Cous, the meats and vegetables can be varied in countless ways.
Regarding the gender bias reference in headline; it has been claimed that female eggplants have more seeds than male eggplants. Those tiny white/grey seeds are what give eggplant it's slightly bitter flavor, so Chefs are said to favor the male eggplants. Anyway, I show you how to "sex" an eggplant, and we also test the male vs. female theory. Wow, I feel like that "Myth Buster" guy. Enjoy the clip!
4 cups couscous
1 quart chicken stock
2 pounds lamb shoulder chops
2 eggplants
1/2 onion
1/2 cup diced tomato or sauce
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp dried Herb de Provence (or Italian herb mix)
1/4 cup olive oil
4 oz feta cheese (optional)
fresh herbs to garnish (mint, parsley, etc.)
* Season lamb with half the salt and pepper, brown well on both sides in a bit of olive oil in Dutch oven, remove and set aside.
* Add onion, rest of salt and pepper, sauté for 5 minutes.
* Add eggplant and sauté for 5 minutes.
* Add tomato, garlic, red pepper flakes, cinnamon, cumin, Herb de Provence, sauté for 5 minutes.
* Add stock and lamb, bring to a simmer and cover. Simmer for 2 hours.
* Remove lamb.
* Strain braising liquid from eggplant and reserve (you should have about 4 1/2 cups).
* Remove meat from bones and add to eggplant mixture, keep warm.
* Bring reserved stock to boil and pour over "oiled" Cous Cous (see clip)
* Cover tightly for 5 minutes, fluff and serve as shown in clip.
5 comments:
hi! i really want to try this dish (braised beef and eggplant coucous), but i was hoping to read a few comments from those who have tried it. does it taste good? how was it? let me know! thinking of cooking it for dinner this coming week! :)
- August 3, 2008 at 4:58 AM
what's a good replacement for HERB DE PROVENCE/ITALIAN HERB MIX? i dont think we have it here where im from...
- August 4, 2008 at 1:59 AM
- Chef John said...
use dried rosemary, thyme, oregano
- August 4, 2008 at 2:54 AM
- The Review Guy said...
Im going to try this, Looks tasty and looking farwart to trying it.
thanks for the video always great as usal.
- June 18, 2009 at 7:04 AM
- Unknown said...
I tried this tonight and thought it was great! I'm not a huge lamb person, but my boyfriend is, so I gave it a try. Delish! When we eat it for leftovers, though, I think I'm going to make a yogurt/mint/cucumber sauce to dribble on top, as well as a spicy harissa.
By the way, I've been trying your dishes for the last few weeks since I stumbled on your site (looking for tamale pie!), and they all come out so great. I think my boyfriend dreams about your chicken parm. :) I can't wait to make biscuits and gravy, chicken fried steak, "risotto" with chicken and sausage, stuffed bell peppers.... Anyway, a big THANK YOU from a fellow San Franciscan.
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December is generally a bad month to release video games, but this year could be an exception. With a great many of the big titles we were expecting in the fall being pushed to 2010, The Saboteur's newly-announced December release date shouldn't be much of a problem for the eagerly anticipated title. After all, it does have that lovely colorizing the world game mechanic going for it, as well as its unique tone and setting. Plus, nothing warms you up on a cold winter evening like a visit to a 1940's Paris brothel.
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I am very excited about starting a new chapter of Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen and I hope you enjoy it. I know I love cooking different chef's recipes because it not only keeps me on my toes, but it helps me to think outside my own box and learn new ways of doing things.
Today's recipe is Short Rib Lasagna courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis. This recipe was one that aired on her Father's Day episode and she said that this was one of her husband Todd's favorite dishes. I watched her make it and it looked so good that I had to try it. I didn't want to do the same old thing for Father's Day, I wanted something different. Since my father loves Italian food and Kevin loves short ribs so it seemed like a match made in heaven to me.
This recipe does take some time since you have to cook the ribs low and slow to get them as tender and juicy as possible. So that to me is the only set back. But this wasn't just a regular weekday meal. That is when my Rachael Ray alter ego comes out and I want things cooked quick with as little stress and time as possible. This was Father's Day so it was well worth it! I am sorry the picture isn't very good, I can tell you the lasagna WAS! When I served it there was barely a possitive ID check, I mean it! I had to pull my hands back and make sue all my fingers were there! So I would say this one was a hit, don't you think so?
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Short Rib Lasagna Rolls
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 1/2 pounds beef short ribs
2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus extra for seasoning
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 onion, roughly chopped
4 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
2 (4-inch) sprigs fresh rosemary
2 cups red wine
2 cups beef broth
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 cups grated Pecorino Romano (6 ounces)
1 cup shredded mozzarella (4 ounces)
1 (10-ounce) packet frozen spinach, thawed, drained, and squeezed of excess liquid
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus extra for seasoning
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus extra for seasoning
12 lasagna noodles (about 10 ounces)
Butter, for greasing baking dish
1 (25-ounce) jar marinara sauces
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan
Olive oil, for drizzling
For the ribs:
In a large dutch oven or heavy bottomed stock pot, heat the oil over medium high heat. Season the ribs with 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Add the ribs to the pan and cook until brown, about 4 minutes each side. Remove the ribs and set aside. Add the onions, garlic, and rosemary. Season with salt and peppe. Cook until the onions are translucent and soft, about 5 minutes. Increase the heat to high. Add the wine and scrape up the brown bits that cling to t he bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Add the beef broth and ribs to the pan. Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover the pan, and cook until the meat is very tender, 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Remove the ribs and set aside to cool enough to handle, about 20 minutes. Discard bones and cooking liquid. Using 2 forks, shred the meat into 2 inch long pieces (to yield approximately 2 1/4 cups shredded meat).
For the filling:
In a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan, bring the milk and cream to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low. Add the cheeses and whisk until melted and the sauce is smooth. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the spinach, basil, and garlic. Place the shredded meat in a medium bowl and pour the spinach mixture on top. Add the salt and pepper. Using a fork, mix until combined. Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper, if needed.
Bring a large pot of salted water to boil over high heat. Add the pasta and cook until just tender but still firm t the bite, stirring occasionally, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Place an oven rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F> Butter a 9 by 13-inch glass baking dish.
Spread 1 cup marinara sauce in the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Lay 4 noodles flat on dry work surface. Spread 1/4 to 1/3 cup of the filling mixture evenly along each noodle. Roll up and place seam-side down in the baking dish. Repeat with the remaining noodles and filling to make 12 lasagna rolls. Spoon remaining marinara sauce on top and sprinkle with Parmesan. Drizzle with olive oil, bake until the lasagna rolls are heated through and the cheese is beginning to brown, about 25 minutes.


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*The successful outcome of this search, impressed upon me the advantages of The Genealogist as a family history research site and of the age old saying 'never put your eggs (or search for your ancestors) in one basket'! Of course, not everything is online and certificates need to be ordered to authenticate findings. With this in mind, I set out to compare The Genealogist with sites I more commonly make use of.
|Look for every possible source of information...
The first thing which I found interesting and a reminder to check multiple sources to verify information, was the confusing fact that Ancestry and The Genealogist had transcribed different parishes for Joseph's address in the 1851 census. The address I found on Ancestry was St Mary's of the Quay, Ipswich, Suffolk. The address provided in my search on The Genealogist, was Terrace Lane, St Mary's of the Elms. These are completely different parishes in Ipswich, Suffolk and obviously a transcription error on the part of one site. The Genealogist did have the added advantage of giving me the street name whereas on Ancestry.com I had to decipher this myself from the original census image and with the writing being almost illegible, this proved impossible. Adding insult to injury, I now had two different parishes as well as two different wives for Joseph!
Searching the address on FindmyPast confused the issue even more as I found the address transcribed as Tunnel Lane, St Mary Key. A further search for Joseph Turner on the British Origins website also listed his address as Tunnel Lane St Mary Key. Familysearch listed the address as St Mary Key, St Clement, Ipswich. From my own examination of the original image despite the hard to decipher old handwriting, I could clearly read St Mary Key. According to Geograph both the name Key and Quay have been commonly interchanged for this medieval church which is situated next to Ipswich's quayside. Google map searches to find old maps and street names close to both St mary's parishes, suggested to me that Joseph Turner in fact lived in neither Terrace nor Tunnel Lane but rather lived in Turret Lane, which is situated very close to the Church of St Mary's of the Quay, however that is a puzzle for another day.....It is Joseph's wives I am searching for! Another reminder though, of the importance of searching in more than one place.
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From the 1851 UK census which I had accessed on Ancestry.com I knew that Joseph Turner's first wife was named Sarah. By the 1861 census his wife's name was Rosanner. In the 1871 census transcription on Ancestry, the second wife's name was shown as Rosina and in 1881, just to confuse matters even more, she appeared as Rosena. I set out to find out more about Joseph's first wife Sarah. By 1851, Joseph and Sarah Turner had two children - Sarah Turner born in 1849 and Eliza Munnings, born in 1845 and both according to the 1851 census, born in Ipswich, Suffolk. From Eliza's surname of Munnings I proposed that this may have been Sarah's maiden name.
|Joseph Turner on my Ancestry tree
When I searched The Genealogist website for a marriage for Joseph Turner using the same information, his name, date of birth, and place Ipswich, Suffolk, between the years 1844 and 1849, I found a likely marriage immediately and rather than having to search several pages of results, it was the second entry on the first page of hits. This time the surname was transcribed as Munning.
|A quick search found the marriage to Sarah Munning in 1848
There is much more to discover about Joseph Turner and his two wives, including their backgrounds, families and the children of both marriages. Rosemary Koppitke's talk on using The Genealogist as a source of UK records has pointed out to me some quite unique and worthwhile features for research on The Genealogist website and I will certainly not be overlooking it in my future UK research.
I have also been reminded since the cruise, to organise my sources (thankyou to Jill Ball and Thomas MacEntee for their excellent suggestions with regard to doing this in their respective talks). In this way, when I am researching, I will not overlook or forget about any resources that I have used in the past.
|It is worthwhile searching more than one site to check for transcription errors


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Quick dinner idea: Meatball Sandwich Casserole
Categories: Cooking, Entertaining, Lunches, Meal Planning, Uncategorized, recipes, summer living
The holidays can be a crazy time of year with shopping to be done, preparing for guests and getting kids ready for exams. We've been out late a lot during the week lately, and traveling on the weekends, so there's not been a lot of time to fix dinner. Since it seems my family insists on eating every night, I figured I should try to do something about feeding them.
As a matter of fact, I even had most of these things in the pantry and fridge already, so this was easy.
Meatball Sandwich Casserole
Slices (about 1/4 inch thick) baguette French bread(enough to cover a casserole dish)
olive or vegetable oil to brush on bread
- 1-2 pounds (depends on what size dish you're using) frozen cooked Italian-style or regular meatballs, thawed. Works best if they are smaller, bite-sized meatballs.
- 1 bag frozen chopped onions thawed and drained (I sauteed mine, but I'm sure it's fine without)
- NOTE: you're supposed to use the onions and green pepper mix to make it like an authentic meatball sandwich, but no one here but me likes green peppers.
- 1 1/2 cups pasta sauce (I used a tomato-basil one)
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- Heat oven to 350°F. Brush 1 side of each bread slice with oil.
- Line the bottom and side of a casserole dish with bread, oil side up and slightly overlapping slices.
- Bake 5 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
- In large bowl, mix meatballs, onion (and bell pepper), and pasta sauce.
- Spoon meatball mixture into crust; and bake uncovered 25 to 30 minutes or until thoroughly heated in center.
- Sprinkle with cheese; bake 5 to 10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.
It was a hit with everyone, and it's been just as good the next day!
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For the 2019 *fiscal year, Judge Lisa Groeneveld Meijer has disposed 317 cases at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) in Manchester, New Hampshire. Out of those 317 dispostions, 96 were dismissed, 145 were approved and 76 were denied. This means that the percentage of dispositions that Judge Groeneveld-Meijer has approved in Manchester for the 2019 fiscal year is 46%. The information below for Judge Lisa Groeneveld Meijer was last updated on 6/11/2019.
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A salesperson for Google Offers -- purportedly a Groupon and other group-sales killer -- may have overstepped during a sales pitch in New York.
And when Google or its reps oversteps, it usually results in a Federal Trade Commission investigation, if not a full-on report.
Of course, sales people -- especially in media organizations -- can and do overstate what they can deliver, during the heat of a pitch around a new, probably still unfamiliar, product. According to BusinessInsider.com, the sales person tied a closed deal to some extra play on Google's search results:
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Specifically, a merchant tells us, the Google salesperson promised that merchants who sign up for the program will become the "No. 1 in Google."
Later, Google spokesperson Nate Tyler told BI.com that "Google Offers has no influence whatsoever on the ranking of Google search results."
Being friends with SEO benefits might seem like a no-brainer edge to many merchants looking to boost their local sales, so any miscommunication from HQ and those in the field pitching Offers would need clarified toot de suite.
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Two motions related to mining, proposed by Oceania Members of IUCN, were approved this morning by the Members' Assembly.
Sea bed mining
Mining has been at the centre of debate for many conservationists here at the Congress. This morning a motion was passed by the Congress on the protection of deep-ocean ecosystems and biodiversity from the threats of sea bed mining. This motion was proposed by the Te Ipukarea Society of Cook Islands and Agence des Aires Marines Protégées and 20 co-sponsors.
IUCN spoke to Teina Mackenzie of Te Ipukarea Society on why this motion was put forward.
What is the way forward on this motion?
This motion also calls on IUCN to develop specialist groups and knowledge on the impacts of seabed exploration or mining activities. It also recommends that indigenous and local people are able to participate effectively in decisions that have an impact on ocean biodiversity and ocean ecosystems which may affect their rights and interests as custodians over their territories.
Mining and gas expansion
Also approved, a motion encouraging the Australian Government to undertake strategic assessments on the impacts of mining and gas expansion in areas protected under national environmental law.
The motion noted the commitments that the Australian Government has made to the international community to protect, conserve and present World Heritage sites within its territory and that national environmental law provides an important mechanism for the protection of threatened and migratory species, internationally-significant wetlands and World Heritage areas like the Great Barrier Reef.
But there are also concerns by environmental NGOs on the potentially significant environmental risks posed by the expansion of mining and gas activities in Australia, including coal mining and coal seam gas extraction.
Amongst other recommendations the motion encourages the Australian Government to continue to implement measures aimed at improving the scientific basis and transparency of decision-making for coal seam gas and large scale coal mining developments, including through the work of the Independent Scientific Committee on coal seam gas and large coal mining.
The motion was proposed by the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales and six co-sponsors including the Te Ipukarea Society.


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Texas, North Carolina, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have all jumped into alternatives in a big way, with public-sector pension plans now allocating nearly one-quarter of their assets to hedge funds, private equity, real estate and commodities.
Ramped-up state participation has paid off for them, but other times it has come back to bite them — like in the case of Pennsylvania, which had 46% of its investments in riskier alternatives in 2012 but paid exorbitant fees, which brought its annual return to 3.6%, well below its target of 8%.
Still, Vern Sumnicht, CEO at iSectors LLC in Appleton, Wis., a financial services company, said alternatives have become very popular in the public-sector realm in large part because of how successful David Swensen's Yale Model has been in boosting the Yale University Endowment Fund for 15 years.
And while most pension plans are not investing 60% or more in alternatives, like Yale's endowment, many have boosted their investment in alternatives by 3% to 5% a year, Sumnicht said.
According to a recent report by Cliffwater LLC, an advisor to institutional advisors, state pension funds more than doubled their allocations to alternative investments between 2006 and 2012 — about a $600 billion increase. They now make up about 24% of total public pension fund assets. Investments in stocks went way down during the same time period.
So why have alternatives caught the eye of pensions? It's simple, said Sumnicht. Alternatives offer efficiencies and opportunities that aren't available through traditional equity or bond investments. On the other hand, to make investing in alternatives work, people have to leave their investments in them for 10 years or more, he said.
The "liquidity in a private equity partnership could easily be 10 years or more and, for a lot of investors, that's a big problem. But you can imagine for an endowment fund, liquidity is not a problem. These are long-term investments. They can easily manage the liquidity. They can keep enough money in short-term bonds or cash for their needs easily but then have billions of dollars very long-term," Sumnicht said. The same is true for pensions.
Of course, the popularity of hedge funds and other alternatives with institutional investors has had its negative effects. Some of the country's largest hedge funds announced this year they would give money back to the institutions that were investing with them. The problem, they have found, is that they have so much capital invested now they don't have enough of the right investments to buy into. They don't feel they can get the returns they have in the past because they are growing too big.
Most hedge funds are exclusive, with 100 or fewer investors who pay a premium to be included in the investment.
The advent of exchange-traded funds has made it even easier for institutional and smaller investors to put money into alternatives. Companies have developed funds that specialize in everything from timber and oil and gas to real estate investment trusts.
As ETFs become more popular, the fees to participate in them will drop and the amount of money needed to invest in them also will decrease, he said. Right now, it takes thousands of dollars to participate in many alternative investments. That could drop to as little as $1,000 as time goes on, Sumnicht said.
Cliffwater's 2013 Report on State Pension Performance and Trends found that pensions that invested in traditional portfolios of stocks and bonds returned single-digit returns over the last 10 years with a bit too much volatility. Looking ahead, Cliffwater said it doesn't expect that to change.
It pointed out that larger endowments outperformed pensions from 2006 through 2012, but that their performance advantage has narrowed in recent years.
"Better performing state funds generally had more alternative investments," the report found. "In fact, the top-performing state pension plan over the last 10 years had the highest allocation to alternatives."
The top-performing state fund was the Missouri State Employee's Retirement System, which returned an average 8.1% over 10 years. South Dakota Retirement System saw a 7.8% average return, followed by Delaware Public Employee Retirement System and Oklahoma Teachers' Retirement System with 7.6%.
The one thing all of these plans had in common was their above-average investment in alternatives. The average allocation to alternatives among the top-performing pension plans was equal to 29% at the end of June 2012.
The amount of money state pension plans invested in alternatives varied greatly from 0% to 65%, indicating that nobody knows the right amount of alternatives to invest in, Cliffwater found.
"There is no relationship between state pension fund size and performance, contrary to endowments where a strong positive relationship has existed between fund size and performance," the report stated.
Many state pensions are moving toward global stock allocations and putting equity hedge funds in their stock allocations, Cliffwater found. Private equity made up 42% of the alternative asset mix of state pension plans in 2012, followed by real estate at 32%, hedge funds at 17% and real assets at 9%.
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* We regret this concert has been postponed because a winer storm prevented the guest artists from arriving in Holland. The concert will be rescheduled for a future date to be determined. *
The Hope College jazz studies area will feature internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Fred Hersch with his trio on Monday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The trio consists of Fred Hersch, piano; Tom Knific, bass; and Keith Hall, drums. Taylor O'Donnell, jazz vocalist will be a featured guest. During his residency, Hersch will also teach private lessons to the college's jazz studies majors.
Hersch is no stranger to Hope's stage after performing at the college in 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2010, making this performance his fifth appearance. "This is an extremely exciting relationship that Hope has developed with this extraordinary talent," said Dr. Brian Coyle, who is director of the jazz studies area at Hope as well as a professor of music and chairperson of the department of music.
Hersch, a pianist and composer, has been described by "Downbeat" as "one of the small handfuls of brilliant musicians of his generation." Hersch's numerous accomplishments include a 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition, two Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition. He has appeared on more than 100 recordings, including more than two-dozen albums as bandleader/solo pianist.
Hersch has acted as a passionate spokesman and fund-raiser for AIDS services and education agencies since 1993. He has produced and performed on four benefit recordings and at numerous concerts for the charities "Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS" and "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS" that have raised more than $250,000 to date.
Hersch is currently a visiting professor at Western Michigan University and is on the jazz studies faculty of The New England Conservatory.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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Great picts. twa.. Good for yall.. What kind of fish are they? Damn now I want a Micky Ds Filet of fish..
Went out for a couple days with a couple buds and my son ( in the cammo) fishing on one of the few inland lakes that still has safe ice,,,,20" of it. So here's some pics of 4-5 hours worth of dubbing off. It was kinda of a ,,crack of noon,,,take it easy, drink a beer and chillax ,,kinda day.
No tournaments,,, No clients,,, No schedules,,, No 3 AM morning and 100 mi drive,,,No shows,, No Kids Clinics,,,No cares,,,,,
Not a cloud in the sky,, 46 degrees,, sun on you're face,,some quality fish biting,, hanging with my son,, hanging with my buds,,,,,,,Hell raising and devil worship,,, and my bud "Chris" (on the wheeler) getting,,,,, "outa control" ,,!!!!!! The Old Fuck!!!! And agent orange man,,,, Ralph. I'm the old guy in the blue and white "Clam" tournament shirt, tracking down those fish with the GPS and Navionics lake charts.
What's not to love?
There's some "on the hunt" ,, "hell raising",, fish ,, and results, yummmmmmm ,, pics.
Just another day in paradise, right here in Vermont!!!
I can barley keep up this hectic pace,,,Phewwwww,,,,,
Great picts. twa.. Good for yall.. What kind of fish are they? Damn now I want a Micky Ds Filet of fish..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
Perch ,, of course, and the big one's aren't even running yet , I've caught them a titch less than 17" and >2 lbs outa that lake. These were only about 12-13's, pound and a halfers. My goal is a state record fish from there,, that's where the last one was taken from. Last year I missed by only 3/4 " and 2oz,,, CHIT!!
Big fat, fresh caught, spring feed deep water perch,,,with a local micro brew for supper,,,Yummmmm, don't get much better.
Beats the hell out of Mickey-D's
Nice! Big perch. Bet they were good!
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
Getting closer,,, got 2,, real nice 16"+ perch yesterday,, and 36 other slammers besides, ,, future breading stock, ya know sense most were big fat females loaded with eggs,, they all went back in sense my freezer's full already.
Still hunting that elusive state record one though,,,,,,, it's there someplace!!! Going to try them again this afternoon,,,,fish don't fail me now!! I want that record fish!!!! I held a state record for Wallie for many years(almost 18) which was just broken about 4-5 years ago,and I held the record Northern too for a couple years too when I was younger,, haven't matched either one sense. There are some quality fish around here for sure and I'd love to get some of you guys that are fairly close or in the area, to go fishing with me sometime. Never know,,, you,, might just catch it???
The offers always open folks,, spring crappie is coming up real soon!! We'll be chasing those 16-17" beasts around pretty soon, the ice is almost off on Champlain in many spots so maybe in 2-3 weeks when the water gets up to about 55-56 degrees, they'll be pounding!! We'll be getting it done good shape by then. Make some plans if you want to come around and get in on this.
Great fun for us old retired codulars!! I've got plenty of gear to cover ya, you'll just need a 2-3day license which is pretty cheap and you'll have a place to hang out so no big expenses will be involved.
So if any of you are around Vt, or close by,, touch base and I'll show you some good fishing and you'll get a free guided trip out of it besides. We still have allot of fun, even if the fish don't bite. We go artifact picking, hunting chucks. Just hanging out in the Champlain valley by itself and watching the bald eagles during mating season, watching the otters playing, Red Tail hawks courting and all the other good stuff to do is a blast.
Even had an otter check me out 2-3 years ago while I was out in the kayak arrow head picking. He climbed up on the bow and drifted along with me on the Lemon Fair river for about 200 yards, very cool indeed. He really wanted to get a closer look and kept getting closer trying to get a sniff!! He was very interested in what I was up to,, there pretty tame critters and very fun to watch. There very frisky and inquisitive too. The whole family all swam around close to me for quite awhile checking me out,, the youngsters are just about cute as Hell, and even noisier than the adults! Lots of good arrow head picking when the fishing isn't good too. Lots of cool stuff to do around here,, now I'm retired.
I might be going on a archeological dig this summer for 2-3 weeks, depends if I get chosen for it or not. It's a dig which will be done in the Plattsburg NY area , we'll be exploring a previously unexplored site containing artifacts from about 1600AD to as far back as about 9000 BC from what the test pits done last year, brought to light. It's a pretty long settled, undisturbed site that could yield some very good info. I hope I get picked to go!! I'd love to be part of that dig.
Thanks twa, perch sound good.. Yall be careful out there now.. Ice start getting funny this time of year..
For real. Wear one of those emergency inflating like jackets..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
damn--we could use some of that ice out here---it is getting tough to find a cold brew!!!
Could use some of that cool weather right about now.
PHEW!!!! It's been brutal around here for 2 weeks now, 10 days of it rain and 85-90 temps,,,,,with 6-7 days of the same still to come!!!! It's killing me!!!! It's getting just like Fla,,1:30-200pm,,,thunderstorms blister through and it pours and muggy as hell. Plus just plain to uncomfortable to get anything done outside when it isn't raining . Strange weather patterns lately. We are close to all time record rain and temp records this month too.
We have had almost as much property damage in some areas as when Irene blew through a few years back. The sustained rains are causing allot of flooding with lots of road and property damage in some areas.
I was surprised to see this old thread pop back up this time of year.


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