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Javier Cabral is a food culture and punk rock reporter born and raised in East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley. He is an official Restaurant Scout for Jonathan Gold at LA Times and a Producer at KPFK's Pocho Hour of Power. He's been writing professionally since he was 16 years old.
In 2011, Javier published his first cover issue celebrating Mexican (Zacatecas) cooking for Saveur Magazine. It featured over a dozen of his family recipes.
He is the co-founder of Mexico Feeds Me, an ethnographic food tour service.
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BETHLEHEM TWP. — In one crucial way, Alex Smith's new dog knows him better than he knows himself. Alex, a 25-year-old Bethlehem Township man, has autism and, about every few months, he suffers a seizure.
It will wrack every muscle in his body for two or three minutes and leave him so drained of strength that he collapses afterward, no matter where he is, says his mom, Kristine. He doesn't know when one is coming on. In fact, he doesn't really know much about the seizures because "he goes from being conscious to unconscious" when he is stricken, Mom says. Consequently his seizures have caused physical injuries that have landed him in the emergency room.
Fearing for his safety, Kristine and her husband Pete applied to 4 Paws for Ability, a nonprofit in Xenia, Ohio, for a dog that could predict Alex's seizures. They were approved in 2011, but they were required to pay some of the dog-training expenses — $13,000. Furthermore, the money had to be raised in a public way to help spread the word about 4 Paws.
In October of 2011 a benefit concert was given by keyboard great Bernie Worrell and the local band Geerbox at the Clinton Elks lodge. That raised the bulk of the money, and the rest was acquired by December of that year. "But they don't have dogs just sitting on the shelf waiting for us," said Kristine. Training is long, specialized and even personalized.
After 4 Paws decided they had a good match for Alex, the dog — a golden retriever named Zuzu — was put into training. Because scent is the key to predicting seizures, whenever Alex had one, his parents would borrow his shirt, rub it all over him to absorb as much scent as possible and then overnight it to Ohio.
On Dec. 2 Alex and his parents went to Xenia where they trained every day for 12 days, learning commands and "playing the seizure game," which was actually a drill for the real thing. It's serious to humans, but a game to dogs.
What was Alex's role in this? "Alex's job is to be loved by this dog," said Kristine. The first step toward that goal is called "jackpotting." They put dog treats all over Alex, thus making him irresistible. "They bonded really well," said Kristine.
The training was done with other families who have children with the same seizure problem Alex has. On the first day of training, the instructor stopped the class because "just about every dog in the room was air-scenting. He said, 'Somebody in this room is going to have a seizure.'" And a boy named Joel had one an hour later.
When a trained dog senses an impending seizure, it will lick its owner's ear, neck and face in a very intense and purposeful way. Sometimes the dog will bark, too.
At this writing, Alex hadn't suffered a seizure with Zuzu in attendance, but Kristine is confident in the dog's ability. And meanwhile there have been other benefits.
Alex's father, Pete, has said that if the autism spectrum were 1 to 10, Alex would be a 5. He said Alex knows what he wants to say, but cannot speak fluently, so it's easier for him to withdraw from other people.
But he loves dogs and has always wanted his own. "He's really proud to walk with her in town," says Kristine, and when people come forward to admire the dog "the focus is not one hundred percent on Alex, and he doesn't have to make eye contact" because the dog is the center of attention. So these social contacts are pleasant for Alex. His mom sees the dog as "a bridge for communication" with Alex.
When Alex is sad or has one of the tantrums to which he is prone, the dog will nuzzle or kiss him and help him toward a more positive state. Since a mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child, Zuzu is a major blessing to Kristine and Pete, too.
For more information on the agency behind the dog, visit 4pawsforability.org.
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The D.C. Historic Preservation Office (DC HPO) would like to thank everyone who came out and supported the 2013 Day of Archaeology Festival! Thank you for stopping by our table and participating in our activities, we really enjoyed having you. We would also like to thank Archaeology in the Community, for hosting the D.C. festival.
It was a very successful event!
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The DC HPO presented on Prehistoric Pottery and Historic Ceramic assemblages, found in DC archaeological sites. Displays were complete with signage and artifacts. Visitors were engaged in a variety of activities, such as the "What is This?" game, where visitors had to guess the identity and function of artifacts on display. The Stratigraphy Exercise, where visitors matched artifacts to associated soil contexts. And, finally, the Pinch Pot making station, where visitors make their own clay Pinch Pots using prehistoric-themed tools and techniques. It was a huge hit with the kids!
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Psoriasis affects around one per cent of the Australian population and has no known cure. The main feature is red itch, scaly areas or patches which usually appear on the knees, elbows, scalp and legs but it can also cause a form of arthritis.
Although the exact mechanism is not known, the immune system is involved. Previous studies by ECU's researchers have demonstrated that certain exercise prescriptions can have positive effects on the immune system.
ECU's Health and Wellness Institute researchers have already demonstrated that exercise can assist in the fight against cancer and the treatment of dementia.
This new $170,000 research project, funded by Abbott Australia, will explore how exercise and nutrition could have a positive impact on psoriasis.
"Currently psoriasis is treated quite effectively by a drug from Abbott Pharmaceuticals called Humira but working in partnership with the company we believe we can increase the benefits by appropriate exercise and reduction in body fat," project lead Professor Newton said.
"Being overweight and having low muscle mass causes chronic low grade inflammation which exacerbates the psoriasis and reduces effectiveness of Humira."
"Our approach will be to trial an exercise and nutrition program to maximise muscle gain and fat loss while monitoring changes in inflammatory state and severity of psoriasis."
"We envisage that the nutrition and exercise prescription will have a positive effect on their symptoms, ideally the drug will be more effective, psoriasis dramatically reduced or possibly improve to the point of remission," Professor Newton said.
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Jimmie Johnson Welcomes Daughter Lydia Norriss
Wife Chandra gave birth to their second daughter at 2:02 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, the NASCAR star's rep announced on his Facebook page.
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Looks like Jimmie Johnson has a future racing off the track — chasing not one but a couple of little girls around his home.
Wife Chandra gave birth to Lydia Norriss Johnson at 2:02 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, the NASCAR star's rep announced on his Facebook page. The baby girl weighed in at 5 lbs., 10 oz. and is 19 inches long.
"Thanks everyone for the well wishes. Chani is doing great and is such a rockstar," Johnson, 37, Tweets. He then shared a sweet photo via Instagram of elder sister Genevieve Marie, 3, holding her new sibling.
While the El Cajon, Calif. native Johnson is expected to miss events Friday at the Richmond International Raceway track in Virginia, he will be back in his car, the Lowe's Chevrolet No. 48, on Saturday night to make a run for his sixth championship in the Sprint Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 race.
Race fans posting online noted that the birth was lucky. Johnson's new daughter was born on the 6th as he set off for a sixth championship. "Sounds like a sign to me," one posted.
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(3 May 2009: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Cancer vaccines and targeted therapies are beginning to offer new treatment options following surgery for patients with early stages of lung cancer, experts said at the first European Multidisciplinary Conference in Thoracic Oncology (EMCTO) in Lugano, Switzerland (1-3 May 2009).
"Personalizing therapy is the key strategy for longer and better survival in lung cancer," said Prof Paris Kosmidis, head of the second Medical Oncology Department at Hygeia Hospital in Athens, Greece. "This is particularly important for early stage disease when following surgery, decisions about preventive therapy are based on specific prognostic and predictive factors."
Prof Walter Weder, head of thoracic surgery at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, adds: "At the meeting, several research groups will present data from new and ongoing studies that show how existing treatments might be combined with targeted therapies and new cancer vaccines. We hope that these new treatments will provide further progress."
In one poster presentation at the meeting, researchers describe the results of a study that sought to identify which patients are likely to benefit from an immune-boosting vaccine designed to help the immune system recognize MAGE-A3, a protein that is expressed on about 30% of lung cancers.
Studies have shown that the treatment can help patients avoid or delay cancer recurrence after surgery. At the conference, researchers will describe a gene signature that might predict which patients will benefit from the treatment.
"Because the benefits of vaccination will be limited to a subgroup of patients, strategies to define these patients by means of biomarkers such as a genetic signature are of major clinical relevance, as only these patients might be candidates for vaccination in the future." A larger, phase III, trial of the vaccine is now underway.
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The Green Bay Packers today announced plans for a price increase on stadium bowl tickets for the 2012 season. The increase has a range from $3 to $5, depending on the section in the stadium bowl.
Invoices sent to season-ticket holders this week include a letter from Packers president/CEO Mark Murphy that discusses the increase.
"For the Packers, ticket revenue continues be an important component of our ability to remain financially competitive with the other 31 NFL teams," Murphy said in the letter. "Our goal each year is to be at the league average in terms of our ticket prices. This increase maintains our position near the league average."
Tickets in the end zone (sections 100-108, 131-138, 303-312 and 340-354) will increase $3 to $72, tickets from the 20-yard line to the end zone (sections 109-114, 125-130, 314-320 and 332-338) will increase $4 to $80, and tickets between the 20-yard lines (sections 115-124 and 322-330) will increase $5 to $92. Payment is due to the Packers ticket office March 30.
And if you want to complain about the increase keep this in mind. Tickets are still cheaper than for fans of our division rivals.
Comparatively speaking around the NFC North for the 2011 season, the best sideline seat for the Vikings was $143, the Bears $140, and the Lions $110.
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Officials with the Springdale Police Department are investigating a shooting that took place Monday morning before 3 a.m., according to a news release.
Dispatchers said they received a report of a shooting at 1530 Butterfield Coach Road in Springdale. The caller stated they woke up to the sound of gunfire outside their home. The caller also told dispatchers that she saw bullet holes in her windows and vehicle.
When officers arrived, they confirmed that bullets had went through several different windows, inside the home and the vehicle, said Lt. Derek Hudson.
Hudson said no shell casings were found at the scene or nearby. . No one was injured as a result of the shooting.
According to the report, no one was seen outside the home at the time of the shooting. The case is currently under investigation by the Springdale Police Department and more information will be released when it becomes available. If anyone has information on this shooting, they are asked to call the Criminal Investigation Division at (479) 750-8139.


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What would you do if you were caught stealing a diamond? Drop it? Hide it? Swallow it? That's what this diamond thief did. And when he got caught, the police waited for the diamond to come out, em, naturally. But it wasn't coming out!
io9 says that even though the man was under surveillance and his stools were being screened, bowel movements for the man were rare so they sent him over to get X-rays to locate the diamond. Once they found the diamond in his caecal area, they realised they didn't want to wait that long to retrieve the diamond. So a court order allowed them to retrieve it through other means. The case study says:
The patient underwent a total colonoscopy in the presence of
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This is the continue post from my blog yesterday - "1st Ever Angry Birds Birthday Cake". Sophie's 2nd Birthday cake for her birthday celebration in the nursery center. Definitely, she has caught plenty of attention for having 2 big birthday cakes within 2 days time, envy her indeed!
For her 2nd Birthday cake order, I've changed some of the design of this cake, surround it with my handmade icing flowers instead of the ribbon. With the theme of Angry Birds Seasons, I've used most of my time to decorate the most difficult figure - Female Red Bird especially the part of her eyelashes, thinner eyebrows,and wears a yellow bow on the top of her head.


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Pizza Obsessives: Pete-zza of Pizzamaking.com, a Real Pizza Hero
At the end of each Pizza Obsessives Q&A, we ask the interviewee who he or she would like to see put in the hot seat next. The answer we seem to have gotten the most is Pete-zza from the DIY pizza site Pizzamaking.com. Thing is, he's a bit of an enigma — but we finally asked the right questions to elicit a great response. So, without further adieu, here's longtime Pizzamaking.com forum member Pizzablogger with the one-on-one. —The Mgmt.
International man of mystery? Secret rock star pizzaiolo? Just an ordinary guy who is a pizza obsessive, willing to help virtually anyone who needs it? A behind-the-scenes mad scientist somehow plugged into the pizza industry? Something else entirely? Just who is this guy?
Whatever the case may be, it seems that if you want to push your home pizzamaking to a higher level, you'll eventually find your way to Pizzamaking.com. And after spending even a short time on the forums, you're bound to run into Pete-zza — either while digesting information from previous threads or as a direct answer to whatever pizza perplexities you are struggling with.
While it is likely some of you have not heard of Pete-zza, rest assured that Peter is a bonafide home pizzamaking MVP. The number of people he has directly helped is large, and even after years on the site, he's still tirelessly ready to assist with concise, detailed explanations.
Back in 2005, the now popular Caputo "00" pizzeria flour was a relatively unknown flour in U.S. homes, but Peter was already exploring its unique characteristics through trial and error. There was recently a poll here about egg pizzas, but Peter was already experimenting with egg pizzas and writing about them six years ago. His trip to Di Fara back in 2005 resulted in one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the Di Fara recipe and process that I can remember. This is just the tip of the iceberg of information that Peter has helped to uncover and share with fellow members on the Pizzamaking.com forums.
I'm humbled to have captured a Q&A session with Peter, who has taught me as much about various aspects of pizzamaking as any person or any reference material I have encountered. I'm one of the many who owe a lot to him. I could go on and on here, but you get the point.
So enough with the rub and tug, let's get Peter in the hot seat!
How long have you been making pizzas at home now?
Actually, it hasn't been all that long. Over the years I did make pizzas at home from time to time, but the demands of work (I was a classic workaholic), plus a lot of travel and several job-related moves, prevented me from seriously tackling pizzamaking. It wasn't until about seven years ago that I started to study the subject of pizza seriously and to make pizzas at home on a regular basis.
You have made a variety of food products at home. What was it that sparked your interest in homemade pizza?
I have always been intrigued by the physics and biochemistry of dough. I thought it would be fun and interesting to see if I could wrap my mind around, and demystify the science part of, dough-making and use the knowledge gained to make better pizzas than those I had bought or made previously using the typical run of recipes from pizza cookbooks and magazine and newspaper articles. But if it weren't for the science part of the exercise, I don't think I would have embarked on making pizza at home. I wanted to eat good pizza, of course, but it was equally important that I learn something from my efforts.
While for many of us it's all about the end product and that we might confine ourselves to a specific pizza style, you seem motivated by the process itself and what can be learned from it. It's all about the why. What part of the process do you learn the most from? And is there anything that continue to surprise you?
I think it's fair to say that I'm far more passionate about the process than the end product. That will perhaps always be the case and will no doubt stop me from ever perfecting any single type of pizza. My end game has always been to make several different styles of pizzas well and to move freely among them and to enjoy myself without worrying about whether they are perfect. I try to make the best pizzas I can, but I'm satisfied with less-than-perfect pizzas. I will usually work at a given style until I am satisfied that I understand it and can replicate it and be able to tell others how to do the same. Then I am likely to move on to the next style.
Although I read a lot of technical material to increase my knowledge about pizzamaking, one of my best teachers is the dough itself. Doughs are living things that change and evolve with time. How we make the dough programs what it will do. I just watch, learn, and adjust. To me, the most surprising part of the process is how difficult it is to control the physical and biochemical processes to produce the outcomes you want. Even when I think I can predict the outcome of a given dough or pizza I make based on what I think I know, the dough sometimes has a mind of its own and can confound me. I accept this as part of the challenge and use the feedback to try to do better the next time.
You've mentioned that you "are always looking to the next pizza on my dance card and what I can learn from it." What's the next pizza on your dance card, and what do you hope to learn from it?
Since 2004, when I joined the pizzamaking.com forum, I have conducted so many different experiments in so many different areas, or helped many other members with their own experiments, that it is getting harder for me to find experiments that really excite me. As a result, my current dance card (to-do list) is populated mostly by pizzas that I want to tweak or by popular pizza recipes of other forum members that I want to try. There are a couple of things on the project side, however. One is to do more on making frozen pizza dough in a home environment, simply to learn more about the physics and chemistry of frozen doughs. I would also like to see if I can improve the thermodynamic performance of my standard, unmodified electric home oven to get better results.
Is there any specific project that you have learned the most from?
There are actually several broad areas from which I learned a lot, in different ways. A lot of the fundamentals I learned from my work with the Lehmann NY-style over a period of several years and dozens of experiments as well as the experiments I conducted to make cold-fermented doughs that could last from five to more than 20 days of cold fermentation.
I also learned a lot about naturally and commercially leavened Neapolitan-style doughs from the experiments I conducted on that subject shortly after Marco Parente, an expert on Neapolitan doughs, joined the forum in early 2005 (see here and here).
Learning how to make long, room-temperature fermented doughs at different times of the year with changing room temperature environments also taught me a lot.
What part of the pizzamaking process comes easiest for you?
I would say creating, modifying, and deconstructing/reconstructing dough formulations and manipulating the math required to make all kinds of pizzas under different conditions and requirements (such as numbers and sizes of pizzas, crust thicknesses, using pre-ferments, etc.). I think I have also become adept at using, and helping other members use, the dough calculating tools at the pizzamaking.com forum. Also, because my experiences have cut across so many different types and styles of pizzas, I have been able to transfer knowledge and insights gained in one place to help me in another. I think that has made it easier for me to help others diagnose, correct, or avoid problems with their doughs and pizzas.
What part of the process is most challenging?
There are a couple areas. The first is trying to optimize the use of my modest home equipment to produce the best pizzas possible, given the limitations of that equipment. I have a basic KitchenAid mixer with a C-hook, a basic pizza stone, and a standard builder's grade home electric oven. The mixer and oven are more than 20 years old. I also try as much as possible to use regular supermarket flours, cheeses, and other ingredients from local sources, even though they may not be the best possible choices. In this respect, I think I am just like a lot of home pizzamakers trying to make a decent pizza using basic equipment and readily available ingredients.
The second area that presents some of the greatest challenges to me is reverse engineering and cloning pizza doughs and pizzas of others. It is very hard and tedious work and forces you to bring just about everything you know to the task, but I have found that the payback in terms of increased knowledge to be enormous and satisfying, much more than I ever imagined.
You have responded to many questions from beginning or intermediate home pizzamakers looking to step up the quality of their pizzas. What advice would you offer to help them immediately improve their pies?
For those who don't have one, I would say get a decent digital scale, since there are now so many dough formulations on the forum that recite ingredients by weights and bakers' percentages. Using a quality digital scale to weigh flour and water will, in most cases, result in a more uniform and consistent product, and fairly quickly. If the individual is not interested in investing in a scale, I (and others) can still help the person but it takes more time and is a lot harder to do from behind a keyboard, especially with the large numbers of new, inexperienced members that join the forum seeking advice and help. So, for purely selfish reasons, I would prefer that members use scales. It's the last piece of pizza making gear that I myself would give up.
I also try to discourage new members from starting out with complicated dough making exercises, such as using starters and preferments, particularly if they have never used them before (as in making bread dough). I think the better course is to pick a good basic recipe and master it before moving on to more elegant strategies. As they learn, they should keep reading and learning more about the pizzamaking process.
What do you think are the most misunderstood aspects of making pizza?
At the most basic and general level, I would say the failure to understand and appreciate that dough is a living thing governed by the laws of chemistry and physics. In that context, I would single out the failure to understand the effects of yeast quantity and temperature on the fermentation process and overall dough performance, management, and longevity. Next would be the concept of hydration, both in respect of formula hydration and in relation to different types of flours. Once people understand these concepts and relationships and are able to incorporate them into their pizzamaking, their pizzas almost always improve rather markedly.
Which type of pre-ferment would you use to make pizza and why?
Having tried just about all types of pre-ferments, and having worked with other members with pre-ferments, my preference for pizza dough would be poolish. The reason is that the poolish works fast, because of its high hydration (100%), it produces many favorable byproducts of fermentation and signals when it is ready to be incorporated into the final dough by receding after peaking. A sponge behaves similarly, but the other forms of pre-ferment do not.
You have made both bread and pizzas over the years. What do you feel are the most noticeable differences, if any, between making the two products?
I think the major difference is the form factor. A pizza is flat, and bread is not (unless you are talking about flatbreads or pita and the like). Steam is also frequently used in making breads, but not particularly helpful with pizza (although some have tried). Many principles of bread making, such as autolyse; turns, stretch, and folds; multiple punch-downs; and using naturally or commercially leavened pre-ferments, can be used in pizza dough making, but these methods tend to be more time-consuming and require more attention than methods used to make the straight doughs that most pizza operators specialize in. The fermentation protocols for bread making will also often be different than for pizza dough.
As a pizza eater going out to a pizza joint, not as a pizzamaker, if you had to choose only one style of pizza to eat, what would it be and why?
One of the things I discovered when I made all of the different styles of pizza is that the more time I spent with them, the more I became attached to them. So, I can like just about any style of pizza. However, if push came to shove and I had to choose only one style of pizza to eat in a pizzeria, it would be a New York–style or, more precisely, a New York "street" or "slice" style as might be made by an independent or mom-and-pop operation. I like the large form factor, so I would perhaps select an 18-inch pizza.
Say I'm a beginning pizzamaker looking to improve my technique. I've just found pizzamaking.com. What are the most important posts I should read?
I would start by reading the forum's Pizza Glossary at the pizzamaking.com website. I would read it a few times. Then, I would study the indexing system used to index posts on the forum. That should allow beginners to get a lay of the land and, if they decide to post, enter their posts in the right/best places. Then, I would learn how to use the forum's advanced search feature. That will allow a person to find answers to many of their questions not already answered by the other sources. Using these simple tools saves a lot of time for everyone. It also makes my job as a moderator easier.
Outside of pizzamaking.com, what reference materials (books, URLs, etc.) do you feel should be in every pizzamaker's library?
For anyone willing to spend quality time on the forum, I would pick the content of the forum over any pizza cookbook that I own (I have over a dozen of them gathering dust) because I think that many of the dough recipes on the forum are better than what I have found in pizza cookbooks. For someone unwilling to spend time on the forum finding better recipes, I would suggest Peter Reinhart's book American Pie, mainly for an understanding of the different pizza styles, history, and basic dough preparation and management. The Correll Encyclopizza is also a good source of pizza information, but mainly for the commercial side. For those who are interested in using natural starters/pre-ferments in their pizza dough making, I would recommend Ed Wood's book Classic Sourdoughs.
The resources that I have found most useful aren't even pizza-related. They include just about anything written by Didier Rosada of Uptown Bakers (for example, these two articles) and the late Professor Raymond Calvel's book The Taste of Bread. I wouldn't buy that book for its pizza content. There is only one pizza recipe in the book, and the book costs around $100 the last time I looked.
You've had the pleasure of talking with many persons in the pizzamaking industry, whether well-known pizzamakers or industry consultants. Have any left a particular impression on your pizzamaking process or on your way of thinking?
The major influence on my development was Tom Lehmann, of the American Institute of Baking. When I "found" Tom Lehmann, I learned that he had spent most of his career on the pizza side, was generally recognized as an expert on pizza, and he was one of the very few people who wrote regularly and authoritatively on the Internet about the science and technical aspects of pizza dough–making and management. Even to this day, there are few writers like Tom who regularly write on the technical and science aspects of pizzamaking.
The second major influence was November, a very talented member of the forum. He taught me to question conventional wisdom and not to post conclusions as fact without doing the research or experimentation to support the conclusions. He also opened my mind to scientific and technical aspects of dough that I would never had found on my own and which transformed the way that I would thereafter look at pizza dough (I have become more analytical). A final influence was Marco Parente because of his contributions to the forum on the authentic Neapolitan style. He set the stage for major advancement of that style on the forum.
It seems that more and more home pizzamakers are pondering opening up their own pizzerias and that a few pizzamaking.com members, such as Jeff Varasano and Peter Taylor, have made this leap. Do you have any insight into any one potentially overlooked area which may benefit such a person?
Although I regularly read posts entered by pizza professionals at the PMQ Think Tank forum, I am not particularly qualified to speak on the business side of pizzamaking. It just seems to me that there are many more ways to fail than to succeed, even with a superior product. The product, the location, the demographics, the business climate, the capitalization/financing, the staffing, and the front and back of the house business know-how apparently all have to be in place and well understood to succeed. We have had forum members who have succeeded with their pizza businesses but we have had some failures also, with a few more struggling because of the current state of the economy.
You use a standard kitchen oven, with maybe some firebricks placed inside of it, to cook your pizzas — no other "hacks." Do you have any aspirations to get a hotter oven?
No. I might at some point try a soapstone stone instead of my cordierite stone to do a better job with the New York style, particularly in the large sizes that I enjoy making (16-inch and 18-inch), and I may try to improve my current oven's performance in a user-friendly way, but that would be about it.
What are some of your favorite retail pizzerias?
Since I make my own pizzas so often, I have not found much need to eat outside pizza. So I don't have any favorite retail pizzas.
What are your most memorable pizza-eating experiences?
Of the pizzas I have made, the most memorable ones were those that were based on using natural starters and pre-ferments and those based on the "geriatric" doughs (over 10 days old) I made. But even those weren't as good as those that Scott Riebling ("scott r" at pizzamaking.com) made for me in his Boston basement apartment a few years ago, using his rigged oven to defeat the clean cycle. He could have started a pizza business with those pizzas. They were that good.
Your go-to toppings combination?
As part of my extensive experimentation with the Lehmann NY style pizzas, I went through a lot of pepperoni. I did this mostly to keep variables at a minimum from one pizza to the next. As a result, I favor pepperoni on my pizzas. It also fits the New York "street" or "slice" style quite well. But I have tried all of the usual suspects as toppings. I even made a chicken-liver pizza, which might have become one of my favorites but for the fact that none of the supermarkets around me stock fresh chicken livers anymore. But I do like buffalo chicken, seafood (like clams, oysters, and salmon), eggs, and even pasta on my pizzas.
Who would you like to see interviewed next?
Scott Riebling. In my view, he is the quintessential pizza Renaissance man. He makes just about every type of pizza, he knows more about flours, tomatoes, and cheeses than anyone I know, he works as a consultant in the pizza industry, he is bursting with secrets that we all want to know, and he has eaten in just about every place that has a pizza sign above it. Plus he is a down-to-earth musician and knows a lot of cool people. He is one of the most respected members on the forum.
We know that you are private, from Texas, tend to travel relatively regularly, have excellent deductive powers, are highly analytical and able to precisely describe and lay out your thoughts in detailed posts on pizzamaking.com. I won't even grill you about multiple specifics about who you are because I know that's pointless. But could you give us one small nugget about yourself which can at least keep us all guessing exactly who you are?
LOL. I guess I am an anachronism in many respects. However, I have always viewed what I write to be more important than who or what I am, with people being free to accept or reject what I write as they see fit, unencumbered by that personal information. There are some who think that I am famous and hiding that fact or that I am a current or former professional in the field. That is flattering but I can assure everyone that I am not famous nor have I ever done anything with pizza professionally. I am just a pizza hobbyist, nothing more.
Peter, many thanks for all of your selfless help and dedication to making a better pizza at home.
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Torrington: Donations now being accepted for United Way's Food for Your Neighbors drive
TORRINGTON >> The United Way of Northwest Connecticut will launch the tenth annual Food For Your Neighbors program beginning Friday, February 15, 2013 and concluding on Thursday, March 14, according to Stephanie R. Barksdale, Executive Director.
"Food For Your Neighbors was initiated by our United Way of Northwest Connecticut to meet the growing need to feed hungry families here at home in the Northwest Corner", said Barksdale. "We conduct this vital program during February and March because it's traditionally a slow period for donations. People assume that the holiday food drives will sustain food banks through the winter, but that's not the case."
Food pantries are seeing an average increase in demand of 25-30% over last year: Non-perishables such as tuna, peanut butter and jelly, soups, cereals, pasta, tomato sauce, canned meats, stews, canned vegetables, and boxed juices are always needed.
Food For Your Neighbors will collect and distribute food to FISH, Friendly Hands, Fishes & Loaves, Salvation Army Service Center, Winsted, and the Salvation Army in Torrington. A new participant this year is Hands of Grace, which is located at 433 Main Street in New Hartford.
Donations can be delivered there between Monday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4 pm. If other pantries wish to participate, they should call the United Way of Northwest Connecticut office at 860-489-4131.
The United Way will collect food through community collection sites during the entire campaign. Donations are welcome at these sites during their normal business hours through Thursday, March 14. Forty-five organizations and businesses have already agreed to participate and one of them, Litchfield Bancorp, will match their employee donations item for item."
In a change from previous years, the Torrington food collection-distribution point, located in the rear of the Register Citizen building at 59 Field Street, will only be open from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 14th, the final day of the drive. The United Way is asking individuals and other organizations to either deliver their collections to the depot or call the United Way office in advance to schedule a pick up for that day. Volunteers will be needed to count and sort food items. To volunteer, call 860-489-4131, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit the website for further details.
Canaan residents and businesses may drop off at our community collection sites or call Wendy Currier, Co-Director of Fishes & Loaves food pantry in Canaan, at 860-318-1272, to make arrangements to drop off food. They can also call Cheryl Hunter of the YMCA at Geer at 860-824-2788. In Winsted, the Salvation Army Food Bank at 110 Main Street will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday - Thursday for food delivery from employees and community drop offs.
The following businesses and organizations have agreed to serve as community collection sites: In the Litchfield and Torrington area: Bantam Market, Route 202; Chamber of Commerce, 333 Kennedy Dr. - Suite R 101, Community Mental Health Affiliates, 100 Commercial Blvd., Torrington; Litchfield Bancorp, 1320 East Main St., Torrington and 294 West St., Litchfield; Northwest Hills Credit Union, 339 North Elm St.; Petrovits, Patrick, Smith & Co., 173 Prospect Street, Torrington; Rainbow Press, 959 Migeon Avenue, Torrington; the Register Citizen, 59 Field Street; Torrington Area Health District, 350 Main Street, Suite A; Torrington Municipal and Teachers Federal Credit Union, 777 East Main Street, Torrington; all branches of Torrington Savings Bank; all branches of Union Savings Bank; WZBG 97.3 FM, 49 Commons Drive, Litchfield; and the Torrington, Winsted, and Canaan branches of the Northwest CT YMCA.
In northern areas, Community Mental Health Affiliates, 350 Main Street, Lakeville; National Iron Bank, 366 Furnace Brook Road, Cornwall Bridge and 12 John Curtis Road, Norfolk; and Northwest Community Bank, 86 Main St., Winsted.
"Employers can start drives at their businesses for their employees and customers," said Barksdale. Interested businesses, school systems and church groups can participate by contacting the United Way of Northwest Connecticut by phone, (860) 489-4131, email: email@example.com or fax at 860-626-8223.
We'll be happy to provide promotional materials and answer any questions concerning this vital activity."
Hunger in the Northwest Corner continues to be a major issue due to high unemployment, energy costs, and a stagnant economy. All food will be distributed in the region were it is collected, according to Barksdale. Last year 16,392 items were collected. Since its 2004 inception, 196,459 items have been collected and distributed to our five major food banks and smaller ones. People or groups interested in volunteering to collect food and count or sort items on Thursday, March 14 should contact the United Way of Northwest Connecticut at 860-489-4131.


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Apple's enhanced display on its yet-to-be-unveiled iPad 3 appears to be the worst kept secret, judging by all the eyes that are reportedly able to see it.
MacRumors owner Arnold Kim says anyone can buy the next iteration of the popular tablet at the Chinese website TrueSupplier. The skinny: The screen measures 9.7 inches in diagonal, the same size display as used in the iPad and iPad 2, but the resolution is four times as sharp.
Apple is reportedly expected to take the ribbon off the iPad 3 on March 7. Experts say it could include support for 4G LTE, more internal memory, and perhaps Apple's first quad core processor. For now, a lot of the speculation is focused on the display.
"When comparing the iPad 3 display to one from an iPad 2 under a microscope, the difference in resolutions becomes readily apparent, with the iPad 3 display's pixels appearing to be one-quarter the size of those on the iPad 2," reports MacRumors, which says it got its hands on one and used its measurements to extrapolate what the iPad 3 screen resolution should be: 2048 by 1536. That's four times the resolution of Apple's current and first-generation tablets.
PCWorld's Matt Peckham has made the interesting point, however, that the "retina" description that's been applied to the next iPad is simply a marketing term Apple uses to refer to displays with greater than 300 ppi (pixels per inch), which is the maximum number the average human retina can discern. The iPhone 4 and 4S, running at 960 by 640 pixels across 3.5 inches diagonal, meet this requirement, but the iPad 2, running at 1024 by 768 pixels across 9.7 inches diagonal, doesn't.
When you compute a 2048 by 1536 pixel density across a 9.7-inch screen, it comes out to about 264 ppi, short of the generally accepted 300 ppi threshold. But, as the pundits point out, that's still a big improvement from the iPad 2's pixel density.
As for where MacRumors got the display, Kim said it wasn't stolen, but rather is readily available, much to Apple's chagrin. He says the TrueSupplier site sells an "OEM Apple iPad 3 LCD Screen Display Replacement" for $122.99.
On its website, Truesupplier says it serves more than 65 percent of the U.S. market and is a global provider of mobile data products, software and consulting services, headquartered in Shenzhen, China, with branches in Hong Kong. Apple iPads are made in China, and Apple is currently embroiled in a spat with a Chinese company that claims it holds the rights to the iPad name in China.
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Britney Spears was only 17 when she reached #1 on the U.S. pop music charts with her 1999 debut album …Baby One More Time. Her catchy tunes and hubba-hubba physique made Spears one of America's biggest pop stars, and she became a near-constant presence on MTV, radio broadcasts and magazine covers around the world. Britney Spears's second album, Oops!…I Did It Again, was released in May of 2000 and went gold in its first week. In 2003 she released In the Zone, but by then her personal life was getting more press than her singing career. On 3 January 2004 she married childhood friend Jason Alexander (not the Jason Alexander of Seinfeld), then had the marriage annulled the same day. Later in the year she married Kevin Federline, a professional dancer whose claim to fame was fathering two children with Moesha star Shar Jackson. Britney Spears and Federline had two sons, Sean (b. 14 September 2005) and Jayden (b. 12 September 2006), but Spears filed for divorce in November of 2006 (their divorce became final on 30 July 2007). in 2007 Spears was in the gossip columns on a weekly basis and made headlines by shaving her head, entering rehab and, after repeated missteps with the courts, losing custody of her children to Federline. With very little publicity, she released Blackout, her fifth studio album, in November 2007. Slowly she seemed to get her performing mojo back, launching a world tour in 2009, making a guest appearance on the TV show Glee in 2010, and settling back into life as a major pop performer. Her other albums include Circus in 2008 and Femme Fatale in 2011.
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Britney Spears was in the cast of the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club during its 1993 and 1994 seasons. Future pop stars Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez of the band 'N Sync got their starts on the same show (Spears and Timberlake were romantically linked on and off from 2000-2003)… She starred in the 2002 teen road-trip film Crossroads. In that film the younger version of her character, Lucy, was played by her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, star of the cable TV comedy Zoey 101… The wedding ceremony for Britney Spears and Kevin Federline was held on 18 September 2004, but papers formalizing the wedding weren't filed until October 7th… After Spears filed for divorce, Federline was nicknamed "Fed-Ex" by the press… Spears's middle name is often incorrectly reported to be "Jeau" rather than "Jean."


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Thomas Moran, a longtime employee of Fairchild Publications, died at age 64 on Sunday.
Moran graduated with high honors from the University of Maryland and received an M.S. from the Columbia University School of Journalism. He was hired at Fairchild in 1975, and in 1977, as a reporter, he was integrally involved in aggressively reporting a 10-part series on the Mafia's billion-dollar involvement in Seventh Avenue for WWD, one of the most significant series in the paper's history, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He then became managing editor of Fairchild News Service, overseeing 50 correspondents in bureaus in the U.S. and all over the world. He later became a group executive editor for Fairchild, helped develop the men's magazine M and then became a senior editor at W.
At W, he helped convert the magazine from a bimonthy broadsheet to a monthly glossy. He later left journalism to become a novelist, writing five books, "The Man in the Box" (1997), "The World I Made for Her" (1998), "Water, Carry Me" (2000), "What Harry Saw"(2002) and "Anja the Liar" (2003), all published by Riverhead/Penguin. "The Man in the Box" won the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction.
Moran became a Tennessee Williams Fellow, professor of creative writing and writer-in-residence at Sewanee University in 2000.
"Tom was a wonderful writer and a unique journalist with an immense knowledge of culture, history and literature," said Ed Nardoza, editor in chief of WWD. "His writing and editing combined brilliance, tenacity, wit and clarity, usually delivered with an undercurrent of wicked irreverence. He influenced scores of Fairchild journalists over the years. But it was Tom's investigative collaborations on WWD's series of Mafia connections in the fashion industry in the 1970s that set the highest journalistic standards for this newsroom…a standard we still aspire to today."
Moran, who lived in Woodstock, N.Y., is survived by his wife, Annemarie Kammerlander; a son, Harry, and daughter, Altynai. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Doctors Without Borders at doctorswithoutborders.org. A private family service is planned for the spring.


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Helping Students Overcome the Illusion of Comprehension
How often have you heard the following from a student, or perhaps your own child? "I studied so hard, and I still got a C!" This is referred to as the illusion of comprehension or, confusing familiarity with knowing. This illusion can be reinforced through multiple choice questions where the student has been rewarded because the answer looked familiar and was, in fact, correct. Listening to a skilled instructor solve a problem can also contribute to this illusion because the clarity of the presentation gives the listener the impression that the material is clear and easy to understand. The following strategies can help students overcome the illusion of comprehension:
- Paraphrasing (versus memorizing) - Encouraging students to put concepts into their own words aids in the process of understanding because it requires them to use their own terminology and make connections between what they know and what they are learning.
- Using Study Strategies - If it is difficult for students to ascertain the main topics or concepts, they will not be able to give those concepts the attention needed for learning. Have students use study strategies that help them focus their attention such as highlighting, mapping, or answering questions/worksheets while reading. It may also be necessary to show students how to use cues within the text so that they can determine what is important to highlight, etc.
- Focusing Attention - In terms of helping students focus their attention during a lecture, less is generally more. Too many ideas presented simultaneously dilute attention. A general rule of thumb is that in a fifty-minute period, it is reasonable to explore three main topics. Each of those main topics may have one or two subtopics, including examples, which support the main topics.
- When teaching a procedure, teach the individual steps and then show how they are related. Helping students see how the steps are related is important because "each step serves as a stimulus for the next step."
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Particularly for those pupils who do not enjoy competitive sports, dance can engage and enable them to try other forms of physical activity in a non-competitive environment, contributing to good health and well-being.
Through a series of workshops pupils explore the similarities between sport and dance, looking at physical awareness, control of the body and understanding how it moves, team work and the commitment and motivation needed to improve. Sharing and feedback sessions enable evaluation of their work and development of their skills.
Links with the curriculum were achieved across the curriculum through Numeracy (counting in 8s), Science (healthy living), P.E. (dance skills), SEAL and PSHCE (Communication, teamwork, Concentration, Listening, Getting on with Others and Making Friends).
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On December 4, 2011, Watershed Advocacy group Bergen SWAN (Save the Watershed Action Network) teamed with naturalist Nancy Slowik to host the first ever Emerson Woods nature walk. Once targeted for intense development, the woods are now preserved and help protect the Oradell Reservoir from non-point source pollution.
Bergen SWAN played a major role in preserving Emerson Woods. Bergen SWAN has fought for almost 24 years to help preserve the remaining forests surrounding upper Bergen County's reservoirs. The most recent settlement occurred in 2009 with United Water (now Suez). Suez manages the Oradell, Lake Tappan and Woodcliff Lake Reservoirs in Bergen County. After 5 years of negotiations with Bergen SWAN & the Hackensack Riverkeeper, United Water agreed to granting conservation easements on 3,100 watershed acres to the NJDEP in addition to setting aside $1 million to assist in acquiring and preserving additional land along the Hackensack River and its tributaries. United Water has since become a close ally of Bergen SWAN by helping to sponsor events such as the 2010 "Planting in the Park" in Pascack Brook County Park and allowing Bergen SWAN to host the December 4th nature walk on United Water watershed land-land which is normally not open to the general public.
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The tour, led by naturalist Nancy Slowik, started in the United Water recreation parking lot near Lakeview Terrace in Emerson, NJ. Once the group was organized, Bergen SWAN opened up the gate to the Oradell Reservoir providing a rare opportunity to walk along the shore of the reservoir. Nancy directed the tour to the waterfowl present on the open water of the reservoir. Double-crested Cormorant were seen in addition to Hooded Mergansers.
Heading away from the shore, the tour passed a stand of American Sycamore with their white peeling bark.
Early settlers used to make buttons out of American Sycamore seedpods. The "button" is found inside the seedpod. This practice created another name for the American Sycamore: the Buttonwood Tree. Nancy pointed out Poison Ivy growing on a dead Eastern Hemlock tree. Members of the tour were advised to never touch the hairy vine of Poison Ivy as you can still get a painful itchy rash even in winter.
Palmolive dish washing liquid was recommended as an inexpensive cure for poison ivy. The tour then led participants up a gas line right of way for about ¼ a mile.
Along the way, White-Tailed Deer were seen browsing in the woods west of the right of way.
As the group proceeded on, Nancy pointed out large rectangular holes found on a dead tree.
These holes were created by a Pileated Woodpecker, North America's largest woodpecker. Most likely the bird was hunting carpenter ants, one it's favorite sources of food. While the group admired the holes, a Black-Capped Chickadee, Northern Flicker and Red-Bellied Woodpecker were heard calling.
Up ahead on the gas trail was a stand of Northern Red Oak (NJ's state tree!) with its characteristic "ski slope" bark. Nancy informed the tour that when a Northern Red Oak gets cut it admits a foul odor.
Shortly before turning west onto the Heck Ditch trail, the group happened upon a White Pine plantation.
White pines make excellent habitat for Great-Horned Owls and other birds of prey which frequent Emerson Woods.
Cones of White Pine are sticky with the seeds found inside. Native Americans used to chew on White Pine needles to obtain Vitamin C.
As the group passed the Heck Ditch Nancy pointed out that the oily looking water surface of the ditch was caused by bacteria decomposing leaves.
Ground Pine was found growing in large colonies on the other side of the Heck ditch trail. Ground Pine takes years to become established.
After walking for about 15-20 minutes on the Heck Ditch trail, the tour headed south on the Equisetum trail which leads back to the United Water Recreating parking lot. Along the way, Nancy pointed out large growths of equisetum growing near massive Cottonwood trees. This collection of Equisetum is thought to consist of the largest stand in New Jersey. Equisetum are members of an ancient order of plants and appeared well before the appearance of the first flowering plants. Equisetum was known to early settlers as "Scouring Rush"-a name given for its ability to clean and scrub pots and pans.
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The group headed back to the parking lot as twilight descended. As we walked, we happened upon an abandoned Red-Eyed Vireo nest. The red-eye vireo spends the winter living in South America.
The group proceeded to the parking area and the tour concluded.
A special thanks to Bergen SWAN and Nancy Slowik for offering the opportunity to explore Emerson Woods in great detail. For more information on Bergen SWAN click here.
The Emerson Woods Preserve are accessible from off of Main Street in Emerson or Lakeview Drive. Ample parking is available on Summer Street. Be sure to check out Bergen SWAN if you wish to participate in nature walks, community clean-ups and educational events in Emerson Woods.
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December 1, 2020Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Though President Trump withdrew from the TPP, the remaining members of the trade pact have forged ahead with a new version, leaving the U.S. role in the Asia-Pacific in question.
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We are committed to maintaining your confidence and trust with respect to the information we collect from you. This privacy policy applies to www.EfficientGov.com ("EfficientGov") sets forth what information we collect about you, how we use your information, and the choices you have about how we use your information.
Gov1 is dedicated to safeguarding your privacy online. As a policy, we will not sell or otherwise misuse your personal information. Your personal information helps us customize Gov1 to your interests and allows us to negotiate valuable member discounts and related services. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings.
This privacy policy was last updated on 04/27/2018.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES efficientgov COLLECT FROM ME?
Gov1 collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of web sites.
Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, Gov1 asks all users for your name, date of birth, email address, city, occupation, department information, industry and personal interests. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to Gov1 - you will select an appropriate Gov1 username and then given access to EfficientGov's many offerings.
In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information (such as the above) at other times, including (but not limited to) when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by Gov1 and/or our many partners; when you post a Gov1 Classified ad; when you submit a listing for a web site; and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If you contact Gov1 we may keep a record of that correspondence. Gov1 also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever Gov1 collects personal information we include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
WHAT ARE COOKIES/TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND HOW DOES Gov1 USE THEM?
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Gov1 and our partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies to:
1. Remind us of whom you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie passes your username and password when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our services. Other submitted personal information such as occupation and city are not linked to cookies.
2. Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Gov1 is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
3. Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a EfficientGov-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize drawings.
4. Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of EfficientGov's network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on Gov1 a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.
Advertising networks that serve ads onto Gov1 may also use their own cookies. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Gov1.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any of these third parties. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads from our advertisers.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those Gov1 services that require registration in order to participate.
We use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 and Flash to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 and Flash to collect and store information. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here:
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. Gov1 also collects IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. In addition, Gov1 Mail includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message headers. We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you.
Our tracking technology used to for client campaigns throughout the site does not collect any personal identifiable information that you provide as a part of your Gov1 membership. Your personal information stored in cookies is only used for the purposes listed above to help improve your user experience.
When you are on a Gov1 site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Gov1 alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. For example, some Gov1 services, like BLUtube, are offered as a brand of Gov1 using the same infrastructure and member database. This information is stored within a cookie during login and not otherwise collected by a partner company for any purpose. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than Gov1, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service. Our privacy policy does apply to the information collected on these co-branded sites. You should read the privacy statement of our co-branded partner. If you have any questions about the use of your information by co-branded sites or experience login problems on a co-branded site please visit the technical support section.
Promotions that run on Gov1 may be sponsored by companies other than Gov1 or may be cosponsored by Gov1 and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.
Please be aware that Gov1 advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personal information about you. The information practices of those web sites linked to Gov1 are not covered by this privacy statement. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Web site you visit.
WITH WHOM DOES Gov1 SHARE MY INFORMATION?
As a general rule, Gov1 will not disclose any of your personal information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: Gov1 may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms of Service or Use Agreements, and sweepstakes and promotions rules. Some or all data collected during a Gov1 promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If your personal information will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Gov1 permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Merchants listed on Gov1 have separate privacy and data collection practices. Gov1 has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their store, and their privacy policies, return to that store's home page and click on their Information link.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these third parties, Gov1 will (with your permission) share your name and email address with them. If you wish to no longer receive materials from these third parties, please contact them directly.
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, Gov1 may match user information with third party data. Also, Gov1 discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 75% of our users are male and are interested in firefighting) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Access to your personal information is restricted to our employees, agents, representatives and service providers and entities for whom we are acting as an agent, licensee or publisher, such as societies and our affiliated group companies, for the purposes set forth above. Service providers are only allowed to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
With your consent, we also may share your personal information with our affiliated group companies and/or with non-affiliated third parties that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, and users who have consented to receive such information may receive communications from these third parties.
We will not otherwise disclose any personal information without your consent except under the following circumstances:
- In response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims, protect your safety or the safety of others;
- If we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, violation of our policies, or as otherwise required by law; and
- Gov1, a related asset or line of business is acquired by, transferred to or merged with another company, in which case, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
Gov1 may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from Gov1 and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only Gov1 (or agents working on behalf of Gov1 and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily edit your Gov1 Account Information to no longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your Gov1 ID and Password in order to access your Gov1 Account Information. To update your profile, subscription options or any other Gov1 member information please visit your profile page.
On some types of Gov1 promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-related email messages may include targeted advertisements.
Gov1 does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will only share PII with third parties in ways that are described in this privacy policy. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests or you contact us at email@example.com.
You may edit, update or delete your Gov1 Account Information and your public Gov1 Profile at any time by using your Gov1 ID and password. If you have forgotten your password, please click here to request a new password. For all other problems signing in to Gov1, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The profile you create on our site will be publically accessible unless otherwise indicated. You may change the privacy settings of your profile through your account portal.
If an account/profile was created without your knowledge/authorization, please contact us at (email) to request removal of the profile.
Your Gov1 account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able to access any members-only area of the Gov1 network, including your Gov1 Mail account (if you have one). If you saved the confirmation email you received when you first created your Gov1 account, you can use the URL provided in that message to delete your account at any time. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your Gov1 account.
If you are participating in an Gov1 promotion and you wish to update your email address on the promotions mailing list or to quit a promotion and cease receiving promotion-related email, please contact email@example.com or update the subscription settings on your personal profile. All login pages where you are required to enter your username and password are protected by industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personal information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding financial product or service usage on Gov1 are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any personal information about any individual user.
We retain the personal information we collect from you for as long as the information is relevant to our business purposes or until you request that we remove the data by contacting Lexipol below. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Your username may be displayed while participating in the Gov1 Forums, BLUtube and when submitting member comments to any article, tip or video on Gov1. Your email address will only be used for us to send you materials that you have subscribed to in the past. We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personal information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. If you wish to update or remove any of your personal information please visit your profile page at anytime.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or other promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each communication, by updating your profile or emailing email@example.com.
If you continue to have issues after using all the resources above, then give us a call at 866-402-4371 to talk to our Member Services Coordinator.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. This feature is available with Gov1 articles, tips and videos throughout Gov1. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Gov1 does not store this information and will not send any additional messages to the referred user.
We use other third parties to provide forums on Gov1.com. When you sign up for a Gov1 member account, we will share your username as necessary for the forums application to provide that service. If you use a bulletin board, blog, or forum on this Web site, you should be aware that any personal information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums. These third parties are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose than listed above. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at email@example.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Your Gov1 Account Information and Gov1 Profile are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Gov1 Account Information and Gov1 Profile by using your Gov1 ID and password.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Gov1 will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Gov1 account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Gov1 cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
WHAT SECURITY PRECAUTIONS ARE IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE IDENTITY AND SECURITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ON EfficientGov?
Gov1 has taken several precautions to protect the identity, account names and passwords of officers when they register and log on to Gov1.com. All transfer of registration and login information is encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Unfortunately, this process cannot be 100% secure and Gov1 is not responsible for the misuse of these user names and passwords. Despite all of our precautions, you use Gov1 at your own risk.
We periodically post member testimonials on Gov1 which may contain personal information such as the member's username. We do obtain the member's consent prior to posting each testimonial. If you have any questions regarding testimonials on Gov1 or would like a testimonial that includes your personal information removed please contact us.
Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Our web site use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.
If you ever have questions regarding the Gov1 privacy policy please email email@example.com.