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A Room of One's Own
For as long as there have been women writing, there have been women writing furtively, interruptedly, sporadically. Jane Austen wrote in the parlour, hiding the pages when someone entered the room. Nearly 200 years later, Jane Urquhart wrote stories on her dining room table since she was the only person in the house without a room of her own. Little has changed.
Women have a long history of putting their ambitions last. Of course these days it is encouraged to try (I say try because I wonder how many are really doing it successfully) to balance career and family, but generally only if it is economically feasible. Work where the payoff is uncertain is often considered frivolous and unnecessary. This is a whole other post I know, one I don't have the strength for right now!
To get back on topic, I could carve out a room of my own and I should. I need to buy myself a good office chair and rearrange the guest room. I need to stop writing at the dining room table, or on the sofa with the laptop burning my legs.
Where do you all write (or paint, compose, whatever)? How many of you have a room of your own? Do you want one?


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Microsoft has been using its developer blog channels to share progress on the upcoming 'Mango' release of the Windows Phone OS.
As the first reviews of Mango have started landing in press review sites and blogs, the company wants us to agree that the "early sentiment" is very encouraging.
Citing a number of reviews that have already been published, Microsoft highlights Gizmodo, which went so far as to say that Mango feels "complete" — and The Daily, which said that, "It took Android nearly two years before hitting critical mass and three years to begin carving out a significant chunk of the smartphone market."
"We've got a great product in Windows Phone and we feel we're right on track; in fact, we've already seen reports showing that in only a few months we've surpassed the more established RIM marketplace in the number of real apps available to customers," says Microsoft.
Note: Importantly, the CNET review Microsoft references here says that this is potentially true: "depending on how you count!"
Mango recently opened up its early access program for developers. At this time, the company says it is still working out some final kinks in the distribution and support infrastructure for delivering Mango to all of its registered developers around the world.
At the end of last week Microsoft stated that, "We expect the full distribution infrastructure to be fully operational in the next couple of weeks. For now, consider yourself a beta tester for the distribution process. Registered developers will get invites to the Microsoft Connect site, which will give them access to Mango. This build of Mango should also be viewed as beta quality, so there are still consumer features missing, but you can now start building apps and testing them against retail devices."
Finally, Microsoft also points to the new Advertising SDK June 2011 Update that was released for Windows Phone 7 earlier this week. The June update is designed to make it even easier for developers to earn money and build ad-enabled mobile apps with streamlined Ad Control APIs and other new features.

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From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes The Judge, which pairs two-time Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin, Tropic Thunder) and Oscar winner Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies, Crazy Heart), starring together for the first time on the big screen. The film also stars Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Conjuring) and Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, Friday Night Lights), and is directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers).
In The Judge, Downey stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge (Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
The film also features a stellar supporting cast, including Vincent D'Onofrio (TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Jeremy Strong (Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln), Dax Shepard (TV's Parenthood), Leighton Meester (TV's Gossip Girl), Ken Howard (J. Edgar, Michael Clayton), Emma Tremblay (Elysium), Balthazar Getty (TV's Brothers & Sisters), David Krumholtz (This Is the End), Sarah Lancaster (TV's Chuck), Grace Zabriskie (TV's Big Love) and Denis O'Hare (TV's True Blood).
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Mariners take series from Orioles
Seattle, WA – Kendrys Morales went 3-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored as the Seattle Mariners captured an 8-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles to take the rubber match of a three-game set at Safeco Field.
Michael Saunders added three hits and an RBI while also scoring three runs, Michael Morse hit his third homer in four games and Jason Bay drove in a pair in the Mariners' fourth win in five games.
"I feel like our guys have taken significant steps," said Seattle manager Eric Wedge. "What you're seeing now is more the norm in regard to what our guys are capable of."
Aaron Harang (1-3) notched his first victory with the Mariners, tossing six solid innings of two-run ball. He allowed four hits, walked one and struck out five to help Seattle close out a seven-game homestand, 5-2.
Manny Machado went 2-for-4 with a solo homer and two runs scored, while Nick Markakis and Adam Jones each had two hits and an RBI in the Orioles' third setback in four games.
Coming off two very strong performances, Wei-Yin Chen (2-3) was anything but in his sixth start of the season. The lefty was tagged for five runs on eight hits and three walks over four innings of work.
Seattle opened up the scoring in the first, with Morales getting on with a two-out single. Morse followed with a walk and Bay ripped an RBI double off Chen to put the Mariners ahead 1-0.
"He had a change-up that he jerked across the plate to Bay," said Orioles manager Buck Showalter. "That cost him. Stuff-wise, he was in pretty good shape. He made a mistake with an off-speed pitch and got hurt."
Seattle increased its lead with two more runs in the second. Jesus Montero led off the frame with a triple and Saunders lined a single to right to bring him home. Saunders then stole second and Morales grounded a two-out single up the middle for a 3-0 Mariners edge.
Morse clubbed his ninth home run of the season in the fourth, sending a two- run shot over the right field wall to give the M's a five-run cushion.
The Orioles made a dent in the sixth, with Machado reaching with a two-out double and then scoring on Markakis' base hit into center. Jones then doubled in a run to cut Baltimore's deficit to 5-2, but the Mariners responded with three runs in the bottom half of the frame.
Zach Clark, starting his second inning of work in his major league debut, gave up back-to-back singles to Saunders and Kyle Seager and both came around to score on Morales' double. Morse pushed Morales to third with a fly ball into right and Bay sent him home with a sac fly, giving the M's an 8-2 lead.
The Orioles received a two-out solo homer from Machado in the eighth, and ensuing singles from Markakis and Jones had runners on first and second, but Charlie Furbush replaced Carter Capps on the mound and struck out Chris Davis to end the threat.
Game Notes
The Mariners had five extra base hits ... Seattle was 5-for-14 with runners in scoring position and left 10 on base ... The Orioles are 4-3 on their 11-game road trip, which will end with a four-game set in Los Angeles when the club takes on the Angels ... The Mariners will begin a three-game set in Toronto on Friday.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Low Carb Cauliflower Macaroni & Cheese
I love macaroni & cheese! It's comfort food at its finest. In fact I bet about 20 of the 80 pounds I lost was old fashioned macaroni and cheese! But now that I am eating low carb and including more veggies in my diet, I have to get creative when I get a craving for this delicious, carby, cheesy mess. I am kind of picky about my macaroni and cheese, too. I don't like it to be dry or clumpy; I want creamy, flavorful, saucy stuff. Yes, I do have the good old Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese recipe on my blog, which is fantastic and healthy but it is definitely not low carb.
I've looked online at a lot of recipes, but none of them really hit the spot. So today I took a chance and made up a new recipe. And guess what? It was fantastic! This is my new go-to Cauliflower Macaroni and Cheese recipe from now on!
Wait... did I say cauliflower?? Yes! Instead of noodles, I used fresh steamed cauliflower. The results? Amazing!
"Fake" Baked Macaroni & Cheese (aka Low Carb Cauliflower Mac & Cheese)
Take a half head or so of fresh cauliflower and steam it until it is just tender. Or, cut into chunks, put in a big bowl with a half inch of water, cover and microwave for 5-6 minutes until tender but NOT MUSHY!) Drain, pat dry, cool enough to handle and then rough chop the cauliflower into noodle-sized pieces.
Measure out 1 1/2 cups of chopped cauliflower and set aside. Put the rest away for another use.
In a saucepan over medium-low heat, warm 3 Tablespoons half & half and 1 Tablespoon light cream cheese. Add one slice of 2% American cheese torn in pieces (I used one Kraft 2% Single). Season with a little black pepper and mustard powder; add onion powder and sea salt to taste. Whisk until all melted and creamy but don't let it boil. Keep warm.
Grate 3 oz (3/4 cup) of low fat sharp cheddar (I used Cabot 1%) and 2 oz (1/2 cup) of reduced fat Colby jack or cheddar jack cheese (I used 2% Kraft). Mix the cheeses together. Add most of the cheese to the warm sauce, leaving out just enough to spread over the top of the casserole. Stir the sauce until the cheese all melts. Add the cauliflower and gently fold with a spatula until the cauliflower is covered in sauce. Place mixture in a small casserole dish and top with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes, until cheese starts to brown.
This recipe makes one generous, delicious, creamy serving. I eat this as my entire dinner. You could have half, instead, with a small grilled chicken breast and a salad. This entire recipe has 526 calories, 13g carbs, and 51g protein. Yay for protein!
If you are on Medifast as I am, here's the recipe breakdown:
cauliflower = 1 full Green (3 vegs)
Cabot cheddar = 1/2 Lean (leaner option, needs 1/2 Healthy Fat)
2% cheese = other 1/2 Lean
3T half & half = 2 condiments and 1/2 Healthy Fat
1T light cream cheese = 1 condiment
The Kraft single is 50 calories, 2g carbs, 4g protein so I count it as my snack even though it is not listed
I do not count the seasonings in this recipe, but they total about 1/4 tsp all together so it is less than a half condiment. If you are 100% OP, tweak as needed! It is a little higher in calories and fat than the usual L&G but having this once a month or so works for me :)
18 comments:
- SG said...
well, i know what im making next week! that looks to DIE for!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Julie Lost and Found said...
oh man..that looks awesome! I'm going to have to try it.
I've never tried any of the "fake" recipes made with cauliflower. I think I'll make this the first.
- June 29, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Debbie said...
Okay, I copied both recipes and I am going to try one of them this weekend. They both sound wonderful and the one today looks great to.
- June 29, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- Lori said...
If this is as good as the cauliflower pizza, you've hit another one out of the park! I can't wait to try it.
- June 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- moonduster said...
That sounds yummy and looks delicious! Thanks for sharing!
- June 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Jennifer said...
wow...now that looks awesome! Even though I am off Medifast now I will surely include this in my calorie counting! Thanks for calculating it all out!
- June 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM
how many total grams of fat are there? you posted the calories and carbs and protein but not total fat. (i could probably subtract the total cals from carbs/protein and do the math, but you probably already have the info!)
- June 29, 2010 at 7:12 PM
- Lyn said...
the whole recipe has 29 grams of fat. Which makes me wonder... how the heck many grams of fat is in regular mac & cheese with regular cheese, butter, etc?? Scary what I used to eat. This tastes just as rich but so much healthier.
That said, if it seems a little high fat to you (or anyone) you can cut it a little by using fat free half & half and fat free cream cheese (that would save 8 grams right there), and if you went with a fat free American, too, it would cut off 3 more grams.
- June 29, 2010 at 7:29 PM
- misssarahlou said...
Sounds delicious, my mum used to make this all time when I was a kid (I hated it!) she called it cauliflower cheese...I love it now and you may have just given me a craving for it!
- June 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- carla said...
hmmmm would the four year old eat I wonder?
- June 30, 2010 at 2:59 AM
- ashley said...
Love it! I will be passing this onto my readers with link back to your site on 7/7, thanks!!
- June 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- beerab said...
I just moaned out loud after reading this- it looks DELICIOUS!
- July 1, 2010 at 10:29 AM
That's called cauliflower with cheese sauce over here (you can make it with leeks too) and is my mother's favourite side dish.
- July 1, 2010 at 6:57 PM
- momoftwins said...
you cant have cheese!!!!
- June 19, 2011 at 3:51 PM
- Lyn said...
you are mistaken. Please refer to the Meatless Options List on the official Medifast site, under "Product and Plan Resources: Nutritional Information." Reduced fat cheese is listed.
- June 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM
- Lindsey said...
Lyn - do you think you could do a combination of this with the butternut squash in lieu of some of the cheese and butter? I've been doing one with actual macaroni that doesn't call for any butter and uses only a little 2% milk with reduced fat cheeses and we really like it, but I'm thinking of switching the macaroni out for cauliflower... what do you think?
- September 27, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Lyn said...
I bet that would work. If I were trying to combine the two recipes, though, I might try making the Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese recipe that's on my blog but sub steamed cauliflower in place of the pasta. Let me know what you come up with!
- September 27, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- TryinToLose said...
I love love love this recipe for the mac & cheese. My husband and I could not believe how wonderful this was. Thank you so much for this!
- January 30, 2012 at 11:54 AM


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Part of the popular chain of Francesca restaurants that began in 1992 with the original Mia Francesca in Lake View, the menu here features the same generous portions of Northern Italian food with dishes from Rome and the surrounding areas of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. The menu changes daily to use seasonal ingredients, and there are additional off-the-menu specials. Appetizers might include carpaccio arugula, a platter of thinly sliced raw sirloin with capers, tomatoes, mushrooms, arugula, olive oil and Parmesan cheese.
There are a handful of thin crust pizzas to choose from, with options like the quattro formaggi with mozzarella, mascarpone, blue and Swiss cheeses. Pasta selections may include the linguini frutti del mare, with scallops, clams, calamari and mussels in a spicy marinara sauce. Entrees might include the crispy roast chicken Romana, with a lemon rosemary sauce, shallots and garlic. The reasonably priced wine list features both American and Italian choices with several by the glass options. The bar carries an extensive selection of grappas.


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Obama's power play
Part of a POLITICO Pro Special Report series on the Obama administration's executive action and regulatory agenda.
In an FDA office building in suburban Maryland, the bureaucrats gather over coffee to draft rules meant to squeeze the trans fat out of snack foods.
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Four blocks from the White House, in an EPA conference room: more bureaucrats, more meetings, more drafting of rules, these aimed at forcing industrialists to spend billions cutting carbon to fend off global warming.
Congress? Who needs Congress?
Americans heard President Barack Obama declare this week that he intends to bypass the gridlocked Hill to get things done on his own. What they didn't hear: just how far he's actually pushing his executive authority.
( FULL COVERAGE: POLITICO Pro Special Report: Obama's power play)
An in-depth examination of the administration's actions and plans, agency by agency, regulation by regulation, reveals an executive power play that's broad and bold — and intensely ambitious. Far more than he let on in the State of the Union, the president has marshaled the tools of his office to advance policies, many unabashedly liberal, that push deep into everyday life for tens of millions of Americans.
He wants to change how power plants operate. And what we buy for lunch. How we travel to work. And how our kids learn math. How our gasoline is formulated. How we light our aquariums.
Already, the president's team has enacted 300 economically significant regulations, far more than Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan did in comparable periods. Some of those rules are driven by the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank banking reform, the two big laws Obama pushed through Congress early in his first term, when he had Democratic majorities in both houses. But there is far more.
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When Congress wouldn't support a climate change bill, the administration moved on its own to push the energy industry away from coal and toward green alternatives. The executive branch found a way to drive tremendous change in public schools, too — though education is typically under local control — by holding tight to billions in much-needed funding, and doling it out only to states that pledged to follow the administration's prescriptions for reform. A tweak to a transportation grant formula even gave the administration influence over local urban planning; streetcars, all of a sudden, are popping up everywhere.
And it's not Congress, but the executive branch, that's on the verge of making Hershey's reformulate its Reese's Pieces. (Out, out, trans fat!)
As he tees up for his final three years, Obama is pushing to take his executive power further still, with the most ambitious regulatory agenda in decades. Executive actions now underway could shut down for-profit colleges that don't meet the administration's definition of success — even if they're popular with students. They could raise the price of products ranging from trucks to furnace fans to manufactured housing to aquarium lights, by requiring them to be made more energy-efficient. The executive agenda even reaches the fires of the family hearth, with the Environmental Protection Agency planning strict new requirements for home wood stoves.
( Also on POLITICO: State of the Union 2014 fact check)
Whether American guns can be sold abroad. How smokeless tobacco can be marketed. Which nonprofits can stage get-out-the-vote drives. What constitutes a single serving of potato chips.
And, perhaps, just how salty those chips should be.
All this, and much more, will depend in large part on the behind-the-scenes churning of the federal bureaucracy — managed, or by many accounts micro-managed, by the White House.
Obama has pushed back on complaints from business leaders that he is overstepping and overregulating. His staff notes that Obama has issued fewer executive orders than previous presidents and describes his approach to regulation as pragmatic. "The president does not believe that we have to choose between protecting the health, welfare and safety of Americans and promoting economic growth, job creation, competitiveness and innovation," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "We can do both and we are doing both." Allies agree, saying with Congress mired in gridlock, executive action is vital. "We face a lengthy to-do list of public health and safety priorities," said Gynnie Robnett, of the Center for Effective Government. Opponents, however, blast Obama for arrogant overreach.
Americans got a glimpse of executive power in action when Obama announced at the State of the Union that he would hike the minimum wage for federal contractors, to $10.10 an hour. Often, though, the exercise of power is far less visible. Consider: Just last fall, with little fanfare, Obama's Labor Department finalized a regulation imposing an expanded affirmative action mandate on those same federal contractors. They must now aim to ensure that at least 7 percent of their workforce consists of employees with disabilities.
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Or consider a technical document the Energy Department put out last year regarding a regulation to improve the efficiency of microwave ovens. On page 409 of Appendix 16A, the administration slipped in wording noting that it had tweaked a wonky formula for estimating the deleterious effects of carbon buildup in the atmosphere.
That small change had huge effects; by raising what's referred to as the " social cost of carbon," the administration made it far easier to justify sweeping environmental regulations by arguing that their benefits to the public at large outweigh their cost to specific industries.
It's not clear how much Obama personally gets involved in such details, but officials at several agencies — and outsiders who follow the work closely — say the White House is extremely hands-on when it comes to initiatives with major economic or political implications. White House officials insert comments into regulatory drafts. They receive briefings from agency officials. In private conversations, they request edits or, if the timing doesn't feel right, urge delays. They're careful not to put much into email.
"Everyone I talk to at the federal agencies says, 'We can't budge. … The White House is micromanaging everything," said Marion Nestle, a consumer advocate and food policy professor at New York University.
Internal documents posted online last spring open a window into the process. The White House Office of Management and Budget made numerous changes, visible on the document in red, to an FDA food safety regulation. The most significant edits watered down provisions that industry opposed, including a requirement that food companies monitor their processing plants for environmental pathogens. (The regulation in question was not initiated by the administration; it was required under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which passed Congress in 2010, with Obama's support.)


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Witnesses: Fight led to fatal shooting at Santa Rosa party
Witnesses testified Monday that a man shot dead outside a Santa Rosa party had been fighting inside with his suspected killer's cousin just minutes before he was gunned down.
Damien Wadell Toney Jr., 20, was seen choking the cousin, identified in court as Paula Brisco, in the Piner Road apartment early New Year's Eve, police Detective Andrew Riley said at a preliminary hearing.
The two, who had a child together, apparently got into a fight in front of about 25 other partygoers, Riley said. Toney was kicked out and continued a confrontation with Brisco's cousin, then 15-year-old Joseph Mario Varela, Riley said.
Varela pulled a gun and shot Toney in the chest, police and other party guests said. Police believe Varela's friend, Manuel Khiobouakham, 19, also fired on Toney.
After initially denying his role, Varela told police he aimed the gun at Toney just to scare him, Riley said. But he said he ended up shooting Toney when the older man punched him in the chin, he said.
Riley said an autopsy showed Toney was shot twice in the chest with two different guns. The gun Varela is believed to have used, a .45-caliber pistol, was found in a friend's house, Riley said.
It was unclear what evidence linked Khiobouakham to the slaying. He was arrested a month later when he appeared in court on an unrelated matter.
Both are charged with murder and gang participation. Varela, who is now 16 and being housed at juvenile hall, is to be tried as an adult.
They have pleaded not guilty.
Another person at the party, Abel Legese, testified that he arrived at the party with Varela, Khiobouakham and two other men. He identified Varela as the shooter and admitted in halting testimony that he initially lied to officers that Khiobouakham pointed a gun at Toney.
"That was not true," he testified.
Legese said he saw Varela fire after Toney approached the teen and reached toward his own waistband. Legese said he made up the story about Khiobouakham because he was scared.
Riley said the investigation was hampered by a lack of cooperation from partygoers. Many told police they did not see the shooting, he said.
"We had many people who didn't tell us the whole truth about that night," Riley said.
Friends and family members of the victim and the defendants packed the courtroom Monday. Some wore T-shirts bearing Toney's photograph. Others cried when Riley testified about Toney's autopsy.
You can reach Staff Writer Paul Payne at 568-5312 or paul.payne@press democrat.com. On Twitter @ppayne.


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Andrew Smith is the author of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, which tells the story of the twelve U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972.
Smith has also written and presented two documentaries for BBC Four. The first, Being Neil Armstrong, is a trip across America to explore the personal history of the first person on the moon. The second, To Kill a Mockingbird at 50, about how Monroeville, Alabama has changed since it was used by Harper Lee as the setting for her novel.


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Announcing a new website that is chock full of incredible Irish records. This is my Featured Weekly Database for this week.
In the Wake of Dark Passage: Irish Famine Migration to New Brunswick, 1845-1852
Don't be misled by the title! There are records here that pertain to other geographic locations.
The website includes the following searchable records. I have just spent an enjoyable half hour searching the Passenger Lists and Almshouse Records. I was amazed to find that in the ships passenger lists, each individual entry is linked to the actual images of the original manifest.
When I glanced at the Immigrant Letters database I was struck by the geographic locations - many in the USA as well as of course Ireland and New Brunswick.
* Saint John Almshouse Records
* Brenan Funeral Home Records: Traces of Ireland
* Fitzwilliam Estate Emigration Books 1847-1856
* RS555 Provincial Secretary: Immigration Administration Records
* Immigrant Letters
* Newspapers
* Passenger Lists
* Teachers Petition Database
* Irish Immigrants in the New Brunswick Census of 1851 and 1861


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Coronado dies, without finding the fabled cities of gold
On this day in 1554, Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez, his health badly deteriorated from injuries and the toll of his strenuous travels, dies. He never found the fabled cities of gold that he had sought for decades.
A quarter-century earlier Coronado had explored much of the southwestern United States, leading his force of 300 Spaniards and 800 Indians northward from Mexico in search of the Seven Cities of Cíbola that were rumored to have walls made of gold and treasure houses filled with priceless gems. Arriving in the region that today straddles the border between New Mexico and Arizona, Coronado did actually find Cíbola. But after winning a brief battle against the native defenders, Coronado discovered he had conquered only a modest Zuni village built with walls of adobe mud, not gold.
Discouraged, Coronado considered abandoning his search. But while exploring the Rio Grande one of his lieutenants had acquired a slave, a man the Spaniards called "the Turk," who boasted that in his homeland of Quivara, far to the northeast, Coronado could find all the treasures after which he lusted. Coronado set off in search of Quivara in the spring of 1541, eventually traveling across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and up into Kansas. But when he finally made contact with the Quivara Indians, Coronado was once again disappointed to find that they were living in simple huts and had no more gold and silver than the Zunis. After strangling the Turk for having lied to him, Coronado gave up and returned to Mexico where he faced a government furious that he had not brought back the wealth he had promised.
Coronado never again mounted another exploratory mission and died believing that he had been a shameful failure. But while he never found the golden cities he sought, Coronado did succeed in giving the Spanish and the rest of the world their first fairly accurate understanding of the inhabitants and geography of the southern half of the present United States.


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If I were on LSN I would have the highest index of any UW reject.
Rejection letter from UW came today. I've got a 177/3.3. What the bleep are they looking for? My index on LSN is over 95, with the average accepted index being about 93, and the highest rejected index being a 93.9 or something similar. I got waitlisted at UVA (also out of state), which I think would be a heck of a lot tougher than getting accepted to UW. The problem is that a waitlisting at UVA doesn't do me any good and UW was one of my top choices. This one hurts.


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Start date: August 11, 2018
End date: August 12, 2018
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2018 Mbaise Cultural Day Event Toronto
Start date: August 4, 2018
End date: August 5, 2018
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Toronto 16th Annual Convention of Ojoto Union North America
Date: July 28, 2018
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Introducing our Iran podcast
Some of our own staff travelled to Iran last year and have put together a podcast to answer some of your Iran questions and give you a bit more info about what to expect on the trip. You've probably started researching yourself, so you 'll know that it can be a tricky to find the information you need and more importantly can trust. Hopefully this episode with our Iran experts will help with your planning.
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Foreign Language Assistance (V-D-9)
The Foreign Language Assistance program is designed to improve the quality and extent of foreign language instruction, particularly in the nation's elementary schools. The United States has an unprecedented need for individuals with highly developed competencies in languages other then English. Research funded by the European Union indicates that early language learning can have a positive effect on students with respect to fostering language skills, a positive attitude toward other languages and cultures, and increased self-esteem. In addition, research has shown that math and verbal SAT scores are higher with each additional year of foreign language study.
How It Works
The U.S. Department of Education offers competitive grants to state education agencies (SEAs) or school districts to pay the federal share of the cost of innovative model programs to establish, improve, or expand foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. There are two types of grants discretionary and incentive-that make up this program.
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Discretionary Grants.The discretionary provisions allow the U.S. Department of Education to make three-year grants to SEAs and districts to pay the federal share (50 percent unless a district waiver is granted) of the cost of innovative model programs to establish, improve, or expand foreign language study. Grants to SEAs support systemic approaches to improving foreign language learning in the state. Grants to districts support programs that show the promise of being continued beyond the grant period, demonstrate approaches that can be disseminated and duplicated in other districts, and may include a professional development component.
The Department will give special consideration to applications from SEAs and districts describing programs that:
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Incentive Grants. The incentive provisions authorize grants to any public elementary school that has a foreign language program comparable to providing at least 45 minutes of instruction for four days a week throughout an academic year. The incentive grants are calculated based on the number of participating students.


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Let me explain.
I was anxiously preparing for RootsTech in the weeks prior when my 102 year-old mother-in-law's health went quickly downhill. Mom was a very strong woman with healthy long genes which she didn't fully appreciate! She had for years felt it was "her time" to go feeling she wasn't able to be productive. Mind you, she lived alone in her own home until she was 98 when her vision and steadiness started to wane, and she had been alone since her husband died in 1971. She was terribly mistaken about her value - she served others her entire life. She made a great difference in other people's lives and not just with her tiny family of descendants. She made friends wherever she went right up until the end.
Mom grew up mostly living a very poor life on a rural farm in northern Utah with eight siblings. She managed to put herself through nursing school, became a registered nurse and served thousands of patients, family and friends for about 50 years before she finally let her license expire.
She sang to her friends at mealtimes. Sang when someone made her smile. Sang to cheer herself up. Sang to bring joy to others. She appreciated every moment and every smile or act of service from others.
She loved family history and worked on it for many years until her eyesight failed her. She was thrilled knowing I was so interested in family history and had been much of my life. I would carry it forward.
Mom passed to the other side two days before my activities at RootsTech began - early Monday morning. It was finally "her time" to leave. Wednesday morning we buried her in a simple service so indicative of how she led her life. Wednesday afternoon I began my RootsTech journey -just the way she would have wanted it.
Part 2 - As one day closes to the living, another day opens to the past.
A few years ago I received an email from "Jackie" who had spotted my name listed as a submitter of data on the FamilySearch tree. Jackie said she and her husband had been going through some boxes of family memorabilia and found a very old leather-bound bible in a cardboard box labeled as her mother-in-law's family bible. She soon realized that the bible did not belong to her husband's family. She told me the names found in the bible and asked me if I would be interested in having it? The name she shared with me came from the marriage page and was the brother of my great grandmother.
I was so giddy with excitement I could hardly breathe! I immediately wrote back and said I would very much be interested in obtaining the bible. We talked of making arrangements to meet. Understand, it's not the bible, per se, but a link to my family I never knew! My biological grandfather died when my mother was seven-years-old and she never got over it. I felt her pain. I yearned to know more about him and, his line is my biggest brick wall.
Then some weeks later my heart fell when I received another email from "Jackie". She didn't know what to do as she had received another response from her email saying that he was a direct-line descendant and wanted the bible. I cried.
It took me a while but I bucked up, prayed, and decided to do the Christ-like thing. I told her I totally understood and if I was the most direct descendant I would want it too. We left it at that and have continued to correspond the past three years. Jackie and I became online friends. I still wanted to meet this unfamiliar cousin, see the bible, and share stories.
Well, time went by and as a RootsTech blogger was given the opportunity to give away a registration to RootsTech via a contest on my blog. I received many entries for the contest. When the time came to select a winner I made up folded slips of paper with names of each entrant. (Not exactly scientific!) I always put the burden on my husband to select the winner. I threw the papers in the air and he grabbed one as they fluttered to the ground. To my surprise, "Jackie" had entered and won the registration!
Jackie and I had to email a number of times over the course of several weeks because of a communication issue at FamilySearch in getting the registration info for her. She shared with me that she had never heard back from the "other person" concerning the bible that we had talked about a few years earlier and would still like to give me the bible!
I had such an overwhelming feeling of love for my family, for Jackie's kindness, and for the power of prayer. My heart was full.
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I told Jackie that I would love to get together with her during RootTech but I never saw her again over the next several days. I jokingly wonder if she was real! I will continue to pray for Jackie and her family and be ever grateful for her kind deed.
I returned to my hotel room that evening and was so touched by the experience of opening this incredible piece of my history. As I flipped to the handwritten pages in the middle of the book I was a bit shocked at the contents. Yes, the marriage page was that of my great granduncle and aunt. However, the pages containing the births and deaths were of my grandfather's siblings - all those who were born and died prior to his birth. This was my family's bible!
|Grandpa on the right
My grandmother who married into this line had told us about a family bible but after she died in 1971 no bible was ever found. We spent years looking and asking questions to no avail. Now I ask, is it possible this was the missing bible Grandma talked about? I may never know the answer to that, but I question not this beautiful gift that Jackie shared with me! I am so grateful for her selfless act.
Part 3 - The pendulum keeps swaying
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One year ago Dennis Brimhall, President and CEO FamilySearch International, came on board for RootsTech. Speaking to the bloggers, and again often in his keynote speech and interviews, he admittedly was outside his element with all the technology. In a short 12 months he has strengthened FamilySearch, added millions of new records, augmented and shaped support for customers/patrons, and defined a new focus for RootTech; that of discovering ones ancestors through their stories.
That childhood feeling we have of self-discovery often leads us to search for ancestor's names and dates. As we gather documents and build a timeline we can discover who they really were. Not a name and date, but your favorite relative's favorite relative! The one you never had a chance to meet here on earth but began to love and appreciate through this discovery process.
|Dennis Brimhall
Here is where the pendulum swings again. Which direction, is up to the reader. Yes, professional genealogists pride themselves in 100% accuracy of sourcing to the comma and italics, while others grab at names and numbers and are committed in their belief that Great Aunt Letty spoke or wrote with total accuracy and never stretched the truth. One grows as one discovers that spelling of names doesn't mean much, or that ages on census records are not always accurate. With experience you find people that altered their name to avoid persecution. Or, there really were three children given the name of Thomas in the same family, the first two having died at birth or infancy. We learn from each other. Family history requires an open mind and a heart in tune with the spirit.
Both sides of this fence are helpful but the true story lies elsewhere and simply. Dennis Brimhall said "we are turning hearts. We are all about helping families fall in love with their ancestors. It's a love story." Is there anyone who doesn't believe in a love story?
Part 4 - Take the pendulum ride once more. Which side of the fence are you on?
During RootsTech, busily tweeting, I found very little time to attend classes, not that I didn't want to or need to, rather because I was so busy collaborating with others, answering questions and enjoying the moments. I have the luxury of living in Utah and have 100's of people I've met, taught, learned from, and become friends with over the years. We can take the opportunity to visit one of the libraries in town, have access to a Family history center usually within a mile or so of home, and attend classes almost daily. We have the best of the best. Yet, there are so many locally who do not partake of these advantages. I ache for them as they are missing out on the joy one can find by truly knowing how they became who they are.
I have taken the step to know my fellow genealogy bloggers online and in person. I respect and appreciate who they are and what niche they play in the family history and genealogy world. They love what they do and are so willing to help everyone.
I loved the buzz at RootsTech -- people from all over the world, those speaking different languages, different roots, different beliefs, and differing views. I found those that loved RootsTech and those who didn't find what they wanted out of it. I understand the differing views and can support each side.
The RootsTech focus appears to be narrowing in scope - or should I say, has chosen to do so. The focus is more on true beginners and intermediate family historians and genealogists. The feeling is that professional genealogists have other avenues for growth, such as FGS, NGS, SLIG (UGA), and Samford (IGHR). This is probably why I heard some genealogists say that RootsTech had no classes that were geared to them. Others found classes labeled as intermediate that were really for beginners and vice versa. It's a tough job trying to figure out what level everyone considers themselves to be. It comes down to what you have learned and what you want to learn. My view of where I am is probably far from where you think I am. To me, that's the fun of discovering new and different views in whatever class I choose to attend. I believe we can each benefit from whatever class we take, what activity we choose to attend, or even how we choose to interact with other attendees. I personally like the mix of beginners and experts. They feed off each other. We get out of it what we choose to put into it.
I do agree that the class listings need to be more descriptive so that a beginner or an expert can determine what they might benefit from. I would like to more easily access the syllabus and earlier, so I have time to go through it and make a better informed decision on my personal plan of attack at the conference. I dare bet that many people never did figure out how to get the syllabus material downloaded to their own technology tools. We needed a class on how to do it! If RootsTech really wants to focus on beginners and intermediates then every step in the process needs to meet that focus.
I want it all!
I'm one of those people who wants it all! I know that's not really feasible, but that's me. Where do you find yourself on this pendulum? I want to encourage and help beginners get started, enjoy and collaborate with the intermediates, and learn from the experts! And, believe it or not, the experts want to keep getting better! That creates a win-win for everyone. And most of us want to do it all in a one-stop shopping arena! The economy makes it very difficult to attend more than one large conference in a year. And there is no bigger selling point for RootsTech than the immediate access to the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake.
One of the greatest changes to come is the focus by FamilySearch to youth involvement in family history. Many may find this unusual, I mean "what would they know", but I am a strong supporter of the youth. I have taught many youth in the basics of family history and they take it and run with it. They see no barriers or brick walls. It may start as a game to them, but once their ancestors touch their hearts they scramble to move forward.
Part 5 - The Ups and Downs
So bottom line, I found some things about RootsTech that can still be improved upon:
1. App issues as listed above;
2. More paid lunch classes as they again sold out within a short time of the start of registration;
3. Barring space considerations, more hands-on workshops (heard lots of complaints about this)
4. A better way of helping all attendees determine what they can walk away with from each class before they sit through 5 or 10 minutes of a class only to find it a waste of their time, then finding another class better suited to their needs and finding it full.
5. Classroom sizing was much better this year. However, attendees still spilled into the hallways often. Maybe we need more classes per hour and repeat the ones of major interest. Yes the cost of space is an issue.
I found things that have improved this year or were enhanced:
1. A much larger audience -- 6,700 in pre-registrations; upwards of 10,000 people in attendance from around the world to the live streaming keynotes and classes; about 2,000 youth and youth leaders attended on Saturday special sessions; and another 4-5,000 people attended selected portions of the conference in 16 locations around the world for use at family history fairs, including translations in foreign countries. If all went well for this test, the audience for 2014 could easily top 120,000 attendees to RootsTech worldwide.
2. An exciting focus on the stories within our family history – the stories create the "wow" factor in our lives.
3. New technologies continue to be developed to make family history even easier
4. Hey, did you even realize there was complementary soda drinks and water in the exhibit hall?
5. Did you realize that you could attend other classes all day long inside the exhibit hall?
6. Did you find it much easier to make your way around the conference this year? I found better layout for classrooms, keynotes, and in the exhibit hall.
RootsTech 2013 is now complete and on one end of the pendulum swing. I plan to start preparing for RootsTech 2014 as the pendulum swings back! How about you?
Be prepared for new changes to FamilySearch coming in the next couple of weeks! Enjoy! We don't grow if we don't change!


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Michael J. Fox returns to television Thursday night* on NBC's The Michael J. Fox Showplaying a character, Mike Henry, very similar to Michael J. Fox, who works for a network, NBC, very similar to NBC.
Henry is a beloved television personality, a former news anchor at NBC's New York affiliate, who retired five years ago after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. As the show begins, he's a stay-at-home dad micro-managing the lives of his wife (Betsy Brandt, who also plays Marie on Breaking Bad—it is spiritually restorative to see her in happier circumstances), his sister, and his three children when NBC tries to woo him back to the job.
"We need you," his former colleague Harris ( The Wire's Wendell Pierce, sly as ever) tells him. "No one's watching the news anymore. We got beat by a show called Color Splash last night. That's literally watching paint dry." Long beleaguered, NBC's primetime series have not yet been toppled by a show about paint drying, but zombies, vampires, duck warblers, medical investigators, and pretty much every other member of television's vast menagerie have beaten NBC in the ratings. Last winter it came in fifth during sweeps, behind not just CBS, ABC and Fox, but also Univsion.* The NBC of The Michael J. Fox Show may need Mike "guaranteed ratings" Henry, but not nearly as badly as the real NBC needs Michael J. Fox.
NBC has been struggling since Friendsended nearly a decade ago. In that time it has been home to a number of best-ever sitcoms, like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, and Community, that are all essentially niche products: Three times more people watch Duck Dynasty than Parks. NBC's previous attempts to draw a bigger audience have failed. A sitcom starring Dane Cook was pulled before it ever reached the air, and its multicamera sitcoms Whitney and Guys With Kids should have been. The other new comedy on its fall schedule, Sean Saves the World, starring Will & Grace's Sean Hayes, is a dud. In the context of all this flailing, The Michael J. Fox Show is a kind of victory: a show with broad appeal led by a still sparkly and high-strung Fox that is pretty good, a shade too predictable and manipulative to be excellent, but neither excruciating nor embarrassing. It seems like a hit.
Like ABC's Modern Family, The Michael J. Fox Show has cribbed enough, tonally and stylistically, from more adventurous sitcoms to look and feel up to date, freeing it up to revisit standard sitcom tropes with aplomb. Fox is a single-camera comedy without a laugh track. It has a "mockumentary" element, the ultimate "quality sitcom" cliché. It is, as all the ratings jokes suggest, reflexively meta and knowing. In the pilot, Mike complains, "I know if I come back NBC's gonna milk it by showing me in slow-mo with lame uplifting music in the background." When exactly such a video plays later, the song used is Enrique Iglesias' "Hero" and the joke is insulated just enough from its own cheesiness to elicit laughs. And the show is edgy enough not to treat Fox's Parkinson's like a sacred cow, an elephant in the room, or any other sort of special animal. The pilot ends with Mike tremblingly holding up a plate of food before his wife Annie grabs it and says, "Can you not make this a personal triumph, we're starving."
Plot-wise, however, Fox is old-school. In the second episode, Mike develops a crush on his upstairs neighbor (played by Fox's real life wife Tracy Pollan). When Annie asks him about it, instead of copping to the attraction, he insists that it doesn't exist. Annie gets mad, not because he's attracted to another woman, but because he's lying about it, a storyline that my colleague Dana Stevens correctly ID'd as having previously appeared in " The Every Sitcom Ever Show." Also from Every Sitcom Ever, the scene in which Annie and Mike's attempts to have sex are interrupted by every single one of their children, until Annie falls instantaneously to sleep.
This combination of familiar plots, knowing wit, and contemporary aesthetic makes for extremely effective, if not at all original, television. Fox is an old-fashioned show, powered along by simple stories, a loving family, and the still-palpable charm of Alex P. Keaton, but it looks great, moves along at a clip, has a welcome self-awareness and a surprisingly prickly sense of humor. If Fox is up for Emmys against shows like Parks orLouie or Veep, I'll be screeching my head off about how it's not in their league. In the meantime,I would so much rather watch this version of The Michael J. Fox Show, the one cribbing tonal and visual clichés from Parks and The Office via Modern Family, than the one with terrible lighting, huge pauses between jokes, and absolutely no shame about getting as corny as possible. Ketchup is ketchup wherever it comes from, but that doesn't mean the squeeze bottle wasn't a good invention. The Michael J. Fox Showserves up an undiminished Michael J. Fox in a trendy package: It's not great, but for NBC, it might be just right.
Correction, Sept. 25, 2013: The article initially gave the incorrect air date for the show. ( Return to the corrected sentence.) It also misstated that NBC had finished behind CBS, ABC, Fox and Telemundo during sweeps. NBC finished behind CBS, ABC, Fox and Univision. ( Return to the corrected sentence.)


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DRHOOK- Help! Domestic violence victims often powerless
Drag queens love divas. When drag queens start impersonating a star, that star is immortalized: Cher, Tina Turner, Liza– and now Rihanna. Even at the ice rink, I hear Rihanna, but don't ask me how the songs go. I have to admit: I'm just not that into her music.
But for unfortunate reasons, I know a lot about Rihanna since her no-show at the Grammy Awards– because her boyfriend Chris Brown beat her up. Let me tell you something: if any Rihanna drag queens had been there to defend the real Rihanna, they would have clawed Brown's eyes out with their Lee Press On Nails and made sure he never hurt anyone again!
What is domestic violence?
I think about 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the beginning of the movie, under-evolved people learn to beat and kill others using bones as weapons. The Neanderthal man throws a bone into the sky, and the movie pans to 2001, with space ships and modern-day people in crisp uniforms.
But as they say, "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy." The same goes with violence in our world.
Domestic Violence (DV) is intentional controlling or violent behavior within an intimate relationship. The nature of the violence is physical, sexual, emotional, or economic abuse, and/or social isolation of the victim.
The U.S. Department of Justice back in 1992-93 estimated one million women and 150,000 men were sexually or physically abused by their partners (you sure can't use the term "better half"). In reported cases of DV that lead to a criminal investigation, 95 percent of the time the victims are women; 5 percent of the time they're men.
Another US survey showed that 16 percent of couples had reported an incident of physical violence within the year before the survey. Some emergency department studies have shown 9 to 14 percent of women in an abusive relationship and 54 percent with a past history of abusive relationships. DV is the number-one cause of trauma in females 15-44 years of age.
Physical abuse is slapping, hitting, kicking, biting, slamming someone against a wall or floor, or anything to hurt the victim. Nonconsensual sex is sexual assault. The violent outbursts are intermittent and often unpredictable, on average six times a year– and that makes the victim walk on eggshells all the time. Fear of the next outburst makes life a living hell.
It is difficult for most victims to get out of the relationship because the abuser has full control of their lives. Usually, the abuser controls the finances, so the victim is basically penniless without the abusive partner.
Look at Tina Turner. After making millions, she left her abusive husband, Ike, with something like 30 cents in her pocket.
The abuser puts a "Berlin Wall" around the victim to inhibit relationships with friends and family. So there's no one for the victim to rely on and no place to escape.
Victims of domestic violence often grew up in unstable violent environments, so it's hard for them to understand that a better life can be possible. And the perpetrator makes the victim feel she's to blame for the violence against her. Often after an incident he promises the violence will never happen again. Rihanna, are you listening?
Men are victims as well, but incidents of woman-on-man violence are probably underreported because for societal reasons. I once got a glimpse on the Internet of a woman beating her husband on the street in front of a lot of people, and no one stopped her. It was posted on the Internet to be funny as she humiliated her spouse. But it wasn't funny.
For more information on domestic violence and to get help, people can contact the Shelter for Help in Emergency at 293-8509 or shelterforhelpinemergency.org.
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with a local practice. Email him with your questions.