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Obama threatens to pile blame on Republicans for 'fiscal cliff'
BARACK Obama has threatened to use his inauguration speech in January to heap blame on the Republicans for forcing the United States over the "fiscal cliff" if a deal is not reached before the New Year.
The threat came as the Republican Party's negotiating position was left weakened by the failure of its lead negotiator, the House Speaker John Boehner, to win support from the rank and file for raising taxes on those earning $1m (€.76m) a year.
The two parties remain divided over how to rein in America's trillion-dollar-a-year annual deficits, with Republicans demanding cuts to welfare programmes and Democrats arguing for tax increases on the wealthy.
Despite both sides giving some ground, negotiations between Mr Obama and Mr Boehner have failed to close the gap, increasing the likelihood America will go over the cliff, triggering $680bn in spending cuts and tax hikes.
The threat by Mr Obama to shame the Republicans in his inaugural address on January 21, reported by 'The Wall Street Journal', reflects his determination to appeal to public opinion which favours his plan to force through tax rises on the wealthy.
Although both sides have compromised – Mr Obama cutting his demand for additional tax revenues from $1.6tn to $1.2tn and Mr Boehner agreeing to raise marginal tax rates – the negotiations have been testy.
Congress is now on holiday until December 27, when members will return to discuss how to avoid going over the fiscal cliff on December 31. (© Daily Telegraph, London)
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Maersk Line reports for business growth of 4.1% (2013) while reducing CO2 emissions with 3.8 million tons. Last year was quite successful for the largest container shipping company in the world. Financial stability and sustainable development are the words to describe the performance of Maersk Line. According to Søren Skou, CEO of Maersk Line, the company performed well thanks to fuel efficiency improvements which reduced CO2, SOx and NOx emissions.
2013, Maersk Line received 4 of 20 Triple-E vessels known to be a new standard for energy efficiency. The container shipping company reduced significantly the CO2 emissions because of the decision for overhaul of the Maersk Line's network. The new regulations announced in the Sustainability Progress Update urge the vessels to comply with more strict rules for sulfur emissions (SOx). Ships, passing through the Emission Control Areas, will have to switch to more cleaner and expensive fuels starting 2015.
Jacob Sterling, Head of Sustainability in Maersk Line commented:
"Air emissions are a serious issue in shipping and we support the upcoming regulation. We are, however, concerned about the level of enforcement in Europe. The new regulation will be costly and without proper enforcement, some might be tempted to cut corners. This will erode the environmental improvements and create a commercial disadvantage for those that follow the rules."
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"Large customers representing 19 % of our business have requested tailored sustainability information as part of their business relationship with us."
"These customers have typically made promises to their stakeholders on sustainability. We are proud to move their goods with a lower environmental impact year by year, thereby helping them deliver on their sustainability promises".
The customers of the largest container shipping company in the world saved 2.6 million tons of CO2 in 2013 by using the Maersk Line for transporting their goods (compared to the others industry-average competitors).
Maersk Line - Considered as the world's largest container shipping company. The fleet of Maersk Line counts more than 600 container vessels offering worldwide coverage network to its customers. The shipping company is a leader in eco-efficient and reliable transport.

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Set during the Third Reich and its aftermath, this lyrical, harrowing tale of love and war is a neglected classic of New German cinema.
Hans and Lene scarcely have time to meet and marry before Hans is sent away to fight, leaving Lene to give birth during an air raid and struggle through the war with a baby daughter. Based on director and writer Helma Sanders-Brahms' mother's experience, the film explores the devastating impact of politics on family life.
Eva Mattes (Lene) gives a brilliant, fearless performance, with the film casting a powerful emotional spell which is intensified by a delicate, plaintive piano score. German critics savaged the film at its premiere, baulking at its 'subjective' female take on recent history. Cut by 30 minutes for cinema release, only now has it been restored to its impressive original form and released for the first time on Blu-ray.
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Happy Easter!
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We love Buster! The Bean (our Shi-tzu poodle mix)thinks he's cute! Happy Easter to you too Genevieve.
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Too bad you don't have a real bunny like us! Maybe you need a little friend for Buster, uh, Chauncy...??
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Amid the daily drip of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's secrets and the inner workings of the Clinton Foundation becoming public, columnist Charles Krauthammer said Thursday that the real purpose of Clinton's private email has been revealed.
"It was obvious she was hiding something," Krauthammer said on Fox News' Special Report.
He said the timing of the creation of the email network is critical.
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"Think about it, she set it up in 2009, before becoming secretary of state. So she anticipated having exchanges that she would not want anyone to see. So we've been asking ourselves on this set for a year almost, what exactly didn't she want people to see? Well, now we know," Krauthammer said.
"As we speculated, the most plausible explanation was the rank corruption of the Clinton Foundation and its corrupt — I don't know if it's illegal, but corrupt relationship with the State Department," he said.
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"Her only defense as we saw earlier, the Democrats are saying, 'Well, there was nothing she did … that was corrupted by donations.' You can believe that if you want, but there's a reason that people give donations in large amounts, and that's to influence the outcome of decisions," he said.
"So, this — we are getting unfolding to us exactly what she anticipated having to hide, and it is really dirty business," he said.
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Krauthammer had made similar comments in a National Review article, in which he delivered a scathing indictment of the Clinton Foundation.
"The foundation is a massive family enterprise disguised as a charity, an opaque and elaborate mechanism for sucking money from the rich and the tyrannous to be channeled to Clinton Inc.," he wrote.
"Its purpose is to maintain the Clintons' lifestyle (offices, travel, accommodations, etc.), secure profitable connections, produce favorable publicity, and reliably employ a vast entourage of retainers, ready to serve today and at the coming Clinton Restoration. Now we learn how the whole machine operated," he added.
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Krauthammer noted that "e-mails began dribbling out showing foundation officials contacting State Department counterparts to ask favors for foundation 'friends.'"
He noted that the only thing saving the Clintons is the swamp of political culture in which Washington operates.
"Yes, it's obvious that access and influence were sold. But no one has demonstrated definitively that the donors received something tangible of value — a pipeline, a permit, a waiver, a favorable regulatory ruling — in exchange," he said.
"It's not until a Rolex shows up on your wrist that you get indicted. Or you are found to have dangled a Senate appointment for cash. Then … you go to jail."
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"The bright line seems to be outright bribery. Anything short of that is considered — not just for the Clintons, for everyone — acceptable corruption. It's a sorry standard. And right now it is Hillary Clinton's saving grace," he wrote.


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Unanswered: help with extracting info from sql database
The situation is I need info from a certain SharePoint site that is in a sql database. The problem is The SharePoint site currently contains data from 9 different projects, all using the same database. The database is a complex setup and it would not be an easy operation to extract the special information alone. The database is run with Microsoft SQL and is comprised of 4 separate databases. 3 databases organize the data (500+mb of data total) and 1 stores the data for all the sites (12.5+GB and increasing at a rate of 100-300mb per day).
How can I get the special data I need from this setup???
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What "Special Data"? Do you mean something like a particular document? The author/last updated date of a document? Membership or permissions in a particular site? Or just a reading of how big the database is?
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When I say 'special' I mean the info from the SharePoint site I need to extract the info from.
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Getting SharePoint's "special data" out of a database is a trick. You really need to use a portlet designed for it, or some rather sophisticated .NET code since SQL Server doesn't understand the concept of special data at all. The database itself stores the SharePoint data in a hive-like structure that is much more sophisticated than the Windows Registry, but you can see the ancestory...
While the article is old, this might help you. You'll really need to understand the whole thing, even though the specific part you really want is toward the end.


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In addition to the traditional poinsettia of the season, you'll find a host of other plants with long-lasting blooms and dazzling foliage. These charmers are a cinch to grow, and some of them rebloom, promising years of enjoyment. Lowe's carries a variety of these plants to complement any color palette. Each thrives in bright, indirect light -- natural light that's suitable for daytime reading.
Butterfly-like blooms float above a rosette of leathery leaves with marbled silver markings. Press your nose into the flowers, and you'll detect a light fragrance.
Secrets to success: Keep the soil moist, and fertilize every other week when the plant is flowering. If it dries out severely, flowerbuds will drop. During the summer, put your cyclamen outside in a shady spot and keep it barely moist. Over the course of the summer, new leaves should emerge as old ones die off.
Colorful leaves boast a tough-as-nails constitution; brilliantly hued flowers last for months. Cut off spent flower stalks.
Secrets to success: Bromeliad leaves grow to form a central cup. Keep this cup filled with rainwater or distilled water. Once a month, add two to three drops of houseplant fertilizer, such as Miracle-Gro Liquid All-Purpose Plant Food (#93035), to the cup, and pour fertilizer diluted to half-strength on the potting mix.
Bring instant cheer to any room in your home with this holiday favorite.
Secrets to success: When making your selection, look for full color on the smallest bracts (colored leaves) surrounding the center yellow buds. Water your poinsettia when the soil is dry to the touch, and make sure the plant has good drainage. For a long-lasting show, avoid placing it in a drafty area and keep the temperature around 60° to 70° Fahrenheit.
Christmas Cactus
Not a true cactus, the Christmas version prefers evenly moist soil. In winter, place this plant in bright, indirect light. In summer, set it outside where it has protection from direct sunlight.
Not a true cactus, the Christmas version prefers evenly moist soil. In winter, place this plant in bright, indirect light. In summer, set it outside where it has protection from direct sunlight.
Secrets to success: Flowerbuds form when night temperatures are 50° to 55° F, or when the plant receives 13 hours of uninterrupted darkness daily for six to eight weeks. You may leave your plant outdoors until the first frost is predicted—then bring your budding beauty indoors.
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Mikhail Leontief, deputy head of the Russian company "Rosneft", announced Tuesday, October 11 / October, that the company will comply with the freeze on oil production in the case was reached.
He Leontief told "Novosti" Russian: "Certainly, the company will follow the state policy of the Convention and implemented in full, and all that is required of them in the framework of this agreement."
And spare Leontief removes all doubt about what the throughput of media from the contradiction between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the president of the company Igor Sechin's remarks, saying: "There is no contradiction between the company's position and the position of President ..ola can Eugd..nhn fully support the efforts of the government and the president, who remarks only, lifting oil prices, even without the achievement of a specific agreement. "
He questioned Leontief in the ability of oil-producing countries to reach a common agreement on the market, saying: "The company's position has always been expressing skepticism warned about the ability of (OPEC) and a wider range of companies producing [oil] on the agreement due to a sharp change in the current situation in the market and because of the presence serious discrepancies between the participants. "
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, speaking at the 23rd session of the World Energy in Istanbul, expressed his country's readiness, the state is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries "OPEC", participate in measures aimed to reduce oil production or freeze it, stressing that this is the only way to bring about balance in the market after a long period of low prices.
As quoted by "Reuters" agency for Igor Sechin, head of the Russian company "Rosneft", he confirmed that his company will not cut oil production or evidenced in the framework of a possible deal with the "OPEC".
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President also announced that the Kremlin does not see a contradiction between my statement of President Putin, the head of the company "Rosneft" Igor Sechin on oil production.


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Cute and sweet colorful hand drawn cupcakes and seamless pattern with these cupcakes on polka dot background.
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Hills Prescription Diet Canine T/D is formulated specifically for the nutritional management of dogs with dental disease. Because your pet cant brush his own teeth, the build-up of tartar can lead to periodontal disease, a dental condition that can weaken the gums and tissues that support the teeth.
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Bard is really fun to play. Played right, he is also really good. He is all about the utility early game, and all about pealing and split pushing late game. The only issue with playing bard is you need a team that not only knows bard's skills, but is willing to do the bard dance by keep up with his skill cap, keep up with his commitment, and follow up.
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Thousands of visitors are expected to attend Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS), which opens Sunday, July 22, in the University of Maine's Steam Plant parking lot on College Avenue in Orono. The event will be free and open to the public from 9 -5 p.m., seven days a week, until the symposium closes on Aug. 30. SISS is being held this summer in partnership with the University of Maine. This is the fourth symposium since 2007 and the first time it has been held outside the Schoodic region of the Maine coast
The symposium brings eight internationally known sculptors to Maine for the six-week event. Each sculptor has been paired with one of the participating community partners – the University of Maine, the University of Maine Foundation, Husson University, Acadia Hospital and the city of Bangor and the towns of Orono and Old Town, to create a sculpture for a site chosen by each partner's committee.
To mark the SISS opening, there will be a public event from 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, at UMaine's Hudson Museum in the Collins Center for the Arts. All eight artists will be introduced during a reception at the event, which will also feature a slide show of the artists' works. Volunteers from each of the eight SISS partners will staff the site each day. There will be a closing ceremony at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30 in the Steam Plant parking lot. The finished sculptures will be on display before they are moved to their permanent locations. For more information about SISS, visit schoodicsculpture.org.


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I thought maybe this had been covered in another recent thread but did a search and didn't see it, so here goes.
I am thinking of buying my first ever game console as a gift to myself for christmas. I mean first EVER. I never even had Atari 2600 or Colecovision as a kid. (although another part of my brain thinks it makes more sense to spend the dough on a plane ticket or new board to catch some real waves, which is how this decision making process has ended in the past)
Anyway, part of my criteria is going to be what system has the best surfing game. Suggestions? I'm mainly looking for games that most closely replicate the surfing experience, especially accurate depictions of different breaks from around the world.
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Appreciate all the grandeur of the mountains from this large holiday house (250 m2), ideally situated in Tignes-les-Brévières. In the style of Parisian houses, this holiday accommodation possesses original charm, as well as comfortable rooms and equipment (spacious bedrooms, equipped kitchen, massage shower, etc.).
The cable car is about 5 minutes walk from your accommodation. This provides a connection to Tignes-le-Lac and the other skiing areas in the Killy region. You will have no excuse for not enjoying winter sports! Modern, full of life and adventure, this resort promises an unforgettable stay with its 300 km of runs and 96 ski lifts! Try out the Vallon de la Sache, an 8 km run, or the Grande Motte massif, open for skiers ALL year!
Tignes Bike Park opens in summer (from July) for mountain bike enthusiasts, and for everyone, the walks, Tignes lake and the towns heritage are places to see and experience!
Comfortably installed and at home in your accommodation, enjoy what the mountains have to offer!
Classification: Ground floor: (Living room(TV, DVD player), dining room, Kitchen(oven, microwave, dishwasher, freezer), bathroom(massage shower, washbasin), toilet)
On the 1st floor: (bedroom(twin bed), bedroom(3x single bed, shower), bedroom(3x single bed, shower), bathroom(shower, washbasin), toilet)
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ski storage, washing machine, garden, parking, cot(on request)
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Deposit; € 700
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Youngs Crossing
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Small toilet block just down out of site of the road. Good quiet place to get off.
Crowd: All types.
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Small toilet block just down out of site of the road. Good quiet place to get off.
Crowd: All types.
Leis Parade Lawnton , Brisbane
Large Park area alongside Gympie Road and North Pine River. Park is open all hours. Some people use the bridge area for fishing at night.
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The entire Wynnum Manly forshore, mainly between the wading pool, and the manly baths.
Wynnum Road, left of Cannon Hill Kmart Plaza , Brisbane
Two cubicles, with peep hole between. Watched a guy after fondling each other's under the partition. Watched him shoot his sperm on the toilet seat. Squeaky door lets you know when someone's coming ...
Roma St , Brisbane
Crowd: Mixed, lots of blue ad white collar and uni students.
Lake Manchester Street , Brisbane
Cruise Park for men, after dark only long walkway down to bush area behind picnic table.
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It's a huge park. Although not well bushed, up there are numerous out of the way places to spend a little more time on the job...a more complete job, come prepared!
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Some locals call it The Lord Mayor's gift to gay men. Recent council homophobia has led to toilet block at entrance of park to be closed down Monday to Friday. During summer nights, the trade can be d ...
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A toilet block inside a building at QUT. Fairly quiet and not used much except by guys looking to play. Has a large disabled toilet with heaps of privacy as well as normal cubicles and urinals to play ...
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Traveling Luck for Launch Complex 5, Florida, United States
Where is Launch Complex 5?What's around Launch Complex 5?
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The timezone in Launch Complex 5 is America/Iqaluit
Sunrise at 07:51 and Sunset at 18:26. It's Dark
Latitude. 28.4378°, Longitude. -80.5706°
Weather near Launch Complex 5; Report from Cocoa / Patrick Air Force Base, FL 30.8km away
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Temperature: 18°C / 64°F
Wind: 12.7km/h Northwest
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Temperature: 18°C / 64°F
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- Launch Complex 32 (3.1km)
- Command Control (3.7km)
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- Canaveral Harbor Range Front Light (4.7km)
- Cape Canaveral Light (4.9km)
- Launch Complex 36B (6km)
- Launch Complex 36A (6.5km)
- Launch Complex 11 (6.9km)
- Launch Complex 12 (7.4km)
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- Port Canaveral (6.4km)
- bay;
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- Canaveral Bight (1.6km)
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- Quarterman Cove (6.4km)
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- Canaveral (historical) (6.6km)
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- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Cape View School (7.7km)
- Shelton College (8.2km)
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- Jetty Park (6km)
- Kars Park (11.9km)
- inlet;
- a narrow waterway extending into the land, or connecting a bay or lagoon with a larger body of water.
- Flatboat Creek (11.4km)
- airport;
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About the Pod Caravan
People describe The Pod as 'the most luxurious rolling tent', 'the cutest teardrop caravan', 'the quality others aspire to' and 'the art of camping'. One thing is certain – it draws attention wherever it goes. That's why it's widely known as 'the coolest caravan on the planet'.
The Pod. Designed and handmade in rural Somerset.
The Pod Caravan company is a family-run business owned by husband and wife, Nigel and Paula Broderick. Their passions include adventure, classic cars, wildlife and challenges, and they have competed around the world in rallies including the World Cup, Safari Rally, Peking to Paris and the Classic Monte Carlo. Nigel and Paula were listed twice in the Sunday Times/Virgin Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies and they are proud to have won the BT Innovations Award.
Nigel and Paula retired from business to buy a cattle ranch in Africa and transform it into a game reserve specialising in endangered antelope. After this, they returned to Somerset for the good life. But the couple missed the challenge and fun of business and enthusiastically jumped at the chance to own the Pod Caravan company. Nigel can now generally be found building Pods in the workshop next door to their house, 'helped' by their two dogs, Mungo and Boysie.
The Pod is everything the Brodericks love: the outdoor life, a quality product, innovation and, above all, simplicity.
Nigel believes you can't beat simplicity:
"There's no plumbing to leak, no chemicals to add and no tanks to fill or empty. Just hitch up and go. Above all, the pod is made for a purpose, not to a price. I have seen too many products fail because production costs are cut and inferior materials used to produce a cheap product. The quality of the materials and the build will always determine the longevity and value of a product, and I really saw that in The Pod".
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The Pod caravan was recently re-engineered using SMART technology and modern lightweight materials. This results in a product of exceptional quality and strength, while retaining the original charm, practicality and deceptively spacious accommodation.
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Runner Kate Avery is set to lead the charge in Antrim
Great Britain's top cross country runner Kate Avery has been added to the list of star competitors for this weekend's Greenmount Cross Country International.
Athletics NI officials were in celebratory mood yesterday following news that they had secured the services of the weekend's winner of the Great Edinburgh 6k Cross Country.
This success adds to Avery's individual silver medal from last month's European Cross Country Champs in France.
The 24-year-old, who is a former US Collegiate champion, is clearly in the form of her life and will fancy her chances at Antrim where she will face probably the highest quality field in the 39 year history of this International.
Last Saturday in Edinburgh Avery made light of the difficult conditions and took a clear lead after half way from Ireland's Fionnuala McCormack, who is also racing at Greenmount, and went on to secure a comfortable victory.
"I found the course difficult as I prefer firmer conditions. I'm over the moon with what is really my first big win," she said.
Avery who previously finished eighth at Greenmount back in 2010 has been a transformed athlete in the past 18 months following her training schedules in the US.
The Glasgow Commonwealth Games fourth placer over 10,000 metres just lost the European Cross Country title in Bulgaria 13 months ago by the proverbial hair's breadth from team-mate Gemma Steel.
She again secured silver in France last month behind Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands.
Avery will, however, need to be at the top of her game at Antrim to ensure victory.
In addition to McCormack she faces the winners from the past two years.
Birtukan Fente Alemu of Ethiopia was the clear winner last year while Mimi Bahrain narrowly won in 2014.
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Africa Express Trailer (1976)
11 March 1976 Adventure, Action, Comedy 98 mins
John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. Ursula Andress is Madeleine Cooper, the lady of mystery he runs into as she flees from the hunter played by Jack Palance.
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Adam Jensen: The powder days of August
September 3, 2014
There are dozens of words to describe snow at Lake Tahoe: Powder, corn, chicken feathers. There are as many ways to describe how that snow falls: Dumping, nuking, puking.
But I don't know exactly what to call the absolute torrent of pea-sized hail that hit parts of Lake Tahoe Monday. Rather than melting instantly as would be expected in August, the hail hung around on the ground throughout a good portion of Tuesday. The impressively powerful rainstorms have been surprisingly common this summer.
I can't complain too much about the rain. Seeing buckets of moisture hit the parched Sierra Nevada is great. Scrambling to clean out your flooded garage? Not so much.
When I first moved to the Sierra Nevada nine years ago, I was told it can snow every month on the calendar. While I haven't seen that occurrence with my own eyes yet, I've seen enough astonishing weather to know just about anything is possible. Local knowledge posits that it's Memorial Day when we're always supposed to get precipitation, not Labor Day. Eh, I always get the two holidays confused anyway. I do know that I'm more likely to see a video of a friend snowskating on Memorial Day than Labor day, as I did this week. Yes, it was snowskating through a couple inches of corny hail in a backyard, but it was snowskating, in August, nonetheless.
I know, I know, it's only Labor Day. I imagine I'll be chastised by the heat-loving masses at Lake Tahoe for even mentioning snowsports at this time of year. There are still several months of anxious anticipation to go before winter truly gets started. There is also still plenty of hope for an Indian summer. There I go getting ahead of myself again. Before an Indian summer can begin, actual summer has to fade into the history books. And that reality hasn't happened just yet.
There's plenty of opportunities to get your warm-weather kicks in this weekend. The lake is about as hot as it's going to get. There are beers to be cracked, barbecues to be lit and steaks to be burned. The trails are in amazing shape for this time of year, and there is a long list of activities and events for just about every taste around the lake.
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Temperatures are forecast in the mid-70s and I have no reason to believe those comfortable temperatures won't materialize, except that, you know, when it comes to weather in the Sierra Nevada, anything can happen.
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Translated by Ralph Manheim with a new introduction by John Lukacs. A compilation of Hitler's most famous prison writings of 1923--the bible of National Socialism and the blueprint for the Third Reich.
Vitally interesting. . . . It is with sadness, tinged with fear for the world's future, that we read Hitler's hymn of hate against that race which has added so many names to the roll of the great in science, in medicine, in surgery, in music and the arts, in literature and all uplifting human endeavor. -- Books of the Century; New York Times review, October 1933


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Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a would-be robber by an off-duty officer at a North Side business.
The shooting happened shortly past 6:30 tonight at Galaxy Seafood, 1722 Belmont Ave, A man tried to rob the business, but was shot by the officer.
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The maxim "you are what you eat" might be truer than we think. Leading health experts have been saying for years that maintaining a healthy weight is complex and not just a simple matter of eating less and exercising more.
Part of the answer may lie in our microbiome, according to a new documentary called It Takes Guts, airing on CBC's The Nature of Things on Thursday, October 29, 2015. From fecal transplants and poo capsules to foods that promote microbial diversity in our digestive tracts, this documentary directed by Leora Eisen promises a close look at the latest science.
- why some foods make us fat, while others nourish healthy bacteria
- if the rise in non-celiac gluten sensitivity is related to a decrease in microbiome diversity
- does antiseptic mouthwash wipe out healthy bacteria we need
- how germaphobic should we be – is it a balance?
When my son was in first year university, he shared a unit with two other students. I referred to them as the "biohazard boys," given the state of their shared kitchen and washroom. As the year finished, I realized their slovenly ways were a testament to the hygiene hypothesis – the exposure to a range of pathogens must have strengthened their immune systems as none of them got sick.
I'm looking forward to learning how "processed food is like a 'nuclear bomb' destroying our microbes" and hearing how we can enrich our "inner rainforest" to find better health.
I may bristle a bit at the bombastic buzzwords in the press release, but for many people, maintaining a healthy weight can feel like a war. The expert lineup in this documentary is excellent and includes:
- Dr. Arya Sharma, Chair of Obesity Research and Management at the University of Alberta (and a great interview for a story I wrote on diabetes news a few years ago)
- Ed Yong, prolific science journalist, now a staff writer for The Atlantic
- Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat (2015) and lead investigator for BRITISH GUT, the UK's largest open-source science project to understand the microbial diversity of the human gut
- Emma Allen-Vercoe, microbiologist and associate professor at the University of Guelph, where she runs the Robogut Lab.
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Hoping for a declaration of Love, yet afraid to open his mailbox, Frank wonders, "Does she love me? Does she love me not?" Um, don't ask me to explain the sturdy branch on the smaller one. Artistic license allows me to get away with a lot. So . . .
February One. And, so it has begun. She loves me? She loves me not? He loves me. He loves me not. I think I finished my Valentine's Day cards last night. I did a bit of research and discovered that we might as well be looked upon as a bunch of pagans, since we celebrate just about every one of their holidays. Count me in. Those pagans were smart.
Sheesh Louish. Seriously. Google St. Valentine. He might not even be real. But Esther Howland is known as the "Mother of the Valentine." Check her out if you doubt. I believe she was a scrapbooking, crafter and card maker way back when. Bet she embellished her letters even.
I am committed to a card a day. That's a lot of drawing but I can do 28 days. Hmm. Should I not count Sundays? Aha! I will do envelopes on Sundays since I cannot mail anything on those days. I must confess: I need to use my COPIC markers before they evaporate. Some of them look weak. They're $8 each, so no way can I afford to let them go to waste. I use them sparingly when I do, because they are expensive. What's a limner to do? Use them!
Now I can send a whole bunch of Valentines. How about you? Are you buying, making your own, or ignoring the day? You love me? You love me not?


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When I was fourteen and my father was fifty, we toyed with the argument that had once torn Europe, South from North, Catholic from Protestant, as we polished the blue DeSoto. "Life is harder than you think, boy." "You're thinking of Mexico Papa." "You'll see." A fragment of dialogue can summarize the "argument" of Richard Rodriguez's new book, though the book contains five centuries, beginning with the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes; ending in 1992, in San Francisco - an American Asian city, during the years of plague. In Days of Obligation, Mexico and the United States are portrayed as moral rivals upon the landscape of Mr. Rodriguez's beloved California. Mexico wears the mask of tragedy, the United States wears the mask of comedy. By the end of the book the reader recognizes an historical irony: The United States is becoming a culture of tragedy; Mexico, meanwhile, revels in youthful optimism. Mexico and the United States have exchanged roles. These ferocious essays cannot be dismissed as regional. They are not - or only insofar as Montaigne's essays can be said to be regional. The play of idea and incident, the scope of these essays - both public and private - make up a kind of spiritual autobiography with no antecedent in American letters. One must summon the names of writers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to describe the literary and moral fabric of the book at hand. Imagine Jonathan Swift sitting in a nightclub in Mexico City. Or imagine Thomas Carlyle writing about homosexuality and domestic architecture. Richard Rodriguez takes his title from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar. "Days of obligation" are feast days of such importance to the life of the church that the faithful are required to attend them physically by going to mass. Just so does memory require of the author that he attend to particular days of his life to recognize in them moments of mystery and of grace.
An explorer of cultural identity, Rodriguez builds on his acclaimed memoir Hunger of Memory with 10 luminous, loosely linked essays on the tensions and cross-pollinations of race, religion and geography in Californians of Mexican descent. For Rodriguez, a middle-age Californian of Mexican heritage and of self-described Indian mien, Mexico City's miscegenation makes it the capital of modernity. America's immigrant culture implies not motherhood but adoption, and the growth of evangelical Protestantism among California's Hispanic population suggests a longing for some lost Catholic village. No apostle of political correctness, Rodriguez muses on his state's heritage and concludes, We are all bandits, for the U.S. stole California from Mexico, which stole the land from Spain, which stole it from the Indians. Rodriguez's autobiographical style sometimes reveals too little, as in an essay on gay life in San Francisco, but his insights, irony and descriptions (Tijuana is Disney Calcutta) make the writing richly evocative. However, the book would have gained power had Rodriguez tried harder to thread the essays into a sustained narrative. (Nov.)


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Barbeque & Grill | Pastry & Dessert | Bread | Vegetarian | Soups & Stews | Seafood
Barbeque is one of America's great artforms. It depends on America's bountiful supply of meat and fuel. It depends on American's love of meat, our spirit of innovation. It depends on a tradition of cooking that is older than civilization. And it relies on a kind of improvisational skill that takes into account the mastery of the basics. Barbecue is a kind of culinary jazz. It is American cooking at its best.
Barbeque is a relatively low-temperature cooking method where smoke from the fire slowly penetrates the meat, flavoring it strongly.Smoke, heat, and sauce make all the difference in barbeque. Get the heat right and you will have cooked meat. Get two of the three right and you will have good cooked meat. Get all three perfect and you have ambrosia. Food that makes the angels sing. But it is not easy. Even some of the world's most famous barbeque restaurants will occasionally turn out meats that are just good.
Barbequeing is best suited for hunks of meat large enough to serve four or more people. Because of this, getting the smoke to penetrate the meat is a slow and painstaking process. In fact, it is frequently true that barbeque only nods in the direction of this tradition but makes up the difference with flavorful and innovative sauces. It is, therefore, either silly or naive to think of barbeque apart from sauces.
There are two sorts of sauces. One is called a 'mop.' The purpose if this sauce is to keep the surface of the meat from getting too dry. One could mop with water, but the flavor of the meat is enhanced if the mop material contains other ingredients. To keep food moist and juicy, the mop sause is applied periodically to the surface. How often depends on a number of factors , but mostly it depends on how hot the barbeque is.
There are lots of potential problems to barbeque are just a few of the most obvious and serious ones:
Since barbeque is made with a large chunk of meat, cooked at a relatively low temperature, the cooking time can be quite long. This means that if you underestimate cooking time by 20% you can be off by an hour, two hours, or more. It is not uncommon to bring a big hunk of barbequed meat to just short of perfect an hour or so before serving, and to let it rest, keeping the outside surface below boiling temperature.
It's clear that one of the reasons people who have mastered the art of barbeque are so proud of it, is that it is difficult to do perfectly. The good news is that with some good guidelines, good equipment, and a good recipe, one can make really good food for lots of people with not a lot of fuss.
Equipment is important. One can do barbeque on a gas grill and get reasonably good results, especially if the hunk of meat is very big and one has a good sauce to serve with it. More and more gas grills provide spaces for wood chips, so the wood smoke flavor that is unique to good barbeque is available to owners of gas grills. Furthermore, gas grills provide flames that are easily modulated - one can cook at a low and even temperature for a long time. Thus, a grill becomes a barbeque.
Charcoal grills can be used as barbeques, as well. They have the advantage that they are already built to accommodate solid fuel. But this comes at a cost. Solid fuel does not provide a steady temperature, and so the size of the hunk of meat is very directly controlled by how one is able to build, sustain, and modulate the fire.
Smokers are specifically designed to smoke meats. But many smokers are designed to do it with cold smoke rather than hot smoke. It's important to understand the difference.
Once one has a good barbeque, one needs tools. Long-handled tools are popular for grilling, but the intense heat of grilling is absent in most barbeque recipes, and almost any stainless steel tongs will work. And almost any good stainless steel spatula will work. A spatula with good riveted hardwood handle can save a few blisters. This particular model also features a bottle opener - an essential amenity for a grilling/barbeque tool.
I have yet to find a suitable 'mop.' A lot of cheap products with long handles use nylon bristles that essentially melt if they touch anything other than the food. This is not an acceptable solution. Nor are bristles very good at carrying sauces or mops. What is needed is a cotton barbeque mop on a long handle - one that is constructed along the same lines as the kitchen mop, only just a little bit smaller.
Barbeque is one of America's great culinary offerings. It exists at the juncture of fire and meat and this is precisely where human society formed. So it is an expression of our most fundamental human selves. Also it is delicious.
Eat well and prosper
Copyright S.R. Brubaker 2002 - 2006.


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Well, in retrospect I made a poor decision that was made worse by the ground being frozen solid like concrete. Thankfully, I made the smart decision to put my eventing vest on. But alas, I ended up falling off my new horse and landing with enough of a thud it cracked my sacrum and broke off my right L4 transverse process. Maybe that's all that would've happened anyway, but I still believe wearing my eventing vest cushioned the blow enough that I didn't get as hurt as I might have otherwise. Plus, yay for helmets! My helmet made a nice little gouge in the dirt but I don't even have a headache today (and thank goodness not a concussion!).
I knew something was wrong when I landed and it hurt so badly I did not want to move. So, I yelled "OUCH!" as loud as I could (not sure why I didn't yell "help"???) until Trainer K. heard me and came in. She helped me slowly move my legs and arms and I didn't have any pain around my spine, just a lot of pain in my pelvic area. Then she helped me sit up and that lasted for maybe five minutes at the most and I felt like I was going to black out and had to lay back down. I also felt like I was going to throw up so we were all concerned about a concussion. It was a crisp 28 degrees out and the ground was frozen solid so while they were discussing what they should do with me I requested a horse blanket and suddenly I was cocooned in about four horse blankets with a big one underneath me so I wasn't lying on the cold ground. I realized that all my barn friends who were there were mothers and that is the best place to be when you get hurt - surrounded by fellow moms!
With the whole not wanting to move fainting thing they opted to call 911 and although I felt like it was overkill, I was honestly wondering how in the world I was going to be able to get into Trainer K.'s truck to go to the hospital to be checked out. And we were all worried about the fainting/nausea thing. Even though I didn't hit my head very hard I kept thinking of Liam Neesum's wife who thought she was fine and then the next day died from a head injury.
So, the EMT's showed up (they even turned on the siren when they came down the drive which was really overkill!) and unfortunately took my layers of blankets off to roll me onto a backboard and put me in a neck brace (which I definitely said was overkill but they said I fell on my back so liability wise they had to). I did ok until we got in the ambulance and then I started to have a panic attack because I was strapped to a board unable to move and only able to see the ceiling in a moving vehicle and I felt really out of control. It helped to close my eyes and visualize the roads we were driving down and ask the EMT where we were every few minutes. Plus, when he leaned over to check if my eyes were dialating normally and told me to look at his nose I noticed he looked a lot like Doogie Howser and it took my mind off things for a few minutes to tell him about Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog. The only problem other than my claustrophobia was that every time we went over a bump it hurt my lower back quite badly and I would have to shift around to get the muscles around my sacrum to stop carmping/spasming. The EMT's did say they were going a route where they didn't go over any railroad tracks so I could be happy about that.
I felt much better after they took the next brace off and I got to be off the backboard. As long as I lay on my left side I was pretty comfortable and I was relieved when the doctor felt my spine and said I was not showing any sign of spinal injury. They took an x-ray and said all that looked ok but then decided I needed a CT scan to check my internal organs. Since I thought nothing was broken I was a little confused as to why I'd been so nauseous and weak and almost fainted back at the stable but I was very glad my spine was ok. And I was actually glad they were doing a CT scan of my organs just in case too.
They had me on an IV drip for quite awhile because I guess the iodine contrast they inject you with for CT scans is hard on the kidneys so I was getting up every half hour or so and shuffling off to the bathroom carrying my little IV bag with me. Finally, I was just getting up and the nurse walked in and I asked if I could have a stand to hold the IV bag and she said, "No, just wait the doctor is coming," and I said, "I'll be right back - it'll just be a second." And she said, "No, stay there. Don't stand up yet. Do you have any tingling in your feet? Any numbness?" and I said, "No, can I answer this in just a sec? You've had me on an IV bag for hours and I really have to use the bathroom." So she said, "Please, just wait until the doctor comes. We found a fracture in your L4 vertebrae." To which I stayed sitting down and explained, "Seriously? I broke my back and I didn't know it?" and figured they must be mistaken (and was also quickly running through my head what they meant - back brace? traction? Shit!)
Just then the doctor came in and asked the same questions about numbness and tingling and said he had to palpate my back to check the vertebrae to which I said, "I'm so sorry but I really have to go to the bathroom. Me and my broken back. I really can't wait," and he said, "Are you serious?" and I said, "Yes, you can go do something important instead- I will be here when you get back," and he said, "Ok, I will go do something important then ..." and the nurse snickered. He came back not too long later and said that I had broken off a little piece of my L4 spinous process but that it was a "stable fracture" which meant I was not in danger of it getting worse by not being in traction (phwew!) and that I also had a crack in my sacrum which was also a stable fracture that would not need traction to heal. Phwew again!
And that explains why it hurt so badly when I first hit the ground and why I felt so nauseous and faint and couldn't sit up right after my fall. I also no longer felt like it was overkill that they'd brought me in the ambulance. I can be really hard on myself and think that I'm imaging it or making it up when I feel really bad, but it was very obvious when I was lying on the arena floor that "something was wrong" and I knew that if anything was broken it was in my pelvic area. That did validate that I do know my own body and I did have a normal reaction - I wasn't just "being hysterical" which is initially what I was worried had happened when I was so nauseous and weak post fall.
The nurse made a comment just the opposite of me being hysterical. Trainer K. and I were joking about how now I can be part of "the broken back club" (she and two other women at the barn had fractured their backs in riding accidents) and we were making jokes about how Trainer K. got to be in vacation spending the day in the hospital watching tv and eating hospital crackers so we'd have to rotate through her students making sure everyone had to go to the E.R in an ambulance every couple weeks with her. Finally the nurse said, "You're a couple of really stoic ladies, aren't you?" and we both didn't know what to say and she said, "It's a breath of fresh air, really. You wouldn't believe how many patients we have in here who are hysterical even when nothing is wrong." I pointed out that if I had a broken neck or something really wrong I would be hysterical and she said, "Yes but you broke something in your back." I'm not sure what "stoic" means - I thought it meant humorless, which we weren't because we kept making dark jokes. It was something I was thinking about a lot last night when I had trouble sleeping because it's hard to get comfortable in bed with your lower back hurts. And your butt. Yes, I have a nasty bruise on my butt along with the broken stuff.
So, I just looked it up and stoic means "someone immune to the effects of pleasure or pain". I wouldn't say Trainer K. and I are stoic. You have to keep in mind by this time at the hospital I really wasn't in that much pain any more and I knew I wasn't in any danger. I think I was just so thrilled that my back wasn't seriously injured that I was thrilled to just have a cracked sacrum and little chip off a piece of my spine. Considering how scared I was right when I hit the ground and felt all that pain that I'd broken my back badly and having had a broken neck so knowing the long, painful haul it would be to recover - I felt like celebrating that I wasn't badly hurt!


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The Graduation Pledge: What If Every College Graduate Entered the World of Work With a Commitment to a Better World
As the Class of 2014 enters the workforce, they're looking for more than a paycheck and the corner office. Social and environmental responsibility tops their professional wish list, as graduates at hundreds of campuses across the globe sign the Graduation Pledge Alliance (GPA) to explore job opportunities with that in mind. Housed at Bentley University since 2007, the pledge is currently part of the Bentley Service-Learning Center (BSLC).
"We're excited and proud to host the GPA," says BSLC Director Jonathan White. "The center is a national thought-leader in service-learning and civic engagement and Bentley is a national leader of civically engaged business schools. Housing the GPA and having our students involved in it is important to us, as GPA is a powerful tool for encouraging a new generation of graduates to work to transform their workplaces around social and environmental responsibility."
A recent survey by Deloitte (The Millennial Survey 2014) found that "millennials believe the success of a business should be measured in terms of more than just its financial performance, with a focus on improving society among the most important things it should seek to achieve.
"Since 1987, the Graduation Pledge Alliance has advanced this kind of vision. Bill Benet, executive director for the Graduation Pledge Alliance, states that "Since its inception, hundreds of thousands of graduating students have signed the Graduation Pledge and entered their work lives with a commitment to make a change."
The Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility states: "I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work." Those who have signed it have engaged in initiatives such as developing recycling programs, establishing supply chains with environmentally friendly products, implementing social enterprise strategies to meet local community needs, and advancing workplace policies to support families.
The Graduation Pledge originated at Humboldt State College in California as a student led initiative and rapidly spread across the United States and the World. It encompasses hundreds of campuses, including schools in most states in the U.S. and international campuses as far as Pakistan and Taiwan.
"Working with the BSLC will allow us to develop and incorporate new transformative educational approaches to reach Pledge signers," says Benet. "This will add to the ability of those students who sign the Graduation Pledge to continue to live out the pledge throughout their lives after college."
"The pledge offers our students a powerful opportunity to work on an international campaign bridging academia and the business world with social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and global citizenship," White adds. "Imagine the world that can be created if current college graduates move forward with their pledge, and become better stewards for our planet and deeper advocates for more humanistic business models and practices."
For further information, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Or the GPA Executive Director: William Benet, PhD, email@example.com, www.graduationpledge.org
U.S. News & World Report ranked Bentley No. 2 among regional universities in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, up from No. 3 last year, highlighting Bentley's high-quality faculty and academic programs along with the strong value that students receive from a Bentley education.


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College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Advisement Center
Candidates for all teacher preparation programs are required to complete an application that includes core criteria for each program. Applications are available from the Mathematics Education Department.
Mathematics is the discipline through which we make sense of the order, patterns, and quantitative situations we perceive in the world around us. The foundational skills of this discipline—the abilities to formulate, focus, and solve problems; to articulate, test, and justify conjectures; to communicate one's reasoning about quantities and the relationships between them; and to see connections between different mathematical ideas and real-world contexts—are highly valued in society and are characteristics of any educated person. Mathematics is not only a body of knowledge but also a process of analysis, reasoning, comparison, deduction, generalization, and problem solving.
Mathematics educators depend heavily upon their own understanding of mathematics in order to identify and articulate the mathematical ideas they want students to learn, to assess which concepts their students already understand that might serve as a foundation for learning, and to develop activities that help students develop rich understandings. They also use their understanding of the nature of the discipline to structure a culture of inquiry, reasoning, and problem solving in their classrooms.
Courses in the undergraduate program are designed to help prospective teachers plan, manage, and implement classroom activities that facilitate students' learning of mathematics. Specific program goals include (1) mastery of the foundational skills of mathematics, (2) deep reflection on mathematics learning at all levels through observation of and participation in high-quality classroom practice, (3) increased autonomy and confidence as an investigator, active learner, and productive thinker, and (4) extended field experience, informed by the best current understanding.
Program faculty include educational and mathematical researchers, specialists in both preservice and inservice teacher education, and school practitioners, spanning a broad range of interest and experience.
Majors in mathematics education prepare for careers in teaching at the middle school and junior and high school levels or for graduate studies in the field.
To receive a BYU bachelor's degree a student must complete, in addition to all requirements for a specific major, the following university requirements:
Students should see their college advisement center and department advisors for information concerning the undergraduate programs.
For more information see the BYU 2012–2013 Graduate Catalog.
Upon completion of the calculus sequence (Math 112 [honors section] and Math 113 [honors section], or equivalent AP credit), undergraduate majors are strongly encouraged to meet with the department undergraduate advisor to make a graduation plan.
Students who are considering graduate work in mathematics education may receive advice from the graduate coordinator.
It is recommended that a student complete the following courses in high school:
Questions regarding placement should be directed to the Mathematics Education Department, 167 TMCB.


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Geez, talk about making something out of nothing. It might be more courteous to use the same thread, but is it that big a deal?
Arsen, the site is sick, all the videos of those brown water barrels are making me drool for hurricane season.
And calm down Cricha, I think you're the only one that takes those two seriously.
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In one of my previous articles I spoke about how LinkedIn is opening the platform up to younger markets and specifically targeting students. This is a strong strategic move on LinkedIn's part — but it begs the question as to whether this kind of development is taking away from our youth's childhoods.
Since 12 September, users as young as 13 have been able to sign up for the world's largest "professional" network after it lowered its minimum age requirement.
The thinking behind this is to encourage young people to plan out their career paths by comparing themselves to others on the site and getting an early start.
My feelings towards this announcement are twofold; I am in favour of young people starting to think about the future sooner rather than later and starting to get themselves known within the market. However my concern is about whether a 13-year-old is equipped to manage a professional profile on a platform like LinkedIn.
The decreasing of the age restriction coincides with the launch of University Pages, where potential students can learn about universities worldwide and connect with students or alumni to hear about their experiences and future career paths. This I do agree with and feel is very important.
LinkedIn has confirmed that the security settings will be different for users under 18, with their year of birth, surname and specific location hidden and profile picture only visible to their connections. They also won't appear in search engine results pages.
But how young is too young?
Sure we'd all love to be business savvy and child prodigy like Richie Rich but is this kind of development putting a lot of unnecessary pressure on young people who are having to deal with enough as it is – going through puberty, discovering who they are, etc. Is this not just going make to all of the regular childhood and teenage problems that much greater?
This also opens up the discussion as to whether by allowing children as young as 13 to engage on professional networks, where there are numerous recruiters out there looking to fill intern type positions, are at increased risk of being exploited or taken advantage of. The average 13-year-old doesn't understand how to negotiate a contract or what is and isn't expected of them.
Where I feel the gap is, and where LinkedIn can fill it, is when children reach the age of 16 to 18 and start thinking about what subject choices to make, what type of careers they would be interested in, and what universities would be right for them. But at 13 all they're really concerned about is the latest Bieber hit, pouting and twerking – let's be honest.
Keep it in the playground
The fact is that being professional and engaging with fellow professionals requires a certain degree of maturity. Which, like it or not, the average 13-year-old doesn't have.
To date, LinkedIn has had a very strong identity as a professional network. With these latest changes, it could potentially lose its uniqueness and the appeal to their demographic. So if this new age restriction does come into play what does that mean for the professional networker on LinkedIn? Are they going to be flooded with invitations to connect from 13 year olds who add little if any value to their network?
Is there a place for LinkedIn Jnr?
In my opinion if LinkedIn did want to start engaging with this younger audience I feel it would be more appropriate to start a new network, something like LinkedIn Jnr, where children and students under 18 can connect with each other and educators to talk about relevant topics (be it school or sports related) and create an environment where they can really extract value from these conversations. They can then migrate to the professional network once the reach 18.
Advertising from universities or companies offering intern positions could then be targeted better and the messaging could be reworked to appeal to a younger audience. Because quite frankly, at 13 you're not worried about your RA and whether you future career is going to come with good benefits.
The point is a 13-year-old has a very different mindset to a college graduate, 20-something professional or CEO. They can't all be lumped into the same network and still expect the platform to extract and deliver value.
Depends completely on the 13rd year old, some are quite advanced in their thinking, some are not.
I predict LinkedIn will include a do not let anyone under the age of ?? contact me option. You ca also just decline the connect. No harm done.
I support this move as it will help those students who wish to engage in a professional manner to learn how, early on. It will enable them to learn without the noise of Twitter and Facebook.
I disagree with the assumption that 13 years are only interested in Bieber and twerking. I know of many, many 13-year-olds that couldn't care less about those things, and are anxious to get started in making money, becoming entrepreneurial, or even launching their own non-profit. All of these young people would benefit greatly from a profile on Linked In.
I agree that an influx of teenagers into Linked In has the capacity to dilute the relevancy and the site's strong identity. One of the nice things about Linked In, which sets it apart from other social networks, is the strong emphasis on professional life. Not sure what a this move is going to add to the overall user experience. Potentially nothing, and possibly might detract from it. It obviously has great marketing potential. Expanding its marketing reach is a smart move for Linked In, especially with the university tie-in. I think the idea to instead have a LinkedIn Jr. makes more sense, at least in the beginning.
I really don't see the big deal. The brainless kiddos obssessed with the latest trends and J-Biebz will ignore it as "some nerd shit" and the go-getters who actually want to make something of themselves will make an account and act like a young adult.
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