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Wave Tech lands $150,000 grant
Gavi Begtrup, a co-founder of the startup Wave Tech, has heard this comment more than once: Your company sounds really interesting. What is it that you actually do?
The easiest explanation is to borrow a few lines from Begtrup's standard pitch.
"For 10,000 years, human civilization has existed and grown because of its ability to optimize agriculture," he said. "We've done that through breeding plants by controlling water, controlling nutrients, controlling the soil. The one thing we've left out, which is the one fundamental input for plants, is light."
That's where Wave Tech is looking to make its mark. The three-person startup recently secured a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research Grant from the National Science Foundation. It's now working on parallel tracks in an effort to commercialize its technology, which controls how much light crops receive using a thin covering of nano-tech film. The film is designed to block out harmful ultraviolet light while optimizing good light.
Wave Tech is using the SBIR grant to fund a study on how its film affects different strains of algae at Iowa State University. The early results are encouraging, Begtrup said, and could position Wave Tech for a Phase 2 SBIR grant of $750,000.
Separately, Wave Tech is working with a customer that is testing whether Wave Tech's product helps seedlings develop faster and with better root structure, which would ultimately increase the seedlings' hardiness once they're transplanted. Begtrup declined to name the customer.
"If I think of the most useful test I could do, it's the one where the customer who would be buying our product is telling me what they think and what they find," Begtrup said.
For Begtrup and co-founders Matteo del Ninno and Jacob Bertrand, the developments put Wave Tech one step closer to creating a product for both large industrial customers, and individuals growing plants and vegetables in a greenhouse.
The covered agriculture industry offers a ripe target: According to Rabobank, which has expertise in agri financing, there are roughly 5.2 million acres of covered agriculture worldwide.
Locally, Wave Tech illustrates how disparate organizations in the region can create unexpected connections that lead to innovation. None of Wave Tech's founders are from Cincinnati. Del Ninno, who has a master's degree in agriculture and biosystems engineering, and Bertrand, who has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, met at a 2011 Christmas party. Del Ninno's girlfriend and Bertrand's wife came here to work at UC Health. Del Ninno was interested in creating a product that would accelerate algae growth, and he and Bertrand developed a 4-by-4 inch glass prototype.
The two then met Begtrup, who has a Ph.D. in physics. Begtrup moved here when Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center recruited his wife, who is a geneticist. Begtrup was previously an advisor for former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and serves as Wave Tech's CEO. Del Ninno is the chief innovation officer, while Bertrand is chief technology officer.
"We realized we needed somebody with more experience networking and with building a business," said Bertrand.
"That's what made Gavi the perfect fit. He understands the technical side but he also has a lot of experience working with people from diverse backgrounds, working with larger groups of people, and it made him a perfect asset to round out our team."
The three are working out of office space at bioLOGIC, the SIDIS-owned Northern Kentucky incubator and accelerator for biotech companies. Square 1, a nonprofit funded by Duke Energy, Haile U.S. Bank Foundation and R.C. Durr Foundation to connect startups with the right resources, is helping Wave Tech pay the rent at bioLOGIC.
Begtrup, who also consults for seed-stage investor CincyTech, is excited about Wave Tech's progress to date.
"I see our company as one that can go and make money, which is awesome, but also one that can have a tremendous impact on the world."


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What brings me here is the need for a GSM gateway.
Basically I have an analog Line (ISDN) which I want to change into GSM, allowing me to save a few.
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Integrating Salesforce with Team-One
Salesforce is a flexible and robust cloud-computing platform that provides CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Sales Force Automation, Call Center, Customer Engagement, Employee Collaboration and Business Analytics software within an integrated, web-based interface. Salesforce is at the heart of a massive technology ecosystem that provides hosted services for millions of SMB and Enterprise businesses around the world.
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You can easily and immediately connect Salesforce to Team-One by adding the following integration or others.
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New Salesforce Lead Integration
Step 1: Log in to Salesforce
Log in to your Salesforce account.
Step 2: Add a New Outbound Message
Go to "Setup"
Go to the administrative section of your Salesforce account by clicking on "Setup" in the top-right navigation menu.
Navigate to the Outbound Message List
In the left-side navigation menu, select "Create" then "Workflow & Approvals" then "Outbound Messages" to open the list of current outbound messages.
Add a New Outbound Message
Once on the Salesforce outbound message list, click the "New Outbound Message" button to begin configuring your new message.
Step 3: Configure your Outbound Message
Select the Salesforce Lead Type
In the outbound message object list, select the "Lead" object type and click "Next".
Configure the Message Details
Complete the outbound message form.
Enter the generated webhook URL in the "Endpoint URL field".
Under "Lead Fields to Send" select the fields you'd like to appear in the message.
The default "new Salesforce lead" message will include following the Salesforce lead fields (when they are provided):
- Annual Revenue
- City
- Clean Status
- Company
- Company DUNS Number
- Country
- Description
- Fax
- First Name
- Industry
- Last Name
- Mobile Phone
- Phone
- Postal Code
- Rating
- Salutation
- State
- Status
- Street
- Title
- Website
However, you may add or remove fields and further customize the message by editing the integration after it is created.
Once the outbound message is saved, you'll be taken to page that summarizes the message details.
Note that currently there are no "Workflow Rules Using This Outbound Message". That's what we'll create next.
Step 3: Add a New Workflow Rule
Navigate to the Workflow Rule List
In the left-side navigation menu, select "Create" then "Workflow & Approvals" then "Workflow Rules" to open the list of current Salesforce workflow rules.
Add a New Workflow Rule
From the "All Workflow Rules" list, click the "New Rule" button to begin configuring the new rule.
Step 3: Configure your Workflow Rule
Choose the Salesforce Lead Type
In the rule object list, select the "Lead" object type and click "Next"
Select the Rule Criteria
Complete the rule form.
To report all new Salesforce leads to the service, select "created" as the "Evaluation Criteria",and entera simple tautology such as
1 = 1 in the "Rule Criteria" field.
Once you've configured your rule criteria, click "Save & Next" to move on to action selection.
Specify Workflow Actions
Under "Immediate Worklow Actions", open the "Add Workflow Action" drop-down menu and choose "Select Existing Action".
Select Existing Actions
Next to "Choose Action Type" select "Outbound Message" and move the message you created above to the "Selected Actions" list.
If you have many outbound messages you can use the "Find" field to filter the list.
Once your action (or actions) is selected, click the "Save" button to return to the "Specify Workflow Actions" screen.
Complete the Rule
Now that our outbound message action has been added, we're finished creating the rule. Click the "Done" button to navigate to the "Workflow Row Detail" screen.
Step 4: Activate the Rule
On the "Workflow Rule Detail" screen we can see that we've created a workflow rule that, when fired, triggers and out outbound message to notify about the new Salesforce lead.
But note that Salesforce does not activate the new workflow rule by default. Hence for our final step we'll need to make our workflow rule active.
Click the "Back to List: Workflow Rules" link to return the list of workflow rules.
In the list of workflow rules, find the newly created rule and click on the "Activate" link to turn the rule on.
Step 5: All Done
The Salesforce integration is now complete. Whenever a new lead is added to Salesforce, a message will appear in the workspace or chat you selected when creating the webhook.
Optional: Customize the Chat Message
If you'd like to make changes to the chat or direct message that is posted when a new lead is created in Salesforce, go to the "Manage Integrations" tab and find the block corresponding to your integration.
Click on the "Edit" button to open the integration edit screen.
Click on "Show Advanced Settings" to view the full list of options. Make your changes to the "Body Transform" field, and then click "Save Changes".
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A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland on Memorial Day weekend has captured the imagination of residents as it traipses across the peninsula. Officials say research dating to the 1700s suggests this is the first bear on the Cape.
PROVINCETOWN — The biggest sensation on Cape Cod right now isn't the lobster, the historic lighthouses or its rolling sand dunes. It's not even a Kennedy.
It's a bear.
A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland on Memorial Day weekend has captured the imagination of residents as it traipses across the peninsula. Officials say research dating to the 1700s suggests this is the first bear on the Cape.
Boston-area newscasts are featuring daily updates on the bear's whereabouts, and a Cape Cod Bear Twitter feed has more than 1,300 followers. A local brewery is even offering bear-themed shirts.
"Well, my goodness. How often do you see a bear on Cape Cod?" said Marion Larson, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. "It's really cool and people are really excited about it."
A Cape Cod Times reporter told the paper she spotted the bear around 6 a.m. Thursday and said it bounded across the road like a puppy.
The bear, likely a male about 3 years old weighing 150 to 200 pounds, has been seen near a chicken coop, a cranberry bog, a golf course and more than a dozen other locations along a 60-mile stretch of the Cape from Sandwich east to Provincetown.
Now that the bear has reached the tip of the Cape, wildlife officials say they may attempt to immobilize and move it to an area where other bears live. Officials say it's possible the bear could retrace its steps and head west.
"He's at the end of the line, as far as real estate," Larson said.
The bear can only be tranquilized if officials can isolate it in a tree or some other confined space, said Laura Conlee, the state's bear expert. Another option would be to try to catch it in a trap that basically consists of two 55-gallon steel drums welded together and then move it elsewhere.
But Provincetown police Officer Ruth Anne Cowing, who handles animal control duties for the town, said officials there are hoping the bear will retrace its steps and get out of town. So far it's stayed mostly in the woods and retreated every time it's seen a person.
But she says the area is just too congested to let the bear stay where it is.
"Now he's at the very end so he needs to make a decision or we'll make it for him," she said. "We think he's here looking for a mate ... We're hoping he realizes he's the only one here, and he turns around and goes back home."
Cowing usually handles calls about dogs, foxes and raccoons. She's already had four reports this week of bear sightings, two on Wednesday and two more on Thursday.
"We're all really excited about the bear," she said. "It's so unusual to have that species down here."
The running joke in Provincetown, a gay vacation destination, is that the animal should stick around for a July event dedicated to men known as bears, who embrace natural body hair.
"The big joke is he's six weeks early for bear week in Provincetown," Cowing said.
University of Vermont student and Cape native Kiah Coble, who was on the town's main drag with her dog Thursday, was amused by all the attention.
"I guess we really don't understand the press. He's just a bear," she said. "I just hope he has a good time."


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Prosecutor wants jail for homeschooling parents
Adolf Hitler said: "The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing."
Adviser says national policy targets families with persecution
Just as a German family has been reunited after the children were seized in a SWAT-style police raid because they were homeschooled, a prosecutor in another case is demanding six-month jail terms for parents who want to educate their children.
WND reported Aug. 30 that four children of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, ages 7-14, forcibly were taken by a team of about 20 armed law enforcement officers from their home just as their homeschool classes were beginning.
The shocking raid was made solely because the parents were providing their children's education, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association, the world's premiere advocate for homeschooling.
The organization noted the paperwork that authorized police officers and social workers to use force on the children contained no claims of mistreatment.
HSLDA officials confirmed Thursday to WND that the children were reunited with their parents after the family, given "no choice," agreed to send the children to a government-approved education program
"We are glad the children are home where they belong," HSDLA Director of International Relations Michael Donnelly told WND. "They should never have been taken. We will continue to support the family until complete custody is restored and they are permitted to homeschool in peace – either in Germany or elsewhere."
But he said Germany's alarming treatment of homeschoolers has surfaced in another case.
"We are gravely concerned about the case of Thomas and Marit Schaum, a family who face criminal charges over homeschooling. The prosecutor is demanding the parents each go to jail for six months," he said.
"Germany's national policy of persecuting homeschooling families must stop and we plan to continue the fight for freedom and for the rights of thousands of others in Germany and around the world to homeschool their children."
HSLDA said the Schaums live just a few hours north of the Wunderlichs, in Hulsa, Hessen.
The Schaums "are homeschooling parents of nine children and have homeschooled for many years in spite of persistent pressure from authorities. They have been engaged in court proceedings for some time and are now being threatened by Prosecutor Joachim Schnitzer Ling with unprecedented six-month long jail terms."
Previously, the longest jail terms handed down to homeschoolers in Germany were the three-months sentences for Juergen and Rosemary Dudek.
Their jail sentences, however, were overturned and replaced with a fine, although their criminal convictions remain on the record.
"The Schaums have successfully resisted the demands of the state and retained custody of their children," HSLDA said. "Four have graduated and are all successful in various fields of work and study. According to those close to the family, the social workers involved with the Schaum family have not taken drastic steps, like those in the Wunderlich case, but have instead allowed the school authorities to seek redress through the courts.
HSLDA said the Schaums were convicted and fined, but their attorney Andreas Vogt is appealing. Vogt represents about a dozen homeschooling families in Germany.
The Wunderlich children were restored to their parents after the family agreed to have the children submit to government teachings. A hearing was scheduled on Thursday, and a rally in support of the family was planned.
Dirk Wunderlich told HSLDA the family was allowed a visit beforehand.
"We were very happy to see them, and they us. Our children have been fairly treated. While we do not agree that we should be forced to send our children to school, we have been unfairly treated and our children traumatized. We feel we have no choice but to agree to the local authority's wishes and plan to comply and will work with them as we send our children to school. What is most important to us is to have our children back home."
His wife, Petra, said, "We are greatly encouraged by the emails and support of our fellow homeschoolers around the world."
Donnelly said he sees a sliver of hope in the developing situations.
"I see progress in our strategy to draw attention to this issue. We would much prefer that the authorities did not pursue such cruel measures like taking the Wunderlich children and wanting to send the Schaums to jail for six months. But these outrageous behaviors draw attention to the need for real reform in Germany. Mainstream German media is finally beginning to take notice. My hope is that as the media reports on what is being done to these really good families, politicians and the general public will change their attitudes and figure out a way to allow parents to have this option," he said.
The Wunderlich case drew a dozen lawyers from all over Europe to a meeting in Frankfurt to discuss ways to raise awareness, including Roger Kiska of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which also has been integral in a number of homeschooling cases.
"The right of parents to homeschool should be respected and ADF is committed to working along with HSLDA and others to protect this important freedom from being marginalized," he said. "We have a variety of international tribunals we can look to besides the European Court of Human Rights which has been very antagonistic to homeschoolers and parental rights in general.
"The act of these local authorities to take the Wunderlich children is unconscionable and those responsible must be held to account," he said.
Donnelly said there is "no doubt that we are getting the attention of the German government."
"One HSLDA member told us that a special number has been set up by the embassy for calls about the Wunderlichs," he said. "Another person reported that staff members at consulates have been inundated with calls about the situation. We are hopeful that this public pressure will result in policy changes."
WND reported that after the raid, hundreds of comments critical of the government's move were posted on a variety of websites, including the Facebook page for the German embassy in Washington.
A Facebook page called "Free the Wunderlich Kids now" also was created.
HSLDA said that when a nation has voluntarily signed up to obey international human rights obligations, the international community has the right to call such a nation to account for violating human rights standards.
The organization's statement continued: "This is especially true when the offending nation is Germany. Modern human rights law was created in response to Nazi Germany. And when Germany today uses a law from that era to persecute families who do not want to send their children to the public schools to be indoctrinated by the government, it is the right and duty of every nation on earth to say: Germany keep your promises. Stop abusing the human rights of your citizens."
The statement said "It is settled beyond dispute that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the unanimous vote of the UN General Assembly arose, 'out of the desire to respond forcefully to the evils perpetrated by [National Socialists in] Germany.' The UDHR's view regarding parents and children is no exception to this rule. Article 26(3) of the UDHR proclaims: 'Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.' Numerous human rights instruments have been drafted in reaction to 'the intrusion of the fascist state into the family' with its goal of seeking 'to alienate children from their parents for the purpose of political indoctrination."
Germany's homeschooling ban dates to the Hitler era, but the current German government has endorsed it fully. In 2003, the German Supreme Court handed down the Konrad decision in which "religiously or philosophically motivated" homeschooling was banned.
Four years later, the German Federal Parliament changed a key provision of German child protection law, making it easier for children to be taken away from their parents for supposed "educational neglect." In that same year, the case of Katerina Plett, a homeschooling mother who moved with her children to Austria while her husband maintained the family residence in Germany, made its way to the highest criminal court in Germany.
That ruling said "the general public has an interest in thwarting the development of religiously or motivated parallel societies" and "integrating minorities in that regard."
The court, stunningly, said homeschooling was a form of "child endangerment," so authorities were justified in using force to take children.
Michael Farris, HSLDA founder, said although the case is in Germany, others should be concerned.
"I want the American homeschool community and other friends of liberty to take note – this mindset isn't limited to Germany. Many U.S. policymakers and academics agree. … They are even working to see them realized here. So far, thankfully, homeschooling isn't a legitimate reason (anymore) for the government to kidnap your children if they don't go to state approved schools," Farris said.
Donnelly said there are "already too many voices in the United States that want to advance the idea that the state must control education for the safety of the state or other reasons."
"And this is the same rationale of the German government in perpetrating deplorable acts like this," he said. "Why should we think it couldn't or won't happen here?"
Donnelly asked further: "Can't a government that can order you to get health care tell you that you don't qualify for certain life-saving treatments, tell parents they can't allow their children to get certain kinds of counseling or that they must have a particular kind of medical treatments or that certain religious speech is intolerant and may not be permitted or must be punished, or that only national curricular standards are acceptable for all children, etc. – can't a government like that order you to send your children to school? And then punish you if you don't?"
Another German family, the Romeikes, sought and obtained asylum in the United States because of German persecution over their homeschool, but the Obama administration appealed and obtained an order from a higher court that the family must return to Germany. It's now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Obama administration has argued in court parents essentially have no right to determine how and what their children are taught, leaving the authority with the government.
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It was in 1937 when Adolf Hitler said: "The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing."
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Sandra Bullock Worries About Being A Working Mom — She Dreads Leaving Baby Louis!
Sandra isn't quite ready to trade in mommy time for her life as an A-list actress. Can you relate to her working mom dilemma?
Now that it's time to go back to work, Sandra Bullock is realizing that she will miss the quality time she has gotten to spend with her 1-year-old adopted son, Louis! After a whirlwind year — winning an Oscar for her performance in The Blind Side, discovering her now ex-husband Jesse James' infidelity and raising Louis as a single mother — Sandra, 46, has found comfort in her little man and is reportedly not ready to head back to a movie set yet.
Is Ryan Reynolds moving on with Sandra?
"Sandra hasn't had much to do since adopting Louis, so she's a little upset to have so much coming up," a friend tells InTouch magazine. The adorable duo just spent their first Christmas together, which was very special for the new mom. "Sandra was never more happy than she was during the holiday season, shopping for toys and gifts for her little boy," a source says.
Sandra spent Christmas with Jesse and his daughter Sunny!
But after a great Christmas and lots of bonding time with Louis, it's time for Sandra to return to Hollywood after a well-earned hiatus. She will begin filming her latest movie, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in New York with Tom Hanks in January and is also set to star alongside Ryan Reynolds (who she's been romantically linked to) in Most Wanted. "She didn't realize she would feel this way, but she really enjoyed being able to dedicate herself to Louis for the past year," the friend says. It must be hard now that Sandra has become familiar with her mommy routine to then have to change her schedule.
Sandra wants to adopt a baby girl!
"The truth is, Louis probably saved Sandra from months of pain and heartbreak with his sweet little smile," the source says. "She wants to spend as much time with him as she can."
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A lightweight bout between Strikeforce import Isaac Vallie-Flagg (13-3-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and "Thugjitsu Master" Yves Edwards (42-18-1 UFC, 10-6 UFC) is the latest addition to February's UFC 156 event.
UFC officials today announced the new booking.
Featuring a headliner of UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo (21-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) against former lightweight titleholder Frankie Edgar (14-3-1 MMA, 9-3-1 UFC), UFC 156 takes place Feb. 2 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
The evening's main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook. UFC officials did not reveal where the Vallie-Flagg vs. Edwards matchup will take place on the evening's lineup.
Flag enters the UFC after earning back-to-back split-decision wins over the Gesias"JZ" Cavalcante and Brian Melancon under the Strikeforce banner. The Jackson-Winkeljohn fighter has fought professionally since 2003 and currently boasts an 11-fight unbeaten streak after opening his career at just 3-3.
Meanwhile, Edwards returns quickly to action after earning a "Knockout of the Night" stoppage of Jeremy Stephens at December's UFC on FOX 5 event. Due to injury and the odd fight-day arrest of Jeremy Stephens at October's UFC on FX 5 event, Edwards fought just once in 2012.
With the new addition, UFC 156 now includes:
- Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar – for featherweight title
- Rashad Evans vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
- Alistair Overeem vs. Antonio Silva
- Jon Fitch vs. Demian Maia
- Evan Dunham vs. Gleison Tibau
- Bobby Green vs. Jacob Volkmann
- Edwin Figueroa vs. Francisco Rivera
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Ian McCall
- Jay Hieron vs. Tyron Woodley
- Yves Edwards vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg
For more on UFC 156, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Last week I spent several hours discharging some of the fabric that I printed in the autumn as well as some ugly fabric which was languishing on my shelves from previous screenprinting attempts. I also discharged some black fabric. I used formosol with print paste. The smell is still hanging around my studio, even though I did the actual discharging outside wearing a respirator.
Here are a couple of them, showing the progression of colour on and off them. (I just spent a good while searching for photos of the original fabric on Picasa too – at least this blog can now serve as documentation of their development!).
This fabric started off as an unprepossessing dyed/printed piece from 2006. This was part of it originally:
It sat on my shelves because I didn't know what on earth to do with it. So I painted it red this autumn.
I wasn't sure I liked it any more like this. So I screened it with discharge paste and a thermofax screen I made from a home made rubber stamp design and now I like it a lot better!
You can see a little peek of the second fabric on that photo above, which has also been overprinted with the same screen.
Here is how it started:
This fabric was made from a breakdown printing screen and was one of the pieces made when the screen was breaking down quite a lot and much of the original detail had been lost. This page shows the original screenprinting session results.
I wanted to unify it all and didn't particularly like the original fabric so I overprinted it with the 'squares' screen in black. Here it is on my table just after being printed.
As well as printing with black, I decided to give it some depth by discharging areas using the same screen. So here it is now – I think it looks much better. Not sure where both of these pieces are going next but I hope it doesn't take another 5 years to decide!!


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Stretch Their Vocabularies
A strong vocabulary impacts every part of a child's school experience, including writing, speaking, reading in the content areas, comprehension, and standardized tests. Every minute a teacher uses in strengthening students' vocabulary is an investment that will pay lasting dividends.
Statistics show that there is a wide vocabulary gap between our most at risk readers and our strongest readers. The question is how do teachers meet the challenge of improving students' vocabulary.
Research has shown that students must make connections and have multiple exposures to words in order to make the words a part of their permanent memory. There are many strategies teachers can use to strengthen students' vocabulary. Here are some that have worked for me as a K-5 reading coach and former third grade teacher.
Post-it Vocabulary
Give students a post-it note to put on the cover of the books they are reading during independent reading time. Have them write down words from the book that they don't know or they feel are important. During conferences with students, you can discuss these words.
Also, you can appoint a word expert. Students enjoy leadership roles, so once a week, assign someone to be the word expert. He or she sits at a special table with a dictionary and students come to the expert to ask about the words they don't know. Students can share these words with the class during sharing time, add the words to the word wall, or put them in their vocabulary journal.
Vocabulary Journal
Give each student a spiral steno book to record words they gather from independent reading, content area reading, read-alouds, or videos watched in class. On one side of the page, they write the word. On the other side, they put a representation of the word or tell something about the word. This could be a picture, sentence, student-friendly definition, synonym, or antonym. Students take ownership of the words like they're small treasures. The words they put in the journal become a permanent record and celebration of the words they are learning.
Vocabulary Stories
Do you remember having to write a story with all your spelling words? Well this strategy takes that activity to an all new level—it improves students' vocabulary and encompasses multiple learning styles.
First identify five to ten key words from a story or chapter that you plan to read with the class. Give students a copy of the words and have them cut them apart or have them write the words on index cards. Give students a few minutes to work with a partner to sort the words into categories that make sense to them. Sorting the words is important because students discuss their prior knowledge of the words, make connections between the words, look at word parts, and talk about the words. Allowing students to work with a partner helps generate thinking. Students may use dictionaries or thesauruses, but it is not necessary. Then, lead the students in a discussion of their thinking about how the words are connected and help them develop kid-friendly definitions.
Next, give the title and genre of the story they are about to read, but do not read the text yet. Guide the class in writing a group story in that genre using the title and vocabulary words. At first students will be afraid of saying something wrong, so remind them that this is a shared writing exercise and that everyone's input is welcome. Encourage students to be creative with their story and use all the words. Finally, read the actual story and have students compare their vocabulary stories with the actual story. You'll be amazed at the level of thinking and laughing this strategy encourages.
Word Webs
This activity helps students teach one another new words. When you introduce new vocabulary words, put each word on an index card. Have each group (or each partner) select a word and put their word in the center of a large sheet of paper. Working together the students research their word using dictionaries or the computer and create a graphic organizer to teach the word to the other students. Students love using poster board or large sheets of paper for this project. In each corner of the paper students "illustrate" the word, by drawing a picture depicting the word, writing a sentence using the word, listing synonyms or antonyms of the word, and writing a student-friendly definition. The power of this activity lies in the collaboration of students who want to find the best way to teach their word to their peers.
Showcase for Abstract Terms
To teach abstract concepts like independence, conservation, or friendship, introduce the word in context and discuss it with students. Ask the class to think of pictorial representations of the word. Encourage them to bring pictures, photographs, and artifacts to represent the word and have them create a bulletin board to showcase each word. Give students time to explain how the object or picture they bring in relates to the essential concept.
Vocabulary Parade
At our school, kids love having a vocabulary parade. Students choose a word to depict through costume and they stage an actual parade to showcase their words. You can set parameters for the words by using, for example, only words with multiple meanings or words dealing with a certain period in history. Each child wears a costume depicting his or her word and poster board sign with definitions, part of speech, or other ways to describe the word. Our school has done this parade for several years and it has made learning new words a memorable experience.
These are just a few of the ways I've used to stretch students' vocabulary. These fun and engaging activities help students of all learning styles and academic levels. Building students' vocabulary improves their reading comprehension by broadening their conceptual and background knowledge. Strong vocabulary development can level the playing field for students, regardless of their background. Devoting the time and effort in helping students learn new words is a wise investment in the success of our students in school and life.
Related Links
- Vocabulary Research. From Big Ideas in Beginning Reading. University of Oregon.
- WATCH: Closing the Vocabulary Gap in Chicago Schools
CBS video. (April 5, 2011)
- Systematic Vocabulary Instruction
Booklet on school-wide or district-wide vocabulary program. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (2008).
- Vocabulary Development
Ideas for teaching middle school students. From California Department of Education.
About the Author
Antonia A. Gilbert is an educator in the Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. She was a third grade teacher for ten years at Central Park Elementary School and has served as the school's K-5 reading coach for the past six years. She created the school's Literacy Team, which plans innovative and motivating activities for over six hundred students each year. She is a national board certified teacher and has served as a candidate support provider for other teachers pursuing national board certification for ten years.


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I'm at Mordor...Sam just rescued Frodo and we're now dressed as Orcs, lol:)
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10. Richard Prince - ALMS GT2
Noted photographer, Richard Prince, has worked under contract to GM Racing for many years, documenting the history of the Corvette Racing team...it's cars, drivers, and team members. Richard's photography is posted to the GM Racing website for "editorial" use only. These photos the last two years of GT2 racing in North America, in the American LeMans Series.Read More
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New Study Sheds Light On 'Dark States' In DNA
Chemists at Ohio State University have probed an unusual high-energy state produced in single nucleotides -- the building blocks of DNA and RNA -- when they absorb ultraviolet (UV) light.
This is the first time scientists have been able to probe the "dark" energy state -- so called because it cannot be detected by fluorescence techniques used to study other high-energy states created in DNA by UV light.
The study suggests that DNA employs a variety of means to dissipate the energy it absorbs when bombarded by UV light.
Scientists know that UV light can cause genetic alterations that prevent DNA from replicating properly, and these mutations can lead to diseases such as cancer.
The faster a DNA molecule can dissipate UV energy, the lesser the chance that it will sustain damage -- so goes the conventional scientific wisdom. So the dark states, which are much longer lived than previously known states created by UV light, may be linked to DNA damage.
The existence of this dark energy state -- dubbed np* (pronounced "n-pi-star") -- had previously been predicted by calculations. Other experiments hinted at its existence, but this is the first time it has been shown to exist in three of the five bases of the genetic code -- cytosine, thymine and uracil.
The detection of this dark state in single bases in solution increases the chances that it may be found in the DNA double helix, said Bern Kohler, associate professor of chemistry at Ohio State and head of the research team.
The Ohio State chemists determined that, when excited by ultraviolet light, these three bases dissipate energy through the dark state anywhere from 10-50 percent of the time.
The rest of the time, energy is dissipated through a set of energy states that do fluoresce in the lab. These "bright" energy states dissipate the energy much faster, in less than one picosecond.
A picosecond is one millionth of one millionth of a second -- an inconceivably short length of time. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, but in twenty picoseconds it would only travel just under a quarter of an inch. Still, a picosecond is not so fast compared to the speed of some chemical reactions in living cells.
In tests of single DNA bases, the dark state lasted for 10-150 picoseconds -- much longer than the bright state. The chemists reported their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We want to know, what makes DNA resist damage by UV light?" said Kohler. "In 2000, we showed that single DNA bases can dissipate UV energy in less than one picosecond. But now we know that there are other energy states that have relatively long lifetimes."
"Now we see that there is a family of energy states in DNA responsible for energy dissipation, and this is a major correction in how we view DNA photostability."
Until now, the proposed dark energy state of DNA was a little like the dark matter in the universe – there was no direct way of probing it. The Ohio State chemists used a technique called transient absorption, which is based on the idea that molecules absorb light at specific wavelengths, and allows them to study events happening in less than a picosecond.
They found that DNA dissipates UV energy through the dark state 10-50 percent of the time, depending on which DNA base is excited, and whether a sugar molecule is attached to the base or not.
Next, Kohler's lab is investigating whether the dark state can be linked to DNA damage.
"What are the photochemical consequences of long-lived states? Are they precursors to some of the chemical photoproducts that we know cause damage? That's the Holy Grail in this field -- connecting our growing knowledge of the electronic states of DNA with the photoproducts that damage it," he said.
Kohler's coauthors include Carlos E. Crespo-Hernandez, a former postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State, and Patrick M. Hare, who just obtained his Ph.D. from the university and is about to begin a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame.
Source: Ohio State University
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Jul 17, 2018
As announced in May, MINI partnered with The Woolmark Company to create a capsule collection in wool, designed by four up-and-coming fashion designers.
The capsule collection, named Field Notes, was commissioned for Pitto Uomo 94 which took place in June. The 16-piece collection was created by Liam Hodges, Shimo Zhou and Une Yea from Staffonly, Wei Lin from PH5, and Rike Feurstein.
Liam Hodges, UK.
British designer Liam Hodges draws his inspiration from modern sub-cultures, hip-hop skatewear, UK streetwear and post-punk – influences which he fuses into punchy and multi-layered statements. His pieces for the MINI Fashion Field Notes collection were inspired by his encounters in New York City.
Staffonly, China.
Shimo Zhou and Une Yea founded Staffonly in Shanghai in 2015. They combine fashion, technology and design to create a sense of curiosity and humour in their pieces. Their creations for the MINI Fashion Field Notes collection draw inspiration from Greenwich Park in England.
Brought to life by Wei Lin, the daughter of award-winning designer Mijia Zhangin, PH5 challenges the conventional vision of knitwear by marrying whimsical designs with architectural dimensions of innovative knitting techniques. Their MINI Fashion Field Notes pieces were inspired by the Art Deco District of Miami Beach.
Rike Feurstein, Germany.
Berlin designer Rike Feurstein explores the link between art and fashion using the almost extinct craft of millinery. Rike creates hats and clothing in avant-garde shapes while experimenting with colours and surrealist details. Her three pieces for the MINI Fashion Field Notes collection draw on impressions from her time in Russia.
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Rock Band Blitz setlist partially revealed
Rock Band Blitz will include 25 songs which are also playable in Rock Band 3. What's made the cut so far?
Rock Band Blitz is definitely a novel project, one that hopes to appeal to every kind of Rock Band fan: the fan that's still jamming out with friends on plastic instruments, and the fan that's since put those instruments in storage. Harmonix's latest entry in the Rock Band series ditches instrument support--but keeps access to the extensive Rock Band library. All the DLC you've purchased for previous Rock Band games will work in this, and conversely, all the songs being introduced into Blitz will work automatically within Rock Band 3.
Harmonix plans on having 25 songs in the final game. But, what's made the cut so far?
- All-American Rejects - Kids in the Street
- Barenaked Ladies - One Week
- Blink-182 - Always
- Collective Soul - Shine
- Elton John - I'm Still Standing
- Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles...
- Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
- Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
- Iron Maiden - Wicker Man
- Living Coulour - Cult of Personality
- P!nk - Raise Your Glass
- Quiet Riot - Metal Health
- Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
- Shinedown - Diamond Eyes
- Tears for Fears - Shout
That's 15 of the 25 songs promised for Blitz. And once again, these songs will also be playable in Rock Band 3 with instrument support by grabbing the game.
Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Rock Band Blitz setlist partially revealed.
Rock Band Blitz will include 25 songs which are also playable in Rock Band 3. What's made the cut so far?


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Here's How Bravo's "Silicon Valley" Stars Pitch Start-Up Investors (Slides)
While Americans geared up for Election Day coverage on Monday evening, much of Silicon Valley was glued to a different channel.
It was the premiere of "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley," the Bravo-produced reality show that follows a group of twentysomethings through the trials of tech entrepreneurship. It has been the hot topic of the technorati for months, all of whom were eager to see just how drastically wrong a big cable network would portray the tech scene.
Bravo didn't disappoint. I spent the evening at one of the many Bay Area viewing parties with a group of tech reporters, entrepreneurs and other industry folk. Like any subculture enamored with itself, we took great joy in watching what amounted to something everyone expected: Strings of tech buzzwords. Engineers reciting equations amid kegstands. Waxing philosophical over Valley "ecosystems" while poolside. In essence, a laughable caricature of our own little world.
The highlight, by far, was watching brother-and-sister duo Ben and Hermione Way pitch their start-up idea, Ignite, to angel investor Dave McClure. After Hermione takes a nap under McClure's desk (yes, really), the siblings walk a skeptical McClure through their vision of a health app for smartphones.
We've managed to get our hands on a copy of the pitch deck the two created for investors, which gives some insight (but not much) into their company vision:.
The second slide says it all: Ignite is meant to "enhance and extend the life of humans by providing them with the tools and the understanding to change their lifestyle in a positive way," as the pitch goes.
How? By "combining smartphones, life expectancy, game theory, social interaction and some clever hardware to drive behavior change."
Don't worry, I don't know what that means, either.
It gets foggier from there. Ignite involves custom-built hardware, social gaming and challenges, and a virtual currency called "time credits" based on extending one's life, which is made up of a series of "micro-lives." Initial investment asking price? A cool $500,000 in capital.
Spoiler: McClure wasn't convinced. The angel investor passed on the deal, sending the two packing.
The dream isn't over. Monday evening's show was only the first in a season's worth of founder's follies, as Ben and Hermione have a whole Rolodex full of VCs to hit up for cash.
Here's hoping the two refine their pitch along the way — I'll certainly be watching to see if they do.
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Per member request, we're going to try a video gallery for the E-Revo forum. I expect everyone here to follow the rules below, as well as the general forum rules. If foul language, dangerous behavior, or other issues become a problem with the videos here, the thread will be deleted without warning.
To paraphrase from another forum:
Welcome to the Official Traxxas E-Revo Video Gallery. This is a place where you can post your videos to show off your truck and/or your driving skills. Please read the following guide lines:
- This thread is for videos of your Traxxas E-Revos only. If you have a question for one of the people posting a video, please send them an e-mail or a PM so the thread does not get filled up with people talking. This is a place for videos not people asking what body or tires someone is using.
- When you post a video, it would be greatly appreciated of you would post a detailed summery of what hop-ups you had on your vehicle at the time the video was taken.
- Anything off topic will be deleted.
- Any dead links will be deleted.
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Be vewy vewy quiet,
I'm hunting trolls...
-5605 E-Revo, traxxas 4 channel reciever, traxxas 2 channel transmitter on 27. 195 Mhz with factory dual digital steering servos.
-4 cell Futaba NR4QB reciever pack for servos and ESC fan
-THS CVD kit for all 4 wheels
-Kyosho 17mm Hex ten spoke race wheels with mounted HPI Agressor tires, 217grams each assembled.
-Front 'green' springs, 60wt oil.
-Rear 'tan' springs, 60 wt oil.
-Castle Creations Mamba Max ESC, runs very cool using 4s Lithuim Polymer Batteries 5000Mah
-Integy ESC fan borrowed from Integy motor heatsink
-7xl 2370 kV Brushless Motor Installed with factory pinion and spur gearing.
-2 traxxas 1522 Heatsinks installed. Motor runs quite hot but reliable and lacks no performance.
-Run times on this setup 22-30 minutes
-Video link: Video Here
2slashes:bullet:pede:e-savs:custom crawler
4s hvmaxx 4.5 motor geared 12/68 mmm esc. using rx pack cause my esc. doesnt work w/o it ....LOL
gigity gigity gigity gu
I don't have any recent vid's but here is one from earlier in the summer w/ my e-revo racing against the truggies..
Neu 1515 1.5d, MMM, at the time 2x 2s2p 8k ma lipo's, she's hopped up w/ some of the platinum items, 60wt front w/ silver springs, 70wt rear w/ purple springs.
I've actually gotten a lot better, but this still gives you a good idea of how competative the erevo really is!
****Just to note the current racing config is a 1515 2.5d 22/54 gearing with SMC 28c lipo's (rest is the same) I'm about ~4seconds a lap faster w/ this setup.
PS watch in high quality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4l4QEMB2Y
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Neu 1515 2.5d & 1.5d, 2x MMM -sIck IaM
Heres one I just uploaded to Youtube!
Mine is the red revo
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E-Revo / Castle Creations 2200Kv
gigity gigity gigity gu
Novak HVpro5.5 with the 5mm shaft
RPM true traks in the rear
red aluminum push rods
Batteries: 2 7cell 4600mah nimh dynomite
Top Speed: 37.1mph
Temps after running:
motor end bell-123.4
motor heat sink- 140.8
Just a quick video I uploaded to youtube
Dewalt 12v motor
20/68 gearing
batteries 7 cell ib 4600 sxs
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My E-Revo long before Traxxas made one. I have since gone brushless with a Momba Max and a airplane motor.
And with custom 4 wheel steering!
Faster Higher Longer Harder
I did this conversion back in January '07. Mamba Max ESC, Wanderer 9XL can, RC-Monster BEC, RC-Monster motor mount, RC-Monster pinion and heatsink/motor clamp, 14 SubCs (at the time of the vid, 4s lipo now). It's in the middle of a rebuild currently.
The Queen City Bashers
BMW E21 323i.. My baby.
In all of these clips, the E-Revo is essentially stock.
-Traxxas sways.
-50wt shock oil w/ silver/blue springs.
Follow the 'Revo
"Following an E-Revo through the woods with
The Spot
"Hitting some jumps with the E-Maxx and E-Revo."
Muir Beach
"Checking out my new sand paddles with the E-Maxx and E-Revo at Muir Beach."
Tubes all around but the FRONT Pushrods and Kershaw Designs 700-HO!
E-Revo - Single 700-HO - SPC 2s 8K LiPo
A clip from my first time backflippnig a Novak HV4.5 powered E-Revo:
Okay here's my first video now that I have my vtwin dialed in. I'll try to do some flips once get a bit more used to the truck. Also need to swap for some stiffer springs. Really addictive to see how far you can jump. I think with some more initial speed I can easily clear the second smaller hill.
Originally Posted by gravy
Nice one but the cameraman was quite drunk
those LEDs seem interesting, got any shots during the day so i can see how you mounted em?Originally Posted by -trxmh-
I'm a newbie, just got into rc car. I've learn a lot from you guys.
here is my e-revo with Hobbywing 80A + 2350kv combo, cheap ebay 4s 8000mAh li-pos
stock gearing.
hope you enjoy...
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E-Revo-MMM 2200-4s-5s-6s
Go ***** Go!
here is a e-revo in the arctic
E-REVO:8 LEDs,2 speed,Novak HV 5.5,Road Rage tires
Nice vid I liked it!
E-Revo back flipping at the bmx track in high quality, a little bit at the start of my friends Savage.
Just a whole variety of videos from the past year that I have on YouTube.
Here's some I have on Photobucket, a few are timmed from the above videos if they look familiar click on the stoppie pic.
Hot Flip Action :: Latest Vids
Harry's Warm-Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FzzE7Qb4A
All Out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhrud8CQd2Q
Faster Higher Longer Harder
That's an odd-sounding E-Revo.Originally Posted by djbis
E-Revo MMM 2200 "The Missile"
VXL FLM Rustler
Must have a special rotor in it that makes it sound like a nitro...
bjoehandley, you posted in the wrong forum, again.
Project: BL Revo Race Quad & BL G-Maxx G3R CF Revo
My fault. I see what you meant.Originally Posted by Gregarious76
DUH (on me!)
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The performance of Brazil's Congress, and particularly the governing coalition makes one wonder whether the nation's deliberative process should be moved somewhere else— far away from the alleged 'representatives of the people.' Congress is where the government's coalition 'allies' select their robber baron cabinet ministers, the same ones that have been resigning one after the next in the wake of President Dilma Rousseff's spring cleaning. Yet despite the rash of corruption scandals over the past months, and one particularly egregious 'secret vote' that recently absolved a deputy of grand corruption charges, a few bright spots have begun to appear. These include a parliamentary movement against corruption and a September 7th "March Against Corruption" in support of President Rousseff's efforts to purge Brasilia.
The Super-Party Front Against Corruption
A group of parliamentarians led by Senator Pedro Simon (PMDB) have announced the creation of a "Super-Party Front Against Corruption." The movement supports the faxina or cleaning that began shortly after President Rousseff took power. According to the Jornal Globo, Simon asks that the President, "dialogue with us, chat, sit together to find a solution." Simon's plea does not sound like unconditional support for the fight against corruption, but rather a return to the amiguismo and 'consensus impunity' status quo. But at least the establishment of a 'front' against corruption is a promising sign that incentives are moving in the right direction.
Can Electoral Rewards for Ethical Behavior Change Congress?
One Deputy reinforces the idea that incentives to prioritize ethics do exist. Deputy Jose Reguffe, a 38 year-old Deputy from Brasilia, is an ethical crusader who gave up half his staff, his complete travel allowance, and part of his 'extra' salary, because he'd rather save public money than receive funds he claims he doesn't need. In proportional terms, Reguffe won more votes than any other member of Congress (266.5K), and with very little campaign money. The clear inference is that Brazilians reward honesty and ethical behavior. Although perhaps not the most novel conclusion for readers used to seeing dishonest behavior punished, it is highly significant for a country where assumed or proven dishonesty often has little bearing on election results or political support more generally.
Unchecked Impunity
Last week's secret vote in the Lower House, which successfully absolved Deputy Jaqueline Roriz of corruption charges, provides a point-in-case of the sort of impunity that has long muddied the reputation of Congress. In 2006 Roriz was caught red-handed on tape accepting a bribe of R$50,000 (US$33,000) in public money. Yet deputies justified the 235-166 vote in favor of absolution by claiming that Roriz had not yet been vested as a federal deputy when the film was shot— instead she was a state deputy at the time. The fact that a proven thief of public money continues to pose as a public servant seems to have escaped Congress' sense of higher justice, much less its sense of irony. Irony of ironies, the 'representatives of the people' employed a very unrepresentative institutional mechanism –the 'secret parliamentary vote' – to endorse another desolating setback for parliament.
The March Against Corruption
But there is increasing movement against corruption and impunity. Tomorrow is Brazilian Independence Day, the 7th of September, and marches against corruption are set to take place across Brazil. The movement, simply called the "March Against Corruption" (marcha contra a corrupção) has been quietly accumulating supporters through social media, including Youtube (and here) and Facebook.
Organization against corruption is a positive step forward. As I wrote about a couple of posts ago, Brazilians have a reputation for passivity in the face of injustice. Yet it remains to be seen whether the March will prove little more than a fleeting protest. Discouragingly, the mainstream media has been providing very little coverage of the event.
The hands-off approach of the media makes perfect sense, however; zealous coverage of recent corruption scandals has led government to once more brandish the 'media reform' card. In the wake of the government's efforts to purge corruption from federal ministries, especially those most involved in preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, it seems the strategy is now to use the media as a scapegoat. This is the media's cue to play nice. Stay tuned.


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One of the common advices an accompanying expat spouse receives in response to her/his concern about losing a career/job is this: "Enjoy your hobbies while you have this great chance. Look at what you love to do and do it." It's a great suggestion and many newly-unemployed expats have definitely found a peace of mind in taking up pottery, painting, writing, or stamp collection. Finally all of those things they've been meaning to do their entire lives were at their fingertips and they had time and resources to do them!
Then a few months later a few of us "impact-oriented" people (me included!) started to wonder. So here I am painting away (or writing or creating pottery or sewing) and isn't this the time when I am supposed to be getting really good at this — my new craft, professionally-speaking? I mean I've always been successful at my work, I've advanced and made more money in my career almost every year so isn't this the time to start booking galleries or creating my fall fashion line? And if not, then why am I doing this? Why am I spending all this time and resources on doing something that'll never create any impact in the outside world and will never make me money?
This is when the old familiar voice of doubt starts getting louder. Maybe this new painting I am making is going to be really bad. Should I change this color or should I add this color or should I… just quit the whole thing and do what I am good at — find work and immediately begin putting in 60-hrs weeks to catch up on what I've missed? The hobby I've taken suddenly takes the form of some race I am supposed to win and every day I am more and more afraid to screw up the canvas.
Has anything like that happen to you? It certainly has happened to me — and it continues to happen once in awhile.
What do I do?
I go back to a great metaphor my coach and I created.
I see myself as a child playing in a sandbox, building a castle. The castle isn't coming out the way I've wanted and so I level it to the ground. "It's just sand," I hear my child say and begin to build the castle again. Playing is the main point here.
Allowing yourself to play is the biggest gift and the biggest learning — and that learning comes from our inner children that we've forgotten with all our career and impact aspirations. So how about making play the central part of whatever we are doing and remembering that it's just sand?
Your thoughts?
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 03, 2014--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released today its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) as part of its review to determine whether to deregulate genetically engineered (GE) corn and soybean plants that are resistant to several herbicides, including one known as 2,4-D. APHIS is performing an assessment of these GE plants, while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting a concurrent review of the related herbicides. APHIS' DEIS will be available for public review and comment for 45 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.
Once APHIS receives a petition for regulatory review of certain GE plants, as it has from Dow AgroSciences, it conducts two required analyses before it makes its regulatory determination on whether or not the newly developed GE plants should be deregulated. First, under the Plant Protection Act (PPA), APHIS determines if the GE plants pose a "plant pest risk" to agricultural crops or other plants or plant products. The PPA defines a "plant pest" as organisms such as insects, bacteria, or fungi that can injure or damage plants or plant products. If the proposed GE plants do not pose a "plant pest risk," APHIS must then move forward with the deregulation of those GE plant varieties. APHIS's preliminary plant pest assessment of these three new GE plants finds that they do not pose such a plant pest risk. However, before making its final regulatory decision, APHIS, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), must also evaluate the potential impacts to the environment that may result from its regulatory decision. The NEPA review can take the form of an Environmental Assessment (EA) or, in this case, a more rigorous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
In 2011 and 2012 APHIS made available for public review and comment Dow's request for deregulation of these GE plants, as well as the preliminary plant pest risk and EAs it prepared in response to that request. Earlier this year, following its review of public comments received, APHIS announced it was electing to continue its environmental analysis and prepare an EIS to better inform the decision-making process.
The DEIS considers four alternatives: keep all the GE corn and soybean plants under PPA regulation; deregulate the GE corn plant only; deregulate the two GE soybean plants only; or deregulate both the GE corn and soybean plants. Under NEPA, APHIS is required to designate in the DEIS which of these options is its preferred course of action. Based on APHIS's PPA regulatory authority and its preliminary finding that the GE corn and soybean plants do not pose a plant pest risk to agricultural crops or other plants in the United States, the option to deregulate all three GE plants is APHIS's preferred alternative. While ensuring an analysis of the potential environmental impacts of its regulatory decision, NEPA does not provide APHIS with any additional regulatory authority to address potential environmental impacts beyond that provided by the PPA.
Concurrent with the APHIS regulatory process, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is conducting risk assessments to decide upon the approval of the proposed new uses of 2,4-D herbicide. This analysis includes a thorough review of any potential human health and environmental risks associated with the application of 2,4-D to the GE corn and soybean plants, such as additional use of the herbicide and potential off-site movement of 2,4-D to other crops or areas. EPA will make available its proposed regulatory decision in the coming months for public review and comment. After consideration of public comments, EPA will then make its final regulatory decision in coordination with APHIS's final regulatory decision regarding these plants.
APHIS encourages public input on its DEIS and will host a virtual public meeting to receive comments. APHIS will consider all public comments submitted during the comment period before finalizing the DEIS and plant pest risk assessment and then, based on these, making its final regulatory decision on Dow AgroSciences' deregulation request.
Dow AgroSciences' GE corn and soybean plants are the first developed to be resistant to 2,4-D and are intended to provide farmers with new plants to help address the problem of weeds that have developed resistance to other herbicides.
APHIS anticipates that EPA will publish a notice that APHIS's DEIS is available for public review in the Federal Register on January 10, 2014. A copy of the DEIS provided to EPA can be reviewed at: http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=APHIS-2013-0042.
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- State media reports mudslides crash into homes in Mexico's Veracruz state
- At least 13 people are killed in several locations, authorities say
- Fernand has dissipated but could still bring heavy rains, forecasters say
Mudslides killed at least 13 people after Fernand slammed into the east of coast of Mexico, state media reported Monday.
Fernand was a tropical storm when it made landfall late Sunday, bringing heavy rains. The storm quickly fizzled into a tropical depression and had dissipated by Monday afternoon, forecasters said.
But even as it weakened, authorities in the state of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico said the storm brought heavy rains that caused deadly mudslide in several locations.
All of the deaths were caused by mudslides that buried homes, Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte said, according to Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency.
Fernand formed over the western Bay of Campeche on Sunday.
As of 4 p.m. ET, the storm's remnants were about 75 miles (125 km) west-southwest of Tuxpan, Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph (45 kilometers per hour), the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
The storm was expected to dump between 4 and 8 inches of rain over the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, northern Puebla, southern Tamaulipas and eastern San Luis Potosi, with more than 15 inches of rain in some places.
Forecasters warned that more life-threatening mudslides were possible.


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This report is from Sporting News writer Lisa Olson.
Tear down the statue. Dismantle the frozen likeness of Joe Paterno waving to his admirers; rip it from its bronze base. Dump the parts in the Susquehanna River, throw them under a moving bus, it doesn't really matter. Just get the odious image out of there.
Then move onto the library and scrub away any remnants of Paterno's name, because never again should the once-beloved coach have any hold over a community that once viewed him as an omnipotent king.
In sports, there is nothing worse than being called a coward. So blasphemous is that word, so offensive and heinous, it can ruin reputations and launch brawls. And now we know the ugly truth about Paterno: He was a coward of the very worst kind.
The cowardice is laid bare in the 267-page report released Thursday by former FBI director Louis Freeh and his team of investigators. Paterno actively took part in a conspiracy to conceal the raping of children. Not once over a span of at least 14 years, as his top lieutenant continued to flaunt his young prey, did Paterno do a single thing to fight for those boys.
When they desperately needed his voice, he remained silent. When they cried for a protector, a strong authoritative figure to make sure their rapist would never again come near, Paterno instead worried about his precious program.
And he had the gall to insist in a letter he supposedly wrote many months ago that this horrific scandal had nothing to do with football? Now we know why the Paterno family went on such a PR offensive this past week. They conveniently held onto that letter until the day before the Freeh report was released, so the public might again be reminded of Paterno's vast achievements.
Whatever good he might have done in his 85 years on the planet — however many lives he affected for the better, however many games his teams won, however many millions of dollars and sponsors he brought to the university — all of that gets tossed aside in this harsh light.
At his core, this supposed great leader of men has been exposed as a narcissistic snake, a bullying, gutless yellow belly.
Rather than use his extraordinary clout to halt the abuse and haul Jerry Sandusky out from under his convenient facade, Paterno chose to focus on his own legacy, to engage in an active cover-up. The conspiracy went all the way to the top of the food chain, the report eviscerating Paterno, president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz for failing to act "against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade."
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"In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university—Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley—repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse from the authorities, the board of trustees, the Penn State community and the public at large," noted the report.
It's far worse than we ever expected. From Freeh's first interview with a subject on the day before Thanksgiving of 2011 to his final interview last Friday, he and his team spoke with more than 400 sources and pored through reams of documents to uncover damning, sickening evidence that the most powerful men at PSU enabled a child rapist in their midst.
All the way back in 1998, when Sandusky was the target of a criminal investigation, Paterno knew there were serious concerns about his top defensive coordinator. But up until his death of lung cancer in January, Paterno always maintained ignorance about the '98 case. So he's a liar as well as a coward. Hailed forever as the most ethical coach in football history, Paterno was really a heartless fraud.
"The evidence shows that Mr. Paterno was made aware of the 1998 investigation of Sandusky, followed it closely, but failed to take any action, even though Sandusky had been a key member of his coaching staff for almost 30 years, and had an office just steps away from Mr. Paterno's," the report reads.
"At the very least, Mr. Paterno could have alerted the entire football staff, in order to prevent Sandusky from bringing another child into the Lasch Building. Messrs. Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley also failed to alert the Board of Trustees about the 1998 investigation ... None of them even spoke to Sandusky about his conduct.
"In short, nothing was done and Sandusky was allowed to continue with impunity."
Not once did Paterno ever poke his head into his buddy's office and say, "Hey, Jer, maybe you should stop bringing around these guests?" That's what they called Sandusky's prey, his victims. Guests. The fantastic four are delusional criminals, all of them.
At a press conference in Philadelphia on Thursday morning, Freeh was asked if he believed Paterno could have stopped Sandusky's predatory behavior. "Many, many witnesses we spoke to described Mr. Paterno as one of the most powerful leaders on campus," responded Freeh.
"I think it's a very strong and reasonable inference that he could have done so if he wished."
It's reasonable to wonder how Paterno would have reacted if Sandusky's "guests"—and the stomach turns while typing that—hadn't been mostly children from broken homes, but kids who were promising athletes. Because at the heart of the cover-up lies the football culture, so indomitable at so many universities but especially invincible in Happy Valley, where Paterno pulled the strings for nearly five decades.
The rapes of these boys occurred in the Lasch Building, said Freeh. Paterno had his office in the Lasch Building. Sandusky brought his victims to football camps supported by PSU, paraded them through the football facilities.
"There are more red flags here than you can count over a long period of time," Freeh said.
To all the fools who rioted after Paterno was justifiably fired, please report to Beaver Stadium to aid in civilly bringing down that statue. To all the sycophants who still proudly wear their "Joe Knows" T-shirts, kindly spend a day volunteering with young victims of sexual assault. It's precisely because of silence and fear that a staggering number of children—one in six, and that's a conservative estimate—continue to be victimized by monsters like Sandusky.
Paterno and his backslappers have always portrayed him as confused man who couldn't possibly have understood the depravities former Nittany Lions captain Mike McQueary said he witnessed in 2001. Here's more hogwash from the supreme leader.
"You did the right thing. Now it's up to me to decide what we want to do," is how Freeh described Paterno's response to McQueary, who saw Sandusky raping a boy in the football showers. Also, it was a Friday, and Paterno, being such a great and thoughtful leader, didn't want to ruin anyone's weekend.
According to Freeh, Curley, Spanier and Schultz wanted to report Sandusky to child welfare authorities and to the charity he founded, The Second Mile. But after consulting with Paterno, the plan was changed to keep the allegations in house.
"Their failure to protect the February 9, 2001 child victim, or make attempts to identify him, created a dangerous situation for other unknown, unsuspecting young boys who were lured to the Penn State campus and football games by Sandusky and victimized repeatedly by him," said the report.
"Further, they exposed this child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child's identity," it adds.
Indeed, that victim still hasn't been identified. Wonder what ever happened to him? Perhaps as Sandusky serves a life sentence in prison for his heinous crimes on young boys, he'll eventually shed some light on that boy's whereabouts.
These past seven months, clearly, haven't hardened Freeh. As a former prosecutor, he's dealt with the lowest kind of slime, mobsters and politicians and bankers and murderers, but when he spoke off-script about just one of the investigation's unbearable turns, the disgust and incredulity in his voice was beyond clear.
Think of the janitors, Freeh said. It was their job to clean and maintain the facilities in a building where boys were being raped. After one of those janitors, a Korean War veteran, witnessed Sandusky assaulting a child in the showers in 2000, he told his colleagues that never had he seen anything so horrific.
"The janitors knew if they blew the whistle, they'd be fired," Freeh said "They were afraid to take on the football program. It's like going against the president of the United States.
"If that's the culture on the bottom, God help the culture on top."
With its bronze finger raised to signify Penn State—or maybe the coach himself—is No. 1, the statue of Paterno now serves to taunt every child victim.
Blow the damn thing up.
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30 Rock may be coming to an end, but Tracy Morgan will still be keeping plenty busy after the show wraps.
The SNL vet, 44, and fiancée Megan Wollover are expecting their first child together, People reports.
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"I am over the moon excited and just want a happy and healthy baby and a safe delivery for Megan," Morgan told the magazine.
Morgan, who has three adult sons from previous relationships, announced on the red carpet at the Emmys that he and Wollover were engaged in September after he had proposed to his model girlfriend six months earlier in Paris.
Following Thursday's 30 Rock series finale, Morgan kicks off his "Excuse My French" comedy tour in March.