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Special Thanks are in order to David Carrington, a good friend to myself and RTF at Avery Sporting Dogs.
David had put this project together quite a while ago. I've had these in my possession for several weeks. It is a cooperative effort in cooperation with Avery Sporting Dog and RTF.
I'm still figuring out the best way to distribute these to folks who are interested. The inventory is already here. I'm just running this poll to get an idea of how many folks would be interested in buying one and having it shipped. The response will gauge how I do this, if at all.
A few folks already have one, as I've taken a few to some recent events.
Please feel free to click a poll option, if you care to. No obligation here...just a rough gauge of interest.
Price would be $12.50 per cap, plus shipping and handling. If there's enough response, I'll likely set up a "buy it now" link E-bay style with a PayPal option.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. - The State Building Commission has approved five building projects at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
The projects, which will cost $155.8 million total, will include a new science lab building, a chilled water plant, a student center, a parking and police building, and a gymnastics practice facility and storage building.
These projects still have to be approved by the state legislature.
"We're very excited about these five building projects that are very much needed on our campus," UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow said in a statement. "It's important to note that program revenue and students are funding nearly $70 million of these projects, while our much-needed new science education facility and part of the water plant are being generously funded through state bonding funds."19434356
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The west campus chilled water plant will be funded by $8.4 million, which will be split between state funding and program revenue. It will be located in the current gravel parking lot southwest of Coate Hall. Construction is expected to get underway in 2014 and would be complete by 2015.
The student center will cost $35.3 million and will be entirely funded by student fees. In April 2012, students voted to build a new facility rather than repair the Cartwright Center. The new student center will be built on the current parking lot east of Wimberly Hall. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2014 and completed by Fall 2016.
The three-level parking ramp and police services building is currently under construction and expected to be open later this summer. A fourth and fifth level would be added for $7.6 million in 2014, The entire building cost will be $11.725 million, which will be funded by user fees. The building is going up on the former parking area west of the Cleary Alumni and Friends Center. This project should be complete by the fall of 2014.
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CHAPTER V.page: 65
IT was not bad sport—being in London entirely on our own hook. We asked the way to Fleet Street, where Father says all the newspaper offices are. They said straight on down Ludgate Hill—but it turned out to be quite another way. At least we didn't go straight on.
We got to St. Paul's. Noël would go in, and we saw where Gordon was buried—at least the monument. It is very flat, considering what a man he was.
When we came out we walked a long way, and when we asked a policeman he said we'd better go back through Smithfield. So we did. They don't burn people any more there now, so it was rather dull, besides being a long way, and Noël got very tired. He's a peaky little chap; it comes of being a poet, I think. page: 66 We had a bun or two at different shops—out of the shillings—and it was quite late in the afternoon when we got to Fleet Street. The gas was lighted and the electric lights. There is a jolly Bovril sign that comes off and on in different coloured lamps. We went to the Daily Recorder office, and asked to see the Editor. It is a big office, very bright, with brass and mahogany and electric lights.
They told us the Editor wasn't there, but at another office. So we went down a dirty street, to a very dull‐looking place. There was a man there inside, in a glass case, as if he was a museum, and he told us to write down our names and our business. So Oswald wrote—
OSWALD BASTABLE. NOËL BASTABLE. Business very private indeed.
Then we waited on the stone stairs; it was very draughty. And the man in the glass case looked at us as if we were the museum instead of him. We waited a long time, and then a boy came down and said—
"The Editor can't see you. Will you please write your business?" And he laughed. I wanted to punch his head.page: 67
But Noël said, "Yes, I'll write it if you'll give me a pen and ink, and a sheet of paper and an envelope."
The boy said he'd better write by post. But Noël is a bit pig‐headed; it's his worst fault, so he said—
"No, I'll write it now." So I backed him up by saying—
"Look at the price penny stamps are since the coal strike!"
So the boy grinned, and the man in the glass case gave us pen and paper, and Noël wrote. Oswald writes better than he does; but Noël would do it; and it took a very long time, and then it was inky.
"DEAR MR. EDITOR,—I want you to print my poetry and pay for it, and I am a friend of Mrs. Leslie's; she is a poet too.
"Your affectionate friend,
He licked the envelope a good deal, so that that boy shouldn't read it going upstairs; and he wrote "Very private" outside, and gave the letter to the boy. I thought it wasn't any good; but in a minute the grinning boy came back, and he was quite respectful, and said—
"The Editor says, please will you step up?"page: 68
We stepped up. There were a lot of stairs and passages, and a queer sort of humming, hammering sound and a very funny smell. The boy was now very polite, and said it was the ink we smelt, and the noise was the printing machines.
After going through a lot of cold passages we came to a door; the boy opened it, and let us go in. There was a large room, with a big, soft, blue‐and‐red carpet, and a roaring fire, though it was only October; and a large table with drawers, and littered with papers, just like the one in father's study. A gentleman was sitting at one side of the table; he had a light moustache and light eyes, and he looked very young to be an editor—not nearly so old as Father. He looked very tired and sleepy, as if he had got up very early in the morning; but he was kind, and we liked him. Oswald thought he looked clever. Oswald is considered a judge of faces.
"Well," said he, "so you are Mrs. Leslie's friends?"
"I think so," said Noël; "at least she gave us each a shilling, and she wished us 'good hunting!'"
"Good hunting, eh? Well, what about this poetry of yours? Which is the poet?"page: 69
I can't think how he could have asked! Oswald is said to be a very manly‐looking boy for his age. However, I thought it would look duffing to be offended, so I said—
"This is my brother Noël. He is the poet."
Noël had turned quite pale. He is disgustingly like a girl in some ways. The Editor told us to sit down, and he took the poems from Noël, and began to read them. Noël got paler and paler; I really thought he was going to faint, like he did when I held his hand under the cold water tap, after I had accidentally cut him with my chisel. When the Editor had read the first poem—it was the one about the beetle—he got up and stood with his back to us. It was not manners; but Noël thinks he did it "to conceal his emotion," as they do in books.
He read all the poems, and then he said—
"I like your poetry very much, young man. I'll give you—let me see; how much shall I give you for it?"
"As much as ever you can," said Noël. "You see I want a good deal of money to restore the fallen fortunes of the house of Bastable."
The gentleman put on some eye‐glasses and looked hard at us. Then he sat down.page: 70
"That's a good idea," said he. "Tell me how you came to think of it. And, I say, have you had any tea? They've just sent out for mine."
He rang a tingly bell, and the boy brought in a tray with a teapot and a thick cup and saucer and things, and he had to fetch another tray for us, when he was told to; and we had tea with the Editor of the Daily Recorder. I suppose it was a very proud moment for Noël, though I did not think of that till afterwards. The Editor asked us a lot of questions, and we told him a good deal, though of course I did not tell a stranger all our reasons for thinking that the family fortunes wanted restoring. We stayed about half an hour, and when we were going away he said again—
"I shall print all your poems, my poet; and now what do you think they're worth?"
"I don't know," Noël said. "You see I didn't write them to sell."
"Why did you write them then?" he asked.
Noël said he didn't know; he supposed because he wanted to.
"Art for Art's sake, eh?" said the Editor, and he seemed quite delighted, as though Noël had said something clever.page: 71
"Well, would a guinea meet your views?" he asked.
I have read of people being at a loss for words, and dumb with emotion, and I've read of people being turned to stone with astonishment, or joy, or something, but I never knew how silly it looked till I saw Noël standing staring at the Editor with his mouth open. He went red and he went white, and then he got crimson, as if you were rubbing more and more crimson lake on a palette. But he didn't say a word, so Oswald had to say—
"I should jolly well think so."
So the Editor gave Noël a sovereign and a shilling, and he shook hands with us both, but he thumped Noël on the back and said—
"Buck up, old man! It's your first guinea, but it won't be your last. Now go along home, and in about ten years you can bring me some more poetry. Not before—see? I'm just taking this poetry of yours because I like it very much; but we don't put poetry in this paper at all. I shall have to put it in another paper I know known of."
"What do you put in your paper?" I asked, for Father always takes the Daily Chronicle, and I didn't know what the Recorder was like. We chose it because it has such a page: 72 glorious office, and a clock outside lighted up.
"Oh, news," said he, "and dull articles, and things about Celebrities. If you knew any Celebrities, now?"
Noël asked him what Celebrities were.
"Oh, the Queen and the Princes, and people with titles, and people who write, or sing, or act—or do something clever or wicked."
"I don't know anybody wicked," said Oswald, wishing he had known Dick Turpin, or Claude Duval, so as to be able to tell the Editor things about them. "But I know some one with a title—Lord Tottenham."
"The mad old Protectionist, eh? How did you come to know him?"
"We don't know him to speak to. But he goes over the heath every day at three, and he strides along like a giant—with a black cloak like Lord Tennyson's flying behind him, and he talks to himself like one o'clock."
"What does he say?" The Editor had sat down again, and he was fiddling with a blue pencil.
"We only heard him once, close enough to understand, and then he said, 'The curse of the country, sir—ruin and desolation!' And then he went striding along again, hitting at page: 73 the furze‐bushes as if they were the heads of his enemies."
"Excellent descriptive touch," said the Editor. "Well, go on."
"That's all I know about him, except that he stops in the middle of the Heath every day, and he looks all round to see if there's any one about, and if there isn't, he takes his collar off."
The Editor interrupted—which is considered rude—and said—
"You're not romancing?"
"I beg your pardon?" said Oswald.
"Drawing the long bow, I mean," said the Editor.
Oswald drew himself up, and said he wasn't a liar.
The Editor only laughed, and said romancing and lying were not at all the same; only it was important to know what you were playing at. So Oswald accepted his apology, and went on.
"We were hiding among the furze‐bushes one day, and we saw him do it. He took off his collar, and he put on a clean one, and he threw the other among the furze‐bushes. We picked it up afterwards, and it was a beastly paper one!"page: 74
"Thank you," said the Editor, and he got up and put his hand in his pocket. "That's well worth five shillings, and there they are. Would you like to see round the printing offices before you go home?"
I pocketed my five bob, and thanked him, and I said we should like it very much. He called another gentleman and said something we couldn't hear. Then he said goodbye again; and all this time Noël hadn't said a word. But now he said, "I've made a poem about you. It is called 'Lines to a Noble Editor.' Shall I write it down?"
The Editor gave him the blue pencil, and he sat down at the Editor's table and wrote. It was this, he told me afterwards as well as he could remember—
May Life's choicest blessings be your lot I think you ought to be very blest For you are going to print my poems— And you may have this one as well as the rest.
"Thank you," said the Editor. "I don't think I ever had a poem addressed to me before. I shall treasure it, I assure you."
Then the other gentleman said something about Mecænas, and we went off to see the printing office with at least one pound seven in our pockets.page: 75
It was good hunting, and no mistake!
But he never put Noël's poetry in the Daily Recorder. It was quite a long time afterwards we saw a sort of story thing in a magazine, on the station bookstall, and that kind, sleepy‐looking Editor had written it, I suppose. It was not at all amusing. It said a lot about Noël and me, describing us all wrong, and saying how we had tea with the Editor; and all Noël's poems were in the story thing. I think myself the Editor seemed to make game of them, but Noël was quite pleased to see them printed—so that's all right.
It wasn't my poetry anyhow, I am glad to say.


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In 1986 — the heyday of Chardonnay in Napa Valley — winemaker Bo Barrett searched high and low for the right place to grow Old World-style Riesling and settled on Potter Valley, an area bordering Mendocino National Forest. Since then, the valley's high elevation and cold temperatures, which resemble the climate of Austrian Rieslings, have been ideal for Barrett's shade-grown grapes. In 2011, the wet weather conditions provided optimal conditions for noble rot to grow on the grapes, enhancing the wine with apricot and honey flavors.
"Riesling is like walking around town in a Speedo; all you've got is your fruit," Bo said of his bottling. Thank goodness his is standout, producing a pale-yellow wine that smells of pineapple and petrol on the nose, a scent common in Old World Rieslings. On the palate, the Riesling resembles the subtly sweet dew off of a honeysuckle flower, with a slightly viscous body and a crisp pear finish. It's intended to be consumed with food: I'm already thinking about stashing a bottle to pair with special-occasion foods like foie gras, scallops, or even Thanksgiving dinner.


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When Apple introduced the iPad 2, the company also brought with it the Smart Cover, which protects the iPad's screen and provides a nice stand for the tablet. Unfortunately, the Smart Cover doesn't protect the entire tablet.
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The Helically Symmetric Experiment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the spectroscopic system (left) that was used to measure the large plasma flow observed in the device.
Experimental measurements in the Helically Symmetric Experiment stellarator confirm that when the "bumpiness" in the magnetic field is reduced in the helical direction, a large plasma flow develops.
This discovery could help control turbulence and improve plasma confinement in a stellarator, which could enhance the stellarator's prospects as a practical fusion reactor.
The Helically Symmetric Experiment (HSX) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a so-called quasi-symmetric stellarator and is the only one in the world so far to be built and operated. Quasisymmetric stellarators are good candidates as a fusion reactor because they do not need to have large currents flowing within the plasma at risk of going unstable and adversely impacting the walls of the confining vessel. HSX is unique in that it has a set of complex, three-dimensional coils that were computer-designed to produce a relatively simple magnetic field, which is used to fool the ions and electrons that make up the plasma into behaving as if they were confined in a straight, twisted tube rather than the doughnut shape that actually defines the configuration. In doing so, the magnetic field is roughly constant in a helical direction, which improves the confinement and allows the plasma to flow freely. This free plasma flow is crucial to quenching turbulence in the plasma that can degrade confinement. A recent study used charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy to observe plasma flows as large at 20 km/s in the direction of symmetry, without any external input of momentum. These flows have been modeled by a new code which, for the first time, provides a tool that can be applied to any toroidal system, from ideal tokamaks, to quasisymmetric devices, to fully 3D systems.
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* The log analysis stuff is coming along nicely. Thankyou very much SQLite. I'll post a specific update or two about that when I've finished fixing the bugs I've introduced.
* I've modified the pygrub boot loader to understand FreeBSD disk labels. The hacking can be found at http://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/xen/ in the bsd_pygrub directory. It turns out that the pygrub/xen UFS code is (a) Solaris UFS, (b) UFS-1- only, (c) crashes very badly when fed a FreeBSD formatted UFS1 for some reason. I'll investigate that shortly. It is one more step towards sensible FreeBSD/Xen integration though!
* I've been fixing bugs and adding features to my Squid-2 fork, Lusca. I've found and fixed a couple of nasty bugs inherited from Squid-2.HEAD (especially one to do with 304 replies not making it back to the client!) and I've started documenting how all of the transparent hijacking/intercepting code works.


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New team in town: Wisconsin Club Women's Basketball
Club has been around two years, will host first tournament this weekend.
There's a relatively new basketball team on the university of Wisconsin campus that has nothing to do with Bo Ryan or Bobbie Kelsey. The Wisconsin women's club basketball team will host its first tournament on campus this weekend.
It's not an NCAA sports but it's a group of students that came to Wisconsin for academic reasons, but still love playing.
Fifth-year year senior Karlie Tetschlag is from Sheboygan and started the club because she grew up on the court.
"I come from a basketball family. My sister played at Green Bay and my brother played at Platteville. Lot's of driveway basketball, two and two," said Tetschlag.
The elementary education major chose to come to Wisconsin for academics and campus life. She had applied to Division III schools hoping to play basketball but in the end she decided to be a Badger.
"How can you say no if you get it [to UW-Madison], but then I was compromising the basketball thing," said Tetschlag.
Tetschlag played intramurals but she was not happy with the competitive level so three years ago she began the process of founding a club women's basketball team.
She is now the the founder, president, coach and player of the first Women's Club Basketball team at Wisconsin.
"I had to fill out tons of paper work. The university was really helpful they encourage us to create these new clubs but it was a lot of red tape to get through," said Tetschlag.
The club is in its second year but it needs to be around for five years for the university to fully fund it. So the team needs to pay for everything themselves.
"We got a $9,000 grant that helped pay for jerseys and chairs and such. We do a lot of fundraising and yes, we have bake sales," said Tetschlag.
There's enough interest to have two teams at Wisconsin--an A team and a B team-- that travels to tournaments four to five weekends a semester, but it's really a chance to bond over the game they love.
"Before basketball I didn't have the close friend group that I wanted. I didn't find my niche on campus, and building this was my way of bringing my friends together with a common interest," said Tetschlag.


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The Celtic Lands of France
Trip Start Mar 25, 2012
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The cultural region of Brittany is situated on the north-western coast of France. Its traditional population is unique in that, unlike any other French demographic, it descends from Celtic ancestry. Usually we associate Celtic culture with Great Britain and Ireland, but in the 4th and 5th centuries a number of tribes immigrated across the English Channel and settled in the region. Brittany was also its own independent kingdom before it was annexed into France in 1491. As a result, there is strong Breton pride for its independent past and you will see the black and white flag of the region flying everywhere.
I had only planned on using the city of St. Malo as a base to take day trips to other cities in the region. It was just a place to sleep, not a major stop on my itinerary. However, it didn't take long for me to realize that the coastal city was fast becoming one of the highlights of my time in France. The beautiful city center is surrounded by massive medieval walls that tower over the harbor below. The ramparts were built to keep out those pesky English from invading and for hundreds of years protected the city from destruction. During WWII that streak ended with the allied bombing campaign to liberate France. During the conflict, American bombs were responsible for the destruction of eighty percent of St. Malo.
Even though most of the buildings date from 1945 or later, the beautiful French architecture built within the surviving walls helps the city retain a wonderful 17th century feel. Looking over the top of the walls you can actually see the fortified islands built to protect the bay from British ships. It is experiences like this that brought me to Europe. Visiting a museum falls well short of actually standing upon a landscape that still reflects its storied past so well.
As I said, St. Malo's location made it ideal for day trips to other areas of Brittany. Here are a few of the other places I visited within the Celtic lands of France.
Dinan, France
This small village remained untouched in WWII and its medieval buildings are perfectly preserved. I spent the better part of a day walking its cobble-stoned streets, admiring the town's beauty. Strikingly different from St. Malo, its small river port and charming wooden facades felt a thousand years away from our modern world.
Rennes, France
This is a much larger city with a major university and a bustling atmosphere. Despite a good collection of well preserved architecture, I wasn't thrilled with Rennes. In many ways it reminded me of Milan, but with less upscale shopping. Located in an area with so many beautiful towns, it seems to be a city that has chosen to focus on industry over retaining its traditional charm. That's not a bad thing, it just makes for a lousy tourist destination.
Mont St. Michel
Technically it is apart of Normandy, but it stands on the boundary with Brittany so I included it here. The Abbey of Mont St. Michel has been a pilgrimage site since 708 A.D. Look at the photos and you can see why. It sits on an island connected by a two mile causeway to the mainland. While planning my trip to France I took one look at a picture of the Abbey and decided that I had to see it for myself. I'm glad I did. Despite the incredible crowdedness (it draws more than 3.5 million visitors each year), it is a marvel to see and a breathtaking combination of both natural and man made beauty.
Next, a short train ride took me north of Brittany to an area of France that is known for two invasions that changed the course of history. One in 1066 and one in 1944. Updates should be arriving much quicker now that I have actually arrived back home. Stay tuned!!


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George Saunders: satirist, humanist, and — after 20 years, four magisterial short story collections, a novella, and a book of essays — now a bestselling author. Tenth of December (Random House), his latest collection, has captured the interest of the world at large. He spoke with me from his hotel in San Francisco a few days after he appeared on The Colbert Report.
How do you feel about being famous?
I don't really get it. I kind of like it, but I can't quite understand it. Mechanically, it was the New York Times Magazine piece that seemed to shoot it [Tenth of December] out of the cannon, but then there were some nice reviews clustered around it.
My wife said something interesting: that maybe I leaned a little toward something maybe — whatever you want to call it — accessible, or something. Realism maybe, maybe just a little. I think also the culture moved toward more comfort with "dark and edgy," so that maybe meant a little bit, too. But honestly, your guess is as good as mine.
Can a famous writer affect political change?
I would never want to think about it that way because it's too much pressure, and thinking about it malforms the story. The story has to be an individual person at a specific time in a specific fix, and if you concentrate on that, then the story will have feeling. It might have some kind of political moral-ethical overtone, but I don't think it's your job on the creative end to worry about that. I think if you worry about that you'll fuck it up, basically.
Fiction, if it does change anything, we have a scheme or model for how it does it. I read a Chekhov story, and I get a feeling of being a little more open to things, a little more interested in my fellow man. So that lasts for six or seven hours — one hour? That's about the most you can hope for, and then I think you can take some comfort in the fact that, generally, that's pretty big. If you could somehow make a graph of all the people in the world who have been made incrementally more kind by Chekhov, it's in the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.
From the creative end of it, that seems to me the healthier way of looking at it rather than, I'm going to support this political view or change the world. I think smaller is better. It's more realistic and more respectful, in a certain way.
Any advice for MFA students?
What I would say, they already know, which is that all the answers — all the questions and all the answers — are hidden under work. You gotta just work. You gotta put in the thousands and thousands of hours. I think all of us have that natural tendency to want to conceptualize and theorize and decide in advance how we're going to write, but anyone who's done it for a little bit knows that's an anxiety response, and it doesn't really accomplish too much. . . . In some ways, it's the simplest thing in the world: just keep doing it, and recognize that every bump you hit and every frustration and every time you go, Oh, I have no talent, that's actually a totally valid part of it. There's nothing else but that.
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Carl Icahn says he's talked with Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, who agrees with the activist investor on the need for a share repurchase plan–perhaps a bigger one.
This the tweet from 2:36: "Spoke to Tim. Planning dinner in September. Tim believes in buyback and is doing one. What will be discussed is magnitude."
The company already has a buyback plan on its books but Icahn has been pushing for a larger commitment.
Apple stock would likely be reacting to the news if it weren't for the Nasdaq's halt, which should end shortly. The stock was down 0.8% before the outage. Read the Journal's take on Apple volume after the halt.
Update: Apple was moving between small gains and losses after the Nasdaq resumed regular trading at 3:25.


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The worst case of this I've seen was with a guy's first lab (English breeding, yellow male). Dog loved pheasant hunting as the guy did some guiding in the fall in SD, but hated water like a cat. After a lot of misery on both sides, reality was accepted, Max was retired from hunt tests and a new pup purchased.
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Anyone else watching the situation in Egypt? The people (especially young people) are planning a huge demonstration against Morsi and his govt. There is talk they have a huge petition urging Morsi to step down.
Egypt has been one of the most secular of the Arab countries, and they are not real happy with the Muslim Brotherhood's devotion to Islam and intolerance of the Coptic Christians & other religions.
In consideration of this situation in Egypt, we may yet regret having given the Morsi govt all those armaments.


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Saving the Bay through education, advocacy, litigation, and restoration.
Maryland student government representatives on a CBF student leadership course explored downtown Annapolis, interviewing locals and tourists about their thoughts on the Bay. Photo by Allyson Ladley Gibson/CBF Staff.
The partnership between the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and the Maryland Association of Student Councils (MASC) is the perfect example of how the natural and social worlds in which we live crisscross.
I would describe the relationship between CBF and MASC as one of 'mutualism.' Ecologists use the term 'symbiosis' to refer to the close relationship that two or more organisms have with each other. One type of symbiotic relationship is called 'mutualism.' That is when the organisms interact in a way that is mutually beneficial. Bees and flowers have a mutualistic relationship. Flowers can provide nectar for the bees' food, and the bees transport the pollen to help flowers reproduce. CBF and MASC have one of these win-win relationships.
MASC is a student-run organization, composed of middle and high school leaders from across the state. They sponsor training sessions, advocate for student rights, hold conferences, and contribute to philanthropies. When MASC selected CBF as its Charity of the Year for 2012, we realized the potential of this relationship Could become much more and last for years to come.
Knowing CBF through field experiences on education programs, the leadership of MASC recognized that we could offer their constituents opportunities in learning, service, and leadership training. CBF knows MASC as a well-organized group of motivated students who recognize the importance of the Chesapeake Bay. MASC's members have a domonstrated commitment to environmental issues, centered around an organizational platform supporting the teaching of environmental literacy, promoting the Green Schools program, increasing recycling, and reducing the use of toxic chemicals on school property.
As Charity of the Year, CBF educators traveled across the state delivering workshops and presentations to student groups. Each presentation is part education session and part focus group, sharing the ecology of the Chesapeake and listening to students share their thoughts and experiences on the Bay and local streams and rivers. Through crabbing, boating, or just kicking around outside, the youth of this state have a growing awareness about the environmental legacy they will inherit.
Completing the circle of a mutualistic relationship, CBF invited several members of the MASC Executive Board to Annapolis to help envision a student leadership program. Students and CBF educators then worked together to design a training program that would be in the best interest of students and the Bay. Ideas put on the table included: viral social media outreach, restoration projects, flash mobs, and canoe-based leadership workshops.
As this relationship has progresses, we keep discovering areas where CBF and MASC naturally complement each other. When MASC's Anne Arundel County Chapter organized a Lobby Day to learn about local government, the student Legislative Affairs committee endorsed three environmentally friendly bills and then invited CBF to help teach about lobbying and the environmental significance of the legislation.
There is another player in this mutualist relationship. The Bay itself provides the inspiration for the MASC students, and in the exchange will benefit from the projects, advocacy, and stewardship of an enthusiastic , motivated, and well-informed generation.
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Washington gets earful from auto suppliers on skilled worker shortageComments Email Print
WASHINGTON (Oct. 5, 2 p.m. ET) — Steve Braig, president and CEO of Trexel Inc., was among automotive suppliers who delivered this message to senior Obama administration officials in the White House recently: American manufacturing needs more skilled workers.
Braig said he was invited, about two weeks before the event, to attend the Sept. 28 White House Business Council meeting titled "American Economic Competitiveness Series: Auto Supply Chain." Other panel members included eight CEOs of automotive component suppliers, a couple of material suppliers, representatives of trade associations, the United Autoworkers and environmental and energy groups.
Braig gave his account of the four-hour meeting in a detailed email and follow-up interview with Plastics News. Trexel, in Wilmington, Mass., developed MuCell molding technology.
According to Braig, acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank opened the meeting by highlighting how the government bailout of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC saved jobs at the automakers and their suppliers. She added that the aggressive improvement in Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards will spur innovation that will create a lot of good-paying jobs, to meet the higher average of 54.5 mpg by 2025.
"They said we still have these millions of unemployed and underemployed people, and this will help them get jobs," Braig said.
"That was met with instant push-back by the panel," Braig said. It prompted a discussion of a skilled-worker shortage. The industrialists said the auto industry is already at full employment when it comes to skilled technical people — and needs more of them.
"Although there is availability of Ph.D./doctorate type of researchers, there is an immense shortage of qualified engineers," Braig said. The manufacturing officials also noted the lack of trained welders, electromechanical technicians, machinists and other skilled trades.
"Everybody brought this up," he said. "That was widely discussed."
Braig stressed that he does think the movement to more fuel-efficient cars will help the plastics industry, by reducing the weight of cars and promoting new reinforced-plastic structural components. And the automotive people at the White House event appreciated the Obama administration's focus on manufacturing, including the bailouts during the severe recession, he said.
But Braig said: "Our country simply lacks the knowledge and availability of qualified technical resources to bring back many of the migrated manufacturing activity, or to create substantial new manufacturing activities."
Union leaders at the White House meeting cited their efforts in training. While the manufacturing officials praised that work, they said it does not go far enough.
Braig said the workforce discussion ended with a call for the federal government to take a more active role in advancing math and science in elementary and secondary schools, and "to create more vocational training as an alternate to college education."
Braig said the group agreed that the skilled-worker issue is a long-term problem. "There is no quick fix," he said.
Another discussion centered on the federal R&D tax credit, to help companies conduct research and development. Here, Braig said Germany and other major competitors have generous financial grant programs to promote R&D, and reward companies that work with universities.
The U.S. government treats the R&D tax credit like a political football, routinely letting it expire and then debating whether to bring it back. Industry wants the government to make it permanent.
"We're competing against the Germans and the Japanese in the automotive industry," Braig said.


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I migrated to livejournal. Sorry, I'll miss you advogato... but LJ lets you upload pictures :)
As I was going up the hill to my house today, I spied the UPS truck going down. This looked like good news, since my 486 NAT box died for good yesterday, and I ordered a replacement about a week ago. Unfortunately, when I got home there was nobody there to collect the package if it was indeed my package. Now I'll never know! If only I was given the UPS tracking number...
Hooray! Today is my birthday, and all the planets are aligned :)
I'm not sure of the predominant age group around advogato, but some readers may be familiar with the facial blemish common of high school aged computer geeks known as the zit. Today, I applied a rather potent anti-blemish agent in the form of a viscous soap before leaving for skül. It has worked well in the past, so I didn't give it much thought.
When I arrived at school, a friend kindly suggested wiping the side of my face. Thinking there was some kind of residue from the soap, I grazed my face with my left hand. My left hand got nicely blooded. Well, that's never happened before :P
Today was a mediocre day, nothing much to report except that I had a bit of fun re-themeing with a combination of e.themes.org, gtk.themes.org, and desktopgirls.com :)
Yesterday, however, was great because I went into Deep Hack Mode. I came in Saturday morning with nothing to do, and the next thing I knew it was Sunday morning and I had written a whole lot of code. I love Deep Hack Mode, and I haven't done it in a while. I think this is because one of the conditions for my entering Deep Hack Mode is that I can't have anything else to do (i.e. school work, fixing stuff, etc.) that my concience might bother me about right in the middle of debugging a mean recursive function. Conclusion: I need less responsibilities and more free time.
Woo, I fixed my CPU fan! For the longest time, it hasn't been running. Every time I did something CPU intensive for a sustained period of time, the CPU would overheat and restart the machine. Half a bottle of WD-40 put an end to that! I was so satisfied with my new fan that I dug out the motherboard manual and tried my hand at some overclocking (I'm still running my trusty 233-MMX). It was to no avail, though. When I bought this box, it was clocked as high as it would go.
I spent the rest of my week off relaxing. I haven't gotten around to rewriting glZZT, but I did beat Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders for the first time -- and that's much more impressive :)
Oh well, it's back to school tomorrow <mumble type="low">i hate it soooooo much...</mumble>
I just got back from Pittsburgh where I had a tour of CMU. Neat place, CMU. I brought along my Palmpilot and modem attachment to keep up with email from the hotel. I used Topgun Postman to yoink the mail from pop-3 to the internal mail application, which worked except for 1) It doesn't use the .sig you spend 5 minutes typing into the mail app and 2) It doesn't have support for multiple pop-3 servers. This is all good, though.
My main complaint is that there are no good web browsers available. Palmscape is extremely buggy (and discontinued, I think) Proxiweb was great until they locked out Palm Pro users. Neither of these are free software. I think I'm going to have to write a free web browser for the pilot... I'll just toss that onto the list of "stuff I'm going to have to do", I guess.
Bleah, I'm at school. I'm supposed to be researching some holocaust dealie. But none of the blasted machines here can view the interviews 'cos they're all Acrobat documents. Technology is stupid.
I promised I'd make a release of libzzt, and I did! There were some really stupid bugs in there, mostly related to counting (I'm horrible at counting, and my code shows it :) The glZZT page on sourceforge has it as a downloadable module. Once the latest version of The GIMP finishes compiling, I'm going to design a page for glZZT and libzzt to put glzzt.sourceforge.net (instead of the ugly grey thing that's there now)
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So now that the Squabbling is over and the dust has settled.. we can get back to Scouting…and Leadership.
But to get there we need to talk about… yes it's October.. Football.
Last night the Reynolds Raiders (our High School) won its first game this season. We drove the 17 miles or so to a neighboring town to watch.
It was a cold and extremely rainy night, the visitor bleachers were soaked and we had to cross a nice mud pit to get there, but it's what you do to support those guys that go out there and give it 100 %. Just like the way we go on those camp outs when we are not feeling well, or the weather is not cooperating.
The game started out kinda slow, the rain was keeping the ball on the ground.. it did not take too long till the middle of the field was a mess. The Raiders scored first, a nice fade pass to the corner of the end zone. The crowd of about 75 went wild.
It seemed like that was going to do it for scoring for Reynolds. The second quarter was dominated by the opposing team.
That's where leadership came in.
You know it only takes a spark to get a fire going. And that's were leaders step up and make that spark happen. You can sit around and wait for lighting to strike wishing and hoping that a fire will start.. or you can do something.. take some action to get the flame rising. Hope is never a Plan.
We were sitting not to far from the side lines and could hear certain members of the team trying to get the others fired up. One player in particular walked up to our Quarterback and said.. "Lets get this thing going… get me the ball!"
After a quick 3 and out.. the Raider offense took the field on their 40 yard line. The first play they ran a passing route and the Quarterback hit the receiver (the one that asked for the ball) right down the center of the field. He ran for another 35 yards before he was tackled on the 3 yard line.. a spark had been lit. One play later we were in the end zone. Touchdown!
4 plays later the defense recovered a fumble and within 10 minutes the Score was tied at 21.
The fourth quarter was back and forth and with 1:45 left in the game… and not a seat occupied in the stands.. the Raiders put the game away on a 60 yard drive resulting in a touchdown.
Ok.. Scouting and leadership. Momentum is a crazy thing. We see it move Patrols forward, and we see it keep them still. Just like on a football field, the swing of momentum of the game can be the difference between success or disaster.
Once a Patrol starts doing things well, once they start working as a team. The momentum starts to swing in their favor. They start seeing the rewards of doing things right.
Last summer we saw that in our SWAT patrol. It seemed as though everything they had been taught finally clicked. They started working as a team and accomplished great things. Each day the Assistant Scoutmasters and I picked a "Patrol of the Day". It was awarded to the Patrol the exemplified the patrol method. That Patrol that demonstrated leadership, helping the troop as a whole, keeping their area clean, being good examples, etc. The SWAT patrol demonstrated great leadership. They were the spark that kept the Troop motivated throughout the week. They cheered at flag, they helped other patrols get meals cooked and cleaned up. They wore their uniforms with pride.. and even came up with a way to hang them up so they would not get dirty.
It was as though the SWAT Patrol asked for SPL to "get them the ball". And instead of a touchdown they score leadership points. They gained respect of the rest of the troop. They gained respect of the Adults, and they were rewarded with a cool Patrol camp out/ canoe trip.
Momentum has swung for that Patrol. It is fun to watch. Now the secret is to keep it going.. and in Scouting..share it.
It takes a leader to recognize when the group needs a lift. When they are down and what it takes to get them out of the sump. It is important for Adult leaders to let the valley's happen. It is important to let the Scouts find solutions and a way to get the spark lit.
Coaching and mentoring through the process.
Look for that Scout to ask you to "Get him the ball". That is the signal that momentum is about to shift.
Have a Great Scouting Day!


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If you've been to Disney World or Disneyland, you know that the parks are impeccably planned and immaculately manicured. But pull back the curtain on the two happiest places on Earth, and a secret life emerges, full of fascinating spots rarely seen by the average visitor, backdoor goings-on the Disney brass don't want you to know, and cool insider facts that make even your zillionth visit more interesting. Here, we gather the top weird things you need to know about the Disney parks.
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The Northwest's best whale watching tour! We cruise through the scenic San Juan Islands, with a 2 hour visit in Friday Harbor. We look for Orca whales, Minke whales, porpoise, sea lions & seals, and include a Northwest salmon & chicken lunch onboard.
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The camshaft position sensor monitors the position of the camshaft and reports that data to the car's onboard computer system. This computer system works with sensors and other devices to keep the engine running. With data from the camshaft position sensor (CPS), the fuel injectors know when to fire. When the sensor malfunctions, the computer does not know when to fire the injectors and may not fire them at all. The faulty readouts may also throw off spark timing, which will affect the car's fuel economy. This sensor is used in conjunction with the crankshaft position sensor to control ignition timing. It is common for heat and oil leaks to cause this sensor to fail, due to where the sensor is located.


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Madison/Sun Lakes, AZ - Thomas F. Raemisch, age 76, son of Gerald and Catherine (Kalscheur) Raemisch, died on Friday, March 8, 2013 in Phoenix, AZ. Tom was born on May 11, 1936 and was a good 'ole Waunakee boy. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated in 1958 from Business Finance. Tom was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was married in 1959 to his high school sweetheart, Rosanne Botham. He and his brother, Jerry, took on the family road construction business of F.C. Raemisch and Son, Inc. Tom was active in and served as president at both the local level with the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, and nationally was president of the contractors division of ARTBA. He also served on the Public Works Commission and on the Jaycees. Tom was an avid sports enthusiast both as the player and spectator. He was the quarterback of the first undefeated Waunakee Warrior football team. He liked to consider himself as "All Village". Tom loved racquetball and after he retired took up golf, and traveled the world with his wife, Rosanne. He was an avid Packer and Badger fan, and loved to talk sports with anyone who would listen. Tom was devoted to his wife, kids, and grandkids.
He is survived by his wife Rosanne, and his six children: Mike (Sarah Loock) Logan, Hunter and Mary; James (Melanie Stevens) Taylor and Abby; Stephen (Christina Hunt) Eliana, Jonathan, Maxwell, Victoria and Reagan; Susan (Bryan) Van Horn, Julia, Megan and Sarah; Jill (Michael) Carr, Nickolas, Katherine, and Lucas; and Thomas II(Kimberly Armbruster) Thomas III, Emma and Grace. He is also survived by his sister, Sandra Kaufmann and brother, Gerald Raemisch.
Visitation will be held at Winn-Cress Funeral Home, 5785 County Road Q, Waunakee, on Thurs., March 14, 2013 from 4:00 -7:00 pm. A visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. with funeral following at 11:00 am at Saint Thomas Aquinas, 602 Everglade Drive, Madison, on Friday, March 15, 2013. Burial will take place in Resurrection Cemetery with full military honors provided by American Legion Post 360 Honors Unit. In lieu of flowers a memorial will be designated by the family at a later date.


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"Fire in the hole!" With this cry, pumpkins fly. The 25th annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin contest was held November 5 through 8 in a wide-open farm field in Bridgeville, Delaware.
The contest began in 1986. Since then the event has evolved from a simple pumpkin-throwing contest into a high-tech affair where teams shoot pumpkins from sophisticated machines. At first, the distances were small. But the world record, set in 2008 by the Young Glory III air cannon, is 4,483.51 feet. That's almost a mile! This year's teams tried their best to send their pumpkin flying even farther. The contest drew 110 teams and 100,000 spectators, event organizers say.
There are a few rules. No explosives are allowed, the pumpkin must weigh between eight and ten pounds, and no part of a pumpkin-hurling machine can cross the starting line. Finally, the pumpkin must remain intact before it hits the ground. Sometimes the pressure on an air cannon is too high, and the pumpkin turns to what chunkers, or pumpkin throwers, call "pumpkin pie." That means that the pumpkin bursts into bits in mid-air. That's bad news for the team that fired it.
How Do They Do It?
Last year the Big 10 Inch air cannon team came in first, sending their pumpkin flying a whopping 4,162 feet. "The air cannons dominate for distance," team captain Ralph Eschborn told TFK.
Julia Reed, 9, is one of the youngest contestants and a third-generation chunker. She is part of the team behind Little Liberty, a catapult. Like some of the other teams, hers uses white pumpkins instead of the more familiar orange variety. The white ones are much thicker, and the thicker the crust, the greater the chance of avoiding "pumpkin pie" in the sky.
To find out this year's winning teams, tune in to Punkin Chunkin 2010, which will be simulcast on The Discovery Channel, and the Science Channel, on Thanksgiving Day. (Check your local listings for times.)
"Viewers can expect to see an incredible variety of different ways you can throw a pumpkin. We've got air-cannons, we've got things loaded with springs, and ropes, and pulleys, and counter weights. We have everything you can possibly imagine to throw a pumpkin with," says Jamie Hyneman, who will host the program with Adam Savage. The pair co-host Mythbusters, which is also on the Discovery Channel.
The Science Channel's Debbie Myers told TFK that Punkin Chunkin is the channel's most-watched special. "People love the creativity of science and ingenuity," she says. "These are passionate, smart people thinking of clever ways to chuck a pumpkin. How cool is that?"


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With the rest of the U.S. occupied with ObongoCare and Billary's dramatic rescue of the journalists and love fest with Kim Jong-Il, Hillary was busy committing funds to Africa, including money, arms and training to Somalia (wonder if they'll also get faster boats, better GPS and more RPGs? ), and another billion or so for arms, training, paramilitary and po po for the newly created Africom, the U.S. Africa Command. Said billion does not include unspecified sums for its new headquarters in (drumroll please!!) Stuttgart, Germany!! I imagine the loyal Obongo and Clintonista supporters they'll staff it with objected strenuously to being sent to live among the ever multiplying masses and squalor south of the equator.
Clinton's budget request for the State Dept. also includes more money to Kenya for the purchase of U.S. weaponry to $1 million--up from $250,000 in the current fiscal year - and includes more than a million dollars to train Kenyan military officers in the U.S., up from $770,000.
Clinton also wants: $800,000 to pay for arms sales to South Africa (up from nothing in the current fiscal year); $2.45 million for the Democratic Republic of Congo; 1.35 million for Nigeria and 9 million for Liberia. Then, for training African military officers in the U.S. through the International Military Education and Training program the State Department wants $900,000 for South Africa, $500,000 for Angola, $500,000 for the "Democratic" Republic of Congo, $1.1 million dollars for Nigeria (419 scams anyone?) $525,000 dollars for Liberia, money for Cape Verde and some other needy well run countries.
The State Department plans to spend even more money on Africa in Fiscal Year 2010 through other regional and international security assistance boondoggles. These include: the Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership ($20 million); the East Africa Regional Strategic Initiative ($10 million); the Africa Conflict Stabilisation and Border Security program ($3.6 million). More here http://allafrica.com/stories/200908100003.html
In other news, lest Michael Jackson fade from the headlines, Jesse Jackson has inherited the late singer's position as Prince of the African kingdom of Sanwi, a tribe from the Cote d'Ivoire. U.S. diplomacy takes another giant leap forward in 2009.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...can-tribe.htmlTribal chiefs appealed to the US embassy to press {Michael} Jackson's family to bring his body to the west African country for a burial in accordance with the local tradition of the Sanwi kingdom.
Jesse Jackson was on a three-day visit to the Ivory Coast, invited by the association of "Young Patriots", who are supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo.
He found himself feted by the tribe and has now inherited the the title of prince - or son - of the Agni from the late star, who was not a relation.
Krindjabo lies deep in the tropical rainforest in the southeast of Ivory Coast. Most people survive by subsistence farming or hand-panning for gold.
The crowning ceremony attended by bare-chested women. [Edit: photos not safe for work; eye bleach needed]
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Evening of solo dances, Nov. 11
Posted October 31, 2000; 10:58 a.m.
Alumna Jill Sigman will return to campus to perform "Bodies of Knowledge: An Evening of Solo Dances," at 8 p.m. Nov. 11 in Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.
Sigman, who has a doctoral degree in philosophy, will perform "Vision Begins," a mixed media piece involving dance, voice and video. Also on the program is "Athena, Goddess of Wisdom," a dance-theater work set to French cabaret songs and a soundtrack of a philosophy seminar.
The performance is sponsored by Princeton's Program in Theater and Dance. Admission is free. For more information visit thinkdance.org .
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"Save America's Treasures" has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington's tent.
65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
The woman whose great-grandfather introduced pastrami to the New World explores an American institution that is as hard to define as it is easy to recognize
The great immigration of the late-nineteenth century brought unheard-of things to America: Tin Pan Alley, Bakelite, the first air-conditioned hat. And thanks to Sussman Volk, pastrami. In 1887, a not-great year for Jews in Vilna, my great-grandfather packed up his wife and seven children and headed for New York. He had nine fingers, having shot one off to avoid the Russian draft.
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Unions are there to negotiate not dictate. Labor contracts are reached through negotiation. As a negotiator --union or management--you never come away with 100% of your initial demands. Unions don't generally have enough clout to get everything. As it foolhardy for a union to kill the golden goose, it is also incumbent on management not to give away the store. The function of unions is to negotiate contracts where their members can make a decent living so that their basic needs can be met. Unions also are charged with negotiating work rules that that protect the health and safety of their members. Unions also serve as a conduit in resolving disputes in the work place.
After all, an employee is not a wage slave. He/She is a person that is deserving of dignity and respect. If that recognition existed to a greater extent in the work place then there would not be a need for a union. But in a world where CEO are paid 400X the basic workers pay, I can't understand the all the beef about unions.


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I used bought short pastry to line the pie dish, Maggie made her own.
1 Line a 18cm pie tin with pastry and brush with an egg white. Chill till ready to use.
2 Slice 4 pears (skin on) and mix with 12g of caster sugar, 75g creme fraiche, 45g chopped roasted walnuts and the zest of half a lemon.
3 To make the crumble, process 135g of caster sugar, 145g plain flour 125g unsalted butter and 25g of crystalised ginger till this starts to "clump".
4 Assemble the tart by filling the pastry base with the pear mix, then patting down the crumble topping over the top.
5 Sit on a baking tray and place into a preheated oven (200C) for 30 mins or until the pastry base is cooked. Remove from the oven and rest for 15 mins.
Maggie served this with a beautiful elderberry and vanilla ice cream. Plain vanilla would be just as good.


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FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) will host an open house for prospective students on Wednesday, October 30, in Van Wert, Ohio. University representatives will be on hand to welcome Ohio residents and encourage them to be among the first to take advantage of a new reciprocity agreement that allows IPFW to offer in-state resident tuition rates to individuals residing in six Ohio counties, including Van Wert County.
The reciprocity agreement between the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and the Ohio Board of Regents was announced on July 1. In addition to Van Wert County, the agreement extends to Ohio residents in Butler, Darke, Preble, Shelby, and Mercer counties.
The IPFW Open House, which is free of charge and open to the public, will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. at Fricker's restaurant, located at 735 Fox Road in Van Wert. The event will introduce Ohio residents to IPFW, an affordable, state-supported university with more than 200 academic options.
With more than 13,000 students, IPFW is the largest university in northeast Indiana.The campus is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana's up-and-coming, second-largest metropolitan area that was twice named an All-America City. IPFW is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools' Higher Learning Commission, and its athletic program competes under Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). IPFW offers a large variety of two-year, four-year and graduate-level academic programs to prepare students for tomorrow's workplace and position them for lifelong success. Each degree from IPFW is either an Indiana University degree or a Purdue degree.
The Van Wert Open House will feature flexible degree programs that are anticipated to be particularly attractive to Ohio residents because they require minimum or no travel between their homes in Ohio and the Fort Wayne campus. These programs all maintain the rigorous academic standards of IPFW while providing the highly-regarded education credentials that graduates need to get ahead or get started in their career path.
The degree programs to be featured are as follows:
Representatives from the IPFW Division of Continuing Studies and each of the featured degree programs will be available at the Van Wert open house to answer any questions individuals may have about the various programs. Also on hand will be an IPFW admissions representative who can walk prospective students through the application and registration process and provide information on tuition rates and financial aid.
Students who enroll in IPFW this fall will be eligible to start classes in January for the spring 2014 semester. For more information on IPFW degree programs, visit the IPFW website or plan to attend the Van Wert open house on October 30.