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CANTON The St. Lawrence County Environmental Management Council will become more functional with the appointment of new members viewed as making for a more well-rounded board.
County legislators have tapped people for three of five vacant seats on the advisory council and reappointed other members, which will make it easier for the EMC to conduct business.
The group had shrunk so much that if one member was absent, there was no quorum.
Were glad to have enough people to tackle some issues, said Legislator Scott M. Sutherland, R-Pierrepont, the legislative liaison to the EMC.
Vacancies grew on the EMC after some legislators faulted the group for its premises on a climate action plan, which included information about carbon markets and alternative energy but did not mention nuclear power.
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I think the board was looking to diversify, said Dawn C. Howard, county Soil & Water Conservation District manager and the EMCs acting chairwoman. Its good to have people from different walks of life.
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We have a strategic planning session coming up, she said.
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If we can save the county money, I think that would be timely, Ms. Howard said. My big thing is to improve the relationship between legislators and the EMC.
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Christians Are Not Stupid or Irrational.
It seems to stem from a misunderstanding. Several factors come into play but the most significant factor is the evidence for God. Atheists have a more empirical criterion than Christians do. Generally an Atheist will not settle for any testimonial or subjective evidence while a Christian will. When every Christian argument depends on the existence of God and the premise is disputed for lack of credible evidence by the Atheist, this creates a significant impediment to the resolution of the disagreement. Rationality depends on a conclusion based on reason. A rational argument depends on taking evidence into account. If the evidence is in question, though both sides are arguing rationally, this situation can understandably be frustrating for both sides in the debate and can, in a worst case, degrade into personal attacks (aka an "Ad Hominem").
Another type of exchange occurs when the Atheist analyzes Christian arguments using principles of "critical thinking" and may be perceived to have or may actually have a condescending tone. The act of argument analysis and criticism can in itself be perceived as condescending. On the other hand, I have seen situations where a Christian will initiate the charge against an atheist. The Christian will assert "The fool says in his heart yada, yada, yada...", and then allege that "Atheists think that Christians are stupid, when in reality the Atheist is the fool" and justify the charge of foolishness using scripture.


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|Wished I had ice tools
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2011
|This was the year after the big snow in Colorado and the couloir was completely full of very hard snow, crampons barely sunk in. We climbed up and down in ape-like fashion to use ice ax pick, as the other end wouldn't go in. Very grateful to be alive after that one!
|Posted Jul 26, 2013 4:41 pm
|East face
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 1983
|Date is a guess, from the few years I lived in Colorado.
I climbed the east face coulair, which is to the north of the standard ravine to the south route. This was early in my climbing career, and an early experiment with steeper snow climbing, and I almost ended it all here on the descent with a slip, self-arresting just by luck before going over the lip at the very top of the steep drop into the slot. Failing to arrest here would result in a gruesome imitation of pinball game.
|Posted Feb 23, 2013 1:28 pm
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2012
|Had the whole mountain to myself!!! Absolutely shocked for a Sunday and saw no one. Spent an hour on the summit catching a burn! :o)
Cool mountain. Elks are da shit!
|Posted Aug 26, 2012 10:59 pm
|Nemesis Mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2012
|Everyone has their nemesis mountain, and Cathedral is mine. After two failed attempts, I finally got up Cathedral, but at a small price. 100 feet below the summit I put both hands and all my weight on a solid looking rock, and a 100 pound boulder crashed into me, busting up my hand a bit. Nothing too bad, but it was obvious this mountain did not want to make it easy for me.
|Posted Jun 9, 2012 9:03 pm
|Matt Lemke
|Fantastic snow climb
Date Climbed: May 20, 2012
|Beautiful day and a beautiful mountain! One of my favorite summit views.
|Posted May 21, 2012 5:27 pm
|Standard couloir route
Date Climbed: May 12, 2012
|Still decent snow in the couloir in this bad snow year, but was a little thin. Started up the couloir a little late (8-ish). Was mashed potatoes on the way down. Weather was great despite the forecast! I measured the angle twice at 38 degrees. Someone higher up measured 48 - I don't know about that.
|Posted May 13, 2012 9:51 am
|Matt Lemke
|Re: Standard couloir route
|Yeah...48 is correct. The upper half was definently over 45 by a little bit
|Posted May 21, 2012 5:29 pm
|Re: Standard couloir route
|I suppose so. I've heard 48 degrees a few times. It was one of my first couloir climbs, so I'm not the best judge. It just didn't feel like it got much steeper than the 38 degrees that I measured.
|Posted May 29, 2012 10:27 pm
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2011
|Climbed Cathedral via standard route. Rotten snow in the gully made it more interesting. Overall, nice hike/snow climb, great views. Click here to see the Cathedral Peak picture album.
|Posted Jul 11, 2011 11:14 pm
|Eric Holle
|Spring, Standard Route
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2011
|Great spring condidtions for a snow climb! Absolutely beautiful day and a super fun route!!
|Posted Jun 13, 2011 12:08 am
|standard route
|I did this once and probably wont do it again. Not that its a bad route, and I love the elks, but the gully was a bit gnarly
|Posted Jan 24, 2011 10:22 am
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2009
|Climbed with Colin, Scot, Craig and Amanda. Good snow in the gully still, but there was some rock on the snow and you can tell its been getting some rockfall, bring a helmet. The ridge was nice, closer to the crest had a few easy class 3 sections, but its mostly class 2. There is a nice trail through the talus in the basin, its a little tricky to find, but worth it!
|Posted Jun 29, 2009 10:16 am
|Skied the Pearl
Date Climbed: May 15, 2008
|Climbed to top of Pearl. Sun super heated snow so turned around before summit. Skied the Pearl. Rough snow.
|Posted Nov 5, 2008 11:38 pm
|East Face Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2008
|With a 3am start I was feeling a little sluggish, but once above the lake and eyeing the couloir....
Ended up being a great day!
|Posted Jun 24, 2008 1:32 am
|With "Electric Pass Peak"
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2006
|This was my first snow climb and it was a blast! Traversed on to "Electric Pass Peak" on the gnarly, rotten ridge. The rock was falling apart and the scree was extreme. I wouldn't recommend this unless you have a lot of experience on serious junk rock and scree. It is dangerous, especially on the Cathedral side.
|Posted Mar 28, 2008 8:29 pm
|Route Climbed: South Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007
|Climbed this peak w/asphazell. A great snow climb and white-knuckle down-climb. I had to face-in due to the slick snows steep grade...mucho fun.
|Posted Jun 15, 2007 12:29 am
|Ryan Kowalski
|First Snow Climb
Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2007
|My first snow climb was a smashing success, a great route on good snow and great weather.
|Posted Jun 12, 2007 5:48 pm
|South Couloir
Date Climbed: Jun 9, 2007
|Climbed with Altitude14er. Great snow climb in one of my favorite ranges!
|Posted Jun 11, 2007 12:37 am
|Route Climbed: South Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2006
|My first solo climb, and I'm glad I was alone. The rock fall in the gully is no joke!! The gully was free of snow and the dirt was very soft. I did not see anyone until my return to the lake. Unless you count the deer that was stupid enough to run out in front of my car in mile 8 of Castle Creek Road!
|Posted Aug 12, 2006 10:32 pm
|Cool Peak and Lake
Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2004
|Climbed in Fall with stud cuz Ross Schnell adn brother Dirk.
|Posted Jul 26, 2006 8:25 pm


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Tom Bissell is not a household name in Portland. But in the two years he has lived here, teaching creative writing at Portland State University, he has quietly ranked among the most dexterous, savvy and chameleonic wordsmiths in the country.
Bissell, 37, writes essays and short stories. His specialty—honed in five books, with another three on the way—is traveling to remote places and making them intensely personal.
He has written about the environmental cataclysm of Uzbekistan's Aral Sea, and his own mental collapse as a Peace Corps volunteer nearby. ("The world could be unevenly divided into those who diet and those who starve, those who gobble antidepressants and those who die of curable diseases such as tuberculosis.")
He has written about visiting Vietnam with his father to see the places where his Marine dad fought. ("The reason this was becoming a stock scene in the literature of Americans in the new Vietnam was that a confrontation with the lingering costs of war was inevitable for every American who came here.[...] Even a broken heart is a cliché.")
On a lark, he and a friend wrote a book of fake DVD commentaries parodying political pundits like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn arguing over movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. ("Zinn: You view the conflict as being primarily about pipe-weed, do you not?")
He is relentlessly prolific: In the weeks between my first handshake with Bissell in early August and the article you're reading, he wrote a profile for The New Yorker, reviewed the new Nicholson Baker novel in GQ and published four lengthy essays at the au courant sports-and-pop-culture website Grantland. In that same time, his story about a honeymoon gone wrong in Rome, "A Bridge Under Water," was picked for The Best American Short Stories 2011 anthology.
"Tom's work," says the novelist Jonathan Franzen, "reminds me of both William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace—he has some of Vollmann's peripatetic daredeviltry and encyclopedic ambitions, and some of Wallace's manic prose energy and in-touchness with his demons—but he sounds like nobody but himself. For a writer his age, that's saying a lot."
When I arrived a month ago at the ground floor Pearl District apartment Bissell shares with girlfriend, Trisha Miller, he didn't want to talk about his literary triumphs. He wanted to discuss what he's currently writing about: video games, and a very bad movie called The Room.
"I started out writing about war and environmental catastrophe, and now I'm writing about cinematic catastrophe," he mused, after preparing a lunch of lamburgers: mutton patties held together with feta cheese and cherry slices.
Since the publication of his fifth book, Extra Lives—Random House launched a 15,000-copy paperback run last month—Bissell has become the national magazine industry's go-to essayist on video games like Mass Effect 3 and Gears of War.
At the same time, he has grown fixated on The Room—a 2003 movie notorious for its preposterous, fervent incompetence. Bissell has watched The Room at least 30 times. He is now collaborating with one of The Room's supporting actors on a tell-all book about the making of the film.
As a finishing move, Bissell informed Portland State last month that he was quitting his job to move to Los Angeles and become a screenwriter at a video-game development company.
On the afternoon we met, Thomas Carlisle Bissell sat on his couch opposite two framed Harper's covers with his name on them, watching a DVD of The Room on his plasma television—noticing for the first time that in the film's opening sex scene the lead actress removes her lover's necktie twice.
"Sweetie," he excitedly called upstairs to Miller, "I just found a new Room continuity error!"
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The Tom Bissell C.V.:
Born in 1974 and raised in Escanaba, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. English major at Michigan State; joined the Peace Corps in 1996. Deployed to Gulistan, Uzbekistan. Freaked out, flamed out, sent home. Worked as a book editor in New York City for most of his 20s. Returned to Uzbekistan in 2001 on a Harper's assignment-cum-book deal. Published Chasing the Sea, '03; God Lives in St. Petersburg and Other Stories, '05; The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, '07. Moved to Estonia to write a book about the tombs of the 12 apostles. Began playing video games. Playing a lot of video games. Playing them for 10 hours a day, three days on end. Literary output essentially vanished for two years. Returned in 2009-10 with magazine pieces of video-game criticism; eventually published the lot as Extra Lives last year.
The Tom Bissell look: a close-cropped shagginess, with a thick jaw and wide smile that lend him a friendly canine aspect; this, combined with his glasses and quiet erudition, recalls Mr. Peabody from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. His speech is rapid but deliberate, and the effect is one of initiation—as if he were trying to include others on his intellectual playground.
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Puff Pastry
500g flour (sifted)
450g + 50g unsalted butter (preferably French)
210 ml water (room temp is fine)
40 ml white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon salt.
A cool marble surface, preferably.
A rolling pin.
A pastry brush.
Melt the 50g of butter. Place flour in a bowl. Make a well. Into this, place melted butter, water, vinegar salt.
Incorporate all the ingredients until you have a smoothe dough, and then roll into a ball. Cut an 'X' into the top with a knife,
wrap in cling film, and place in fridge for 1 or 2 hours.
Make a block of butter. If using two 250g blocks of butter (minus the 50g you used for melting),
cut them both in half horizontally. Lay two or three sheets of cling film on your surface, and place the four parts of butter together so they make a large rectangular block. Then, with your thumb, join them together:
or alternatively, place a second sheet of cling film over the butter, and using your rolling pin, gently roll the four parts together. Wrap this in cling film, and place in the fridge for approx. 1 hour.
Remove both the flour paste and the butter block, and let them sit for 5 mins. Start to open up the flour paste - you're going to extend each quarter until it becomes a flap. (See images)
Flour your top (this is an important habit to get into with puff pastry). Using the pin, roll the flaps outward in each direction, until they can be folded over the butter rectangle in the center. Here I've placed the butter, still wrapped, in the center to see how much more I need to roll.
When the dough is big enough, unwrap the butter, and place it in the center of the dough, and start folding in the flaps to meet in the middle. As you fold in each flap, brush away the excess flour. You want to keep the pastry as free from loose flour as possible.
When you have folded all four flaps in, brush away what flour remains. Now, you need to estimate the temperature of the pastry. If it's still cold enough from the fridge, you can start to roll. But if it's a warm day, or it's taken you longer than you expected, you might want to place the pastry in the fridge again for 20 mins, just so it starts to firm up again.
When you're ready, flour the board and your pastry well. Now, you only ever roll puff pastry in one direction, and back again. So working on the long side of the rolling board, I start by 'denting' the pastry block with the length of my rolling pin, just to soften up the thing as a whole, and get a feel for how firm or soft the butter is inside. Then, slowly, roll the dough out the length of your board (or a little longer) until it is a quarter inch thick for it's entire length.
Now we're going to give it its first 'turn.' Brush away the excess flour, and fold one end two thirds of the way in. Brush away the excess again...
and then fold the other flap over the first. Press down the edges gently to seal.
This is the first 'turn.' It means you then take your dough, and turn it 90 degrees, and start rolling out in the opposite direction to the one you did previously. So, if you rolled 'lef to right' for the first one, you'll need to roll 'up and down' for the second turn Or to explain it another way, once you fold it in three, the pastry will be thinner than it is long. Always roll in the direction of the length, rather than the width. Because of the way you fold it, this will be along a different plane each time. (I'm sure someone can explain this better then me).
Ultimately, you need to fold the dough in 3 a total of 6 times, but you have to keep the butter from melting, so it's best not to do more than 2 turns each time. How do you remember? Use your fingers to make indents, so you can keep track.
Then wrap the dough in cling film, and place in the fridge for 30 mins to an hour between each 2 rolls.
You can keep the pastry well-wrapped in the fridge for several days, but it also freezes well. I read that you should freeze it only after 4 turns. Otherwise, if you go to 6, the freezing can fracture the layers of butter, and the pastry won't rise as well. Either way, I cut it into thirds (after 4 or 6 turns), and freeze it that way. To defrost, I place it in the fridge for 12 hours, and then either use as is, or roll out 2 more times if I had frozen it at 4 turns. Geddit?
Anyway, many things to do with this stuff. It's absolutely delicious. I haven't been able to use the supermarket stuff since I started making my own. You'll see - there's just no comparison.
A couple of examples of uses...
A classic Tarte Tatin
Some nectarine tarts
and most recently, a large duck and foie gras tourte.
Again, sorry that I had to do this in such a rush. I'll edit it as I can to make it more clear. Hope this was of some help.
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March madness settles in this weekend. Some folks will travel to friends' homes or sports bars to watch.
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Peter Lehmann Clancy's 2009
Other Red Blends from Barossa Valley, Australia
Winemaker's Notes
The color shows a dark center with a garnet rim. The nose displays a lovely raspberry and pastille lift with a palate of red berry, dark plums and chocolate. Blending the three varietals gives Clancy's great complexity, richness of fruit flavor and a harmonious balance of soft tannin finish.
Blend: 39% Shiraz, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot
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The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.
Barossa ValleyBarossa is red-wine territory, with red grapes consisting of about two-thirds of the region's plantings. The reds, Shiraz in particular, are lauded for their rich, concentrated flavors and aging potential. Old vines of Shiraz and Grenache are popular, many up to 80 years old. The valley is home to some of the most famous vineyards of Australia - this is where the first Penfolds Grange was made. Whites are also found, mainly from the Semillon grape – these wines are as full-bodied as the reds although harder to find. Riesling and Chardonnay are also planted.
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mikezpen wrote:Good observations. But Gausman isn't going to properly learn that third pitch in the majors as a starter and/or reliever. He's another guy who needs a year at Norfolk to work on that third pitch and also to refine location of his FB and change-up.
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That certainly could be the case. I am hoping the Orioles do not put Gausman in the rotation just because there is no one else, rather that he has pushed himself into the rotation. I think he can refine his pitches at the MLB level, but how long that will take makes it a tough task. I think it makes a lot of sense to start him in the Norfolk rotation in 2014.
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Alors que les discours médiatiques et politiques ne cessent de bruire des promesses du numérique pour l'éducation (l'inflation autour des MOOCs en constituant un nouvel exemple), cette journée d'étude vise à structurer une perspective émergente, la perspective sociocritique, propice pour envisager le numérique en éducation complémentairement aux approches traditionnellement centrées sur la salle de classe.
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International über den Lehrerberuf diskutiert wurde auf einer Veranstaltung des vom DAAD Paris initiierten "Deutsch-Französischen Forscherdialogs".
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Thinking Together ProjectA dialogue-based approach to the development of children's thinking and learning.Spoken Language
Spoken language enables us to do much more than share information - it enables us to think together. But as teachers, do we always use it to best advantage? And do we give enough attention to enabling children to use language as a tool for learning and problem-solving?
On this website we explain how years of practical, classroom-based research in several countries and with learners of all ages has provided useful answers to these questions.
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Webinar 13th October 6-8 pm British Summer Time
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Since its inception, the field of second language research has utilized methods from a number of areas, including general linguistics, psychology, education, sociology, anthropology and, recently, neuroscience and corpus linguistics. As the questions and objectives expand, researchers are increasingly pushing methodological boundaries to gain a clearer picture of second language learning. At one end for example, we see measures of cognition (e.g., brain imaging and eye tracking) and at the other end we see exploration of issues of culture and identity (e.g., ethnographies, deep dive case studies, introspective and narrative analyses). There is an emerging emphasis on research synthesis, meta-analysis, and replication. This article illustrates a few of the advancements in methods and research agendas in SLA. I will conclude by highlighting some of the ways that second language researchers can continue to incorporate, assimilate, and shape methodology, as well as pointing out some of the potential pitfalls, and overall, how these methodological innovations benefit the field.
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I recently saw an article announcing the publishing of a free e-book called "PARSNIPS in ELT: Stepping out of the comfort zone (Vol.
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During this presentation, Sally will talk about how and why video is increasingly seen as a useful teaching tool. She will trace the changes that are taking place in relation to the use of video for teaching and learning and provide several examples from different applications in different parts of Europe. Many of the examples she will show are based on entries received in the annual Medea Awards and she will use these examples as a way to highlight what can constitute excellence on the use of video for teaching and learning.
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This paper pursues to give a short, but broad insight into the vision of JoMiTE – a European Life Long Learning Project
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This volume is a collection of articles that demonstrate the longstanding tradition of pedagogical development work at the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre. The teacher-researchers who present their work in these articles share their ideas and development results while advancing their thinking by writing about the work they are doing. The chapters thus represent a spectrum of voices and perspectives and show different stages of pedagogical thinking and perception
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From the Future Of StoryTelling video series comes an animation featuring Margaret Atwood meditating on how technology shapes the way we tell stories.
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4-min video going from Gutenberg to Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com, how technology (serialisation, mobile devices) affects reading and writing. Some little nuggets in there.
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Présentation réalisée par Bryan CODER dans le cadre du Medialab Speed Training, organisé par Ouest Medialab le 17 septembre 2014 à Nantes.
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The concept of Audio Diaries is actually quite simple. Students record something (on or off topic, with or without using target vocabulary or language structures). Students are then given feedback on their grammatical, lexical, and phonological errors. Finally, students re-record the same exact monologue, but this time, they must address their errors. In this way, students are getting delayed corrective feedback and forced uptake of feedback, in addition to raising their noticing and metacognitive skills. They are also getting individual attention, targeted practice in their "weak" areas, and more opportunities for speaking without the pressures of speaking in class.
Aside form typical complaints about too much homework, students seem to enjoy Audio Diaries. They enjoy the feedback and being able to have another chance to express their thoughts in a clearer way. In addition, by listening more closely to individuals I am better able to pinpoint and help them with their weaknesses in and out of class. Likewise, I am better able to notice persistent and common patterns and address them in class.
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Volume 28 (2015)
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As an EFL teacher in a secondary school in Geneva I sometimes feel on the edge of everything; -the teaching PLN on twitter seems to be mainly UK based (maybe I'm missing an enormous vibrant community of motivated French-speaking teachers from my...
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This is a summary of the #ELTchat from September 23
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Short videos from YouTube and other sources can be quite helpful in introducing topics to students and or reinforcing concepts that you have taught.
Posts about Target language use written by Gianfranco Conti, Phd (Lang. Ed.), MA (TEFL)
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Evaluation Grid for xMOOCs
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NIAGARA FALLS - An early morning fire on Woodlawn Avenue in Niagara Falls is under investigation.
According to the Niagara Falls Fire Department, a paper carrier saw smoke coming from a window of a home around 6:21 in the morning.
Police arrived first and kicked in the door to search the home before firefighters arrived a few minutes later.
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This PDF pattern includes step by step instructions and illustrations to create a gorgeous dress that will make your little girl look and feel like a princess! Instructions are very detailed and pictures are included for every step along the way. Pattern is for sizes 12m-5T.
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Each year the women of the American Legion Auxiliary spend some part of May selling poppies to support and remember the sacrifices of veterans.
This year that day will be on May 20, as these women are out and about with their flowers.
But the story behind the poppy as a commemoration is an interesting one; one steeped in history.
Colonel John McCrae and Moina Michael are two names which hardly create a ripple on the great sea of historical figures and yet from their compassion, the Canadian surgeon and a school teacher grew the idea of a memorial flower to commemorate the sacrifices made by young men and women who have answered the call in the time of wars.
As a military surgeon in France during World War I, each day Dr. McCrae saw the number of crosses marking those that had perished grow and he was impressed by the valor of the men around him. Inspired by the wild Red Poppies that sprung in the Fields of Flanders he compiled the poem "We Shall Not Sleep." The poem was later retitled "In Flanders Fields" and was published in the United States as a recruiting incentive for American young men to join the military branches.
In a magazine Michael read the touching words McCrae had composed and answered by compiling "We Shall Keep Faith."
On May 22 1921, a movement instigated by Michael at the American Legion Auxiliaries organizing convention, the organization adopted the Red Poppy as their memorial flower.
Each year replicas of this flower are made by Veterans in hospitals, rehabilitation centers and care facilities all over the country.
The group is always hopeful that people in communities near and far will show patriotism and help veterans wherever they might be in need financially or psychologically.
Dignity for veterans is also a part of this drive.
This national event recognizes the contributions of generations of military men and women who are playing a vital role in engaging in wars and conflicts to keep America strong and secure.


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kids reverse seam shirt
by STEVEN ALAN
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The Steven Alan Reverse Seam Shirt is our signature style; now for the young ones as well just like their stylish mothers and fathers! The only difference in our kids version is that there is no twisted placket in our pint sized shirt.
• outside chest pocket
• shirttail hem
• dust blue: 84% cotton, 8% linen, 8% ramie
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Registered childminder
What's the job all about?
Being a registered childminder gives you the chance to work in your own home caring for other people's children. This means you'll get to know the children you care for really well and play an important part in their life. You'll be helping children develop with lots of activities, having fun with them as they play and sharing their successes as they grow.
On a typical day you might take the children on the school run; visit the park on the way home; paint pictures with the toddlers while the baby is napping; enjoy an after-school snack and read a story while waiting for the children's parents.
What are the opportunities for you?
Job satisfaction is something that you can't put a price on. You will have the pleasure of bringing up children in your own home whilst also bringing in a full-time wage. Many childminders are also parents/carers of young children themselves and look after other children at the same time. There is lots of support and advice available to get you started and you may be eligible for some funding to help set up your business.
What qualifications will you need?
All new childminders must undertake training to register. You must achieve the Introduction to Childcare Practice (home-based) course, which is tailored to childcarers who care for children in a family home, rather than a centre, such as nursery. You will also need to gain, and maintain, a first-aid certificate which covers first-aid for children and young babies, as well as completing a food hygiene course.
Once you've started work as a childminder, you may get the chance to do more training; from one-off sessions on topics such as messy play to formal qualifications such as the Diploma in Home-based Childcare. If you would like to care for children under the age of eight you will need to register with the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales and show how you meet national standards for childminding.
You can also join the National Childminding Association (NCMA), childminding's professional association. You'll get regular updates on important childminding issues to keep you informed, as well as money off NCMA's paperwork, such as contracts and attendance registers, which can help the business side of your new career run smoothly.
For more information on how to become a registered childminder or on the qualifications listed please contact the National Childminding Association on 0845 880 0044 www.ncma.org.uk.
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Fill out and submit to Grants.gov the SF-424 (Application for Federal Domestic Assistance/Short Organizational Form)
Using Grants.gov
Please note that Grants.gov uses the term "application" and "application package" when all you'll submit is the SF-424 form (Application for Federal Domestic Assistance). You will submit a substantial part of your application through NEA-GO. See Step 2.
In addition to these instructions, you should periodically check the Grants.gov blog or the Grants.gov homepage for tips, updates, and alerts.
Issues related to registration or renewal with the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS), System for Award Management (SAM), or Grants.gov
Exceptions to the deadline will be considered only for those issues related to registration or renewal. In those cases, you must maintain documentation (with dates) of your efforts to register or renew at least two weeks before the deadline of record (February 19 or July 23). If you can provide documentation that dates from:
- February 5 (for the February 19 deadline) or earlier, or
- July 9 (for the July 23 deadline) or earlier,
that, in the judgment of the Arts Endowment, indicates a technological failure on the part of DUNS, SAM, or Grants.gov, we will consider and address your situation as appropriate. We will not accept late SF-424s that are the result of user error.
Grants.gov SF-424 Submission
You should attempt to submit your SF-424 no later than 10 days prior to the deadline, so that, in case you encounter any unexpected issues with Grants.gov, you will still have time to resolve the issues and submit your SF-424 successfully by the February 19 or July 23 deadline of record. We will not accept late SF-424s that are the result of user error, including failure to verify that your SF-424 was validated and accepted by the Grants.gov system through Track My Application. If you can provide documentation dating from:
- February 9 (for the February 19 deadline) or earlier, or
- July 13 (for the July 23 deadline) or earlier,
that, in the judgment of the Arts Endowment, indicates a technological failure on the part of Grants.gov, we will consider and address your situation as appropriate.
Failure to successfully submit the SF-424 form through Grants.gov will make you ineligible to submit through NEA-GO in March or August.
Register or Renew/Verify Registration with Grants.gov
NOTE: Applicants are required to change their Grants.gov passwords every 60 days. See www.grants.gov for more details on requirements for Usernames and Passwords.
It is your organization's responsibility to create and maintain a regularly updated registration with Grants.gov. This includes registration with the System for Award Management (SAM), where your organization's information must be renewed annually. Finalize a new or renew an existing registration at least two weeks before the application deadline. This should allow you time to resolve any issues that may arise with Grants.gov or SAM. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in your inability to submit your SF-424.
If your organization is not yet registered, go to Grants.gov's Organization Registration. If your organization already has registered, renew your registration with SAM and verify that your registration with Grants.gov is current.
Help with registration:
- SAM Federal Service Desk: Call 1-866-606-8220 or see the information posted on the SAM website at SAM User Help.
- Grants.gov Contact Center: Call 1-800-518-4726, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com, or consult the information posted on the Grants.gov website at Support. The Grants.gov Contact Center is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Maintain documentation (with dates) of your efforts to register or renew at least two weeks before the deadline of record (February 19 or July 23). If you don't begin registration or renewal at least two weeks before the deadline, you may not have sufficient time to complete the multi-step process.
You do not need to complete the registration process to download the SF-424 and begin to prepare your material (see below). However, you will need your Grants.gov Username and Password that you obtain during the registration process to submit your SF-424.
Download the SF-424
Verify your software
You must have a version of Adobe Reader that is supported by Grants.gov installed on your computer before you download your SF-424 from Grants.gov. Non-compatible versions of Adobe Reader or other Adobe products will lead to errors and prevent you from submitting your SF-424. If more than one computer will be involved in the preparation of the SF-424, ensure that the same version of Adobe Reader is used.
Please go to "Download Software" to see the compatible versions of Adobe Reader or to download and install Adobe Reader.
Access the SF-424 on Grants.gov by clicking on the link for your deadline:
For applications under the July 23, 2015, deadline:
[Funding Opportunity Number 2015NEA01AW2]
This will bring you to the "Selected Grant Applications for Download" screen.
Download the SF-424 and follow the instructions below. It is not necessary to download the instructions from Grants.gov as you will merely be directed back to the instructions in this document.
When you download the SF-424, the Grants.gov "Grant Application Package" screen will open. Click on the "Save" button and save the application package to a location on your computer or network where you can find it readily. Save your application each time you work on it. You will get the message: "The File already exists. Replace existing file?" Click "Yes" to ensure that you always save the most recent version.
Enter the name of your organization in the "Application Filing Name" yellow field.
You can access the SF-424 form by clicking on it OR you can scroll down your screen and you will come to it.
Fill Out the SF-424
NOTE: All asterisked (*) items and yellow fields on this form are required and must be completed before you will be able to submit the form. Do not type in all capital letters when completing the form. Enter information directly into the form. Do not copy from an old SF-424 or another document and paste into the form.
1. Name of Federal Agency: Pre-populated.
2. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: Pre-populated.
3. Date Received: This will be filled automatically with the date that you submit your SF-424; leave blank.
4. Funding Opportunity Number: Pre-populated.
5. Applicant Information:
a. Legal Name: The name provided here must be the applicant's legal name as it appears in the current IRS 501(c)(3) status letter or in the official document that identifies the organization as a unit of state or local government, or as a federally recognized tribal community or tribe. (Do not use your organization's popular name, if different.)
If you are a parent organization that is applying on behalf of an eligible independent component, do not list the name of the independent component here. You will be asked for that information later.
b. Address:
Use Street 1 for your street address or post office box number, whichever is used for your U.S. Postal Service mailing address. Street 2 is not a required field and should be used only when a Suite or Room Number or other similar information is a necessary part of your address. Do not use Street 2 to give a second address for your organization.
In the Zip/Postal Code box, organizations in the United States should enter the full 9-digit zip code that was assigned by the U.S. Postal Service. If you do not know your full zip code, you may look it up at www.usps.com/zip4/
d. Type of Applicant: Select the item that best characterizes your organization from the menu in the first drop down box. Additional choices are optional.
e. Employer/Taxpayer Identification Number (EIN/TIN): Enter the 9-digit number that was assigned by the Internal Revenue Service; do not use a Social Security Number.
f. Organizational DUNS: All organizational applicants for federal funds must have a DUNS number, which is recognized as the universal standard for identifying organizations worldwide. The number that you enter here must agree with the number (either 9 or 13 digits) that you used with the SAM (System for Award Management) as part of the Grants.gov registration. Otherwise, your SF-424 will not be validated by Grants.gov and will be rejected. Submit your SF-424 no later than 10 days prior to the deadline to give yourself ample time to resolve any problems that you might encounter.
g. Congressional District: Enter the number of the Congressional District where the applicant organization is located. Use the following format: 2 character State Abbreviation-3 character District Number. For example, if your organization is located in the 5th Congressional District of California, enter "CA-005." If your state has a single At-Large Representative or your territory has a single Delegate, enter your 2 character state/territory abbreviation and "-000." If you need help determining your district, go to www.house.gov and use the "Find Your Representative" tool.
6. Project Information:
a. Project Title: State first the NEA office/discipline that you want to review your application (see here for more information). Provide a brief descriptive title for your proposed project. For example: Artist Communities: To support An Exhibition of the Works of Georgia O'Keeffe.
b. Project Description: For all projects except those to the Arts Education discipline: In two or three brief sentences, clearly describe your specific project, not your organization. Begin the first sentence with "To support" and include the name of the project. Follow this with up to two more sentences that describe the type of project, the target population that will be served, and where the project will take place. For examples, see Recent Grants.
For Arts Education discipline projects: In two or three brief sentences, clearly describe your specific project, not your organization. Begin the first sentence with "To support" and include the name of the project and whether your project is for a Direct Learning, Professional Development, or Collective Impact project. Follow this with up to two more sentences that describe the type of project, the instructors, the age and number of students/adults who will be served, and where the project will take place.
For example:
To support Creative Arts Program, a Direct Learning music education project for 200 students across two elementary schools in Monroe, LA. Professional teaching artists provide weekly, year-round, instrumental music instruction after school. The program includes master classes with symphony musicians, one on one coaching, and a field trip to an orchestra matinee concert.
Please note:
This field on the form has a character limit of 1,000, including spaces. Even if you have less than 1,000 characters, Grants.gov may translate special characters (e.g., apostrophes) in a way that will cause your SF-424 to be rejected. This can happen if you "cut and paste" from an old SF-424 or another document into the form. We strongly encourage you to write a succinct project description and double check the number of characters.
c. Proposed Project Start Date/End Date: Enter the beginning and ending dates for your requested period of performance, i.e., the span of time necessary to plan, execute, and close out your proposed project. The start date should be the first day of the month, and the end date should be the last day of the month. The Arts Endowment's support of a project may start on or after: 1) For applicants under the February 19 deadline, January 1, 2016; or 2) For applicants under the July 23 deadline, June 1, 2016. Generally, a period of performance of up to two years is allowed. The two-year period is intended to allow an applicant sufficient time to plan, execute, and close out its project, not to repeat a one-year project for a second year. Your budget should include only the activities and costs incurred during the requested period of performance.
7. Project Director:
Provide the requested information for the Project Director. Select a Prefix (e.g., Ms., Mr.) even though this is not a required field.
Provide contact information, including an e-mail address, that will be valid through the announcement date for your category.
8. Primary Contact/Grant Administrator:
Provide the requested information for the individual who should be contacted on all matters involving this application and the administration of any grant that may be awarded. For colleges and universities, this person is often a Sponsored Research, Sponsored Programs, or Contracts and Grants Officer. Select a Prefix even though this is not a required field. For the Telephone number field, use the following format: 000-000-0000.
In some organizations, particularly smaller ones, this individual may be the same as the Project Director. If this is the case, you may check the "Same as Project Director" box and not repeat information that you have already provided in Item 7. (If the Primary Contact/Grant Administrator is the same as the Authorizing Official, please complete all items under both 8 and 9 even though there will be some repetition.)
9. Authorized Representative:
Enter the requested information for the AOR (Authorized Organization Representative) who is authorized to submit this application to Grants.gov. Select a Prefix even though this is not a required field. The AOR must have the legal authority to obligate your organization (e. g., be a senior member of the staff such as an ED, Director of Development, etc.). See specific requirements for who can serve as an AOR for colleges and universities. Contractors or administrative support staff cannot serve as an AOR. By clicking the "I Agree" box at the top of Item 9, this individual will be certifying compliance with relevant federal requirements on your organization's behalf. (These requirements can be found in the "Assurance of Compliance" section of these guidelines.) The "Signature of Authorized Representative" and "Date Signed" boxes will be populated by Grants.gov upon submission of the SF-424.
Submit the SF-424
To begin the submission process, click the "Save & Submit" button. [This button will not become active (and turn from light to dark gray) until you have saved your SF-424 with all required fields completed. Clicking this button will prompt you to save your application package one last time. When asked if you want to replace the existing file, click "Yes." You will then be reconnected to Grants.gov and the Internet.] You will be prompted to provide your Grants.gov Username and Password that you obtained during registration.
Click the "Login" button. This will bring you to the "Application Submission Verification and Signature" screen, which provides a summary of the Funding Opportunity for which you are applying. Click the "Sign and Submit Application" button to complete the process. Be certain that you are satisfied with your SF-424 before you click this button. No revisions to your SF-424 are possible through Grants.gov once it is submitted.
If you have difficulty submitting, go to Adobe Reader Error Messages or Applicant Resources for several tools and documents to help you.
Ensure that your SF-424 was validated and accepted by the Grants.gov system. Go to Track My Application to confirm the validation and track the progress of your SF-424 submission through Grants.gov.
Additional Help
For additional help on how to use Grants.gov, please see the Grants.gov website at Support. You also can send e-mail to the Grants.gov Contact Center at email@example.com or call them at 1-800-518-4726, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Remember to go to Track My Application on Grants.gov before the deadline to verify that your SF-424 was successfully submitted. Do not wait until the day of the deadline to verify your submission. We will not accept late SF-424s.


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Ed O'Neill celebrated his 67th birthday on Friday.
Although he is now widely known for his role as Jay on ABC's "Modern Family," he got his rise to fame playing Al Bundy on Fox's "Married ... With Children."
It almost seems like his character Jay is an older, still grumpy, version of the shoes salesman he played on the 1990's sitcom.
Ever wonder what Kelly and Bud Bundy look like now? What about their "milf" Peggy?
Click "Launch Gallery" above to see "Married ... With Children" stars then & now!
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