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New York Giants
Jamie Childers - TE
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|Mount Pleasant, SC
|Coastal Carolina
|Years played
No change for Week 11 schedule
The NFL has announced that there is no change to the Week 11 schedule, meaning the Sunday night game between the Giants and Eagles has not been flexed out for another contest.
Eli on fire for Giants, fantasy owners alike
The Colts' Peyton Manning may be having an MVP-caliber season, but he doesn't even have as many TD passes as his younger brother.
Giants dominate Seahawks 41-7
Eli Manning threw for three first-half touchdowns, Ahmad Bradshaw added a pair of rushing touchdowns and the New York Giants routed the Seattle Seahawks 41-7 on Sunday.
Giants rule out Reynaud
The Giants have ruled out WR-KR Darius Reynaud for Sunday's game against the Seahawks because of a hamstring injury.
Giants' Jacobs learning to accept reserve role
Giants RB Brandon Jacobs' career and season have come full circle as he is accepting his role coming off the bench.
Hasselbeck out, Whitehurst to start vs. Giants
Charlie Whitehurst will make his first-ever NFL start on Sunday, as the Seahawks announced that QB Matt Hasselbeck is out with a concussion.
Giants place CB Johnson on I.R., re-sign DE Hall
The Giants announced Monday that they have placed CB Bruce Johnson on injured reserve and filled his roster spot with DE Alex Hall.
Giants C O'Hara has sprained foot
New York C Shaun O'Hara sprained his right foot in the Giants' Week Seven game vs. the Cowboys and is uncertain if he'll play against the Seahawks.
Giants turn focus to improving special teams
The Giants' recent hot streak has underscored their troublesome special-teams needs.
Report: Giants to place OLB Kiwanuka on I.R., sign CB-KR Blackmon
According to a report from the Newark Star Ledger, the Giants will place OLB-DE Mathias Kiwanuka on injured reserve in order to free up a roster spot for CB-KR Will Blackmon, who worked out for the team Wednesday and reportedly ...
Cowboys' Romo won't have surgery, faces 6-8 week timetable
Cowboys QB Tony Romo won't need surgery on his broken collarbone and could return to the field in 6-8 weeks, Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said today.
Romo breaks collarbone; Giants beat Cowboys 41-35
Giants QB Eli Manning threw four TD passes, pacing the division-leading Giants to a 41-35 win over the Cowboys, who fell to 1-5 and lost QB Tony Romo to a broken left clavicle.
Inactives for Giants-Cowboys
The Giants and Cowboys have announced their inactive list for the final game of the Week Seven slate.
Romo or not, Cowboys destined to fail
We saw everything we needed to know about this Cowboys team in their loss to the Giants, and it had absolutely nothing to do with Tony Romo.
Giants' defensive improvement starts up front
It's becoming clear that the Giants' defensive improvement starts with the defensive line, a group that went from bedrock in 2007 and '08 to blemish last season.


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Nothing says "back to school" like backpacks, school supplies and packing lunches. At the start of the school year, it's easy to forget about making time to pack a lunch during your busy morning routine. Even if you are able to throw a lunch together before you're out the door, you're never quite sure if what you've packed will actually get eaten. Where does the balance lie between packing a healthy lunch and providing foods kids will actually eat?
Our Lunch Box printable has over 36 kid-friendly options to help you pack in all five food groups. This guide makes lunch-making easier. Simply choose from each category and you're good to go! Here are more great tips to help.
If you decide to pack a lunch, plan and prepare the night before to ensure all five food groups are on tomorrow's menu. Research shows that milk is often missing from lunches brought from home. Did you know your child can purchase milk from the school cafeteria? Milk and milk products provide essential nutrients like high-quality protein, calcium, potassium and other vitamins required for a healthy diet.
When time is crunched, buying meals from the school lunch program is a nutritionally-balanced and affordable alternative to packing a lunch. School meals are required to be the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and offer students the right balance of fruits, vegetables, low-fat or fat-free milk, whole grains and lean protein with every meal. Check out your child's school cafeteria as many schools have invested in improving and enhancing their school foodservice options with salad bars, smoothies and other appealing options.
It's one thing to pack healthy food, but another to get kids to eat what you pack. Try showcasing foods bento-box style or in silicone muffin cups to make them fun to eat. Another strategy is to explore some kid-friendly recipes and ask your kids to pick the winning dishes. Get your kids' input during grocery shopping and packing, too.
Read more: Making Packing School Lunches Family Time
Nicole Mize, Dairy Council of California undergraduate dietetic intern
A friend who teaches at an elementary school shared a story about three different parents who brought in cupcakes on the same day to celebrate birthdays. She had no idea how to turn the sweets away, especially after the students saw them and became wide-eyed.
With this story in mind, I recently mentioned to her that the start of a new school year is a great time to enlist parents as your healthy eating allies! Let parents know how much you care about your student's health right from the start of the school year. Below are a few ways to connect with families to ensure a healthy classroom and well-nourished students:
Families are the foundation for keeping students healthy, so set the tone early to ensure a healthy school year. How will you get parents on your side as healthy eating allies?
Megan Mirijanian, Community Nutrition Adviser
Looking to improve your health and wellness in the workplace or at home? Here is your monthly Wellness Wake-Up Call.
Each year in August, National Immunization Awareness Month highlights the importance of immunization across the lifespan, encouraging all people to protect their health by being immunized against infectious diseases. Many of you may be preparing for back to school – while getting your kids ready for school, make sure you're up to date on immunizations, too!
Try the Cucumber and Tomato Tangy Yogurt Salad, a perfect summer dish. Light and refreshing!
Many of us compromise our posture by slouching at the desk. Perform the row exercise to improve your posture and strengthen your back.
Read more and share the print-friendly version of the August Workplace Wellness Newsletter with colleagues or friends interested in health topics, delicious recipes and physical activity moves.
Dairy Council of California offers free monthly Workplace Wellness Newsletters as part of our Workplace Wellness Resources.
Many of us are searching for ways to beat the heat of summer. It's important to stay well hydrated during these warm days, particularly if you are active. Children sometimes forget to stop playing in order to drink water, so provide them with a clear bottle so you can be sure they are drinking and refilling their container.
When it's hot, the best drink throughout the day is water. You can amp up your fluids with whole fruits. Add sliced fruit to water for a fun flavor instead of pouring fruit juices or sports drinks. Offer milk at meals to help with hydration and try a yogurt and fruit smoothie for snack. Cool down while keeping your fluids up with this Watermelon smoothie. This strategy rehydrates you while giving you important nutrients. Learn more by downloading this tip sheet or watching a slide show on Rethink Your Drink.
What's your favorite way to stay hydrated when it's hot?
Trina Robertson, M.S., R.D.N.
Frequent blog readers may have missed the Weekly Family Meals listings here on the HealthyEating.org blog. In order to better meet the needs of our readers who may plan and shop on a monthly or twice-monthly basis, we'll be previewing our balanced family meal recipes and themes on a monthly basis, starting in August. We'll still feature the full description and text each week in the Healthy Eating, Meals + Recipes section of the website, but blog readers will get a sneak peek at what's in store for your family meals.
August Family Meal Preview (all recipes and themes subject to change)
Featuring Corn + Broccoli Calzones, Bean Salad and Rhubarb Fool; plus California Summer Salad, Chunky Gazpacho Salad With Citrus Scallops, Cheese Herb Zucchini and Chicken with Oranges and Avocados.
Featuring Jalapeno Red Bean BBQ Burgers, Fruit Juice Cooler and Roasted Peach Sundaes; plus Peaches and Kale Salad, Pork Fajitas, Chicken with Gingered Peaches and Peach and Gorgonzola Pizza.
Featuring Zu-Canoes, Garlic Good Crab Cakes and Fruity Yogurt Parfaits; plus Stuffed Zucchini, Zucchini Corn and Black Bean Stuffed Enchiladas, Zucchini Rice Casserole and Chocolate Zucchini Cake.
Featuring Mediterranean Quinoa Salad, Tuscan Tomato Turkey Burgers and Berries with Custard Sauce; plus Tuscan-Style Tuna Salad, Ribollita Sicilian Supper Stew With Peppered Cheese Melts, Toasty Cheese Bruschetta and Panzanella Caprese.
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A process through which practices are analysed to provide a standard measurement ('benchmark') of effective performance within an organisation (such as a university). Benchmarks are also used to compare performance with other organisations and other sectors.
Blended learning
A method of educating that uses e-learning techniques, such as online delivery through the web, discussion boards and e-mail, combined with traditional face to face lectures, seminars, and tutorials.
Block grant
The total amount of funding provided by the Council to an institution for teaching and research.
Bologna Declaration, Bologna Process
In the late 1990s Education ministers in Europe undertook in a joint declaration (the Bologna Declaration) to establish a European area of higher education by 2010. This includes, for example, enabling students to study in other European countries, and ensuring that their qualifications and skills are transferable. The ongoing work to achieve this is the Bologna Process.
BTEC courses
Vocational qualifications awarded by Pearson Education Ltd (Edexcel).
Bursaries (and scholarships) are financial help for students often from poorer backgrounds that are aimed at easing the transition into higher education and help them successfully complete their studies. Commonly they are means-tested, but some are based on other criteria such as academic merit.
Catalyst Fund
Funding to promote and enhance innovative activities that address the Government's key policy priorities, and to manage the transition to and through the new finance arrangements in higher education.
Collaborative arrangements
A general term for arrangements between two or more institutions or organisations for joint activity to provide higher education or research.
Relationships between HE providers and schools to encourage pupils to study at the HE provider.
Relationships between HE providers and schools to encourage pupils to study at the HE provider.
Connected institution
This is a term from the Higher and Further Education Act 1992. It refers to any institution which HEFCE (or one of the other HE funding bodies in the UK) recognises as sufficiently connected to a funded higher education institution. This means that HEFCE can give the relevant higher education institution direct grant which will then be passed to the connected institution. These connected institutions could range from the Oxford colleges to joint venture arrangements, like the Francis Crick Institute. Connected institutions are not generally considered to be 'authority funded' unless they receive grants directly from one of the higher education funding bodies. Connected institution arrangements are different from 'franchise arrangements'.
Continuing professional development (CPD)
A range of short and long training programmes, some of which have an option of accreditation, which foster the development of employment- related knowledge, skills and understanding.
Credit accumulation and transfer schemes (CATS)
Arrangements within institutions which determine student progression towards defined learning outcomes, including formal qualifications, and recognition of these arrangements between institutions to facilitate the transfer of students.
Depending on the context this means either Corporate social responsibility or Comprehensive Spending Review
Degree awarding body
A degree awarding body has the right to issue UK degrees. In the past, degree awarding bodies have gained their powers in a variety of ways – through Royal Charter or Act of Parliament, for example. Today, degree awarding powers are all granted by Privy Council, and can be at three levels – foundation degree, taught, and research. For more information see the degree-awarding powers (DAP) and university title pages of gov.uk.
The UK Government recognises three sub-types of degree awarding body:
Degree course
A course of higher education leading to the award of a foundation, bachelor's or master's degree.
Department of Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland; the department of government responsible for higher education in Northern Ireland.
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Formerly the department of UK government with ultimate responsibility for education and children's services. It was renamed the Department for Education in May 2010.
Department for Education (DfE)
The department of UK government with ultimate responsibility for education and children's services. Formerly the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Department for Education and Skills, DfES (now BIS and DfE)
Formerly the department of UK government with ultimate responsibility for all sectors of education. It was split into the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in July 2007.
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (now BIS)
Between July 2007 and June 2009 the department of UK government with ultimate responsibility for higher education in England. Before 2007 it was part of the Department for Education and Skills and in June 2009 it merged with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to form BIS.
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
The department of UK government with ultimate responsibility for higher education in England. It was formed in June 2009 from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Designated course
In the context of student funding, this is a course that is designated for student support purposes under the student support regulations, allowing eligible students on such courses to access loans and grants from the Student Loans Company.
Designated institution
This is a technical term for an HE provider which has been designated by Parliamentary Order as eligible to be grant funded by one of the UK higher education funding bodies, as set out in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Designated institutions are a subset of higher education institutions, and the majority of them are now also universities.
Devolved administrations
This term refers to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
A qualification awarded for a course which may or may not be at higher education level.
Distance learning
Instruction provided at a distance to students who do not normally attend lectures and tutorials at the institution. It can involve learning through TV, radio, correspondence, computer network, CD-ROM and video.
A broad term to describe the range of visible and invisible differences between people and institutions. It can mean the varieties of learners with different backgrounds, requiring varied methods of entry to courses and of instruction. It is also used to describe the variety of provision available in the higher education sector and the different types of institution which deliver it.
Dual-support system
The system of funding research, partly by HEFCE and partly by the Research Councils.
Edexcel is a UK examining and awarding body owned by Pearson Education Ltd, providing a wide range of qualifications including at higher education level.
Education Funding Agency
The Education Funding Agency is an executive agency of the Department of Education, which manages the funding for state-provided education for young people below the age of 19. It does not fund those schools which are maintained by local authorities.
The delivery of content via electronic media, such as the internet, video, interactive TV and CD-ROM. E-learning encompasses all learning undertaken, whether formal or informal, through electronic delivery.
Employability skills
The transferable core skills that represent functional and enabling knowledge, skills, and attitudes required in today's workplace. They are necessary for career success at all levels of employment and for all levels of education.
Equal opportunities
The process of ensuring that everyone is entitled to freedom from discrimination. Areas specifically covered by the law since 2010 are age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
Originally, ERASMUS was the European Union Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students, a scheme in which students can spend time abroad as part of their study at a UK higher education institution. This was part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme from 2007 to 2013. The latter has been replaced by the Erasmus+ programme, the EU's new framework programme for education, training, youth and sport, which runs from 2014 to 2020.
Estate Management Statistics
The Estate Management Statistics Record (EMS) collection is administered via the Higher Education Statistics Agency. AUDE publishes the information in an annual report.
Exempt charity
Exempt charities are those charities exempt from registration with the Charity Commission. Most HEIs that HEFCE funds are exempt charities; HEFCE became their principal regulator on 1 June 2010.
Exemptions list
The list, developed by HEFCE in consultation with the sector, of qualifications and grades, and of qualification aims, which exempt a student from counting against an institution's student number control allocation. We have agreed that the exemptions list should not apply to some specialist institutions in the performing and creative arts, which recruit primarily on the basis of audition or portfolio.
See Tuition fees
Financial memorandum
The financial memorandum is an agreement between HEFCE and the institutions it funds that sets out the terms and conditions for payment of HEFCE grants.
Foundation course
A recognised HE course designed to prepare students who have qualifications which are acceptable for entry in general, but are not appropriate to a specific course of study. Foundation courses are also used as Year 0 of a degree course to enable students with non-traditional qualifications to participate in HE by using Year 0 as a preparatory year for a full degree programme.
Foundation degree
Foundation degrees are two-year higher education qualifications that were first offered in 2001-02. They are designed to meet skills shortages at the higher technician and associate professional levels. Foundation degrees are one level below the honours degree.
Full-person equivalent. In order to accurately measure HE provision where students are taught at more than one institution or are studying more than one subject, we split head-counts across the institutions/subjects involved in proportion to the activity in each – this results in counts of full-person equivalents. This gives a more accurate measure than direct head-counts, where the student would have to be arbitrarily assigned to one of the teaching institutions and/or one of the subjects.
The agreement by one institution (usually an HEI) that another institution may deliver all or part of a programme approved and owned by the first institution. The franchising institution normally retains overall control of the programme's content, delivery, assessment and quality assurance arrangements.
Full-time equivalent. For comparison and funding purposes, numbers of part-time students and staff are converted to full-time equivalents. This is because a direct head-count is often a poor indication of the actual volume of activity.
Full economic cost
The full economic cost of an activity incorporates all direct and indirect costs, including all cost adjustments required under the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) methodology.
Funding agreement
See Financial memorandum.
Funding council
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) comprise the funding councils for higher education in the UK. There is no funding council for Northern Ireland, where HEIs are funded directly by the Department of Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DELNI).
Further education
Further education is for people over compulsory school age (currently 16 in England) which does not take place in a secondary school. It may be in a sixth-form college, a further education college or a higher education institution. Further education courses are generally up to the standard of GCE A-level or NVQ Level 3.
Governing body
The council, board of governors or other body ultimately responsible for the affairs of a provider. For HEIs, this will often contain a large number of 'lay members' who are not from within the higher education sector and give their time voluntarily.
Government Office for Science
The Government Office for Science (GO-Science) supports the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA). The key role of the GCSA and GO-Science is to ensure that all levels of government, including the Prime Minister and Cabinet, receive the best scientific advice possible, and to enable the many science-using departments across government to create policies that are supported by strong evidence and robust arguments.
Someone who has attained a bachelor's or higher degree.
Grant letter
The Secretary of State sends an annual grant letter to HEFCE that sets out the Government's resources and priorities for higher education.
A representative body for higher education in the UK.
The Higher Education Alternative Providers Early Students survey is an annual survey of student numbers at alternative providers of higher education.
Higher Education Funding Council for England.
HEFCE-fundable students
Students who may be counted within HEFCE funding calculations. For teaching funding, this broadly means all higher education students domiciled in the UK or another EU country ('home and EU' students) other than:
The term encompasses some students who may not in fact attract HEFCE funding to their providers, for example where we expect tuition fees to cover the full cost of provision, or where students do not complete their year of study and are therefore not counted in our funding calculations. Further information about this definition is available from our annual HESES and HEIFES publications.
Higher education institution.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects, analyses and reports on HE statistics for universities and colleges in the UK.
The Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey is HEFCE's main annual survey of students on recognised higher education courses at HEIs. It informs HEFCE's funding for teaching.
The Higher Education in Further Education: Students Survey is HEFCE's main annual survey of students on recognised higher education courses at further education colleges. It informs HEFCE's funding for teaching.
High-grades policy
HEFCE's term for the Government policy that exempts from the student number control students who achieve particular grades (currently ABB and above) at A-level (or certain equivalent qualifications).
Higher degree
Degree above bachelor's level such as master's degree or doctorate.
Higher education
Higher education courses are programmes leading to qualifications, or credits which can be counted towards qualifications, which are above the standard of GCE A-levels or other Level 3 qualifications. They include degree courses, postgraduate courses and Higher National Diplomas, among others.
The Higher Education Academy works to help universities, colleges and others to deliver the best possible learning experience for all students. The academy was formed in 2004 from a merger of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), and the TQEF National Co-ordination Team.
Higher education colleges
HE colleges are divided into specialist colleges dealing mainly with one subject area, such as music, art and design or teacher training; and more general colleges offering a range of courses, particularly in business, humanities and education.
Higher education institution
Higher education institution is a term for Higher Education Corporations (HECs), Universities, and any other provider with a designation to receive HEFCE grant. When HEFCE refers to HEIs, we usually mean those we fund.
Higher National Certificate, Higher National Diploma.
Home students
These are students normally resident in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They do not include students living in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Honours degree
A bachelor's degree with honours covering greater depth than a general or ordinary BA or BSc degree.
Information and communication technologies. The broad subject concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information electronically, on databases or in libraries.
Improving retention
Some people need more support than others to complete their studies because of their background or circumstances. An element of our student opportunity funding is provided to assist with improving retention.
Initial teacher training (ITT)
A course that leads to a qualification as a teacher. ITT is funded by the National College for Teaching and Leadership, an executive agency of the Department for Education, and ITT providers can also be designated for student support funding.
A general term for education institutions, which may include universities, higher education colleges and further education colleges.
Island students
Students from the Isle of Man or Channel Islands.
Intellectual property rights (IPR)
Intellectual property rights protect the creator's right to be appropriately acknowledged for their work, such as an invention or a manuscript.IPR gives the creator a means of controlling how their protected work is exploited, thereby ensuring that they are properly rewarded for their creative endeavours. Includes patents, registered trademarks and copyright.
Janet – the joint academic network – is the high-speed computer network for the academic community in the UK. All further and higher education organisations in the UK are connected to the Janet network, as are all the Research Councils.
An e-mail list service to facilitate discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community.
Knowledge exchange
This refers to HEIs' engagement with businesses, public and third sector services, the community and wider public. It includes the transferring or exchanging of knowledge with the aim of delivering external impact, such as improving products, services and profitability. This is linked with research and teaching, and includes consultancy and advisory work, the creation of intellectual property, the development of academic and student entrepreneurship, and a variety of other activities.
Local area network - a computer network linking parts of an institution.
Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
The Leadership Foundation provides a dedicated service of support and advice on leadership, governance and management for all the UK's higher education institutions.
Level of study refers to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG).
Lifelong learning
Defined by the Government as all post-16 learning, but applying specifically to learning by adults who are already in the workplace and need special part-time provision, or to learning that adults may wish to undertake to enrich their lives.
Lifelong Learning Networks
A HEFCE initiative funded between 2004 and 2012 to improve progression into and through higher education.
Until 2010, the Learning and Skills Council was responsible for funding and planning education and training for over 16-year-olds in England. It was succeeded by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA). In 2012 the responsibilities of the YPLA were transferred to the Education Funding Agency (EFA).
Masters degree (MA/MSc/MPhil/MEd)
MA/MSc degrees are awarded to graduates who have undertaken a further course of study, after an honours degree, either full-time or part-time. Masters degrees may be taken following a period of work experience and some courses take the form of company training programmes. MPhil degrees may be awarded following a period of research rather than a course of study.
Mature students
Mature students are students who are 21 or over when they start their course.
Mode of study refers to full-time, part-time or sandwich.
Modular degree/modularisation
A programme of study in which a student chooses a number of short courses or modules, the satisfactory completion of which leads to a degree.
New-regime students
Students who are treated as having started their courses on or after 1 September 2012 and who are subject to the new fee and funding regime. They include those whose fees are limited by law and those, such as most postgraduates, whose fees are not limited in this way.
Non-continuation or 'drop-out' rates
The proportion of students who do not complete their course, for a variety of reasons, including financial difficulties.
OFFA is a non departmental public body set up in 2004 to promote and safeguard fair access to higher education for under-represented groups, in light of the introduction of variable tuition fees in 2006-07.
Office of Science and Technology (OST)
The Office of Science and Technology was the department of UK government with responsibility for science, engineering and technology and their uses to benefit society and the economy. It was dissolved in 2007 and its functions are now carried out by BIS and the Government Office for Science.
OFSTED Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) aims to improve standards of achievement and quality of education through regular independent inspection, public reporting and informed advice. Ofsted is responsible for assessing the quality of initial teacher training.
Old-regime students
Students who are treated as having started their courses before 1 September 2012 and are subject to the previous fee and funding regime. They include both those whose fees are limited by law (mostly full-time undergraduates in 2011-12) and those whose fees are not limited in this way (such as most postgraduates and, in 2011-12, part-time undergraduates).
Operating Framework [http://www.hefce.ac.uk/about/intro/wip/rpg/of/]
The Operating Framework explains how higher education providers in England are held to account and regulated.
Ordinary degree
A bachelor's degree awarded without honours (see honours degree above).
Overseas students
Overseas students are defined as students from outside the European Union.
Performance indicators
A set of indicators produced by HESA which measure the performance of higher education institutions in the UK in a number of areas.
Postgraduate student
A student on a course which normally requires a first degree as a condition of entry.
Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
A course, normally of one year duration, for people with a degree (or equivalent qualifications) to train to be teachers.
Post-1992 universities
Higher education institutions which acquired university status as a result of the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.
Pre-1992 universities
Higher education institutions which had university status before the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 came into force; and the two Northern Ireland universities.
Prescribed courses of higher education
The Further and Higher Education Act (1992) specifies that HEFCE can only fund 'prescribed' courses of higher education in further education corporations. The definition of these courses is given in parliamentary regulations. The definition currently covers Higher National Certificates and Diplomas, foundation, bachelors and postgraduate degrees, among others. The course must be awarded by a UK provider with degree awarding powers, or by Edexcel or the Scottish Qualifications Agency, in the case of Higher Nationals.
Price groups
Some subjects cost more to teach than others: some need laboratories and workshops while others are taught wholly in lecture theatres and seminar rooms. This is reflected in HEFCE's funding method for teaching, in which subjects are classified in in five groups, A, B, C1, C2 and D, according to how much they cost to teach.
Principal regulator
Principal regulators have the duty, as far as they reasonably can, to promote compliance with charity law by the exempt charities for which they are responsible. On 1 June 2010 HEFCE became principal regulator of most English HEIs.
Protected groups
Groups identified in the Equality Act as sharing a particular characteristic against which it is illegal to discriminate. These groups are as follows:
• Age
• Disability
• Gender reassignment
• Marriage and civil partnership
• Pregnancy and maternity
• Race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin
• Religion and belief
• Sex
• Sexual orientation.
Public benefit
All charities must deliver their charitable purposes 'for the public benefit'. The Charity Commission promotes understanding of public benefit generally, and HEFCE has published supplementary guidance for HEIs.
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
The QAA provides a quality assurance service for higher education institutions throughout the UK.
QR funding
Quality-related research funding. It is allocated according to research quality (as judged by expert review in the periodic Research Assessment Exercise, now superseded by the Research Excellence Framework), and the amount of research carried out.
A quintile is any one of five equal groups into which a population has been divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.
RAB charge
The Resource Accounting Budget (RAB) charge is an estimate of the percentage of the face value of loans issued in a given year which reflects the resource cost over the expected life of the loan to the Government of making the loans. The charge is made up of:
• the face value of loans issued that are not expected to be repaid due to low income, death of the borrower, etc; and
• the net present value of the interest subsidy on loans. Interest on student loans is subsidised by Government so that the value of loan debt only increases by the rate of inflation.>
Registered charity
All charities with income above £5,000 must register with and are subject to the powers of the Charity Commission unless they have been classed as exempt charities. A small number of HEFCE-funded HEIs are registered charities.
Related body
A non-HEI/FEC body through which significant levels of HEFCE funding are distributed or activities promoted.
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
An assessment that was carried out periodically to determine the quality of research in UK HEIs. The results are used by the higher education funding bodies for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to allocate QR funding. The last one was in 2008. The RAE has been superseded by the Research Excellence Framework.
There are seven subject-specific Research Councils. They are funded by the Government to support research in their own establishments and to fund research projects in universities.
Research Excellence Framework (REF)
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). It replaces the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the outcomes of the first REF will be completed in 2014.
Sandwich course
A course of study which includes periods of practical work in organisations outside the university or college.
See Bursaries
Sector Skills Councils are independent organisations developed by employers in industry. They are employer-led and involve trade unions and professional bodies. SSCs were set up by Government to tackle the skills and productivity needs of their sector throughout the UK.
A study period of up to 16 weeks, often with the last two weeks used as an assessment period.
Single conversation
A streamlined accountability process between HEFCE and institutions, linked to an assessment of institutional risk, which comprises an exchange of documents and dialogue during a specific period each year. This began in 2007, and in 2009 was renamed to 'the annual accountability returns exercise'.
Skills Funding Agency
The government agency responsible for funding and regulating adult further education and skills training in England.
Special funding, Special initiative
HEFCE funds that are provided for a fixed period and a specified purpose, unlike the block grant. They may be distributed by formula or in response to competitive bids.
Specialist institution
A higher education institution that has 60 per cent or more of its courses in one or two subjects only, such as music or art colleges.
Specifically designated courses
See 'Designated course'
Statutory Instrument
A form of legislation which allow the provisions of an Act of Parliament to be subsequently brought into force or altered without Parliament having to pass a new Act. They are also referred to as secondary, delegated or subordinate legislation.
Student number control allocation
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Date: 08/08/2013
San Juan County, NM – On August 7, 2013 at approximately 1936 hours, San Juan County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a single vehicle roll-over accident. The incident was reported to have occurred on County Road 5068. Upon arrival, deputies observed a male subject in the tree line near the crash. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene as a result of trauma from the crash. The victim was later identified as Larry Bell, age 23 of Bloomfield, NM.
While on-scene, Deputies made contact with a male subject walking down the road, who appeared to be injured. He identified himself as Anthony Schmitz, age 20 of Bloomfield. Schmitz admitted to being the driver of the vehicle. "He stated he was responsible for the crash," explained San Juan County Sheriff's Office Sergeant Terry McCoy. "Schmitz said he had had been 'messing around and spinning out' on the road. He then lost control of the vehicle."
Upon speaking to Schmitz, deputies suspected that he may have drinking alcohol. After completing a field sobriety test, Schmitz was placed under arrest for Great Bodily Injury. Schmitz was transported to San Juan Regional Medical Center (SJRMC), where he consented to a blood draw to determine his blood alcohol concentration. While at SJRMC, he was evaluated by medical staff and released.
Schmitz was then booked into the San Juan County Adult Detention Center for Great Bodily Injury and Reckless Driving.


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Davis Bros. Pizza was voted one of our five top pizza joins in central Illinois back in 2010.
The story is the American GI brought back the love of pizza from Europe after WWII.
Davis Bros. in East Peoria and Agatucci's in Peoria both started not long after the war. They both have unique recipes.
Not everyone I know is a fan of the Davis Bros. recipe because of the small amount of sauce and large amount of meat. But those who love it have real passion for their pie.
It is no inexpensive. But the old saying holds true; you get what you pay for. And this is worth the extra buck.


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This year, lighting America for the holidays will consume more than 6 trillion watt-hours of electricity, or, using U.S. Department of Energy figures, roughly enough to power every home in New Hampshire for one month. To produce the extra electricity, utilities will have to burn huge quantities of natural gas and in some cases coal. The annual luxury of lights offsets some of the efforts being made to combat climate change, so this year give the planet a present and swap at least some of those strings of tiny incandescent lights for LED lights, which use up to 90 percent less energy and last decades, not just a season or two.
White incandescent Christmas lights emit 95 percent of the energy they consume as heat rather than light. Colored lights create even more heat and less light. Knowing that the greenhouse gases emitted to power the lights are helping to melt the snow under Santa's sleigh — not to mention the ice under polar bears — takes a bit of the warm holiday glow off the annual festival of lights that occurs in almost every neighborhood. Switching to LED lights saves energy and money. According to the online retailer ChristmasLightsEtc, a heavy user with a light-outlined home would spend $115.26 per holiday season to run incandescent mini-lights but just $15.32 for LEDs.
Swap the lights and have a more energy-efficient holiday.
-- The Concord (N.H.) Monitor
There was a very unusual headline coming out of Iceland recently. Well, unusual for that country anyway.
It seems police shot and killed a man who started shooting at police when they entered his building. What makes this story so unusual, extraordinary even, is that it's the first time someone has been killed by armed police in Iceland since it became an independent republic in 1944.


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Cueball and White Hat are discussing the positive and negative effects of young people writing on mobile phones in the vernacular of the day, Short Message Service (SMS) with lots of abbreviations.
SMS messages are one of the primary means of text communication on mobile devices, and are typically limited to 160 characters. Due to the limited space available on this and other messaging platforms, and also to decrease the time taken to write a message, SMS language (aka textese) developed as a form of short-hand writing. This involves the abbreviation and deliberate misspelling of words, and the use of acronyms.
Naturally, the use of this style of language has expanded into other areas, including those where brevity is not an issue, and this expansion and evolution of language is a subject of intense debate. The main viewpoints on the subject are:
- Language is being negatively degraded by the use of text speak
- The use of text speak is a natural evolution of language
Cueball's point is that "practice makes perfect". Ability to form good grammar comes from practice through a lot of writing even when that writing is informal and hence the SMS generation get a lot of practice compared to the previous generations who communicated much more with speech, over the phone and in person, and may have written only a few letters a year. To foster talent for a major literary work we should encourage more practice even when that practice is through informal writing such as SMS.
James Joyce was an celebrated Irish novelist and poet, and his novel Ulysses is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature. It was criticized in some quarters for the frequent lack of punctuation and ungrammatical stream of consciousness narrative mode. In addition to his well known work, he wrote a number of love letters with extremely explicit content.
In the title text Randall wishes to prove Cueball's point by analyzing and comparing bulk volumes of texts (= a corpus) written by children today and 20 years ago. Randall favors todays children's writings for their everyday use of written word over situation in the past when children wrote only if forced to do so.
The title text's second sentence is particularly long and complex (compared to almost any other title text), which, generally, will score much higher score "on various objective measures of writing quality". Randall may hint that writing a lot of short title texts, like writing lot of SMSs, improve your general writing quality - hence, further strengthens Cueball's point.
- [White Hat and Cueball are walking together, White Hat is holding a newspaper or report.]
- White Hat: Weird- Another study found that kids who use SMS abbreviations actually score higher on grammar and spelling tests.
- Cueball: Why on earth is that a suprise?
- [Cueball turns to White hat (who is now out side the frame. Inserted in the frame is a panel showing several kids throwing balls.]
- Cueball: Imagine kids suddenly start playing catch literally all the time. Everywhere they go, they throw balls back and forth, toss them in the air, and hurl them at trees and signs- Nearly every waking hour of their lives.
- [Cueball talks on while White Hat begins to walk.]
- Cueball: Do you think their generation will suck at baseball because they learned sloppy skills?
- White Hat: ...So you think someone will become a great writer while sexting?
- [They walk together.]
- Cueball: Have you read James Joyce's love letters? The phrases "My little fuckbird" and "Arse full of farts" appear. If we want to write Ulysses, our generation may not be sexting enough.
- White Hat: Eww.
- Randall originally misspelled surprise as "suprise" in the first panel and also wrote "writing writing" in the beginning of the title text in stead of just "writing". It was initially conjectured here that the errors may have been deliberately introduced as they are relevant to the subject. However, both of these errors were corrected on the same day the comic was released and currently are not present in the live version.
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Includes veterans' benefits, starting and running a business, unemployment, County job openings, and selling to the County.
Includes the courts, most wanted, law enforcement, child support enforcement, sealing record, victims' services, and jury duty.
Includes planning, building codes and permits, owning and renting a property, and property tax assessments.
Includes child and adult health service, food stamps, foster care, mental health, in-home nurse, substance abuse, and child support.
Includes bereavement, certificates and vital records, and divorce.
Includes air quality and burn days, garbage and recycling, sewer, conservation, and green energy financing.
Includes adopting a pet, animal control, and local vets and shelters.
Includes information on the buildings, county, codes, departments, projects, representation, and voting.
Includes activities and events, parks, museums, libraries, and volunteerism.
Property taxes, business taxes, transient occupancy taxes, fines, and financial reports.
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June 05, 2012
The Placer County Board of Supervisors will consider adopting a proposed budget Tuesday that will serve as an interim spending plan once the 2012-13 fiscal year begins July 1.
Adopting a proposed budget would complete the first phase of the county's two-phase budget development process. The board will hold budget workshops in August before completing the second phase: adoption of a final budget.
The two-phase approach allows the county to wait until September to adopt a final budget that includes updated revenue and expenditure estimates.
In a report for Tuesday's meeting, Interim County Executive Officer Holly Heinzen emphasizes that the $690 million proposed budget will preserve core services to the public, but notes the county continues to face budget challenges in such areas as library services, fire protection, deferred building maintenance and capital infrastructure needs.
"The board's proactive measures over recent years have enabled Placer County to remain fiscally healthy throughout the prolonged recession that began in 2007," Heinzen explains. "The board has reprioritized declining revenues to preserve core service levels, and instituted measures to control cost growth, including a hiring freeze and greater employee cost sharing of health benefits and pension costs."
In March, the board directed county staff to develop a multi-year budget strategy as part of its ongoing drive to strengthen the county's fiscal health while ensuring that board short-term and long-term priorities are met.
A draft strategy will be presented to the board within the next couple of months. The plan will look at ways to:
The proposed budget is $59.2 million lower, 7.9 percent, than the 2011-12 budget, largely due to a $53.9 million reduction in the county Infrastructure Budget. Infrastructure funding was higher a year ago because of two major projects: a seismic retrofit and paint job under way on the Foresthill Bridge and construction of a jail at the county's Bill Santucci Justice Center in Roseville.
Heinzen notes that the county expects its property tax revenue to drop by 1.1 percent next fiscal year. That would result in a cumulative loss of $16.4 million, or 12.4 percent, in property tax revenue since the 2007-08 fiscal year.
Since 2007, General Fund revenue has dropped $17.8 million, or 4.8 percent, and the size of the county workforce is down 15.4 percent to approximately 2,150 filled positions as a result of the hiring freeze.
The staff report notes that revenues are on the rise in some areas. The county, for example, anticipates a $4.0 million increase in Public Safety Sales Tax revenue during 2012-13.
The proposed budget includes funding for several capital projects, including Applegate sewer improvements, Dry Creek Park and a new animal shelter in Auburn.
At Tuesday's meeting, the board also will receive an update on proposed state legislation that could impact Placer County. County staff currently is monitoring about 30 bills in consultation with Peterson Consulting, the company that serves as the county's advocate in Sacramento.
Many of the bills being tracked by Placer County deal with the dissolution of redevelopment agencies, public safety realignment and pension reform.
In January, the board adopted a 2012 legislative platform, a 27-page report that identifies issues important to the county that are the focus of it advocacy efforts in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
At the state level, Placer County's advocacy efforts focus partly on gaining flexibility, additional revenue and constitutional protections for public safety realignment. Other issues of note include the proposed Placer County Conservation Plan, potential relief from a new state fire prevention fee, possible relief from wastewater compliance timelines and opposition to any moves to reduce or eliminate state funding for county programs.
Tuesday's meeting will take place at 9 a.m. in the County Administrative Center, 175 Fulweiler Ave. in Auburn. The proposed budget is set for discussion at 9:30 a.m.
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Cooperstown Crier
---- — The 47th annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival, slated for Feb. 8-10 in the village, promises to be an action-packed weekend for all involved, according to organizers.
"We are all very excited by this year's theme, which is British Invasion," Committee Co-chair Sarah Lewandowski said in a media release.
The popular carnival fireworks display, now in its 11th year, will officially kick off the weekend following the coronation of the King and Queen and their court at the Lakefront Park Bandstand. The first boom will light up the sky at 6:30 p.m. All are invited.
The next day is another carnival mainstay, the annual parade, at 11 a.m. The parade will begin at Cooper Park and make its way down Main Street
According to Committee Co-chair Teresa Mae Leveille, last year's parade was a huge hit, and the committee hopes to build on its success.
"It's a great way for the entire family to get out and have some fun despite the cold weather," she said in the release.
All community organizations, businesses and residents are encouraged to enter the parade. Entries can include marchers, bands, floats, boats, bikes, trikes, cars, trucks and other vehicles. All participants are encouraged to incorporate a British theme. Judges will award prizes, including $125 for first place, $75 for second, and $50 for third. Anyone interested in entering or sponsoring the parade can contact Leveille at 544-4012 or email the committee at firstname.lastname@example.com.
More information will be released soon on other events, including the Carnival Cooler, the Wings Contest, the Chili Contest and Carnival Closer.
The 2013 committee members include co-chairs Leveille and Sarah Lewandowski, Mike DeSimone, Stephen Light, Lora Newell, John Saphier, Emily Voss, Ed Warner and Brian Wrubleski. The carnival is sponsored by the Lions Club of Cooperstown.
For more information, visit the Carnival website at www.cooperstowncarnival.org , or like Cooperstown Winter Carnival on Facebook.


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Quantock Riding Club's success at horse trials
9:00am Sunday 9th September 2012 in Sport
QUANTOCK Riding Club had a successful day at the British Riding Clubs Area Horse Trials qualifier and had an individual winner at each grade, a team first, two team seconds and a team third.
This gave the club qualification for 10 horses and riders to go to the Championships to compete in dressage, show jumping and cross country.
Their individual winners were Helen Pavey and Knockenpower Rory, Novice, Catherine Kingscote and Mr Lewis, Intermediate and Emma Pascall and Kentlands Lad, Open.
The winning Novice team were Helen Pavey, Polden Pinotage, Becky Hunt, Moonshine, Andrea Dyer, Harvey and Nicola Miller, Millwood Mizuri. The Intermediate team consisted of Hannah Payne, Tara Moondancer, DD Kingscote, Mr Lewis, Emma Pascall, Junos Echo and Jess Long and Schalimar.
Their junior team did very well, especially as they had only three members and were unlucky not to qualify Grace Popham, Matilda, Annabelle Jay, Noah and Jess Mortimer, Keystone Call Me Ronnie.
In total, the club scooped one individual gold, one team bronze and one individual bronze plus several other placings.
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How Can I Help?
Maybe you're like me and have a full house and aren't sure how to support the cause of animal adoptions, even though you believe in it. After all, who wouldn't want to help find homes for the thousand of adoptable pets in our overcrowded shelters?
Local shelters are always looking for volunteers for walking dogs or easing overcrowding with foster homes. Fostering lets you help several pets instead of just one or two you may be able to provide a forever home to. These programs often provide supplies and training.
Use Your Social Network
Think proactively about someone you could see needing a pet and talk to them about adopting. Remind them of the benefits of having a workout buddy, a child's playmate that provides an educational experience and teaches responsibility, or a companion for your favorite senior citizen.
If you can't think of someone specifically to approach, blog about adoption if you have one. Do a Facebook post with a link to your shelter's web page to elevate this worthy cause in the public's consciousness. Look for cute pets on PetFinder.com and pin them on Pinterest. Tweet. All of these things can make a difference.
Shelters always have a cash flow issue. Participate in your shelter's fund raisers, and donate yourself. Some even offer estate donation programs. Many people feel that if they can't donate a lot, it doesn't make a difference. But many organizations would appreciate the synergy and support of a large army of small donors rather than a single large donation that may or may not be sustainable. Most everyone can afford to donate that extra dollar to help homeless pets that some retailers offer. It all adds up!
As stated before, if you can't help financially, donate your time. Shelters love volunteers, and you will love the joy of sharing this valuable resource helping others!
If you have room in your heart and in your home, carefully consider the joys of adopting your own shelter dog or dogs (or other animal!) If you are looking for a particular breed, you can be put on a waiting list or try some of the breed-specific rescues. Of course there is a lot of charm to the all-American mutt too!
There is a lot of information out there on what to do to prepare for a new pet and how to adjust once your new friend arrives. The shelters are so interested in helping this process be as smooth as possible that they often offer post adoption counseling services. It's very important for all involved to be committed as lives are on the line.
Do you have stories about adopting a shelter dog? Tips? Triumphs? We'd love to hear from you!


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Did a Never-Released Thomas Opinion Lead to 'Profound Battle' over Standing in Gay Marriage Cases?
Posted Dec 14, 2012 6:30 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Former New York Times legal journalist Linda Greenhouse has a theory about a "procedural minefield" in the two gay-marriage cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The theory begins with a possible never-released opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas.
When the Supreme Court granted cert in the two gay marriage cases, it asked the parties to address whether the parties have standing under Article III of the Constitution establishing federal court jurisdiction. In one of the cases, California officials didn't want to appeal a ruling striking down a voter-approved gay marriage ban, so referendum supporters stepped in. In the other case, the Obama administration isn't defending a law denying federal benefits to married same-sex couples, so House GOP leaders are defending the statute.
Greenhouse suspects the Supreme Court is engaged in "a profound battle over the meaning of Article III jurisdiction, an issue proving so divisive that the justices haven't yet permitted it to fully surface." She outlines her theory at the New York Times' Opinionator blog.
Greenhouse believes the disagreement stems from a case dismissed at the end of last term as improvidently granted. The issue in First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards was whether a homebuyer who suffered no financial injury had standing to sue over an alleged kickback paid by her title insurance company. Greenhouse thinks the opinion was assigned to Justice Clarence Thomas.
"My guess is that Justice Thomas had drafted and circulated an opinion, grounded in an extremely narrow reading of Article III jurisdiction, that was so sweeping as to disable Congress from passing laws that along with granting statutory rights also give people access to court to vindicate those rights," Greenhouse wrote. "I suspect it was an opinion so radical in its implications—a kind of jurisdictional nuclear option—that Justice Thomas was unable to hold a majority. …
"If I'm right, the First American debacle resolved nothing beyond pushing off to another day, another case, the battle over the dimensions of federal jurisdiction."
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Physical Milestones
Your little one has grown into quite an athlete -- he can jump, climb, stand on one foot and hop, throw, catch, kick, and even pedal a tricycle. He'll gain about 5 pounds this year and grow 3 1/2 inches. He's gaining more control of his muscles; he can carry and maneuver objects as he desires and he'll begin to dress and undress himself. He is able to use a pencil and scissors and can draw recognizable figures.
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Allow your child the chance to test himself, knowing there will be bumps and bruises along the way. If you treat every fall with concern, he may learn to fear getting hurt, which will undermine the courage he needs to experiment. This is a great time to introduce toys that help him develop new skills so bring out the puzzles, musical instruments, and arts and crafts supplies.Developmental Milestones
Friends start to become an important part of your child's life now as she discovers what social relationships are all about. She is learning to take turns and follow directions and likes to be part of a group and play games like Follow-the-Leader. If she hasn't already, it's likely that she'll potty train now. She's also interested in exploring her body parts and learning about differences between the sexes. She likes to get dressed and undressed -- sometimes with playmates!
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3.48/5 rDev -3.6%
12oz brown bottle with a freshness date.
LOOK: Hazed dark amber, healthy looking lace on the glass.
SMELL: Allspice, pumpin meat, toasted grain, yeast.
TASTE: Wet, crisp, custard, pie spice, pumpkin, faint grain, muted hops, dry finish.
It has a good flavor as the spicing is kept to a minimum but the flavor ends too quick for my liking. Still a good holiday seasonal and perhaps good enough to have more than one.
11-30-2011 04:01:32 | More by Jason
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3.5/5 rDev -3%
01-19-2013 03:10:54 | More by tbryan5
2.35/5 rDev -34.9%
A - A slightly cloudy version of your standard ale
S - Overly spiced and overly sweet
T - My wife and I often argue on what pumpkin pie spices should be. I make mine with cinnamon, clove and nutmeg as the major spices, she insists on adding allspice. This would be her type of pie if it were not for the abuse of the nutmeg and allspice - just too much,
M - The carbonation almost hurts and makes the rest seem so thin.
D - Only quickly if nothing else is around.
I am biased on pumpkin ale because I brew this stuff twice every holiday season. I feel that the ale should be seasoned and enjoyable. You should notice the spice and pumpkin but not be knocked over by it. For those who look for the extras in the beer, this is probably a good one. If you are seeking something that might give a faint reminder of a good pumpkin pie, this will be a bit much.
I don't know where all the sweetness is coming from (could be the over spiced part) but it is also a bit to overpowering.
11-14-2011 22:41:49 | More by txbrewer
3.93/5 rDev +8.9%
My first pumpkin beer. Received this in a semi-random trade with Wasatch. Thanks...
Hazy orange, apricot color. Thin white head on the top. Reduced to a sporadic skim on top. This one has quite a bit of spice to it, smells really good. Lots of nutmeg, some cinnamon and clove comes out too. Definately has a hearty pumpkin aroma underneath.
Spices continue through to the taste, very similar in this aspect. Pumpkin in there again too, just as expected. Has some bready maltiness underneath. Spices continue to linger.
Mouthfeel is a bit thin, but this is a low abv brew so its probably hard to get enough malts in there to beef the feel up w/o getting out of control with the alcohol. But overall the feel is okay. A good bit of carbonation adds to the spiciness.
Pretty easy to drink, but not something I'd pick up all the time due to the spices. But I'd be willing to grab a sixer of this to enjoy every year if it was available to me.
12-15-2006 00:10:02 | More by blitz134
3/5 rDev -16.9%
05-05-2013 03:04:30 | More by SmellsofMahagony
3.63/5 rDev +0.6%
Appearance: 1/4 inch head, orange-brown in color, hazy, high carbonation
Smell: wheat, cinnamon and clove
Taste: bread, pie crust, clove, and pumpkin pulp
Mouthfeel: sweet but not overly so, medium carbonation, light bodied
Overall: Super light pumpkin beer. Tastes very pulpy. I would get this one again if I wanted a pumpkin beer and did not want an alcohol bomb. I think this one has its special niche.
11-22-2013 15:10:35 | More by tigg924
4.22/5 rDev +16.9%
The beer pours a hazy orange color with a white head. The aroma is about what I expected. I get some sweet pumpkin notes, as well as some brown sugar and allspice. The flavor is full of pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice and a lot of cloves. A wonderful mix of spices that gives me exactly what I look for in a pumpkin ale. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. One of the best pumpkin ales I have drank.
09-25-2011 20:10:01 | More by Mora2000
3/5 rDev -16.9%
02-18-2014 15:01:21 | More by rhinonau
3.15/5 rDev -12.7%
Reddish-amber color with a thin white head that has very little retention.
Roasted pumpkin, allspice, vanilla, nutmeg. No real beer background, it's all pumpkin pie flavors.
Pumpkin, graham crackers, nutmeg, cinnamon and clove on the palate.
Medium bodied, but still slightly watery with a medium- finish.
While the pumpkin aroma and flavor is very much present, the beer is one-dimensional.
08-17-2013 06:21:34 | More by Libationguy
3.7/5 rDev +2.5%
Nice looking orange tan beer with decent lacing and some head. The aroma is amazing and just like a punkin pie sweet and spices. HEY WHEN IS SOMEONE GONNA MAKE A SWEET POTATE PIE BEER???
This beer has a nice slice of strong punkin flavor right in the beer, and not just a spicy taste. In fact the flavor lacks some spice and sweetness for me. The texture is wet and low on carbonation.
I would recommend you drink this beer exclusively with the monstrous Neutral Milk Hotel cd 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'
10-13-2012 20:04:55 | More by frankiepop
4.25/5 rDev +17.7%
08-22-2013 02:48:37 | More by Garrettshu
New Mexico
3.7/5 rDev +2.5%
Small light tan head settles into a thinning lacing above a clear well carbonated pumpkin copper colored beer.
Big full aroma of pumpkin and pumpkin spices almost like being handed an over-sized piece of whip cream covered pumpkin pie. A very good October aroma.
Light pumpkin pie taste blends well with light grain malts, light spices, maybe some light hops trying to showcase themselves.
A dryish aftertaste with just a hint of pumpkin and the related spices hanging around on this medium bodied beer.
I was surprised that the taste of this beer was as subdued as it was given the big bold aroma of fresh pumpkin pie and I think it works better this way. About this time of year a person gets over killed with beers with this super huge pumpkin taste, if that was so damn good we would have pumpkin beers year around, so I kinda like this with the understated pumpkin fall taste.
10-06-2012 22:22:34 | More by LXIXME
4.25/5 rDev +17.7%
11-24-2012 16:00:57 | More by weonfire
4/5 rDev +10.8%
The hazy, unfiltered, orange-amber body of Wasatch pumpkin ale glows eerily at you from beneath a creamy head of yellowed-white. Gentle, perfumey spice greets you in the nose. The body is medium-light, and it's just lightly tingly on the tongue. The flavor is softer than you'd expect, and certainly less spicy, although there is a touch of ginger to it. It's mildly sweet, delicately malty, sublimely bitter, and very subtly spiced, leaving it well-within bounds of being considered as a "beer", rather than "PUMPKIN beer". In fact, except for the fact that there is some cinnamon and ginger to it, a blind tasting would probably not elicit the immediate response of "pumpkin". However, the spices do build on the palate as you progress through the glass, leaving more and more spice on the tongue and back of the mouth - but in a good way. Overall, very nicely done! Well-balanced and drinkable. Kind of a "session" pumpkin ale. It'd be easy to have two or three of these! Certainly worth trying.
03-21-2007 23:26:13 | More by NeroFiddled
4.1/5 rDev +13.6%
12oz bottle into pint glass.
A:A hazy orange body, sits below a thin white head that holds a nice layer. Carbonation is a steady levels. Lacing is low.
S: Aroma holds a nice pie spice element. Medium intensity for style. All the required flavors, with good balance.
TM: The body is full in flavor and medium in mouthfeel. The pumpkin pie spices are in full action, while the finish has a nice blend of classic pale ale malt character.
O: Overall this is a very good pumpkin for its niche in the style, a light ABV, with big and robust taste. Very well done.
09-27-2011 01:15:27 | More by GDBEERMAN
4.5/5 rDev +24.7%
08-12-2014 01:38:08 | More by Bierleichen
3.5/5 rDev -3%
11-05-2012 06:01:50 | More by Dwtucker90
3.5/5 rDev -3%
08-30-2014 22:40:52 | More by MrWilliams
Alberta (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
01-20-2014 21:47:17 | More by joemcgrath27
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
08-22-2012 04:57:49 | More by Fr0stb1te
4.08/5 rDev +13%
served from 12oz bottle poured in to pint glass
A: Hazy copper/amber color. Only about a finger's width of head when poured which settles down to a very mild lacing.
S: An abundance of pumpkin and spice which instantly hits close to home. Lots of nutmeg and cinnamon, smelling almost like an old homemade cider or pumpkin pie. Like catching a waft of Thanksgiving dinner
T: Tastes just like the smell predicts; a forward pumpkin flavor with a bunch of cinnamon spice. No bitterness to this one.
M: A well-balanced body, almost a bit creamy given it's medium mouthfeel and light carbonation
D: Easy to drink with an excellent amount of flavor. I wouldn't want to session this type of beer but it would be an amazing accompaniment to big Fall meals around Thanksgiving.
Overall I think it's an excellent beer. It brings me back to Thanksgiving at my grandparents' as a child so I'm sure those positive memories are now being attached to this beer's experience to help me enjoy it more.
10-24-2010 05:20:30 | More by Harumph
3.5/5 rDev -3%
08-08-2014 04:28:05 | More by johnjohnson944
4.5/5 rDev +24.7%
10-06-2013 21:03:08 | More by GeoCait
New Hampshire
3.1/5 rDev -14.1%
From the 12 fl. oz. bottle. Sampled on December 25, 2013.
The color is mostly orange with a lasting white head and a foggy appearance.
The aroma is of vague pumpkin with nutmeg, clove, brown sugar and biscuit.
The body is light to medium.
The taste is rather bland. I do pick up the toasted biscuit and spice character of a typical pumpkin ale but it seems to just sit there with no excitement.
12-25-2013 21:46:49 | More by puboflyons
3.53/5 rDev -2.2%
Pours a bright orange color with a tight off-white head that leaves little lacing.
Smells of spices, mainly cinnamon and nutmeg.
Tastes of mostly spices with only a touch of sweetness. Spices are nutmeg and cinnamon with some allspice. Very light on sweetness which is the beer's biggest problem. A little earthy bitterness comes through as well. Has a bit of a funny aftertaste, like diet cola.
Mouthfeel is medium with a crisp amount of carbonation.
09-05-2010 02:16:26 | More by ocelot2500
Wasatch Pumpkin Ale from Utah Brewers Cooperative
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on Sep 6, 2012 at 7:54 am
As usual, the idiots in government ("the state") as identified in this story, believe our tax revenues will increase by $317 million. No doubt it will go up but they have probably failed to account for people who will cut back their spending accordingly. The anticipated increase in futue revenues will be justification for spending increases and nobody will consider the liklihood that we are headed for another crash and recession.
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Anticipate a huge spike in sales for Amazon in the next week, followed by decreases in sales for internet suppliers with a Calif presence. The trick will be finding the out of state retailers that do not collect sales tax and do not charge an arm and a leg for shipping.
Amazon is a good retailer that had to cave into pressure from the tax and spend dems in this state that can't a balance a budget to save their lives.
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