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Guest presenters include Dan Garcia from the Beauty and Joy of Computing project in California and Baker Franke from the Chicago Public Schools, and Code.org.
Dan Garcia is a Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley. Selected as an ACM Distinguished Lecturer in 2012, he is involved in the national effort to design engaging and effective early computing curriculums, exemplified in the new AP CP Principles (CS10K) project. He is co-PI on the UC Berkeley "Beauty and Joy of Computing" project, which was selected as one of the 5 pilot courses for the AP CS Principles effort funded by NSF and in development with the College Board. Dr. Garcia has B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Baker Franke has worked to increase the visibility and credibility of high school computer science, primarily through his classroom teaching (2002-2014) and advocacy. With the Chicago CSTA chapter, a group he helped establish in 2008, he is working with local Chicago colleges and universities to train Chicago Public School teachers to teach "Exploring Computer Science". Baker is a public advocate for computer science education as a CSTA cohort leader, raising awareness of the dire need for better computer science education for all students by speaking with public figures and policy makers. Baker has a B.A. in Computer Science and English from Amherst College in Massachusetts, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
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Mayra Bachrach is a Computer Science teacher at Glen Ridge High School. She teaches Computer Science 1, Computer Science 2, AP Computer Science, 8th grade Robotics and High School Robotics. She is the advisor for the Computer club and the Robotics club. During the summer of 2012, she attended the CS4HS BJC@Kean workshop and used the BJC curriculum as part of her high school Computer Science 1 course. She has a B..A. from Kean University in Math and an M.S. from NJIT in Computer Science.
Richard Bell has taught at Cranford High School, Cranford, NJ for the past 10 years in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. His instruction includes 3 levels of courses in Web Design, an Intro to Computer Programming, AP Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics. He runs the Webmaster Team and the Computer Honors Society at his school, and enjoys getting his students involved with community service. During the summer of 2012, he attended the CS4HS BJC@Kean Workshop and used the BJC curriculum as part of his high school teaching in AY 2012-2013. He holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Drew University and M.A. in instructional technology from Arcadia University.
Daryl Detrick teaches computer science at Warren Hills High School. He is President of the CSTA - Central NJ Chapter, and a member of the CSTA Advocacy team for NJ. Daryl has developed the computer science curriculum at WHHS, introducing an annual showcase featuring recent high school graduates who return from their post-secondary STEM studies to share their experiences, and is currently sponsoring a NCWIT AspireIT GirlsWhoCode event with one of his senior students. During the summer of 2013, Daryl attended the CS4HS BJC@Kean Workshop. Daryl has B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and MS in Administrative Leadership from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Thejasri Dowluri (MS CIS '15),CS4HS@Kean Teaching Assistant is a graduate student at Kean University, majoring in Computer Information Systems. Her research work "A Novel Approach for Frequency Hopping CDMA Technique" was published in International Journal of Advanced and Innovative Research (IJAIR) in 2012. She worked as an undergradaute teaching faculty member for two years in India. She has a M.S. Computers & Communications and a B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from JNTU, India.
Karen Harris is a member of Kean University's Center for Professional Development. She is responsible for the integration of technology and instructional methods at Kean. Annual offerings on curriculum and technology are designed by Karen and presented to the Kean community, with an emphasis on the innovation and utility of the technology. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University.
Jeremy McAllister (BS '15, MS CIS '16) CS4HS@Kean Teaching Assistant is an undergraduate at Kean University majoring in Computer Science. Jeremy is a recent addition to Kean, having transferred from a career in web applications development in fall 2013 to pursue a Master's degree in Computer Information Sciences for 2016. He is a current Kean scholar and member of Kean's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. His background in web development extends for over 6 years across freelance and professional employment with clients ranging from home-builder businesses to silver traders, to a jewelry web-store application with annual revenue in the millions.
Shruti Mishra (MS CIS '15) CS4HS@Kean Teaching Assistant is a graduate student at Kean University, majoring in Computer Science. She completed her Master in Business Administration (IT), from IIIT, India. Her research work on "Effects of E-Learning initiatives on performance of primary school students" was presented at an international conference on "Information Technology and Education" at IIIT, Amethi, India. She is currently working as a research assistant at Kean University. Shruti will be graduating in December, 2014.
Patricia Morreale is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kean University, Union, NJ, where she conducts research on network and multimedia systems. She is a member of the Academic Alliance Executive Committee for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). With NCWIT, she is involved in the national effort to encourage student success and retention in computer science and information technology. At Kean her research has been funded by NSF, Google, and the Computing Research Association (CRA). Dr. Morreale has a B.S. from Northwestern University, a M.S. from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology, all in Computer Science.
Joan Mruk has worked in independent schools in NJ for the past 17 years, teaching technology courses in Middle and High school and integrating technology into the curriculum. Joan currently teaches Web Design, Digital Media, and Information Management at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, NJ. She is moderator of the tech club and involved withe the school TV Studio club. During the summer of 2012, she attended the CS4HS BJC@Kean Workshop and based on this she will teach the new Computer Science Principles course in the fall. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science/Business from Centenary College and is completing her M.Ed. in Learning, Design and Technology from Penn State.
Carolee Stewart-Gardiner is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Kean University, Union, NJ. Prior to joining Kean, she was a Systems Analyst working in industry in New York. Her research on computer science education includes identification of methodologies which are successful for teaching algorithmic thinking to math, science and computer science students. In addition to her work with secondary education, Prof. Stewart-Gardiner has developed Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) methods and activities for use with introductory computer science curriculum. Most recently, she has designed, with her undergraduates, a game for middle school students, and conducted an initial pilot of the game with Roselle Park. She has a B.A. from SUNY-Buffalo in Philosophy, with a concentration in Logic, and a M.S. from Hofstra University in Computer Science.


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Speaking to donors after the election, Mitt Romney attributed his loss to President Obama to the administration's strategy of "giving a lot of stuff" to blacks and Latinos, citing in particular "free health care" and "amnesty for the children of illegals." But data show a more plausible explanation: Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, who overwhelmingly voted for Obama, were simply evaluating the long-term record of each party.
The data we analyzed show unequivocally that minorities fare better under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones. Census data tracking annual changes in income, poverty and unemployment over the last five decades tell a striking story about the relationship between the president's party and minority well-being.
Under Democratic presidents, the incomes of black families grew by an average of $895 a year, but only by $142 a year under Republicans. Across 26 years of Democratic leadership, unemployment among blacks declined by 7.9 percent; under 28 years of Republican presidencies, the rate increased by a net of 13.7 percent. Similarly, the black poverty rate fell by 23.6 percent under Democratic presidents and rose by 3 percent under Republicans.
The results for Latinos and Asians, though based on fewer years of data, show the same pattern. For example, Latino incomes grew an average of $627 a year under Democrats and fell by $197 a year under Republicans. The data similarly show that the living standards of Asian Americans have improved under Democrats and stagnated under Republicans.
More important, these gains do not come at the expense of whites. On average, white incomes have similarly grown, and white joblessness and poverty have likewise declined, under Democratic administrations. These numbers show that economic condition need not be a zero-sum game pitting races and ethnicities against one another...
...Zoltan Hajnal, is a co-author of "Why Americans Don't Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate" and a professor of political science at UC San Diego; Jeremy D. Horowitz is a UC San Diego political science doctoral student. They wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
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It could be the logical trickle-down effect of the one-and-done mentality. If college players can leave early for the NBA, why shouldn't the most elite high school basketball players enter college a little early?
Andrew Wiggins, a 6-8 Canadian forward who plays for Huntington (W.Va.) Prep, says, "I haven't really thought about it" when asked about reclassifying from being a junior next school year to being a senior. That's what Nerlens Noel said in January while playing at a prep school in New Hampshire, but now he's at Kentucky after reclassifying.
"I would say that with today's NBA one-and-done rule, it's probably something you're going to see more frequently," said Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox. "You get a chance to get to the NBA a year earlier. … It wouldn't be wise for anyone but the elite of the elite."
Wiggins, who appears to be gliding down the court even as he blows past opponents, is considered the top recruit in the 2014 class by 247.com, ESPN.com, Rivals.com and Scout.com.
At the Nike Peach Jam AAU tournament this past week against mostly players in the 2013 class, Wiggins led his team, CIA Bounce, to the 17-under finals, where it fell 51-50 Sunday to the Oakland Soldiers.
After Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, he probably had the second-best week for a sportsman with his last name. At the Peach Jam, he was one of the top defenders and was second in scoring and third in rebounding and fourth in free-throw accuracy.
Milton, Ga., basketball coach David Boyd, who was at Peach Jam and coached against Wiggins at the Nike Global Challenge in Washington, D.C., last week, tweeted that Wiggins "reminds me of when LeBron was coming (through); very similar type of player."
Kentucky assistant coach Orlando Antigua, who recruited Noel and is recruiting Wiggins, said he's not sure Noel has started a trend that will lead some elite players to try to get to their first NBA free agent contract sooner.
"It all depends on the individual and their circumstances," Antigua said. "Everybody has different circumstances. … There's so many other obstacles between high school and to get to the point where you actually worry about having that opportunity in the NBA. So much has to go right and all the stars have to align."
Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford said the talk of Wiggins reclassifying came up in April at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Ore., when Wiggins was asked about it.
"He just said that his grades were good and he had a lot of credits, so it was possible," Fulford said.
The players at Huntington Prep take classes at St. Joseph's, a Catholic high school in Huntington.
"It's a more difficult school than just making up classes at a public school," Fulford said. "We'll support him either way. We'll know soon enough because once the school year starts, if he were to go early, he would have to start taking extra credits right away. His grades are fine, but that's a lot of classes to take. He's a special player, but he could use the extra year to get a little stronger."
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A List of Silversmiths' Hallmarks & Silver Makers' Marks
This is by no means
an exhaustive list of Silversmiths' Hallmarks,
but gradually it will be built up into a reasonably
substantial reference section for silver hallmarks
and silver makers.
This page contains silver makers' marks for
George Unite & Sons, Nathan and Hayes, George
William Adams and The Alexander Clark Manufacturing
Nathan and Hayes
George Nathan and Ridley Hayes
who entered their mark in 1897. The company traded under
the name of 'Nathan and Hayes' and operated from a number
of premises as follows:
285 Icknield Street, Birmingham
Howard Street, Birmingham
13 Hatton Gardens, London.
The owners lived at the following premises
(a) George Nathan - Argent House, Handsworth then 243
Hagley Road Birmingham
(b) Ridley Hayes - 7 Clarendon Road, Edgbaston then
Hall Road, Birmingham.
After 1912 Hayes is not listed and either he must be
presumed to have died or perhaps Nathan bought out the
company as the trading name continued to be 'Nathan
and Hayes'. The company was absorbed by S Blanckensee
& Sons Ltd later in the 20th century.
Nathan & Hayes were known for Arts and Crafts interpretations
of early English silver.
William Adams
George William Adams, a silversmith with Chawner
& Co. George William Adams was the son-in-law
of Mrs Mary Chawner, who took over her husband's
silversmith business, located at 16 Hosier Street
Smithfield, London, after Mr Chawner's death
in 1834. Adams, who was born on 12th September
1808 married Chawner's daughter, Mary Ann
in 1838, and was made a partner in the company
in 1840. Adams was from an established family
of watchmakers and on the death of Mrs Chawner
he became head of the firm but retained his links
with the family watch making business. He sold
the firm to Holland, Aldwinkle & Slater in
1883 and died in 1895, aged 87. The Company was
a prolific producer of the very best quality silver
flatware in a huge variety of patterns
The Alexander
Clark Manufacturing Co
Charles Brown
George John Richards, a silversmith, is first
registered at 261/2 (yes that's correct!) Sekforde
Street Clerkenwell from 1845 - 1850; he moved
to 35 Whiskin Street, Clerkenwell where he operated
from 1851 to 1852; he was then recorded as operating
from 20 Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell from 1853
- 1857. From c.1857, Richards was joined by Edward
Charles Brown and operated under the name of Richards
& Brown. Richards retired on 30th March 1867
and the business continued under the name Richards
& Brown until Brown retired at the end of
1882. After Brown's death in early 1883, the company
was taken over by John Williams Johnson and Alfred
Springthorpe and was operated under the name Johnson
& Springthorpe until 17th January 1885 when
this partnership was dissolved. The business continued
under J.W. Johnson who retired in October 1887.
Mathew William White joined the business c. 1885
and the business operated under the name of Johnson
& White from 1886 until 1889.
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Banana Cake Balls Wrapped in Chocolate
Recipe by Ambervim
This is one of JELLO's spring recipes this year. I like the recipe cause you can make cake pops without owning a special pan.
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I saw this recipe in a magazine and when I looked here found you'd already posted, so glad you did too. This is so easy and fun to make. I made it for my DGSs who are spending the weekend with me and they loved it. An added bonus is how simple it is to put together - the hardest part for me was trying to find a way to stand them up for a display. As it turned out no need, the boys just dug in. Thanks for posting a fun recipe
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 118.29 ml milk, cold
- 96.38 g packagevanilla flavor instant pudding mix
- 1 fully ripe banana, mashed
- 304.75 g lb cake, thawed, crumbled into fine crumbs (I think another yellow cake would work)
- 0 milk chocolate candy bar, chopped
- 29.58 ml multi-colored candy sprinkles (or another decoration, nuts come to mind)
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- STIR milk and pudding mix in medium bowl with large spoon just until pudding mix is moistened. Immediately add bananas and cake crumbs; mix well.
- TO PORTION CAKE BALLS Use cookie scoop to portion the cake mixture for each ball. Then, roll the cake balls between the palms of your hands to form smooth round balls.
- SHAPE into 36 (1-inch) balls; place on waxed paper-covered rimmed baking sheet. Freeze 1 hour.
- MELT chocolate in medium microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 min., stirring after 1 minute
- TO EASILY COAT THE CAKE BALLS Remove inner tines of disposable fork; set aside. Add cake balls, in batches, to bowl of melted chocolate. Use spoon or rubber scraper to evenly coat balls with chocolate. Remove balls with prepared fork.
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To say tackle Will Beatty had a rough season for the New York Giants would be a bit of an understatement. From the opening play of 2013, Beatty struggled mightily, eventually admitting that he was wildly over-thinking in an attempt to live up to the five-year, $37.5 million deal given to him by Big Blue in the offseason.
"I know I came into this year trying to do too much," Beatty said in early December. "Last year was a good year for me because I was just focused on the task at hand. And then you get the contract, and you know the eyes are on you, people are expecting more from you. And I'm out there thinking, 'I want to earn that contract, I want to make sure they know I wasn't a fluke.' And I end up blowing it out of proportion."
Unfortunately for Beatty, his season ended just as poorly as it had started — which saw him get beaten by Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware, who promptly intercepted a screen pass thrown by quarterback Eli Manning.
And then, in a 20-6 Week 17 victory over the Washington Redskins, Beatty suffered a gruesome broken leg after colliding with defensive back DeAngelo Hall. His teammates immediately called for trainers as he lie in pain on the ground, ultimately getting carted off to the locker-room as his nightmare of a season came to a close.
The good news for Beatty, as it was revealed on Monday, is that he suffered no ligament damage in his knee or anywhere else in his leg as a result of the fracture. And after undergoing successful surgery to repair the fracture, he is expected to remain off his feet for several weeks before rehab begins. And, assuming there are no setbacks, is expected to be ready for the start of the 2014 regular season.
For both his sake and the Giants, it would be best if he came back healthy and returned to 2012 form.
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Emergency First Aid at Work - Level 2
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An Emergency First Aid at Work course for those working in low risk environments such as shops or offices. The course follows the HSE recognised Ofqual accredited syllabus and aims to provide delegates with the essential principles of First Aid and how to apply them to an emergency setting
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Workplaces with less than 100 staff
Individuals who need to have basic First Aid knowledge, such as freelancers
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- Understanding the role of a First Aider and the need for reporting accidents
- Acting safely, promptly and effectively in an emergency
- Caring for an Unconscious Casualty (including seizure)
- Performing Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Blood loss and Shock
- Minor burns and scalds
- Choking
- Preventing cross infection
- Use of available First Aid equipment
What can/can't I bring to the event
Just yourself; all books and paperwork is provided. As well and tea and coffee. Lunch isnt provided, but there are plenty of places to eat nearby.
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TOPIC: Insects
- I have tons of ants outside my house. When I am weeding I run into them. I have put down some diazion and they are still there always in the same spots. Is there anything I can use outside to get rid of them permentaly. If I don't keep the diazion granules in my cracks in my garage they are always there to. I just want them gone.
- I live at the edge of a neighborhood bordering the mountains in North Ogden. The last week we have seen hundreds and hundreds of little beetle-like bugs that have six legs, two antennas and a green/black body with a bright orange border. It appears the adult version of the beetle is about 1/4 inch long and fairly round. I'm wondering what this bug is and what damage it can/will do. I have close-up photos that I'd be more than happy to provide. Can you please help me identify this pest?
- I live in Bloomington Just south of Saint George, Utah. About a week ago I noticed hundreds of little greenish/yellowish flying bugs. Like I said they have been here about a week and they are not going away. I have lived in the area for about six years now and have never seen them before. Do you have any idea what they are and how I can control them? Regards Randy
- I live on the hillside in Bountiful and have small dark red ants in many parts of the house. They are boring through the floors and bathroom cabinets and leaving large piles of sawdust. Obviously I suspect they are carpenter ants and using images on the web I think they are the camponotus herculeanus species. (just a guess though) So how can I be sure? And I'm not sure how to get rid of them or if they can do significant structural damage. I also don't know if I should trust many of the pest control services. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
- I recently moved into a house. I noticed what I thought were little black ants didn't bother me I've delt with little black ants before. then I noticed that these little ants didn't have legs that stick out. then I noticed that they weren't ants. once in awhile I would see them when I swept the floor and occationaly I would see one or a few climbing up my wall. but now the really sad thing is they are all over in my Flour, My bags of rice and now i will have to throw it all out. What kind of a bug is it? it is about 1/4 inch long, very thin, and very black. Help me. And what do I need to do to get rid of it?
- I was camping in Big Cottonwood Canyon this weekend. Sunday Morning a large beetle landed on my leg. I flicked it off. As we were taking down camp more of this same beetle kept landing on me. It had about and inch long body and almost double that with the antenna. I was hoping you could help me identify it and tips that may be useful for preventing them from pursuing me in the future.
- I've lived in Spanish Fork all my life and have never seen a beetle like this before...and they're suddenly all over our yard! The adults are about 1/3" long. They are either yellow-green or blue-green on their backs, with a small band of light tan (almost white) all the way around the outside edge. They don't fly. We find them usually running across the driveway and I've found a few in the flower gardens as I'm weeding.
- Is there a beetle around Salt Lake City that looks like the big, black, fast-running roaches I remember from New Orleans?
- Is there any evidence of free run chickens significantly controlling flies from horse manure? I have neighbors who rely solely on a single hen and rooster to control flies for their two horses in a paddock, not a pasture. No other form of control is used. While chickens may, in fact control insects, I suspect the only real way to control insects (particularly flies) is to routinely (daily or weekly) police the manure and dispose of it. Is there any literature on the subject?
- My daughter found a strange insect outside today. It 1 1/2 inches long and has the coloring of a wasp. The back part of the body looks like a very large wasp, but the front part and front legs look more like a praying mantis. Just wondering if you could tell us what kind of insect this could be. It was definitely interesting looking!
- My raspberries and red and very sweet and now I have found thread-like worms on the fruit (about 2-4 in a bowl) when washing. What are they and how do I treat the fruits? They are black or grayish and threadlike and about 1/ to 2/3 of an inch long.
- Pole bean plants are getting eaten by something, little bites all over. Now leaves are turning yellow and drying up. What do you think the problem is. They get plenty of water.
- Sandy, Utah area (foothill benches. I am seeing sparse (not dense threads or tent-like)spider webs spanning approx 1-2 inches in the crotches of various limbs on scrub oak (no bugs or spiders are visible, however, did recently see only one yellowish/brown spindly pointed legs/body spider on limb which was about 1/2 - 3/4 inch if legs were spread from end to end). I've never seen spider like it before and can't identify on internet or books. Any thoughts, advice, or place to reference on what and how to treat? Scrub overhangs patio and everyone is paranoid to sit under trees. This is only affecting a few trees near pation, not seen on all scrub oak on property.
- We found (we think) a black widow spider in our home last night. It is completely black with a red hour-glass shape on its belly. We are concerned that there may be more of them in our home. I normally am opposed to using chemicals to get rid of spiders or insects, but in this case I think there is a bit of a health risk. I am particularly concerned about the safety of my children whose ages range from 9 months to 5 years. What can I do to get rid of any other black widow spiders that may be in our house, besides trying to keep corners clean, etc.?
- We have a concord grape vine on our fense and our neighbor has a large woodpile near it. The wood pile is a home for hornets which eat our grapes before they are ready to pick. What is a safe way to get rid of the hornets in the wood pile?
- We have a deck that holds a raised hot tub about 3 - 4 feet off the ground (it's on a wood stand). Unfortunatley, bees or wasps (not sure which) have decided to use the insulation underneath the hot tub as their home. Help! I have elementary age kids that are always outside. How do I get rid of them?
- We have a lot of pill bugs in our vegetable garden and strawberries. How can we get rid of them?
- We have a scorpion that just came up on our patio when our sprinklers came on. Is it normal to find a scorpion in Herriman? I have never heard of them here. It seems to be all white and very mean as it came after the people sitting on the patio rather than going away from them. We now have it in a bottle. This concerns me as I have a two year old and a baby who play out side. How do I keep them out of my yard?
- We have ants inside and outside of our house. Twice a year, we have flying ants in the basement of our house. In our garden and strawberry patch, we have big aggresive ants that make it difficult to enjoy our strawberries. What is the best way to get rid of the ants in these places? Is is ok to poison them around the strawberries? What about in the house?
- We have flying insects black and red. long tail laying eggs in juniper trees. What are they?
- We have flying, black bugs with orange/red spots by the eyes. They are all over our year old peach trees. Do you have any idea what they could be and how we can get rid of them?
- We have lots of large, brown, fat beetles around our house this year. Any idea what they are, and if they are a problem for our plants and flowers?
- We have millions of tiny tan bugs that jump when you try to swat them. I think they are springtails, and I have no idea how to get rid of them. They are coming into our house (we rent out a basement apartment), and they are all over outside! They are on the concrete, the stucco, everywhere! They don't seem to be bothering my two cats or our plants outside. How do I get rid of them? I've tried putting Sevin outside around the doorway and windowsills to keep them out, however it is not working.
- We planted linden trees this year and wrapped the trunks with white corrugated tubing to prevent sun scald in the winter. In looking at leaf damage on the outside border of the leaves, I noted that there were literally hundreds of small gray/black flying insects clustered under the tree wrap. What might they be and are they responsible for the chewed leaves? What treatment is needed?
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lex-man wrote:...Azerbaijan...should have won.
Yeah, I agree.
So does Safura..
Anyone else think that Roonmaster looks like (almost) every member of maNga, the Turkish entry?
lex-man wrote:...Azerbaijan...should have won.
mas22 wrote:Germany's entry is a poor rip off of some of our superior credible acts that frequent the charts, why can't we do better??
DML wrote:
A challenger arrives.
KazemI wrote:Dude thats strawberry floating amaze! ze germans have always been a bit mental aiy. i take it thats West germany ? HOO HAA
Igor wrote:Do it chalk
Who knew that Azerbaijani girls were so fit?
mokeyjoe wrote:Igor wrote:Do it chalk
Who knew that Azerbaijani girls were so fit?
I've been to Azerbaijan, it's full of prostitutes. Really skanky ones too.
What a shithole.
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By far the best of the night. Love it.
Octoroc wrote:Spain and France were both excellent in 2008
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A challenger arrives.
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We buy big warm winter jackets because sometimes the weather gets cold and crummy and we still need to function. We have no other option. However, with the Patagonia Women's Downtown Loft Parka you might find yourself looking forward to wintery weather. The 600 fill goose down insulation will shrug off the excessively cold temperatures and the Deluge DWR (durable water repellent) finished polyester shell will shrug off some wind and rain. The length falls below the knee (dropped hem in back) so with the hood up (which is insulated and zips into the collar) you'll have almost full body coverage. It has a 2-way full-length zipper to give you ample ventilation/style options. So get ready to look forward to winter.... just try to hide your excitement.
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UKIP candidate Douglas Carswell won 21,113 votes, or 59.7% of the total, in Thursday's by-election. This was 12,404 more than Conservative candidate Giles Watline, who came in second with 8,709 votes, or 24.6%. Read more
UKIP candidate Douglas Carswell won 21,113 votes, or 59.7% of the total, in Thursday's by-election. This was 12,404 more than Conservative candidate Giles Watline, who came in second with 8,709 votes, or 24.6%. Read more
One Tory MP buttonholed me this morning to ask why the FT this morning carried a story about the donations from the Square Mile to his party. (Donations from financiers and City firms now account for more than half the £22.5m the Conservatives attracted last year.)
"You should hardly be surprised by now that your readers support our party," he observed.
Up to a point, Lord Copper. Yes, the City has always backed the Tories (with a temporary swing away during the peak of New Labour) while the unions are the cornerstone of Labour.
Plus the proportion of City money going to the Tories has actually fallen from 52 per cent in 2009 to 51 per cent last year, if you look closely at the figures in the report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
But the underlying trend is still worth reporting (it's also the splash in the Guardian) as it shows a medium-term rise in the proportion of funding from city sources – up from just 25 per cent in 2005. Read more
Margaret Thatcher always had a soft spot for David Young, the businessman who brought some "can do" spirit to the old Department of Trade and Industry.
Baroness Thatcher said of Lord Young: "Other people brought me problems. David brought me solutions." Read more
When George Oborne addressed the cabinet this morning his message was the usual one about trying to make the cuts as fair as possible and to "fall on the broadest shoulders". The chancellor admitted that this was an "anxious time for some in the public sector" who could now lose their jobs.
Lord Adonis meanwhile claims in this morning's FT that "Whitehall is stunned and morale risks plummeting" as the cuts reality dawns. This chimes with what I'm told by several civil servants who read this blog.
Many departments are already going through a redundancy process – instigated in June – even before the new £83bn wave of cuts which will see an estimated half a million public sector jobs go.
I am told of one leaving party for BIS staff, held in a local pub, which attracted three or four hundred attendees. The atmosphere was utterly morose. Meanwhile some civil servants are receiving letters giving them only a week to decide whether or not they want to leave. As for those who are quitting, there are rumours that they may not be paid their redundancy payments until the end of November – a six week gap. "It feels really chaotic," one tells me. Yet this is only a foretaste of the cuts to come. Read more
In December 2009 David Cameron made a speech in which he promised to reduce the burden of health and safety. His most heart-rending example was that of a small boy who drowned while fishing for tadpoles. As Cameron told his audience:
What's more, the fear of transgressing all these rules causes people to stand aside when others need help.
This was most tragically illustrated in Wigan two years ago, when a ten year old drowned in a pond, having rescued his young sister, because officers were told not to intervene as they hadn't undertaken their 'water rescue' health and safety training.
But was it a true story? Read more
Not sure if this has had any pick-up but in Francis Maude's speech he promised to set up his own army of community organisers:
So we're creating a Big Society Bank, training a whole new generation of community organisers, involving more voluntary and social enterprises in public service provision. Social action; community engagement.
Could this possibly have been borrowed from David Miliband's "Movement for Change", modelled on Barack Obama's similar campaign? Read more
It is hard to know sometimes whether Simon Hughes is playing a fiendishly complex strategic game in order to leverage anti-Tory forces within his own Liberal Democrat party and thus enhance his own reputation. Or whether he just can't resist saying controversial things.
So it was with the VAT rise. Tuition fees. And with council housing. And now Mr Hughes (deputy leader the Lib Dems) is insisting that there will be no electoral pact between his party and the Tories come the next general election. (This is in contrast to Tories such as backbencher Mark Field, who has proposed a non-aggression agreement). Read more
David Cameron, in his original incarnation as Tory leader, was an advocate of the green agenda; cycling everywhere, visiting the Arctic (albeit by plane) and fixing a wind turbine to the roof of his west London home. (No matter that he was forced to take it down due to complex planning issues).
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A number of the T shirts went missing, later showing up on the backs of a bunch of frat boys causing a scene.
First responders took them to a shelter in Dallas with not much more than the clothes on their backs.
One question was why Lynch did not think this was also true of cops who turned their backs earlier on Sunday.
Democrats, their backs up, have altered Senate rules on filibusters in the face of Republican obstruction.
But the day of our protest, he demanded we pray with our backs against the wall.
There was no choice of direction, so they turned to get the wind on their backs.
"Yes, we love examining each other's backs," said Madame Valtesi.
Some carried packs on their backs, with pick and shovel, drill and pan.
I looked forward to seeing you after all the others had turned their backs on me.
Their backs are slouched, and their legs are curved with much standing about.
Old English bæc "back," from Proto-Germanic *bakam (cf. Old Saxon and Middle Dutch bak, Old Frisian bek), with no known connections outside Germanic.
The cognates mostly have been ousted in this sense in other modern Germanic languages by words akin to Modern English ridge (cf. Danish ryg, German Rücken). Many Indo-European languages show signs of once having distinguished the horizontal back of an animal (or a mountain range) from the upright back of a human. In other cases, a modern word for "back" may come from a word related to "spine" (Italian schiena, Russian spina) or "shoulder, shoulder blade" (Spanish espalda, Polish plecy).
To turn (one's) back on (someone or something) "ignore" is from early 14c. Behind (someone's) back "clandestinely" is from late 14c.
To know (something) like the back of one's hand, implying familiarity, is first attested 1893. The first attested use of the phrase is from a dismissive speech made to a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Catriona":
If I durst speak to herself, you may be certain I would never dream of trusting it to you; because I know you like the back of my hand, and all your blustering talk is that much wind to me.The story, a sequel to "Kidnapped," has a Scottish setting and context, and the back of my hand to you was noted in the late 19th century as a Scottish expression meaning "I will have nothing to do with you" [e.g. "Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language"]. In English generally, the back of (one's) hand has been used to imply contempt and rejection since at least 1300. Perhaps the connection of a menacing dismissal is what made Stevenson choose that particular anatomical reference.
late 15c., "to move (something) back," from back (adv.). Meaning "to support" (as by a bet) is first attested 1540s. Related: Backed; backing.
late 14c., shortened from abak, from Old English on bæc "backwards, behind, aback" (see back (n.)). Back and forth attested from 1814.
late 15c., "to move (something) back," from back (adv.). Meaning "to support" (as by a bet) is first attested 1540s. Related: Backed; backing.
late 14c., shortened from abak, from Old English on bæc "backwards, behind, aback" (see back (n.)). Back and forth attested from 1814.
back (bāk)
The posterior portion of the trunk of the human body between the neck and the pelvis; the dorsum.
The backbone or spine.
As a chaser: She wants whiskey with water back (1980s+)
(also backup or backup for a beef) Someone who will support and assist; a trusty ally (1980s+ Teenagers)
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|From: Prabhakar Ragde (plragde at uwaterloo.ca)
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Hendrik Boom wrote: >> This week it's "Why the hell did I have to learn the theory of LR >> > parsing with explicit stacks and state transitions instead of >> > mutually-recursive functions?" --PR > > It's a completely different algorithm, with quite different > capabilities. I think, if you're going to write compilers, you should > know both, so you'll be able to use the one that suits the language. See, you're a victim of the conspiracy, too. They are not completely different algorithms. There is a thread of continuity between them explored in a series of papers, the central one being Leermakers, Augusteijn, and Kruseman Aretz (TCS 1992). Here it is in a nutshell. If we take a context-free grammar G and create a function A() for each nonterminal A whose job it is to consume (from an input list provided as a parameter to the function A) an initial sequence of terminals derivable from A, it is easy to write what we call a naive recursive-descent parser. It can even handle ambiguous grammars if we have it produce a list of input suffixes (that is, make it nondeterministic). But it takes exponential time on some grammars, and gets into infinite loops with left-recursive productions (e.g. A -> Ab). So we transform G to ensure there are at most two nonterminals on the right-hand side of every rule. There are many related ways to do this (cf Chomsky normal form) but we choose one that introduces items as nonterminals. An item is a grammar rule with a dot in the right-hand side to indicate partial progress. The rules in the transformed grammar have an item on the left side and on the right side, the nonterminal after the dot followed by the item with the dot moved over one position. If we apply recursive descent to the transformed grammar (with a function for each item), it still has the same problems. But if we memoize the computation, it's not hard to show that it takes O(n^3) time. [Aside: up to this point should be core material for any reputable CS curriculum, but it is not.] We can cut this down by introducing lookahead (first and follow sets), giving LL(k). But we still have the problem with left recursion, which tends to be natural in grammars for programming languages (and, I am told, for natural language grammars as well). There are techniques for avoiding the infinite loops, but the resulting parse trees "slant the wrong way". We can handle that by transforming the parse tree, but that involves operations on trees, not to mention building the parse tree in the first place. (Such things are hard for students instructed using Java.) So we transform the grammar again to eliminate left recursion. There are many related ways to do this (cf Greibach normal form), but we choose one that involves left corners of the symbol after the dot (a left corner being any initial symbol generated by rewriting the leftmost symbol zero or more times). Then we apply recursive descent to the newly transformed grammar. Expressed in terms of the original grammar, this involves not only a function for each item, but a function for each (left corner, item) pair. This is nondeterministic recursive ascent parsing, so named because the recursive functions "ascend" from a terminal which is a left corner through successive undone leftmost rewrites. To make this more general, we use the idea from NFA->DFA conversion, and replace functions on items by functions on sets of items (called states). Where before the natural successor of an item I with respect to a nonterminal A just after a dot was the item with the dot moved over the A, now the successor of a state is the collection of such plus the introduction of new items with A on the left and some right-hand side with a dot all the way to the left. This is the LR(0) automaton, and what I've described is its transition or "goto" function. If we apply recursive ascent to this, and work out the details, we get an LR(0) parser. (Pepper at TU-Berlin explains it entirely in terms of grammar transformations.) Shift-reduce and reduce-reduce conflicts are explained by being exactly the points in the function definitions where nondeterminism is possible. Adding lookahead as we did for LL(k) gives LR(k). Cutting down on the number of states and the complexity of the transition function by including various restrictions gives SLR or LALR. These sets of mutually-recursive functions don't look much like the traditional LR(0) or LR(k) parser. To get there, we make the recursion stack explicit, and treat the input list as a stack. Then the core of the algorithm becomes an iterative loop, popping and pushing. Finally, we notice that we can combine the two stacks into one, processing the input sequentially, and we have the conventional presentation (which, unlike everything I have described up to this point, cannot handle nondeterminism caused by grammars that don't conform to the restrictions). But all the intuition has been drained out of it, as the blood has been drained out of a slaughtered animal that ends up as shrink-wrapped pieces of meat in a supermarket. Yes, they're convenient, and we adults make the connection with living animals if we think about it enough, though usually we don't. The traditional LR(k) algorithm is efficient in time and space (to an extent not really needed in many applications any more, and certainly not needed in a pedagogical presentation), but students don't make the connection with more natural or simpler techniques. Instead, they either use tools (e.g. Lex/YACC) that they only dimly understand, flailing away at shift-reduce or reduce-reduce conflicts by randomly rewriting their grammars, or they learn the algorithm by rote but glean what intuition they can from one or two worked examples. I went further, learning the theories of LL and LR parsing from researchers in formal languages at two universities, but until recently I also thought these were "completely different" algorithms that could only be expressed iteratively using mutation. To be fair, I learned said theories before the above connections were worked out; the first papers in this series (Roberts and Kruseman Aretz) appeared in 1988. Twenty years later, we no longer have an excuse. --PR
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting some political cover from a fellow city chief across the Hudson River.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker posted on Twitter that "people are far 2 rough" on Bloomberg. He says his New Jersey city is "still fighting 2 clear snow" and notes Newark is 1/29th the size of the Big Apple.
A post-Christmas Day storm dumped 2 1/2 feet of snow in the New York region.
If you think mixing religion and politics is bad, think twice about mixing snow and politics. Bloomberg, an independent, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican on vacation at Disney World, are getting grief about their responses to Sunday's storm.
As former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry once said, snow removal is "a high-stake poker game" because emotions run high when mounds of snow and ice leave people helpless. He should know: In 1987, Barry was at the Super Bowl in California while the District of Columbia grappled for five days with a snowstorm.
Booker, meanwhile, is not only fighting the snowstorm with a shovel, he's also using the Internet as a tool. The Democrat has been tweeting like crazy.
Some examples from hizzoner in Newark: "...parked cars making it hard for plows 2 get through," Booker posted on Twitter, before imploring people to shovel and get their cars out of the way. And he quoted Abraham Lincoln to get Newark residents to help their neighbors: "He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help."
(Posted by Catalina Camia)
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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From The Chairman's Desk
As 2006 ends and the 2007 starts it is hard not to feel upbeat with the great things that are happening in our Department. We are certainly improving and we hope for even better days ahead of us.
Dr. Moni Chauhan was decisively awarded tenure earlier in November as a result of her hard work and input since she first joined us in February 2002.
Dr. Sasan Karimi was the first chemistry faculty to deliver a Queensborough Presidential lecture on "The Art of Chemistry and the Chemistry of Art "on March 29, 2006. The event was attended by a large number of faculty and members of the outside community.
Dr. David Sarno was elected chair of the ACS-Long Island section for 2008. Drs. P. and S. Svoronos as well as Dr. Vargas will also serve in the board of that section as directors-at-large.
The resignation of Dr. John Gilligan and the ever increasing number of registered students in chemistry have provided us with the opportunity to open two new searches for full-time tenured track positions. The applicant pool has been rich with qualified chemists and we are hopeful that the new additions will enhance the quality of our professorial faculty starting the Fall of 2007. In the meantime Dr. Luis Vargas and Professor Syamala Ranganathan have gracefully agreed to serve as substitutes.
The number of students involved in research keeps on its upward trend. In 2000 the practice started in our department with one student participating at the URS (Undergraduate Research Symposium) of the ACS-NY section. On April 29, 2006 the number has escalated to 38 oral presentations (out of a total of 121) with several resulting as collaboration between the Chemistry and the Department of Biological Sciences and Geology. Thirty of them proceeded to have poster presentations at the 38th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) in Hershey, PA in June. On October 6 twenty four of them displayed their posters at the 34th Northeastern Regional Meeting (NERM) in Binghamton, NY the Alma matter of our own Dr. David Sarno. Our kids earned the accolades of the 2006 National ACS President Dr. E. Ann Nalley who personally congratulated them.
The department was awarded a $255,000 Perkins grant that will enable our faculty to have the first ever undergraduate research lab in our department, a unique achievement for a community college. Once the project is finished the bond between students and faculty will be strengthened as the research connection will have the potential of taking place daily. VWR has agreed to undertake this task that will convert S-410 into the much needed lab. The project is expected to finish by March 30. Kudos to Dr. David Sarno for keeping up with the bureaucratic complications
The faculty were very active with grants this past year. PSC-CUNY grants were awarded to Drs. Sasan Karimi, Moni Chauhan, David Sarno and Jun Shin. Dr. Sarno was also awarded a Stewart travel grant. Dr. Chauhan's collaborative grant has already brought our department a C.H,N analyzer, a rare instrument indeed for a community college. Collaborative grants have also been awarded to Drs. Sarno and Gao.
But the greatest of all was the NSF grant that involves John Jay College and will allow several of our students to continue their studies in forensic science upon graduation. This will provide our department with about $30,000 for every one of the next five years.
Several publications bearing our faculty's names appeared in 2006. Two of them involved Dr. Karimi and Queens College's Dr. Karimi and bear the names of two of our graduates, raising the total of such publications to 6 since 2002. Drs. Karimi, Chauhan, Sarno and Shin also had papers published . Dr. Svoronos had a reference text by Francis and Taylor. Dr. Rutenburg collaborated with Dr. Lall-Ramnarine in publishing the lab manual for our CH-102 and CH-111 classes and in conjunction with Dr. Svoronos and Mr. Irigoyen the lab manual for CH-127.
So what's next? The focus is in the MARM 2008 conference that will be held at Queensborough in May of that year. Accomplishing this will be a great achievement as it will be the first time ever a CUNY campus hosted such an event.
There are better days ahead of us.


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How To Get More Bang For Your Buck In The Bathroom
When I've shelled out big bucks for beauty products, I'd like them to last as long as possible. But what can you do besides turn bottles upside down when products get down to the end? Brokelyn compiled a list of suggestions for how to make items in your medicine cabinet go the distance. While some were extreme (we don't think we'd want to use a 17-cent disposable razor for a whole year anyway), we're going to follow the four suggestions after the jump. [Brokelyn]
- Your razor will remain sharp and rust-free longer if you keep it dry. After showering, blot your razor with a towel or shoot a gust of hot air over it when you're blow-drying your hair.
- Cosmetics will last longer if you keep them away from air, heat, and moisture. Washing your hands and face, along with regularly cleaning makeup applicators, will extend the lifespan of your favorite makeup.
- Even though perfume bottles are pretty enough to keep out on the counter, putting them someplace dark will ensure they don't go bad quickly.
- Less air gets in when moisturizers and cleansers come out of a pump top, so replace standard bottle tops with pumps, and your products will last longer.
How do you make beauty items last longer than usual?


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 63,
November 2011 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Chicago, Illinois November 4-9, 2011.
Presence of Anti-Phosphatidylserine/Prothrombin Antibodies with Both IgG and IgM Isotypes May Be Associated with the Occurrence of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Patients with Antiphospholipid Antibodies.
Miyara1, Makoto, Arnaud1, Laurent, Dufat1, Laurent, Diemert1, Marie-Claude, Ankri1, Annick, Mathian1, Alexis, Haroche1, Julien
CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (cAPS) is a life threatening condition with simultaneous thrombosis in multiple organs that can occur in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies (APL). Predictive biological parameters for cAPS have not been defined yet. Anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin antibodies (aPS/PT) of either IgG or IgM isotypes or both have been recently associated with the presence of LA. It has not been determined whether aPS/PT isotypes are correlated to clinical features of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).
157 sera from patients with cAPS (n=29), 58 sera from patients with APS (n=29) and 31 sera from patients with stable antiphospholipid antibodies (APS, either aCL, ab2GPI or LA; ACL levels between 25 and 75 UGPL) without clinical APS manifestations (noAPS; n=19), primarily collected for aCL, b2gPI and/or LA detection, were tested on individual isotype aPS/PT IgG and aPS/PT IgM ELISA assays (INOVA Diagnostics, San Diego, CA). According to manufacturer instructions, aPS/PT titers were considered positive when >30 U/mL.
In noAPS group, 8 patients had aPS/PT IgM (42%) while other patients did not have aPS/PT of IgG or IgM isotype (n=11, 58%). In patients with APS, 3 patients had aPS/PT IgG (10.3%), 6 had aPS/PT IgM (20.7%) and 3 patients had aPS/PT with both isotypes (10.3%) while 17 had no aPS/PT (58.6%). In cAPS group, 4 patients had no aPS/PT (13.8%), 4 patients had aPS/PT IgG (13.8%), 5 had IgM (17.2%) and 15 aPS/PT with both IgG and IgM (51.7%). Proportion of patients with aPS/PT with both isotype was significantly higher in patients with cAPS than in patients with APS without cAPS and patients with stable APL without clinical APS manifestations (p=0.0014 and p<0.0001 respectively using Fisher's exact test). No difference was observed in the proportion of isolated aPS/PT IgG or IgM between cAPS and APS patients or patients with patients with stable APL without clinical APS manifestations. The 3 patients with APS with aPS/PT with both isotypes developed adrenal insufficiency, cerebral venous thrombosis and Budd-Chiari syndrome.
Our data indicate that presence of aPS/PT of both IgG and IgM isotypes may be associated with severe features of APS, especially cAPS.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Miyara, Makoto, Arnaud, Laurent, Dufat, Laurent, Diemert, Marie-Claude, Ankri, Annick, Mathian, Alexis, et al; Presence of Anti-Phosphatidylserine/Prothrombin Antibodies with Both IgG and IgM Isotypes May Be Associated with the Occurrence of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Patients with Antiphospholipid Antibodies. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2011;63 Suppl 10 :20


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Up until now, I believed that the Jeremias who married Catherine Maul was actually an uncle to the Jeremiah who married Maria Hamm. Perhaps I am wrong.
In Henry Z. Jones "The Palatine Families of New York 1710" Vol. 1, he lists Jeremias, son of Johann Valentin, married to Catherine Maul (also says "being in the Jerseys in 1762, lived in Claverack").
>From the "New York Births & Baptisms, Eastern Region, 1660-1916" this Jeremias & Catherine Maul had two children, Lisabeth b.1770 and Jeremiah b.1778.
Now, Johann Valentin's (possibly oldest) son Frederick b.1724, also had a son Jeremias b.1758 in Claverack (Claverack Church records, in "New York Births & Baptisms, Eastern Region, 1660-1916" - which used to be on Ancestry but is no longer carried there.) I show this Jeremiah as being married to Maritje Hamm with sons Peter b.1786 and Jacob b.1791 (NY Births & Baptisms). But I also have a note that this Jeremiah's wife *could have been* Elizabeth Diedrick.
So, which Jeremiah was Maritje Hamm actually married to? Obviously from the children's birth dates, she could have been the 2nd wife of the first Jeremiah, as you said. And also, likely a number of children have been left out.
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Murrysville council seeks state input on drilling regulations
As the state Department of Environmental Protection's Environmental Quality Board prepares to review new regulations for the oil and gas industry, Murrysville officials will wait to hear more details before moving forward with an update to their local regulations.
Council's draft of revisions to the Murrysville oil and gas ordinance — passed in 2011 — was placed into pending status late last year and sent on to the Murrysville Planning Commission and Westmoreland County planners for a 45-day comment period, which has come and gone.
Municipal planner Allen Cohen said council's choices at this point are to set a public hearing and move forward with the changes made in 2015, or make additional changes to the revised ordinance, which would be sent back to local and county planners for another 45-day comment period.
Council consensus was to wait to take any action and move ahead with what chief administrator Jim Morrison called "educational sessions."
"We thought we'd build our base for moving forward, in relation to our ordinance, based on DEP's process," Morrison said.
Municipal officials will look to bring a DEP representative to a future council meeting and discuss the department's process in creating the new regulations, which focus on the potential impact on public resources, containment practices and the protection of water resources.
Councilman Jeff Kepler said he would not only like to hear from DEP representatives but members of the regional oil and gas industry about what sort of best-management practices they plan to use.
"We know there are changes coming to the ordinance, so I'd like to hear what's out there before we make them," Kepler said.
If the DEP's Environmental Quality Board — which next meets on Feb. 3 in Harrisburg — approves the new regulations, they will be sent on to the state Independent Regulatory Review Commission.
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It's plain to see
Flat land surfaces are strong evidence for the Genesis Flood
The globe we call home is adorned with beautiful snow-capped mountain ranges and lush, wide valleys. Plains and plateaus are common. Have you ever wondered how these landscapes formed?
Photo by Michael Oard
Figure 1: Flat and level, the tops of the Cypress Hills, Canada, were shaved flat by water, forming a planation surface. Later, local erosion cut into the surface, forming the wide valley in the foreground.
Photo by Michael Oard
Figure 2: Water once surged across the continent, depositing these rounded rocks on top of the Swift Current Creek Plateau, Canada.
Photo by Michael Oard
Figure 3: A small stream is now cutting into a once-large planation surface.
Photo by Tas Walker
Figure 4: Near-vertical sediments have been cut to form the New England Tableland, Australia. Later, erosion carved the gorge, now home to the Wollomombi Falls. Every continent bears these marks of receding floodwaters.
Most scientists who study landforms (i.e. geomorphologists1) believe the landscape was carved slowly by the same erosion processes that they observe today. This idea, that the 'present is the key to the past', is called uniformitarianism.
Starting with this belief, scientists try to imagine how rain, snow, ice and water eroded the rock bit by bit over millions of years. Increasingly, however, these scientists are finding that there are many landscapes on the earth that they cannot explain this way.
Planation surfaces are one such landform.
Many cultures around the world speak about a global flood. Could the Genesis Flood solve the problem and explain these distinctive features of the earth's surface?
What is a planation surface?
A planation surface is a large, level, or nearly level, land surface that has been 'planed' flat by running water (figure 1).2 Scientists believe that running water cut these surfaces because they are covered by rounded rocks (figure 2).3 Water is the only agent we know that can produce rounded rocks, by tumbling them against each other as it transports them along.
It is important to understand that a planation surface was cut into hard rock by an erosive watery mechanism. It is not a surface where sediments are deposited, like a river terrace, a gravel bar or a flood plain.
Planation surfaces can be amazingly flat. Once a planation surface has formed, creeks and heavy rain will often cut grooves and gullies into the surface, dissecting it into smaller areas (figure 3). Some planation surfaces are large, extending over 1,000 square kilometres. Yet, from the way they have been dissected, we can tell that they were even larger in the past.
Planation surfaces sometimes cut across tilted sedimentary rocks. They are especially easy to recognize (figure 4). The layered sedimentary rocks are often a combination of hard and soft rocks. Surprisingly, the watery mechanism that formed the planation surface eroded the layers evenly (figure 5). Today, normal erosion by rainfall and weather erodes the soft rocks into valleys, leaving the hard rocks as ridges (figure 6). Only a gigantic, fast-running water flow could have cut both the hard and soft rocks evenly.
Planation surfaces worldwide
Geomorphologist Lester King4 has documented that planation surfaces are abundant on all continents and found at different elevations. He noted about 60% of Africa is a series of planation surfaces. Some planation surfaces are located on the top of mountains (figure 7), including some that rise out of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Australian geomorphologist Rowl Twidale5 accepts King's general scheme that remnants of planation surfaces punctuate the scenery of all the continents, usually at three elevations.
Planation surfaces not forming today
Except for when a flood erodes solid rock along a riverbank, planation surfaces are not being formed today.3 In fact, the only change observed on planation surfaces is that they are being dissected by ravines and gullies, and actively destroyed (figure 3). Crickmay6 comments:
'There is no reason to suppose that any kind of wasting ever planes an area to flatness: decrepitation always roughens; rain-wash, even on ground already flat and smooth, tends to furrow it.'
Planation surfaces considered 'old'
Peter Klevberg/Daniel Lewis
Figure 5: On a planation surface, both the hard and soft layers of rock have been shaved flat and covered with a layer of water rounded boulders.
Peter Klevberg/Daniel Lewis
Figure 6: Normal erosion produces an uneven landscape, removing the soft strata and leaving the hard.
Geologists who believe that erosion happened slowly have concluded that some planation surfaces formed many tens of millions of years ago. Yet they have remained flat to this day. The flat to undulating plateau of western Arnhem Land, Queensland, is conventionally 'dated' at over 100 million years old.7
Yet, at today's rate of erosion, the continents would be reduced to near sea level in 10 to 50 million years.8 Obviously, these flat landscapes cannot be that old. They are clear evidence that something is wrong with the dating methods.
Slow erosion cannot explain planation surfaces
Even when landforms were first studied, geologists recognized planation surfaces.5 Many hypotheses have been advanced to try to explain them, but the origin of planation surfaces still eludes uniformitarian scientists.9
Michael Thomas and Michael Summerfield10 lament:
'Understanding the long-term denudation [erosion] of landscapes remains speculative, despite attempts to find bridges between theories and the evidence which supports them. The existence of planation surfaces is asserted by a host of writers, yet few attempt any serious explanation of their development. ... It is perplexing that after a century of argument and observation of the continents, no generally accepted mechanism for planation has been forthcoming.'
Planation surfaces explained by retreating floodwater
All agree that planation surfaces were formed in the past by water. The water would need to have been moving at high speed to erode soft and hard rocks evenly and leave boulders on the surface. The size of some planation surfaces indicates the flowing water covered a wide area. Furthermore, planing was the last major event to shape the landscape.
Photo by Michael Oard
Figure 7: Planed granite peaks of the Beartooth Mountains, south-central Montana, USA.
These observations fit well with the retreat of water off the land during Noah's global Flood.11 High-speed water currents over wide areas would have carried rocks of many sizes. Moving rocks would have planed the surface flat, like sandpaper smoothes rough wood.
As the sea level lowered, the retreating floodwater would have cut the landscapes at lower and lower levels, producing planation surfaces at different elevations.
Present-day erosion is too fast for planation surfaces to be tens of millions of years old.12
Since planation surfaces are found all over the world, they provide strong evidence for a global Flood as described in Genesis. In fact, only the Genesis Flood can explain planation surfaces.
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References and notes
- The study of landforms is called geomorphology (geo = earth; morph = form, structure or shape). Return to text.
- Bates, R.L. and J.A. Jackson, J.A. (Eds.), Dictionary of Geological Terms, 3rd edition, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, New York, pp. 170, 387, 1984. Return to text.
- Crickmay, C.H., Discovering a meaning in scenery, Geological magazine 109(2):173, 1972. Return to text.
- King, L.C., The Morphology of the Earth—A Study and Synthesis of World Scenery, Hafner Publishing Company, New York, 1967. Return to text.
- Twidale, C.R., Antiquity of landforms: an 'extremely unlikely' concept vindicated. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 45:657–668, 1998. Return to text.
- Crickmay, C.H., The Work of the River: A Critical Study of the Central Aspects of Geomorphology, American Elsevier Publishing Co. Inc., New York, p. 127, 1974. Return to text.
- Nott, J. and Roberts, R.G., Time and process rates over the past 100 m.y.: A case for dramatically increased landscape denudation rates during the late Quaternary in northern Australia, Geology 24:883–887, 1996. Return to text.
- Roth, A.A., Origins—Linking Science and Scripture, Review and Herald Publishing, Hagerstown, Maryland, pp. 263–266, 1998. Also Walker, T., Eroding ages, Creation 22(2):18–21, 2000. Return to text.
- Ref. 6, p. 192. Return to text.
- Thomas, M.F. and Summerfield, M.A., Long-term landform development: key themes and research problems; in: Gardiner, V. (Ed.), International Geomorphology, Part II, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 936–956, 1986. Return to text.
- Walker, T., A biblical geological model; in: Walsh, R.E. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 581–592, 1994. Return to text.
- Oard, M.J., Antiquity of landforms: objective evidence that dating methods are wrong, Journal of Creation 14(1):35–39, 2000.


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BEIRUT – The Islamic State has executed eight Dutch members of the group, whom it accused of trying to desert, activists said Monday.
"Daesh (Islamic State) executed eight Dutch fighters on Friday in Maadan, Raqa province, after accusing them of attempting desertion and mutiny," Abu Mohammad, a member of the citizen journalist group Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), said via Twitter.
RBSS has been documenting since April 2014 Islamic State's abuses in Raqqa, the group's de facto capital in northern Syria.
Tension has boiled in Raqqa over the past month between 75 Dutch jihadis — among them fighters of Moroccan origin — and Islamic State intelligence operatives from Iraq, RBSS said.
Three other Dutch jihadis were arrested by Iraqi Islamic State members who accused them of wanting to flee and one of the detainees was beaten to death during the interrogation, according to RBSS.
Islamic State leaders in Raqqa sent a delegate to solve the dispute with the Dutch cell's enraged members, but they murdered the intermediary in vengeance, the citizen journalist group added.
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Eight have since been executed, RBSS said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict, could not confirm the report.
However, it said three European jihadis of North African origin were executed in what Islamic State calls the Wilayet al-Furat — an area stretching across the Syrian-Iraqi frontier.
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A Srceening for Vulnerability to Learning Disabilities in the First Grade
Goals for attendants to our presentation: (1) to acknowledge the work developed in Portugal, specifically by Fundação Renascer at Lisbon, related to Learning Disorders, its prevention, assessment and intervention; (2) to learn about a model of screening, for students, that gathers information from both children and their teachers, aiming Learning Disorders' prevention by identifying at risk children, and that can be applied with a similar structure in other countries; (3) to learn about the importance of developing similar projects at nationwide level, to gather quality and quantity information for the characterization of the early childhood school population to redesign school programmes and make adequate Learning Disorders prevention programmes; (4) understand the efficacy of psychomotor intervention in students.
The goal of our project is to build a school Screening Programme applicable to any Portuguese school with the need to assess their students when starting 1st grade, aiming the identification and support of children at risk to develop a Learning Disorder.
Keywords: Sreening, Learning Disabilities, Psychomotor Intervention
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Assessment Coordinator, Fundação Renascer
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Special Education Professional, Fundação Renascer
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A New York man forced to fly seated on the toilet is suing JetBlue for $2 million for subjecting him to "extreme humiliation."Gokhan Mutlu was
Dalip Singh Rana, "The Great Khali," is a top draw at the hugely popular World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The WWE website gloats: "Hailing from India, the
Canada will formally apologize to the Indian community for the Komagata Maru tragedy of 1914.The Komagata Maru ship brought 376 Indians to Canada in 1914
Pres. George Bush's assertion that the current spike in worldwide food prices stems from rising demand from China and India has Indians in a tizzy.
A former Dartmouth College professor is threatening to sue her students, who she accuses of "anti-intellectualism" and being unreceptive to "French narrative theory" in violation