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Beyond such real concerns, "[Running while pregnant] is fear of the unknown," says Boere. In the absence of more scientific research, women are susceptible to their mothers-in-law's warnings and well-meaning neighbors' fears. Even ACOG, in its official opinion on the subject concludes, "The information on strenuous exercise is scarce." Their recommendation? "Women who engage in such activities require close medical supervision." Never a bad idea. To that, the experienced and the experts add: Know your body, use common sense ... and stay close to the bushes.
Heather C. Liston is a San Francisco-based writer and trail runner.
Comeback Time
How to begin running post partum
"It's not like you have the baby and BOOM!—everything is back to normal again," says Maryanne McDonnell, a Connecticut OB/GYN who counts several runners among her patients. "The first six weeks after the birth are almost considered part of pregnancy. You are recovering from a major physical and emotional event."
First, your body needs to recover from any traumas during delivery. A Caesarian section, for example, is considered major abdominal surgery, and you should not be doing any heavy lifting or high-impact exercise for at least six weeks. Sutures need to heal and the incision needs to close. And, Dr. McDonnell warns, you should not assume you're 100 percent healed just because the incision on the skin surface has closed. Internal incisions don't necessarily finish healing quite as fast.
In addition, hormone levels remain at their elevated pregnancy level for about six weeks after delivery. Relaxin softens the cervix and ligaments to make delivery possible, but that extra looseness can make injuries more likely, so be extra careful not to twist anything the wrong way. McDonnell advises staging your comeback "like it's the first time you've ever done this. Start off slowly and build gradually."
Colleen Personett, an optometrist in Fairbanks, Alaska, had her first baby last December. She started walking and cross-country skiing about two weeks after the birth and got back into running within two months. Personett takes her daughter Sage with her on about 90 percent of her runs now, thanks to the Chariot, an adaptable baby stroller she loves, which actually works for jogging, biking and skiing (See www.chariotcarriers.com).
For the last seven years, Personett has been a regular contender in Alaska's Equinox Marathon. Her pre-pregnancy times hovered around 3:45, earning her four spots in the top five. When she was six months pregnant, she finished in 5:15, and the last time, nine months after the birth of her daughter, she brought that back up to 4:30. "I could have done it faster if I wanted to put the time in," says Colleen. "But my priorities changed. I'm working part-time and taking care of the family. And when you look back in 20 years, do you want to feel good about your marathon times or about raising well-adjusted kids?"
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Absolute Contraindications to Aerobic Exercise During Pregnancy
- Hemodynamically significant heart disease
- Restrictive lung disease
- Incompetent cervix/cerclage
- Multiple gestation at risk for premature labor
- Persistent second- or third-trimester bleeding
- Placenta previa after 26 weeks of gestation
- Premature labor during the current pregnancy
- Ruptured membranes
- Preeclampsia/pregnancy-induced hypertension
- Relative Contraindications to Aerobic Exercise During Pregnancy
- Severe anemia
- Unevaluated maternal cardiac arrhythmia
- Chronic bronchitis
- Poorly controlled type 1 diabetes
- Extreme morbid obesity
- Extreme underweight (BMI less than 12)
- History of extremely sedentary lifestyle
- Intrauterine growth restriction in current pregnancy
- Poorly controlled hypertension
- Orthopedic limitations
- Poorly controlled seizure disorder
- Poorly controlled hyperthyroidism
- Heavy smoker
- Warning Signs to Terminate Exercise While Pregnant
- Vaginal bleeding
- Dyspnea prior to exertion
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Chest pain
- Muscle weakness
- Calf pain or swelling (need to rule out thrombophlebitis)
- Preterm labor
- Decreased fetal movement
- Amniotic fluid leakage
(excerpted from ACOG Committee Opinion Number 267: "Exercise During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period," January 2002)


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There are a number of herbs that lose taste upon cooking, I sprinkle my fennel lightly over my sauce then top and bake.Don
Ok I'll try this. BTW I'm using the Fleishman's Pizza Yeast right now. Put the water in at 130. It's rising in the over right now. I'm sure the flavor will be the same and its' just marketing. Any yeast with very warm water will respond. Yeast love warmth. But who knows.. they could have formulated this specifically.
The makers state it has dough relaxers in the IDY so it is workable and bakeable in 30 minutes.Don


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A mountain 6-pack
SARANAC LAKE – Some will try for all six peaks in less than a day. Others will tackle them at a more leisurely pace.
Either way, village Mayor Clyde Rabideau hopes his new 6er hiking program, which kicks off this weekend, will draw people to the Saranac Lake area for years to come.
"This is a program that will last indefinitely," Rabideau said at a press conference last week. "We anticipate that a lot of families and individuals will be doing this over the course of the years. Some may come up for a weekend and do all six over the course of a weekend. A lot of people will try to do it within 24 hours."
Launched in February by the village, the 6er program encourages people to climb the six mountains in the Saranac Lake area: Mount Baker, Haystack, McKenzie, Scarface, Ampersand and St. Regis. Starting Saturday, those who climb the peaks, apply to the village for certification and pay $5 will get a patch and bumper sticker featuring the 6er logo, along with their official 6er number. An "Ultra 6er" patch will be awarded to those who climb all six mountains in less than 24 hours, and there will also be a "Winter 6er" patch.
The program is a smaller-scale version of one run for decades by the Adirondack 46ers, an organization of hikers of who have climbed to the summits of the 46 traditionally recognized Adirondack High Peaks. More than 7,000 people have registered their climbs and become 46ers since Saranac Laker Herb Clark and brothers Bob and George Marshall did so in 1925.
Rabideau said the 6er program is designed to showcase Saranac Lake to the greater Adirondack hiking and mountain climbing community.
"We know that the 46ers have a lot of traffic. A lot of people know about them, and when I travel the 46ers and talk to people on the trail, which I often do, I ask them if they know about Saranac Lake – and most of them don't," Rabideau said. "So this is a way to introduce Saranac Lake and our beautiful mountains to that community, from Montreal and further north all the way down to New York City and beyond."
The program will kick off Saturday morning with what's been dubbed the Ultra 6er Challenge, a race to see who will become the first 6er. It begins with a pistol start at the Berkeley Green at 8 a.m. The first person to hike all six peaks, verify their climb by signing a summit register and return to Berkeley Green will be 6er number one. Each finisher will then get to ring the 6er Bell, located in the park's gazebo, six times.
It's by no means an easy task, as climbing all six mountains involves more than 30 miles of hiking and roughly 7,000 feet of total elevation gain.
"There's a lot of talk on the street about how fast this will happen," Rabideau said. "We've heard anywhere from 9 hours to 16 hours for the first Ultra 6er to come back here and ring the 6er Bell."
Participants in the Ultra 6er Challenge can pre-register until 4 p.m. Friday at www.saranaclake6er.com or register in person beginning at 7 a.m. Saturday in Berkeley Green.
For those who aren't hiking, the village is hosting events in the park from 3 p.m. on, including an Adirondack trivia contest, poetry readings by local school students and live music. The village will also induct Clark, the first Adirondack 46er, into its Walk of Fame at 7 p.m.
To market the 6er program, the village has relied largely on area news media and social networking sites, like Facebook. It's distributed Saranac Lake 6er trail guides and maps to local restaurants, hotels and motels. Village employees have also been spreading the word to hiking clubs; they set up a table to promote the Saranac Lake 6 at Eastern Mountain Sports in Lake Placid during the store's "Club Days" earlier this month.
EMS store Manager Yvonne Sheffield said she and her staff have also been highlighting the 6er program to their customers in the last few weeks.
"I think it's a great program," she said. "A lot of folks say to us, 'I can't do the 46; I'm not much of a hiker.' So now we can say, 'You know what? You should do the 6.' All those peaks are doable for people with families, and it's a great way to expose your youngsters to hiking without them thinking, 'This is so much work.'"
"Anything that gets more people outdoors and connecting with the natural environment is a good thing," said John Million, deputy executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club. "I'm encouraged that this particular program snowballed so quickly. It seems like there's a lot of local support for it. I hope it's successful and my sense is it's going to be."
It's worth noting that some of these hikes are easier and more family-friendly than others. For example, Mount Baker is a one-mile stroll with just 700 feet of elevation gain. But McKenzie and Ampersand, in particular, are much more rigorous climbs, each involving more than 1,500 feet of elevation gain and many miles of hiking.
While the village is managing the 6er program now, Rabideau said he'd like to be able to pass it off to another organization in a few years.
The mayor said the village has spent $2,000 to $3,000 on the program, although he said much of that money has been raised through underwriting and selling of advertisements on the trail guide. The rest is revenue the village is getting from the sale of T-shirts, hats and other items containing the village's trademarked 6er logo.
"We're not using tax dollars," Rabideau said. "We're just generating the funds within. There's a trademark for all the Saranac Lake 6er stuff, and that way we can keep some control over residuals, getting some money coming back to keep the program going."


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"A new particle was discovered last summer at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. The Higgs boson gives mass to quarks and the electron but we don't know yet if this new particle is the Higgs boson," said Graesser, of the Laboratory's Theoretical Division. "I will describe what we know about this new particle and speculate about discoveries that might now be on the horizon."
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The MMA(Mixed Martial Arts) world is blowing up.
All of a sudden there are pay-per-views every month, it used to go down once a year. Most of the stars are more well known then championship boxers. They have there own reality show which is sweet. It is helping guys get noticed and pave their way to the big leagues so to speak.
You have to be of a different breed to do what these maniacs do.
I will be attending my 2nd live MMA show in Columbus on March 3rd.
There are a few former UFC and Pride Fighters on the card. One of the team captains is former UFC tournament champion Marc Coleman(A Buckeye)
For anyone who follows MMA will know some of the names.
Here is the card:
Team Hammer House
Captain: Mark Coleman Team GracieCaptain: Relson Gracie
Wes Sims vs. Daniel Gracie
Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Leopoldo
Mike Pyle vs. Fabricio "Morango" Cames
Forrest Petz vs. Daniel Moraes
Jon Koppenhaver vs. Michael O'Donnell
Dustin Hazelett vs. Rhalan Gracie
Michael French vs. Fredson Pixao
Chris Brennan vs. Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro
Dan Bobish vs. Alexandar Ustinov
Carter Williams vs. Gary Turner
Steve Conkel vs. Brion Peoples
Pat Horner vs. Phil Cardello
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The State Department's Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (AVC) is in the final stages of its Innovation in Arms Control Challenge, and we hope to announce the results soon. In the meantime, we aren't slowing down. AVC has a new competition ready to go, and this time we will be engaging American and Russian citizens through the 2012-13 International Arms Control Essay Contest.
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For all the details on the rules and submission guidelines, please click here for the CNS website or here for the PIR website. The contest runs until January 31, 2013, and is open to all citizens of the United States and Russia. One winner from the United States will have their essay posted on the PIR Center website and one winner from Russia will have their essay posted on the CNS website. The bonus: both winners will also receive an iPad.
So think big, think innovative, and then get typing and send us some great ideas!
A.O.N. in California writes:
What is the goal? To make world a safer place? To save lives? It is not WMD's that are killing people. It is conventional weapons that we are exporting to the rest of the world that is the real problem. Unless you can get the military industrial lobbyist out of our political process we have no chance of curbing the sales of real guns and ammo's that we are shipping to the rest of the world.
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What well be president Obama action to stop owning machine gun to civilian over America.
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A global contest would have been better. Ideas from around the world will be beneficial for the US citizens to avoid civilian and military misuse of arms and guns in particular.


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Skip to comments.Surprising Discoveries From the Indus Civilization
Posted on 05/04/2013 3:18:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers examined the chemical composition of teeth from a Harappan cemetery used from roughly 2550 to 2030 B.C. The analysis showed that the city was a cosmopolitan melting pot. Many of the deceased had grown up outside Harappa...
Many of the outsiders, surprisingly, are men buried near women native to Harappa. The findings are preliminary, but they suggest men moved in with their brides, even though in South Asia women traditionally move to their husband's homes...
Bones from about 1900 to 1700 B.C. -- more than a millennium later than those examined by Kenoyer -- make it clear that at least some Harappan residents were subjected to savage violence. The skull of a child between four and six years old was cracked and crushed by blows from a club-like weapon. An adult woman was beaten so badly -- with extreme force, according to researchers -- that her skull caved in. A middle-aged man had a broken nose as well as damage to his forehead inflicted by a sharp-edged, heavy implement.
Of the 18 skulls examined from this time period, nearly half showed serious injuries from violence, researchers reported in a recent paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology. The rate of skull injuries tied to violence is the highest recorded in the prehistory of South Asia, the researchers say. It may be no coincidence that at the time of these burials the Indus civilization was beginning to disintegrate and parts of Harappa were being abandoned, for reasons that scholars are still debating.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
The Indus civilization was first identified at Harappa, once a city of 80,000 people. [Photograph by James P. Blair, National Geographic]
Those folks weren't much on house building but their sidewalks were excellent in the picture.
As a side note: Case Western Reserve University -- go Cleveland!
One way to keep the invaders out is to hire mercenaries. One problem with mercenaries is that it's difficult to sustain their loyalty over a long period of time. A way to counter that is to marry off the mercenaries to local girls. The recruiting poster would be "Come to Harappa, join the army and take a wife!"
Of course there's no evidence of this.
Islam is older than we thought? ;)
The most likely culprits that come to mind were still eating grass, worms, and rocks for another 2700 years...
In this particular instance, it might not have been koranimals.
Wait! I've got it! The government built "low income" housing in the neighborhood!
Makes sense.
The city was besieged, overrun and the city dwellers massacred. Happened often enough in recorded history. More than just plausible here.
The other information gleaned may or may not have anything to do with it. If somehow evidence indicates that it does, then your scenario comes right to the forefront.
City-states rising, becoming wealthy and powerful, sliding into decadence, then becoming unable or unwilling to withstand an invasion and falling seems to be predictably cyclical to the point of inevitability.
Let's see, half the skulls show serious violence, including against at least one child, and the native women are married to foreign men. That sounds more like the city was conquered, with the native men and children killed, and the native women taken as prizes, than this interpretation they've come up with.
That's "sexist" so they'd rather pretend not to know, lol.
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That would do it!
Thanks for the ping Civ.
"...the Indus civilization was beginning to disintegrate and parts of Harappa were being abandoned, for reasons that scholars are still debating."
Hey, if you have skull smashers roaming around the city, I don't know about you, but I'm beating feet outathere.
Debate over.
"It may be no coincidence that at the time of these burials the Indus civilization was beginning to disintegrate..."
Exactly so - and it's a lesson worth studying in the present-day United States.
Tribes further away would be busy taking in Harrapa's children ~ more or less like a large daycare operation.
So, who else did this for nearly 800 years? That place is well known as the Republic of Venice!
In Christopher Columbus time it was common for French nobles to farm their children out to Italians living in small villages away from the (for then) large cities and towns. A downside was if your real folks back home died in the palace, or in a local war, then you'd grow up as an Italian townsman.
That seems to be what happened to Chris!
thanks for the ping and May the 4th be with you
Remember reading that their cities were not fortified and were probably destroyed by waves of invaders - probably Indo-European Steppe nomads ancestral to the Persians and Sanskrit speaking Aryans.
Agree. But there are large numbers of Indian nationalists who insist that the Aryans are "native" to India, and that Indo-European languages spread out of India to the rest of Asia and Europe.
For some obscure reason they believe the "Aryan invasions" scenario is insulting to today's Indians. I don't get it, since Europeans aren't insulted by claims that Indo-European speaking peoples similarly invaded Europe. Or at least western Europe.
Modern archaeologists are constantly searching for two thing:
A "peaceful" society.
A society where women were "equal" to men, or preferably dominant.
That no such societies have been found never causes them to stop projecting their own obsessions onto the past. Which of course tells us a lot more about them than it does about the people they study.
The Indus basin also turned out to be the area from which Neolithic beads originated — the hand-drilled beads had been found throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, and study showed specific patterns of drilling inside the holes that apparently reveal individual workshops / craftsmen / locales. Probably settled life and urbanization had deep roots before, as you said, the IndoEuropean invasion. The cities ran things, didn't need walls, a situation found in plenty of other places, including classical Greece, and to some extent, Mycenaean Greece; Rome had no city wall until Emperor Aurelian; Pharaonic Egyptian cities were unwalled. The places where walled cities were common were the very places that got invaded a lot, such as Canaan (e.g. Jericho).
Rome actually had the Servian Walls built in the 4th century BC, which were formidable enough to keep Hannibal out.
During the late Republic and early Empire the city outgrew these walls and eventually they were left to crumble or were dismantled. The Imperial city had no walls, as you say, till Aurelian.
In China, BTW, walls are such an integral part of the concept of city that the writing character for city is derived from that for wall.
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Indo-European nomads (Aryans) theory has been discredited by DNA. Careful DNA research has indicated that the flow of people was south-to-north!
Uh, let me get this straight. DNA evidence indicates invaders from the south of Harrapa invaded and destroyed Harrapan civilization?
In cas eyou think I'm black - I'm not - I'm white.
I believe in western civilization and culture. But our Indo-European ancestors were a war-like and aggressive people who used hroses, weapons and carts to spread their culture and language all over the western world - fortunately for us.
I never heard of that theory of which you speak.
I suspect our timelines are quite different. The Harrapan Civilization is the result of people migrating from southern India.
Twelve thousand years ago the sea level was lower than today due to so much of the earth's water being locked up in ice. It was on average about 400' lower world wide.
The result of this situation was that much of the major continents had open land along their shores and those in the temperate climates closer to the equator were comfortable to humans.
The Indian government is today exploring what are presently offshore marine archaeological sites - cities made of stone - that are approximately 30 kilometers from the present shoreline.
Marine flooding caused by the end of the Ice Age destroyed what were formerly thriving communities along coastlines. It didn't just happen in India; it happened in the Middle East - the Persian Gulf used to be dry land out past the present day Straights of Hormuz - and the English Channel and Dogger Banks used to be dry land connecting today's England with the European continent.
By 7500 years ago the sea level was higher than it is today, averaging 16' higher, and in some places up to 50' higher. The destruction world-wide of coastline communities was profound, resulting in global flood stories.
The people moving north across India were fleeing destruction caused by marine flooding. These were the people who established the Harrapan civilization long before Indo-Aryans began migrating south.
I'm glad you mentioned horses. That is an excellent method on tracing where invaders originated; looking at existing horses and their genetics to determine origination.
It is an excellent method, and proves that in Europe the earliest horses came from the area north of the Black Sea and developing along the edges of the Ice pack. These were not large animals, but pony size like the Shetland Pony, the Icelandic Pony (called Horse Type 1), and the Norwegian Fjord Pony (Horse Type 2).
Further east, in the area around the Caspian Sea, the horses were taller and lighter framed. This is called Horse Type 3, and it inhabited Central Asia and is the presumed ancestor of the Old Turkmene horse, and thus today's oldest known breed of horse, the Akhal-teke.
I would suspect that invaders from central Asia would come riding Turkmene type horses, and so we would expect to find equine DNA from Turkmene horses deeply inbedded in today's horse population in India. That's not the case.
There is a brief but interesting section in Wikipedia, Indo-Aryan migration theories, which you might find interesting. If anything it presents a picture that is anything but clear.
When I attended college in the early 1970s, the Indo-Aryan invasion of India was accepted as fact though there was scant evidence to support it.
A few years ago I read an article detailing the points of convergence between a linguistic study and a genetic study proving that an Aryan invasion of India was nonsense.
Who knows what further studies will bring?
There are many amazing facts about Indus valley civilization which appear mysterious. I feel the key to these mysteries of Harappan civilization lies in the little known Harappan calendar still in use.
For more details visit www.lusa.info/amazing
Thanks for the link.
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Global Footprint Network Mediterranean-MENA Regional Director Alessandro Galli will join Jeffrey Sachs of Earth Institute at Columbia University on a panel, "Practical steps towards green growth in the Mediterranean region," at the MED Solutions Network's first conference on Thursday, July 4, 2013, at the University of Siena.
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Local man faces break-in charge
MARQUETTE – A Marquette man is scheduled for a preliminary examination Friday in Marquette County District Court after being arrested last week on a home invasion charge.
Douglas John Fitzpatrick, 26, was arraigned in district court and is charged with home invasion, second degree, a 15-year felony. His preliminary examination is scheduled for 8:45 a.m. Bond was set at 10 percent of $10,000.
The Marquette City Police Department said Fitzpatrick was arrested after allegedly breaking into a residence in the 500 block of West Washington Street. Police said their investigation revealed Fitzpatrick had been at the victim's house visiting on Jan. 14.
The victim needed to leave the residence and advised Fitzpatrick he needed to leave too, and he complied, according to police. The victim was gone from the residence a short time and when he returned, noticed the residence had been broken into and some property had been stolen, police said.
Police said the suspect had gained entry through a window, which was accessed by climbing on top of a breezeway. Police said their investigation showed Fitzpatrick had discussed the crime with several people before he allegedly committed it.
Police said with that information and other statements and evidence, a report was completed and sent to the Marquette County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, which authorized the charge. Fitzpatrick was arrested Feb. 18.
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Facilities among numerous school board talking points
MARSHALL – One of the many items Marshall Public School board members were presented with and discussed at a work session meeting Monday was a strategic discussion on facilities report from Kevin McGauley of Energy Services Group (ESG).
McGauley noted that a comprehensive inventory had been compiled for the district the past six months and that there were a number of options available in regards to future maintenance of the facilities.
"You have options," he said. "We'll be handing the ball off to you now. You're Adrian Peterson, and I'm Matt Cassel or Christian Ponder."
McGauley walked the board through issues such as building life expectancies, energy efficiency, ventilation, temperature and humidity and the correlation between those and student achievement, noting that ESG found that the MPS district had kept up its facilities "very well."
"We are providing you options, including good, better and best options," McGauley said. "We don't advocate for any particular one of them. It's your decision. You have to decide what's best for your district."
McGauley pointed out that a new elementary facility, with 75,000 new square feet, would cost between $16-23 million. An additional 55 square feet onto the Marshall Middle School would cost the district between $10-15 million. A West Side expansion, with 20,000 square feet added, would run between $6-7.5 million in remodeling costs.
"Reinvestment can create a more modern facility," McGauley said. "Districts don't automatically have to rebuild."
There are a number of concerns to take into consideration, however, McGauley said, including operating efficiency/cost control, deferred maintenance/aging capital and other issues.
"There's a menu of items of which you can select," he said. "We've identified $1,028,301 in facility reinvestment and energy efficiency improvements in all the buildings (with the exception of Marshall High School)."
McGauley noted that now was the time to begin making strategic decisions, with historically low interest rates and construction costs that are flat.
"It's the perfect storm," he said. "It's encouraging for consumers."
While there is much to discuss yet, MPS Superintendent Klint Willert said he was pleased with the "extremely thorough" report that ESG provided. ESG has more than 90 partnerships, including 45 with Minnesota K-12 districts.
Brian Jones, Shirley Greenfield, Sue Bowen and Vickie Radloff also spoke to the board about Minnesota State testing. The state is recommending a focus shift from the current form of state testing to college and career preparation and is allowing more local control, when it comes to making the decision on which test(s) to use in replacement of the grad test, for the next few years.
"Our goal tonight is to lay out the background of what testing has been and point out the new pathways that are emerging," Jones said. "You'll have a big decision to make regarding policy in the future."
The idea is to transition toward individual learning plans that focus on the success of each individual student, rather than relying on the high-stakes, high-anxiety state tests, Bowen said.
"I'm a firm believer that students are a product created over time," she said.
Regardless of what type of testing model (ACT, ASVAB, etc…) the district chooses, students still have to pass district expectations, which include 30.5 credits of high level courses.
"We do have a lot of rigor built in," Bowen said. "When we started testing in 1997, it was pretty basic. Now we (the state) are going more toward career and college preparation. It's great, but it's a new way of looking at it."
Board members also learned that three school districts had expressed interest in forming cooperative agreements. One of two students were interested in joining gymnastics, Willert said, while Russell-Tyler-Ruthton had about four students who wanted to join the MPS wrestling program. Board members seemed in favor of those pairing, especially since the cooperation would not affect the district's current classification.
A third district showed interest in a cooperative agreement for boys hockey, but a number of board members did not appear to be in favor of the opportunity because it would cause MPS to move up a class, which would not be ideal for its participants, especially in regards to section travel.
Willert also updated the board on the conference reconfiguration process, noting that it looked like the Southwest and South Central Conferences would be moving forward with the merge.
"Athletic directors for the 13 different schools have been meeting about once a week and it looks like it will be merged," he said. "It looks like the new name might be the Southern Plains or the Greater Southern Plains Conference. At this point in time, the plan is moving forward."


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Does it dry up
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At first, Derek Whitmore thought his dad's phone may have gone dead.
For the longest time, both thought they might never have this conversation. Yet when they finally did on Dec. 19, 2011, there was silence.
Phone calls from Whitmore have rarely taken his dad by surprise. They have been coming for years, beginning with a 16-year-old Whitmore excitedly dialing to say he'd made his first junior team.
Since then, he has called his dad back home in Rochester, N.Y., from minor-league hockey cities all over the country. From Butte, Mont. to Lincoln, Neb. to Waterloo, Iowa – he's called after nearly every game.
For the past three years, calls have come from Portland, Maine, where Whitmore was a forward in the Buffalo Sabres' farm system for the American Hockey League's Portland Pirates.
Shortly after Sabres owner Terry Pegula bought the Rochester Americans last June, Whitmore signed on for a fourth year with the organization.
Now, he makes pre-game phone calls from just a few miles away from where he was raised, in Greece, N.Y., a large suburb of Rochester.
"I don't really try to break down games with him when he calls," Whitmore's dad says. "When we talk after games, I just listen and try to offer as much encouragement as I can."
Since Whitmore begged his dad to let him on the ice at age 2, hockey has been a big part of their relationship.
It didn't take long for the family, especially his older brother, to realize Whitmore was special.
"I remember being seven or eight, playing around in the garage showing him I could do a backhand shot right under the cross bar," Whitmore says, like he's told this one a thousand times. "He spent all day out there trying to do it and he couldn't. That's when I started to think I had some skill."
He had ferocity, too. After watching Whitmore push larger and older players around the rink, his grandfather nicknamed him "Derek the Destroyer."
The Whitmores weren't a prototypical hockey family. "Coach Ray," as the family calls him these days, didn't push hockey camps and travel teams on his son. He preferred to let Whitmore play Little League baseball and spend summers swimming and playing hide-and-go-seek.
But like many hockey families, they made sacrifices for their son to play.
"When we were young, I always hoped my brother and sisters didn't look at me like I was the golden child," Whitmore says. "I didn't want them to end up resenting me since everyone gave up so much for me to play hockey."
Coach Ray picked a pretty good area of the world to raise a hockey player. In Greece, which is about 60 miles from Buffalo, winter lasts three months too long, every high school has a team and home is 15 minutes from the Americans' home ice.
When Coach Ray wanted to show his son how the pros did it, he took interstate 390 to 490, got off at Broad Street and parked on the bridge that shadows Blue Cross Arena.
Whitmore takes the same route to the arena – only he's one of the pros now.
Three weeks before Whitmore's Dec. 19 phone call, he received a text message from Coach Ray.
Nov 26, 2011 at 12:12 p.m."You're here, go make the most of it. Go get a hat trick"
Early in the Americans' season, Whitmore was struggling to score. He had only scored two goals in his last 10 games and only six in the team's first 19. A slow start coming off a career-high 27 goal season in 2010-11.
And his frustration was mounting over not being called up by the Sabres.
Buffalo had passed over him to call up their former first-round pick Zack Kassian two days before. That day veteran Paul Szczechura was picked to go to The Show.
By the time Pegula purchased the Americans, Whitmore had already played 243 games in Buffalo's organization.
He'd never been called up.
"Every time someone would get hurt, I would hold my breath," Whitmore says. "When I don't get the call, I just try to set goals to work toward the types of things I need to do to get up there. But, it's frustrating."
Each year, he improved his scoring, from 22 to 34 points in his first two seasons, then from 34 to 47 the next year. He kept holding his breath.
Whitmore eventually went to Americans' coach Ron Rolston to ask what more he could do.
"We basically said that a lot of times when there is call-ups, the most important thing you have to be aware of is you have to be dependable player," Rolston says. "The coach has to have confidence to put him out in certain situations and he's really worked on that."
When the puck dropped that night, Derek the Destroyer put his frustrations aside. On his first shift, just 32 seconds into the game, he jumped on a loose puck, cruised around a defender and scored on Hamilton goalie Robert Mayer. Top shelf, right underneath the cross bar, just like in the garage. On his second shift, 81 seconds later, he did it again, breaking into the zone hard and knocking the puck by Mayer.
In the third period, he scored again, this time on a power-play rebound. Then, at 12:12 of the third period, Whitmore scored his fourth goal of the night.
After the game, he pretended not to see three or four media members walk into the locker room. He sat with his head down, trying to cover a smile. He did so until teammate Joe Finley yelled, "OK guys, I'm right over here, or do I have to score four goals to get an (expletive) interview?"
"I actually had quite a bit of family here tonight, which it was nice to do that in front of them," Whitmore said. "(Scoring) my first professional hat trick as a Rochester American, a team I grew up watching and cheering for. Definitely special moment for myself, but more importantly happy the team got the two points."
What he really wanted to say was: "Did you see that, Sabres?"
"I miss the lobster, but Rochester isn't terrible," Whitmore's wife Sarah says with an earnest laugh.
She sits close to him, staring intently up at his face as he speaks. She looks at the scar on his chin hidden under a few days worth of scruff. She looks at his dark eyes and black hair. Her face reacts to his words. He can't lie or exaggerate - she'll give him away.
Whitmore and his wife met in Portland. After a few dates, they "made it official on Facebook." Nine months later, they were married.
"When you know, you just know," Whitmore says. "Why wait?"
Sarah smiles.
She isn't a "hockey wife" like you see on VH1. She isn't wearing makeup and doesn't need to. Several times, Sarah claims not to know much about hockey, but when she talks about it, you figure she could outwit most Amerks fans.
When Pegula purchased the Americans, Whitmore was still a free agent. He had the option of staying in his wife's home town, only with Portland's new parent club the Phoenix Coyotes.
They spent their summer nights talking about whether to stay or go.
"It was really a once-in-a-lifetime type thing," Whitmore says. "To be able to come home and play in the city I grew up in and have my family be there. It wasn't an easy decision, though."
Sarah doesn't like Rochester's seafood, but she's adjusting. She has known some of the other players' wives for a few years from Portland and has made friends at her job at the mall.
Really, she's just along for the ride, supporting her husband's pursuit of his dream, getting more upset than him each time the Sabres call someone up and it's not her husband.
She has dreams, too.
Sarah can bake like Whitmore backhands pucks underneath the cross bar. She posts pictures of intricate cupcakes on her Twitter page and treated the opportunity to bake Whitmore's sister's wedding cake like it was her NHL first call up. When his career ends, they plan to move back to Portland and start a bakery.
"I am waiting for him, but my time will come," she says. "When his career is over, then it's my turn and he will support my dreams like I have his."
When she stands up from the table, he leans in and says, "She's really good at it, man."
Six years before he put on a Rochester Americans jersey for the first time, nine years before he would make a long-awaited phone call to his dad, and one year after being the second leading scorer on the Butte Irish, Whitmore was bumped up to an elite American junior league the United States Hockey League.
At 17, he joined the Waterloo Black Hawks. Here, everyone was backhanding shots top shelf when they were 7-years-old.
The Black Hawks had an 18-year-old center from Stevens Point, Wisc., named Joe Pavelski, who after scoring 69 points in 60 games, was drafted by the San Jose Sharks. Whitmore, meanwhile, scored only 15 goals in 58 games and ranked 11th on the team in scoring.
Ten games into the following season, with only two goals, Whitmore was traded to the Lincoln Stars. Whitmore shot to the first line of the less-talented Lincoln team, scoring 42 points in 45 games.
Still, he went undrafted. Still, he went ignored by major collegiate hockey programs.
Whitmore ended up at Bowling Green University, which went 11-18-9 the previous season. Pavelski went to super-power Wisconsin.
During his senior year, Bowling Green hired alumnus and former NHL player Todd Reirden as an assistant. Reirden, a current assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins, realized quickly that Whitmore had the talent and desire to play at the highest level.
"We spent a lot of time talking about how to make it happen," Reirden says, just before boarding a plane with the Penguins. "Give him a lot of credit for the effort he put in. The season we spent together he did a lot of extra stuff before practice and after practice working on different areas to develop his pro game."
Reirden knew if Whitmore had any chance to make it to The Show, he would have to start out in the AHL or ECHL as a third liner and work his way up. They worked on his defensive skills and game away from the puck.
Reirden was right.
When his collegiate career ended, a former midget coach turned Sabres scout offered Whitmore a chance. He'd known Coach Ray and his son for years, followed his career through college and admired Whitmore. In 2008, the two sides agreed to a contract. He started out as a fourth liner.
Reirden's career began similarly. He started in the East Coast Hockey League – one level below the AHL - with the Raleigh Icecaps in 1994 and worked his way toward an eventual NHL debut with the Edmonton Oilers during the 1998-99 season.
"I felt that my personal story was close to his," Reirden says. "I found out the hard way draft picks and players that teams have invested money in sometimes get more opportunity. It's up to you to stay persistent in terms of accomplishing your goals. I was hoping to give him the blue print if that came his way."
The Sabres' expectations for Whitmore were pretty low. Maybe he'll turn out to be a decent third-line forward, the scout thought. No matter. He'll be good for the community, a leader in the locker room and a stand-up teammate.
"He's extremely driven, but he's also a good person," Reirden says. "I liked what he was all about and who he was as a person. He volunteered and did charity work as well. It seems like guys who are good student athletes, hard workers and have the ability to play at a higher level are those that coaches gravitate toward."
A week later, he scored his first AHL goal as a member of the Rochester Amerks. A few weeks after that, the Sabres changed their AHL affiliate to the Portland Pirates.
Before Reirden hangs up to head to his flight, he notes, "I'm always happy to talk about Derek Whitmore."
On Dec. 19, 2011, Coach Ray ran around Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta like a mad man.
A few hours earlier, he was in Memphis, Tenn., on a business trip. He would connect through Atlanta – a very common route back to Rochester – and be back in Greece in a few hours. He thought It would be a mundane trip home.
Then, his phone rang.
His son spoke. Then, there was silence.
Memories of carrying hockey equipment through feet of snow came pouring over him. Thoughts of the lessons taught on hockey trips and the phone call from Butte convincing his son to keep at it. Reflections of his son's first goal at Bowling Green and his first as a Rochester American and shadows of all the players he'd taken the ice with that never made it. All hitting Coach Ray like a tidal wave.
"Dad, I just got called up to the Sabres," Whitmore said, his voice shaking a little. "I'm playing tonight against Ottawa."
"I was just so happy for him," Coach Ray says. "The kid has a lot of positives in his game, but he doesn't have the size that they like to see at that level, so he's had an uphill battle. Then he finally got there. I got pretty choked up on the phone."
When the shock wore off, reality set in. Coach Ray wasn't going to be able to watch his son's first NHL game.
"When the game started, I was in flight from Memphis to Atlanta," he says. "When I finally got there I was looking for a sports bar, way away from my gate. I finally found one that had the NHL channel, but when the bartender went to the Sabres game, a message came up saying it was unavailable."
Until he made it back to Rochester, Coach Ray had to follow updates on his Blackberry.
"You dream about that day," he says. "You want to be there, you want to share that experience with him and it just didn't work out for us."
Back in Rochester, Sarah's parents sat alone in Whitmore and his wife's apartment. Her parents had planned a trip to Rochester for weeks. They were excited to see the city where their daughter had followed her hockey husband and to see her hockey husband play again. Instead, Sarah drove alone to Ottawa and her parents watched Whitmore's debut on TV.
In Ottawa, the Sabres lost, but Whitmore proved to himself he could play. He'd thought all along he could make it in the NHL, a place where you don't handle your own luggage, where the arenas are like cathedrals and hotels have room service. After that night, though, he knew for sure.
Whitmore played 18 shifts, a total of 14:08. He did everything against the Senators that he's always done: moved the puck, blocked shots, drove hard to the net, brought energy to a lifeless Sabres team. He was the same Derek the Destroyer.
"The first person I saw when I walked out of the locker room after the game was my wife," Whitmore says. "That was a really special moment to share. We've been through so much waiting for this, it was great to see her first."
Coach Ray wasn't able to see the game until the next day, when he watched the replay on TV.
"He looked like he fit right in," he says. "It looked like he belonged, which was great for him because it convinced him he could play at that level."
Two nights later, he traveled to Toronto to watch his son play against the Maple Leafs.
"It was wonderful," Coach Ray says. "That was his team growing up. The family watched Sabre games. To see him out there in the Sabre blue and gold was exciting."
After the game, he gave his son a hug.
"I said a few things that only him and I heard. I said I was proud of him and that not too many people can say they've reached their dream," Coach Ray said.
After the game in Toronto Dec. 22, the NHL went on Christmas break. Whitmore was officially sent back to Rochester, but was told it was only a paper move to save the Sabres cap space for a few days. He left his equipment in Buffalo.
Unfortunately for Whitmore, the break gave the Sabres regulars time to get healthy. He was called into head coach Lindy Ruff's office. The two went over some game tape from the previous two games, then he was informed he'd jump on a plane to meet the Americans in Oklahoma City.
He hasn't been back to Buffalo since.
"It's just something that you can check off the bucket list, that you played for the Buffalo Sabres," Sarah says.
Whitmore doesn't see it that way.
"Two games in the NHL? That's unacceptable," he says. "I got there, and for that brief moment I saw that I could be successful at that level. I'm not giving up this dream. The minute I do, I will lose that jam that keeps me going. Any time you get that taste of being at the highest level, all you want is just to get back there and I'm doing to do everything I can to do that."
He says that his game has to constantly be reinvented, knowing that he'll likely be a third or fourth-line winger if he's going to make it to the NHL long term.
But Whitmore understands the business. He understands teams pay big money for top-line scorers. He understands that first-round picks are given preference. If a first-rounder fails, the team looks bad. If a never-heard-of-you free agent fails, fans don't flinch. Neither does the front office.
What he's convinced himself: Whether he's called up again isn't up to him. At 27, no amount of practice is going to change the Sabres' mind about where he stands. When a scorer gets hurt in Buffalo, there's a draft pick to move up. When a tough guy gets hurt, there's a more physical player to get the call.
"You know, I just wish that somebody would give him 10 games to really see whether he can do it or not," Coach Ray says. "But, you know, he's got two choices: He can either stay in the fight or give the fight up."
The Sabres think he should be happy playing in front of his hometown fans and family. They think he should be happy having made it this far, when none of his teammates from Butte made an NHL debut and only one from Waterloo.
But he isn't content with playing for his home fans. He's going to keep the fight up. He and Sarah and the Whitmore family are going to go along for this ride, whatever team, whatever city, to make it back, to go back to the NHL, where you don't handle your own luggage, where the arenas are like cathedrals and hotels have room service.
And maybe some day, a game in The Show will mean just another text message from Coach Ray instead of silence.


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Hmmm...well I don't think I'm Down was terrible, but it just seemed to me that Paul didn't put enough into it, vocally. I guess it just goes back to the thing that his voice was massively under-rehearsed. However, Rusty's guitar solo on I'm Down was SMOKIN'!! It was Rusty's debut to the world (at least with Macca), and I just remember thinking, "Who IS this guy?? He's given a whole new sound to Macca's music! YES!" As for the accapella Yesterday, yeah that was pretty bad. Well actually, it was OK, until the final "Mmmmmmmm mmm mmm mmm" where his voice cracked. I was like "Nooooooooooooooo!!" LOL


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Kimchi Frito Pie Recipe
- Yield:serves 6 to 8
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:15 minutes
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- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 3 medium cloves)
- 1 tablespoon minced ginger
- 3 green onions, thinly sliced, white and green parts separated
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 3/4 cup homemade or store-bought low sodium chicken or beef broth
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 cups roughly chopped kimchi
- 8 bags of individual-sized Fritos corn chips
- Shredded cheddar cheese, for garnish
- Roughly chopped cilantro, for garnish
Heat both of the oils in a large wok over high heat until shimmering. Add the ginger, garlic, and the white parts of the onions and stir-fry just until the garlic begins to brown, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Add the beef and break the beef up using a wooden spoon or spatula. Stir-fry the beef until it is cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the pepper, soy sauce, and sugar and stir to combine. Whisk the beef stock and cornstarch together in a small bowl, then pour the mixture into the wok. Continue to stir and cook until the liquid reduces and thickens, 3-4 minutes.
Stir in the kimchi and cook just until the kimchi is warmed through, 1 to 2 minutes. Open one end of each of the Frito bags, then spoon some of the kimchi beef mixture into each bag. Garnish with shredded cheese, cilantro, and the rest of the green onions and serve immediately.


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So, Tiger's playing his best golf of the year, and dominating the end of the season. It puts the finishing touches on a pretty unique year for Tiger. Two second place finishes in majors, some frustration, then he has a kid, and then utter domination from August on.
I haven't really gotten into this FedEx Cup that much, but I have been paying attention to it a bit. I'm on the slightly warmer side of lukewarm about it. It add some weight to the last couple of tournaments, and at least gets the names out there - sort of. Sort of spotty attendance early from the bigs, but for the most part they participated.


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Last week, the third-grade students didn't know what it meant to "code" a computer. Even yesterday, as they arranged computer codes to guide characters through a virtual maze, they knew only vaguely that coding was what they were doing.
That's the point of Hour of Code, an effort embraced by schools across Ohio and around the globe to teach students how to program a computer. The class aims to raise the veil on what happens behind the computer screen and stir curiosity enough that students come back for more.
"Everything on a computer has a language behind it," Kimberly Clavin explained to third-grade students who came to the Dublin Technology Center from Indian Run Elementary. "We are going to write the code behind computers."
Students spent the next hour on laptop computers arranging virtual blocks on a screen, each one representing a command that steered characters through the maze. It was coding in a basic form, but couched in the game was the logic of all coding, said Clavin, manager of STEM initiatives in Dublin schools.
Along with Dublin, at least 10 other central Ohio districts organized coding lessons for a range of skill levels this week, using tutorials and projects from Code.org, the Seattle nonprofit group behind the weeklong push. Districts including Columbus, Bexley, Olentangy and Worthington participated.
As of yesterday, more than 38,000 schools had registered to teach lessons to 5 million students. Every Apple store in the country hosted classes. President Barack Obama stumped for the event, as did athletes and entertainers.
"We want to show students that it's not just for nerds. It's not hard or complicated math, but in fact computer languages are approachable, and they can be really fun," said Roxanne Emadi of Code.org.
But the Seattle startup has a more-serious motive, too. Co-founder and tech investor Hadi Partovi raised $10 million to form the nonprofit this past summer in response to a shortage of skilled programmers in the tech industry.
The group cites National Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that the computing field is adding 140,000 new jobs a year. Meanwhile, the number of students who earn degrees in computer science hasn't topped 60,000 over the past decade, according to data gathered by the National Science Foundation.
Only 2 percent of Ohio State University graduates earned degrees in computer science last year, university data show, although the number grows each year.
Partovi's group blames the crunch on states that don't require computing classes for high-school graduation –– only 14 do, and Ohio isn't one –– and schools that don't prioritize the topic. Even in central Ohio districts with the widest computer-science offerings, courses count only as electives.
To jolt interest, the Seattle startup also is paying to train teachers as computer-science instructors in New York City and Chicago schools, with a target of making similar deals with 100 districts. But the group also wants to use events like Hour of Code to stir demand among students.
At the Dublin Technology Center yesterday, 9-year-old Anthony Smith said he never had the chance to learn coding, although it interests him: On his own, he has created a few basic blogs, including one about dogs.
"I've always wanted to make one of my own websites and own games," he said.
He has an ally in Clavin, who described the lessons this week as a starting point.
"In the future, we don't want this to be an event," she said. "We want this to be an embedded part of our curriculum."