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This page includes a list of amenities available to you and your guests when you are staying at or visiting McKay-Dee Hospital. Simply select a heading below to learn more about that service.
Breakfast: Served daily, 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Lunch: Served daily, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Dinner: Served daily, 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Located on the first floor near the Visitor Entrance, the café is open daily from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. with a variety of foods available including grilled items and a salad bar. Room Service is provided at no charge for inpatients and for a fee to their guests from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily. Once you call in your order, you food is prepared and delivered fresh to your room within 45 minutes.
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Grounds for Coffee is located on the first floor at McKay-Dee Hospital. This coffee shop offers a variety of specialty hot and cold coffee beverages, and hot chocolate.
Grounds for Coffee can not deliver items to patient rooms
Monday - Friday: 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Gift Shop, on the first floor, is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The shop offers baby gifts, magazines, candy, cards, books, flowers, balloons, decor and personal care items. Operated by volunteers, the Gift Shop proceeds help improve hospital services. To contact the Gift Shop, call (801) 387-7810.
The L.T. Dee Pharmacy is located on the main floor near the Valet Entrance. The pharmacy fills outpatient prescriptions and offers a selection of over-the-counter medications and is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The pharmacy will also fill your prescription orders and deliver them to your room. To contact the pharmacy, call (801) 387-7501.
Hospital Lost & Found is located in the Security office on the first floor. Stop by or call the office at (801) 387-7100 during normal business hours to check on lost items, or contact the officer on duty at any time by calling (801) 387-7100.
We work with local religious leaders to help meet the spiritual needs of patients and family members. If you or your family would like a member of the clergy to visit, or for more information about services, your nurse can help you. Spiritual leaders of all faiths are welcome to visit their members.
A non-denominational chapel, which also serves as a meditation room, is located on the second floor next to the ICU waiting room and is open to patients, family members, and visitors. Weekly worship services conducted in the chapel include LDS sacrament services and Catholic Mass. Protestant communion is also available on an individual basis.
A prayer roll is available in the chapel. Volunteer chaplains check this regularly and pray for those needing assistance. LDS Church sponsored services are held on Sundays in the Mountain View Cafe Conference Room from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A Catholic Pastoral Care team visits daily. For other Pastoral Care needs please contact your own faith leader, the patient's bedside nurse, or the Pastoral Care Office at (801) 387-3185.
If you need someone who can speak your language, including sign language, dial 0 for help.
Social workers are here to help you and your family members. They can give counseling, help loved one's better understand your care, and help plan your return home. Our social workers can also help with transportation and provide other assistance. To reach them, contact your nurse.
Your security while in the hospital is very important to us. If you have questions or concerns about security, feel free to stop by the Safety & Security office on the first floor during normal business hours, or contact the officer on duty at any time by calling (801) 387-7100.
Our Patient Relations team can help you with any part of your hospital care. We want to be sure you get courteous and timely care. If you have a complaint or grievance about the quality of your care, you or your family member can contact the immediate supervisor of the area.
If your concerns are not resolved, you or your family member may call Patient Relations at (801) 387-8888 or call (801) 627-2800 and ask to speak with the Administrator on call. To file a grievance with the State of Utah, call 1-800-662-4157 or send a letter to the Utah Bureau of Health Facility Licensing, Certification and Resident Assessment, P.O. Box 144103, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4103; or call the Joint Commission at 1-800-994-6610.
Patient rooms offer a telephone, television, and free Wi-Fi Internet access for your personal electronic devices. The telephone and a television remote are by your bedside. To dial outside the hospital, first press "9." You can make long distance calls using a calling card. If you need help with your phone, please ask your nurse or PCA. You are also welcome to use your cell phone in all areas of the hospital except for operating rooms or for patient rooms in critical care and emergency departments.


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The UpTake: There is no doubt that brands need to take advantage of mobile marketing to drive back-to-school sales now, and holiday sales soon thereafter. But there are hurdles to overcome before they can successfully target customers on their smartphones the co-founders of Gallop Labs say. Here's how.
A s we transition to the fall season, it's back-to-school time for retailers, the time of year when many brands try to get a jump-start on sales and lay the foundation for the upcoming holiday season. Using a well thought-out mobile strategy is one of the best ways to do this.
Why? Because the mobile platform's personal and immersive nature gives marketers a constant and deep connection to their consumers that is unmatched by another channel. Smartphones are now at the center of our digitally connected lives and are almost never more than an arm's length away from us. By 2015, 15 countries worldwide will have seen more than half their population adopt smartphones—changing media consumption, e-commerce and every aspect of marketing.
However, marketers are playing catch-up when it comes to mobile, lacking the tools to track and engage users that work on browsers and URLs. It's no news that mobile devices provide a torrent of "big data" about a particular individual—their preferences, their locations and their behaviors. The question that marketers have been struggling with is what to do with all of that mobile data and how to leverage it to drive value.
We believe the challenges boil down to four key areas:
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The best practices for consumer engagement on the desktop are insufficient for mobile as mobile consumer behaviors are distinctly different from desktop behaviors.
2. Lack of a systemic approach to using data to target and engage users
The use of smartphones as carry-everywhere and always with us devices has made them a digital recorder of our digital lives and in the process accelerated the explosion of 'big data' on consumer behavior.
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Located in downtown New Rochelle, the Monroe College New Rochelle campus is nestled in a diverse, thriving suburban community in Westchester County.
The scenic Monroe College St. Lucia campus in Barnard Hill Castries on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia combines the best of many worlds.
Monroe's Queens Extension Site is located in the heart of downtown Flushing, a vibrant and ethnically mixed district of Queens.
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My oven progress
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I was able to put this long weekend to good use and finally make some progress on my oven. I thought I would share a few pics as I love looking at others when they post so I figured it is now my time. I may be slow, 4 courses and an arch is all I have to show for the weekend, but it has been the most relaxing thing I have done in weeks. I put the ipod on and got lost in the project. The oven is level even though the first pic makes it look a bit off.
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Looking good! I would say that is excellent progress for a weekend!
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It's great seeing a lot of builders doing the curved arch entry into the oven.
How difficult is it? Can builders compare that with forming the opening with angle iron?
Telehort, is it getting hot in Rocklin yet? :-)
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James -
I liked the look of the arch and thought I would attempt it myself. I have never done any masonry work before, but consider myself a handy person. I made a template for the arch and followed it as best as I could. I actually knocked the template out as soon as I got all bricks in place and then by hand played a bit with the angle and then added more mortar as I wanted the bricks to be supporting themselves as soon as possible.
With the high temps we are having here lately (in the 90s for the next week or so) - are there some considerations or things I should be doing to make sure my mortar is "curing" and instead of just drying? I have been covering the structure with a damp towel during the heat of the day.
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You did a nice job on the arch. It's fun getting all the angles to line up just right.
I would make sure the bricks are really wet when you use them, so they don't suck the moisture out of the mortar, and cooking it covered and cool is good idea.
Do our masons have more to add?
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Hi there. Nice work to date.
I can relate to the high temps in Rocklin, I grew up in Auburn.
Can I ask, how do you plan to tie your dome into the arch? All the arches I've noticed to date have curvature on the back side of the arch to support the chain coming in from the dome. Are you planning to cut the bricks in that chain so that they are flat vertical to the arch?
I didn't document that part of construction really well, but here is about the best pic:
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Hey Guys,
I grew up in Modesto.
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As I grow older, I find it funny the things that end up exciting us.
UPS just drove away after dropping of 2 boxes of ceramic insulation and I feel like a 6 yr old at christmas. I am just about ending "wait week" and then enter "cure week" so I have the feeling these boxes will taunt me for the next 10 days or so. I should just put a bow on them and leave them in the corner and try to forget.
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It is amazing that after so much time spent planning an building that those two weeks seem sooo long...
I mean, I planned and thought about the oven for 3 years before I built it, but 2 weeks seem an eternity.
Take it slowly...
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Do you have more pictures?
final picture?
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Kentucky Christian School has added a program for 3-year-olds to its elementary school lineup for the 2008-2009 school year.
"Sonbeams" will attend classes three days per week, with optional half-day or whole-day classes. The teacher, Georgietta Johnson, is a certified teacher with 32 years' experience in early childhood education.
Campbellsville Independent Schools recently announced its Academic Achievers for the month of April. Two students from each school are honored.
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Jaylah Tucker is a first-grade student at CES. She is the granddaughter of Wanda Tucker. She enjoys playing football, basketball and soccer. Her favorite teacher is Laura Dicken, and reading is her favorite subject. Her future plans are to become a teacher.
A Campbellsville teacher has been honored by WBKO television station and Leachman Buick GMC for teaching her students the value of reading.
Karen Skaggs, a second-grade teacher at Campbellsville Elementary School, was surprised in her classroom in March by WBKO reporter Lauren Hanson.
Just after 1 o'clock that afternoon, Hanson and a news crew walked into Skaggs' classroom and presented her with a check in the amount of $500 for her efforts in motivating her students.
As of the broadcast's airing, the second graders in Skaggs' class had read more than 4,000 books.
Taylor County High School PTSO is accepting nominations for site-based decision making parent council members for the 2008-2009 school year.
TCHS parents may pick up a nomination form in the front office at Taylor County High School from April 28 through May 9.
The qualifications for a SBDM parent council member are being a parent, step-parent or foster parent of a student enrolled in the school during the parent's term of council service.
The Tebb's Bend Historians recently attended the annual Kentucky Junior Historical Society convention in Frankfort. The club brought home many awards from the competitions.
One club member, Mary Tress Eastham, was elected as state junior representative. The awards for the club are:
First place - Sarah Januski, Division II 2D art and research paper; Sierra Hall, Division I test and photo essay; Savhanna Pearson, Division II speech; Carrie Mason, Andrea Nolley and Megan Dudley, Division III performance (awarded after an error in score reporting).
Nine members of the Taylor County Chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America attended the 63rd annual FCCLA State Leadership Conference in Louisville on March 24-26.
The three-day meeting was packed with keynote speakers, meetings and fun.
At the state level, six members competed in STAR Events - Students Taking Action for Recognition.
Ashley Zsedenyi
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As high school students around the country begin the search for their college of choice, their parents are wondering how that education is going to be paid for.
Financial records show that Campbellsville University students from Taylor County received $6,584,386 in financial aid this year, according to Chris Tolson, director of financial aid at CU.
That figure includes institutional financial aid, endowed scholarships, state and federal financial aid, grants and student loans.
The theme for the 2008 Kentucky 4-H Teen Conference focuses on the galaxy of stars that we have right here in Kentucky - 4-H Stars.
The conference will take place at the University of Kentucky on June 9-12 and is open to all 4-H'ers who have graduated eighth grade through age 18.
The conference will kick off picnic style with inflatable slides and obstacle courses to welcome youth to UK.
The next ACT test administration for college-hopeful high school students is Saturday, June 14.
Students who wish to take the exam on this date must register online or have their paper registrations postmarked by the end of the day May 9. The late registration postmark deadline is May 23. An additional $19 fee is required for late registration after May 9.
Bethel Christian Academy is now enrolling students for the 2008-2009 school year.
Bethel Christian Academy offers a faith-based academic program for children from age 2 1/2 to 5 years.
Enrollment forms may be picked up at Bethel First Presbyterian Church, located at 502 E. Main St., or call 465-7091 for more information.
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"DO realize there will be elected and/or appointed officials coming in and out of the hearing room all day. They are NOT limited to 3 minutes of speaking time and can 'bump' you in speaking order.
"DO realize there will be other bills not related to our gun bill being heard the same day. Testimony will be interspersed with people testifying on totally unrelated subjects to ours.
"DO say 'thank you' to the legislators for the opportunity to speak — if you pass one in the hall, ride down the elevator or sit near one at lunch time."
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And here's what the list says not to do:
"DO NOT come to the hearing with ANY weapon (gun, knife, scissors, etc) in your possession. This should be a no brainer but you'd be surprised.
"DO NOT come dressed inappropriately (i.e., T-shirts, 'Come and Take It' and related slogans, Gadsden Flag wear, camo outfits, etc.) This is NOT a tea party rally. This is a somber, upscale, official legislative hearing. Media will be there and anyone looking like a clown or stereotypical "gun guy" by their definition, will be zoomed in on and televised to the public — hurting gunowners' images permanently. Business Professional attire preferred. Business Casual at a minimum.
"DO NOT Clap, boo, or otherwise disrupt the hearing. They can kick us all out. This has been a problem at recent hearings by those not trained in the etiquette of Public Hearings.
"DO NOT talk on your cell phone. and turn your cell to vibrate. If you have to use your cell phone — get up and quietly walk out of the hearing room into the lobby to use it.
"DO NOT walk around the back to where the legislators are seated, you will be immediately arrested. (I saw this happen last year — a guy thought he could walk over and tap a legislator on the shoulder during the hearing). The doors are on the edges of the legislators amphitheater platform. Do NOT go there. Open the door, quietly walk in or out of the room to and from your seat in the audience. That's it.
"DO NOT eat or drink in the hearing room. I have seen people take sips from water bottles in their bags and that seems to be 'ok' because it's not messy or disruptive — but don't walk into the hearing room and tear open a bag of chips or slobber away at a pizza. Eat lunch outside. There is a cafe there with usual serving times and it's not a bad place to hang out and converse with your peers.
"That's basically it. Common sense for most people, but unfortunately every year there's at least one or a few who spoil it."
The league's website, http://www.ccdl.us, has been publicizing the Feb. 2 seminar and invites people to print copies of the notice and post one at their gun club or store: "CCDL invites all to attend that are interested in playing a vital role in defense of their liberty and preserving our 2nd Amendment rights in Connecticut. New London-Windham County League of Sportsmen Invited. Bring your friends!"
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Calendar Tiles is the app that allows you to show appointments from more than one calendar on a Tile. If you created more than one calendar with your Microsoft Account, Calendar Tiles allows you to create a seperate Tile for each calendar and to specify for each calendar if it's appointments should be shown on the applications main Tile. A tile displays up to 5 appointments. With Calendar Tiles it is NOT possible to edit/create/delete appointments. Calendar Tiles is meant to display your appointments on Tiles in a nicer way.


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Actor Eom Tae-woong and actress Jeong Ryeo-won from the movie "Never Ending Story" appeared in the KBS 2TV program "Happy Together 3" on the 12th.
When Eom Tae-woong was asked, "Have you had feelings for Jeong Ryeo-won?" he answered honestly, "Yes". He also admitted to buying her dinner one time.
He had once admitted to liking Soo-ae. When he was asked to choose between Soo-ae and Jeong Ryeo-won he said, "I like both".
Jeong Ryeo-won said, "When I told him that I was having dinner with Soo-ae, he said 'The two women I like are having dinner together'" and made everyone there burst out laughing.
She also said she got proposed to by Eom Tae-woong and when she confronted him about proposing to everyone he worked with he said she was his last and surprised her.
Meanwhile, other than Jeong Ryo-won and Eom Tae-woong, Yoo Seon and Park Ki-woong made an appearance on this day.
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The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), which regulated Panama City-based
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The OTS came under fire from lawmakers after the 2008 financial crisis for having a cozy relationship with failed megabank
Peoples First paid about $2 million in assessments to the OTS between 2005 and 2010. And while the office spent conducted several examinations of the bank during that period, it spent less than 90 hours looking at the bank during three limited-scope exams — conducted between more comprehensive, or "full-scope" examinations — completed in February 2007 and August 2008.
The first full-scope exam took 3,445 hours of OTS time and resulted in a finding that the bank was in satisfactory health. The August 2008 exam took 3,723 hours and found serious problems. Regulators notified the bank in a letter the following
The audit report says the OTS subsequently approved three new high-risk loans to the tune of $2.2 million, and approved the renewal of 33 more such loans for $60.1 million, despite the fact that 28 of the 33 borrowers hadn't reduced the principal on the original loans in the 12
In interviews with auditors, one OTS examiner said Peoples First would have protested more stringent regulations and would have left the bank vulnerable to competing banks, but the inspector general's auditor found that excuse lacking.
"We believe these were not valid reasons for deferring stronger action and that OTS should have acted earlier and more forcefully to reduce high-risk lending activity … and the loss to the Deposit Insurance Fund due to Peoples First's failure might have been reduced," the report says.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) sued the former president and board of directors of Peoples First in December 2012, claiming the defendants were grossly negligent for approval high-risk loans without properly vetting the ability of the borrowers to repay or the value of borrowers' collateral. A trial has been scheduled for April 2014.
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> Dear LUGOD,
> My Linux installation came with Apache, MySQL, and PHP working; however,
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> however, PHP doesn't connect to MySQL, which is running.
> I'm trying to install mediawiki which requires all three to work
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> Could not find a suitable database driver!
> * For MySQL, compile PHP using --with-mysql, or install the mysql.so
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> Look for the snippet that says:
> cd ../php-NN
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> make
> make install
> I don't have apxs. "locate apxs" returns nothing. So googling it sends
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'vox-tech mailing list'
by one of its subscribers.
Quoting Bill Broadley (firstname.lastname@example.com):
> Er, right in the bold 3rd paragraph he mentions /boot, he mentioned in in the
> why partition paragraph... twice. In fact he mentioned /boot as 4th most
> important partition ahead of /tmp, /var, /home, and /usr/local. He mentioned
> /boot a dozen or so times, and it's in his examples that he lists.
> So what is factually incorrect again?
It's not in his basic recommendation, nor his "How many partitions"
list, nor his desktop recommendation. The only example he has it in is
"A suggested laptop/desktop configuration" at the end. You're
characterisation of "strong on /boot" is obviously wrong -- as will be
apparent to anyone who actually reads the page.
But, you know, Karsten has already done his best to set you straight.
Oddly, there are scenarios where a separate /boot still makes some
sense, even on modern hardware where the 1024 logical cylinder BIOS
booting limit no longer applies -- but for the most part, that is (as I
already said) indeed obsolete.
Partitioning needs emerge from the particular situations of specific
systems, always. Attentive reading of Karsten's page would have told
you he was saying that. If not, his post _here_ calling your attention
to that fact should have. ;->
> > And yet a trained monkey can do "df -h" on a similar installed
> > system, to guesstimate the target requirement for the system's
> > projected life.
> Sure, if you have a similar system like that in production, even then
> it seems like a fair number of mistakes are made, like you are Karsten
> occasional reinstalls and use the use.
And yet, this proves in practice to almost never be a problem.
When starting out, you don't get fancy, you observe where space is
needed and how much, and it becomes pretty obvious. Observe, learn,
apply knowledge gained. This really isn't difficult.
> IMO as far as maintenance, robustness, and
> sustainability are concerned that many (>= 6) are worse than few (<=4)
> partitions are having to resort to ln -s is particularly evil, ruins
> performance and makes it harder to maintain the machine.
The 11 years of 24x7 service from my server's hard drives (the pair that
were killed eventually by a PG&E power spike, this past April) seem
incompatible with your assertion about maintenance, robustness, and
sustainability. Just as one data point that is handiest to mind.
Obviously, you move part of a filesystem and symlink it only as a
last-resort move, and you do _not_ do that for performance-sensitive
moves, as fortunately most would not be.
What you would generally eventually then do, in that last-resort
scenario, is rsync-over-ssh the data off to somewhere across a network
for safekeeping, blow away the filesystems in question, remake them at
the desired size, remount, rsync the data back. That's how we do it in
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Heathrow Connect
Heathrow Connect's stopping service to London Paddington links the airport with local stations in west London.
Journey times and frequency
Modern, air-conditioned trains run every 30 minutes. The journey between Paddington and Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 takes about 25 minutes (a few minutes more for Terminal 4 or 5).
Route and fares
Single fares to or from Heathrow are as follows:
- Hayes & Harlington: £6.10
- Southall: £6.70
- Hanwell: £6.70
- West Ealing: £7.80
- Ealing Broadway: £7.80
- London Paddington: £10.10
Train times
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Where to catch trains
Trains from Paddington now terminate at Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3. Passengers travelling to Terminal 4 or Terminal 5 should change on to the Heathrow Express service at Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 – travel between terminals is free.
For travel outside Heathrow, please ensure you buy your ticket at the station before boarding the train. A penalty fare zone operates between Hayes & Harlington and London Paddington.
London connections
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YIELD: Makes 6 servings
Preheat oven to 400°F. Spray 8 x 8 x 2-inch glass baking dish with vegetable oil spray. Whisk wine and cornstarch in small bowl to blend. Whisk flour in heavy medium saucepan to remove any lumps. Gradually add milk to flour, whisking until smooth. Add broth and thyme and whisk over medium heat until liquid thickens and boils, about 4 minutes. Add cornstarch mixture and whisk until liquid boils and is smooth, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Add Neufch‰tel cheese and whisk until melted. Stir in both cans of tuna with their liquid and frozen peas. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Meanwhile, cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain pasta. Return to pot.
Add tuna mixture to pasta; stir to blend well. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Sprinkle with potato chips. Bake until top is golden and sauce bubbles around edges of dish, about 25 minutes.


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Yankees flock to the sunny South where flowers bloom even in the middle of winter and summertime rules for most of the year. What nobody tells you is why the Yankees hightail it back North again.
Yankee, Go Home exposes the gritty side of the South. Get lost in Arkansas and chased through Alabama by a madman. Find out who really won the Civil War and why. Come face to face with the Ku Klux Klan through the eyes of two tough, Yankee bikers. Meet up with a cop under the watchful eye of The Big Chicken.
Discover the South through the eyes of a Yankee in this memoir of a Yankee in the South.
Get the answers to your most burning questions: Does it snow in the South? Are the bugs really bigger in the South? What's the proper way to say hello? What Southern delicacy is considered unmentionable? What happens when a Yankee faces off with her Southern counterparts in the 1970s and 80s?
©1994, 2011 Sharon Delarose (P)2013 Sharon Delarose
As a Yankee living in the South, I was very interested to see how my experiences compared to the ones in this book. I too, moved to a new city with no family or friends there. Just had to wing it, so to speak. I completely understood getting used to the customs, food and slower way of life compared to when I lived up North.
Ms. Delarose wrote a good story with likable characters. Ms. Howlett gave each character their own voice and kept me interested in the book. I thought the book ended a little suddenly and I would have like to have known what happened with Dottie after the final scenes.
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Carmel, N.Y. – (11/14/11) – Twenty-seven veterans from throughout the Hudson Valley were honored at Senator Greg Ball (R, C – Patterson) Veterans' Hall of Fame. Among them, was Retired Technical Sergeant Kenneth H. Mallen of Beekman.
Mallen joined the United States Army on December 12, 1941, and served in the 658th Tank Destroyer Battalion during World War II. While stationed at Fort Ord in California, Mallen's unit was designated as the 658th Amphibian Tractor Battalion and assigned to the Philippines, where the Battalion received credit for four campaigns: Bismarck Archipelago, Leyte, Luzon, and Southern Philippines. During his service, Mallen earned a Bronze Star, an Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, and a Philippines Liberation Medal.
A seventy-year member of the Beekman Fire Company, Mallen has been the town's fire chief and also the Fire Commissioner for the Beekman Fire District. Receiving his teaching certificate from the State University at New Paltz, Mallen has also taught automotive mechanics at Green Haven Correctional Facility.
Created and hosted by Senator Ball, the Veterans' Hall of Fame was designed to honor outstanding veterans from throughout the 40th Senate District. Each veteran that was honored will be included on a traveling wall that will tour local municipalities throughout the 40th district.
During his opening remarks Senator Ball said, "The veterans who are here today were nominated by their communities, hand-picked because they chose a path of courage, honor, integrity and bravery; a path that helped shape America as we know it, protecting our way of life and liberty."


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The latest product to make its way from the storage networking arena into the data center networking arena is Cisco's new NX-OS, next generation network operating system. Cisco has taken the highly succesful MDS line of switches, and expanded on their success by taking their core operating system – SAN-OS and expanding it to provide [...]
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Bob Thall, photographer, 1986
Courtesy, Commission
on Chicago Landmarks
Philip Livingston, photographer,
Courtesy, Columbia College Chicago
1104 Center
1100 – 1108 S. Wabash Ave. / 31 -51 East 11th
120 feet x 166 feet, 8 stories
William LeBaron Jenney
W.B. Mundie, 1891-1892
Renovation architect: A.S. Coffen, 1920
Original Name:
The Ludington Building
Present Name:
Ludington Building, 1104 Wabash Campus
Acquired by College: 1999
Original Building Type: Office
Chicago Commercial
1104 S. Wabash Avenue, built in 1891, is a City of Chicago
Landmark (1996) and is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places (1980). Built by William
LeBaron Jenney, acknowledged as the inventor of the
skyscraper for his fire-proofed metal skeleton-frame designs,
the Ludington building represents his continuing experimentation
as the first entirely terra cotta-clad skyscraper. The Ludington
is also a rare survivor, one of only two extant loft buildings
in Chicago built by Jenney.
This eight-story, steel-frame building, boasting one of
the finest examples of a terra-cotta clad façade,
was commissioned by Mary Ludington Barnes for the American
Book Company, which was owned by her husband, Charles Barnes.
At the time, Chicago was a national center for the publishing
industry, as demonstrated by this building and many others,
particularly those on "Printing House Row,"
and including the former Lakeside Press Building owned by
Columbia College. The American Book Company built the building
to house its offices, printing presses, packaging and shipping
operations. Its frame was built to withstand the weight
and vibrations of the presses, which were originally located
on the 4th through 6th floors, and to accommodate the anticipated
8 story addition that was never built. Its status as a manufacturing
facility determined its form as a loft building, with a
practical and efficient interior that had few elegant original
elements. Its location, between the Grand Central terminal
at Harrison and Wells Streets and the Illinois Central station
at Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road, made it ideal for
the distribution of the company's products.
The Ludington Building was owned by descendents of its
original owners until 1960, although it was occupied by
many different tenants, including the Pepsodent toothpaste
company in the 1910s and '20s. In 1960 it was sold
to Warshawsky and Company, an autoparts firm, for use as
a storage facility. Columbia College Chicago purchased the
building from Warshawsky in 1999. The Ludington currently
houses the school's Center for Book and Paper Arts,
a portion of the Film and Video Department, the Glass Curtain
Gallery and the Conaway Multicultural Center.
Design Philosophy
William LeBaron Jenney based his approach to architecture
on engineering principles by identifying and solving design
problems through technology. The problems to be solved were
enormous; there was a need for buildings with many stories
of space, yet historic masonry loadbearing structures of
great height required thick walls, particularly at their
base. This was not satisfactory, in part due to the expense
of the materials, and due to the fact that, for building
owners, the ground floor retail space represented the most
valuable rent per square foot. If a significant percentage
of this valuable space were lost to the thickness of the
walls, the building would not be nearly as profitable, and
the purpose for erecting it would be lost. An additional
problem was height; the more stairs a tenant had to climb,
the less could be charged in rent. And, especially in Chicago
during the years after the Great Fire, the problem of fireproofing
a tall building needed to be solved.
Jenney's solution was to create a metal structural
skeleton, and to hang the entire building from it. The metal
frame would carry all of the weight of the building, isolating
it and carrying it to the foundation at every vertical support.
This relieved the walls of any load-bearing function, effectively
turning them into screens which kept the weather out, and
allowing them to be open in an unprecedented way. Because
the frame allowed for thinner, more open walls, the problems
presented by thick masonry walls were solved, and buildings
became more profitable for their owners and their retail
tenants. The problem of fireproofing was solved by cladding
the structural supports in terra cotta, and the floors could
be made of the same material to help keep any fire from
spreading quickly from floor to floor. Lastly, the problem
of height was solved by elevators, which went through a
dramatic period of technical advance during the 1880s, particularly
with the introduction of electric elevators in 1887. With
the exertion of stair-climbing eliminated, not only were
tall buildings practical, but the potential rate of income
from higher floors was greatly increased.
In emphasizing the importance of the skeletal frame, by
this time he considered the problem of the building's
fireproofing in a new way, as a skin that would provide
a protective envelope but only to cover the structural elements
that functionally required it. Dismissing brick as too heavy
and traditional hand-made terra cotta as too costly, Jenney
advocated "terra cotta made rapidly by machine at
low price, its surface dull glazed, impervious to moisture,
hard baked, uniform in quality and color, using hand work
for the few carved pieces." (Jenney, William LeBaron,
"The Age of Steel and Clay," Inland Architect,
August, 1890.) The conclusion he reached in the article
is not only a guide to the future of design, it is also
a description of the Ludington Building: "With cheap
steel of a very superior quality and a light, dull-glazed
terra cotta and a strong light fireproofing, we are ready
to build as never before – light, strong, and at a
reasonable price within reach of every one who can afford
to build at all; and we have entered upon a new age, an
age of steel and clay." (Jenney, William LeBaron,
"The Age of Steel and Clay," Inland Architect,
August, 1890.)
His advocacy of mass-produced terra cotta, and his exclusive
use of it on the façade and throughout the Ludington
Building, led Jenney and other architects into a new era.
Within a decade entirely terra cotta clad structures would
become the norm, as demonstrated by such important landmarks
as the Reliance Building of 1894-95 and the Railway Exchange
Building of 1903-04, both by Daniel H. Burnham & Company,
and the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Store by Louis
Sullivan, built from 1899 to1905. In addition, it led to
the growth of the terra cotta industry, making Chicago the
largest producer of architectural terra cotta in the world
during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
"The Ludington Building expresses Jenney's
philosophy more strongly than even the First Leiter and
the Leiter Store. In a certain sense, Jenney had come full
circle because the Ludington realized in steel the initial
statement made by the First Leiter in iron and wood."
(Turak, Theodore. William LeBaron Jenney, A Pioneer of Modern
Architecture, p. 295.)
As the pre-eminent work by one of history's most
important, innovative architects, the Ludington Building
can be considered essential to our understanding of the
development of the skyscraper, of Chicago's role in
architecture, and of the birth of modern architecture.
The Ludington Building is an eight-story, steel frame structure.
One reason for its national significance is its status as
the first entirely terra cotta-clad skyscraper in history.
Its principal facades, facing Wabash Avenue and 11th Street,
are faced with unglazed red terra cotta that was, at some
point in its early history, painted white. Its side walls
are common brick, although the terra cotta facing wraps
around the corner at the alley. Rare for buildings of its
period, the Ludington retains its original terra cotta cornice.
The other two elevations are faced with common brick.
The Ludington is a Chicago Commercial Style building, characterized
by the clear expression of its structural frame, by the
lack of thick masonry in imitation of load-bearing walls,
particularly at its base, and by windows of historically
unprecedented size.
The terra cotta cladding on the façade carries
classical revival details that have been called Lombard
Renaissance in style:
"Jenney decorated the frame with classical motifs
that foreshadowed the Classical Revival initiated by the
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Ludington
exhibits a Neo Grec adaptation of the Lombard Renaissance.
This style can be seen in the flat decoration of the pilasters
and the clustering of candelabra and other ornament around
the doorway. The choice of the Lombard Renaissance was appropriate.
Terra cotta and brick were the natural materials of northern
Italy, and the weightlessness of the style suits the light
skin of the Ludington." (Turak, Theodore. William
LeBaron Jenney, A Pioneer of Modern Architecture, p. 299.)
The Ludington Building is among the most significant buildings
in Chicago, and is a milestone in the history of the skyscraper.
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Apache Announces OpenOffice 3.4
The Apache OpenOffice Project announces Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation.
"With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown Intellectual Property heritage, to a vetted and Apache Licensed software suite," said Jim Jagielski, ASF President and an Apache OpenOffice project mentor. "The release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 shows just how successful the project has been..." Jagielski said.
OpenOffice 3.4 features include: faster startup, improved ODF encryption support, enhanced pivot table support in Calc, improved CSV export, enhanced graphics, and improvements in performance and quality. The complete list of new features, functions, and improvements is available in the release notes.
According to the announcement, Apache OpenOffice is the leading open source office productivity suite, with more than 100 million users worldwide, across 15 languages. The software is available for download free of charge. More information on the Apache OpenOffice product can be found at: http://www.openoffice.org.
Issue 177/2015
Buy this issue as a PDF
NoScript Flaw
Mozilla's script blocker add-on could be putting malware sites on the whitelist.
RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
Mate 1.1 Arrives
Popular desktop environment continues the Gnome 2 legacy – with new support for the Gnome 3 toolkit.
US Government Requires HTTPS
The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
Mozilla Signs Firefox Add-Ons
New program will dial up security for the Firefox browser.
Fedora 22 Arrives
Red Hat's community distro embraces the cloud.
Code.org and College Board Team Reach Out for Talented High School Coders
New partnership will bring more and better CS training to US schools
A Peek Inside TeslaCrypt Ransomware
Criminals offer online help over Tor network
Mumblehard Still Spams
Sophisticated malware is still present on Joomla and WordPress sites around the world.
Launchpad Gets Git
Future versions of Ubuntu's code service will support the popular Git version control system used with Linux and other open source projects.


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One of my favorite summer fruits...peaches! They are so juicy and have such an amazing flavor. They only make their appearance this time of year, so I always snatch up as many as I can. My kids love to just eat freshly sliced peaches, in all their glory. I love to bake them in a peach cobbler or this rustic peach pie!
Pies can be so intimidating. There are lots of steps...making the crust, refrigerating the crust, making the filling, rolling out the crust, putting the pie together, and waiting for it to bake. Rustic pies are great because even though you have all of those steps, there is no need to make sure the top crust is just right (sometimes the most intimidating part). You fold over the excess crust over those beautiful peaches and you've got a pie ready to go in the oven.
In my personal opinion, there is only one way to enjoy a slice of peach pie. Warm and topped with a scoop of vanilla coconut milk ice cream. The sweet and juicy peaches pair so wonderfully with the creamy ice cream. It's a summertime treat that will never go out of style!
gluten free vegan rustic peach pie
pie dough
- 1 1/2 cups Sarah's gluten free flour blend
- 2 tablespoons cornmeal
- 3 tablespoon organic cane sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons Earth Balance vegan butter, cold
- 3 tablespoons organic non-hydrogenated shortening
- 4-5 tablespoons ice-cold water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
peach filling
- 8 ripe peaches, peeled and slice
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup organic cane sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons So Delicious coconut coffee creamer or coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon organic cane sugar
Sift together the flour blend, sugar and salt. Add the vegan butter and shortening. Using a pastry cutter, combine until resembles a course meal and butter pieces are less than pea-size. Pour in 4 tablespoons cold water and lemon juice. Continue to blend until dough comes together. Add an additional tablespoon of water, if needed. Pat dough into a round disc, wrap in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for 1 hour or until ready to use.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine peach slices, cornstarch, sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice in large bowl. Set aside. On counter surface, lay out a large piece of parchment paper. Remove plastic wrap from pie dough. On counter surface, lay out a large piece of parchment paper and place pie dough in the center. Top with another large piece of parchment paper (this keeps the dough from sticking to the rolling pin). Roll out your dough until you have a 14-inch circle.
Remove top sheet of parchment and turn dough onto pie dish. Peel off other piece of parchment. Let excess hang over edge. Pour filling into dough evenly spread out peaches. Fold remaining dough inward, over the peaches.
Brush crust with coconut milk and sprinkle with sugar. Bake pie for 60-65 minutes, or until crust is evenly golden brown and filling is bubbly. Let cool on cooling rack for at least 1 hour. Best served warm and with a scoop of coconut milk vanilla ice cream.


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Wind Turbine Service Technology - Career Studies Certificate
The wind energy industry is experiencing a very high growth rate and has the potential for immediate application as a viable component of our country's strategic energy plan. Most states are already actively involved in this industry, and related projects and proposals are now in the development stages in Virginia.
The Basic Wind Turbine Service Technician Career Studies Certificate requires the completion of 29 credits that provides students with the basic knowledge and skills needed to enter employment as a technician. Those who complete the program will have an overview of the principles of wind energy, an understanding of the equipment used in turbines and a set of skills that will allow them to seek entry-level employment in the field and serve as a foundation for the development of more advanced skills.
The Wind Turbine Service Technology Certificate program prepares individuals for career entry and advancement opportunities in the advanced technology applications of manufacturing and wind energy technologies. The program is designed to prepare students to become Wind Turbine Service Technicians to support the system installation, operation and maintenance needs of the wind energy industry.
Under minimal supervision, graduates of the Wind Energy Turbine Technician Certificate Training Program will be able to:
- Install, test, service and repair utility-scale and small wind turbine systems and components
- Troubleshoot and maintain automated control and PLC systems
- Troubleshoot and maintain Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems
- Perform all job functions in a safe manner in compliance with applicable safety standards
- Wear personal protective equipment (PPE) for climbing and safe wind turbine climbing skills
This program is based on national standards and focuses on the development of industry-defined competencies and skills in: electricity, electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, computers and networking, mechanical systems and mechanisms, mechatronics, PLCs, electrical power generation and distribution, wind power systems, teamwork, quality safety.
DSLCC will work with its partners to respond to industry-wide challenges and opportunities related to meeting the growing demand for skilled technicians who can install, maintain and service modern utility-scale and small wind turbines.
Scholarship Information:
A scholarship for the Wind Turbine Service Technology Certificate may be available by following the steps listed below:
- Read this Letter to potential student applicants
- Read this document that outlines the Scholarship Guidelines
- Provide all documentation required as listed in this Eligibility Verification Chart
- Submit the Scholarship Application
Also, please be advised that a Free Application for Federal Student Aid must have been completed and submitted before this scholarship for the Wind Turbine Scholarship will be processed.
Program Requirements
This application is required. Please read all the conditions carefully before submitting.
Students must meet the general admission requirements to the College.
Persons applying for entrance into this program will be assessed for mechanical aptitude, ability to climb and work at heights in excess of 100 feet, ability to work in enclosed spaces and lift 50 pounds. Failure to meet these standards may disqualify the applicant from the program.
In addition, students need to be aware that pursuing this certificate means you understand that many employers have specific job requirements. Wind Turbine Technicians work with large, complex computer-controlled electromechanical systems. Although some technicians may work in manufacturing facilities, most Wind Turbine Service Technicians will work in the field and may be expected to carry out their duties at both on-shore and off-shore sites, in confined spaces in elevated locations, and sometimes under extreme environmental conditions.
Some of the climates and locations may be harsh and physically demanding. Many employers have specific climbing, lifting, or other physical activity requirements as terms of employment. The use of heavy equipment may be involved. In addition to expected knowledge, specific skill sets and physical requirements, employers may also have applicants provide evidence of a clean driving record, no criminal history and/or no use of illegal substances.
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Nice surprise for dry beansArea edible bean growers are finishing up a surprisingly good harvest, officials say.
By: Jonathan Knutson, Agweek
Area edible bean growers are finishing up a surprisingly good harvest, officials say.
"Yields are fairly good. Quality is good," says Tim Courneya, executive vice president of the Northarvest Bean Growers Association in Frazee, Minn. "With so little rain and so much heat, who would have expected it?" North Dakota is the nation's leading producer of edible beans. Minnesota ranks fourth.
Typically, most edible beans in the region are harvested from early September to early October. The early spring this year allowed beans to be planted and harvested earlier than usual. Many growers made rapid harvest progress in late August, while others waited for rain that would moisten dry beans and improve harvest conditions. Moderate rains late in the week of Sept. 3 helped provide the desired moisture, growers say.
In general, edible bean plants successfully put down roots this spring, which helped them tap good subsoil moisture, Courneya says.
While yields overall were average or a little better, they varied greatly. Some growers report very good yields, while others report poor.
Beans on light, sandy soil generally didn't fare as well as beans on heavier, better soil, says Brian Engstrom, manager of Engstrom Bean and Seed in Leeds, N.D.
Though the summer generally was dry, some areas received meaningful rains that helped dry beans, says Tom Kennelly, a Grafton, N.D., farmer whose family has raised the crop since 1965.
Yields on his farm were average, while quality was outstanding, he says.
Prices take a stumble
Harvest pressure has worked against prices recently, says Gary Fuglesen, manager of Central Valley Bean Cooperative in Buxton, N.D.
In early September, farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota received $37 per hundredweight for pinto beans, the most common variety in the region. That was down from $38 per hundredweight a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By the middle of September, pinto prices had fallen to $35 per hundredweight, Engstrom says.
He and others say area edible bean growers generally will hang on to most of this year's crop, in hopes that prices will rally. Engstrom is optimistic that prices will improve during the winter.
Courneya says the rule of thumb is that roughly 25 percent of the region's edible beans are grown under contract. The percentage varies from year to year and by varieties, of which there are nine.
That means many area dry bean growers, at least the ones with average or better yields, still have a lot of beans to sell.
Kennelly says he naturally would like high prices for his crops. At the same time, he realizes some foreign customers, especially ones in Third World countries, can't afford those high prices.
If U.S. bean prices stay too high too long, some foreign customers will switch to other competing products, he says.
About 20 percent of U.S. dry beans are exported, according to USDA.
Mexico accounts for a quarter of U.S. dry bean exports.
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Notre Dame seniors, front to back, Jade Sorensen, 17, Maddie Zahn, 18, and Erin Schilling, 17, cheer for the girls basketball team Monday during the Class 1A quarterfinal game against Colo-Nesco at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Notre Dame fans wore two shirts during the game, starting with yellow in the first half and switching to blue in the second half. Notre Dame won 60-43 to advance to the semifinals. The team will face Central Lyon at 10 a.m. Thursday. For more on Monday's game, see page 1B.


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As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape
Still, with more than 5 million people taking part in blocos last year, by official estimate, the accompanying chaos, litter and traffic nightmares brought by the street parties has sparked a backlash, with some critics calling on City Hall to rein the blocos in.
"While they're a guaranteed good time for some, the street parties bring problems for others," read a recent opinion piece titled "Too Much Joy" in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. "The consensus is that many of them have grown too big and need to be held in an appropriate place."
City Hall has brushed off the complaints. This year, officials handed out 15 percent more bloco authorizations than for 2012, giving the green light to 492 street parties.
Speaking at a recent news conference, city Tourism Secretary Antonio Figueira de Mello dismissed criticism as "a conflict of interest between residents."
"With an event that has as big an impact on the city as Carnival, you're always going to have lots of happy people and lots of unhappy people, particularly when events are taking place on the front steps of your building and when they get in the way of your daily routine," Mello said. "Blocos are like street fairs: Everyone likes them, but no one wants one on their street."
Mello stressed that with the rise in the number of blocos comes a ramping up of logistical support.
The number of traffic cops has been increased 25 percent to nearly 1,000 officers in a bid to smooth transportation snarls. Nearly 7,800 municipal guards are to be deployed to encourage revelers to take advantage of this year's 17,200 portable toilets — up from just 900 four years ago. Fines will be levied on those caught urinating in public, Mello said.
Such measures are cold comfort for many residents.
Vinicius Netto, an urbanism professor, said that after "suffering" through the last four Carnivals, he and his girlfriend have decided not to stick around to see if things run more smoothly this time around. They're spending Carnival on an isolated island several hours away.
"Rio is the mecca of Carnival, and I respect that," Netto said. "The problem is that it takes over the city to such an extent that there's no space left for those of us who, for whatever reason, would prefer not to participate."


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Road trips for Elementary Education, Curriculum & Instruction, and EDRC staff so far this year include visits to partner sites:
• St. Paul Public Schools: Saint Anthony Park, Frost Lake, and Linwood/Monroe (both campuses)
• Minneapolis Public Schools: Dowling, Lucy Laney, Hall, Andersen, Marcy, Pillsbury, Barton, Roosevelt, Sanford
• Columbia Heights Public Schools: North Park, Highland and Valley View
• White Bear Lake Area Schools: Otter and Lincoln
• Edina: Highlands
Other school sites visited specifically by Elementary Education's Kathy Byrn include Sioux Trails in Burnsville, Brimhall in Roseville, and XinXing in Hopkins.
We also visited district teams and representatives in Saint Paul, Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, and Forest Lake.
Next semester we plan to visit the following partner schools that we did not get to this fall:
• Vadnais in WBL
• Nokomis/Sheridan in SPPS
• Crossroads in SPPS
• Lino Lakes in Forest Lake
Also included are these other practicum sites, cluster sites, or potential cluster/PDS sites:
• Harvest, charter
• Harambee, Roseville
• Kenny, MSP
• Kenwood, MSP
• Creek Valley, Edina
• Soujourner Truth Academy, charter
If we haven't already been there, we look forward to seeing you soon!
Kathy Byrn, Elementary Education Clinical Coordinator
Amy Jo Lundell, Curriculum & Instruction Clinical Placement Coordinator
Jehanne Beaton, TERI/MPS Partnership Liaison @ RHS
Tiffany Moore, TERI/MPS Induction Coordinator
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We wanted to take some time today to discuss a frequently made mistake in the application process. In their desire to make their case to their target MBA programs, many applicants devote sentences and even paragraphs to explaining why the school in question is their "first choice" and arguing its superiority over other schools.
Though certainly understandable, this is actually not a very productive exercise. Let's consider a few reasons why, from the schools' point of view:
Tell me something I don't know. A popular strategy – and not always bad one – for applicants seeking to demonstrate their fit with one school above any other is to study its website to understand the program's self-determined selling points, and then profess an interest in those. The thing that essay writers don't always consider is that while a school's distinguishing characteristics might be the factors that set it apart from others, this is not necessarily what the admissions committee wants to read about in an applicant's essays. The very admissions officer reading your file spends months every year pushing this marketing message out to prospective students. Members of Harvard's and Darden's admissions staff know all about the merits of the case method, Kellogg and Duke's admissions committees are already up to their ears in team-orientation, and Stanford and Yale could not be more aware of the benefits of a small class size. This isn't to say that you shouldn't touch briefly on these key points (the schools highlight these for a reason), only to suggest that to put together a really compelling application, it's important to push beyond high-level differentiators and immediate association and demonstrate that you've learned about the program on a deeper level. In making room for this level of detail within a restrictive word limit, cutting other schools out of the picture is a great starting point.
Enough about us, let's talk about you. It's not uncommon for applicants to become so engrossed in explaining how their target program differs from other business schools that they neglect to really articulate how their own interests, personality and preferences fit into the picture. Very nearly every school requires that prospective students compose an essay explaining how the MBA program will help them accomplish their goals, but there's not a single one that adds "better than any other MBA program." Though several schools do explicitly inquire about other target programs if an applicant advances to an interview, at this early point the adcom is much more interested in hearing about the candidate and his or her fit with the school. It's a bit premature to assure a school that it's your number one pick when the adcom hasn't even decided whether they're interested. It's better to use all the space at your disposal in the essays to cover your experiences and accomplishments, share your aspirations and showcase your research on the MBA program.
I bet you say that to all the girls. Seriously, though, if an applicant goes out of his way to profess that Chicago Booth is the best school for him, is his first choice, etc., Booth really has no assurance that this applicant hasn't written an equally passionate love letter to regional rival Kellogg. If a strategy seems likely to work in one place, might as well use it everyplace, right? Yes, it's generally true that schools prefer to admit students who are excited about their program and seem likely to attend, but actions speak louder than words. The details of campus visits and conversations with students and alumni are far better topics to cover in your essays. To invoke a classic essay-writing maxim, "show, don't tell" the adcom that you care. Further, the best way to convince the adcom that you "only have eyes for their school" is to not mention any other school at all.
We hope that this offers a number of helpful "do"s to offset this big essay "don't." It is very important to get an in-depth understanding of your target MBA programs and engage members of the community. Taking the time to learn about the school's curriculum, special programs and extracurricular activities – whether through a visit to campus, conversations with members of the community or reading the Clear Admit School Guides – will pay dividends here. Happy writing and researching!
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