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quote: Android is about generating ad revenue for Google.
quote: What of it? ounds like a winner to me. Make money of your product and make money of your competitor.
quote: Even beyond that, who cares. Its about what you get... Not what Google or Apple gets.
quote: More people use iOS devices, again because most Android devices sold are low end, not proper smartphones.
quote: Samsung shipped more than 60 million smartphones, including the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II
quote: No, its just misleading when people talk up Android marketshare but such a large amount comes from low end devices that don't get used the same way that a GS3 would.
quote: Its just a lower number compared to other devices, but who cares? This isn't a contest.
quote: If there are so many high end Android devices out there, why is Google making so much more mobile revenue from a competing platform?
quote: As a result, across its U.S. and Canadian network, 17 percent of Web traffic is coming from Samsung smartphones, 46 percent is coming from iPhones, and 37 percent is coming from other smartphones.Chitika last week said it was impressed by the speed with which iPhone 5 traffic topped that of the Galaxy S III. It hit that milestone after only 18 days on the market, whereas the Galaxy S III has been on the market for several months.
quote: we KNOW the majority is low end
quote: The GS3 alone outsold the 4S in one quarter last year
quote: and that is just one phone out of many
quote: With comparable OS and a few good high end devices it outsold IOS by 5 to 1 in 2012.
quote: Now moving on and back to topic. It is an inevitability, the Play store will out-earn the apps store. If not by the end of this year like some independant companies predict, then in 2014. It could even be sooner, well have to see how this year goes, but it will happen. Sheer volume proves it will happen.
quote: How much more data do you guys need to see that much of Android's expansion hasn't been in the high end?
quote: Also note that there are many more iPhone 4S out there, more than the GS3
quote: but it was to make a point that you can also very easily find a better product for less.


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Bleeding Black and Gold: HURTIN' FOR CERTAIN
November 13, 2012 - Ray Eckenrode
The score: Pittsburgh 16, Kansas City 13, OT
The headline: SEPARATION ANXIETY: Roethlisberger injury overshadows sloppy Steelers win
The bottom line: Make no mistake, Byron Leftwich (and the Steelers) offense will be better with a week of preparation, and the Baltimore Ravens can be run on, and Joe Flacco is still Joe Flacco. No, all is not lost if we're talking about next week's AFC North showdown. But let's not kid ourselves, if Ben Roethlisberger and Ryan Clark are out for a prolonged period (should separations are four-week injuries, minimum, and rotator cuffs are longer; and it looked like Clark suffered his second concussion in three weeks), the Steelers chances of contending for a Super Bowl are gone.
It was over when: Matt Cassel heaved a quacker on the second play of overtime that Lawrence Timmons easily stepped in front of and returned inside the Chiefs 10 to set up Shaun Suisham's 23-yard game winner. After a bad start, Timmons came on with a handful of splash plays in the final 20 minutes or so, none bigger than his pick.
Plays of the day:
+ For the second week in a row, Mike Wallace was invisible for 59 minutes and 30 seconds and changed the game in the blink of an eye, this time with a one-handed, two-knee'd, tumbling, rolling grab that held up for Pittsburgh's only touchdown on the evening.
+ Just as big was the Chiefs TD that wasn't, a 22-yarder to Dwayne Bowe (on which Timmons whiffed on a squared-up tackle attempt) that was called back on a controversial holding penalty on Kansas City's Brandon Albert. The call appeared to be ticky tacky but we'll say about it what Jim Nantz would say if it were called on the Steelers: Albert grabbed the defender right on the white "2" on his jersey, making his clenched fist easy to see. (Note: That is something Nantz actually said once in justifying a hold against Pittsburgh.)
Zebra hunting:
+ We were initially puzzled by the "swearing at an official" call, reasoning, as most did, that there's a whole lotta swearing at officials going on during a game. But Mike Pereira clarified via Twitter that there is a magic phrase (that begins with an "F" and ends with a "you") that draws a flag every time.
+ After the weekend's peculiar replay calls, we were sure Carl Cheffers (anad the dreaded super slow mo) was going to rule Wallace out of bounds without control on his amazing touchdown catch. We think he got it just right in ruling there wasn't enough evidence to merit overturning the call on the field.
+ The Steelers should have kept the ball on the play Roethlisberger was injured on as Tamba Hali and Justin Houston did a choreographed sack dance afterwards, a two-man celebration that is, by rule, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Of course, the out-of-control Chiefs were later correctly assessed the same penalty for doing a team dance after what they thought was a fumble return TD (which, of course, was overturned by replay as an incomplete pass, cc: Bill Leavy). + Pereira made a good point on the Twitter about the offensive pass interference call on Tony Moeaki. At regular speed (the speed at which the officials call the game), it looked worse than it appeared in slow mo. Not saying it was the right call, just saying it should be looked at in the proper context.
Game mismanagement:
+ Aside from the confused timeout late in the fourth quarter (understandable with a backup QB on the field), not much to look at here this week. Romeo Crennel did everything right with his timeouts down the stretch.
+ We agree wholeheartedly with Tomlin's decision to kick on first down. If Roethlisberger were in the game, maybe you run one play to center the ball, but no reason to take a chance on an exchange problem with Leftwich on the field.
Hot topics:
+ Wow, the Steelers defensive line, which had been playing better, was absolutely manhandled in this game. Ziggy Hood, especially, was blown 5-7 yards off the line of scrimmage on many of those early bursts by Jamaal Charles. On one play, Hood was knocked so far backward he tumbled into Charles' legs from behind and got credit for an assist on the tackle (true story). It got so bad, we even saw Al Woods for a play or two in the third quarter. While it's still too early to call Cam Heyward a bust, it's obvious he isn't any better than the guys who are out there, which means Dick LeBeau is going to have to use that 4-2-5 lineup, with Harrison and Woodley playing as stand-up ends, more often than he'd probably like. With the washout of Alameda Ta'amu, who was cut before the game (although he still might end up on the Pittsburgh practice squad), the Steelers almost certainly have to look for help at D line in the offseason.
In the booth:
+ You know how we love the Solomon Wilcotts pronunciation of ROT-lis-berger, but we had totally forgotten about Jon Gruden's even worse Roth-ELS-berger. Maybe one day science will be able to meld the minds of the two and get one announcer who can say it right.
+ We saw again just how useless sideline reporters are at NFL games as Twitter provided much more information on Roethlisberger's injury much more quickly than Lisa Salters could.
A word from our sponsors: Over the past few weeks, ESPN has quietly put the SportsCenter commercial Roethlisberger shot when he was a rookie (the one where he's "saving" people from a burning building during a fire drill) back in rotation. That's a major step in Roethlisberger's ongoing efforts to reclaim his Q score and the revenue-generating opportunities off the field that go with it. It's also ironic since ESPN's shoddy reporting on the Milledgeville bar incident was a co-defendant in losing that Q appeal to begin with (a co-defendant along with Roethlisberger's own boorish behavior, of course).
Sweet tweet: "@DemetriusThorn: I'm going up to every white guy I see tomorrow and yelling "HEAAAATHHHHH" in their face. I just want to see the reaction." (Blogger's note: Seriously, David Paulson ought to legally change his name to Heath to make it easier on the fans.)
Next week: If the Steelers want to win the AFC North, they're going to have to beat the Ravens next week at home on Sunday night (and again in three weeks in beautiful Baltimore). The Steelers will be ultra banged up but so are the Ravens, who will be without Ray Lewis and will see Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata and Ed Reed playing through injuries. Despite the lofty record (which is all that matters), this is not your usual Ravens squad. Until Sunday's laugher vs. the Raiders, Baltimore had been struggling mightily to score points and stop the run, but winning anyway. As has been the case for the past five years, the Steelers formula for winning this game begins with stopping Ray Rice (or having Cam Cameron stop him for them).


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Friday, December 17, 2010
Thai Tofu Curry
Before we moved from the US, I did one shopping devoted to buying condiments and other food stuff that I thought may not be available here. Like tins of various Thai curry pastes, sambal oelek, Mexican condiments, a spice rub that I really like etc. Turned out that most of them can be found here after all! Many super markets have at least a few shelves devoted to international fare, apart from specialty stores carrying various exotic groceries.
This tofu curry is adapted from The Essential Thai Collection cook book. The original was a beef curry, which I have substituted with tofu.
1 tsp oil
1/2 block tofu, cubed
1 onion, sliced thinly
1 small red pepper, cut into strips
2 tsp Thai red curry paste (I used Maesri brand)
1/2 tsp tamarind concentrate
2 tsp palm sugar
6 pods cardamom, crushed
1 cup coconut milk
Heat oil. Add the curry paste and cook for a minute, stirring constantly.
Add onion and cook for 2 minutes.
Stir in tamarind paste, coconut milk, cardamom pods and palm sugar.
Bring to a boil, then add the tofu cubes and red pepper strips.
Simmer and cook uncovered for 15 minutes. Stir from time to time.
The curry should be quite dry but add a little water if necessary.
I also added a pinch of salt to suit my taste.
Serve with rice.
21 comments:
- Paaka Shaale said...
Very nice recipe vani. And a beautiful click :)
- December 17, 2010 at 4:56:00 AM EST
- Sharmilee! :) said...
Yummy n interesting curry
- December 17, 2010 at 9:48:00 AM EST
- Kairali sisters said...
I love anything Thai and tofu is my fav, so what else i need to love this curry...
- December 17, 2010 at 9:52:00 AM EST
- Satrupa said...
Vani you are such a sport when it comes to cooking .... and sure the man in the house equally is :-)From Odiya Potala tarkari to Thai ... huh ! U do it so well ...... Thai is my all time fav.
The red tofu curry looks yummy.
- December 17, 2010 at 11:13:00 AM EST
- Priya said...
Fingerlicking tofu curry, very tempting..
- December 17, 2010 at 4:42:00 PM EST
- polurdhayanithi said...
I love anything Thai and tofu is my fav, so what else i need to love this curry...
- December 18, 2010 at 5:20:00 AM EST
- aipi said...
What a fabulous recipe. I really have to give this one a try.
- December 18, 2010 at 7:50:00 PM EST
- Linda said...
Hi Vani! Love your Thai curry with a twist -- cardamom and tamarind -- looks great! Hope you're doing well and settling in... haven't had much time to blog but hopefully getting back to that now :)
Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year!
- December 19, 2010 at 9:36:00 PM EST
- Sunila said...
Yumm dish n pic V, do u get soy milk at the super mkts too? coz We,ve recently made a switch to it..Congrats ,I,ve managed 2 posts this year :0)))
- December 19, 2010 at 10:29:00 PM EST
- Shama Nagarajan said...
thats so tempting curry dear
- December 20, 2010 at 1:25:00 AM EST
- Vani said...
Thanks, guys!
Satrupa - I do like trying out different cuisines. I love most Oriental cuisines and so you do see a smattering of Korean, Malay etc. I want to get into European and African soon. Let's see :)
Linda - nice to hear from you. Yes, you do need to get back to regular blogging. We miss you!
Suni - 2 posts- yeahh!! :) Yes, I found soy milk here with various falvors too. Just get back here and sooN! :)
- December 20, 2010 at 4:48:00 AM EST
- Vittle me this... said...
this sounds and looks so yummy!
- December 20, 2010 at 12:17:00 PM EST
- Jisha said...
sounds yummy..love all Thai dishes...
- December 20, 2010 at 4:42:00 PM EST
- Umm Mymoonah said...
I just love the flavours in it, beautiful clicks too.
- December 21, 2010 at 5:29:00 AM EST
- Torviewtoronto said...
delicious and looks wonderful with tamarind
- December 21, 2010 at 10:34:00 AM EST
- Cham said...
Great that u re back in full swing...
I am amazed to hear that we get most of the stuff in India!
The dish got a nice touch :)
- December 21, 2010 at 2:21:00 PM EST
- Kannada Cuisine said...
Beautiful composition :)
- December 22, 2010 at 5:55:00 PM EST
- Akila said...
wow what a yummy tofu treat dear.... love it...
- December 23, 2010 at 9:57:00 AM EST
- Vani said...
Thanks, guys, for all the lovely comments :)
- December 24, 2010 at 12:50:00 AM EST
- ♥Aps♥ said...
Lovey Dish Vani... Tempting
- December 24, 2010 at 3:01:00 AM EST
- Vani said...
Thank you, Aps!
- December 26, 2010 at 7:39:00 AM EST


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25 April 2006
by Lucy Cooper
It was Jennifer's first time living abroad, although she went to college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "In some ways it was much harder for me to adjust to life on the East Coast, especially at a place like Harvard," says Jennifer." I think I had more 'culture shock' when I moved off the island to the mainland US for the first time, than I did when I left the country!"
The Peace Corps Bulgaria Youth Development programme matched her to a position with the NGO Future for the Roma, because she was interested in working with at-risk youth, specifically from a minority population." They could not have done a better job matching me to my organisation," says Jennifer.
The Association Future for the Roma, founded in 1999, was the first NGO in the town of Dupnitsa, created in order to improve the quality of life for the Roma population in Dupnitsa, with particular focus on the vulnerable groups of children and women.
"Currently, we are writing a project to create a day centre to assist impoverished, at-risk Roma children in Dupnitsa, and the institutionalised youth who may return to homes in Dupnitsa. Recently, we heard all the orphanages in our region will close at the end of the school year, but we still do not understand why, or how the municipalities and child welfare agencies plan to provide for these kids. We're preparing for this by creating a day centre - a place to teach life skills, as well as being a safe space for them to study, shower, or talk to supportive adults," Jennifer says.
While living in Dupnitsa, Jennifer met another American volunteer, named Nick Hindman, the founder and director of Orphan Sponsorship International (OSI). After their organizations partnered last year in an effort to be more effective working with the Bulgarian municipalities, Hindman entrusted to Jennifer and her colleagues the welfare of the kids he had worked with for five years when he left Bulgaria to open new OSI sires in Sri Lanka.
Jennifer took over as Bulgaria liaison. "Sponsors from all over the world provide funds so that youth can have their physical needs met - clothing for school, school supplies, and medicine, for example," says Jennifer. "More important, however, is the relationships the youth and their sponsors develop. These individualised, supportive relationships are incredibly important for these kids, who have no other asset-building relationships of this sort in their lives. We have begun to expand our efforts into the Roma neighbourhoods in Dupnitsa as well, to assist especially impoverished families who are doing everything they can to help their children receive an education."
Jennifer is also co-director of Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World), which she worked on last year. "It was wonderful and enriching on every possible level; there is something extremely powerful about gathering 70 young Bulgarian women together in a hotel in the mountains and watching them teach each other about self-esteem, leadership, and teamwork by day; and watching them rock out to Bon Jovi by night," she says.
"The entire process throughout the year of working on GLOW is also extremely rewarding – from trying to pass on methods of grassroots fundraising to GLOW counsellors; to developing our new website; to improving the curriculum, to making sure participants leave GLOW informed about the most relevant topics, such as the trafficking of women – everything is exciting, because it goes towards the creation of a phenomenal week-long experience for these young women, who return to their communities empowered and inspired. I feel extremely fortunate that I get to co-direct this camp – it is such a powerful experience for the girls who participate."
However, there are also many challenges to be faced.
"In Bulgaria, I feel as though I work twice as hard as I did in America, with less than half as many results. Working with a minority population in a country where discrimination is culturally acceptable is also challenging. Before I came to Bulgaria, I was naive enough to think that governmental corruption would not directly touch my work with youth – it unfortunately impacts my work with institutions every single day. The days here fly by, and things progress so slowly, that sometimes I feel as though I've worked so hard, yet have nothing tangible to show for it."
One of the biggest challenges is trying to understand the attitude towards institutionalised and Roma children. " Trying to assist these kids after they turn 18 is a nightmare." She says they have "no life skills" and are "literally put out to survive on the streets when they reach 18."
" I realize the law says at 18 they are no longer under the care of the institution, but how can someone call themselves a human being – go home to their own children at night – having treated our institutionalised children so heartlessly? Recently a new director took over at the Slatino orphanage, and things have improved under his competence and care."
The situation in the community is not good either.
"Another volunteer who used to live in Dupnitsa was forbidden by her landlord to have any Roma children in their block. Trying to find an apartment for the young woman Kami – the orphan now infamous for winning a BTV trip to Las Vegas after appearing on the show "Vot na Doverie" – was horrible. When we did finally find her an apartment, the landlord and everyone in her block already had it in set in their minds that she was a terrible kid because she was an orphan, and they made her life miserable. Eventually the entire nation realized what a lovely, amazing young woman she is, despite her far-from-ideal upbringing. Also, once she became famous, the mayor of Dupnitsa essentially gave her an apartment."
However, she says, "there is virtually no community support for these kids—and trying to accept and understand this drives me crazy. (I don't know what I'd do without the punching bag at my gym!)."
There are also the day-to-day challenges associated with living in a foreign county.
"I also can't deal with the occasional situations where I get verbally abused for no apparent reason. I am pretty sensitive to confrontation, and when the post office woman, for example, yells at me because I don't understand her, I often just want to crawl in bed, assume the foetal position, and hide from the cruel world of Bulgaria! Then again, when I went to America over Christmas, I found the excessive customer service quite obnoxious and fake. I have developed a panic-inducing fear of bus ticket salespeople that requires me to take tranquillisers before I travel. (Just kidding!)." But, she says, "the wonderful market ladies in my community, the kind woman at the GUM who gives me free clothes for the kids, by far outnumber the abusive people! "
Jennifer's chosen field of work also brings problems.
"It's extremely hard, also, because I work for a Roma organization, to have my work mocked and called futile by my community. One of my coping mechanisms to deal with this is to simply not tell people that I work for a Roma organization, as inevitably this will result in someone going off on a tangent about how stupid and lazy the Roma are. I used to want to argue about it, but now I realize it's just not worth getting all worked up about it every time."
As someone working on a daily basis to counter ethnic intolerance, she says of the issue in this country: "It is simply complicated." Lack of understanding plays a major role in the perpetuation of ethnic intolerance. "My take on the situation is that there is no understanding, or attempt at understanding, and arguments concerning the Roma, for example, are often reduced to extremely simplistic, ignorant remarks. I hate hearing from Bulgarians that the Roma are "bad people" because they don't pay their electricity, or that Roma children are stupid and lazy and will steal my wallet. It seems almost ridiculously hypocritical considering the mafia, and considering governmental corruption. I guess we all have our own definitions of bad people." However, Jennifer remains determined.
"Because I know my work is indeed important, and because I adore the youth I work with and want to provide them with every opportunity possible to help them not only survive, but to succeed, I will hopefully continue to work in Bulgaria and extend my assignment, despite the occasionally overwhelming challenges."
As another sanity maintaining device, Jennifer teaches Tae Bo to help support the local women's NGO Cassiopeya in Dupnitsa. "It's funny – I went from teaching classes of 60 people at large, corporate gyms, with a clientele that always wanted me to bring maximum pain for the entire hour of class. Here, on a good day I have five women to yell things such as 'Shake what yo' momma gave you!' Good thing they don't understand me. They also like to complain and beg me to stop. I don't, of course."


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San Diego CA–November 8, 2012 —Cvent recently announced that the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center has been named one of the top places to host a holiday party in San Diego this year. As the holiday party season approaches, Cvent, which operates the number one marketplace for group meetings business in the world, developed this list to help those who plan these parties identify the top venues in their local area.
"We are honored to be selected among the top special event venues in San Diego by Cvent," said Debbie Lowery-Cunning, Events & Group Sales Senior Manager at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. "This honor validates the significant effort we put into making sure our facility, offerings and service are top notch for our clients during the holiday season, as well as year round."
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (the Fleet) has been hosting special events since its opening in 1973. The Fleet offers an ideal atmosphere for your next meeting or special event. Featuring eight unique hands-on galleries, the Fleet has more than 100 science exhibits and four spacious meeting rooms (for lectures, board meetings, presentations or luncheons) as well as the 314-seat Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff IMAX® Dome Theater. The theater is the world's first IMAX Dome theater, and it offers a dramatic venue for everything from presentations to planetarium shows to private film screenings.
Our galleries provide the perfect ambiance for an elaborate sit-down dinner, cocktail reception, corporate event, wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, awards gala, birthday celebration, prom, or school function. Located in San Diego's historic Balboa Park (close to downtown and the San Diego Convention Center), the Fleet has a spectacular view of the park's iconic Bea Evenson Fountain, which serves as the perfect backdrop for your special event. The space is ready to celebrate!
During special events, guests get complete access to the science center. This isn't a typical "look but don't touch" site; the Fleet is a hands-on museum. Guests are invited to investigate all of our interactive exhibits, and there's no restriction on dining and imbibing.
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center is both a non-profit organization and a local attraction in San Diego. Our primary mission is "to promote lifelong learning and enjoyment of science and technology,"
so our special events help support our educational focus. When you choose to host your event with us, you directly benefit the education of children.
If you're environmentally conscious, you will be happy to know that the Fleet has LEED Silver Certification, and we're very proud of that!
Finally, we offer guests choices. When a guest chooses us as their venue, they're not locked in to one event planner or one caterer. We offer options. We have extensive exclusive caterer and preferred vendor lists, so you can make a choice that meets your needs and your budget.
Cvent evaluated more than 5,000 special event venues within the Cvent Supplier Network to create the list. The top ten venues in each market were determined by the number of times the venue was viewed, as well as the venue's group lead market share within the Cvent Supplier Network.
The Cvent Supplier Network creates value for planners and suppliers. It includes more than 200,000 hotels and special event venues worldwide, providing one-stop shopping for meetings buyers. Additionally, Cvent extends suppliers' reach to new customers through the Cvent Supplier Network's more than 160,000 planners, helping venues maximize their existing sales and marketing resources.
See the complete list of the top holiday party venues in 10 key U.S. markets: http://www.cvent.com/en/sem/top-us-special-event-venues-2012.shtml.
About Cvent
Founded in 1999, Cvent is the world's largest meetings and event management technology company and has more than 1,000 employees worldwide. Cvent offers web-based software for online event registration, meeting site selection, event management, mobile apps for events, e-mail marketing, and web surveys, and helps over 10,000 clients in 90 countries manage hundreds of thousands of events, surveys and e-mail campaigns. The company has processed over $2.5 billion in online payments and has managed over 30 million event registrations and survey responses for its clients. Cvent's client base includes over 30 companies from the Fortune 100, corporations from every major industry, associations, universities, and non-profits. For more information, please visit www.cvent.com.
Cvent Media Contact: Blake Rouhani
(571) 765-5251
About the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (the Fleet) is home to Southern California's only Giant Dome Theater and 100+ hands-on science exhibits for all ages. Watch immersive giant-screen films in the Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Giant Dome Theater, which reopened in 2012 after extensive renovations. Our theater is extraordinary in many ways. It is the world's first IMAX® Dome Theater, the world's first NanoSeam™ Dome screen in an IMAX theater, and it offers two unique experiences in one space: IMAX films and planetarium shows. The Heikoff Giant Dome Theater boasts a 76-foot tilted Dome screen and a 16,000-watt digital surround sound system, providing a stunning visual and audio experience. Experience eight galleries of fun, interactive exhibits, including major traveling exhibitions. A hurricane simulator thrills visitors with gusts of wind up to 80 miles per hour. Enjoy sandwiches, salads and healthy treats in Galileo's Café. Find unique educational toys and games, books, IMAX DVDs and more in the North Star Science Store. Located at 1875 El Prado, two blocks south of the San Diego Zoo on Park Blvd., the Fleet Science Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the public understanding and enjoyment of science and technology. For information regarding current admission prices, please call (619) 238-1233 or visit our website at www.rhfleet.org.


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You don't need a degree in clinical psychology to become a master locksmith, but it doesn't hurt.
Just ask Geno Kollar.
Now one of Charleston's top hardware preservationists, Kollar dabbled in locksmithing as a way to pay for his education, and he eventually worked in clinical psychology for 15 years.
Over time, his career arc bent back.
"With people, you never know where ... you're going," he says, "but when I step up from a lock, I know."
Kollar recently was honored with the Historic Charleston Foundation's Samuel Gaillard Stoney Conservation Craftsmanship Award, along with carpenter Hoyt Roberts.
There are not many master locksmiths — those comfortable with specifying, obtaining and installing the hardware as well as carefully weighing whether historic locks can be restored and reused.
It's a specialty that has opened some interesting doors, literally: Kollar has worked on houses owned by Doris Day and Oprah Winfrey.
But he has spent most of his working life in Charleston, where he has restored the hardware on about 50 downtown homes, including some of the city's grandest properties.
His approach is always the same: Figure out what a door's function used to be; then find out how it will be used going forward and how it can work safely and reliably.
"It has to work correctly every day for 20 years," he says. "Otherwise, I don't feel like I'm doing my job."
The next step is figuring out the best hardware to use. Only then comes the final consideration: appearance.
While older, bulkier locks and skeleton keys may carry a certain cachet, Kollar knows people don't necessarily want to fool with them when their arms are full of grocery bags.
He studied to be an architectural hardware consultant but didn't think there would be enough job security, and he didn't want to spend his days in a little room poring over blueprints.
That led him into psychology, though he continued to install locks as a student because it was an easy way to make money. At one point, he worked as a commercial locksmith, often cutting hundreds of keys in a day.
Over time, as he learned more, his attitude toward the craft began to change.
"Before, I was rather mercenary about it," he says. "Now, I'm having fun with it."
In one large downtown property, he did it all, off and on, over about four years.
He reworked locks more than two centuries old and gave them a new coating of silver. He restored others that dated to the mid-20th century.
He replaced all the screws with oval-headed brass screws and reworked the locks themselves so that one key opens every lock on the property, while 20 other distinct keys unlock only certain combinations of gates and doors.
One of his greatest and fussiest challenges came with an outdoor latch, which had to be installed a certain way to satisfy the proportions of a large, historic gate.
It's exacting, delicate work.
"The best way to look at it is there's only one way it can go together. It's just like a rifle," he says. "I live within an eighth of an inch. My whole world is within 5 inches, but my tolerance is within an eighth of an inch."
Kollar can talk about the difference between older types of locks — he can identify a Ball and Ball lock from the 1940s simply by the curve in its skeleton key — but he is not hung up on certain brands or time periods.
"I don't really care. I lay it on the bench, and I look at the function and I know what I need to know," he says.
Restoring old locks poses a separate challenge. "You know what's the worst thing for hardware? Paint," he says. "Two things I always find in a lock body — dead spiders and paint."
And he laments how much of today's hardware is made of mysterious metal that he doesn't expect to last as long.
"I've actually handed some locks back to people and said, 'I'm not putting this in. I'm not going to warranty it,' " he says.
Kollar says he is happy he hasn't had to advertise in 10 years and that his work is in demand, even if the demand sometimes carries unrealistic deadlines with it. He has adjusted to a working life in a historic city that relishes its past.
"Your work outlives your hands," he says. "Long after I'm gone, these locks will be working."
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I was cleaning the kitchen today. Since I was laid off this has taken a chunk of my daily life. I never much cared for the tedium of kitchen cleaning, but now that we're all home so much more, eating 3 times more meals here, the chore has become relentless. But I digress.
As I was unloading the dishwasher, it struck me that I wouldn't want my endo to see the current dishload. There were too many pizza wheels and glasses and not enough mixing spoons and silverware. Maybe Dr. R-J wouldn't get the connection, but a forensic kitchen examiner would have it in a heartbeat. CSI: Cordon Bleu, anyone?
If you see a lot of measuring cups and spoons in your Kenmore, chances are you've actually been cooking. A lot of silverware and plates would say that this household has been eating at home a lot. Many cutting boards, paring knives and salad bowls...well, you get the idea. On the other hand, all silverware and coffee cups or the aforementioned pizza wheels means we've been eating too much take-out/junky stuff.
As I go about my day, I give away my current diabetes self-care rating many times. In the laundry room, obviously lots of workout clothes are a real plus, while a big stack of dry cleaning indicates too many outings and events.
At the grocery store, my cart's a dead giveaway. I can only blame so much on my family. They don't really need the junk food or candy either, and having it around the house is just self-sabotage for a person with type 2 diabetes. Trash is the detrius of the groceries, so the garbage man has a handle on how my blood sugars are doing too!
Even when I do go to the gym, I can be just coasting, watching tv and reading while just "glowing" lightly. Or I can be sweaty and breathing hard. So the way I look leaving them gym is another giveaway of diabetes care.
As I close the dishwasher, I realize this is all forensic evidence of the choices I've made recently. At the end of the day, if I've made more good choices than poor choices, my A1C reflects that, just as the dirty dishes and clothes.
You can't replace blood test monitoring with a dishwasher, but if you go through your day a little more mindful, you may see what I do.
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5 Dumb Movies With Disproportionately Awesome Theme Songs
The theme song of a movie is supposed to instantly make you think of the name of the film it belongs to -- I can't be the only one who hears "Staaaaaar Waaaars, da da da DA da ..." and "Jaws, Jaws ... Jaws, Jaws ..." every time. Right? Theme songs have to be catchy and chills-inducing, but at the same time the composers can't lose sight of the fact that they are getting paid to make the director look good, not themselves.
Well, some composers said "Eh, fuck it" and did the exact opposite of that. I'm not saying these movies are necessarily terrible -- I'm saying their theme songs are so excessively and even unfairly good that they make the film look like shit in comparison. So if you're directing a movie, I'd seriously advise against hiring the musicians responsible for the theme songs to ...
#5. Police Academy
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Police Academy is a typical '80s sex comedy, only instead of starring horny college students, it stars horny police cadets. It has boobies, gay jokes, and a scene where the laid-back protagonist plays a hilarious prank on his stuck-up superior and then the stuck-up superior yells the protagonist's name real loud (probably, I don't know, it's been a while). Don't get me wrong: I liked the Police Academy movies as a kid (particularly the boobies part), but even back then I could tell that they were dumb and made me dumber every time I watched them. Which, unfortunately, was a lot (because, again, boobs).
The theme song, on the other hand, sounds like something you should play to babies in the womb to make them smarter (the slow part around 1:30 always gets me):
I think that's just a great piece of orchestral music, and apparently I'm not alone: There are literally hundreds of solemn covers of the Police Academy march on YouTube, some played by actual police officers. Please watch that clip I just linked to and picture this compilation of Zed's best scenes overlaid on top of the serious police orchestra. Or don't, because that's how you get an aneurysm.
Europe particularly seems to like this song, judging by all the weird consonant-filled words I'm seeing on YouTube, and I can see why: It is the birthplace of Bach, Beethoven, and other guys who almost came close to the majesty of this composition.
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So profound is the disconnect between the film and its music that I have to wonder if composer Robert Folk even knew he was making the soundtrack for a movie about Steve Guttenberg's wacky shenanigans and not, like, some award-bait drama about heroism and sacrifice. In fact, looking at his Wikipedia page, it seems that Folk also scored a movie called Purple Hearts in the same year Police Academy came out, so maybe he got the two projects mixed up somehow (here's Purple Hearts' main theme).
A More Appropriate Theme Song for This Film:
The main song for the Police Academy franchise should be as unashamedly stupid as the movies themselves. Luckily, the centerpiece of the Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol soundtrack fits the bill pretty well:
#4. Ben
Ben is a 1972 horror movie about a pack of telepathic killer rats, a sequel to Willard, the only other movie in the telepathic killer rat genre as of that moment. It ends with the rats getting flamethrowered to shit before they can overthrow human civilization and/or cause more sequels. One of the rats is named Ben and befriends a young kid, and then, during the last scene, this song plays as the two reunite:
It starts like Michael Jackson's classic ballad of the same name, and then ... what the fuck, that's what this is?! Is that one of those incongruous fan videos YouTube users like to make? Nope, and in fact, Cracked has talked about how the Ben album, which gave Jackson his first chart-topping solo single, almost had the killer rat army on the cover in front of the disturbingly calm-looking young M.J.:
They also almost named it Michael Jackson's All Must Pay, All Must Perish.
Obviously, only a raging schizophrenic would ever guess that the song was about a mind-reading rat just going by its lyrics about friendship and not judging people based on their appearance. This theme song would be more appropriate for the story of a man wrongfully committed to a mental institution who befriends a gentle giant convinced that he's a pop superstar. The man then takes the giant home to meet his son, and after the initial disappointment, the giant helps the kid compose a birthday song for his sister. I don't know, that's just the first story that comes to me off the top of my head.
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Ironically, Michael Jackson would go on to score his highest-selling album (or anyone's highest-selling album) with a song that actually does sound like it belongs in a horror movie: You know, the one that goes "Thriller, Thriller, Thriller, Thriller ... No one wants to Thriller, Thriller ..." I won't put it here, though, because you've almost definitely heard it enough times in your life.
#3. Tron: Legacy
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This seems like a lazy choice, because Tron: Legacy is well known as a flashy but soulless movie, and its soundtrack was made by Daft Punk, who, inescapable summer hits aside, are generally regarded as good song makers. So of course the music is gonna be better than the movie. However, the reason I'm including this film here is that there's a track called "Adagio for Tron" that sounds like the last thing I'd expect to hear from both this franchise and this band (I'm counting it as a theme song because it has "Tron" in it; if you don't agree with that reasoning, I invite you to read a more detailed explanation on my blog):
OK, now what the fuck is this doing in a movie about Jeff Bridges and son playing first-person Pong inside a computer? This should be in some sensible period piece about two upper-class women whose burgeoning but ultimately unconsumed romance threatens to destroy the lives of those around them as a paradigm-changing war looms on the horizon. In fact, I'm convinced that when future people stumble upon this song centuries from now, they'll naturally assume it could only have come from such a film.
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"Ah yes, typical 19th century lady garb."
In the movie, the song plays as (SPOILERS: you don't give a shit) Tron apparently dies while sinking in a digital sea. I'll remind you now that Tron is literally a computer program -- meaning that "Adagio for Tron" is essentially used as a longer, more dramatic version of the "empty recycle bin" sound effect you hear every day on your computer. Someone please ask the Daft Punk guys to reinterpret the "shutting down Windows" jingle so we can all enjoy the resulting two-hour symphony.
A More Appropriate Theme Song for This Film:
The whole rationale behind getting Daft Punk to score this movie was probably "They like computers and stuff, right?" I think the producers could have found someone even more relevant to today's Internet users while embracing the film's video-game-related theme:


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Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 1
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Teaching programming language concepts with F#, part 1
By Peter Sestoft, Professor IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
In this first part, Peter introduces the curriculum, lecture plan and lecture notes for the course "Programs as data" that uses the functional programming concepts in F# to teach students language concepts and implementation details.
Peter also begins on the first lecture (continued in the second part, found here:https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/martinesmann/Teaching-programming-language-concepts-with-F-part-2/).
Peter Sestoft at ITU.dk: http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft
Lecture notes and other downloads: http://www.itu.dk/courses/BPRD/E2010/
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nice one, thank you
What good timing, I'm taking a Programming Languages course this semester.
Thanks to the Danish DPE folks for providing this excellent lecture series. Peter is great.
Excellent, C5 guy is at it again, what a treat!
Thanks for your great comments and positive feedback
Have any of you downloaded the "lecture notes" (it's actually closer to being a book) and what did you think of it?
Should I ask Peter to do one more lecture?
Yes. It woul be great to have all his lectures available online.
Good stuff guys - thanks!
is there hq video available? Otherwise great stuff!
Awesomeness! More Lectures please.
The overview of the programming languages is missing Scala.
Thanks for all the positive feedback. Unfortunately, the rest of the lectures are given in Danish and for that reason are not recorded, since the potential audience is kind of small... But maybe we should rectify that in the future. But note that the lecture slides and the 350 page lecture notes are available (in English) from the course website, linked by Martin's original post.
Re Scala: yes it is missing from the video's version of the slides, but included in the actual course lecture on 30 August (see course website). Approximately 1700 other languages are missing, including Self, Javascript, Clojure and other dynamic ones, which I'll include in the future. / Peter
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Ubisoft has plans. Big plans. Especially for Assassin's Creed. The first step on the long road to world domination began last night in a tiny cinema in a Camden hotel, where the games giant screened the first of three episodes of Assassin's Creed: Lineage, the new short film that combines computer generated imagery with live actors. Afterwards, we sat down with Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto, the developers behind Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell and Far Cry, to find out just how big Assassin's Creed can get.
VideoGamer.com: Ubisoft is obviously trying to broaden the appeal of Assassin's Creed with the release of Assassin's Creed: Lineage. How big can Assassin's Creed become? Can it be the biggest name in gaming? Is that possible?
Yannis Mallat: It is possible, absolutely. Assassin's Creed is already the fastest selling new IP, two years ago, and that's good. I often say that we should not sometimes get too imprisoned with specific objectives, especially when we're talking about convergence. Let's say if we were to have an objective like produce a movie about the Assassin's Creed franchise for that date, we could have gone totally another way and that way would not have provided us with all the benefits that we have right now. We could have said, 'I'm going to outsource that stuff. I'm too busy making games and do this and do that', and then we would have missed a lot of things. First we would have missed the true convergence, which is to me making sure people who play the game, who consume the IP, are in the same world understanding more things. That we would have missed. We would also have missed all the knowledge we get trying to learn that field, trying to learn that trade, which is a trade Hollywood has been making for more than a century. Sometimes the value lies more on the path to get to the objective than on having an objective, if you know what I mean? Is Assassin's Creed going to be the biggest brand or name in the video game industry? I certainly hope so, and I would say we're doing everything we can so that it happens.
VideoGamer.com: Assassin's Creed 2 is going up against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 this Christmas. Can Assassin's Creed 2 compete with the retail success of Modern Warfare 2? Does it have the potential to surpass it?
YM: It would certainly be too pretentious of me to try to predict the future. But I can certainly say there is no room any more for average or bad games, but there is still a lot of room for awesome games, and that's what Assassin's Creed is.
VideoGamer.com: What's your opinion on Activision's decision to price Modern Warfare 2 higher than normal? Did you ever consider doing the same thing for Assassin's Creed 2?
YM: I don't comment on other companies and their decisions. Regarding Assassin's Creed, it's a sequel that people expect. It's a sequel that allows us to prove to fans of the game, and non fans of the game, that we heard the feedback from the fans and we're definitely going to seduce even more people.
VideoGamer.com: Did you ever consider pricing Assassin's Creed 2 higher than normal?
YM: That question is going to have to be directed to the people who sell the games [laughs]. I'm the one making them [laughs]!
VideoGamer.com: Is the plan for Assassin's Creed to be a trilogy? Will you expand it into other genres, like we've seen Microsoft do with Halo post Halo 3?
YM: Assassin's Creed is a very clever and interesting brand that allows multiple opportunities. The whole concept of living ancestors' memory through DNA and the Animus stuff, definitely allows for multiple opus to exist through the same big story arc. That's all I can say for now.
VideoGamer.com: Your producer, Sébastien Puel, was quoted recently saying Ubisoft was considering setting Assassin's Creed 3 in World War II with a female assassin.
YM: I don't know where that came from.
VideoGamer.com: Is there any truth to that?
YM: If we were to officially dismiss some of the things that happen to be published or told on the internet... The content is being defined as we talk. I'm sure he didn't say that. You may have read that on the internet...
VideoGamer.com: You're still trying to work it out then?
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Alexander was in a Club Sped last night. And that's why he has barbeque sauce on his forehead.
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When i work out I always do The Mexican Salt Shaker so i don't get my hands wet.
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After more than seven years of military service, including a three-year posting in north Wales, Prince William is leaving the Royal Air Force and will now focus on his royal duties and charity work together with his wife, Kensington Palace has announced.
That will include life at Apartment 1a of Kensington Palace in London, where the new father and his family will move "within the next few weeks," the palace said in a statement.
The statement, released to PEOPLE, adds, "He will continue to support the work of The Queen and the Royal Family through a program of official engagements, both at home and overseas, with The Duchess of Cambridge."
"The Duke will work closely over the next twelve months with the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. He will expand his work in the field of conservation, particularly in respect of endangered species. The Duke will continue to work with his charities on issues relating to children and young people, veterans and serving members of the Armed Forces."
In addition, William, 31, is "currently considering a number of options for public service."
The next year will see William in "transition," palace sources say, and will not necessarily see him carrying out royal duties full time. "He is going to be moving into the next phase of public life," one tells PEOPLE.
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Flight Lieutenant Wales, as he was called in the RAF, was given a send-off from his base and received gifts from his fellow fliers, and the engineering staff handed him a memento of his time at the controls – a plinth-mounted cyclic control stick top.
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Nov. 23
A $300 Home Depot model ladder was stolen from a South Main Street residence in Newfane, sheriff's deputies said. The property belonged to a Shadigee Road resident, according to reports.
• A man lined his coat with more than $300 worth of food products before fleeing the 7-Eleven store at 2620 Niagara St. in Niagara Falls, police reported. The shoplifter entered the store just after 3 a.m., walked around for five minutes shoving food items, energy drinks and candies into his coat, and then fled, police said.
• A 24th Street woman may have interrupted a burglar, Niagara Falls police said. Sometime between noon and 3:40 p.m., someone broke into the residence via the rear door, damaging the door and screen in the process, according to reports. Nothing was taken from the home, and the resident told police she believes she may have surprised the intruder when she returned home, causing him to leave abruptly. About $25 worth of damage was done to the door, police said.
Nov. 24
A Lockport family's summer home was broken into for the second time in the past year, sheriff's deputies reported. Someone kicked in a screen door to the Franklin Street residence in Olcott, gaining entrance to a patio area, but the intruders were unsuccessful in entering the main dwelling, deputies said. A window in the home was also damaged, resulting in an estimated $200 repair bill.
Nov. 25
A Niagara Falls woman said she was attacked by two women and a man at 18th Street and Michigan Avenue, just before 6 a.m. The 28-year-old victim told Niagara Falls police that she was walking north to the Corner Shop when the suspects approached. She said the two women punched her in the head and the man stabbed her in the left ear with a four-inch knife. She said the three didn't say anything, but continued to attack her as they went through her pockets. The victim said the man stabbed her in the ear when she tried to fight back.
Police said the victim, who was found with a bloody lip and blood coming from her left ear, was treated in Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
• A 33-year-old woman said her husband cut her with a kitchen knife during an argument just before 6 a.m. in their home in the 100 block of 57th Street, Niagara Falls police reported. Henry K. Acquah, 37, of 57th Street, was charged with second-degree assault for allegedly using a knife against his wife in an argument. The woman said Acquah was angry at her because she stayed out all night, and he cut her right index finger with a kitchen knife. Police said an ambulance responded, but the victim refused to go to the hospital for treatment and was uncooperative with police, refusing to give a sworn statement. Acquah was arrested based on police observation, according to a police report.
Nov. 26
Four gold and diamond rings, two pairs of earrings, a necklace, DVDs and video games were stolen from an apartment in the 1700 block of Welch Avenue sometime between 8:30 a.m. and noon, Niagara Falls police said. Total loss was $1,180. The victim said there is a common hallway between the upstairs and downstairs apartment and police found no signs of a forced entry. A person of interest was named by the victim.
• A Youngstown man who police said threatened to kill himself in the early hours of Sept. 2 pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence. Clifford J. Meteer, 58, of Second Street, is to be sentenced Feb. 7 by County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas. Sheriff's deputies reported at the time that Meteer had put a gun in his mouth and when Youngstown police arrived, he reportedly charged an officer while yelling "Shoot me." After Meteer was subdued, officers found a loaded Ruger .380-caliber handgun on a table and nine shotguns in a gun safe in the garage, and they also confiscated a samurai sword.
• Sheriff's deputies were investigating the theft of cash taken from an employee break room while the store was closed. An employee of Video Pix, 6715 S. Transit Road, told deputies that the alarm was not armed when he came in today, and he noticed that the double doors to the bathroom had been damaged. A double door with a deadbolt was damaged, and $400 in rolled coin and miscellaneous cash was taken from petty cash in the break room, sheriff's deputies reported.


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Teacher Education
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Teacher education has a proud tradition in Downeast Maine, beginning in 1909 as the Washington State Normal School. UMM graduates become highly qualified teachers, drawing on a strong educational foundation in content and a variety of opportunities to work with K-12th grade classroom teachers. Below is information on our programs in:
- Elementary Education
- Secondary Education
- Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Certification
- Special Education
Careers in Education
With a degree in Education, you can choose to pursue a career in a number of education-related fields, or you can return to school and pursue an advanced certification or masters degree in education. Here are some positions where an Education degree is valuable:
- Athletic coach
- Curriculum Specialist
- Classroom Teacher
- Day Care Administrator
- Librarian
- Literacy Specialist
- School Administrator
- Special Education Teacher
- Title I Teacher
Elementary Education
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Why study Elementary Education at UMM? Our Education program prepares you for a career in the classroom through a rich variety of hands-on practical experiences and extensive classroom opportunities. You will work with, and learn from, faculty with many years of classroom experience. When you finish the program, you will become a reflective practitioner and qualify for K-8 certification in the state of Maine.
Unlike larger universities, UMM offers individualized learning opportunities for students which allow you to develope close relationships with fellow students and faculty as you enjoy the pristine natural resources of the Downeast environment.
You will be able to apply what you learn through K-8th grade classroom experiences beginning your freshman year, and these field experiences will continue through out the program. During your final year at UMM, you will complete fifteen weeks of full-time student teaching under the mentorship of a cooperating teacher. The cooperating teacher, along with a university supervisor, will observe your teaching and provide valuable feedback, while you work collaboratively with other teachers and engage in professional development.
The Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education offers five different concentrations for students to chose from:
Community Engaged Learning: This concentration focuses on exploring community resources and challenges as well as provides foundations for rural education with additional local field placements.
English and Language Arts: This concentration provides individualized training in literature with a special focus on creative writing and grammar.
Environmental Literacy: The goal of this concentration is to give students a strong foundation in science. It also strives to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of humans to the natural world.
Marine Biology: The coursework of this concentration examines are local marine organisms and their ecosystems. Our science faculty specialize in teaching outdoors to enhance hands-on learning. You will learn about the biology and ecology of marine plants and animals inhabiting oceans, rocky shores, tidal pools, marshes, mudflats, and other marine environments.
Special Education: This concentration prepares students to become certified as special education teachers. It explores both the legal and foundational aspects of special education as well as practical training in teaching and assessment methods.
Secondary Education
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Teacher education has a proud tradition in Downeast Maine. Graduates from this program become reflective teachers, drawing on a strong educational foundation in content and a knowledge of students and how they learn. Education professors here model a variety of teaching methods, and pass on an enthusiasm for knowledge that makes learning and teaching fun.
You will be able to focus on a content area that you are interested in, and work closely with faculty who are experts in their fields. Additionally, you will have many opportunities to work with area public school teachers in their classroom for first-hand secondary education experience.
This program will prepare you to become a secondary school teacher (grades 7 through 12) with one or more concentrations in:
- Visual Arts
- English Language Arts
- Mathematics
- Life Sciences
- Physical Science
- Social Studies
- Special Education
Pluralism Policy
It is the philosophy of UMM's education program that curricula and courses provide a balanced and thoughtful approach to gender, race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity. Class presentations, discussions, assignments, evaluations, and texts incorporate, when appropriate, diverse histories, traditions, values, and behaviors. These multicultural components reflect local, national, and global human experiences and convey a sense of affirmation and appreciation of similarities and differences among people.
Link to the UMM Online Guide for Cooperating Teachers with Field Placements
Post-Baccalaureate Certification Programs
If you already hold a baccalaureate degree, UMM provides certification-only programs to prepare you for a teaching career at either the elementary or secondary levels.
UMM offers professional coursework leading to Elementary Certification (K-8), Secondary Certification (7-12), in the fields of Art, English, History, Life or Physical Science, or Mathematics, as well as certification in Special Education (K-12). It is possible to complete the certification program within three semesters if all content requirements are fulfilled. Maine has specific content requirements for Elementary Education Certification, but requirements for Secondary Certification in Maine vary according to the content area. Students with foreign educational credentials must submit transcripts for analysis to a credentialing agency.
Our individualized advising will assist you in determining which courses will best prepare you to meet the State of Maine certification requirements, as well as give you an excellent start in classroom teaching.
Please view additional information on each of our Teacher Certification Programs:
Elementary Education Teacher Certification
Secondary Education Teacher Certification
Special Education Teacher Certification
Courses leading to the Teacher of Children with Disabilities (282) endorsement are offered by the University of Maine at Machias throughout the State of Maine and beyond via online courses delivery.
Special education coursework may be of interest to:
- Current teachers in need of recertification credits
- Pre-service education majors who wish to add a minor or concentration in special education to their degree
- Educational technicians interested in earning teacher certification
- Student completing a degree or program in special education
- Caregivers such as family members or service providers in related fields
Additional Programs for Educators
Bachelor of College Studies - Individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree may be interested in UMM's Bachelor of College Studies (BCS) Degree. With the advice and guidance of the BCS committee, the student crafts an individual interdisciplinary set of courses that fits his or her background and educational goals. By design, this degree meets the unique needs of traditional, non-traditional, and returning students who are not otherwise served by existing programs. If Special Education Certification and a bachelor's degree is your aim, you can earn a Bachelor of College Studies with a Concentration in Special Education.
Student Teaching is required for all Education programs- In addition, student teaching in special education is available to qualified UMM students, as well as qualified students enrolled in the University of Maine at Augusta's (UMA) Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a minor in special education.
Interested students should consult with their advisors for more information about the process for applying to student teach. Students must apply to student teach one semester before they plan to teach; deadlines for application are announced each semester.
The application to student teach includes, but is not limited to: application form, transcripts, resume, essays, and letters of recommendation. Applications to student teach must demonstrate:
- Successful completion of Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators exam and the Praxis II Content exam (additionally, for students enrolled in the BCS Special Education program, they will need the Principles of Learning and Teaching tests).
- Student Teaching in Special Education also requires successful completion of 27 credits in special education coursework with a gpa of 2.5 or better (at least 9 credits must be UMM coursework).
- Heather Ball, Associate Professor of Special Education and Education Program Coordinator
- Garret Lee, General Education Lecturer and Field Placement Coordinator
- Daniel Qualls, Associate Professor of Education
Adjunct Instructors
- Judy Hanscom, Reading and Literacy Methods
- Christi McCurry, Special Education
Student Education Association of Maine (SEAM) at UMM
UMM has an active chapter of the Student Edcuation Association of Maine which is NEA's student program. Membership is for students who are enrolled in a postsecondary teacher education program which would lead to employment in the field of education making them eligible for membership in the National Education Association.
The student organization provides materials, support, and opportunities to enhance your experience of UMM's education program. They sponsor trips to professional conferences and workshops as well as local teacher panels. They also participate in a variety of activities such as: the Haunted Forest, the Special Olympics, the Literacy Carnival, a Book Club for a local high school, etc. There is also a SEAM library on campus that offers many books, maps, math, manipulatives, and craft materials for you to use in your educational experience. The SEAM library is located on the second floor in Torrey Hall next to the Education Program faculty offices. Please feel free to stop by anytime and visit.
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Bill O'Brien met with the media Monday morning at Beaver Stadium to address his reasons for staying at Penn State, but not all of the Nittany Lions will be returning.
O'Brien announced that redshirt junior running back Curtis Dukes would not be part of the 2013 team to play out his final year of eligibility.
"He won't be here. That's the only one that I know of," O'Brien said.
Dukes, a 6-foot-1, 245-pound powerhouse with sprinters speed, never could put it all together while at Penn State, missing time with injuries, for academics and struggling to develop as a blocker. He rushed for 101 yards on 26 carries in 2012.
Rising junior Bill Belton, though, is back. Belton began the year as the Nittany Lions' starting tailback before being beaten out by Zach Zwinak. There was speculation that he might be in line for a position change, but O'Brien said he's remain a running back.
"You can tell that he went home over Christmas, and he really worked. That's a good sign," O'Brien said. "We're going to do a better job finding different ways to use these guys, like better ways to use him in the passing game, because Billy can do a lot of different things."
Early arrivals
Seven incoming freshmen football players official became Penn State students with the first day of classes on Monday, including tight end Adam Breneman, junior college transfer quarterback Tyler Ferguson, defensive backs Jordan Smith and Anthony Smith and running back Richy Anderson, who will be on scholarship and count as part of the Lions' 2012 recruiting class.
The biggest name is Breneman, who was a top-30 national prospect and considered the best tight end available in this recruiting class before a summer injury kept him out all of his senior season. An Under Armour All-American Game selection, Breneman was considered vital to Penn State's recruiting efforts and its ability to keep the core of a strong early class together.
"We've got a great kid there that we think has fantastic potential," O'Brien said. "We're very excited about his future at Penn State. And that's a very strong position with us."
The list also includes a pair of non-scholarship prep school quarterbacks: Austin Whipple and D.J. Crook. Whipple is the son of NFL quarterback coach Mark Whipple. Crook passed for nearly 8,000 yards in high school.
"Two athletic-looking guys that are ready to go to work," O'Brien said.
Replacing McGloin
Ferguson, Whipple and Crook join true freshman Steven Bench as the quarterbacks who will be on the roster when spring practice rolls around. Scholastic All-American Christian Hackenberg is expected to sign in February and enroll over the summer.
Bench and Ferguson are the leading candidates to take over for Matt McGloin, who had one of the best seasons ever for a Nittany Lion passer as a senior this past season. Bench saw some action as McGloin's backup.
"A great kid, a bright kid, a lot of energy," O'Brien said of Bench. "His dad is a coach down in Georgia. He'll be the first to tell you he's got a lot of work to do, but I'm really looking forward to working with him."
Ferguson is a bigger, more-prototypical pocket passer who comes from central California.
"He was a guy we really felt was smart and productive. We had some great conversations with him," O'Brien said.
On the horizon
O'Brien said several redshirt players distinguished themselves last year and were in a strong position to push for playing time in 2013.
The first player O'Brien talked about was Akeel Lynch, a 210-pound halfback from Toronto by way of Buffalo.
"I can't wait to see what Akeel Lynch does," O'Brien said. "We think he's got a really good future."
O'Brien also mentioned tight end Brent Wilkerson, receivers Eugene Lewis and Malik Golden, offensive lineman Wendy Laurent, defensive tackle Austin Johnson and defensive back Jake Kiley as some players on whom to keep an eye.
"There's a lot of good young talent in this program that we think bodes well for the future," O'Brien said.
Mum on the suit
Neither O'Brien nor athletic director Dave Joyner had any comment to make when asked about Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett's announcement last week that the commonwealth would sue the NCAA to get the sanctions against the football program eliminated for reduced.
"Same as Bill, I'm not going to comment on that," Joyner said.
Injury front
O'Brien seemed doubtful freshman All-American tight end Kyle Carter would be back healthy enough from his injured wrist to play in the spring.
"I saw where he was getting a new cast. He's really working at it," O'Brien said. "I think [the decision about his availability for the spring] is a ways from being made, but I think he's making a lot of progress."
Coaching carousel
One of the issues being thrown around last week when O'Brien was interviewing for NFL openings was that he might be using it as leverage in part to get pay raises for his coaching staff.
While O'Brien isn't likely to keep his assistants as long as Joe Paterno, there haven't been any departures yet from a group regarded by some of the best in the Big Ten.
"It's very important to keep your staff intact, but you have to be careful there, too. I think it's important that these guys want to move up the ladder. You've got some fantastic coaches on our staff that are going to have chances, if not this year or other years," O'Brien said. "I don't want to hold them back."
O'Brien said he felt the assistants are paid well but could be paid better and had discussed ways like bonuses with Joyner.
Recruiting roundup
O'Brien isn't allowed to talk about specific unsigned recruits by NCAA rules, but he was happy with the way recruiting was going in general for 2013.
"I'm excited about the direction of recruiting," O'Brien said. "You think about the situation that we're in and the type of guys we can recruit who are receptive to us, it's really an outstanding job by our football staff."
Defensive end commit Garrett Sickels and future Lion teammate Brendan Mahon both played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl; Mahon, playing out of position at center, was picked as an East team captain. Meanwhile, Hackenberg played in the Under Armour All-American Game.
Linebacker Brandon Bell, defensive end Curtis Cothran and offensive lineman Andrew Nelson performed well in the Chesapeake Bowl for top players from the Mid-Atlantic states, while defensive tackle Parker Cothren was first-team Class 6-A all-Alabama, Florida defensive back Neiko Robinson led his team to a state championship and Alabama linebacker Jon Walton was honorable mention all-state.
The Lions have two remaining scholarships in this recruiting class if all the commitments stick with Penn State. Walton, though, is planning to take a visit to South Carolina and probably might not have a decision until letter-of-intent day.


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loogie; snot Based after the green plumber Luigi.
After she blew her nose luigi was on the tissue.
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The better yet always ignored of the Mario brothers. He's obviously better, I mean, come on, his brother had to be saved by "scaredy-cat" and the supposedly weak Luigi!
"Thank you, Luigi!" "Finally, peaople see that I'M the star!"
by SSG June 16, 2004
A pimp-ass motherfucker who always gets outstaged by his short, fat brother, Mario
Luigi's gonna cap Mario's ass one day!
by Anonymous September 12, 2003
The younger brother of Nintendo's duo known as the Super Mario Bros. He is taller, wears green, and isn't as fat. Proven in Super Mario 2, he can jump higher. Starred in 2 games, 1 of which is often overlooked because he didn't have his name in the title, that was Mario Is Missing, and of course, Luigi's Mansion. Has less followers but is cool nonetheless.
Luigi is oftentimes better then Mario in most of the new games coming out.
by Oxtor4 May 03, 2004
A really cool guy who doesn't get as much attention and/or fans as his brother, Mario. Taller and slimmer than Mario, and dresses in green.
Luigi will kick Mario's sorry ass one day.
by Atomic Chainsaw November 27, 2003
Oi, this guy is an underrated Italian. He's often upstaged by Mario, and needs more attention. Luigi is definately a great guy. He's just got a crappy job: The second fiddle to a fat Italian bastard named Mario.
Whoo!!! GO Luigi! He's definately the best!
by Lieutenant Tarpit July 10, 2004
Luigi Mario is the youngest of the 2. He spouts amazing amounts of attacks. He can run faster and jump higher then Mario. But due to his proness to fear and being quite shy, he isn't really great on adventuring. Many people think that it means Luigi is jealous of Mario, but that's not true. Luigi enjoys taking small jobs like cleaning the house and ACTUAL plumbing jobs.
"Hey Luigi, Can you handle the plumbing jobs that come from when I leave? I'm gonna sign autographs."
by Luigifan12 July 02, 2004
Luigi is generally viewed as the lesser known of the Mario Brothers who occasionally makes a cameo appearance in Mario games and rarely stars in games himself. Luigi often serves as the second player character in Mario games. However, this is not because Luigi is less capable or less popular. It is because Luigi has got more important shit to do than save his brother from turtles and dragons all the time. In fact, these is some question as to whether Mario's "enemies" actually exist or if Mario is just on a perminant acid trip. Luigi only appears in Mario games after Mario dies because Luigi is only there to bail Mario's ass out of difficult situations. Luigi actually served 10 years as a green beret in the United States Army (thus the green hat) and is capable of beating the living shit out of Mario or his foes at any given moment, but likes to see his brother sweat a little. The reason that Luigi's army status is not widely known is because most of his work has been classified, but Luigi has actually ben credited with the such infamous feats as the asination Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, thus beginning WWII.
-Hey, who do you think would win in a fight between Luigi and Vin Diesel?
-I don't know thats too tough to answer, but the one thing we do know is that they could both kick the shit out of that pussy Mario.
-I don't know thats too tough to answer, but the one thing we do know is that they could both kick the shit out of that pussy Mario.
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on November 1, 2012 - 7:16 PM
The Genesee County Local Drug Enforcement Task Force said today it has taken a major Batavia cocaine dealer into custody.
Victor D. "Grimes" Guy, 25, was arrested on a county grand jury indictment charging him with criminal sale and criminal possession of cocaine, counts that carry a combined prison term of up to 50 years.
Guy, who is being held without bail, is accused of selling crack cocaine to an undercover agent from the task force, authorities said.
The arrest came after a six-month investigation by the task force, a detachment of officers from the Sheriff's Office, and Batavia and Le Roy Village police departments.


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|Nature and Origin of the Cuprate Pseudogap
The workings of high-temperature superconductive (HTSC) materials are a mystery wrapped in an enigma. However, a team of researchers from the ALS, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Cornell University has taken a major step in understanding part of this mystery—the nature and origin of the pseudogap. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), they have determined the electronic structure of La2-xBaxCuO4 (LBCO), a unique system in which superconductivity is strongly suppressed and static spin and charge orders develop near a doping level of x = 1/8.
In conventional superconductors, which operate at temperatures near absolute zero, the appearance of an energy gap in the electronic spectrum indicates pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs, global phase coherence, and a simultaneous transition into a macroscopic superconducting state. This gap is known as the superconducting gap. In contrast, in high-temperature superconductors (HTSCs) (which have nonsuperconductive, mixed, and superconductive matter states), an energy gap is already present at the Fermi surface in the normal, nonsuperconductive, state. This is known as a pseudogap, and its origin and relationship to superconductivity is one of the most important open issues in the physics of HTSCs and represents the focal point of current theoretical debate. According to one view, this pseudogap is really a pairing (superconducting) gap, reflecting the existence of Cooper pairs without global phase coherence. The superconducting transition then occurs at some lower temperature, when phase coherence is established. In an alternative view, the pseudogap represents another state of matter entirely that competes with superconductivity. However, the order associated with such a competing state has never been unambiguously detected.
Cuprates are well-known HTSCs, but in the cuprate compound LBCO, superconductivity is strongly suppressed and static spin and charge orders, or "stripes," develop near a low doping level of x = 1/8 (at a point when one-eighth of the electrons have been removed). Previous measurements have shown that these stripes, an alternating arrangement of electrons about four atoms wide, somehow inhibit superconductivity. This absence of superconductivity at x = 1/8 enabled the researchers to "peek" into the normal ground state of an HTSC material for the first time.
The researchers measured the electronic excitations and detailed momentum dependence of the single-particle gap in the ordered state of LBCO. Using ARPES at ALS Beamline 12.0.1, they detected an energy gap at the Fermi surface in the nonsuperconducting LBCO that looks the same as the energy gap at the Fermi surface in superconducting cuprates. This pseudogap, like the superconducting gap, has magnitude consistent with d-wave symmetry (a form of electron pairing in which the electrons travel together in quantum waves shaped like a four-leaf clover), and vanishes at four nodal points on the Fermi surface. Using STM at the ultra-low vibration laboratory of Cornell University, they found that the density of states DOS(E) ∝ |E|, with zero-DOS falling exactly at the Fermi energy. Furthermore, the gap has a surprising doping dependence, with a maximum at x ≈ 1/8, precisely where Tc has a local minimum and the charge/spin order is established between two adjacent superconducting domes. These findings reveal the pairing origin of the pseudogap and imply that the most strongly bound Cooper pairs at x ≈ 1/8 are most susceptible to phase disorder and spatial ordering. Thus, the nonsuperconducting, "striped" state at x = 1/8 is consistent with a phase incoherent d-wave superconductor whose Cooper pairs form spin/charge ordered structures instead of becoming superconducting.
Although with both ARPES and STM, low-energy electronic signatures were the same in both states, it is not yet clear how the superconducting state relates to the striped state. However, the fact remains that the same materials in two very different states appear to have identical energy-gap structures.
Research conducted by T. Valla and G.D. Gu (Brookhaven National Laboratory), A. V. Fedorov (Berkeley Lab), and Jinho Lee and J.C. Davis (Cornell University).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Sciences (BES), the Office of Naval Research, and Cornell University. Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: T. Valla, A.V. Fedorov, J. Lee, J.C. Davis, and G.D. Gu, "The ground state of the pseudogap in cuprate superconductors," Science 314, 1914 (2006).


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1. High Stakes bingo 2. One of the greatest, unheard of, and underated country songs.ITs by James McMurtry. More of a story about a family reunion out west the meth-amphetamine industry, and incestry.
Me- Lets listen to choctaw bingo
Rob- Iv never heard of that song
Rob- Iv never heard of that song
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Ludwig van Beethoven burst onto the musical scene in Vienna in 1795 at the ripe age of 25, using his Opus 1 Piano Trios as his calling card. He thrilled audiences with virtuosity and inventiveness. Six years later, his newly minted Serenade and Quintet wowed listeners even without the help of the keyboard.
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