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I am somewhat like Buddys in I am not consistent. Norma
Norma,To the best of my knowledge, the Buddy's menus have not changed yet. As of now, Buddy's has basically two menus, depending on the location. One includes appetizers (e.g., http://www.buddyspizza.com/documents/Carryout101.pdf), one of which is Buddy's Garlic Bread, and the other (e.g., http://www.buddyspizza.com/documents/Carryout110.pdf) does not include appetizers but offers Buddy's Bread, whch are breadsticks.I fully agree with Craig and Bob on this one. You should rightfully be proud of your accomplishments with your Buddy's clone pizzas, but remember that pride goeth before the fall. I would rather stay below the radar on this. You might be interested in knowing that the photos of the Buddy's pizza shown in the Slice article at http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/09/livonia-michigan-mi-great-detroit-style-pizza-at-buddys.html were taken at the Buddy's Livonia location.Peter
See....you're just like the big time professionals Norma!
Do you think the Buddys Livonia location is using the CTX conveyor oven, or is there another reason you referred to that Slice article?
I wondered if you recall this picture of Mary Heller with the Buddys pizza being posted on the Buddys thread? I came across it while looking for something else on Goggle images and when I clicked on it, the link lead me to this page http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=3783.260 on the Buddys thread. I looked though the Buddys thread quickly and couldnt find that picture, but I could have missed it. Do you also know what is in the background of where Mary Heller is standing? Is it a conveyor oven?I had to enlarge the photo, so it is blurry, but that one slice looks pretty high in height to me.
I also looked though the Buddys thread a little more and do you recall dicepackage posting at Reply 114 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg79558.html#msg79558 that the Buddys pizza at Point Plaza has the sauce underneath the cheese and at the Hamtracmck location the sauce is on top. If that really is the case Buddys locations dont always do thing the same with the sauce. dicepackage also wondered in that post what the standard order was for the sauce.
I have a few wfo NY style dough balls left from yesterday. I think I'll try it on some DS tonight. It's the same flour but only 61% HR and there is a little oil in it, but we'll see what happens. The dough is 3 days old at this point. In the fridge the whole time.
Norma,When I did a Google Image search for Mary Hellers, and clicked the photo you referenced, I was taken to page 7 of the Buddy's thread. If you go to Reply 126 on that page, at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3783.msg81436.html#msg81436, and read paragraph 7 of that post, you will see that I discussed the ovens shown behind Mary in the photo you referenced, including what appeared to be a triple stack oven. I didn't mention it earlier but it looks like a hood is over the ovens. What previously puzzled me about the ovens is that they did not look like any infrared conveyor ovens that I had seen and they did not look like deck ovens. As best I can tell, it looks like the photo you referenced was taken sometime in 2008. See, for example, the second page of the article at http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030408/liv_253467877.shtml. So, by that time, Buddy's may already had gone to air impingement conveyor ovens. By the way, in case you were wondering who the man was that assembled the Buddy's pizza shown in the photo referenced in Reply 126 at http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08Mf788bNv6xv/340x.jpg, according to http://lubbockonline.com/stories/030408/liv_253467877.shtml, his name was Malcom Rodgers. I did a Google search on that name, to see if maybe he was lufty, but most of the hits I found were to a porn star by that name, and I don't mean food porn. I did not recall dicepackage's comments on the location of the sauce but I did recall that PizzaHog commented on variations in practices that he saw at different ones of the Buddy's locations. Reading dicepackage's comments now, it occurs to me that diners may ask for variations in the way that their pizzas are made, which would not be an uncommon or unusual request. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Buddy's Detroiter pizza came into being because some diners wanted the pepperoni slices on top of the pizza rather than under the cheese.While on the subject of sauce and ovens, the other day I did some further research on Loui's and Shield's since both use deck ovens. What I was wondering was whether their pizzas showed sunken areas under their sauce. After looking at a lot of photos of the Loui's pizzas (for example, see https://www.google.com/search?q=loui's+pizza&hl=en&tbo=d&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=S2XoUOz0IqXd2QW1xYHQCg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&biw=1432&bih=695), I came to the conclusion that Loui's distributes the sauce more or less across the entire pizza rather than in the form of stripes as used by Buddy's. That might please diners who like to get sauce in every bite of their pizza (an occasional complaint with the Buddy's sauce stripes) but one of the more common complaints on the Loui's pizzas is that there is too much sauce. With respect to Shield's, I did not find any evidence of sunken areas in the few photos of their pizzas that I found on Google Images and on Flickr. The main complaint I found with the Shield's pizzas is that the sauce is too sweet. Peter
By goodly Norma, I think I will!
Steve,I will be most interested in the texture of the crumb. And whether the crust sinks below the sauce stripes.Peter
I haven't thought much about the 8-sq yet. Any ideas?
One thing I forgot to post about the two pizzas I made last night from the dough that was made on Sunday, was there was no better flavor in the crust from the longer fermentation time, although the whole slices tasted good. I guess there needs to be salt added to a dough formulation for better flavors to develop in the crust. Since the doughs in the steel pans smelled yeasty, I thought there might be better flavors in the crust, but when eating different pieces of just the crust, there wasnt much, or any flavor at all. The crust just tasted bland.
Norma,I had intended to respond more fully to the above comments and observations but I first wanted to do some more thinking and some more number crunching. I think it might be helpful to consider what Buddy's has done with its dough and what aspects of it are flavor related, and maybe to come to a few other conclusions. Let's start by taking a close look at what Buddy's does.First, Buddy's takes a flour with a modest protein content, 12.2%, as the flour for its pizzas. That means a modest flavor contribution, basically the mild yet pleasant wheaty flavor of the flour. Second, it adds a bunch of water to the flour (more on this below). Unless there is something unique about the water Buddy's uses to make its dough, it is not likely to be a major flavor enhancer. Third, by Buddy's own admission, it omits any oil or sugar in the dough, although there is oil placed in the pan. Yet that oil is a mild oil without a lot of flavor. Fourth, if I am correct on my speculation that little or no salt is used in the Buddy's dough, there will be little or no flavor contribution from that source. Fifth, Buddy's uses what I imagine is a fair amount of yeast in its dough, perhaps enough to contribute a yeasty flavor to the finished crust. At the end of the day, when you add everything up, Buddy's produces a very inexpensive dough ball that weighs maybe 9-10 ounces or thereabouts (for its 4-square pizzas). Assuming a hydration of 71% and IDY at 0.80%, which are the values that you have used, about 41% of the total dough ball weight is water. Increase the hydration to 75%, and the weight of water in the dough ball goes to about 43%. Lastly, since the Buddy's dough only gets about 1-2 hours of room temperature fermentation, you aren't going to get a lot of byproducts of fermentation to contribute to final crust flavor.So, query, why would anyone expect to get a lot of flavor in the Buddy's crust by itself? That is a rhetorical question and perhaps the genius of Buddy's, apart from selling a lot of water and a a litlle bit more flour (by weight), is that it chose to put almost all of heavy lifting flavor-wise on using a unique and distinctive cheese (brick cheese), quality tomatoes for its sauce, quality pepperoni and other toppings, and using inexpensive blue steel pans to achieve a crispy bottom crust and caramelized cheese at the edges. Interestingly, when I read reviews of the Buddy's pizzas, and there have been quite a few, the part of the pizzas that appealed most to diners and was most frequently mentioned was the crust. The brick cheese, and especially its abundance, was also frequently noted, especially its crispiness at the edges of the outer crust, and the sauce was only occasionally mentioned, although usually favorably. I do not recall any diner tasting just the crumb of the crust and commenting on it. We might do that sort of thing on this forum but that is not the way that people (normal people, that is) eat pizza.Peter
Ok, I made my pies. The 8-sqare, I made Hawaiian, ham&pineapple. One 4-sq, pepperoni(under the cheese) and one 4-sq, Italian sausage on top of the cheese. The sausage pie got sauced before baking, the pep. about halfway thru and the 8-sq about 2 minutes from done. It took about 18 minutes to bake, all 3 at once @ 475, no stone. The bottoms came out nice and crispy as did the sides. The crust was good but with a tighter crumb than the higher hydration doughs. Also the pies just seemed heavier all around, not light and airy. Curiously, the 8-sq pie rose significantly less than the 4-sqs., even though they were from the same batch of dough. I don't think I messed up my calculations but who knows? There was no noticeable dough sag under the sauce on any of the pies. Ok, here are a bunch of pictures.........


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Posted on 04/25/2013 8:23:59 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
No argument for Obamacares repeal can top the simple fact that Members of Congress do not want it to apply to them.
Todays Politico reports that the House and Senate congressional leadershipboth Democrats and Republicans working in cahoots with Obama Administration officialshave been secretly negotiating for months trying to find a way to exempt Members of Congress and their staffs from being forced into Obamacares health insurance exchanges.
Beginning on January 1, 2014, these exchanges, to be run by the federal government or the states (under federal rules) will offer federally qualified insurance coverage for millions of Americans. Ordinary Americans must either sign up or face a tax penalty. Senator Max Baucus (DMT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has now famously described the Obamas Administrations implementation of this process as an oncoming train wreck, and Henry Chao, an Administration official involved with the implementation of the law, just hopes that Americans can avoid a third-world experience.
According to the Politico story, there are two major reasons why Members of Congress want to exempt themselves and their staffs from the terms and conditions of the law:
They fear higher health care costs. Congressional leaders fear that being forced into the Obamacare exchanges will result in higher health care costs for themselves and their families and their aides. The problem stems from whether members and aides set to enter the exchanges would have their health insurance premiums subsidized by their employerin this case the federal government. This is also true for millions of ordinary Americans. They could also lose their employer-based coverage, and they could also face higher costs. Also contrary to the Presidents promises, independent analysts expect health insurance premiums to rise sharply, particularly for younger workers and their families. They fear the impact on Capitol Hill employment. There is concern in some quarters that the provision requiring lawmakers and staffers to join the exchanges, if it isnt revised, could lead to a brain drain on Capitol Hill, as several sources close to the talks put it. Given the insane spending and record deficits, its hard to imagine how a Capitol Hill brain drain could produce even worse government. But ordinary Americans who run businesses are also faced with anxieties, particularly whether they will be able to hire or retain valued employees or reduce full-time workers to part-time employees in order to avoid Obamacares mandatory costs.
For veteran Capitol Hill watchers, shenanigans behind closed doors to enable Congress and its staffers to escape Obamacare come as no surprise. After all, the national health care law was fashioned through repulsive backroom dealing (the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, etc.) that set a record for arrogance and contempt of popular opinion. Favored businesses and unions got special exemptions (more than 1,200 waivers) from Obamacares insurance rules. So consider todays Politico revelation just marquee for a rerun of a tiresome old movie: one set of rules for Congress and another set of rules for the rest of us.
If Congress quietly wants to exempt itself from Obamacare, thats greatso long as it includes the rest of us in that midnight amendment.
It is time for pitchforks if true... past time.
They also quietly repealed the prohibition against their insider trading.
Once upon a time, in an easier going and more free country, we would go for weeks at a time without hearing a single story on congress or the president. Now it is a daily onslaught. The nation is unhinged.
News to me. I thought they had already exempted themselves.
The nation needs an enema! We're well within our Constitutional rights to stand up and take action against an out of control govt.
Are you sure about that? Nancy Pelosi should be in jail for her insider trading scam. Criminal!
I thought congressional exemption was built into Obamacare from the beginning... along with the exemptions for muslims, unions, and everyone else.
Come to think of it, is there anyone left that is not exempt?
They've been granting waivers now for the past 4 years.
Has anyone bothered re-calculating what percentage of the population is left that is not exempt???
Has anyone bothered re-figuring what the non-exempt will have to pay now because so many others will not have to?
At what point does Obamacare classify as a law which re-enacts slavery?
Can't really blame them, after all they don't know what's in it!
This is news? "One law for me, another for thee" is standard among Our Betters.
then how do we begin?
Looks like they exempted themselves from disclosure of their trading activities. So much for transparency.
Cited "national security concerns". Right, their security from the outrage of the nation learning how they make $180k a year and come out of their terms multimillionaires.
I believe the study done by some group that audited their stock investment performance used the phrase "Market Crushing Returns on their Investments"
i think the house bill (read it a long time ago, now)exempted these oh so pharisee leavened political hacks, but since they had to adopt the senate bill without reconciliation (due to the extreme pressure exerted by the tea party), they probably couldn't get their own exemptions back into the bill. and now they all (i.e., the d.c. party) need to get their healthcare taken care of at our expense. hypocrites.
anyway, clearly the only way things will change at the national level is with a new Conservative Party of America.
Pitchforks? ! Hell, its time for hot tar and feathers, followed immediately by torches. Or maybe we can be merciful and just use rifles.
That makes me wanna run for Congress.
Well, they passed it so they could find out what was in it.
I guess now that the RATs have had people who can read. tell them what was in it...they didn't like what they found.
If I vote for you will you give me some insider market tips?
They apparently don't want to exempt themselves from Obamacare, just exempt themselves from paying for it...
Oh well. then never mind.
They passed it, it's OK for the proles but they don't like it for themselves.
Way to go critters! That pretty much conclusively confirms what we think.
I have other thoughts and words but they are banable.
I don't doubt it.
Was it you who said it was time for pitchforks? I'm not sure about the pitchforks, but you can count me in for a little tar and feathers.
Well of course! They want to be exempt from every damn thing they force down the common Citizens throat. Thugs, one and all!!!!!
They signed it before they read it. They should EAT every dagumed page with an Obama pile between the sheets!
*ahem*... so to speak.
Gee, who DIDN'T see this coming?? If it's such a great system, why WOULDN'T they want in on it!?
Society used to be a triangle sitting on its base. Ideally, at least for the dhimmis, it would be a triangle balanced on its point—with most people doing well at the top and very few at the bottom. If you follow that abstraction.
Of course, that's a utopia: an 'unplace'; it doesn't exist/is impossible.
We've got a diamond shape, with most of us falling somewhere in the middle of the upper triangle resting on an inverted triangle.
So the Congress, near the top, exempts itself. Remember Nanzi rhapsodizing a couple years ago about how the 'Affordable Care's act would 'free artists and musicians to live and create w/o fear '... blah blab?
She was talking about the grown men you see walking around downtown and playing roundball in the middle of the day/week. And now herself. Wouldn't want to undermine their dignity, so yeah—only a portion of the population will pay premiums and penalties. That's you and me.
The guys they were hoping had bombed their fellow Americans.
So tighten your belts and pay up, kulaks.
As a postscript (past my bedtime) I meant to include: I don't have the numbers, but I don't think they really do either, for now. They're still ginning-up the (new, improved & friendly!) IRS to make sure we comply.
But like pornography—'I know it when I see it'—I can recognize a massive Solyndra-like Ponzi scheme when I see it. It's simply unsustainable. Too much dead-weight in the wagon and not enough horses.
What should make Americans the angriest, I think, is that they know it too.
Yes, they all need to go.
hopefulyl we can get a republican presdient next term with enough backbone and get enough senators with backbones to pass a mandate outlawing universal health care forever
politicians are exempt, they keep their cadillac plans. it's for their staff they're trying to do this.
In an oligarchy such as ours, laws are only for the Little People.
The real issue is Obamacare itself.
It must be repealed.
I'm sure Republicans in Congress will raise a fuss and look good.
Dear Lord, share Your strength.
Where is that picture of Archeologists discover the first politician = picture of the pelvic region with the skull inside. Because everyone knows politician have to undo their pants in order to speak because they have their heads up their posterior region. No wonder someone like Obama always has flies around his exposed face.
It is like they took their own advice, and decided to find out what was in the Bill after they voted on it. Great plan Dims.
Talk about the ultimate vote of no confidence in ObamaCare when lawmakers start exempting themselves!
What about a denial of equal protection claim from those of use who are still under its mandates? The basis for granting waivers to so many seems arbitrary and capricious, and accordingly the rest of us shouldn't be subject to the crappy law either.
Hi Suckers -
I knew this would happen - and all the "waivers" for their cronies, friends, campaign donors, unions being paid off
The system is well beyond broken when the electorate and the government can vote itself huge freevies paid for by OPM
- Paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson
It destroyed Rome
"Greecian Formula" too liberally applied gets rid of the gray but everything turns red and then completely black -
- devolve
The fact that they know it is a failure and know it is unsustainable makes continuing to do it INTENTIONAL and GROSSLY NEGLIGENT. Sounds like some kind of treason to me if it could be proven.
Not positive, but I think some of the big unions got a deferment on Obamacare until 2019 not a total pass.
Only republicans should be exempted. Democrats must face the full bruit of this abomination they crafted and shoved down everyone's throat.
As republicans had nothing to do with this abomination and are indeed at the forefront of trying to protect innocent people from its illfull effects they deserve an exception and this exception should apply not just to the republicans in congress but registered republican everywhere.
Make Obamacare a precondition of the democratic party membership.
In a proper and ordered society many of those who play games in Congress would be in prison AT HARD LABOR!
You mean they didn't exempt themselves when it was passed? How did that happen?
I guess they didn't know what was in it...
So did I.
According to the Forbes article, the president and congress are not exempt from Obamacare. I remember clearly the discussions about their exemption back in 2010, and have never heard before today that they aren't exempt. Did that exemption get removed from the bill before it was passed? Is the government lying now about being exempt? Does anyone here know the truth on this issue?
I'm not surprised. They regularly want rules for the peons, and exceptions for themselves.
They don't want to live under what they impose on us.
Imagine that.......
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A new campus-community coalition will host an open forum on high-risk drinking 6 p.m. May 25 in the Bell/Alexander Rooms at the St. Cloud Civic Center.
The forum will be led by St. Cloud Community Alliance co-chairs Dave Kleis, mayor of St. Cloud, and Earl H. Potter III, president of St. Cloud State University.
View the event flyer (PDF).
The forum, which is titled "The Impact of High-Risk Drinking on the St. Cloud Community," seeks input on these topics:
- Experiences, perspectives and opinions about high-risk drinking in St. Cloud
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High-risk drinking can increase vandalism, littering, property damage, fighting, car accidents and death from alcohol. Community consequences can include:
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Critical aspects of high-risk drinking include binge consumption of alcohol and underage drinking.
St. Cloud Community Alliance, in conjunction with St. Cloud State and the Neighborhood University Community Council, a group of University-Southside neighborhood residents, is supporting a series of proposed ordinances aimed at reducing high-risk drinking and its ill effects.
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Other St. Cloud Community Alliance leaders include Robert Reff, interim assistant dean of students for chemical health and outreach programming at St. Cloud State and Thomas Workman, a assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.
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I am quite new to Rails (currently on .NET), and I am trying to get a hang of it all
I want two <select multiple> boxes where the user can select some from the left box and transfer them to the right box (And then two buttons - one to transfer each way).
I can do it with JavaScript, but won't the Params hash only contain the selected items from the boxes (witch won't help me much since none of them will be selected).
In .NET it is very simple, but I can't seem to get it in Rails.
Thanks in advance!
- Jacob


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The University of Houston-Clear Lake is an upper-level educational institution with a distinct identity, whose primary role is to provide fair and equitable learning opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students. The university serves a diverse student population from the state, the nation and abroad, particularly from the Houston-Galveston metropolitan area, by offering programs on and off campus.
UHCL offers a variety of programs in human sciences and humanities, education, business and science and computer engineering. The university emphasizes high standards for teaching and learning in its bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs, as well as in its professional plans and collaboration in doctoral plans. All offerings are designed to develop creative, quantitative, communication and critical thinking skills of students.
The university's faculty, staff and administrators are committed to providing a humane, responsive and intellectually stimulating environment for productive learning and working. UHCL emphasizes (a) learning through teaching, research, scholarship and professional and community service; (b) the advancement of knowledge; (c) delivery of educational opportunities through new instructional technologies and through distance learning; (d) a commitment to high academic standards; (e) sensitivity to the needs of the students and communities served by the institution; and (f) above all, integrity in all institutional functions.
Located adjacent to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center, UHCL is situated in the heart of Clear Lake's high-technology community. The campus is located between downtown Houston and Galveston Island. Its neighbors to the east are Armand Bayou Nature Center and Bayport Industrial Complex. As one of the leading multidisciplinary bachelor's and master's degree-granting institutions serving the Texas upper Gulf Coast, UHCL is a vital component of the surrounding region. The university is committed to enhancing the educational, economic, cultural, scientific, business and professional environment of the region. Because a strong university is essential to the success of the area's industries, UHCL is dedicated to developing and strengthening plans supporting the region's various commercial, engineering, human services and trade sectors, especially in the computing, medical, petrochemical and space industries.
Academic theories are applied and research is conducted through UHCL's centers, institutes, clinics and laboratories. These entities include:
The establishment of the university was authorized by the 62nd Texas Legislature in 1971. The measure was the result of a 1968 report by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System (now the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) calling for a second University of Houston campus to provide upper-level and graduate programs. In 1973, the Texas Senate authorized construction of a permanent campus at Clear Lake.
Construction began early in 1974 with the first phase of the Bayou Building, the largest of the university's five principal buildings. September 1974 marked the beginning of regularly scheduled classes on the UHCL campus under the leadership of UHCL's founding chancellor, Alfred R. Neumann. Opening day enrollment totaled 1,069 students and 60 professors comprised the charter faculty. Today, the university has approximately 7,500students and more than600 full-time and adjunct faculty.
UHCL is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees as listed in the General Program Requirements section of this catalog.The commission is located at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097. The phone number is 404-679-4501.
The university also has individual accredited programs. The School of Business maintains accreditation on its graduate and undergraduate business and accounting programs by AACSB International,Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and on its graduate healthcare administration programs by the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. The School of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), 2010 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20036, phone 202-466-7496. This accreditation covers all of the institution's initial teacher preparation and advanced educator preparation programs, including the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership. The School of Education is also accredited by the Texas State Board for Educator Certification. The School of Human Sciences and Humanities holds accreditation by the Commission of Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education and the National Association of School Psychologists. In addition, the Humanities program is a full member of the Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, the Clinical Psychology program is a member of the Council of Applied Master's Programs in Psychology, the Bachelor of Social Work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, and the Psychology program's Applied Behavior Analysis sub-plan is approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification BoardInc. The School of Science and Computer Engineering's undergraduate degree plan in Computer Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Inc. The undergraduate degree plans in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems are accredited by the Computer Accreditation Commission of the ABET. The program in Chemistry is accredited by the American Chemical Society,ACS. The Office of Career and Counseling Services is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services.
UHCL is one of four institutions with distinct identities and missions that make up the University of Houston System. The universities are governed by the UHS Board of Regents and Chancellor RenuKhator. Administrative responsibility for UHCL is vested in its president, William A. Staples. UHCL's shared governance process includes the Faculty Senate, Professional and Administrative Staff Association, Support Staff Association and Student Government Association, working with the university's administration through various committees and councils including University Council, which is chaired by the university's president.Members of the UHCL Development and Advisory Council serve as business, education, government and non-profit organization adviserson current issues impacting the advancement of the university and as volunteers in helping UHCL acquire private resources.
The university's buildings, which comprise more than a half-million square feet of space, are surrounded by a 524-acre natural environment. The campus features picturesque park-like settings with Horsepen Bayou winding through heavily wooded areas abundant with wildlife.
The Arbor Building houses painting, ceramics, weaving and photography studios, as well as educational centers and laboratories.
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UHCL's Alfred R. Neumann Library, named after the university's founding chancellor, provides students with online access to thousands of books, journals and scholarly resources. UHCL librarians offer personal research assistance to students by telephone or face-to-face at the library reference desk and tips on navigating search interfaces, retrieving information and evaluating information for use in scholarly research.
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UHCL students, faculty and staff may also borrow books from UH and UH-Downtown quickly and easily through the shared catalog. The Texshare card, available upon request in Neumann Library, allows a UHCL student to go to any academic or public library in Texas and check out a book, which can then be returned to Neumann Library. The library's interlibrary loan service will borrow requested materials from any library in the country through a national interlibrary loan network. Neumann Library offers 35 fixed computer workstations for student use. The library classroom is equipped with wireless laptops so that students may participate in a hands-on learning environment.
The library occupies approximately 80,000 square feet in the Bayou Building and contains study space for more than 1,000 users. The library contains more than 506,000volumes, subscribes to more than 3000 print and electronic periodicals, and has approximately 1.8 million items in microform, as well as a collection of DVDs and audiobooks. A curriculum library for education students contains K-12 textbooks, classic children's literature and a review center for recent children's literature. Neumann Library also includes University Archives, which houses the NASA Johnson Space Center History Collection.
Computing and telecommunications resources available to students, faculty and administrative staff include:
Open academic computer labs for students, days and evenings, seven days per week. For current hours, please see the Website at www.uhcl.edu/uct
UCT Support Center serves as the first point of contact for all computing and telecommunications needs. The Support Center is available Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. - 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. in the Bayou Building, Room 2300, by phone at 281-283-2828 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Information technology needs and services are available through the UCT Website at www.uhcl.edu/uct, including documentation, self-help guides, "Today's News," and policies
Web pages for the university, schools, programs, faculty and individual courses (http://www.uhcl.edu)
For more specifics, please tour our Web site at www.uhcl.edu/uct
The Mathematics Center is an instructional facility that serves the educational needs of UHCL students enrolled in mathematics or statistics courses, especially elementary school certification candidates who wish to strengthen their understanding of mathematical concepts and skills. Resources include one-on-one assistance, software, videos, reference books and manipulatives. The Mathematics Center also teams with the Office of Career and Counseling Services to provide math success workshops. Contact the Mathematics Center at 281-283-3883 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Issue Brief #3572 on International Organizations
April 19, 2012
April 19, 2012 | Issue Brief on International Organizations
On April 16, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College, was elected as the next president of the World Bank. Kim, a physician with a background in public health, prevailed after an unusual race contested by two highly regarded economists from Nigeria and Colombia. Kim's background raises plenty of questions regarding his suitability for the job and particularly his commitment to the free-market globalization that has so dramatically reduced poverty around the world. He will succeed only if he can rise above the outdated ideology he has espoused in the past and focus on what actually works in fostering economic growth and development.
Building on Robert Zoellick's Legacy
In July, when Kim officially takes over the helm of the almost seven decades-old global development organization, he will inherit a multilateral institution that has already embarked upon far-reaching change under the leadership of his predecessor, Bob Zoellick.
Over the past five years, Zoellick has focused on transforming the World Bank to more effectively serve its client countries in pursuing sustained economic development. Since assuming his presidency of the bank in 2007, Zoellick has been keen on executing practical solutions for the bank's client countries with a vision of "shifting from an elite, top-down approach to one that democratizes development."[1] Exerting experienced-based practical leadership, Zoellick has placed a greater emphasis on the bank's becoming "a seeker of solutions" rather than "a purveyor of prescriptions."[2]
For example, with a refreshed focus on delivering sustained, higher economic growth, Zoellick sharpened the bank's approach to dismantling barriers to development by launching the "Program for Results," which ties disbursement of financial resources to the achievement of verifiable outcomes. Zoellick also advanced the bank's anti-corruption efforts with a number of new initiatives.[3]
As Representative Kevin Brady, vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, put it in a nutshell:
Bob Zoellick's tenure as President at the World Bank has ushered in greater economic freedom, open markets, and a higher standard of living around the world. His strong leadership has helped guide the World Bank through some of the most challenging economic times in recent memory. The World Bank is a stronger and more effective institution as a result of his service.[4]
Zoellick's pragmatic and global mindset has generated crucial momentum for the World Bank's resurgence as a more adaptive and modernized organization in the challenging multipolar global economic environment. In leading the World Bank over the next five years, newly elected president Kim needs to carry on this momentous transformation, not roll back policies by embracing the repeatedly failed strategies of the past.
Putting Principles of Economic Freedom into Development Practice
Presenting his credentials as a development specialist, Kim has recently concluded his "global listening tour." Kim's meet-and-greet tour had been billed as an opportunity "to solicit input and ideas on priorities for the World Bank."[5] Before embarking on his expedition, Kim penned an op-ed noting that "every country must follow its own path to growth, but our collective mission must be to ensure that a new generation of low and middle-income countries enjoys sustainable economic growth that generates opportunities for all citizens."[6]
In putting his own stamp on the World Bank, Kim has the opportunity to make it even more constructive and relevant in a demanding global economic environment, but he will succeed only if he embraces an agenda of market-based liberalization, greater integration into world trading and financial systems, and the elimination of corruption— as have most of the developing countries around the world. In other words, Kim should firmly place the advancement of economic freedom at the core of the bank's development mission.
Indeed, at the heart of development and poverty reduction is the mission of advancing economic freedom so that dynamic and inclusive growth can meaningfully occur for a greater number of ordinary people around the world. Economic freedom, cultivated by the rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency, and open markets, is critical to generating the broader-based economic dynamism that brings more opportunities for people to work, produce, and save.
This multidimensional relationship between economic freedom and development has been empirically documented in academic research, the annual Index of Economic Freedom produced by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal, and in many other studies and indices. Not only does a high level of economic freedom clearly induce a greater level of prosperity, but it also facilitates progress in overall human development including better health, longer lives, greater education, and cleaner environments. And freer countries have a much better record at reducing poverty.
As indicated by the findings of the Index, sustaining dynamic and inclusive economic expansion is in fact about putting into practice three fundamental principles of economic freedom: empowerment of the individual, non-discrimination, and open competition. This is not a dogmatic ideology. In fact, it represents the rejection of dogmatism, allowing individuals the freedom and flexibility to embrace diverse and even competing strategies for economic advancement.
Take a real-time example: Rwanda, a previously conflict-ridden country that Kim recently visited as part of his global listening tour, has persistently advanced economic freedom and recorded impressive entrepreneurial activity as one of the fastest risers in the Index. Such gains have not gone unnoticed at the World Bank. Obiageli Ezekwesili, outgoing bank Vice President for Africa, summed up her experience-based critical insights on how to eradicate poverty in a special chapter in the 2012 Index:[7]
The expansion over time of the conditions of freedom—whether economic, civil or political—also positively influences long-run economic growth. This kind of evidence, and what we call the evidence-based policy approach, really is at the heart of what we do in the promotion of development choices.… [In fact, everything] we do in terms of economic development really anchors in a very strong sense that economic freedom is important for fighting poverty. Since our mandate is a world free of poverty, economic freedom is a fundamental pillar for achieving that mandate.… [Economic freedom] helps to achieve inclusive growth and guarantee access to basic services by the underserved.
Dr. Kim, Prove Your Critics Misinformed
During the selection process for the World Bank's top position, a number of respectable development experts and other stakeholders have expressed legitimate concerns about Kim's seemingly anti-growth, anti-free market view, which was implied by a book, Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor, that he co-edited with two other experts 12 years ago.
Kim has tried to dispel such unease about his earlier views on growth and his limited perspective on development. Nonetheless, much of his current approach to development policy remains to be seen. To earn trust and confidence in his World Bank presidency, Kim will have to prove himself as a steadfast growth promoter. In doing so, he should not let his vision for "inclusive development" be swayed by any lingering reservations about private sector-led investment and growth. If anything, his recent two-week "global listening tour" should have served as an enlightening occasion for him to recognize that greater economic freedom for all is an imperative for lasting growth and progress.
In his statement submitted to the World Bank Board of Directors for his presidency interview, Kim noted, "I am a physician and an anthropologist committed to a strong, evidence-based approach to problem solving." As the new chief of the World Bank, Kim must continue such "evidence-based" practice in steering the bank to be an institution that strongly encourages growth and long-term economic development based on advancing economic freedom for all.
Ambassador Terry Miller is Director of the Center for International Trade and Economics and Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Economic Freedom at The Heritage Foundation and a contributor to ConUNdrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009). Anthony B. Kim is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Center for International Trade and Economics at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]Robert B. Zoellick, "Why We Still Need the World Bank: Looking Beyond Aid," Foreign Affairs (March/April 2012), http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137243/robert-b-zoellick/why-we-still-need-the-world-bank (accessed April 19, 2012).
[3]News release, "Zoellick Says World Bank Strong, Healthy and Well Positioned for New Challenges," The World Bank, February 15, 2012, http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/EXTPRESIDENT2007/0,,contentMDK:23118403~menuPK:64822319~pagePK:64821878~piPK:64821912~theSitePK:3916065,00.html (accessed April 19, 2012).
[4]News release, "Representative Brady's Statement on World Bank President Zoellick Retirement at End of June," Joint Economic Committee, February 15, 2012, http://www.jec.senate.gov/republicans/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=a4a26363-bfab-40cd-9437-cbfe9bba3917&ContentType_id=6ef5e4f8-e031-47b7-876c-607548c5dceb&Group_id=5f0df72f-2378-489f-99d2-2ad0754b74ed&MonthDisplay=2&YearDisplay=2012 (accessed April 19, 2012).
[5]Treasury Notes, "Dr. Jim Yong Kim Extends Global Listening Tour to Solicit Input and Ideas on Priorities for the World Bank," March 30, 2012, http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/Dr-Jim-Yong-Kim-Extends-Global-Listening-Tour-to-Solicit-Input-and-Ideas-on-Priorities-for-the-World-Bank.aspx (accessed April 19, 2012).
[6]Jim Yong Kim, "My Call for an Open, Inclusive World Bank," Financial Times, March 28, 2012, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e2adc88c-7733-11e1-baf3-00144feab49a.html#axzz1sUhcW44c (accessed April 19, 2012).
[7]Obiageli Ezekwesili, "Fighting Poverty Through Economic Freedom," Chapter 5 in Terry Miller, Kim R. Holmes, and Edwin J. Feulner, 2012 Index of Economic Freedom (Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 2012), http://www.heritage.org/index (accessed April 19, 2012).


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ALPENA – The Alpena Board of Commissioners will be looking for a new operator for Northern Lights Arena, and even though it is likely former managers of the Multi-Purpose Arena Coalition may be interested in regaining operation control of the rink, at least two of the commissioners say that move is unlikely.
During the correspondence portion of Tuesday's board meeting Commissioner Lyle VanWormer read a letter from Jim Park of The Park Family Foundation that informed the county that even though the arena is in excellent shape, the foundation will opt out from the balance of its agreement for arena oversight beginning in June. Park said in his letter that a strained relationship between the user groups and management has led to a decrease in ice purchases and volunteers at the rink.
When The Park Family Foundation took control of NLA it lowered the price of ice to $150 an hour and added other incentive discounts on the cost of ice for those who volunteered to work during events. Despite the lower ice costs and incentives, the user groups who are part of M-PAC have refused to take advantage of them.
The foundation was sent 13 letters from the heads of the user groups that encourage Park to terminate current management company Synchronization's Management and replace it with M-PAC, who managed the rink for many years. Each letter followed the same theme in that the groups would agree to pay a higher fee for ice and purchase more of it if M-PAC were reinstated. The letters also voiced concern over The Park Family Foundation considering removing the ice off of rink-2 and installing a field turf that would create opportunities for the arena to enjoy new revenue streams from things like golf driving range and soccer.
Commissioner Cam Habermehl said the relationship between M-PAC and the Park family has been rocky since the commissioners chose Park over M-PAC to run the arena after a request for proposal was issued for the job. The county and Park entered into a 10-year deal with the understanding the ice price would be $150 for five years. It was a move the county believed would allow user groups, which struggle with tight budgets and low participant numbers, to purchase more ice for the kids to practice and compete. It didn't work. Habermehl thinks M-PAC sabotaged Park with a planned boycott and said if it were up to him alone, M-PAC will never manage the arena again.
"There are 13 letters here that basically say they did this intentionally and they didn't use the ice, double booked the ice and didn't volunteer. I think it is the user groups that caused this problem and they are part of M-PAC," Habermehl said. "It is my personal opinion, but I wouldn't go back to the former group and I think what will happen is the county will take the arena back over like it did with the pool and find someone different to run it. If there still isn't enough interest in the arena to keep it going then we'll have to look at closing it."
John Fisher, Alpena junior varsity hockey head coach, said in his letter to Park that he thinks M-PAC and the foundation could join forces and make things better. However, he went on to say the team would be willing to pay a higher rate and book 10 percent more ice if Synchronization's was replaced. Thunder Bay Wrecks President Jeff Konczak said in his letter to Park that the Wrecks have never supported having Synchronizations.
"The Wrecks are currently the second largest individual purchaser at NLA; however we have declined purchasing additional ice and have even lowered it since Synchronizations took over," Konczak wrote.
Konczak said in a normal year the Wrecks would provide about 270 volunteer hours, but have since not volunteered at the arena. He said if M-PAC, which he was once president of, was put back in charge, the Wrecks would purchase more ice next year and also increase the number of volunteer hours.
The other letters sent to Park were from Jake Martin of the Alpena Warriors, David Guzman from the Alpena High School varsity hockey team, Andy Marceau of the Men's Hockey Association, Charlene Fraser, Stacy Dawson of the Alpena Blue Line Club, Mike Seguin AGA All Star Hockey and former M-PAC treasurer, Doug Kreis, Dawn Skerski of the Alpena Figure Skating Club and former arena manager and M-PAC member Jeff Gilmet.
Gilmet is the president of the Alpena Hockey Association, which has seen a large decline in its membership. He said in the letter the league would agree to pay more for ice if Synchronizations was replaced with M-PAC.
"The association understands that M-PAC would likely raise rates to the pre-Synchronization levels of $185 and $175 and still believe we would rent as much if not more," he wrote.
VanWormer said he wasn't sure how paying more for ice was good for the groups or the kids. He said much of the anger is attributed to the second sheet of ice possibly being removed and used differently. He was quick to point out if the groups do not purchase ice, for any reason, other revenue streams must be found. He said when it comes time to vote for a new arena operator, M-PAC will not have his support.
"People forget the Park family put $1.8 million to start with to build this arena and the user groups don't want to work with them," VanWormer said. "If they would volunteer they would have had a lot of breaks on costs which would drive down ice costs and maybe registration costs for the groups. The user groups need to know they are only hurting themselves. You would think they would want to work with anyone to save money, but evidently not. I think Synchronizations has done a great job and this is a shame."
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Minimum wage hike a threat to economy
To the editor:
Question: How much do our state legislators know about economics? For the majority of them, the answer appears to be "not much."
Consider the fact that state representatives recently passed a measure that would raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2015. They think that this "living wage" will benefit both the worker and the overall state economy. But, economically speaking, they are wrong.
What happens when wages are artificially increased and there is no corresponding increase in the worker's productivity? There will be more workers desiring to work, but there will be less demand for their work. The result is an increase in unemployment.
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive when the government tries to "help" them by increasing the minimum wage. They either lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force.
Most unemployed workers are capable of producing goods and services, even if not to the same extent as more skilled or more experienced workers. They are made idle by wage rates artificially set above the level of their productivity.
Those who are idled in their youth are delayed in acquiring the job skills and experience which could make them more productive – and therefore higher earners – later on. So they not only lose the low pay that they could have earned in an entry-level job, they lose the higher pay that they could have moved on to and begun earning after gaining experience in entry-level jobs.
Younger workers are disproportionately represented among people with low rates of pay. Only about two percent of American workers over the age of 24 earn the minimum wage.
An increase in the minimum wage may have a certain emotional appeal, and it may benefit politicians who want to appear to be caring, but its impact on workers, especially younger workers trying to get a start in the work force, is devastating.
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'Devastating' EU rules would cost pensions £150bn
The European Commission's plans to update its rules on retirement funds would add £150bn to the liabilities of UK pension schemes, according to estimates just published by the Department of Work and Pensions, and could cost £400bn, in a move the UK government minister responsible for pensions described as "devastating".
Steve Webb, the pensions minister, told the European Retirement Federation in Frankfurt yesterday that the figures, calculated for the government by the Pensions Regulator, showed the scale of the problem. He said the likely outcome would be a cost to UK employers with final salary schemes of around £150bn. In a worst case scenario, pension shortfalls could rise by as much as £400bn.
Webb said: "The new figures show us just how devastating the impact of the Commission's wrongheaded proposals would be. A likely outcome of the new rules would be to increase pension liabilities by over £100bn. This would harm businesses' ability to invest, grow and create jobs, and many more schemes could be forced to close.
"We are urging Brussels not to pursue these dangerous, reckless plans. In Britain, we are making reforms to ensure our pension system is sustainable. In Europe, we should be working together to tackle real pension challenges, and find ways of better sharing the risk of providing pensions between the employer and employee."
The Commission has been pushing a plan to use a similar framework for pension schemes, in its forthcoming directive concerning Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision, or Iorps, as it uses for insurance companies in its Solvency II directive. The framework would require defined benefit pension schemes to hold less risky assets, with potentially lower returns, and require more capital.
Defined benefit pension schemes hold half the UK's private pension assets, and have total liabilities of about £1.2 trillion. They are seen as one of the most secure source of pensions provision; if they close, many individuals are expected to face a retirement in poverty.
Webb said: "If the Commission proposes new funding rules for Iorps towards the maximum level, on the basis of current trends, it is possible that over the next 20 years, less than 5% of schemes will remain open to new members, and less than 25% will remain open to future accrual."


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Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery, or lap-band for short, was FDA approved in February to be used by a wider range of patients. Before, patients had to have a BMI of 40 to have this procedure done and now, it can be as low as 30. BMI is a formula that calculates an individuals weight to height ratio and is expressed as Weight (kilograms)/ Height (cm)2. For someone that is 5 '6 to have a bmi of 30, their weight would be 186 pounds.
When a patient gets the lap-band surgery, there is an inflatable silicone band placed around the upper stomach. The concept is that this band lessens the stomach stretching that normally takes place when food is eaten. With this stretching of the stomach minimized the feeling of being full takes place more quickly after eating smaller meals. The FDA only approved this surgery in 2000 so it is still relatively new.
While most studies have been favorable of weight loss with the lap-band, there is a new study that has been released showing some potential detriments. The study, which was conducted by a hospital group in Belgium, followed up with patients who had the surgery done between 1994 and 1997. Tests were done in 2009 that assessed surgical complications, post-surgery weight loss, overall satisfaction, quality of life and side effects. While surveys showed a 60% satisfaction rate, there are some other numbers that are troubling. It was said that about 40% of subjects experienced major complications from the surgery and an additional 22% experienced minor complications. That means that 2 out of every 3 subjects had surgical complications. At some point after the lap banding, almost half of the subjects had to have the band removed and 17% of the subjects ditched their lap-band to get gastric bypass. This data does not show us a positive outlook for weight loss surgery.
I realize that this is just one study. However with gastric banding recently getting the green light to be used on more patients, I think we will see more studies like this one popping up that show negative statistics. Even though it is true that many studies have good things to say about weight loss surgery, the problem is that many of the people conducting these studies are surgical groups or they are funded by surgical groups. Why would a surgical professional want to conduct a study that will go against the product they are trying to sell? When looking at studies, it is important to find unbiased sources. A study can sometimes be manipulated to express the beliefs that the experimenter has about what they are studying.
Another important thing to consider when looking at weight loss surgery is the fact that most people who get it probably don't need it. The recent approval by the FDA states that a person with a BMI of 30 can undergo this surgery. From my experience, clients with a bmi of 30 are still fully functional which means that an exercise program supplemented by healthy eating and lifestyle should be the focus, not surgery. My fear is that next, they will lower that number even more which is sad because I do not think that weight loss surgery is necessary except for in extreme circumstances. These circumstances have to do with medical issues that prevent weight loss even with hard work.
The weight loss trend of late seems to be a flocking to these surgeries. False advertising leads to the belief that surgery is a fast and painless fix but that is not true. Even with a surgery, eating and nutrition habits have to change so why not see what happens by changing them without surgery? At Shane Diet Resorts weight loss camp for adults, we can give you a jump on a healthy lifestyle and at the same time, enjoying a fitness retreat. We pride ourselves on working with individuals, such as yourself, to overcome your weight boundaries. We must remember that a little effort and discipline can go a long way. If people get lap-band surgery without correcting unhealthy eating and activity habits, the lap band can stretch out and stop doing what it is supposed to. When that happens, welcome to post surgery weight-loss relapse.


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Asustek Computer reportedly plans to release Eee PC netbooks with touch-sensitive screens in Q2 2009. There is no information what other advantages the new mobile computers that are supposed to be inexpensive will offer.
DigiTimes web-sites cities sources among panel makers, claiming that Asustek plans to release Eee PC notebooks in about half a year from now. No actual details are known at this time, but it is noted that AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) are planning to launch 11.6" touch-sensitive notebook panels in February next year, which along with 12.1" panels make possible candidate sizes for the upcoming touch-panel netbooks. Asus yet has to decide which panels it will use.
The new systems will be able to take advantage of touch-based controlling methods that will be available in next-generation mainstream operating systems (OSs), such as Microsoft Windows 7 or new iterations of Linux. Theoretically, the new Eee PCs could also utilize Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition, but the OS has already been discontinued.
Something definitely unclear is the advantage that touch-panels would be able to provide to users of netbooks. Asus Eee PCs are aimed at not-demanding users seeking for low-price machines for Internet surfing or email usage. Touch-sensitive screens are usually a feature of Tablet PCs aimed at professionals who can pay more for a device, but will also demand very high quality, long battery life and sufficient performance for their applications, something that at least modern netbooks cannot offer.
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Caramelized Pork Loin
Recipe courtesy of Ted Allen
- 1 stick butter
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- Pinch ground cinnamon
- 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and 1-inch diced
- 1 (5-pound) center cut, bone-out pork loin, butterflied
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup apple cider
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar, cinnamon and diced apples and toss to coat. Saute 3 minutes, without stirring to let the apples caramelize on 1 side. Toss and saute another 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool completely.
Butterfly the tenderloin by cutting the beef lengthwise down the center to within 1/2-inch of the other side. Flatten with a meat mallet.
When the caramel apples have cooled spread the mixture down the center flap of pork. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, to taste. Spoon the apple mixture down the center of the pork roast. Bring the 2 sides of the tenderloin up around filling to meet. Use butcher string and tie around the roll at 1-inch intervals.
Season the stuffed and tied pork loin with salt and pepper. Sear the pork loin in vegetable oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat, turning to get all the sides. Pour the apple cider over the pork. Roast uncovered for about 1 hour and 20 minutes or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of the roast registers155 degrees F.
Remove from the oven and let rest, tented with foil, for 15 minutes before slicing. Serve with pan juices.
A viewer, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.
Recipe courtesy of Ted Allen
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For Educators
- What is this Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Report?
- Did this school meet all AYP measures?
- Did this school meet any AYP targets through Safe Harbor?
- Did this school meet any AYP measures through the Growth Model?
- Did this school meet any AYP measures through the appeals process?
- What does this report mean for COCHRANTON AREA JSHS?
- What can teachers and administrators do?
What is this Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) report?
This report is a summary of your school's Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results. The purpose of AYP is to ensure that all students have reading and mathematics skills that prepare them for the future. Adequate Yearly Progress measures whether each school has met the improvement goals established by No Child Left Behind. For a school to "Make AYP," students in the school must meet goals in three areas: (1) Attendance (for schools without a high school graduating class) or Graduation (for schools with a High School graduating class), (2) Academic Performance, and (3) Test Participation. For COCHRANTON AREA JSHS, the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) taken by students in Grade 7, 8 and 11 is used to determine Academic Performance and Test Participation in Reading and Mathematics. To learn more about AYP, click the "About AYP" link at the top of the page.
Did this school meet all AYP measures?
COCHRANTON AREA JSHS met 12 out of 14 AYP measures in 2011-12. Because AYP requires meeting all of the measures, this school did not meet AYP requirements. Since schools that miss even one target "Do Not Make AYP," this status does not necessarily mean it is a chronically failing school.
For COCHRANTON AREA JSHS, the "Did Not Make AYP" status means that improvement is needed in:
- Reading Performance by the Economically Disadvantaged student group. (The percent of students scoring Proficient and above in Reading were 59.1% for Economically Disadvantaged students. These were below the AYP target of 81% Reading and did not show enough improvement from last year to reach Safe Harbor.)
- Mathematics Performance by the Economically Disadvantaged student group. (The percent of students scoring Proficient and above in Mathematics were 51.5% for Economically Disadvantaged students. These were below the AYP target of 78% Mathematics and did not show enough improvement from last year to reach Safe Harbor.)
The performance chart and/or data table can show more details about how this school performed.
Did this school meet any AYP targets through Safe Harbor?
Safe Harbor is achieved when a subgroup has greatly improved since the previous year — even though it did not meet the state goal. (The measure for Safe Harbor improvement is at least a 10% reduction of the percentage of students who scored below Proficient for Reading or Mathematics from last year to this year).
For COCHRANTON AREA JSHS, the Safe Harbor targets for test performance were met in:
- Mathematics Performance by the Students Overall group.
- Mathematics Performance by the White non-Hispanic student group.
Did this school meet any AYP measures through the Growth Model?
The Growth Model recognizes the efforts of schools and districts/LEAs whose students have not achieved proficiency but are on trajectories towards proficiency on future PSSA exams. The Growth Model will be calculated for Performance Indicators (i.e., the all student group and up to nine subgroups). Projected scores are calculated for all students - including students who are proficient. If a projected score cannot be calculated for a particular student, the student's actual score is used. The Growth Model will be applied to an AYP Performance Indicator only if the indicator cohort has not met AYP performance by any of the existing goals or targets. Actual, not projected, PASA scores, PSSA-M scores, 3rd grade scores, and 11th grade scores are always used, as well as the scores for any students with insufficient data points to make a projection.
|Grade Last Tested
|Scores used in Growth Model Calculation
|Actual Grade 3 Scores
|Projected Scores in Grade 6
|Projected Scores in Grade 7
|Projected Scores in Grade 8
|Projected Scores in Grade 8
|Projected Scores in Grade 11
|Actual Grade 11 Scores
COCHRANTON AREA JSHS met AYP measures by the Growth Model in:
- Reading Performance by the Students Overall group.
Did this school meet any AYP measures through the appeals process?
When initial AYP results are announced each year, schools and districts/LEAs have the opportunity to review the data that is utilized to determine AYP and request changes through the Bureau of Assessment and Accountability to correct any errors. Also, schools and districts/LEAs have the opportunity to appeal the AYP rulings through the Pennsylvania Department of Education if they believe their AYP identification was in error for statistical or other substantive reasons.
In COCHRANTON AREA JSHS, no test performance targets were met by Appeal.
What does this report mean for COCHRANTON AREA JSHS?
The 2011-12 school year is the first year that this school did not meet all AYP measures. In the first year of not meeting AYP, a school is placed in "Warning" status. Warning means that the school fell short of the AYP targets but has another year to achieve them before any consequences are imposed. This school should review its improvement strategies and create a school improvement plan so that it can meet AYP next year.
If this school meets all AYP measures next year, it will be considered on track to meet the goal of all students attaining proficiency in Reading and Mathematics by the year 2014. If this school does not meet AYP next year, it will be designated as needing improvement and will be placed into the "School Improvement I" category. Click the "About AYP" link at the top of the page to learn more about AYP requirements and AYP status levels in Pennsylvania.
What can teachers and administrators do?
Teachers of students who were tested for AYP have access to information that can help inform their instruction. Contact your principal for access to the instructional tools online, as well as to the published Parent Reports and School Reports, which should be available at your school.
- For teachers with students who were tested for AYP in Spring 2012, copies of printed Parent Reports are available to identify stronger and weaker areas by standard for each student. These reports can help current teachers target instruction to each student.
- School reports in print and online are also available for Grades 3–8 and 11, the grades tested for AYP in Spring 2012. These reports can provide insight into grade-specific topic areas that may require additional attention during the current school year.
New requirements will be in effect for meeting future AYP state targets.
- The 2013 state target for students at or above proficient will be 11 percentage points higher for Mathematics (78% in 2012 to 89% in 2013), and will be 10 percentage points higher in Reading (from 81% in 2012 to 91% in 2013).
Suggestions for improving performance:
- Make personal phone calls to parents or caregivers if a child skips a day. Automated phone messages are less likely to make an impact.
- Contact other schools or districts/LEAs that have achieved large gains in areas where your school or district/LEA wishes to improve. Collecting best practices can help you develop strategies for improvement.
- To find schools that have made large gains in academic performance within a specific demographic subgroup, download the results for all the schools in the state (click here to access the State Report page and download files). Schools with the greatest improvement in your areas of interest will have the highest "Safe Harbor: Reduction of Non-proficiency" in that area. (This indicates they have the largest percentage reduction in non-proficient students.) Sort the downloaded results from highest to lowest for the subgroup of interest in reading or mathematics to identify schools showing the most improvement over the past year.
Suggestions for improving test participation and attendance:
- Work with parents to ensure their children are attending school every day, including testing days. Meet with all new students and their families to emphasize the importance of attendance in your school.
- Acknowledge classrooms with perfect attendance.
- Provide rewards and incentives that celebrate their achievements.


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