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The mission of the Reading and Language Arts Leadership Specialist Credential Program is to prepare professional reading educators to be competent practitioners and agents for positive personal and social change to ensure that every California learner achieves full and equitable literacy.
All Reading programs are a part of the Professional Literacy Educator Model where candidates use the seminar and narrative essay format to develop the Four Habits of Observation, Reflection, Caring and Excellence.
Student-Centered: Full literacy is the goal for every child. Developmental, research-based knowledge of how children learn is applied to instruction and assessment.
Diversity-Centered: Theories, strategies, behaviors, skills, and attitudes needed to effectively teach learners of differing cultural, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds is fully integrated into instruction.
Field-Centered: Each teacher's district, school site and classroom offer opportunities to observe and apply knowledge gained through coursework. Course learning is integrated with classroom application, including field visits to outstanding reading/language arts programs and multicultural institutions and settings.
Leadership-Centered: Literacy leaders reflect and model the best attitudes and practices for the community as a whole. Leadership skills in reading/language arts curriculum design, implementation and evaluation with an emphasis on long-term parent and staff development are stressed.
The education of excellent, caring Reading Credential teachers, specialists, and Literacy Coaches must include a wide range of competencies. These competencies, though varied, focus on Literacy Leadership which is at the heart of the program's vision.
Developing a personal concept of reading/ language arts with a strong, fundamental and current theoretical, research and multicultural base.
- Designing, sustaining, and sharing environments that promote multicultural literacy.
- Viewing and working with students in ways that recognize and build on learning, behavioral, cultural and language strengths.
- Using an array of assessment and program planning principles and skills with individuals, and groups, at classroom; school, district, regional and statewide levels.
- Increasing expertise in the areas of staff development and professional leadership in a variety of contexts.
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Saint Mary's College of California
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Moraga, CA 94575
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A few months back, I was having a talk with my editor at Wiley Publishing, Amy Fandrei – mostly talking about what it would take for me to finish up writing the 3rd Edition of WordPress For Dummies and what was happening with the 3.0 development of WordPress, etc. That lead us into a talk about some more advanced topics surrounding WordPress – – more advanced than what my Dummies book covers. Let's face it – a For Dummies book is meant to be for beginners and intermediate users, right? But what about a book that covers the WHOLE gammut? A reference book that is useful for a wide variety of users – -so that beginners can start with it, and as they continue to grow – can continue to use the resource to step into areas of WordPress that they may never have tried before.
WordPress For Dummies 3rd Edition available
WordPress For Dummies, 3rd Edition by Lisa Sabin-Wilson (Wiley Pub.) is now available on Amazon.com for pre-order. This edition of the book was, almost, completely re-written and covers all the basics about the WordPress platform – including all the great new features that version 3.0 brings to its users, including how to set up and use the new Multi Site features so you can run more than one blog or web site on ONE installation of the WordPress software, how to use the custom menu feature to build and create your own custom navigation menus, a comprehensive look at the NEW default WordPress theme called Twenty Ten, using custom post types to create new ways to present different types of content – – as well as the rest of the information you've come to expect from WordPress For Dummies
My Free BuddyPress Webinar at WebDesign.Com
I'm excited to announce that I am doing a free webinar presentation for my good friends at WebDesign.com on June 23rd at 1pm CST (Central Standard Time). The webinar is on the topic of using BuddyPress to create an online community on your WordPress powered site. I speak on the topic of BuddyPress often, as a matter of fact, I just finished up a presentation at the WordCamp in Raleigh, North Carolina this past weekend and it's great to see how excited people are about BuddyPress. It also amazes me how many people do not yet know what BuddyPress is – or how they can use it to add that layer of social networking to their WordPress site!
Builder Bootcamp, PluginBuddy and my iThemes experience
I had a really great time at iThemes Builder Bootcamp weekend in Oklahoma and want to send out a big thanks to Cory Miller, Jen Miller and the rest of the iThemes team for inviting me down to their event. There were roughly 70-75 people in attendence, all of them passionate WordPress users, and all of them part of the iThemes community. Many were from the Oklahoma City general area – but there were a handful that flew in hundreds of miles away to spend the weekend with the iThemes crew to learn more about WordPress and how they can use the iThemes offerings to build their web sites with WordPress. Great stuff!
iThemes Builder Bootcamp April 23-24th
Oklahoma City, anyone? I've never been there before – but I will be this month to join the fabulous team from iThemes for their Builder BootCamp. iThemes creates premium WordPress themes, plugins and they host 'BootCamps' for their clients, and anyone else who wants to learn about how they can use the iThemes Builder WordPress theme framework to make awesome web sites.
We Heart Geeks
South By SouthWest Interactive Conference, Austin, TX – March 2010 (ServerBeach Geek Party)
Amazon.com Interview with Wiley Publishing
While at SXSW 2010 in Austin, TX – the folks from Wiley Publishing caught up with me and did a short video interview for Amazon.com on my books, WordPress For Dummies and BuddyPress For Dummies.
Interview with WebDesign.Com
While at SXSW 2010 in Austin, I spent some time with Cory Miller of WebDesign.Com and iThemes.com, who interviewed me about WordPress, my books and design work.
See You in Austin for SXSW Interactive 2010!
I am leaving for Austin for the SXSW Interactive Conference exactly one week from today! I am flying out of Milwaukee on March 11th and am staying in Austin through March 15th. For clients of mine – I will be mainly out of the office during those dates – but will be checking email and, of course, progress on various ongoing projects that are in my current and active queue. Should you need to get in touch with me directly during those dates, please send us an e-mail and my assistant, Lindsey, will be happy to assist you – – or grab my attention in Austin if it is urgent.
My name is Lisa and I love Brett Favre. There. I said it.
Going in to this weekend, I found myself planning my schedule of things to do around the game on Sunday afternoon at 5:40pm between the Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints. How did I get to this place where I was scheduling everything around a football game? It's been a long journey as citizen of […]
Renewing my Wisconsin Nursing License – 2010
2 years ago, I wrote about the decision facing me in February 2008 on renewing my Wisconsin Registered Nurse license. It's now 2010 and the decision faces me yet again, as it does every two years. Since leaving nursing in 2004, I've always made the choice to keep up my licensure – because you just […]
A Very Bose Christmas
My ears lost their innocence in 1990. I used to be a person who was just happy listening to music on whatever medium was available – – the car radio, my home stereo system, the loudspeakers at the mall – it didn't really matter to me. Although, I am a musician – and a classically […]
Want to go to WordCamp NYC?? It's on me!
With WordCamp NYC coming up next weekend – I'm catching that whole WordCamp spirit again. I have to say that I truly enjoy attending WordCamp and wish more WP users would attend, if they could. It's really a great deal of fun just meeting, talking and sharing with other people within the user community – […]
WordCamp NYC, BuddyPress & Me!
I'm really excited about the opportunity to speak at WordCamp NYC – At 9:15 am Saturday morning – November 14 – I will take the stage and talk about growing communities with BuddyPress. This presentation will take a look at the features BuddyPress currently offers to help you grow your own community on your web site, including some tips and tricks I've come across along the way to help de-mystify the BuddyPress themes and templates to help you on your way to customizing your own BuddyPress community site.
Out From Under . .
Seriously, I haven't updated this site since JULY – almost 4 months ago. I'm surprised I still have subscribers and that you are still here reading this .. but thank you for sticking around! So much as been going on since I last updated here, I don't even know where to begin. Maybe if I just blank out the last 4 months and start over and pretend like some of this stuff never happened…would you still love me in the morning?
It's Official – BuddyPress For Dummies
The Amazon.com placeholder makes it official, I guess! I haven't officially announced it yet – so I guess now is as good a time as any! I know I've been a little book title neurotic over here, having announced my intention to write TypePad For Dummies just a few months ago – but as with […]
Keeping my focus on WordPress
Back in mid-May, I made an announcement here about a new book that I was contracted to write for Wiley Publishing, TypePad For Dummies. I'm still very active in my WordPress For Dummies project, as a matter of fact, I just updated the book recently for a reprint and a 3rd edition of WordPress For […]
WordPress 2.8 Goodness
I've been using 2.8 beta since it's release and upgraded this evening to 2.8 (Baker) this evening and nothing broke – that is always a bonus! Loving the upgrades to the WordPress platform and how everything is pretty much automated for users – – now not only can you upgrade your WordPress installation directly from […]
WordCamp Chicago – A sold out event
This time next week, I'll be making my way down to Chicago to attend WordCamp Chicago. As of last week, it is a sold out event topping out at a total of 200 attendees. I'm jazzed about it and really looking forward to meeting everyone and listening to the great line up of speakers we have lined up:
Working it out
The following content is re-posted, in full, from a post I did on this blog 4 years ago. Lots has changed in 4 years – – even more has changed in the past 3 months. Anger, betrayal, hurt…those are all strong, real, but fleeting emotions. Love stays…and that never changes….
TypePad For Dummies, I'm doing it.
I couldn't believe it when I stopped and paid notice to the fact that I have not updated my blog here since my return from SXSW. What a sorry, sorry blogger I am! Short story, I've been ultimately too chaotically busy with design projects, organizing WordCamp Chicago and some family matters that shall remain unmentioned – let's just say … kids – I liked them better when they were cute and cuddly and weren't old enough to drive a car! 'Nuff said? I think so…
So much coolness all in one place – SXSW 2009
I cannot begin to tell you how great SXSW was this year – it keeps getting better each year I go. That is probably because of the fact that I meet new people every year, and get the opportunity to see old friends, as well. This year was no different….

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Would you spend $92K on this old Volvo wagon?
The P1800 has long been a cult classic among the Volvo faithful, but would you drop nearly $100K on a Volvo wagon? Someone did. Auctioneers has sold a 1973 Volvo P1800ES Sport Wagon for the record sum of $92,400. It was at an auction by Bonhams at the Greenwich Concours d´Elegance in Connecticut earlier this […] [Read More]
Alfa Romeo 4C dealers announced
For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the U.S. return of Alfa with the of the all-new 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C coupe and limited-edition 4C, there is good news. Alfa has announced that 86 FIAT dealers nationwide will receive the first cars. "This group of dealers represents the first phase in the Alfa […] [Read More]
Jaguar designs new Tour de France racing bike
You're probably used to seeing flashy Jaguars on the road, but now the luxury automaker is venturing into the world of racing bikes. Jaguar has been working with reigning Tour de France champ Team Sky since 2010, providing the team with support vehicles for races, but now they've moved beyond support and into design. Teaming […] [Read More]
Drive a tank, crush a car — a tension release for these parlous times
Nearly 20 years ago, troubled Army veteran Shawn Nelson swiped a 57-ton main battle tank from a San Diego National Guard armory and went cruising through the city, crushing parked cars willy-nilly and running over fire hydrants. Police cars swarmed after him but there wasn't anything they could do. The tank clanked along for nearly […] [Read More]
2014 Honda Accord Touring hybrid
Every once in a while, somebody asks me which of the various cars I write about I'd like to keep. Which one would make a nice fit in my garage, a fine fit in my driving life? Of course, the answer depends on a number of things – mood is up there at the top […] [Read More]
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2010 Global Brand Simplicity Index: United Kingdom
In Siegel+Gale's first annual Global Brand Simplicity Index™, we ponder the following question: Does simplicity matter? And the answer is yes.
Our comprehensive survey of more than 6,000 consumers across seven countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia uncovers the points of complexity and simplicity in people's lives. It also explores the emotional and economic value people place on having a more simplified experience with brands in different industries.
In addition to the qualitative and quantitative information on specific brands and industries around the globe, we used the survey results to develop the first-ever Global Brand Simplicity Index, which generates a rating of each brand on the simplicity/complexity of their interactions and communications relative to their industry peers.
The top 10 brands of the United Kingdom Brand Simplicity Index are:
For more insight regarding simplicity and its value for brands in the United Kingdom marketplace:
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All Entries Tagged With: "performing arts"
Hawthorne Players celebrate 20 years of giving
Founded in Ferguson in 1945, Hawthorne Players is one of the oldest theatre companies in St. Louis. They perform several plays every year at the Florissant Civic Center, and over the past two decades, they've donated nearly $50,000 in scholarship funds to local high school students. Larry Marsh has the scoop on their latest endeavor….
"Giving back" is the theme of Hawthorne Players' special concert on June 30 at the Florissant Civic Center Theatre. The acclaimed theatre company is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its Duckie DeMere Scholarship program. Many of the former recipients are returning to Florissant to lend their talents once again in a gala program of light classical music.
The benefit concert will include sixteen Hawthorne audience favorites singing with a 50-piece orchestra conducted by Dr. Christopher Kelts, a 1997 scholarship recipient who is now the Music Director of the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. Katie Collins, a 1999 recipient, will be the concertmaster, a role she filled in many Hawthorne pit orchestras while still a student and continues to do as a professional with regional opera companies.
Named after the late Hawthorne director and actress, Duckie DeMere Scholarships totaling $48,000 have been presented to ninety-five North County graduating seniors active in the performing arts since the first awards were given at the Best of Hawthorne show in 1992.
The June 30 concert, entitled "Hawthorne Goes Classical (Lightly)" will be directed by Paul Morris, veteran Hawthorne actor and singer (and the father of Emily Morris, a 1996 scholarship recipient). His son Jeremy, now a film producer and director in New York, will design the lights for this production.
The program will include works by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, and Gilbert and Sullivan. The finale will be Ralph Vaughan Williams's moving "Serenade to Music," conducted by Morris and featuring all sixteen singers.
Maestro Kelts notes, "It brings me great pleasure to have been asked to join fellow scholarship recipients in this wonderful milestone for the Hawthorne Players. This concert will be a wonderful reunion and a great culmination of years of generosity and art. How does one say 'thank you' to an organization like the Hawthorne Players? You live your art – in any way you can. I do…they do."
Other returning scholarship recipients include Dr. Alexander Ludwig, who teaches music at Brandeis and Holy Cross in Massachusetts. He played cello as a high school student in many Hawthorne pit orchestras, and while still in college won Hawthorne's 2002 "Best Director" award for the group's production of "1776."
Ludwig says that the Duckie DeMere scholarship was a springboard to his creative career. "It propelled me toward a wide range of productions with the Hawthorne Players, a wealth of experience that I have since parlayed into professional theater jobs in both St. Louis and Boston. Playing this concert gives me a chance to revisit my roots. I relish the opportunity to give back, not only to the next generation of Duckie DeMere scholarship winners, but also to the Hawthorne Players in general whose productions served as a creative and artistic bridge between my high school and college careers."
Beth (Scheiding) Smith is thrilled to be in another Hawthorne production. The 2003 scholarship recipient notes, "You never really quit being a Hawthorne Player; you can't quit your family. You move away, you do another show, you take a break…but you are still a Hawthorne Player. I am so excited to be coming home to Hawthorne this summer. I am looking forward to seeing my family."
Leah (McGougan) Poe is now an orchestra director in the Webster Groves School District. She says that receiving the Duckie DeMere scholarship in 2002 helped her pursue her dream of studying music at the University of Missouri Kansas City's Conservatory of Music. "With the aid of the scholarship, I was able to purchase my first semester textbooks, several of which I have kept to this day for reference and teaching aids."
Mary (Schroeder) Honour, now a Production Stage Manager at the Missouri Repertory Theatre in Kansas City says, "I'm so glad to participate in this concert because I feel that it is connecting me back to my artistic roots. My high school years in Florissant did a great job of fueling my curiosity and ambition, which served me well as I pursued my training in college and beyond. My early artistic mentors (Ike and Mary Eichenberger, Doug Lane, Larry Marsh, among others) were great educators who encouraged me to pursue my creativity to wherever it would lead me. Working with the Hawthorne Players was one way I expanded those horizons. As a professional artist, I value the groundwork that was laid for me in those early years, especially the examples I was given in terms of dedication to quality and joy in the work."
The very first Duckie DeMere Scholarship winners are still active in the performing arts. Michael Blackmon is a dancer and choreographer in New York, and violinist Kim Scruggs performs regularly in Los Angeles. Kim writes that she is honored to be invited to the 20th anniversary. "Wow–twenty years! I have very fond memories of being involved with Hawthorne Players, and I am grateful for those fun and challenging musical experiences."
This extraordinary gathering of talent will perform at the Florissant Civic Center Theatre at 8:00 p.m. on June 30. Tickets are $15 and the proceeds will benefit the next generation of scholarship candidates. To reserve tickets, call (314) 921-5678. More information can be found at hawthorneplayers.com.
Flo Valley presents "An Evening of One Acts"
"An Evening of One Acts" takes the stage at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley's Terry M. Fischer Theatre at 8pm June 6-9 and at 2pm June 10. The campus is located at 3400 Pershall Road in Ferguson.
The featured plays are as follows:
"Water and Wine" by Stuart Spencer is directed by Chris Stephens. In the year 1506, a wine maker and his son discover an ancient statue buried on their property. Conflict develops over the value and meaning of art. Through the struggle the son finds his calling in life. This play is produced by special arrangement with Bruce Ostler, Rosenstone Adams, LLC.
"Alien Hand Syndrome" by Michael Erickson is directed by Taylor Gruenloh. Mark is diagnosed with the very rare but real illness of alien hand. His right hand has literally begun to lead a life of its own, separate from Mark. The hand learns sign language, gets Mark fired from his job, acquires a girlfriend, and becomes the person that Mark could never be. No matter what Mark does, he cannot stop his hand from dominating and tormenting him. Finally, Mark makes a bloody decision: only one of them will survive. This play is produced by special arrangement with Michael Erickson.
"Konvergence" by P.J. Gibson is directed by Renee Thomas-Woods. "Konvergence" depicts the turbulent reunion of a married couple after a year's separation. This upwardly mobile couple struggles with whether or not to assimilate into middle-class society and "become another chocolate-covered android of the system," yet another statistic of the vacuous, materialistic American dream. This play is produced by special arrangement with P.J. Gibson.
"The Boor" by Anton Chekhov is directed by Daniel Betzler. Popova is still in deep mourning seven months after her husband's death. Suddenly, Smirnov arrives and rudely insists on seeing her. Popova's late husband owed him 1200 rubles and he demands the debt be paid at once because his creditors are after him. Smirnov challenges her to a duel for insulting him and Popova brings out her husband's pistols. At this point Smirnov realizes that he has fallen in love with this tough, spunky woman. Popova vacillates for a moment, but they end up in each other's arms. Scripts were purchased from Samuel French © 1915.
Admission is free and all performances are open to the public. For more information, call 314-513-4488. Special accommodations are available for persons with disabilities by calling 314-513-4477. The show on June 8 will be sign interpreted. Children 10 and older are welcome.
North County students shine on Fine Arts Night
Everyone knows that public schools offer music and art training, but many assume that Catholic schools do not. As Cara Koen from the Northeast Deanery explains, North County's Catholic grade schools are not only embracing art & music education. They're putting on a show!
Third and fourth grade students from the eight Catholic elementary schools located in the Northeast Deanery of the Archdiocese of St. Louis will perform together at the 2nd Annual Fine Arts Night on Thursday, March 1, 7:00p.m. at Trinity Catholic High School (1720 Redman Road, St. Louis, MO 63138). The evening will feature song and band performances, speech team demonstrations and a display of student artwork from all grade levels.
Music and Art teachers have been working together to coordinate the evening, helping students learn the songs, practicing with them and collecting art projects for the display. An addition to the program this year is the speech team demonstration. "The students are very excited about performing and showing you their talents. This is such a wonderful opportunity to showcase what our students are capable of doing," said Sue Heredia, speech coach. "We can tell you that when they enter high school, these students have poise, presence of speaking in front of people, and many continue to develop their talent by participating in their school plays."
"Fine Arts Night is an excellent opportunity to showcase student talents and work, and for teachers to highlight curriculum in music and art," said Cara Koen, Director of Advancement for the Northeast Deanery Federation of Catholic Schools. "Bringing students and families from our eight schools together in this way has the added benefit of supporting our identity as one Catholic community."
Photos from the 2011 Fine Arts Night are available online at www.FederationofCatholicSchools.org.
The Federation of Catholic Schools is a formal agreement between the pastors of the eleven parishes in the Northeast Deanery of the Archdiocese of St. Louis to work more closely together in support of the mission of Catholic education in the North County community. To learn more about the programs and goals of the Federation, please visit www.FederationofCatholicSchools.org.


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Eight All-Conference Performers Headline Swimming and Diving All-Academic Team
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The men's all-academic team is headlined by three all-conference performers including the gold medalist in both the one and three-meter diving events at the conference championship, UMBC junior Andrew Eckhoff (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford). Boston University sophomore Jared Scheck (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shady Side Academy), the silver medalist in both diving events, makes his first appearance on the all-academic squad. Likewise, UMBC senior John Mendenhall (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) is an all-academic honoree for the first time. Mendenhall won the conference title in the 200 breaststroke back in February.
Several repeat selections also earned all-academic distinction. Eckhoff made the team for the second straight season, as did Binghamton junior Justin Mattison (Horseheads, N.Y./Horseheads). Bearcat senior Dan Feeley (Rye, N.Y./Rye) receieves the honor for the third time.
A quartet of sophomore swimmers round out the men's sqaud. Maine's Robbie Bickford (Milford, Maine/Old Town ) and Cody LaChance (Winslow, Maine/Winslow) join Boston U.'s Wesley Pate (Duluth, Ga./Greater Atlanta Christian) and James Sundquist (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora).
On the women's side, five all-conference performers from Boston U. highlight the 11-member all-academic team. Seniors Amanda Schmitz (Pleasanton, Calif./Foothill), the 2012 conference champion in the 200 fly, and Kristen Connors (Mansfield, Mass./Bishop Feehan), who appears on her third all-academic team, juniors Kara Zebrowski (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) and Katie Radin (Hanover, Mass./Notre Dame Academy), the 200 backstroke champion, and sophomore Kendra Cheng (Franklin, Mass./Bishop Feehan) raced to all-conference honors this season.
Connors and Schmitz both earned all-academic nods last season and are joined this year by two more repeat selections. UMBC junior Tara Morrissette (Somersworth, N.H./Saint Thomas Aquinas) and Vermont senior Kaitlyn Evarts (Vergennes, Vt./Vergennes) each make their second appearance on the all-academic team.
Completing the 2012 team are first-time honorees Binghamton senior Jenna Easton (Churchville, N.Y./Churchville-Chili), Maine junior Carmen Linden (Ottawa, Ontario/Sir Robert Borden) and Vermont juniors Chelsea Krisanda (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) and Kailey Gardner (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca).
The All-Academic squads are a product of the June 2005 Athletics Directors meeting where faculty representatives and athletics directors from each of the conference's nine member institutions decided to honor the league's top student-athletes, who excel equally in the classroom as they do on the playing field.
For the fourth straight year, America East will select the All-Academic teams using CoSIDA's Academic All-America program as a model. Student-athletes worthy of consideration are nominated by member sports information directors and voted on by a committee of SIDs, academic advisors and faculty representatives from all nine member institutions.
All-Academic squads for team sports are based on the number of athletes that participate in a contest at one time or are made up of 10 student-athletes for individual sports. To be nominated for the distinction, student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve for their team and participate in at least 50 percent of their team's games or competitions. In the classroom, student-athletes must have a 3.30 GPA and have completed at least one calendar year at their institution. Freshmen are not eligible for consideration.


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Visitor Center, Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Washington
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Walla Walla, Washington
Whitman Mission National Historic Site (NHS) is one of several National Park Service (NPS) facilities that have been designated Federal Energy Saver Showcases. Since 1992, Bruce Hancock, Chief of Maintenance, and other staff at the park have retrofitted outdated lighting systems in the maintenance shop and visitor center. The result is a 25%–40% reduction in energy consumption in 1999, representing cost savings of $825–$1,580.
Denise Fong of Lighting Design Lab, Steve Butterworth, NPS Regional Energy Conservation Manager, and the park staff worked together to identify locations and ways to update the park's lighting. Most of the costs for the lighting retrofits were paid with funds authorized for park maintenance, but some special regional funding for equipment procurement was used in the early stages of the project. Federal Energy Management Program staff assisted Whitman Mission NHS with an agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lighting Design Lab.
Because lighting accounts for 20%–25% of electricity used annually in the United States, it is a logical place to begin when making changes to reduce energy consumption. In the visitor center and maintenance shop, most of the old light fixtures were fluorescent, electromagnetic ballast, 40 W T-12 tubes. These were replaced with electronic ballast, 32 W T-8 tubes. Some overhead fixtures were also replaced with task lighting fixtures designed for energy efficiency. And many of the old incandescent fixtures in the facilities were replaced with compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) retrofits.
In the auditorium and exhibit areas, incandescent lighting could not be replaced with CFL without compromising the quality of light and the use of dimmers. Fourteen fixtures with 120 V, 60 W incandescent lamps were replaced with 130 V, 20 W R-30 Hytron lamps. In the exhibit area, 120 V, 75 W reflector lamps were replaced by 130 V, 45 W halogen IR Lamps. These replacements save energy because of their lower wattage, and, because of their higher voltage, the lamps have a greater life expectancy.
Occupancy sensors were also installed in the exhibit area. The space, originally designed for 8–10 hours of illumination each day, was monitored for one year after installation of the sensors and was found to require only about two hours of illumination per day.
Approximately 80,000 visitors tour Whitman Mission NHS facilities annually. The staff at the park are dedicated to encouraging sustainable practices. Plaques at the park already educate visitors about recycling. And now Whitman Mission NHS staff are revising the Web site and field trip guide to include information about the energy-efficient lighting.


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Austin Sculptor Wins Design Award for Art Installation
Margo Sawyer has won the CoD+A (Collaboration of Design+Art) Award for best residential art installation (with project partners Lawrence W. Speck, architect, and Wendy Dunnam Tita, interior designer). The first annual award is given out by The Art Commission, which connects site-specific artists with design professionals and clients, and Interior Design magazine. Sawyer and the winners of other categories are featured in the August issue of Interior Design; the winning projects can also be viewed on the CoD+A Awards website.
Sawyer, a long-time professor of sculpture/studio art in the MFA program at UT Austin, is best-known in Houston for her work Synchronicity of Color, the "art boxes" installation at Discovery Green.
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SOARS is sponsored by the Carl A. Fields Center, Center for African American Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University Health Services, Program in American Studies, Program in Women and Gender Studies, and the Women's Center.
Audience: Open to the public
Location: Frist Campus Center Theatre
Date/Time: 10/27/10 at 7:00 pm - 10/27/10 at 9:00 pm
SOARS is a performance about one woman's journey to reclaim her body, sexuality, spirituality, and self esteem after being sexually assaulted in college. Performed by a diverse cast of women, SOARS uses photography, modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the public about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame that rape victims too often feel with a story of hope and healing.
Tickets are required to attend this performance. Tickets are free and available through the Frist Campus Center Ticketing Office.
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Department: Center for African American Studies


text: Double-strand breaks in DNA happen every time a cell divides and replicates. Depending on the type of cell, that can be pretty often. Many proteins are involved in everyday DNA repair, but if they are mutated, the repair system breaks down and cancer can occur. Cells have two complicated ways to repair these breaks, which can affect the stability of the entire genome. Roger A. Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., associate investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and associate professor of Cancer Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, together with postdoctoral researcher Jiangbo Tang Ph.D. and colleagues, found a key determinant in the balance between two proteins, BRCA1 and 53BP1, in the DNA repair machinery. Breast and ovarian cancer are associated with a breakdown in the repair systems involving these proteins. Their findings appear in the latest online issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.


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SULLIVAN'S ISLAND — The South Carolina Bar swore in a new president Thursday on Sullivan's Island.
Attorneys from across the state held a meeting for the Bar's House of Delegates at the Sand Dunes Club. Following the meeting, Charleston attorney Alice F. Paylor became the 2013-14 president of the bar association.
S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean H. Toal administered the oath of office.
Paylor said there's several initiatives she hopes to address including increasing diversity. She also wants a program to help graduating law students in the job market.
"I love Charleston and everybody who comes here wants to live here, which makes it even more difficult for them to find jobs. What we're hoping to do is give them some skills and talk to them about other career options," Paylor said.
Paylor is a partner in the firm of Rosen Hagood, practicing in the areas of complex commercial litigation, employment litigation and school law.
She graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to joining Rosen Hagood in 1982, she served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of Charleston.
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Oregon's education system is making it into the record books, but it's not for something to be proud of. According to the Oregon Department of Education, the state has hit the highest number of students per teacher in the state's recorded history.
For Central High School science teacher Brian Corbett, big class sizes are something he and other teachers are all too familiar with.
"My class sizes range from 25 to 36," said Corbett.
That's more than the state average, which this past school year, was at about 23 kids per teacher for high school. It's the highest number in the state's history. For middle school the average was roughly 22 kids per teacher and in the elementary bracket it was 21.4 kids. That data was taken from the Oregon Department of Education.
The state numbers are also higher than the national average of roughly 16 kids for every instructor. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the most recent numbers are from 2010.
Corbett said for his Central High in particular, large class sizes play a big role because it's where kids who did not do well in other schools end up.
"If you look at the students at our school here, a lot of them come here because the class sizes at the other schools are so large that they become a face in the crowd. A lot of students need to be more than a face in a crowd," he said.
Big class sizes are a problem for teachers trying to help students succeed.
"It leaves less time for one on one, less time to help those students who are straggling."
It also makes it more difficult for teachers to develop a meaningful, personal relationship with students.
"When you think of some of the bigger schools seeing upwards of 230 kids every single day and you're seeing those kids an average of one hour per day as they come through, that's a lot of students," said Corbett.
Teachers are being given a hard job, especially when standards have never been higher.
"We've had cuts and [had to] do more with less," began Todd Bloomquist, Secondary Education Director for the Medford School District.
"You have higher standards than we've ever had in our time or in anyone else's time."
According to Bloomquist, the bad economy doesn't help reduce class sizes either.
"Soon as people go out of work, they're not paying taxes [...] There's no money to go into the state coffers," he said.
Bloomquist said one solution might be changing the current taxing model.
"When your stat is 50% or so owned by federal forest kinds of things, there's not a tax structure there," said Bloomquist.
"If you go back east where 93% or 97% of the land is owned by taxpayers, there's a lot more money to deal with there," he continued.
However, changing Oregon's tax structure doesn't look like it'll be happening anytime soon.
Since there's no easy solution to the problem, the Medford School District is getting help from community organizations like Kids Unlimited and the YMCA. Various organizations are offering a helping hand with tutoring and after-school care.
In the meantime, teachers like Corbett are working harder and trying to be more creative in the way they're teaching students.
"We have to find new ways to really keep all these students coming and being successful," said Corbett.
He'll be continuing to do things like meet with students before school and during lunch.
"Lunches are pretty much gone. Most of the time I will spend a lot of my lunch in here with students, helping them. Or i'll be out in the commons where they're eating so I can help build more of those relationships with them," Corbett explained.
There is a bit of a bright spot though. Bloomquist said the Governor John Kitzhaber's push for education and promise of more money is helping to reduce class sizes for the time being.
When it comes to funding for the next school year though, school districts won't know how much money they'll be getting until May.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of students per teacher has declined nationally. However, in Oregon over the last handful of years, it's steadily climbed.


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_lateral and longitudinal accelerations were ridiculous low in 1950's cars because of very low grip
_acceleration accounts for the change in motion
_If the change in motion(acceleration or reaction of the car) is low, then the human reaction needed to cope with it is therefore slower as well.
Well at least someone "gets it".
Ok, anyone's granny could have driven the cars of the '50s then....
No one said that, you simply don't comprehend what skill was required back then ie; not the same skill as is required now. Fangio appeared to have more of that skill than one's Grandmother.
There is a very famous onboard of Fangio in the Maserati at Modena, suggest you watch it and see that no particular fast reactions were required.
Many drivers have been invited by Benz to drive the 1955 GP W196 at demonstrations, it is said Michael Doohan took to it faster than anyone because of his being a bike racer and hence his experience and feel for low grip.


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My Grandsons second soccer lesson. Watch out Premier League.
He will be four in May. Closest to the camera in the gray sweatshirt.
Edit: and celebrates his first goal....lol
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If it's not Peter Crouch doing the Robot; it's not a real goal celebration! He'll learn soon enough though!
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Nice one. Let's hope he doesn't end up in the relegation zone too soon eh ;)
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Nothing worse than being relelgated, especially at a young age.
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I had to post this picture of the Grandson from his U.K. Elite soccer program
practice tonight. I'm not too proud I promise, but he looks good for a 4 year old.
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Well when he takes his eye off of the ball... ;-)
Not that I can talk, I am the World's worst footballer.
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I'll see him in 3 weeks and let him know to keep his head up. At least he looks the part, not like the other kid wearing a basketball shirt.
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The book is entirely photographic with extended captions and there are plenty of colour photos and side view drawings. Fortunately, there is not too much duplication of photos between this and the earlier book so they are mutually compatible. Some of the colour photos are of surviving Catalinas, in particular the Confederate Air Force PBY-6A, N7179Y, and the San Diego Aerospace Museum PBY-5A, Bu48406. As the subject matter appears to be mainly aimed at the scale aircraft modeller, it should be borne in mind that the modern day close- ups must be treated with some caution because of the many individual modifications that surviving Cats have undergone over the years. One glaring error from the first book has been put right, this being the serial of the 209 Squadron Catalina which spotted the Bismark in May 1941 and which is now correctly recorded as AH545 on the colour side view that is included.
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The book does not ignore the type's post-war history and short sections cover various air forces and commercial users including Jacques Cousteau and Avalon Aviation who used a large fleet of PBYs for water bombing in Canada. They even proposed a Dart turbine powered version which is covered in the text. The book ends with detailed appendices and lists of sources which are very useful to the researcher.
The book is fully illustrated in black and white. Despite its concentration on the American side of the story, this book lives up to its original claim overall and is essential for anyone who wants to know about the history of the type.
This updated and extended edition contains new and unpublished material with help from many members of aircrew who came forward after the original book was published. A first class reference for the historian and an absorbing read for the enthusiast.
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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.28.29
upayeme vīrya-paṇāḿ
vaidarbhīḿ malayadhvajaḥ
yudhi nirjitya rājanyān
pāṇḍyaḥ para-purañjayaḥ
upayeme — married; vīrya — of valor or prowess; paṇām — the prize; vaidarbhīm — daughter of Vidarbha; malaya-dhvajaḥ — Malayadhvaja; yudhi — in the fight; nirjitya — after conquering; rājanyān — other princes; pāṇḍyaḥ — best of the learned, or born in the country known as Pāṇḍu; para — transcendental; puram — city; jayaḥ — conqueror.
It was fixed that Vaidarbhī, daughter of King Vidarbha, was to be married to a very powerful man, Malayadhvaja, an inhabitant of the Pāṇḍu country. After conquering other princes, he married the daughter of King Vidarbha.
It is customary among kṣatriyas for a princess to be offered under certain conditions. For instance, Draupadī was offered in marriage to one who could pierce a fish with an arrow simply by seeing the reflection of that fish. Kṛṣṇa married one of His queens after conquering seven strong bulls. The Vedic system is for a daughter of a king to be offered under certain conditions. Vaidarbhī, the daughter of Vidarbha, was offered to a great devotee and powerful king. Since King Malayadhvaja was both a powerful king and great devotee, he fulfilled all the requirements. The name Malayadhvaja signifies a great devotee who stands as firm as Malaya Hill and, through his propaganda, makes other devotees similarly as firm. Such a mahā-bhāgavata can prevail over the opinions of all others. A strong devotee makes propaganda against all other spiritual conceptions — namely jñāna, karma and yoga. With his devotional flag unfurled, he always stands fast to conquer other conceptions of transcendental realization. Whenever there is an argument between a devotee and a nondevotee, the pure, strong devotee comes out victorious.
The word pāṇḍya comes from the word paṇḍā, meaning "knowledge." Unless one is highly learned, he cannot conquer nondevotional conceptions. The word para means "transcendental," and pura means "city." The para-pura is Vaikuṇṭha, the kingdom of God, and the word jaya refers to one who can conquer. This means that a pure devotee, who is strong in devotional service and who has conquered all nondevotional conceptions, can also conquer the kingdom of God. In other words, one can conquer the kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha, only by rendering devotional service. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is called ajita, meaning that no one can conquer Him, but a devotee, by strong devotional service and sincere attachment to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can easily conquer Him. Lord Kṛṣṇa is fear personified for everyone, but He voluntarily agreed to fear the stick of mother Yaśodā. Kṛṣṇa, God, cannot be conquered by anyone but His devotee. Such a devotee kindly married the daughter of King Vidarbha.
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Disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced to a federal prison in Colorado, has been spending his time behind bars teaching other inmates history, according to his wife.
Blagojevich, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison exactly one year ago on Friday, is teaching Civil War history and is learning how to play the guitar, as his lawyers work on an appeal, according to a Facebook posting from his wife, Patti Blagojevich.
"We speak with Rod every day. We have visited many times. He is surviving-trying to make the best of an untenable situation," she wrote. "He teaches a class on the Civil War, is learning to play the guitar and runs miles and miles around the quarter-mile track that is available to him."
The former governor, who is called Inmate 40892-424, reported to the Federal Correctional Institution-Englewood in Colorado on March 15, 2012, according to the Chicago Tribune.
She added, "But what really gets him through is our visits and the faith that in the end this tremendous injustice will be righted. That we will be a family together again soon."
Blagojevich was convicted on 18 counts, which included charges that he attempted to sell President Barack Obama's U.S. senate seat.
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Derek Jeter is already working on hitting mechanics with Kevin Long
Jan 29, 2011, 11:24 AM EDT
Ben Shpigel of the New York Times has an excellent, must-read piece about Derek Jeter's work with Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long this week.
Interestingly, Long told Shpigel that Jeter has always has always had a slightly flawed swing, due to the familiar stride that he takes towards the mound with his left leg. Coming off the worst season of his career, Jeter is now willing to make some changes.
"It would have been asinine for me to go in and try to change him before," Long said. "He's been so good for so long, what really needed to be done?"
But that stride grew longer and drifted toward the plate, which caused Jeter to lean over. It altered Jeter's bat path, and his timing suffered.
"Now," Long said, "he starts to get jammed a little more. Maybe his bat slows down just a hair, but that's significant. We can say age all we want, but I'm not buying into that. I think if we fix this, that age factor dissipates."
Long is optimistic that Jeter will find similar results to Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, perhaps the most prominent example of someone who shortened his stride as he got older. Molitor adopted changes and batted .312/.362/.432 over his age 39-41 seasons, retiring with 3,319 hits, ninth all-time.
Sure, there may be some distractions about his Jeter's contract and the talk of him eventually switching positions, but I'm far more interested to see his new approach at the plate during spring training.
- yankeesfanlen - Jan 29, 2011 at 11:32 AM
If Kevin Long can get the same results with Beep-beep that he did with Curtis Granderson last August it would be a great help.That and lowering him in the batting order.
- uyf1950 - Jan 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM
I agree with you. Unfortunately, Jeter is going to bat any lower then 1st or 2nd for at least the next 2 seasons and unless he improves his numbers over 2010 that is going to be a problem.
- uyf1950 - Jan 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Sorry. "is" in the first line should be "isn't".
- yankeesfanlen - Jan 29, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Just hate to see Garner batting 9th, stealing for scoring position, then the inevitable DP> Just guessing, but I think Beep-beep was worse in '09 than '10.
- jh0088 - Jan 29, 2011 at 2:09 PM
why do you call him beep-beep? I try to actually skip reading all of your posts because it's getting on my nerves. Like if this were a game, i'd have you on ignore so I didn't have to read it all the time. Maybe I'm too sensitive or something but it's starting to confusing and bugging me for a while. Use his name: it's Derek, or it's Jeter. He's not the most despicable person on the planet that you can't be respectful and use his name.
- yankeesfanlen - Jan 29, 2011 at 4:32 PM
I apologize. It was actually a term of familiarity, just like other Yankee nicknames I use. From now on I will refer to him as Derek Sanderson Jeter.
- Glenn - Jan 29, 2011 at 6:58 PM
That's Mr Jeter to you. Is it ok if we still call Phil Rizzuto the "Scooter"?
- jedimaster5x5 - Jan 29, 2011 at 7:31 PM
Ok, I have to ask. Where does "Beep-Beep" come from? I've seen it all over this blog and I have no clue what the origin of the name is. I'm practically dying of curiosity…
- yankeesfanlen - Jan 30, 2011 at 8:05 AM
From a variety of puerile sources such as "Power Rangers" (Beep-beep ima jeep) and other sources. The longer version is Beep-beep I'm A Jete, actually a term of endearment for leadership and determination.
Google it.
Admittedly, most of my Yankee nicknames are more transparent, some even derogatory, but they know I'm only funnin'.
- jedimaster5x5 - Jan 30, 2011 at 4:23 PM
Hey, I don't have a problem with it. I just wanted to know where it came from. I think it's hilarious, actually.
- paperlions - Jan 29, 2011 at 1:13 PM
So….why didn't they try to "fix" this last year? They say his swing has always been "flawed", trying to intimate that it didn't change….then they say that his stride lengthened and went toward the plate, stating plainly that it did change….if this problem developed last year, why didn't they try to fix it then?
This sounds like spin (or as I prefer to call it, lying).
- paperlions - Jan 29, 2011 at 1:15 PM
eh, I didn't say that very well….I meant that they try to act like Jeter has always had the same "flaw" but that the flaw didn't matter, the way it is stated is as if it is the same flaw as always…then they turn around and suggest there were subtle changes that affected bat speed and path through the zone….which, of course, is something they could have addressed last year.
- baseballstars - Jan 29, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Hopefully this helps him at the plate, because he's really regressed. He should be batting eighth or ninth, but we all know that won't happen. I guess as long as he isn't batting second (he would break the record for GIDPs), that's better than nothing. He killed many Yankee rallies during the Torre years because the manager refused to take him out of the second spot of the batting order.
- jh0088 - Jan 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM
I'm far more interested to see his new approach at the plate from the number two hole.
- Glenn - Jan 29, 2011 at 2:30 PM
As a Red Sox fan, I hope I'm wrong, but I see Jeter having a big bounce back year this year. He has too much pride and competitiveness not to be busting his butt this off season and it is common for ballplayers (according to Bill James) to have a good year in their age-37 season.
- rick1922 - Jan 29, 2011 at 3:26 PM
Jeter will have a great 2011 season no one will work harder to make it happen .
- uyf1950 - Jan 29, 2011 at 4:05 PM
I hope those of you that think Jeter will rebound from a poor 2010 season are correct. I'm just not as convinced as some of you. Oh, I think he will have a slight bump in his numbers I'm just not sure it will be enough to make a significant difference. And as yankeesfanlen said I hate to see Gardner batting at the bottom of the order. He is far more valuable to the Yankees batting in the lead off spot with his speed and base stealing then at the bottom of the order. That's just my opinion. I would just hope that if Jeter starts to struggle he does what a true team player would do and go to Girardi/Cashman and volunteer to move down in the order.
- jh0088 - Jan 29, 2011 at 5:00 PM
I'm hoping that Girardi will be the one to show true leadership and make the decision for them. How hard is it to figure out that Jeter is the perfect #2 hitter for that lineup. With Gardner at #1 Jeter will get to use his entire arsenal for the first time in years:
Plate discipline (no more swingingin at the first pitch).
Hit and Run (put Gardner in motion and those DP balls to second make it through to the outfield).
Hitting for Average (more fastballs deeper in counts will lead to more singles).
Sacrificing (he's a great bunter and at #2 he'll be given even more accolades as a selfless team player).
There is not a single player in the Yankee lineup who has all of these intangibles that a #2 hitter is supposed to have other than Jeter so putting him in the leadoff position hurts your team's chances for scoring runs on a daily basis.
- yankeesfanlen - Jan 29, 2011 at 5:35 PM
I agree with all your points, but will Girardi have the institutional memory to look past his black book and put them in place should Jeter make the necessary improvements?
Also, Jeter was #2 for years until a switch to Damon had to be made. What will it take to make Girardi move toward the decision?
- Jonny 5 - Jan 31, 2011 at 8:45 AM
I hope Derek Jeter's woman leaves him because he sucks at the plate this season even more than last season. She then can move into my spare bedroom. That's what I hope.
I see half of my hoping to come true. Just like changing Jeter's plate approach. They hope his swing will change. They hope to make him better. I'd say half of the plan works, the other half, not so much.
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As the title says, where does unity save packages downloaded from asset store?
asked Jan 28, 2011 at 05:50 PM
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Win 7: %AppData%\Unity\Asset Store\
Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Unity\Asset Store\
Mac: ~/Library/Unity/Asset Store/
answered Mar 01, 2011 at 10:24 PM
what about in windows 7. Since C:\Documents and Settings does not exist there
Jun 02, 2012 at 11:36 AM zico_mahilary
Check the other answers. For example Cymrix's.
Jun 02, 2012 at 11:45 AM Wolfram
@zico_mahilary C:\Users[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Asset Store
Sep 26, 2014 at 03:06 AM MattRix
On OSX:
~/Library/Unity/Asset\ Store/
answered May 04, 2011 at 09:07 PM
With the fact that the Library folder may very well be hidden from you. If you don't see the Library folder, simply type "open ~/Library/Unity/Asset\ Store" using the Terminal application ( in Applications/Utilities/)
Nov 16, 2012 at 07:01 PM Jean Fabre
Yes, the Library folder seems to be hidden by default at least in OS X Mavericks.. To make it visible (more or less) permanently, type in Terminal application
which will un-hide the Library folder in Finder and other GUI applications. After this you might wish to hide the other directories in Library so that they won't show in Finder Searches etc.. To do that:
Apr 26, 2014 at 02:16 PM Kalle-128
C:\Users\888\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Asset Store
answered Jan 18, 2012 at 10:57 PM
On win7 it puts them here: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Asset Store
Also, if you want to load them in at other times than project creation, go to the asset store and in the top click the button that has an arrow pointing down on a "tray" like icon. This takes you to a page with everything you've downloaded through asset store (both stuff that is laying locally on your machine and stuff that you have downloaded elsewhere)
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For Windows 7: Type %appdata% in the Windows Explorer address bar.
The downloads are in the Unity/AssetStore folder.
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SWIFTWATER — Police in the Poconos have charged a caretaker with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from an elderly woman.
Police say the caretaker is Jeanette Strausser of Saylorsburg. She was working for a health care agency out of Stroudsburg when she was assigned to take care of an 82-year-old woman living near Cresco.
State police tell us that caretaker ended up spending $70,000 of the woman's money last year.
"It's not right and it's not fair and we should have faith in our community and people. It's upsetting when something like this happens," said Brittney Hunter of Cresco.
According to state police, from January to September of last year, an elderly woman living on Upper Swiftwater Road near Cresco was being cared for by Strausser of Saylorsburg. During that time, state police say Strausser bought $70,000 worth of items by using the elderly woman's bank card.
Items included 40 cases of beer, a few computer tablets, a 15-foot rug, 56 cartons of cigarettes and hundreds of dollars at grocery stores and restaurants.
"I feel it's terrible that you can't trust people who you feel you should be able to," said Hunter.
"It's sad but it happens a lot. There are a lot of people out there preying on the elderly especially with the economic times and the way they are," said Gretchen Peters of the Monroe County Area Agency on Aging.
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The Monroe County Area Agency on Aging offers many programs to prevent seniors from becoming victims of fraud. One program in particular allows volunteers to run errands for seniors in need.
"We will try to help you to get some kind of system set up where you can get your groceries and that kind of thing. In a situation that's monitored, that it's not a total stranger," said Peters.
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Three cheese, mushroom and caramelised onion quiche
There's nothing quite like the classic pairing of a cheesy, tasty quiche with a fresh, zesty salad – it's really one of my favourite meals to eat.
I developed this recipe in a fairly impromptu way and consequently made too much filling so I made 2 mini quiches as well as the main quiche. I used a rectangular, 30x10cm quiche tin which was far too small, in any case, this really makes a large quiche – I would say a 24cm round tin with deeper sides (I have one of these and the sides are around 4cm which in retrospect, would have been perfect) or a 28cm round tin – rather than the standard 20cm.
I was super happy with the quiche apart from making too much; the mushrooms offered a hearty texture and flavour and paired really well with the sweet onions. The rustic, wholemeal shortcrust pastry was tasty, substantial and added an interesting texture to the dish.
Recipe for three cheese, mushroom and caramelised onion quiche
15mls grapeseed or olive oil
1 large red or Spanish onion
1/2 tspn brown sugar
120g brown and field mushrooms – diced into smallish pieces
140g cheese (I used equal parts Parmesan, a good cheddar and Gruyère cheeses)
4 eggs
1/4 cup low fat cream
1 1/4 cups 2% milk
The green parts of 2 spring onions, sliced
2 tblspns Continental parsley, chopped
1 1/2 cups wholemeal plain flour
130g unsalted cold butter, cubed
1/4 tspn sea salt
3-4 tblspns ice water
1 egg from the fridge, separated
Whisk the egg yolk and one tablespoon of the iced water together until combined. Whisk egg white with a fork and set aside.
Place flour, butter and salt into food processor and process on low speed until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs – it's ideal if bits of butter remain in amongst the mixture. Add the egg yolk mixture and 2 more tablespoons of iced water to the processor and process on medium speed until dough comes together – add a bit more water if needed (wholemeal flour tends to suck up moisture so this type of pastry needs a bit more water I've found – it will probably depend on the weather as well).
Place on a piece of plastic wrap and bring together in a ball using your hands. Store in the fridge for an hour or freezer for half an hour until firm.
Grease a large, round quiche tin with butter or spray with olive oil. Preheat oven to 180C (170 fan forced).
Peel onion and cut in half. Slice thinly and place into small, non stick pan with oil and sugar and bring to high heat, then turn down low and slow cook, stirring occasionally, until browned and caramelised, for around 20-25 minutes. Set aside to cool a bit.
Meanwhile, remove pastry from the fridge/freezer and place on baking paper. Use a bit of flour to coat a rolling pin then roll out the pastry to the desired shape, to fit your quiche tin. Lay pastry onto quiche tin and press into the base and sides. Use a butter knife to slice off excess pastry.
Layer baking paper then baking beads (or dried beans) onto pastry. Bake for 8 minutes; remove from the oven, remove the baking paper and beads and place back into oven for 5 minutes uncovered. Remove pastry base from the oven and brush with egg white wash to seal the pastry, then bake for a further 8 minutes, or until pastry is light golden brown and cooked. Set aside to cool for a few minutes.
Coarsely grate the cheddar and Gruyère cheese; finely grate the Parmesan. Whisk together the milk, cream and eggs then mix in the spring onions and parsley – season well with freshly ground black pepper and salt.
Place caramelised onion into pastry base, then diced mushrooms, most of the cheese (reserving some for the top of the quiche) then carefully pour in the custard mixture. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese over the top.
Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until quiche has set and is light golden brown. Allow to sit for ten minutes before serving.
Serve with some washed and dried rocket dressed with French dressing and sprinkled with shaved Parmesan.
Serves: 6 main sized servings; 8 entrée sized
May 18, 2012
Emma-your gorgeous cheese tart with the caramelized onions and my favorite mushrooms are totally droolworthy and amazing!
The photos are divine…I want to pin these on Pinterest…you don't have the "pin it" button after the post, like I don't. It's a hassle to go back to get the button for each post to put the "pin it" button in the content of the post, so I will figure out a different way, and let you know if I was able to pin it!
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Lovely post and the quiche looks fabulous. For folks who want to easily pin posts. simply go to your Pinterest account under About, and click Pin It Button. You then specify to put the button in your Favorites. From there, drag the button to you Favorites bar. Voila, you now have an easy way to pin. …Susan


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Judy, you are so relaxed you make me want to cook again. I am a fan. However, I am stuck up here in rainy Washington, was in NO the year before Katrina and fell in love with that town. My sister and I tried to eat our way through the city! Can't find any NO recipes up here and some of the recipes I have found, I don't know what some things are (meat, veg, mixture,???). But am going to try and cook some of these dishes on your site. Thanks for a smile today.


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Ever since Fritz Lang's Metropolis, it's been hard to imagine a future without robots. From the cold-blooded killing machines of the Terminator films, to the married-couple bickering of C-3PO and R2-D2, they've appeared as our enemies, our servants and often our rivals.
Now the real-life robot revolution is beginning — and it's already causing the first stirrings of panic. In policy circles, the new must-have book is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's The Second Machine Age. It argues that artificial intelligence is going to cause huge disruption, as a host of everyday functions — driving ourselves to work, doing the shopping, sorting through spreadsheets, even treating cancer patients — get annexed by machines.
As my colleague Jeremy Warner has pointed out, the economic consequences will be huge. In one study, academics estimated that 47 per cent of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to automation. In China, the industrial giants that build the world's iPhones and Xboxes are investing heavily in robot workers on the principle that their cost is already comparable with that of flesh-and-blood humans, and will soon be far lower. And Google is snapping up robotics firms as if on a billion-dollar trolley dash.
All this has created something of a cottage industry in academic doom-mongering. In Average is Over, the U.S. economist Tyler Cowen predicts a two-tier future, in which those who can harness the abilities of intelligent machines enjoy undreamt-of opportunities, while those without such skills rot in wasteful idleness. In his own new book, the journalist Clive Thompson counters with an analogy from chess. Yes, a computer can beat a grandmaster — but a human working with a computer will beat both hands down.
Even as this discussion rages, however, a new fear has been raised — that robots won't just steal our jobs, but our hearts, too. The American technologist Ray Kurzweil — Google's director of engineering, and the John the Baptist of artificial intelligence — predicted this weekend that robots will be our social as well as economic superiors. By 2029, he says, they will be able to tell better jokes and stories — even to flirt.
This is the premise behind Her, a film from Spike Jonze in which Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his operating system — effectively, an advanced version of Apple's Siri (it doesn't hurt that the AI comes with the voice of Scarlett Johansson). It makes perfect sense. Wouldn't someone who could comb through all your emails, and read all your texts and diary jottings, know you better than you know yourself? If they were programmed to take care of you, wouldn't you feel like returning the favour?
In fact, the problem might not be how hard we find it to let robots into our lives, but how easy. In her recent book Alone Together, the MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle draws on a lifetime of work to show how easily and how eagerly we accept the affection of artificial devices. Whether it's the children who obsess over Furbys and Tamagotchis, or elderly care home patients petting robots patterned after baby seals, we're desperate to imbue their responses with real human emotions, to convince ourselves these unthinking creatures care.
For Turkle, this is an alarming, even terrifying, scenario. The drift of technology, she says, means that we are expecting more from our machines and less from each other — and substituting the messy business of romance for the comforting but artificial security of an affection-mimicking algorithm. The Japanese are already fretting about the rise of "celibacy syndrome", in which young people shun real-world romance, in large part for the comforting flicker of the computer screen.
As with the economy, the best hope is that we end up with a middle way — an alliance between machine and human rather than unhealthy dependence. You can see this emerging in the dating sites which use cutting-edge data-processing to find you the perfect partner — or in the idea that the iPhones of the future may also play matchmaker, monitoring your date's heartbeat and pupil dilation and alerting you when it's time to move in for a kiss.
Of course, Kurzweil and others are thinking far beyond this. He is a leading proponent of the "Singularity", the idea that artificial intelligence will inevitably get smart enough to upgrade itself — and that when it does, it will do so with blinding speed. At that point, our old distinctions between human and computer intelligence could become meaningless, as humans use computers to enhance their brainpower, or copy their minds into the electronic cloud.
In this world, objecting to machine-human unions might seem as nonsensical as opposing interracial marriage today. A better question — if the biological/technological divide does persist — is whether these electronic brains would want anything to do with the antiquated lumps of flesh from which they sprang.


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He embarked on his conducting career in 1974 with a repertoire that included the symphonies of Shostakovich and Sibelius. In 1975 he formed the Brandenburg Consort and became absorbed in the practice of historical performance. In 1981, after ten years as a teacher and violinist, Roy Goodman began directing the Hanover Band. He was Principal Conductor from 1986 to 1994 and gained an international reputation for his revelatory performances of 18th and 19th century music.
Since 1989 he has also been Music Director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
An invitation to conduct the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1985 was the catalyst for Roy Goodman's flourishing career as an international conductor. Within a few years Goodman, with the Hanover Band, had recorded on CD the first ever performances on historic instruments of the complete symphonies by Beethoven, Cherubini, Schubert, Schumann and Weber, as well as 60 symphonies by Haydn.
In 1994 Goodman was invited to be the first Principal Conductor of the Umeå Symphony Orchestra and of the Swedish Northern Opera. He now holds the posts of Principal Conductor of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg and Musical Director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. He has also been working in recent times with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Turku Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, the New Sinfonietta Amsterdam, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
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Letter: Saxton will stand for Maine's neediest
As a senior citizen, I am at the stage when health becomes more fragile. I have the pain of severe rheumatoid arthritis, and I am grateful that I have good health insurance. Every senior citizen should have access to health care. However, this will soon not be the case for 5,600 seniors and disabled Mainers.
Our District 64 state representative, Kim Olsen, voted to eliminate prescription drug and other health-care assistance for over 5,600 of Maine's seniors and disabled residents. Without assistance from Maine's Drugs for the Elderly and Medicare Savings Program, these costs can add up to thousands of dollars, forcing seniors and the disabled to choose between food and health care.
Candidate Jeremy Saxton, Olsen's opponent from Harpswell, will support Maine's neediest seniors and work with fellow legislators to find other, more humane ways to balance Maine's budget. Vote for Jeremy on Nov. 6.
Beverly Prosser Gelwick