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Was pretty clear he did, even in realtime.
Yep. Great play by Drew Davis.
Run to your fantasy leagues!
You have better eyes than me.
Redskins stuffed, Steelers lookin' inspired.
I predicted an ugly rout in that game.
Or beautiful, depending on your rooting interests.
Well I did have LASIK surgery about 5 years ago.
There is zero defense in the New England game.
Pretty sick block by Vick not gonna lie
boo birds out in philly early after giving up a td and then going 3 and out.
Philly's first offensive series is u g l y.
The Falcons look inspired.
Dream day:
Redskins crushed, Eagles crushed, big win against the Giants.
Falcons' ball at midfield.
Let's put them down two scores.
Lol Matt Cain going for the Giants in game 4.
Not sure where I can find the quote, but Jerry's not inclined to do that.
Edit: Misread the article...
Jerry Jones would like to play abroad, preferably in Mexico but will not give up a home game
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he wouldn't mind playing in one of the league's international games in the future.
As one of the league's most popular teams, Jones said the Cowboys have fans all over the world, especially in Mexico.
Read more here: http://sportsblogs.star-telegram.co...l-not-give-up-a-home-game-.html#storylink=cpy
Redskins are going to be a nightmare to play against.
I can understand for a home game but what about away?
Hankerson dropped an easy TD.
Good throw by Bob, Hankerson dropped it.
RG3 is accurate,i hate seeing him play for the skins.


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I was at the same conference of course and viewed it a bit differently. The attendees are self-selected from an audience consisting almost entirely of instructors (people outside this community were prohibited from attending). The presentations and discussion seemed to me to be repeated instances of "please please please let MOOCs be whatever they are so long as they don't touch the sacred role of instruction."
People who live and work exclusively within these institutions need to get out more. They need to see beyond an idea of education where the students come from cookie-cutter upper income homes and whose deepest problems are motivation, distraction and information overload. They need to get beyond facile debates about quality and enter the real-word debate around access.
Seriously, what else can be said about a statement like this: " it will be offered locally with teachers at a scale of between 1 to 20 and 1 to 50. Because teachers matter." It's like saying "we must at all costs limit education to small groups of people led by a teacher." The "distributed flip", advanced as this Great New Thing, is the connectivist model of MOOCs, but with small-group in-person attached.
The arguments in which the four elements of MOOCs - 'massive', 'open', 'online', and 'course' - are one by one putated to be 'optional' or 'unnecessary' seems to me to be a desparate attempt to cleanse MOOCs of any disruptive impact they may have on the traditional action of in-person teaching to a teacher to a small group of people.
These arguments miss the point of the MOOC, and that point is, precisely, to make education available to people who cannot afford pay the cost to travel to and attend these small in-person events. Having one instructor for 20-50 people is expensive, and most of the world cannot afford that cost. That's *why* the institutions - from which the attendees of this conference were uniquely selected - charge thousands of dollars of tuition every year.
MOOCs were not designed to serve the missions of the elite colleges and universities. They were designed to undermine them, and make those missions obsolete.
Yes there has been a great rebranding and co-option of the concept of the MOOC over the last couple of years. The near-instant response from the elites, almost unprecedented in my experience, is a recognition of the deeply subversive intent and design of the original MOOCs (which they would like very much to erase from history).
My summaries from the EDUCAUSE Conference:
- Everything You Thought You Knew About MOOCs Could Be Wrong, Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein
- Faculty Perspective: Teaching the Humanities to Humanity, Peter Struck
- Designing and Implementing MOOCs that Maximize Student Learning, Seth Anderson (Duke), Amy Collier (Stanford), Cassandra Horlii (California Institute of Technology)
- MOOCs for Credit: Current State of the Art, Cathy Sandeen, Centre for Education, Attainment and Innovation, ACE
- What's In It for Us?: Benefits to Campus Course of Running a MOOC, Jason Mock
- Who Are Our Students? Bridging Local and Global Learning Communities, Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University, @derekbruf
- Using an Open Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals, Amy Collier (Stanford) and Jane Manning (Stanford)
- Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty, Lori Breslow (MIT), Jennifer DeBoer (MIT), Andrew Ho (Harvard)
- Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose State University, Ellen Junn
- Digging into MOOC Mania: One Investor's Key Research Questions and Approach, Stacey L. Clawson, Anh Nguyen, Gates Foundation
- Assessing the Efficacy of Third-Party MOOCs in Hybrid Instruction, Rebecca Griffiths, ITHAKA
- International Perspective: The MOOC and Campus-Based Learning, Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland
- MOOC Provider Panel: Coursera, Academic Partnerships, Instructure, edX, Maria H. Andersen (Canvas by Instructure), Relly Brandman (Coursera), Rebecca Petersen (EdX), Barbara E. Truman (Academic Partnerships)
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New Haven Public Schools of Choice, New Haven, Connecticut
What's New
OII invites you to the first Innovations in Education Exchange; U.S. Department of Education co-hosts White House forum on American history, civics, and service; the National Commission on Writing has released a report on the state of writing among U.S. students.
Innovations in the News
Denver Public Schools is considering a plan rewarding teachers with more money for boosting students test scores; plus news on charter schools and school choice.
New Haven Public Schools of Choice Dedicated to Options for Parents and Students
New Haven, the seventh poorest community in the United States, is typical of many older urban areas. Once a thriving manufacturing center, the city has lost jobs and middle class residents to surrounding suburbs. Despite these economic and demographic trends that have laid waste to many American cities, New Haven has been able to discourage white flight from its schools, through the establishment and expansion of the New Haven Public Schools' magnet schools along with the development and inclusion of other public school choice options.
Magnet schools offer a special curriculum capable of attracting a diverse student body. These schools aim to eliminate, reduce, or prevent minority group isolation while strengthening students' knowledge of academic subjects and vocational skills. New Haven magnet schools focus on an intense academic program that pushes basic skills and critical thinking. Students are expected to work very hard to master challenging work in core curriculum areas as well as the area(s) of emphasis at each magnet school. Among the subjects included as areas of emphasis are reading, writing, mathematics, public speaking, Spanish, science, civics/history, arts and technology. Some of the magnet schools also provide heterogeneous, multi-age classrooms and a two-year stay with one teacher and assistant. State-of-the-art internet access, multiple computer labs, and classroom internet links for students to use in projects and assignments are found in most magnet schools. These schools also work to provide a nurturing and safe school environment.
Perhaps one of the most notable things about the New Haven program is its creative range of options available to parents and students. The variety of offerings is aimed to fit various learning styles and interests. New Haven has expanded what began as a traditional intra-district magnet program into a broader public school choice program. As New Haven has expanded its choice program, it has added an inter-district magnet schools strategy that is beginning to draw students back to New Haven from suburban schools and communities. As well, the choice program includes charter schools&mdeash;including independent charter schools that work with the New Haven Public Schools in a collaborative annual student recruitment and application process—and a new component called lighthouse schools. Lighthouse schools are focused on providing parental options for students who are attending schools that have been identified as low performing.
Examples of the range of options open to parents and students in New Haven include:
- The Metropolitan Business High School—a new magnet school that is part of New Haven's current Magnet Schools Assistance program project—that has the goal of preparing students to successfully manage and own business enterprises in the 21st century global community. The school partners with universities and area businesses to achieve this goal;
- The Common Ground Charter High School that is located at the 20-acre West Rock State Park and emphasizes collaborative learning in environmental studies; and
- The Hyde Leadership High School that has a "character first" philosophy of building courage, integrity, concern, curiosity, and leadership through strong community service, athletics, and arts programs. The school also partners with the Hyde School in Bath, Maine.
The Office of Innovation and Improvement funds five of New Havens' 17 magnet schools through a Magnet Schools Assistance program grant. This program provides grants to local educational agencies, which are under a court-ordered or federally approved voluntary desegregation plan, to establish and operate magnet schools. Additionally, the Office of Innovation and Improvement funds a Voluntary Public School Choice project in New Haven. This program provides flexible support to help States and school districts expand public school choice program. New Haven's project focuses specifically on expanding parental options for students who are attending schools that have been identified as low performing. Project goals include:
- Increasing the number of students in low performing schools who will apply to other schools;
- Augmenting the number of seats available in each school of choice;
- Enlarging the number of students in low-performing schools who are admitted to schools of choice; and
- Heightening academic achievement specifically in language arts and mathematics for students from low performing schools who are attending schools of choice.
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OII invites you to the first Innovations in Education Exchange
OII invites you to the first Innovations in Education Exchange. The panel discussion on "Exploring Virtual Schools" will be at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 29th in the U.S. Department of Education auditorium, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC. Contact email@example.com to RSVP. (May 2)
The U.S. Department of Education co-hosted White House forum on American history
The U.S. Department of Education co-hosted "We the People," the White House Forum on American History, Civics, and Service, on May 1. One of the panelists in the program was an OII grantee who directs the Teaching American History grant to the Los Angeles Unified School District. The new Teaching of Traditional American History grant competition was announced at the forum, and is scheduled to open on May 6. For information about the forum, go to www.nationalservice.org/civicsforum/. For information about the grant competition, go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/applicant.html. (May1)
The National Commission on Writing released a report on the state of writing among U.S. students
The National Commission on Writing, a panel of the College Board, has released a report on the state of writing among U.S. students. The report recommends that students spend twice as much time on writing, that writing be taught in all subjects and in all grades, and that all districts adopt a writing plan. The Chair of the Commission's advisory board directs the National Writing Project, an OII grantee. For more information about the commission's report, go to, www.writingcommission.org/pr.html. For information about the National Writing Project, see http://www.writingproject.org/. (April 25)
Innovations in the News
Teacher Quality
Denver Public Schools is considering a plan rewarding teachers with more money for boosting students test scores. [More-The Denver Post] (April 21)
Charter Schools
A Franklin County, Ohio judge has ruled that charter schools in Ohio are constitutional and part of the state's public school system. [More-The Columbus Dispatch] (April 21)
The number of Charter Schools in the Utah could increase by as much as 50%. Six new applications have been given to the state Office of Education and a handful more at school districts across the state. [More-The Salt Lake Tribune] (April 23)
School Choice
Seminole County, Florida's School Board pledged to maintain "equity and excellence" at all of its schools. The biggest change for many parents will be the transfer policy. More children will be allowed to switch to schools that have room for extra students, and transfers based on economic status will replace transfers based on race. [More-The Orlando Sentinel] (April 23)
Philadelphia schools chief Paul Vallas said hundreds of courses in the city's curriculum are "irrelevant" and should be deleted from the list of course offerings. Vallas encouraged a shift toward a core curriculum supplemented by meaningful electives. [More-The Philadelphia Inquirer] (April 25)
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PERSONAL ... First name is pronounced MON-tay ... the son of Rosa Ellis ... he and his wife, Juanika, have one son, Monta Jr., and one daughter, Myla ... in the summer of 2010, launched the "ME8 Foundation" to assist families and children in Jackson, Mississippi, and the Bay Area ... named co-winner of the 2010-11 Golden State Warriors Foundation Community Service Award, which is given annually to the Warriors player who best exemplifies the spirit of community service through their outstanding commitment of time, service and financial support to children and families ... sponsored two Feed The Children events, in which he helped distribute food to more than 1,200 local families in need ... also took part a special Season of Giving Holiday Party for 20 kids from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and their families at the practice facility, which for the day was morphed into a giant playground with numerous kids activities ... in 2008-09, joined teammate Andris Biedrins to help unveil a newly refurbished basketball court at the Leonard J. Meltzer Boys & Girls Club in Oakland as part of Toyota Project Rebound ... for the past five seasons, purchased 25 tickets to every home game and donated those tickets to various children's groups who attended games in the Monta's Mob seating section ... served as a coach for the NBA Entertainment League Celebrity Charity Game and made several appearances at Warriors Basketball Camp sessions ... in the summer of 2008, joined forces with fellow NBA player Maurice Williams to host the Mississippi Celebrity Basketball Game at Jackson State University.
2012-13 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Averaged a team-high 19.4 points to go with 3.9 rebounds, 6.1 assists and 2.1 steals in 37.8 minutes per game … played in all 82 games for the first time in his career, and was the only Buck to accomplish the feat in 2012-13 … finished the season ranked 10th in the NBA in scoring, 20th in assists and fourth in steals … led the Bucks in scoring 33 times, in assists 39 times and in steals 36 times … scored in double figures in 73 of his 82 games, including 37 20-points outings and nine games with 30+ … named Eastern Conference Player of the Week two times (for weeks ending March 4 and Dec. 30) … posted a league-leading 11 games with 5+ steals, giving him 34 such games in his career (tied with Kobe Bryant for fifth-most among active players) … poured in a season-high 39 points on March 17 vs. Orlando – the high game by a Buck on the season … scored 33 of his 39 points vs. Orlando in the second half, including 25 in the fourth quarter – a mark that stood as the high quarter across the league for the season … handed out a career-high 17 assists at Atlanta on April 12 … hit a game-winning 3-pointer as time expired on Feb. 27 at Houston.
2011-12 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Appeared in 58 games split between Milwaukee and Golden State, averaging 20.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.47 steals per game ... finished the season ranked 11th in the NBA in scoring, 14th in assists, 14th in steals and 11th in minutes (36.6 mpg) ... scored in double figures in 54 of his 58 games, topping 20 points 28 times and scoring 30+ 13 times (including one 40-point game) ... reached double figures in assists six times, posting five point/assist double-doubles ... averaged 21.9 points in 37 games for the Warriors ... scored a career-high 48 points on 18-of-29 shooting on 2/7 vs. Oklahoma City ... hit the game-winning shot with one second remaining in Golden State's win at Phoenix on 2/22 ... named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played 3/3-11 after averaging 20.5 points, 7.5 assists and 2.0 steals in leading the Warriors to a 3-1 week ... traded to Milwaukee on 3/14 ... averaged 17.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists in 21 games for Milwaukee ... made his Bucks debut against his former team on 3/16, tallying 18 points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals ... scored the final 16 points for the Bucks in a win vs. Cleveland on 4/4, going 8-for-8 in the last four minutes ... led the Bucks in scoring six times and in assists 12 times ... sat out the final two games of the season with a right hand injury.
PRO CAREER ... Selected by Golden State in the second round of the 2005 NBA Draft (40th overall) … re-signed by Golden State as a restricted free agent on July 24, 2008 … named the NBA's Most Improved Player in 2006-07 … the first player ever drafted by the Warriors directly from an American high school ... 2010-11: Appeared in 80 games (career-high 80 starts), averaging 24.1 points, 3.5 rebounds, career-high 5.6 assists and 2.10 steals in 40.3 minutes per contest ... among NBA leaders, ranked 1st in minutes, 3rd in steals, 8th in scoring and 22nd in assists – leading the league in minutes played and finishing in the league's top-10 in scoring (6th in 2009-10) and top-5 in steals (2nd in 2009-10) for the second consecutive season ... one of only five players in the NBA to average at least 20.0 points and 5.0 assists (joining Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and Deron Williams) ... the only player in the NBA to average at least 20.0 points, 5.0 assists and 2.00 steals ... averaged more than 24.0 points and 5.0 assists for the second consecutive season, joining Rick Barry (1973-74 & 1974-75) as the only Warriors players to do so in back-to-back years since the team moved West in 1962 ... became the first Warrior to average 24+ points in consecutive seasons since Chris Mullin did so in five-straight seasons from 1988-89 thru 1992-93 ... scored 40-or-more points four times, which trailed only Kevin Durant's five 40-plus efforts ... tallied 46 points vs. Houston on Opening Night, which marked the most points by any NBA player in a season lid-lifter since Michael Jordan's 54 vs. Cleveland on 11/3/89 ... it also marked the most points by a Warrior on Opening Night since Wilt Chamberlain posted 56 on 10/23/62 ... named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played 12/20-26, when he helped Warriors to 2-1 record by averaging 39.7 points, 7.0 assists and 3.00 steals per contest – scoring 35-plus points in three-straight games for the first time in his career ... scored 30-or-more points 21 times, marking his second-straight year with at least 20 games of 30-points or more ... became the first Warrior to score 30+ points 20 times in consecutive seasons since Chris Mullin did so four-straight years from 1987-88 to 1990-91 ... recorded 10 double-doubles (nine point/assist), including three-straight point/assist double-doubles from 3/25-29, marking the first three-game streak of his career ... connected on a career-high 137 three-point field goals in 80 games after making 164 threes in the first 296 games of his career combined ... played 3,227 minutes, the most by any Warriors player since Antawn Jamison recorded 3,394 minutes in 2000-01 ... missed the final two games of the season with a Grade 2 concussion, which was suffered in the fourth quarter vs. Sacramento on 4/10 … 2009-10: Appeared in 64 games (all starts), averaging career-high figures in scoring (25.5), steals (2.23) and minutes played (41.4) ... among NBA leaders, ranked 6th in the NBA in scoring (25.5), 2nd in steals (2.23) and 1st in minutes per game (41.4) ... became the first Golden State player to average at least 25.0 points since Chris Mullin in 1992-93; and the first Warriors player to average 25.5 points and 5.0 assists since Mullin in 1988-89 ... only three other NBA players averaged at least 25.0 points and 5.0 assists (LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade) ... became one of only seven NBA players in the last 10 years to average at least 25.0 points, 5.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds, joining Allen Iverson, Dwyane Wade, Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Tracy McGrady ... scored 30-plus points on 24 occasions - only five NBA players (Durant, James, Anthony, Bryant and Wade) reached the 30-point plateau more frequently ... scored 40-plus points three times, including twice during a three-game stretch between from 11/25–30 (42 at San Antonio and 45 vs. Indiana) ... handed out a career-high-tying 13 assists vs. New Orleans (3/17), one of five double-figure assist outings ... registered back-to-back double-doubles (point/assist) for the first time in his career on 3/15 vs. L.A. Lakers and 3/17 vs. New Orleans ... recorded six double-doubles overall (including one point/rebound) ... became the first NBA player to play every minute in at least 13 games in a single season since Gary Payton in 1999-00 ... missed 18 games due to injury/illness … 2008-09: Appeared in 25 games (all starts), averaging 19.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.56 steals in 35.7 minutes ... missed the first 43 games of the year due to left ankle injury sustained on August 21, 2008 ... over his final 11 games, averaged 25.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.6 assists, while shooting 48.0% (115-238 FG) from the field ... posted a then-career-high 42 points (16-35 FG, 10-12 FT) along with nine rebounds and nine assists in an overtime victory vs. Sacramento on 4/1 ... scored 20-plus points 11 times ... missed 57 games overall due to injury ... 2007-08: Appeared in 81 games (72 starts), averaging 20.2 points (25th in NBA), 5.0 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.53 steals (15th in NBA) in 37.9 minutes (18th in NBA) ... shot 60.2% (106-176 FG) from the field during the month of February, becoming just the ninth guard in NBA history to shoot above 60.0% from the field during a single month (minimum 10 games and 150 FGA) ... other guards to accomplish the feat include: Fred Brown, Brad Davis, Sidney Moncrief, Earl Monroe, Steve Nash, Jim Paxson, Rickey Pierce (twice) and John Stockton (twice) ... became first player selected in the second round (#40 overall) to average over 20 points in his third season since Drazen Petrovic averaged 20.6 points in 1991-92 ... scored 20+ points 41 times and 30+ points 12 times … 2006-07: Appeared in 77 games (53 starts), averaging 16.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.71 steals (8th in NBA) in 34.3 minutes ... named NBA's Most Improved Player after increasing scoring average by 9.7 points per game over his rookie season (up from 6.8) ... his points per game improvement was the largest in the NBA amongst players who appeared in at least 41 games in both seasons ... also increased his field goal percentage from .415 as a rookie to .475 in 2006-07 ... recorded his first career double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds at Indiana on 2/5 ... hit game-winning, buzzer-beating jumper in 110-109 victory over New Jersey on 1/24 ... registered a then-career-high 31 points three times, including back-to-back games on 11/18 & 11/20 ... participated in the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge on All-Star Saturday in Las Vegas (2/16), registering 28 points in 21 minutes to help Sophomore squad to a 155-114 victory over the Rookies ... missed five games due to injury ... 2005-06: Among NBA rookies, ranked 16th in scoring (6.8 ppg), 11th in assists (1.6 apg) and 9th in three-point percentage (.341) ... appeared in 46 of final 51 games after appearing in just three of team's first 31 games ... in 30 games when playing 15-or-more minutes, averaged 9.3 points – including 13.1 points per contest in 16 games when playing 20-or-more minutes ... finished the season strong, averaging 11.0 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 25.0 minutes over the final 17 games ... of the seven high school players taken in the 2005 NBA Draft that appeared in at least 20 games, ranked first in points per game (edging Portland's Martell Webster, 6.6 ppg) ... made first career start vs. Phoenix (4/14) and tallied 12 points in 35 minutes ... made NBA debut at Phoenix (11/12), logging two assists in five minutes.
PLAYOFF HISTORY ... (11 games, 6 starts) ... 2007: Averaged 8.0 points and 2.3 rebounds in 21.6 minutes per game ... Registered playoff career high with 20 points in Game 2 of First Round series at Dallas (4/25).
HIGH SCHOOL ... An early entry candidate for the 2005 NBA Draft out of Lanier High School in Jackson, MS … in four seasons at Lanier, averaged 28.7 points per game and racked up 4,167 total points – second all-time in Mississippi history and tops among big-school players (5A and 4A) … named to 2005 McDonald's All-American Team … named National Co-Player of the Year by PARADE Magazine as a senior … a four-time All-State selection, becoming the first player in state history to earn the honor four times … became the Jackson Public Schools' all-time leading scorer, surpassing Othella Harrington … his teams compiled a record of 129-16, appeared in four consecutive state championship finals and captured two state titles (2002 & 2005) … named Mr. Basketball in Mississippi following senior season in which he averaged 38.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 4.5 steals per game and led his team to a 35-2 record and the Class 4A state championship … tallied career-high 72 points in a 117-56 victory over Greenwood … scored 42 points against Oak Hill Academy, which at the time was ranked No. 1 in the nation by USA Today, the most points ever scored against the perennial powerhouse.
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Pan Roasting Technique
Pan Roasting—the Chef's Secret Cooking Technique
One of my favorite cooking techniques not talked about in most cookbooks
If I could teach you just one chef's technique that will help you save time in the kitchen and deliver a thick cut of meat to the table with a perfect sear and juicy medium-rare throughout, it would be pan roasting.
This is, hands down, one of the best and most efficient cooking methods around. Pan roasting takes advantage of conductive heat from the stove plus radiant and convective heat in the oven to cook thicker cuts perfectly and in short order.
You won't find this pan roasting technique in many cookbooks but is a technique taught in every culinary arts school and used by professional chefs every day.
Some chefs use this technique as part of their mise en place. They sear the meat during prep time, hold it in a low boy refrigerator and finish the cooking process to order in the oven. Even if the technique is used without any holding time, this cooking method saves time over straight oven roasting and is more practical than pan frying for thicker cuts of meat.]
Here's what you will need:
- one heavy pan that will retain heat and is oven safe (cast iron is really ideal for this)
- lean cut of meat at cool room temperature
- butter or oil or some combination of the two
- kitchen tongs and oven mitts
- salt and pepper
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, F.
Preheat the pan over medium-high to high heat. Make sure the pan is good and hot. The trick is to have it hold its heat as much as possible once you put the meat in. That's why cast iron is ideal—even though it is not as conductive as some metals, once it heats up, it stays hot for a very long time.
Once the pan is very hot, add enough canola oil (or other neutral oil with a high smoke point) to coat the bottom. Wait a minute or two for the oil to get good and hot, season your meat with salt and pepper, and place it in the pan. Make sure there is a lot of pan real estate around the meat. You don't want to crowd the meat and risk steaming rather than searing.
How you proceed from here is up to you. I've seen people sear one side and then finish the whole thing in the oven. I've also seen chefs sear all sides of the meat and then finish in the oven. I say that, since we're looking for an amazing crust and a moist, juicy interior, go ahead and sear all sides on the stove-top.
Once you are happy with your sear, place the meat in the oven to let it finish cooking. Use an instant read thermometer to check the internal temperature of the meat and remove it from the oven about five degrees cooler than the target temperature. Cover and let the meat rest. Carryover cooking will finish the process.
I cannot give you a specific temperature for doneness—this depends entirely upon the cut of meat you choose: fish steaks, beef tenderloin, chicken, or pork; check your recipe for doneness temperatures. I did post a simple Meat Doneness Chart to help you with deciding internal temperatures.
From start to finish, pan roasting should take anywhere from ten to twenty minutes, depending upon the thickness of the meat you are cooking. One of the great bonuses of pan roasting is taking the few minutes that the meat is resting to make a quick pan sauce with the drippings (fond in the pan.
De glaze with the liquid/s of your choice, reduce, check for seasonings and finish the sauce with a pat of butter or maybe a splash of cream. Elegant enough for a dinner party, but attainable on a busy weeknight.
Pan Roasting Video
I found this informative cooking video by Chef Ming Tsai that incorporates almost everything I know about Pan Roasting. Here he shows you how to Pan Roast a Steak but this technique works with chicken and fish too.
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Thanks for the tips! 🙂 Wondering – where's the video you reference? Cheers!
Seems to have been lost in the update but it should be there now. Thanks for letting me know. — RG
Any comments on finishing not in the oven, but right on the stove top? Any benefits/drawbacks? Particularly for something like chicken breasts. I suppose it may dry the outside more, but makes also makes for easier basting (just add butter, etc, and spoon over the meat).
Hi Ben, sure you can finish in the pan but then I wouldn't call it pan roasting but pan frying. Saying that, I have read in one cookbook that pan frying is done completely on the stove-top and not in the oven so there is a difference in what people call it. This is why I find cookbooks sometimes confusing but in the end you can call it what you like as long as you understand the different techniques. – RG
can you put the link to video back on site?
Hi Marguerite, the video is back. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. – RG
Hi! Your recipe says – 350 degrees F, chef Ming says – 450. Which is it?
thank you for posting this information and for the video. I am teaching myself !
Hi – this is one of my favorite techniques! I use a heavy cast iron pan for my filets – the trick to it for me is to put the cold pan in the cold oven and turn the heat to 400 degrees. The pan gets good and hot, (don't forget your oven mitts!!!!), and i then transfer to stove top on high heat to keep it hot until i throw in the steaks on med-high. I sear the first side for a few minutes, then flip and sear for another few minutes, then place the entire pan back into the oven. We like medium-rare, so depending on thickness, i cook for 3-5 minutes on this side, then flip and do other side for 3-5 minutes. Let them rest in the pan, outside of the oven for a few minutes before serving. Perfect! And by the way, i usually marinate my steaks in the fridge for at least 30 minutes (several hours is ideal) in a bag with a bit of olive oil, S&P, worchestershire sauce, and any other seasonings of choice (herbes de provence is good; also, "Forward" seasoning from Penzeys!) I let them come to room temp for another 20-30 min.
Love your helpful hints and recipes and FB page!!


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Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
Developer: Guerilla
Platform: PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) system
Genre: Third-Person Action
Players: Single player, 1-6 players via wireless multiplayer connectivity
Launch Date: Fall 2006
ESRB Rating: "RP" for Rating Pending
Developed by Guerilla, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Killzone: Liberation™ for the PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) system is a third-person action game that puts the players into various missions to rescue hostages from the evil Helghast. Inspired by the events in Killzone for PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system (released in November, 2004), the story continues in Killzone: Liberation with the battle against the Helghast still raging on. Featuring an intelligent third person camera system, Killzone: Liberation allows players a more tactical surveillance viewpoint to view their action and read the enemy's behavior during gameplay. Set in an intense postmodern war reminiscent of the previous PlayStation 2 title, Killzone: Liberation features the unique graphical style to showcase pure grit and realism. During gameplay, players will have access to online and offline missions, supported with a variety of weapons that are unique and innovative, inspired by modern military equipment
In Killzone: Liberation, two months after the events of Killzone, most of southern Vekta is still under Helghast control. The rules of war have been cast aside with the Helghast General, Metrac, employing brutal measures in order to seize the initiative and strengthen his position further. Returning as Templar, players will be sent on a mission to undertake a covert operation to save hostages captured by Metrac, while ISA troops continue the fight for liberty.


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Mom: Over-reporting of unattended kids rampant in Rexburg
REXBURG, Idaho - A viewer tip on Thursday had our station asking a question:
When is it appropriate to step in and take action if you see unattended kids sitting in a parked car?
One Fremont County mom said she can't believe how often police are responding to one Rexburg parking lot in particular.
"I locked the car, and walked inside," recalled St. Anthony mom Mandy.
Earlier this week, Mandy had an errand that just couldn't wait.
"I went to Wal-Mart to pick up some diapers for my kid," she said.
Mandy was through the self-check and out in 5 minutes She said she left her 10-year-old in charge of her younger kids in the locked family SUV parked outside the Rexburg Wal-Mart store.
"They were watching a movie, reading books in the back," said Mandy.
The arrangement was pretty routine for Mandy's clan. She told our station she was back in the car and on her way home just a quickly as she'd gone inside.
"When I got home I had a call from a friend stating there were some college kids surrounding my vehicle getting my license plate number," said Mandy.
That phone call, she said, was disturbing.
"I posted it on Facebook just to find out what people thought," she said.
Mandy's Facebook friends reacted, and shared their own stories.
"Some of them said they've come out and had police by their car, because someone had reported them," she said.
Mandy said it's all a little too much, and she suspects signs at the Rexburg Wal-Mart entrance almost encourage vigilante behavior that can frighten a parent. The signs read: "Look Before You Leave: Please Make Sure Children Are Not Unattended In Vehicles."
"By the time they came out after grabbing a prescription for sick kids, the police were waiting for them," said Mandy.
Rexburg Wal-Mart customer service manager Leslie Rutlage said those signs are only a few months old.
Rutledge also told us the store rarely hears complaints, because customers will usually contact police directly if they're concerned.
Our station left messages for Rexburg Police captain Randy Lewis, and stopped by the station to ask if calls to the parking lot have increased, but calls were not returned.


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the act of staying after a baseball (or any other sports) game and drinking all the half full/full cups of beer that people left behind. great for saving money drinking, or underage drinking
Dude lets stay after the game and drink all the left field leftovers then drunkenly stumble to the train.
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text: A drunken redneck still drunk from the night before was stagering down the street one sunday morning when he came upon a church. Out front the sign said "todays sermon is on the perils of alcohol" This got the rednecks attention. He went into the church had a seat and waited patiently for the sermon to start. When the Preacher finally got to the sermon. The redneck perked right up in his seat and listened. The preacher started out by setting 2 bottles up on the pulpit. and said "ladies and Gentleman I have here 2 bottles one containing holy water and another with alcohol. Today I will prove once and for all alcohol can and will kill you." At this point the preacher got out a worm and a pair of tweezers. Dunking the worm in the holy water he brought it out for all to see. The worm was wigglen around and full of life. He then dipped it in the alcohol pulled it out and showed the congregation that the worm had indeed died. With that the Preacher said. This proves right there that alcohol can and will kill the very life out of you." The drunk hereing this stood up looked at the preacher and said "That doesnt prove that alcohol kills ya it just proves if you drink alcohol you wont have worms."


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Hi All and Happy Winter from the Northwest!
I was wondering about feeding during the winter - I have a hive that feels a bit light and would like to return some of the honey I took from them this last fall (while reducing the stack to only two boxes...).
I was maybe wanting to make them some sort of pollen/honey patty. I dont want to heat the raw honey up too hot and kill all the good things in it but would like to be able to feed them on the top bars or make a feeder frame with my patty held in place with hardware cloth. I have an quilt box I can invert and place on top of the hive to give them room above the top bars for some sort of feed if need be. Does anybody have a recipe for making a patty with those ingredients that would work with this application? Is this what I should be feeding the bees at this time in the winter?
Also, since it is only one hive that is light Im not concerned with spending extra money for real pollen...where is the best place to purchase real pollen?


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Alice Stokes Paul Award to M. Elaine Jacoby '75 for Advancing Women's Equality
M Elaine Jacoby '75, of counsel at Duane Morris LLP, is the recipient of a 2014 Equality Award from the Alice Paul Institute. The Alice Paul Equality Awards are named in memor y of Alice Stokes Paul, New Jersey's most famous suffragist.
"This award means a great deal to me," says Jacoby. "First, I believe in the mission of the Alice Paul Institute, which is to provide leadership training for girls and young women. Second, I believe that it is vitally important for women to serve as role models and mentors for other women, as Alice Paul did and as many intrepid women – especially alumnae of Rutgers School of Law–Newark – have done for women in the legal profession."
Jacoby regularly puts those beliefs into practice. For almost a decade, she has led a law school Alumni Association mentoring program that works with the Women's Law Forum, a student organization, to match alumni mentors with student mentees. The popular program also includes events to support the mentor/mentee relationships and promote successful networking experiences.
Inspired by the women's rights movement to become a lawyer, Jacoby began practicing law in 1975 when there were few women partners in New Jersey law firms. Among her achievements, she served as resident managing partner for the New Jersey office of Epstein Becker & Green and, later, the Princeton office of Duane Morris LLP. Besides litigating major cases, she developed and implemented equal employment opportunity compliance programs designed to prevent workplace discrimination and harassment. In 1993 she published and has since annually updated her book, Designing an Effective Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance Program.
Outside her practice, Jacoby has been an active member of many organizations, including serving as president of the Alumni Association, co-chair of the Employment and Labor Relations Law Committee of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association, and chair of a Fee Dispute Panel of the New Jersey Supreme Court Ethics Committee. "Since I graduated from law school," she states, "we have seen great progress in not just the inclusion of women in all aspects of the profession but in their assumption of leadership roles – but there is still much work to be done."
Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977), born in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, dedicated her life to the single cause of securing equal rights for all women. She led the final campaign for women's right to vote and, after the 1920 victory, authored the Equal Rights Amendment and initiated gender equality principles in both the United Nations Charter and in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The award will be conferred at the Alice Paul Equality Awards Dinner on Thursday evening, March 20, 2014 at the Mt. Laurel Westin. For more information and tickets, go to www.alicepaul.org.


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Security Speaking Podcast: Red Hawk's Mike Snyder Shares Business Strategies
Welcome back to SECURITY SALES & INTEGRATION's "Security Speaking" podcast! Listen as SSI Editor-in-Chief Scott Goldfine talks with Red Hawk Fire & Security CEO Mike Snyder, as he reveals the integrator's new strategies and his outlook on the industry as a whole.
By SSI Staff · September 18, 2012
Welcome to SECURITY SALES & INTEGRATION's "Security Speaking" podcast.
This podcast series features the industry's leading business owners, operators, managers and subject matter experts discussing the trends, challenges, technologies and more affecting today's electronic security professional.
In the latest edition, Editor-in-Chief Scott Goldfine talks with Mike Snyder, CEO of Red Hawk Fire and Security, which spun out of UTC Climate, Controls & Security earlier this year. Prior to leading the Red Hawk team, Snyder served as president for ADT.
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Gallery: UFC women's champion Ronda Rousey and challenger Liz Carmouche
Upon first glance, "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey blends right in with the bevy of beautiful young women one often sees in Southern California.
The blond hair. The blue eyes. The white, toothy smile.
Closer inspection reveals cauliflower ears, the type one might see on a collegiate wrestler. They're also the kind that make life hell for a girl trying to fit in during high school, yet are now worn as a badge of honor.
The physique also stands out. At 5 feet 7 and 135 pounds, Rousey is a rock.
But the same arms that late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien admired on his show last summer aren't too different from the ones that earned her the mocking moniker of "Miss Man" at Santa Monica High.
And finally, it is what is around the waist that today defines the 26-year-old Venice resident:
The first and only women's champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Sports history will be made today when Rousey steps into the Octagon to defend her bantamweight belt in the Ultimate Fighting Championship's first-ever women's fight when she faces Liz Carmouche (7-2) in the five-round main event at UFC 157 at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
"It's kind of like a dream come true, really," Rousey (6-0) said of her meteoric rise in mixed martial arts. "I mean, when I first started doing this ... I didn't want to be just the best in the world. I wanted to be the best in the world on the biggest stage in the world."
And here she is. On billboards throughout the Southland. In the pages of Time magazine. With her own segment on HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel."
But what Rousey is not is some gimmick. At a time when the sport of MMA continues to rise in popularity, UFC President Dana White has taken the leap and invested in women's MMA.
And his sole female champion is just the one to spearhead the movement.
"It takes a certain type of person, not just personality, but a certain type of fighter, to get people interested and get people excited about women's fighting, period," White said. "Or women's sports in general.
"Whether it's women's basketball or women's soccer, women's whatever it is, it takes a certain type of person to appeal to everyone to make them come and watch. And I think she's got it."
'She's mean, she's nasty'
Rousey didn't always have it though. There was a short span when she lived out of her car. When she finally had a small place to call home, she struggled to pay the bills.
And when money is so tight that Top Ramen is your daily meal, yet your pride won't let you accept help, sacrifices are made.
What: UFC 157
When: Saturday
Where: Honda Center, Anaheim
Main Event: UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey (6-0) vs. Liz Carmouche (7-2) in first women's fight in UFC history
Prelims: On Facebook at 3:30 p.m. and on FX at 5 p.m.
Main Card: On pay-per-view at 7 p.m.
"There was a point where our hot water got cut off, so I had to just put it in cold water and let it sit forever so the noodles would get soft," Rousey said with a chuckle. "It was bad. It was bad for a while."
Darin Harvey had the chance to train with Rousey and recognized her potential right away. With a successful career in commercial real estate development, Harvey saw the opportunity to build something even bigger.
As her manager, he mapped out a career trajectory for Rousey while also pitching in with cart-busting Costco runs so his fighter had better nutrition and could afford a better lifestyle.
To Harvey, this success wasn't only the vision. From a spiritual perspective, he said it's almost like it was meant to happen.
"I believe all of us came together for a very specific reason. This is bigger than sports. This is bigger than women's sports. This is bigger than MMA or women's MMA. This is about women's empowerment," said Harvey, president of Fight Tribe Management. "This is about Ronda moving on to do greater things than fighting. Making a difference in young girl's lives, making a difference in young men's lives. This is a story of inspiration."
Not hurting the story is Rousey's unblemished record as an MMA fighter with a penchant for ending fights in quick, violent fashion.
After becoming the first American to win an Olympic medal in judo while at the 2008 Beijing Games, the bronze medalist eventually began her MMA career with three amateur fights. None lasted more than a minute.
When she turned pro, her first fight was less than two years ago on a King of the Cage card at Braemar Country Club in Tarzana. Despite nine stitches in her foot because of a pit-bull bite - a hazard at one of three jobs she had at the time in order to get by and train every day - Rousey needed just 26 seconds to beat her opponent.
In all, six pro fights, six first-round victories. Only one has lasted more than a minute, when she defeated Miesha Tate in 4 minutes, 27 seconds almost a year ago to win the Strikeforce women's bantamweight title.
"The difference between her and any other female fighter I've ever met - yeah, she's cute and she's out there and interacting - well, when she goes in and fights, she's mean, she's nasty and she likes to finish people," White said. "And that's what I like in a fighter, whether you're a man or a woman."
Other than the first-round finishes, the other common component to Rousey's victories is the way she wins: the armbar.
By yanking her opponent's arm out and away from the body, Rousey holds their wrist against her chest and, with her legs leveraged against their torso, leans back so their elbow hyperextends between her legs.
Most submit by tapping out because of the excruciating pain. Others, like Tate, don't and learn the hard way, suffering a gruesome elbow injury.
A heart-wrenching story
As easy as Rousey makes it seem in the cage, life was never that simple.
She was born with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and nearly died. As a result, Rousey struggled to learn. She didn't talk other than gibberish for her first six years.
But the future champion had no bigger champion than her father. "Ronnie's going to be fine," Ron Rousey would say. "You watch. Ronnie's a sleeper."
And sure enough, Ronda became quite the youth swimmer, rising before dawn with her dad to drive to workouts far from their Jamestown, N.D., home.
But when she was 8, a sledding accident broke her father's back. A rare blood disorder further complicated his recovery. A rod was inserted, only to cause his spine to begin to crumble.
Doctors were blunt. Within two years, he would become a paraplegic, then a quadriplegic, then die.
Rather than burden his family emotionally and financially, Ron Rousey connected a hose to an exhaust pipe, fed it back into his vehicle and killed himself.
It's a story Rousey first began telling to the media when she became an Olympian. Its frequency grew as did her popularity in MMA.
And it all seemed to reach a crescendo when Rousey recalled it during the heart-wrenching finale of an episode of "UFC Primetime" that aired earlier this month on FUEL TV.
With the camera tight on her face, Rousey sobbed as she explained why recounting the tragedy was so painful.
"I know people love to ask me about it all the time because, doesn't it make a great story?" she said, tears rolling down her cheeks and disgust filling her voice. "I feel terrible talking about it. I feel like I'm prostituting his memory for my own career gain."
And with that interview, Rousey has sworn to never discuss her father's death again.
"I just knew I didn't want to get to a point where I start to desensitize the whole story and I just didn't want to get to a point where I was so dehumanized where people could just walk to me and be like, `Hey, how you doing? You want to tell me how your dad died again?"' she said last week.
"It's just not decent. It's not the right way to treat somebody, so if I was gonna say it one last time, I was gonna say it the best way that I could and that's why it came across like that."
After the family moved to Southern California, Ronda began to take interest in her mom's sport of choice. After all, as Ann Maria Rousey DeMars tells it, when there are photos in the hallway of your mother in 1984 becoming the first American to win a World Judo Championship, how hard can it be?
Or as Ronda remembers it: "Yeah, well you'd be pretty good at judo too if your mom jumped on your bed every morning and attacked you with armbars."
So when Ronda was 12, the mat work with Mom began, as did the repetitions and throws that come with judo.
"Not only did she have training, but it was continuous, so it was both quality and quantity," said Ann Maria, who through her network of judo friends was able to get Ronda the best training.
By the time she was 17, Rousey was the youngest judo competitor at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Four years later, she would make judo history much like her mother with a first for any American, male or female, by winning the bronze medal.
But with all the workouts came the burnout. Rousey walked away from judo and took a year off.
She bartended. She worked several jobs. Times were tough. But she lived her life.
It was when she returned to the gym in 2010 that some of her male training partners started planting the seeds for her to start an MMA career.
About two years ago, Rousey decided it was time to turn pro.
"That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard!" was Ann Maria's reaction. She was working at USC and hoping education, not cage fighting, was in her daughter's future.
All Rousey asked for was a year. Let me try it for one year and let's see how we do, she told her mother. And as Rousey points out, she made her pro debut March 23, 2011. She defeated Tate for the title March 3, 2012. The rest is sports history.
"It kind of feels good," Rousey said with a glowing smile. "I don't know if my mom ever said, `I was wrong and you were right.' But I like to think the look on her face says it a little bit."
Beyond the shiny championship belt, good looks and set of abs, however, might be Rousey's most devastating asset.
Her mind.
"She's an athlete, yes, and everybody knows she's an Olympic medalist. It's how she trains, it's how she prepares and how she focuses," striking coach Edmond Tarverdyan said. "It's her character. She has that attitude of a fighter. She has that heart of a fighter. She has that intellect of a fighter. You can't have one and be special. You have to tie all three together."
Finally, under the brightest lights and on the biggest stage, Rousey is ready to show Liz Carmouche and anyone watching that she is the best in the world.
"I've always luckily been the kind of fighter, the more pressure there is, the more that I fight above myself," Rousey said. "My best performances are always in my biggest tests and I don't really expect this to be any different.
"It's a bigger deal to me. I want it more than her and that's why I'm gonna win."
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text: Just checking in to say hi, fellas. I own a 1985 Custom Deluxe Stepside with a 305 carbeurated, black on black that's been restored.. it was my first vehicle and 12 years later it looks better than it did to begin with. I also picked up a 1978 C30 extended cab dually with a 454 because at the time I had a business idea for it but since then I just use it to haul whatever I need. It's seen better days and I drive it in the winter to spare my stepside, but I figure one day I might put the 454 in the stepside, maybe. Until then I'm just going to keep driving it. Hoping to find some advice for parts on here.. when I got my stepside I always figured one great thing about these trucks was that parts would always be easily available for them because of how many of them were made and used.. not so anymore! Guess a lot of junkyards are scrapping these trucks which is a shame.. missed out on some pristene doors for dirt cheap for my dually because of this. Oh well I guess!


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Red ribbon week teaches kids to be drug free
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Students at Districts 91 and 93 are learning about the harmful effects of drugs. Longfellow Elementary in Idaho Falls kicked off red ribbon week with a Monday morning assembly. It is one of the oldest and largest drug prevention campaigns in the country.
The assembly teaches children about drug awareness and safety. Those are two topics school counselor Amy Gallagher said is important.
"I think some of our students do have drugs in their home and their seeing it and sometimes if they don't know what to do or handle those situations we want to teach them awareness and teach them how to stay safe," she said.
According to National Child Abuse statistics, one-third to two-thirds of child maltreatment cases involve drug use. More than a third of those kids will have a substance abuse problem before their 18th birthday. Gallagher said those statistics show how vital it is to teach kids now.
"I think hearing stories from the police officers and being able to look in the police officers cars helped them see that it is real, that sometimes when people do make poor choices because of drugs than this is what could happen," she said.
Bonneville County Deputy Daniel Sperry spoke with kids at the assembly.
He said the Sheriff's office wants to prevent drug incidents in our community, not just respond to them.
"It is never too early to build a foundation and teach them the difference between right and wrong," Sperry said.
At the end of the assembly, students came together to make a drug free pledge.
A few other schools in District 91 are doing activities for red ribbon week.In district 93, Rocky Mountain Middle School, Mountain Valley, and Woodland Hills Elementary will also be participating.


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August 15, 1970
New Haven, CT US
Yale Bowl
includes: Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Dazed and Confused, Bring It On Home, Since I've Been Loving You, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Whole Lotta Love (medley), Communication Breakdown (medley: incl. Good Times Bad Times).
Press Review: "Zeppelin Zap"
The parting gesture to the New Haven Jaycees' 1970 P Series arrived in the form of Led Zeppelin, a rock quartet whose reputation is largely explosive as nitroglycerin. Handled badly, the group goes up in smoke; handled well, the group provides nerve shattering musical gymnastics that cry out to the heavens.
Saturday night's performance was handled brilliantly by the stage crew and even the sound system behaved sharply (an augmented reverb system was the electronic high point of the evening).
But lest one think that Led Zeppelin is a sedate, socially acceptable group, he may perish the thought. Led Zeppelin is the very reincarnation of the apocalyptic bad trip. The trip begins the moment John Henry Bonham throws the beat into first and power shifts straight to some nirvana. John Paul Jones swings his bass into play, Jimmy Page dives his guitar and Robert Plant cascades like pebbles in a landslide all over the stage.
The standard Zeppelin carved-in-granite stuff mingled with some new, surprisingly enchanting material, "The Golden Breath" (aka "Bron-YR-Aur"), a poignant, haunting tune by Page. The segues through Zeppelin I and II were exactly what the capacity crowd wanted.
One of the memorable moments came when Plant and company exited; leaving John Bonham to his sticks and drums. And for nearly 10 minutes, his "Moby Dick" solo showed once and for all that nobody this side of maybe Ginger Baker can crumble another drummer's ego the way Bonham can.
"Big Girls Don't Cry", (aka "That's the Way"), another unusual song, utilized a simple mandolin which Jones handled like a symphonic virtuoso. That the Way, Immigrant Song (soon to be released on Zeppelin III) and that ever-charting Whole Lotta Love, snapped, crackled and boomed for nearly three solid hours. And when the convoy of black Caddy limousines appeared, the crowd grew restive, refusing to let the boys go away so easily.
The closing encore was met by standing ovation and a general run ensued onto the stage. Police and Jaycee security held the line, but the fans did get to run alongside the limousine as it sped out the side gate and into history.
And under the full August moon; with the dust lingering behind the empty bowl, the people were going home stoned on electric Kool-Aid running full tap from Led Zeppelin's keg of true rock professionalism.
Chalk up the 1970 Jaycee Pop Series as "Right On!" (P. Gionfriddo, New Haven Register, August 1970)
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as I recall 44 yrs back - 'yes' opened for 'GFRailroad' that summer.
The summer series also had eric clapton (a horrible mess that night)
& lastly 'the greatful dead' where there was some outside disturbance and concerts @ the bowl have been unbookable since.


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UTSA continues as leader in graduating Hispanics
By Kris Rodriguez
Public Affairs Specialist
(May 19, 2008)--UTSA ranks No. 4 in the nation in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded to Hispanic students and No. 10 nationally in the number of master's degrees awarded to Hispanics according to the May 2008 edition of The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine. The magazine surveyed the 2006-2007 academic year of the Top 100 predominantly Hispanic-serving colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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UTSA earned No. 4 national ranking for awarding undergraduate degrees when 1,786 Hispanic students out of a total of 3,656 earned their bachelor's degree, representing 49 percent of the graduating class.
UTSA earned a No. 10 national ranking for awarding master's degrees when 351 Hispanic students out of a total 889 received their degree, representing 39 percent of the class. And for the first time, UTSA made the Top 100 list for graduating Hispanic doctoral candidates.
"We are excited to see the number of Hispanic students earning doctoral degrees at UTSA continue to rise and generate national recognition for our university," said UTSA President Ricardo Romo. "The growth of student enrollment in both our master's and doctoral programs are key components in our mission to become a premier research university."
Each year, The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine report includes Hispanic student participation across all major fields of study.
For nearly 12 years, the UTSA College of Sciences has led the nation in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded to Hispanic students in the biological sciences; that trend continued with 169 undergraduate degrees awarded to Hispanics in the 2006-2007 academic year. Additionally, the UTSA School of Architecture ranked second in awarding 58 undergraduate degrees and the UTSA College of Business ranked second in awarding 482 undergraduate degrees to Hispanics studying business and marketing.
The UTSA undergraduate rankings include:
1st -- Biological Sciences: 169
2nd -- Architecture: 58
2nd -- Business and marketing: 482
3rd -- Multi/interdisciplinary studies: 256
5th -- English Literature: 79
6th -- Mathematics: 22
6th -- Protective Services: 115
6th -- Psychology: 120
9th -- Hispanic Studies: 11
10th -- Engineering/Engineering Tech: 85
Overall, the University of Texas System dominated the first tier of the Top 100 institutions with UT-Pan American, UT-El Paso, UT-San Antonio and UT-Austin placing among the Top 10.
UTSA is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Texas and the second largest of nine academic universities and six health institutions in the UT System. As a multicultural institution of access and excellence, UTSA aims to be a premier public research university providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.
UTSA serves more than 28,500 students in 64 bachelor's, 44 master's and 20 doctoral degree programs in the colleges of Architecture, Business, Education and Human Development, Engineering, Honors, Liberal and Fine Arts, Public Policy, Sciences and Graduate School. Founded in 1969, UTSA is an intellectual and creative resource center and a socioeconomic development catalyst for Texas and beyond.


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Win Tickets to See The Roots and John Legend on December 7!
Earlier this month, I dropped some hot info that I'm in cahoots with HP and Beats by Dr. Dre, and while I'm reaping a lot of the benefits of a sweet new system and headphones (yeah, shameless plug here again), I also mentioned that you lucky little beasts would be privy to get in on the action too. Here's the first round of radness, and yo, it's a good one.
HP is all about music these days, and duh, so am I. They recently hooked me up with an ENVY 14 Beats Edition to test out and I'm digging the machine like a boss! Not only is HP making music sound good again on a computer, thanks to Beats Audio, but photos, movies and social networking is a breeze with Windows Live Essentials. To learn more about HP PCs with Beats Audio, hit this link hard.
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Amazon Falls 5% on 'Dip' in Growth; Estimates, Targets Going Down; Mulling 'Prime' Price Increase
Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) traded down tonight $18.51, or almost 5%, to $384.50, recovering from a 12% drop, after the company this afternoon reported Q4 revenue and profit that missed analysts' expectations, and projected this quarter's revenue below consensus as well.
Chief financial officer Tom Szkutak held a conference call with the Street following the report.
After a fairly routine summary of the results, Szkutak opened the floor to questions. The first one was about the company's rate of growth, from Citigroup's Mark May, who asked why the company's unit sales growth had declined to 25% from prior quarters. Said Szkutak,
First, the unit growth, you are right. It was 25% year-over-year, it is a deceleration, a small deceleration from the last couple quarters. Keep in mind, that it is -- certainly our biggest quarter, most seasonal. And so, both from a revenue and from a unit standpoint, you saw a deceleration from Q3 to Q4 of 2012 also. And so, we saw a deceleration, not of the same magnitude we saw back in 2012, from Q3 to Q4. But if you take a look at the total growth, it is 25% on a unit basis, 22% ex exchange on a revenue basis. We saw very good growth in North America, up 26%. This is again, on a revenue basis. It is down sequentially a little bit in the last couple quarters, but certainly up from Q4 last year where we grew 23%. In the international, the revenue was up about 15% ex exchange. If you look at the pieces, certainly one of the biggest things you are seeing is, if you look at the media growth in our digital categories within media and international is growing very fast. But as we have been talking about for quite some time, certainly a shift going from physical to digital. You see that reflected in North America media growth rates. The reason why you don't see it as much in our international is because we are at the very early stages of that. So that is what you are seeing in terms of the differential, certainly one of the key differentials between the international media growth rate, and the North America growth rate.
An analyst followed up by asking whether the dip in sales volume was related to the just-concluded holiday season being shorter than past holiday seasons in the U.S. Szkutak was not much help, replying, "In terms of the shorter period for shopping it's hard to tell honestly; It's hard to know. It definitely was a shorter period from post-Thanksgiving to the holiday, but again hard to know."
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, later in the call, asked about the "high-level philosophy" of the company given the company's attitude seems to be that profit is a "distant thought."
Szkutak replied,
We're looking to maximize cash flow in those investments over time. And so we have some investments that certainly start to pay off and become profitable in a three- to five-year period, we have others that have been a bit longer, but, again, we're monitoring those investments very carefully. Our goal is to maximize free cash flow for investors over time. But clearly our goal and not something we're working towards. All that being said, we're investing in a lot of the business right now, you can see that when you look at our results. And the reason why we're doing that is because of very large opportunities that we see, and we do go in cycles. As you think of our historical results, from time to time, we'll pull back to make sure the model is working, and we have done that, and I'm sure you'll see that going forward. At times as well. But again we're focused on making sure that we have a great customer experience, and we maximize free cash flow for the long-term.
Bernstein's Carlos Kirjner asked if a slow-down in capital spending meant that the company's "Amazon Web Services" cloud computing facility was now growing more slowly than in past.
Szkutak rejected the suggestion:
Do we expect this is an indication the AWS is slowing down? No, it's not, we're very pleased with the AWS business, it is growing very fast. The team is doing a fantastic job from the product and service standpoint, and we're very excited about that business. For opinions about what CapEx might be in the future, related to the growth rate in AWS, it is going very, very well.
There were tons of questions about the company's $79 free shipping subscription service, "Amazon Prime," after Szkutak remarked that "we are considering increasing the price of Prime between $20 to $40 in the US."
Prime's price has not been increased in the nine years since the offering was rolled out, Szkutak pointed out. He said higher shipping costs, which Amazon swallows with the fixed price of Prime, is one thing promoting possibly higher prices. But another factor is the company's offer of unlimited downloads of videos and other services, noting that "Prime video we're investing very heavily and so those are certainly costly; those are the reasons for the price increase that we're contemplating."
One analyst asked about how many subscribers might be affected by a price increase. Szkutak punted on the question, simply reiterating that the company had "tens of millions" of satisfied customers for Prime throughout the world.
The early trend among analysts tonight is to defend the company's revenue miss while cutting estimates and price targets.
Cantor Fitzgerald's Youssef Sqauli reiterated a Buy rating on the shares, while cutting his price target to $415 from $425.
Squali cut his 2014 estimates to $88.6 billion and 62 cents a share from a prior $90.4 billion and $2.77.
Writes Squali,
NA sales grew 25% Y/Y vs. 30% in 3Q, while Int'l (ex. FX) grew 15% Y/Y from 20%. While this trend is consistent with the broad slowdown in US e-commerce reported by comScore (11% in 4Q vs. 13% in 3Q), we note that AMZN continues to grow more than twice as fast as the overall market and to take share. This, coupled with a "record setting holiday season for Prime", which now has 20-30M members WW, by our estimates, shows that Amazon continues to effectively leverage its superior value proposition to attract higher-value Prime members.
And Victor Anthony with Topeka Capital Markets reiterated a Buy rating, but cut his price target to $450 from $480, and cut his 2014 estimates to $88.6 billion, and $3.38 per share from a prior $91.1 billion, and $4.22.
Writes Anthony,
Given the hype throughout the quarter ("record setting holiday season for Amazon Prime", "millions of customers unwrapped Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets"), investors demanded more by way of top-line growth, particularly as traditional retailers struggled. Overall, however, we believe Amazon reported a good quarter and our thesis on the stock is unchanged. Our price target reduces to $450 from $485 on slightly reduced estimates.


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Hello everyone!
For every buildup... There is a story.. And here is mine:
It all started when The Brit was driving around the country side of the UK. He spotted the car under a tree full of dust and decided to stop! After a Chat with the lady he found out she was a widow and that her late husband was the original owner of the breadvan. With 80k miles and mint condition he bought the car on the spot and brought it over to USA. A friend of mine went and bought the car from him! It was live at first sight for me. I offered to buy it from him, but he wouldn't budge. Until he found the car he really wanted, Acura EL, so he called me saying he needed to sell it right away to buy the Acura and gave me first pick, there were 3 others trying to buy it. But since he knew I would appreciate it more then anyone, he waited on me to get home from school. We closed the deal after I took my wife on a ride in it!
I got it and changed wheels right away! As he sold me the car with 13s steel wheels.
I drove the car a bit and first and only problem, the dizzy went. After getting tired of looking for it I found the forum of Club Polo UK. Became a member and started looking at the British tuning style, and I have to admit! The 1.4 16V AFH is very nice with the carbs.
So I started looking for all the engine choices. And finally bought a AFH there. It will be shipped to me and I will get it going and carbed! I will be doing more things to it.
Orchid Euro is going to get it here.. and I have some amazing people over there helping out to get the engine to the port!!
Here is what Is being done: (red is done.. Blue is being worked on)
-AFH swap
-Electronic ignition
-Shave bay
-Slim radiator
-Polished bits
-Powdercoated bits
-Wood steering wheel
-Wood shift knob
-Leather wrap the cloth part of the seats (not the checker board)
-Cup kit
-Bags over struts
-Rear disc conversion
-New bushings all around
-New breaks
-Powdercoating on all metal bits
-BBS RF reverse mounted prima Donna style with gold bolts and gold center cap
-Custom Side exit exhaust
-Custom stealth box
-Custom speaker mounts
-Hidden radio
Here are some pictures:
Those pictures were before all of the madness! lol
Stay posted as I will be uploading more and updating on every step! It will be a long project! But will be finished!
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APCNews 109 – .hn coup in Honduras, internet blackout in Niger
APCNews – October 13 2009 – Year X Issue 109
The news service on ICTs for social justice and sustainable development
After eleven long years, ICANN the organisation that effectively controls the internet through its oversight of website addresses like .com and .org no longer answers directly to the US government. It's a step forward to democratising how the internet is run in the future though ICANN is still not entirely free of US control and influence, says APC's Willie Currie. Internet independence was being challenged in Central America, as Honduras' de facto government demanded that .hn administrators RDS hand over control of the national domain, in apparent disregard for the stability of access to Honduran sites worldwide. And things proved calamitous in West Africa in July. Niger's internet went down for twenty days. This is what can happen when a nation doesn't have an alternative international internet back-up plan in place.
APC condemns seizure of .hn by coup leaders
MONTEVIDEO (APC for LACTLD) – The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) condemns the precipitated and unilateral decision of the coup government in Honduras to take over management of the .hn domain and affirms our solidarity with the long-time domain administrators, RDS, a pioneer provider of internet services especially oriented to civil society networks in Central America. APC calls for immediate dialogue with all stakeholders towards a positive solution for the Honduran people, prioritising the stability of the domain name system and the stability of the internet.
Internet blackout in Niger: Niger's dependence on the damaged Beninese fibre optic cable
CALGARY (LC for APCNews) – For twenty days in July, land-locked Niger was without internet connection owing to damage to the undersea cable which goes through neighbouring Benin, and on which Niger depends for 70% of its bandwidth. This APC investigation seeks to understand why this West African country is almost exclusively reliant on Beninese infrastructures, when an alternative satellite solution could have minimised the severity of the situation.
It's not enough to have a pushy broadband policy in Tanzania
JOHANNESBURG (John Mireny for APCNews) – By most standards, Tanzania's information and communications technology (ICT) policy looks ambitious. In just six years, it wants to make the country a hub of telecommunications infrastructure to help build the economy and end poverty. But John Mireny argues that when it comes to broadband, this vision lacks practical application, and is out of step with the real limitations on the ground.
The East African Internet Governance Forum: Advancing the internet governance debate for meaningful participation
KENYA (Alice Munyua for APCNews) – The East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EA-IGF), which first convened in 2008, aims at creating a community of practice that will, in the long term, become a sustaining foundation for meaningful participation of East African stakeholders in internet public policy debates at the national, regional and international level. This year's EA-IGF was held in Nairobi Kenya, with over 200 participants from varying sectors, from fifteen different countries. This year's forum focused on cyber-crime, policy regulatory needs consumer issues, critical internet resources, and access to broadband.
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Great Neighbors: Church Youth Groups
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - If you happened to be downtown last week on Saturday, you would have seen an interesting sight - dozens of kids out sweeping the sidewalks of Idaho Falls.
The youth group from the Church of the Nazarene and the young men and young women from the Shamrock Park ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met downtown as their leaders explained the project.
"Idaho Falls doesn't need its faith groups to be divided - it needs its faith groups to find common ground," Church of the Nazarene youth pastor, Tim Meeks, said. "As we got discussing what that common ground is, we decided that common ground is community service."
"In the end we're all just people trying to make our community a better place and worship the way we know best," Shamrock Park Ward Young Men's President, Todd Hansen, said.
In the parking lot the teams came together for their assignments and care was taken that each team had members of both youth groups mixed together.
There were no complaints - just excitement to be outside on a nice day with old friends and new acquaintances.
"I think it's really fun getting to know everyone from other churches and mingling with them because we don't really do this a lot," Laura Urling from the Shamrock Park Ward said.
"I think it's really fun getting to know different people and how they work," Abbi Dyal from the Church of the Nazarene said.
"It's cool to talk to them - they seem like very neat kids and it's good to get to know them," Jake Hansen from the Shamrock Park Ward said.
Streets were swept, leaves were raked, and through it all there were plenty of smiles and laughs and good times.
"Having a blast, making some laughs, sweeping some streets, helping some people out, that's what we're here for," Anthony Ferrell from the Church of the Nazarene said.
The fact they were different religions didn't seem to matter.
"And it's cool to meet other people because when it comes down to it your religion doesn't necessarily make you a better person or a worse person," Spencer Shull of the Shamrock Park Ward said.
"I don't think it matters too much about your religion - we're here to help the community and that's all that matters," Anthony Ferrell said.
The event was such a success that the two youth groups plan to get together again.


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