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The inclusion of a free virtual version of Renault's electric Twizy Z.E Concept car in The Sims 3 should go great lengths towards helping increase player awareness of the Renault brand.
With The Sims 3, EA has discovered a whole new way to deliver in-game advertisements to its players. Take the free downloadable Renault Twizy Z.E Concept car, available this spring as part of the Electric Vehicle Pack, which includes the car and several other environmentally-friendly energy generating devices, such as solar panels and windmills. It's more than just a free car. It's a free car that has a positive effect on your game experience. Using the Twizy will reduce your family's weekly household bills, giving you an edge over other vehicles.
The Electric Vehicle Pack is part of a multi-year agreement between EA and Renault, announced today, that will allow the developer to integrate Renault's line of electric vehicles into the game.
"The Sims 3 players have demonstrated consistent enthusiasm for bringing cool 'real world' brands into their virtual world," said Steve Seabolt, VP of Global Brand Development for The Sims. "We're excited to work with Renault on their electric vehicles and have them available for download for The Sims 3."
I guess I just wasn't aware of just how cool Renault was. Perhaps that's a failure on my part. The Twizy is the most adorable little car I've ever seen, but it doesn't strike me as particularly cool.
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Leone & Duff Praise Henkel Corporation's Relocation of 266 Jobs to Stamford From Arizona
Senator Carlo Leone (D-Stamford) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) today released the following statements praising the Henkel Corporation's decision to relocate its Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care headquarters across the country from Arizona to Stamford, Connecticut. The company plans on expanding in a $50 million project that will create up to 266 new jobs in the state.
"This is more great economic news for our state, and particularly for Stamford, which will greatly benefit from the millions of dollars that Henkel plans to invest, and the hundreds of good-paying jobs it will create here," said Senator Leone. "Henkel's decision to relocate its corporate headquarters to Connecticut is one of several recent examples of the positive direction our state economy is going in. Just last week I voted for an agreement that will keep Sikorsky in Connecticut where they will grow and create new jobs. Pratt and Whitney and Electric Boat have also announced their intention to each create thousands of new jobs in Connecticut. Henkel is just the latest piece of good news showing that Connecticut's economy is moving toward a much stronger future."
"This is good news for Fairfield County and it is good news for Connecticut," said Senator Duff. "Businesses large and small are choosing to invest in Connecticut. Connecticut is an innovative state that offers a quality of life that is second-to-none, and boasts a highly skilled and educated workforce. Our work continues, though it is clear that the investments made by the General Assembly are helping attract businesses and are growing jobs."
A number of recent studies have ranked Connecticut as a good place live, work and raise a family:
- Bloomberg named Connecticut in 2016 as the 5th most innovative state in the nation. In the January 2016 Bloomberg Innovation Index, states were ranked across six equally weighted metrics: R&D intensity; productivity; high-tech density; concentration of science; technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) employment; science and engineering degree holders; and patent activity. Connecticut ranked 5th amongst all the states, behind only Massachusetts, California, Washington and New Jersey.
- Connecticut is the 5th best state for women to work in. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, D.C., in their Status of Women in the States: 2015 Employment and Earnings report, Connecticut is the 5th best state in the nation for women with regard to their careers. The study measured earnings, equality and percentage of women in supervisory or managerial positions.
- Connecticut is the 3rd best state in the nation for working moms. This WalletHub report from 2016, 2016's Best and Worst States for Working Moms, measured 1) professional opportunities, 2) quality of child care and 3) work-life balance.
- Because of all of these economic strengths, WalletHub announced on June 6, 2016 its finding that Connecticut has the 14th best state economy in the nation. This recent WalletHub report, 2016's States with the Best & Worst Economies, measured all 50 states in three metrics, 1) "Economic Activity Rank", 2) "Economic Health Rank", and 3) "Innovation Potential Rank". Connecticut came in 8th overall in Innovation Potential, 15th in Economic Activity, and 33rd in Economic Health, for a ranking of 14th best overall.
Henkel offers beauty and personal care, laundry and home care, and a broad portfolio of adhesives, sealants, and surface treatments for consumer and industrial use. Earlier this year, the company announced the acquisition of the Wilton-based The Sun Products Corporation, a leading manufacturer and marketer of laundry care products. With the acquisition of Sun Products, Henkel is now the number two laundry and home care products company in North America.
Henkel plans on relocating its Scottsdale, Arizona operations, which currently serves as Henkel's Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care headquarters, to Stamford, in a location yet to be determined. The relocation is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2017.
As part of the project, Henkel is committed to retaining the combined jobs from its former Sun Products facilities, as well as its North American headquarters and Adhesive Technologies General Industries division in Rocky Hill. Henkel has offered relocation services to its employees in Arizona.


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Scientists have long warned that some of our modern-day eating habits are not only harmful to our personal health but also to the planet. Especially our preference for animal food products like meat and dairy causes more environmental damage than most consumers are aware of. A recent study from France tried to calculate more accurately the real costs of our food consumption on both individual as well as global levels, and the results are not comforting.
Foods with the comparatively lowest nutritional value may be the cheapest to buy but are the costliest in terms of production and environmental impact, the study found. High meat consumption in particular contributes to weight problems and a number of related diseases, and is also responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, wasteful water use, and other depletion of natural resources, the researchers said.
"The food system accounts for approximately one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and global obesity is on the rise," Dr. Gabriel Masset, a researcher at Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, and lead author of the study report told Reuters.
What must be done to make both our food production and consumption healthier and more sustainable for the long term is to focus on foods that offer higher nutritional value at lower cost and with a smaller environmental footprint, the study concluded.
But we also need a sea change in consumer behavior. Animal food products are the toughest on the environment. Growing fruits and vegetables is far less intrusive but can be labor intensive and therefore pricey. Processed foods, both animal- and plant-based, are much cheaper by comparison but can be unhealthy and are considered to be among the leading causes of the global obesity crisis.
Reducing meat consumption alone will not solve the myriad of environmental problems we are facing today. Nor will it reverse our diet and lifestyle-related disease epidemic. But it can be one of many measures we can take to lead us in the right direction.
"The fact is, most people in the U.S. eat way more meat than is good for them or the planet, but even knowing this, the chances are little that we are all going to become vegetarians, much less vegans," said Mario Batali, a celebrity chef and restaurateur. "But we can focus on a more plant-based diet and support the farmers who raise their animals humanely and sustainably," he added.
To put his money where his mouth is, Batali pledged a commitment to a 'Meatless Monday' policy in his establishments and lent his support for the "Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change & Health" by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), an environmental health research and advocacy organization.
Food choices are a highly personal matter. Most people don't like to be told they are doing something wrong by eating what they want. That's understandable. But knowing the real impact and cost, both tangible and intangible, our behavior causes, should be in everybody's interest.
Fortunately, even on an individual level, we are not completely helpless. As consumers, our actions matter greatly to the respective industries, and they will listen. Already there is a growing public interest in the integrity of our food sources. If that concern for our personal wellbeing expands to greater care for the environment we all live in, progress will be inevitable – and the sooner we get there, the better.
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TO: Patriots (black, white, red, yellow, brown, male, female, civilian, military, truckers, bikers, militias, veterans, old, young, every American that loves freedom and liberty)
Mission: Restoration of Constitutional government, rule of law, freedom, liberty "of the people, for the people, by the people" from despotic and tyrannical federal leadership.
Millions of Americans will participate.
American veterans and patriots are energized to end the tyranny, lawlessness, and shredding of the US Constitution.
Government is not the target, it is sound; corrupt and criminal leadership must be removed.
Those in power will not hesitate to use force against unarmed patriots exercising their constitutional rights.
Patriots may be killed, wounded, incarcerated.
There is no hope given today's technology of secrecy for the effort nor do we want it secret.
Concept of Operations:
Phase 1 - Field millions, as many as ten million, patriots who will assemble in a non-violent, physically unarmed (Spiritually/Constitutionally armed), display of unswerving loyalty to the US Constitution and against the incumbent government leadership, in Washington, D.C., with the mission to bring down the existing leadership. Go full-bore, no looking back, steadfast in the mission.
Phase 2 - One million or more of the assembled 10 million must be prepared to stay in D.C. as long as it takes to see Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi, and Attorney General Holder removed from office.
Consistent with the US Constitution, as required, the U.S. Congress will take appropriate action, execute appropriate legislation, deal with vacancies, or U.S. States will appoint replacements for positions vacated consistent with established constitutional requirements.
Phase 3 – Those with the principles of a West, Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Lee, DeMint, Paul, Gov Walker, Sessions, Gowdy, Jordan, should comprise a tribunal and assume positions of authority to convene investigations, recommend appropriate charges against politicians and government employees to the new U.S. Attorney General appointed by the new President.
*All actions in Phase 2 & 3 will be consistent with the U.S. Constitution.
Date of Operation: "OPERATION AMERICAN SPRING – Beginning Of Tyranny Housecleaning, May 16, 2014, completion to be determined
We are past the point of no return, thus must move forward with an effort to save our nation, as there is no other choice. We are asking, pleading with you, and any others that have resources, national voices, email lists, blogs, FB, Twitter, to call for a non-violent American Spring May 16 2014 in Washington D.C. We must appeal to ten million and more American patriots to come and stay in Washington, D.C. to stop the White House and Congress from total destruction of the United States. It's now or never. God help us.
.....the law of nature rules. A fluffy, cuddly lamb gets eaten by a mean old wolf is not an illegal or immoral event...the law of nature. When some greedy, self-serving occupant of the White House or Congress, or elements outside America, is threatening our existence, our freedom, our liberty, our Constitution, our life resources, our America, then we fight back to destroy the threat and there is nothing immoral or illegal about it. When the government becomes lawless, then "we the people" no longer are obligated to follow the government......there is no law when government picks and chooses for political purposes or personal agenda. At this time the government is performing as a lawless entity......
We see no reasonable, hopeful sign that indicates there are honorable, loyal, mature, critical thinking, experienced people in government that understands the chaos about to rain down on America, nor do they care....our only hope is that "we the people" call, organize, and draw a few million patriots to stay in D.C. for an "American Spring". It would be the catalyst to draw the line and bring to a conclusion a decision on the out of control government, one way or the other. America will rise up or surrender.........for me, I only go to my knees in the presence of God Almighty...........my knees will not touch the surface as a result of some piss ant occupant of the White House or a corrupt legislator, or outside element...I will fall to my death standing if necessary.
There is not much time and the only planning necessary is to select a starting date, which we have done, May 16, 2014, and then show up in Washington, D.C. on that date, and plan to stay for the duration. The goal is restoring the US Constitution as the law of the land, removing the lawless leadership. Will this be a cake-walk? No, it will be painful, and some people may die because the government will not be non-violent; some of us will end up in a cell, and some may be injured. If that's what it will take to save our nation, do we have any choice? Freedom loving Americans will say there is no choice, we must begin the second American Revolution. Not with guns, but with millions of Americans demanding a return to constitutional government and the resignation of Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi and Holder as a start...then the constitutional restoration process can begin. An AMERICAN SPRING can be avoided only if the above mentioned officials resign.
Will our national patriot leaders step forward and declare, "send me", I'll lead? There are millions of veterans and patriots ready to follow and have said "I will go".
I urge all organizations, groups, particularly veterans and military retirees begin planning to visit Washington, D.C beginning May 16, 2014. Keep tuned to Constitutional Emergency/Patriots for America www.patriotsforamerica.ning.com for updates and guidance.
Please bathe this effort in prayer as there is no personal agenda or gain save liberty, freedom, and restoration of constitutional government for "we the people".
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The part of this that is even more of an indicator that something must be done is the fact that the budget bill that cuts military pay increases by 6B was first voted through by the REPUBLICAN majority house. I have yet to hear any satisfactory answer as to why they would do such a thing. Could it be that all those in DC are simply putting on a show for all us illiterates outside the beltway? Has to make you wonder when they will do nothing to stop this destruction of our country with the exception of talk big. Every time one of these instances arise some in congress start out with NO but we know from the beginning that they will cave and let it pass. We must do something soon, if it is not already to late.
I am slow to figure things out on my own.But I reckon I can follow a leader like Mr.West fair enough. I was trained a Medic but walked away from trying to be God. I never healed anything. Only God can do that. I've some training at Bible college--and that serves me better than my two years at the Liberal Arts College. Main point is,Sir, In the summer of 69 I took as my own a Code --"I will never surrender of my own free will...I will trust in my God,and in the United States of America." I can neglect the Code-Or honor it.I choose honor. I can walk point--or drag--but it's always better if I am not on my own.Reporting for duty--Sir.
Just because Your a total idiot...You don't have to Keep Admitting it....Period.
I will wait and come in with the second group.
I too am looking to sign up to the Cavalry. Got any ideas?
Somehow, I think under a Marxist form of government, those who fit the agenda will find full employment. That's probably where their new "Mincom" comes into play, with a updated minimum wage for all workers and all else going to the government to support their grand new economy.
In most communist countries those who refuse to join the "party" are unable to work. (Does anyone see how easily the "Mark of the Beast" would fit with that scenario?)
Some way, some how...I will join your in "Operation American Spring", ...My Children and Grand-childrens Future is MORE important than my Present...PERIOD.
I will go to DC and help spread the word.
If we get 'Millions' to show up we should really shut things down in D.C. by blocking all the intersections with 'sit down protestors'. As they are hauled away we have more waiting their turn...we overwhelm the 'Justice' system and interrupt the city's ability to function at all.
Absolutely Robert............the only thing we will interrupt is an out of control, lawless government. That is our mission.
Sounds like a plan.


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Passive cervical spine flexion: the effect of age and gender." Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2012;27(4):326-33."
Methods for determining pediatric thoracic force-deflection characteristics from cardiopulmonary resuscitation." Stapp Car Crash J. 2008;52:83-105."
Kinetics of the cervical spine in pediatric and adult volunteers during low speed frontal impacts." J Biomech. 2012;45(1):99-106."
Kinematic Comparison of the Hybrid III and Q-Series Pediatric ATDs to Pediatric Volunteers in Low-Speed Frontal Crashes." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2012;56:285-98."
Kinematic Comparison of Pediatric Human Volunteers and the Hybrid III 6-Year-Old Anthropomorphic Test Device." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2010;54:97-108."
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So you've probably heard of huge festivals like Lollibop and Glastonbury, but have you ever heard of the Golden Retriever Festival?
We hadn't, but after seeing this picture, we really, really, really want to go!
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The festival was held in Scotland and celebrates the Golden Retriever breed by lots of doggy fun and also some awards.
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Reiki - May Pole Knap
Pete Nicholson Healer
Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, TA8 1HZ
Greetings, My name is Pete, I am a Reiki master/Teacher and a Psychic counsellor. I have been practicing in Burnham on Sea for over [...]Distance: 16.68 miles.
Reiki Master/Teacher Paula Stephanie Robinson for you and your animals
Langport, Somerset, TA10 9BU
01458 253456
I love my work as a Reiki Master/teacher people can come to my home which is very quiet and relaxing. Why do people come to [...]Distance: 1.8 miles.
Crystal Clear Therapies
Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7EZ
01963 240073
I am a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master and teacher with over 13 years experience. Daytime courses for reiki levels I and II are [...]Distance: 5.26 miles.
Celtic Reiki Healing and Wise Women Workshops
Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 8BH
07935 834785
Learn the ancient traditions of the Goddess through symbols, images, guided meditation and ritual which help you connect with the different aspects of the [...]Distance: 6.33 miles.
School of The Living Light
Ashcott, Somerset, TA7 9QP
01458 211047
Lita de Alberdi and Marco de Alberdi founded the School of the Living Light in 1993 to assist in bringing the new Light frequencies [...]Distance: 6.42 miles.
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Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 9DU
Reiki is a powerful healing energy that everyone can learn to work with, whatever your previous experience may be. The Reiki energy both deeply [...]Distance: 6.55 miles.
Sole to Soul Holistics
South Petherton, Somerset, TA13 5AY
I am a Reiki master practitioner with over 10 years of experience. I am a mobile therapist also qualified in Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Massage [...]Distance: 7.61 miles.
West Pennard, Somerset, BA6 8NE
Specialising in animal reiki for comfort and healing, either poorly animals who need some comfort due to their health or well animals who maybe [...]Distance: 8.39 miles.
Sara Morley
Chiselborough, Somerset, TA14 6TR
Somerset Reiki : Reiki is a complementary therapy suitable for all ages. In the UK it is used in various contexts, including private practice, [...]Distance: 8.57 miles.
Somerset Skies Therapies
Edington, Somerset, TA7 9Al
Mike Durant Dip Couns and Psych. , (MNCS (Acc); Dip Hyp, MHS With a therapy room at his home in Edington, between Bridgwater and [...]Distance: 8.65 miles.
Kevin Stevens – Heal and Sole Holistics
Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7BX
01963 350639
I am an experienced Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher. I hold a Reiki Council Professional Practitioner Certificate and am a Registered Practitioner with The [...]Distance: 9.99 miles.
Healing Around The World – International Distant Healing
Castle Cary, Somerset
I am Kevin Stevens and my business Healing Around The World offers international distant healing sessions to anybody, anywhere around the world. I am an [...]Distance: 10.21 miles.
Janeen Brendlor Reiki Master / Teacher
Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 4LZ
I trained as a Reiki master as I never cease to wonder at the incredible results that can be achieved. As a Reiki Master [...]Distance: 10.81 miles.
The Well Being
Taunton, Somerset, TA3 5AH
01823 412189
I am a member of the Federation of Holistic therapists, providing Reiki Healing, Spiritual Healing, Crystal Therapy, Deep Tissue and remedial Massage, Aromatherapy, Hot [...]Distance: 11.36 miles.
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Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9AJ
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My name is Sandy Barley and I've been a Reiki practitioner since 2004. I'm attuned to Level 2 and practice from 'The Sanctuary' in [...]Distance: 11.41 miles.
Reiki Holistic Healing
Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9BF
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Reiki is a beautiful energy that brings about healing at multiple levels. It works to improve and provide a sense of well-being physically , [...]Distance: 11.72 miles.
Reiki Enlightenment
Evercreech, Somerset, BA4 6HZ
078378 97478
Welcome to Reiki Enlightenment School. We offer 'Courses and Workshops to Expand Your Consciousness' Dee Banton is the founder of the School and has been teaching [...]Distance: 12.15 miles.
Horse and Soul Equine Facilitated Therapy and healing
Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8BL
I am a qualified counsellor and Reiki practitioner. I practice Reiki on people and have recently practiced on horses. I offer a range of [...]Distance: 12.3 miles.
Haven of Peace Light School
Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4RT
075 2826 0549
Intuitive therapist who works on all levels of mind, body and spirit. Past Life Regression aiding in releasing the past that has caused issues in [...]Distance: 12.39 miles.
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Wells, Somerset, ba53js
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We both have worked with many different people and we regularly go to Ireland to carry out healings there as we have a client [...]Distance: 12.51 miles.
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We all have emotional trauma, and it seems the more my trauma releases and quietens, the more I can hear the pain of others. My body, breath and mind hold the memory of the patterns of trauma, not yet fully released. This residual energy primes me to the feelings and patterns of others. I can hear them more clearly. I can feel the energy of consciousness moving through the world.
As a yoga teacher working with students dealing with trauma, I have to remember two things: 1) not to let my own trauma impinge on someone else's practice and 2) to be mindful…of being present, of my language, and of the current needs of the traumatized student. I know yoga is beneficial for healing and trauma; I have experienced the release that can come from the practice of yoga in my own body and mind.
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With yoga asana and pranayama, we can gently and safely bring about different feelings in the body and watch the mind's reactions as the feelings arise, uncovering the cause of these feelings and moods. Once you know why you are in a bad mood, you have the choice and the power to address the cause of the mood. Through yoga we develop awareness of where we hold stress or anger and awareness of when the body gives us clues to indicate what triggers our anger or sadness.
A key to releasing trauma through yoga is knowing how to come home to your 'basic goodness' after you have been 'triggered'. Sometimes a certain pose or the way the teacher guides or cues us triggers a reaction in our bodies that we can't explain in words; it feels so deep and familiar, yet sometimes in a distant and surreal kind of way. Have you ever noticed how often someone cries in a yoga class? We have all experienced trauma of some description, perhaps only vicariously, but our mind and body have been affected nonetheless.
Our bodies, sometimes more than our minds, hold the memory of trauma. This may be in the form of a tightly contracted psoas, constricted diaphragm, habitual tension in the shoulders, neck or jaw. These tightenings have occurred as a response to a perceived threat, part of our fight or flight response, but once the threat has passed, our bodies very often still do not feel safe enough to release fully into relaxation. As a result, we experience symptoms of trauma such as back pain, digestive problems, anxiety and even PTSD.
When we are in a safe environment, with a yoga teacher we trust (which may be ourselves in a home practice), we are able to recognize the impact of trauma on our bodies and experiment with how poses may trigger or release habitual patterns of responding. With mindfulness we can learn to stay with the body and the breath, being a conscious witness to the trauma that is stored within us, assessing what works and what causes more suffering throughout our practice. In this way, yoga can bring about a deep sense of healing in mind, body and spirit.
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The Hickey that Paralyzed a Woman
When people say, after sex, "I can't move," they usually mean it as a compliment. But you should make sure! Because they might mean it literally. Like the woman in New Zealand who was partially paralyzed by a hickey.
Yes, a hickey. A hickey! As if you needed another reason to not give or receive hickeys besides "no longer in middle school." Teddy Wu, a doctor at Christchurch Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand, wrote up the unique case for the New Zealand Journal of Medicine. Apparently, a 44-year-old woman showed up at the hospital unable to move her arm—and her only injury was a hickey over an artery in her neck.
"Because it was a lovebite there would be a lot of suction.
"Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel," said Wu.
"There was a clot in the artery underneath where the hickey was."
The clot had gone into the woman's heart and caused a minor stroke that led to the loss of movement, he said.
Luckily for her, an anticoagulant drug was able to eliminate the clot in a week. The medical advice here, obviously, is never make out with anyone, ever, because God hates it and will paralyze you. And also, stop giving hickeys, because, seriously.


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Jackie Robinson Park
The Daily Plant : Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Future Of Recreation Center Is Bright And Green
The Jackie Robinson Recreation Center, located in Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem, has opened its doors, kept on its lights and offered recreational and educational activities to the community since its creation in 1936. Thanks to funding from the Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, those lights are going to make the building more sustainable, while also help save some serious green. Nine months ago, the center – which offers activities include aerobic and computer classes, senior socials and a basketball clinic – went through a $90,000 lighting retrofit that replaced old, inefficient bulbs with ones that are more energy efficient, and installed occupancy sensors that only turn lights on when people are nearby. According to the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, the project will save $12,036 annually in energy savings, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 metric tons per year. That emissions savings is equivalent to consuming 3,363 gallons of gasoline or nearly 70 barrels of oil!
This significant savings builds on the Center's 2010 installation of a "cool roof" - a white reflective coating applied to the roof surface that redirects the sun's rays and minimizes heat absorption into the building. A cooler building means a decrease in energy consumption, which saves money and cuts carbon emissions. NYC Parks continues to play a pivotal role in the NYC CoolRoofs Program. Not only does Parks lead all city agencies with the most square footage of rooftop coated, but the hard-working employees at 5-Boro help the program reduce its waste by finding ways to reuse and recycle hundreds of empty coating buckets. Cool Roof installations and energy efficient retrofits in Park buildings are instrumental to PlaNYC's goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent for municipal buildings by 2017.
Making Wreaths from Discarded Materials
By: Quanika Stover, Green Teens Intern
December is here and that means the winter holiday is upon us. Fifth Avenue is glowing with colorful lights, the Rockefeller tree is standing tall, and holiday markets are popping up. Getting in on the decorating fun does not have to be time-consuming, expensive, or environmentally wasteful. You can get creative using reusable items! Discarded content is found everywhere and is easily accessible, especially in your own home. There are various styles and materials that can be used to create your own personal wreath.
Basic Magazine Paper Wreath:
A. Materials Needed
1. Scissors
2. Cardboard
3. Magazines
4. Glue
B. Directions
1. Cut out circular doughnut shape in cardboard (Pick a size that suits you)
2. Take each sheet of magazine paper, and tightly roll each sheet
3. Glue the rolled sheets of magazine paper around the cut cardboard piece one by one
4. Let dry and you're done
There are plenty of other styles of wreaths from discarded materials that you can explore with. Short of ideas? Come check out the 30th annual Wreath Interpretations exhibition in the Arsenal Gallery! The artist's reception is this evening, December 12 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and it opens to the public on December 13. Pistachio shells, stained glass, bicycle tubes and Chinese food containers are just a few of materials used to examine various themes. For questions, contact Arsenal Gallery curator Jennifer Lantzas at 212-360-8163.
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Directions to Jackie Robinson Park
Know Before You Go
Jackie Robinson Recreation Center
New York City's recreation centers and indoor pools remain closed to the general public until further notice to provide COVID-19 related services as well as free childcare options for children who are scheduled for blended learning. To learn more or to apply for the childcare program, please visit the New York City Department of Education's Learning Bridges program page.
Once we reopen, NYC Parks will extend all existing recreation center memberships to cover the length of time we are closed to the general public.
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It turns out that when it comes to crappy New York City winters, the McLaren 12C has a backup propulsion system – two lovely young ladies.
McLaren is famous for being fastidious with everything, including customer treatment. Somehow, though, I don't think they come with the car.
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Today, a new object has been put on display at the British Museum: a tablet, light brown, covered in cuneiform script. The piece is approximately 4,000 years old, and approximately the size of a smartphone. It was discovered in modern-day Iraq—ancient Mesopotamia—and, upon deciphering, it seems to tell a story that will be familiar to many: that of a boat that will help a man to survive a flood. It mentions animals, and specifies that they should enter the boat "two by two."
Except the vessel in question isn't a boat—at least, not in the way we tend to think of boats.
The tablet at the British Museum offers instructions (delivered, in this case, from a Mesopotamian god) for building a vessel. It would be made of woven rope, and then reinforced with wooden ribs. It would be coated, to seal it from the water, in bitumen. It would be, in area, two-thirds the size of a soccer field. And it would be ... round.
The tablet gives instructions, in other words, for building a coracle: a large, round vessel. Coracles look something like this:
The discovery and deciphering of the tablet was done by Irving Finkel, the assistant curator of Middle East exhibits at the British Museum. (A few years ago, a man who had acquired the tablet from his father—who had in turn acquired it from the Middle East after World War II—brought it to him.) "It was really a heart-stopping moment—the discovery that the boat was to be a round boat," Finkel told the AP. "That was a real surprise."
He also notes, though, that a rotund vessel would have made sense in the context of the tablet. Coracles were used in ancient Iraq as river taxies. They were, given their construction materials, light to transport. Their shape gave them stability against shifting currents and, when necessary, floodwaters.
Finkel is writing a book about the discovery, but the AP is quick to point out that other experts back up his ark-aeological work. Elizabeth Stone, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia at Stony Brook University, says it would have made sense that ancient Mesopotamians would depict their mythological ark as round. ("People are going to envision the boat however people envision boats where they are," she put it.) And David Owen, professor of ancient Near Eastern studies at Cornell, says that Finkel has made, with his tablet, "an extraordinary discovery."
The discovery might also be a controversial one. Later Mesopotamian writings, including the "Epic of Gilgamesh," feature flood stories; when scholars in the 19th century first discovered this similarity, they were alarmed at the tales' similarity to the story of Noah. Finkel, for his part, thinks the flood story was passed on to the Jews while they were in exile in Babylon during the 6th century BC. He also doesn't claim that the tablet he has deciphered offers evidence of the existence of the ark described in the Bible; he believes, instead, that a destructive flood "made its way into folk memory, and has remained there ever since."
Regardless. Someone, somewhere, gave instructions for boat-building, and those instructions live on in our texts. The next step? Build it, and see what comes. A team of engineers now plans to follow the instructions contained within the museum's Mesopotamian tablet. Their plan? To see whether an ancient
ark coracle, its dimensions and building materials detailed on a tablet, could actually have sailed.
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Date: c.1903
Country: USA (possibly)
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The ideal Edwardian woman was tall, voluptuous, and strikingly feminine. The curves of her fashionable silhouette emphasized the bosom—indeed, a "monobosom"—an effect furthered by bloused, frilly bodices, as on this afternoon dress. The delicate lace that covers the neckline also extends gracefully over the shoulders.
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- Genesis
- Exodus
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
Genesis begins with the primeval history: the story of creation and the garden of Eden (Genesis 1-3), the account of the descendants of Adam to the rise of Noah who survives a great flood (Genesis 3-9), and the account of the descendants of Noah through the tower of Babel to the rise of Abram (Abraham) (Genesis 10-11). Next follows the story of the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the life of Joseph (Genesis 12-50). God gives to the patriarchs a promise of the land of Canaan, but at the end of Genesis the clan of Jacob ends up leaving Canaan for Egypt because of a famine.
Exodus describes the rise of Moses, who leads the Israelites out of Pharaoh's Egypt (Exodus 1-18) and into Mount Sinai/Horeb where he mediates to them God's covenant and laws (Exodus 19-24), deals with the violation of the law when Israel makes the Golden Calf (Exodus 32-24) and instructs them on building the tabernacle (Exodus 25-31; 35-40).
Leviticus begins with instructions about how to use the tabernacle that the Israelites had just built (Leviticus 1-10), followed by a long enumeration of the rules of cleanliness (Leviticus 11-15), the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16), and various moral and ritual laws sometimes called the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26).
Numbers describes two censuses in which the number of Israelites are counted (Numbers 1-3, 26), with many laws mixed among the narratives. The narratives tell how Israel consolidated itself as a community at Sinai (Numbers 1-9), set out from Sinai to move towards Canaan and spied out the land (Numbers 10-13). Because of unbelief at various points, but especially at Kadesh Barnea (Numbers 14), the Israelites were condemned to wander for forty years in the desert in the vicinity of Kadesh instead of immediately entering the land of promise. Even Moses sins and is told he would not live to enter the Promised Land (Numbers 20). At the end of Numbers (Numbers 26-35) Israel moves from the area of Kadesh towards the Promised Land. They leave the Sinai desert and go around Edom and through Moab where Balak and Balaam oppose them (Numbers 22-24; 31:8, 15-16). They defeat two Transjordan kings, Og and Sihon (Numbers 21), and so come to occupy some territory outside of Canaan. At the end of the book they are on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho ready to enter the land.
Deuteronomy consists primarily of a series of speeches by Moses on the plains of Moab opposte Jericho exhorting Israel to obey God and giving further instruction on the laws. At the end of the book (Deuteronomy 34) Moses is allowed to see the promised land from a mountain, but dies and is buried by God before Israel begins the conquest of Canaan. It is believed by many scholars to be a later summation of the first four books with the death of Moses and events leading up to it added.
The Pentateuch is traditionally believed to have been written down by Moses. Hence Genesis is sometimes called the first book of Moses, Exodus the second book of Moses, and so forth. In its current form, each successive book of the Pentateuch picks up and continues the story of the previous book to form a continuous story. Hence Genesis tells how the Israelites went to Egypt while Exodus tells how they came to leave Egypt. Exodus describes the building of the tabernacle at Sinai while in Leviticus Moses is given rules while at Sinai for offering sacrifice and worship at that tabernacle. In Numbers the Israelites leave Sinai and travel eventually to the plains of Moab while in Deuteronomy Moses gives speeches about the law on the plains of Moab.
The Pentateuch can be contrasted with the Hexateuch, a term for the first six books of the Bible. The traditional view is that Joshua wrote the sixth book of the Hexateuch, namely the Book of Joshua, and so it was separated from the five books of the Pentateuch ascribed to Moses. But as a story the Pentateuch seems incomplete without Joshua's account of the conquest of the Promised Land; it completes the story, continuing directly from the events of Deuteronomy, and documents the conquest of Canaan predicted in the Pentateuch. This has led some scholars to propose that the proper literary unit is that of the Hexateuch rather than the Pentateuch. Still others think that Deuteronomy stands apart from the first four books of the Pentateuch, and so speak of the first four as the Tetrateuch (Genesis through Numbers).
Sources and external links
- Wikipedia:Pentateuch (Main source.)
- The Parts and Arrangement of the Bible


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A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an Internet prank ended up helping police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, authorities said.
The five boys had created a fake profile of a girl on MySpace.com — a social networking Web site — to cheer up a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend.
But soon, a man began sending messages to the "girl" and their conversations began to have sexual overtones, said Fontana police Sgt. William Megenney.
The man also sent the "girl" his picture and arranged to meet her at a public park. The boys went to the park and, when the man arrived, they called police.
Michael Ramos, 48, of Fontana, was booked into West Valley Detention Center on Monday for investigation of felony attempted lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and for an outstanding warrant, Megenney said.
He was being held at the West Valley Detention Center on $105,000 bail, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Web site.
A dispatcher who answered the telephone at the center early Tuesday said the facility does not allow phone interviews with inmates. It was not immediately known whether Ramos had a lawyer.
Two men were arrested last week in what prosecutors said were the first federal sexual assault charges involving MySpace. The unrelated cases involved Connecticut girls who were 11 and 14, the FBI said.


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Australia Day will be a washout for Queensland
UPDATE: SWIFTWATER rescue crews in central Queensland have been flat out overnight and this morning, responding to more than 20 calls for help.
The majority of the callouts occurred in and around Rockhampton.
Seven people at Kabra (west of Rockhampton) were evacuated by Queensland Fire and Rescue Serv ice crews and State Emergency Service (SES) personnel.
A woman and two children were rescued by SES personnel after being in a vehicle isolated by flood water at Mackenzie River, near Middle Mount.
Around 3.45am two vehicles were isolated on the Bruce Highway at Bob's Creek near Rockhampton due to water over the road. Three SES personnel rescued the occupants.
Queenslanders in for wet, wild and windy Australia Day weekend
A TROPICAL weather system that has thrashed North Queensland will make its way south over the weekend leaving Queenslanders with a wet and windy Australia Day.
Ex-cyclone Oswald caused heavy rain on the Central Queensland coast and Capricornia region on Thursday after inundating North Queensland.
The Central Coast and Capricornia regions are expected to receive up to 300mm of rain over the next few days.
The fierce weather system is then expected to make its way south for the long weekend.
In its advice at 5am Friday, the weather bureau said, Ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald was located over land, approximately 120 km west of Mackay and moving south-southeast at about 12 kilometres per hour.
"The monsoon trough extended from the southern Gulf of Carpentaria to Ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald and then to the east coast near Fraser Island.
"Damaging winds with gusts to 90 km/hr are possible over the Central Coast, Capricornia and Wide Bay and Burnett districts.
"Areas that may be affected include islands and coastal locations between the Whitsundays and Sandy Cape.''
"Heavy rainfall which may lead to flash flooding is likely over the Capricornia, Wide Bay and Burnett, eastern parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields, and northern parts of the Southeast Coast district, possibly reaching areas north of Brisbane late in the day.''
Areas between St Lawrence and Brisbane, and inland to about Emerald may be affected. Six hour rainfall accumulations of 100 to 200mm are possible.
At 1am Friday, severe flash flooding was reported in the Yeppoon area where rainfall of 271mm has been recorded since 9am Thursday.
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While the system is expected to weaken, Weather Channel senior meteorologist Dick Whitaker said it would still produce rain and strong winds.
"During Sunday and Monday we expect rain and windy conditions for Brisbane," he said.
"We are talking later in the week and right down to the border to north-east NSW.
"We expect three-day totals of 100mm of rainfall."
The weather system will hang around the south-east corner and Northern NSW until early next week.
Mackay residents bracing themselves for flooding
Residents and business owners across Mackay are today bracing themselves for more rain and possible flooding.
Coady's Cafe on Evan St in South Mackay almost found itself under water after heavy rain dumped falls of up to 240mm on the region yesterday.
Owner Leanne Coad said it was the most rain she had experienced since the 2008 floods.
In the Rockhampton region, the Bruce Highway has been closed at Marlborough due to flash flooding over the road.
A police spokesman urged all motorists to stay off the roads in Central Queensland if possible as the current rainfall has made road conditions unpredictable and dangerous.
Wild weather in the Whitsundays
Rain and wind was causing havoc in Airlie Beach with several boats being damaged in the severe weather.
At Cannonvale, one boat is on the rocks and another is on the beach.
Near Mandalay, a partly built house boat is believed to be sinking.
Cruise Whitsundays has stopped all ferry services from Abel Point to the islands.
Ferries are still running to Hamilton, Daydream and Long Islands from Shute Harbour but there are no services from Abel Point.
Cruise Whitsundays CEO Peter O'Reilly said the decision was made to stop Abel Point services in the interests of safety.
"There's a pretty significant swell coming across," he said.
"Sea conditions in Pioneer Bay are too dangerous for ferry operations."
The Bureau of Meteorology has recorded more than 100mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9am this morning at all sites from north of Townsville to south of Mackay.
Technical officer at the bureau's Mackay Station, Evan Chalk, said coastal areas were experiencing north east to north westerly winds of 25-33 knots north of Mackay and this was likely to increase to up to 40 knots this afternoon.
Gladstone residents warned of flooding
AUTHORITIES are warning residents of flood-prone towns such as Baffle Creek, Agnes Water and 1770 to prepare for several days of inundation.
Gladstone deputy mayor Matt Burnett said areas south to Bundaberg were particularly flood-prone.
"Possibly going to be making a bit of a havoc down our way, but we're just saying residents in that area, it is possible they could become isolated as they have in the past, so just to be ready for that," he told ABC.
"Whether it means to be out of town at the time you need to to sort of pack up and start getting yourselves organised now.
"No need to panic - just if people are worried about being isolated then perhaps they might need to make themselves move onto another area."
A number of roads in the Gladstone region have been closed as heavy rainfall continues.
Cyclone not expected to reform but will be strong low
Mr Whitaker does not expect the cyclone to reform.
"It will be quite a strong tropical low moving down the coast," he said.
"Its decreasing from the north as it moves further south."


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Episode 250 of The CyberJungle is about 30 minutes long. You can hear it by clicking on the flash player below. The interview with Dr. Catlett a futurist and economist that keynoted HIMSS2012 in Las Vegas, begins at about 15min. You may download the file directly – great for listening on many smartphones. Or, you may go to the listening options page and browse for other ways to hear the show.
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MOVING PARTS: RECONFIGURING CORPOREAL DIFFERENCE AND THE HUMAN THROUGH ORGAN TRANSPLANT NARRATIVES by Nisha Kunte A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Nisha Kunte
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|Organ transplantation materially reconfigures the biological boundaries between bodies, but it also reshapes the social and ethical possibilities of using certain bodies as resources for the lives of others. In its physical reorganizing of the fleshy material of bodies, it conjures up vivid associations and rearticulations of the relationship between self and other, of the individualist Enlightenment subject, and of what it even means to be and have a human body. Moving Parts examines how associations and rearticulations like these are represented in literature, television, theater, and film. In examining the stories that circulate around the most fundamental questions about the organ transplant's possibility, I argue that we can see how narrative constructs the body as knowable subject. Moving Parts contends that these modes of narrativizing the act of organ transfer are indicative of a pervasive preoccupation not simply with a technology that drastically reorganizes how bodies relate to one another in the materiality of their flesh, but also with the very strategies these stories deploy in order to narratologically negotiate this radical corporeal reconfiguration. I argue that the organ transplant should be understood as a discourse, a profound transformation of bodies where the objectified other is the very thing that allows for the continued life of the self. It is a discourse through which we may understand the self to always have been a precarious construct teetering between healthy and individual and ailing and contingent. In the face of a technology that demands a radical understanding of the borders of between self and other, the stories I examine in Moving Parts allow us to think a human subject that must begin beyond where the body ends in order to resist the liberal humanist discourses that produce debased others premised on corporeal difference.
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In Common Core, Teachers See Interdisciplinary Opportunities
Educators around the country are exploring innovative ways to teach the new common-core literacy standards, and some are calling attention to an approach they say is working well: interdisciplinary thematic units.
Whether they've had these types of units in their repertoires for years or are just now jumping into such cross-curricular work, educators say the new standards support this type of teaching in several ways.
First, one of the key instructional shifts associated with the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts is the requirement that students, starting in 5th grade, read more nonfiction than fiction. Some English teachers have lamented the prospect of replacing Shakespeare and Sandra Cisneros with informational texts. But proponents of the common standards point out that, as a footnote in the introduction to the standards explains, the required percentages for nonfiction "reflect the sum of student reading, not just reading in ELA settings." That is, informational texts are expected to be the shared responsibility of teachers "across the grade," potentially creating new opportunities for cross-curricular projects.
In addition, the common standards lay out specific literacy requirements for history/social studies, science, and technical subjects, and they emphasize research and synthesizing skills. Rather than tackling these new objectives in subject-area silos, some teachers are choosing to address them by integrating real-world themes and social issues into projects, and by reaching across hallways to do this work with colleagues.
One Theme, Many Standards
The common core "certainly lends itself to integrated interdisciplinary units," said Bobbi Farrell, a veteran teacher at Messalonskee Middle School in Oakland, Maine. Several years ago, she and her colleagues began moving to a standards-based approach to teaching, in which students go at their own pace and do not receive grades. Instead, kids are responsible for attaining proficiency in each standard. The group built this new approach, which Farrell calls "mass-customized learning," on the common-core standards, which were finalized in 2010.
Farrell, who teaches both social studies and language arts, often organizes her instruction around a theme. "For example, we may do a unit on identity," she explained. "Within that, we can look at immigration or social classes within social studies. We can look at such literature as The Outsiders within the framework of characterization or point of view." Through the structure the theme provides, she said, students are able to hit a variety of standards, depending on their individual goals. "In a short span of five to six weeks, kids get a massive amount of teaching and learning in that one unit."
While some language arts teachers are simply adding a nonfiction unit to fulfill the new reading requirements, others have found pairing fiction and nonfiction texts under a thematic umbrella to be a more effective way to teach critical reading. "In order to integrate the core in a way that doesn't overtake your class with isolated discrete lessons, this is the way to do it," said Sarah Brown Wessling, the 2010 National Teacher of the Year and a high school English teacher in Johnston, Iowa. "This is the way to get kids deeper into their analysis."
By organizing around "a concept or principle or theme or quest," teachers force students to engage with texts more deeply and compare them to one another. For instance, she said, "instead of thinking about teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, I'm teaching the concept of courage. To Kill a Mockingbird is one text I use. So is a [PBS] Frontline piece, a speech, an article. Putting those texts together in a bundle helps us to work toward conceptual understanding. That's the spirit of the core."
Rob Meza-Ehlert, a 10th grade social studies teacher at the Kearny School of Digital Media and Design in San Diego, explained that his small public high school is centered around interdisciplinary project-based learning. Teachers at the 450-student school, created though a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, work in grade-level teams to have students produce semester-long projects on topics of their choice. Tenth graders pick a social issue—genocide, environmental degradation, or human trafficking, for example—and read selected articles about it in social studies class, using the annotation skills they've learned in English. Then they continue the "research from my class with Socratic seminars in English," Meza-Ehlert explained. "The walls between the two disciplines are broken down. We're developing similar skills with a similar approach." Eventually, students create a project—for instance, a video, brochure, or online game—to demonstrate what they've learned and offer something to the community.
Meza-Ehlert suggested that a strength of this approach is that it helps students see the natural fluidity between subjects. "I hear kids in my class talking about connections to English and science. As soon as kids are doing that on their own without being asked, you know what you're doing is working," he said.
A nine-year veteran at the school, Meza Ehlert says the common-core standards mesh well with the school's project-based learning model. "We actually have a pretty good foundation because a lot of what we've already been doing matches [the common core]. When I look at the common core … there are no shocks."
Logistical Barriers
Even so, Kathy Glass, a curriculum and instruction consultant in the San Francisco area, and author of books on mapping curriculum units to the common core for both primary and secondary grades, emphasizes that such units are not in-and-of themselves aligned with the common core. Teachers still need to do the hard work of adaptation. "I did interdisciplinary units 20 years ago," she said. But, to teach them today with the common core, "I'd have to say, 'Hmm. … Let me look at the resources I used. Were they appropriately complex? Let me look at the questions I had. Were they text dependent?' It's all very specific to how rich the interdisciplinary unit was."
In addition, there are, of course, logistical barriers to this kind of teaching.
For Farrell, teaching thematically often forces her to teach historical events out of order, "which, particularly in social studies, has been difficult," she said. "You think of history more in terms of chronology. One of the issues we're facing is how to know if we're filling in all those gaps."
The cross-subject-area, collaborative aspect can be tough to pull off as well, especially at the high school level. In elementary schools, where teachers are responsible for multiple disciplines, or in middle schools that are organized around teams, there are often more opportunities for teachers to collaborate on units. "If a school is organized for it, it makes a lot of sense," said Wessling. "My school doesn't happen to be organized for that. … Certainly the ways that high schools are traditionally organized makes it more difficult."
While his high school has the luxuries of a small staff and flexible scheduling, however, Meza-Ehlert argues that all teachers can implement interdisciplinary work to some extent. "The product doesn't have to be some project. For us what makes it work best is having big questions and topics that cross multiple disciplines."
He suggests that teachers "start small, where they're comfortable. Unpack one quote that is a challenging quote to unpack, starting in English and finishing in history class. … If the structures aren't in place, look for natural places of connection. If one other teacher has 10 to 15 shared students, try one reading together on one theme. The little things grow into something larger."
Finding Units
Resources are also available to help teachers create such thematic units across disciplines.
Facing History and Ourselves, a civic-learning organization, has been offering free curricular support to teachers for almost four decades. The Brookline, Mass.-based nonprofit provides units and lessons on themes such as racism, democracy, and prejudice on its website. "Our model has always been to teach a piece of literature situated in a historical context," said Jocelyn Stanton, senior program associate for special projects. "To understand the world around that piece of literature, you bring in primary sources, graphs, first-hand accounts"—all of which can count toward the common standards' nonfiction reading requirements.
"On the flipside, we've also pushed history teachers to not only look at primary sources and textbooks but to bring in works of poetry and short stories to complement the time period," Stanton said. "By reading a poem from a Holocaust survivor, you deepen your understanding. I think the common core is basically asking teachers to do that."
While many of Facing History's units were written before the common standards existed, Stanton said they are philosophically and practically in line with what the core requires. "The idea of putting a text in front of students and asking them to deconstruct and find meaning, to read closely, to ask questions, that's how we started. It's somewhat ironic that we've been sort of set up for this [ie., the new standards] for a long time." The group is now working to directly align its units to the standards.
Emily Chiariello, a teaching and learning specialist with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program in Montgomery, Ala., is in the midst of writing a "literacy-based anti-bias curriculum" for both language arts and social studies teachers, which should be finished by the fall. Chiariello describes theme-based interdisciplinary units as "the best for every number of reasons." She said that these units mimic the kind of learning through reading students will do as adults—for instance reading the newspaper to learn about politics, or looking at maps and magazine articles to learn about gardening.
"Maybe this is also what the common core is trying to get us to realize—that these boundaries between disciplines are false," Chiariello said. "They're not in the real world. I hope people can embrace those walls are coming down."
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Spending a little more time and effort on grocery shopping can mean big savings to your food budget, a University of Colorado at Boulder marketing professor says.
Donald Lichtenstein has studied marketing techniques and consumer behavior in all types of stores for 15 years. From the front of a store to the back, he has suggestions on techniques shoppers can use to get more value for their money.
"I love a deal," says Lichtenstein. "When that blue light goes off something in my blood just starts percolating."
Here are some techniques he recommends to get more for your grocery dollar:
Cherry-Picking -- Seek out the choicest sale items offered by various grocery stores and buy only those items. Knowing the regular price of the item is essential, so you can tell just how good a deal it really is. Although this requires more time and effort, it can mean big savings, especially when combined with stockpiling.
Stockpiling -- "If I can find it at the right price -- I buy huge quantities," Lichtenstein says. For example, he recently left a Boulder grocery store with 27 pounds of naval oranges -- just for himself.
The key is to buy items that you have the ability to store, and are sure you will use it before it perishes. He plans to keep the oranges cool in his garage, perhaps next to the four cases of Progresso soup and a dozen bottles of a favorite salad dressing.
Use Coupons Only When Appropriate -- The best time to use a store coupon is when the item is on sale, he says, basically getting you a "double deal."
Two drawbacks to coupons is that you may be enticed to buy something you normally wouldn't purchase, or the store price may be too high for the coupon to be a bargain. Consumers need to pay attention to in-store price information and consider it when deciding on whether or not to redeem a coupon.
Coupons often offer a better deal on smaller-sized items than larger ones, he notes. The key is to check the unit price. A 25-cent off coupon is a better deal on a 2-ounce size costing 50 cents than on a 5-ouncer for $1.
Consider Buying Store-Brand Products -- A brand name doesn't always mean better quality and neither does higher price. Store-brand cold medicines may contain the exact same active ingredients as the well-known name brand. Look at the label.
Lichtenstein recommends trying a store-brand version of products you routinely use. If you don't like it, take the product back and tell the store management you didn't like it, he urges. Many stores will refund your money.
"It boils down to this: value for the money," he says. "Don't make assumptions."
Don't Assume Special End-of-Aisle Displays Are On Sale -- People often assume such displays are offering a special deal. Stores know this and many displays may be at regular price. If an item is on sale the sign will say so.
Know That Some Items Are Always On Sale -- Spaghetti sauce, soda pop, laundry detergent and disposable diapers are examples found in competitive urban markets. Also routinely discounted are canned soups, tuna, cereals and toothpaste. Buying these items at "sale" prices should be easy if you pay attention, he says.
Know What Items Cost -- A majority of shoppers don't use unit price comparisons and don't know the prices of the items they purchase, says Lichtenstein. Stores take advantage of these shoppers, he says.
Buy Lesser Quality If That Quality Is Invisible -- If a cheap plastic garbage bag will make it from your home to where it needs to go, buy it. You're not going hiking with it.
And before ever entering a store, make a list and set a budget.
"If people would expend a little effort it would improve their shopping tremendously," he says.


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Maine man sentenced for stealing from Social Security Administration
BANGOR, Maine (AP) � A 51-year-old Maine man is going to prison for lying to the Social Security Administration so he could fraudulently receive benefits.
Anthony Dinsmore of Columbia Falls was found guilty last March of theft of Supplemental Security Income benefits. U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty II announced Monday that federal Judge John Woodcock sentenced Dinsmore to two years, three months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $20,000 in restitution.
Prosecutors say Dinsmore lied to the Social Security Administration by falsely claiming he was living alone when in fact he was living with his wife, who was receiving income that would have made him ineligible for Supplemental Security income.
The U.S. Attorney's office says evidence showed that Dinsmore stole more than $90,000 from the federal government over a period of 15 years.


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Missing NC girl located; Suspect in custody
12-year-old found in Florida
Authorities in Florida say they have found a 12-year-old North Carolina girl whose disappearance sparked an AMBER Alert.
Just before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, North Carolina authorities sent out an email saying Abigale Lefevers had been located in Florida.
According to WITN, the NBC affiliate in Greenville, N.C., Carteret County detectives received confirmation from police in Hallandale Beach, Fla., that Abigale was safe with police and Timothy Newman, her suspected abductor, was in custody.
Authorities said the two were found in the parking lot near a Wendy's on Hallandale Beach Boulevard about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Police said Newman's vehicle was spotted by officers who stopped the car near a Denny's Restaurant near Interstate 95, according to WITN. Newman, a convicted sex offender, was taken into custody without incident.
Carteret County Sheriff's Office officials said Tuesday there was reason to believe Newman and the girl may be in the Myrtle Beach area.
The girl was reported missing Monday morning.
On Tuesday, Newman's roommate told a TV reporter the girl may have gone with Newman willingly. "From what I witnessed it seemed like they were in love," said Van Jarman. "I mean I hate to say that because that's a big word," Jarman said.
The girl's father, Robert Lefevers, spoke to reporters on Monday.
He had this message for his daughter: "Abigale if you're out there watching me right now baby, please just come home. Daddy's not mad, we can work through anything that this is, just please come home. Please come home baby."
WITN reported that the father knew Newman. "I did know him," Lefevers said. "I didn't know that he was capable of taking my daughter and running off with her," he told a WITN reporter.
Newman served more than six years in prison for three counts of sex offenses, before he was released last year, authorities confirmed.


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A company whose mission is easing the corporate headaches of buying and managing mobile devices has rebuilt its software platform for greater pain relief.
Movero Technology was formed in 2003 to smooth out the complications of giving enterprise employees mobile devices and service plans, plus updating and keeping track of them. It handles those problems for its customers and runs a full-time support call center. The Austin, Texas, company can set up a special Web site for each company where employees shop for the specific phones and plans they are allowed to order, said President and CEO Bruce Friedman. An updated version of the software platform for those portals, announced Monday, is based on AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and Extensible Markup Language) and now works more like a Web-based application, he said.
For example, a site for setting up service looks much like a shopping page on a mobile operator's Web site. Employees move through screens for ordering devices, services and accessories to a checkout page. Movero hosts similar sites for deactivating phones, swapping one device for another, transferring liability for a device from the employee to the company and other functions.
Enterprises are trying to centralize control of their employees' mobile devices and software as more work gets done outside the office and after hours. What was once a personal purchase, sometimes subsidized through an expense report, has become a corporate tool. And because setting up a contract or buying a phone involves a mobile operator, provisioning a handset is more complicated than setting up a new PC for an employee.
Using information about an enterprise, such as its corporate mobile plans and discounts, preferred device configurations and purchasing procedures, Movero creates a Web portal that may be reached either through Movero's site or on the enterprise intranet. Previously, Movero provided disparate online tools for carrying out the various account actions. Now the pages for all those functions have the same look and feel and can be reached through the same portal.
For IT managers, Movero makes the mobile provisioning process a matter of simply approving or disapproving each order, Friedman said. Enterprises also get a single point of contact for billing issues and support, he said.
More enterprises are taking control of their employees' phones, which by itself makes life less complicated, but frequently they need help, according to Ovum analyst Jan Dawson.
"Most enterprises just don't have the skill sets developed yet to manage mobile devices in the way that they need to be today," Dawson said. Some think they don't need to worry about issues such as security with the devices because they're not PCs, while others treat them just like PCs, which is also a mistake, he said. For one thing, PC security issues are more about viruses while loss and theft are the bigger issues for mobile devices. Over time, some enterprises may choose to hire and train in-house staff for the job while others will turn to managed service providers such as Movero, Dawson believes.
Movero's service generally costs between US$4 and $10 per month, per device, according to CEO Friedman.