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Without sex hormone therapy, sexual maturity in PWS does not fully develop. The child with PWS will begin puberty, usually around the age of 10-12, but not complete it. Known as 'precocious puberty' there will be a development in body hair, some breast development in girls and a degree of penile development in boys. Menstruation, if it occurs at all, is often scanty and irregular - although some females do have regular periods, often beginning later in their 20's. However, with sex hormone treatment, both girls and boys will develop some physical maturity.
Until recently there were no known cases of either men or women parenting children. However, the first two cases of live births to women with PWS were reported in 1999 and there have been two more since then; one a normal birth, the other resulting in a child with Angelman's Syndrome.
Theoretically, the chances of a fertile woman with PWS having a healthy baby depend on what genetic type of PWS she has. A woman with maternal disomy is likely to have a healthy baby, everything else being equal. A woman with a deletion has a 50% chance of having a baby with Angelman syndrome. A man with maternal disomy theoretically might father a child who is healthy, everything else being equal. A man with a deletion has a 50% chance of fathering a baby with Prader-Willi Syndrome. There are no known cases, yet, of a male with PWS fathering a child.
Sex Hormone Treatment
It is recommended that you make an appointment to talk to an endocrinologist about sex hormone treatment. Generally, testosterone is given to boys to increase penile development, voice deepening, and growth of body hair. It has been thought to also increase aggressiveness, but with the guidance of your endocrinologist this can be monitored successfully.
For girls, estrogen therapy will increase breast growth, pubic hair growth, and start a normal cycle of menstruation. It is recommended for bone strength and to help avoid osteoporosis.
Both these treatments encourage a sense of normalcy within their peer groups and is generally recommended by endocrinologists.
Sex Education
From a parent's point of view, this is not an easy subject for many reasons. We are told that the young man with PWS is infertile and will never be able to father a child; and until recently, we thought that the females would not conceive, nor would they ever menstruate fully - so why bother with sex education if it won't be needed; it seems cruel to point out the obvious, so why not forget about it? However, it is important to the teenager with PWS that she or he is treated the same as his or her peers and not isolated at school, or made to feel different. Although sexual development may be slow in a person with PWS, their capacity for affection, desire for a sexual or marital relationship can be quite normal. Most females with PWS want more than anything to have their own baby and will fantasise about boyfriends, marriage and raising babies.
Education at Schools
Schools generally have comprehensive sex education programmes in their curricula starting at age-appropriate levels and covering all aspects from health care, self-awareness, self-defense, safety, sexuality and reproduction. Together with the school, a comprehensive programme on sex education can be worked out at a level of understanding and safety.
Whether you decide to let a school teach sex education, or you decide to do it yourself, it is important to describe the differences between PWS and others. Greenswag et al states "most individuals with PWS tend to remain just as impressed by seductive, sexually suggestive media advertising as the normal population. They also watch their normal siblings grow up and participate in family life cycle events where sexual expression of some sort is at least an implied activity."
During the school years, children with PWS are frequently mainstreamed into physical education classes where budding sexuality is highly visible. The discrepancies between sexually underdeveloped teenagers with PWS who tend to be somewhat awkward, socially immature, and emotionally labile and normal adolescents are quite evident. Few will develop the cognitive capacity required for more mature relationships but their sensitivity to being "different" does not diminish.
Sex Drive
Anecdotally, it would appear that teenagers with PWS have a sex drive that would encourage them to at least mimic their peers and, being naturally affectionate, kissing and cuddling would come easily to them. It seems to be done with an air of innocence or naivety which is fine for those understanding the syndrome, but could lend itself to situations of abuse if misunderstood.
Girls with PWS are often pre-occupied with wanting to have a baby. They fantasize about having boyfriends and getting married without worrying in the least about any of the consequences. Boys, likewise, are affectionate, want to have girlfriends, talk about sex and seem aware of their sexuality, but again in a way that is naieve and open to misinterpretation.
It is suggested that there are four major dimensions to helping a person with PWS understand their sexuality. Understanding the characteristics of PWS is essential, along with acknowledging that the potential for sexual activity exists.
The collaboration of parents with professionals to nurture sexual awareness in youngsters with PWS, legitimises the process. In other words, if the young child sees and hears the same story from counsellor (or school) and parents, then they can accept that what they are hearing is 'ok'. This acceptance will play a major role in if, how, when and where this human sexuality is expressed.
The need for honest, uncomplicated sex education programmes that incorporate discussion of appropriate sexual interactions.
Also, we need to understand that the very nature of those with PWS can leave them open to becoming victims of sexual abuse. Prevention of sexual abuse of individuals with PWS is no small task. The difference between 'good touch' and 'bad touch' should be emphasised to the children and periodically reinforced. Children need to be taught that it is all right to say 'no' to an adult and that physical and emotional limits need to be reinforced. Reduction of sex role stereotyping, particularly submissiveness or passivity, is also important. It is essential that children and teenagers know that any of their concerns or fears will be carefully heeded and that 'secret' behaviour is to be avoided.
We must recognise that despite their lack of sexual maturity, individuals with PWS are not asexual. They have drives and interests, and most significantly, will develop strong gender role identification. Individual family, religious and social values play a major part in how their sexuality is expressed.
Although the average age at which most developmentally disabled individuals reach physical maturity is essentially the same as normal pubescence, sexual maturation in PWS (without hormone treatment) is usually indefinitely delayed. The sexual activity of most individuals with PWS is basically exploratory and innocent in nature. Many individuals with PWS have difficulty in expressing their feelings appropriately, regardless of the extent of their verbal skills and any obvious expression of inappropriate sexual behaviour in public is often a failure to understand what is acceptable public social conduct.
Finally, we need to recognise that ongoing support is essential. When encouraged to deal with the realities of their sexual limitations early in life, most can learn to adapt. Adolescents with PWS often express a desire for companionship and dating and may either ask or infer sex-related questions and thinking, but they still have the same needs for intimacy, privacy and relationships as anyone else.
If intercourse is practiced, then safe sex must be taught. The chances of pregnancy where sex hormone treatment has established a normal menstrual cycle, are just the same as the next person.
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understand that most 'know that they are different' and that this 'differentness' increases stress during adolescence.
Recognise that many individuals with PWS have the capacity for some measurement of sexual expression.
Acknowledge that society currently accepts females in non-maternal roles and some partners remain childless voluntarily.
Teach persons with PWS to be responsible for their public and private sexual activities.
Teach safe sex for both partners if there is sexual intercourse practiced.
In the final analysis, it should be emphasised that the inability to develop a traditional sex life does not mean that individuals with PWS are less male or less female; their capacity to be sociosexual beings is not diminished.
Marriage & Partnership
It is becoming more common and very acceptable for people with PWS to date, become engaged, and to marry others (with or without the syndrome), and with the right kind of support and loving environment there is no reason why this can not be a successful partnership. Living together, fully supported by an empathetic service-provider who is trained in the specialities of PWS, is very achievable. There are several examples of married couples (either one, or both having PWS) in the world today.
Parents' comments:
"He is a very affectionate boy and likes girls very much and they like him. He likes to dance and put his arm around them and even kisses them, but he has never given any indication of anything more"
"It was difficult for our daughter to understand and accept the fact that she will never have children.... When the doctor told her, it was a great psychological shock. She wants to be normal, to marry and to have children".
"He knows the basics, he has a girlfriend, but their relationship because of her condition and his, is an occasional kiss. Talk about marriage is limited because neither realizes or copes with the process of children. Actually not being able to reproduce is one blessing we see for our son"
"With the news of the births, it puts an entirely new light on things. Although I would want my daughter to have the opportunity of a loving relationship, I would demand that there was a good network of support around that: medical advice, contraceptive advice, new concepts of behavioural management etc etc."
From a young woman with PWS who has a baby daughter with Angelman's Syndrome.
"On the Friday, the 14th November 2003 I found some biggest shocking news that I went to see my doctor, on the same day. She put the scan machine on my tummy. She said to me that I was pregnant with a little baby inside me. I went to the CDU at the hospital first to keep an eye on my heart and my baby too. Then I went for a ride in a big white and yellow ambulance. I was allowed to sit in the front with the driver. They took me to the Women's Hospital. On the Tuesday the 18th November 2003 at 10.42 am I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl by c.section. Her name is (deleted) who has got Angelman's Syndrome. Grandpa thinks she is a normal little girl and I believe he is so right-she is a normal little girl. She's an Angel from God."
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Many nerve cells are of the basic type illustrated above. Some kind of stimulus triggers an electric discharge of the cell which is analogous to the discharge of a capacitor. This produces an electrical pulse on the order of 50-70 millivolts called an action potential. The electrical impulse propagates down the fiber-like extension of the nerve cell (the axon). The speed of transmission depends upon the size of the fiber, but is on the order of tens of meters per second - not the speed of light transmission that occurs with electrical signals on wires. Once the signal reaches the axon terminal bundle, it may be transmitted to a neighboring nerve cell with the action of a chemical neurotransmitter.
The dendrites serve as the stimulus receptors for the neuron, but they respond to a number of different types of stimuli. The neurons in the optic nerve respond to electrical stimuli sent by the cells of the retina. Other types of receptors respond to chemical neurotransmitters.
The cell body contains the necessary structures for keeping the neuron functional. That includes the nucleus, mitochondria, and other organelles. Extending from the opposite side of the cell body is the long tubular extension called the axon. Surrounding the axon is the myelin sheath, which plays an important role in the rate of electrical transmission. At the terminal end of the axon is a branched structure with ends called synaptic knobs. From this structure chemical signals can be sent to neighboring neurons.
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Transmission of a nerve impulse along an axon
A nerve cell is like a receiver, transmitter and transmission line with the task of passing a signal along from its dendrites to the axon terminal bundle.
The stimulus triggers an action potential in the cell membrane of the nerve cell, and that action potential provides the stimulus for a neighboring segment of the cell membrane. When the propagating action potential reaches the axon, it proceeds down that "transmission line" by successive excitation of segments of the axon membrane.
Just the successive stimulation of action potentials would result in slow signal transmission down the axon. The propagation speed is considerably increased by the action of the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath around the axon prevents the gates on that part of the axon from opening and exchanging their ions with the outside environment. There are gaps between the myelin sheath cells known as the Nodes of Ranvier. At those uncovered areas of the axon membrane, the ion exchange necessary for the production of an action potential can take place. The action potential at one node is sufficient to excite a response at the next node, so the nerve signal can propagate faster by these discrete jumps than by the continuous propagation of depolarization/repolarization along the membrane. This enhanced signal transmission is called salutatory conduction.
Tuzynski and Dixon offer some quantification of the sizes involved in these nerve cells. The axon is made up of connected segments of length about 2 mm and diameter typically 20 mm. This diameter compares to about 100 mm for the diameter of a human hair. Axon diameters may vary from 0.1 mm to 20 mm and may be up to a meter long. The much-studied squid has a giant axon of about a millimeter in diameter. The myelin sheaths are about 1mm in length. The action potential travels along the axon at speeds from 1 to 100 m/s.
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The journey from Rishikesh to the world famous city of Agra (home of the Taj Mahal) was quite lengthy, taking us almost twelve hours to complete. This was partly due to the distance we needed to cover (400 kilometers) and partly due to the many stops we made along the way, which included lunch in the village of Shahpur and a quick stop in Delhi in order to drop off the three members of our group who had signed up for the shorter version of the Wandering Earl Tour.
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And so, soon after our arrival in Agra two evenings ago, I went to sleep excited about what the morning would bring. And when that morning did arrive, I awoke at 9:00am ready to catch my first glimpse of the Taj Mahal. I walked outside my room and started to climb the steps that led to the rooftop of our hotel, hoping to get a decent morning view of this magnificent structure from up there.
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That is right. I never made it to the rooftop. And I never made it to the Taj Mahal either. In fact, I never made it out of my room that day at all, instead alternating between short naps and frequent trips to my beloved bathroom, with plenty of moaning and nausea thrown into the mix as well.
I had been hit with a case of the Delhi belly, aka 'severe stomach issues', just as I began to walk up those steps. As soon as it happened I knew that it was my fault. I had eaten something during lunch the day before that I had a feeling would make me sick, but out of politeness towards our hosts, I ate as much as I could.
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That's India my friends. If you're not careful, there can be consequences.
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So, while the rest of the group had a great time at the Taj, the only thing I'll remember about our stay in Agra is that damn toilet and the significant amount of time I spent on it.
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- Block: Sharing Cart 1.9 release 14 - 2010.09.30 (fixes a minor bug where the Sharing Cart would strip the Grade Category from a Quiz or other graded module)
- Block: Sharing Cart 2.0 release 1 - currently in process, anticipated release in June 2011
The Sharing Cart is a block for duplicating a course item and an easy way to move Moodle content (resources, activities) between multiple courses on your site. You can share items among teachers or among your own courses. It copies and moves single course items without user data—similar to the "Import" function in Course Administration. Items can be collected and saved on the Sharing Cart indefinitely, serving as a library of frequently used course items available for duplication. It is viewable only by teachers, course creators and administrators. For further information, see General Developer Forum postings. Release 6 also allows upload/download to a Moodle Repository.
- Moodle version 1.9.4 or greater, version 1.9.9+ tested OK in several cases.
- Topic, Weekly or Project Course Format: The Sharing Cart now works with three formats. Topics and Weekly format are now supported as well as Project course format.
- MySQL: sorry, Postgres not yet fully supported.
- download latest release from CVS Contrib
- unzip the package
- using FTP, open your blocks folder in your moodle program folder on your site
- place the folder "sharing_cart" into the blocks folder
- go to "Notifications" in your site admin area, by clicking the button, you will enable the repository plugin, and automatically generate database tables
- inside any course, "Turn editing on", go to Blocks "Add...", and you should see "sharing cart" in the list of blocks in the menu.
- if you are going to share Quiz Questions, you may need to add a new system role called Question Creator (see note below in 'Roles')
- if you are going to upload/download from the Moodle for Language Teaching Repository, go down to point (5): Setup Respository Connection.
- Turning On and Off: With editing on, add the Sharing Cart block from the block menu. After adding the Sharing Cart block, you will notice the block stays "on" the next time you enter that course. When you go to another course, add the Sharing Cart block to that new course. Then you can see your Sharing Cart as you roam courses across a site. Click the "X" icon to turn "off" the Sharing Cart, although the contents of the Sharing Cart will remain there when you turn it on again.
- Copying to the Sharing Cart: You will notice a small "Copy to Sharing Cart" icon which appears after each resource or activity in the center column of a Moodle course. Click on that icon to send a copy of that resource/activity into the Sharing Cart. User data will be removed, only the activity itself will be cloned.
- Copying from the Sharing Cart: Click the "Copy to course" icon in Sharing Cart, then you will see many dotted boxes appear in the center column. Choose the location you wish to place your item, and it will be copied there directly.
- Making folders inside the Sharing Cart: Click the "move" icon on a course content item and an input box will appear. Input the name of the target folder there. To move an item into a folder, click the "Move to folder" icon in the Sharing Cart, then a drop-down list appears, and select the target folder. If you click the "Edit" button, you will replace the drop-down list with an input box.
Setup Repository Connection
New in release 6--for now this is only set up for one repository--Moodle for Language Teaching. In early 2010, we will have a Repository version that any group can use in their teaching field or institution.
- Make an account on the Moodle for Language Teaching Repository site: http://moodlelang.org
- Install the Sharing Cart block on your home site--download from CVS: http://download.moodle.org/download.php/plugins/blocks/sharing_cart.zip
- Be sure to go to Admin >> Notifications to enable the Repository plugin.
- Click the "hammer tool" icon on your Sharing Cart to setup a connection to the Repository.
- Type this Repository URL: http://ept3.sgu.ac.jp along with the Username and Password of your Repository account.
- Put an item from your home site into your Sharing Cart
- Click on the Repository icon next to that item
- Fill in the metadata information, and click "Register".
- You have uploaded your first contribution to the Repository and will receive 100 points registration bonus and 20 points for each item you upload.
- To download ("buy") items, you first view an item then click the "Buy" button. Normally it will "cost" you 10 points.
- Then go to your home site's Sharing Cart and click the "Download from Repository" button, located at the bottom of the cart.
Generally, the Sharing Cart will duplicate any activity in any course that a teacher has access to. However, quiz questions have another set of permissions independent of site roles. Therefore, we recommend if you wish to share questions, make the following changes:
- Add a new role--Question Creator: Make this role in Site Admin >> Users >> Permissions >> Define roles, and assign all teachers to this role (in addition to other roles they already have). This role should be given at least the following rights (set permissions to "Allow") under "Course": Manage Activities, Manage Files,Add new questions, Edit all questions, Edit question categories, Move all questions, Use all questions, View all questions.
- Set questions to System Question Category: If you set questions to course or activity level categories, you may not be able to share them.
TIP 1: ...Possibly add another role--Question User: If students are unable to view questions, make this role and assign all students to this role. Set to "Allow" the following permissions: Use all questions, View all questions.
Known Issues & Roadmap
- Work on Sharing Cart 2.0 has begun. Hope to complete it by the end of March 2011.
- Sharing Cart 1.9 works well with Moodle standard modules (activities and resources) including Hotpot. Tested OK with the Feedback Module. Please test it and tell us if your third party module does or does not work.
- Some third party modules with incomplete backup/restore will not work with the Sharing Cart and may produce fatal errors. Here is what to do.Sharing Cart/Project Format Errors
- If you make an administrator setting to enable "split restore" (Admin block>>Miscellaneous>>experimental>>split restore), the Sharing Cart will not work properly. To make it work, turn off split restore.
- Media files are copied (not moved) to each instance of a new duplicate file. This solves many troublesome issues of permissions to access the files. However, for sites with restricted hard disk space, it may fill up space quickly.
- When AJAX course editing is enabled on your site, dragging the Sharing Cart block to a new location in the blocks area may cause trouble temporarily—all blocks may freeze or all the folders freeze (this is a bug in Moodle core). To unfreeze the folders, reload the page.
- From June 2009, release 6 of the Sharing Cart is able to move content to and from the Moodle for Language Teaching Repository. In the future it will be able to move items across any cooperating sites. To test with http://moodlelang.org, download the latest Sharing Cart version from CVS. Or contact Don Hinkelman hinkel at sgu.ac.jp
- For future versions, depending on funding, we plan to build a locking mechanism to prevent the Sharing Cart from copying commercial works or items that the author does not want copied.
Issues to Consider
- Moodle 1.9 has a sophisticated system of permissions for the Question Bank. Question categories can be limited to certain teachers. The Sharing Cart operates on the assumption that sharing of questions is desirable and little control is needed. We do not know all possible results that may happen if questions are copied and duplicated. For example, if the question was originally limited to a "Course" category, will it share perfectly to other courses and students? Please report to us any problems you find concerning this question. At the moment, we are recommending sharing questions with the "System" level question category.
- Finally, if your administration wishes to have a high degree of control of questions and activities, the Sharing Cart may be too easy-to-use. In terms of site user policies, we believe sharing permissions should be broadly applied not just to administrators, but to all teachers. Your policy on sharing depends on your institutional culture and values.
This block was programmed by Akio Ohnishi and Tomonori Maruyama at Version2 Educational Web Development and released under GPL. The designers and maintainers of this block are Don Hinkelman and Andy Johnson. Funding is provided by Sapporo Gakuin University and the Japan Association of Language Teaching--CALL SIG. We welcome other contributors. For issues and suggestions, please contact Don on the Sharing Cart forums or directly (hinkel at sgu.ac.jp).


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Watch this conversation between Fr Frans de Ridder and Fr Laurence Freeman on Priestly Life and Meditation:
Meditation is for the joy and hope of the world, as John Main OSB himself said:"It is a way of growth because what we are growing into is life itself."In his book The Heart of Creationhe says:"In the same way that there is only one essential prayer, the prayer of Christ Himself, so there is only one Christian worship, the communion we have through Christ in the Trinitarian love. Each member of the Trinity wholly at the service of the other."(See Silence and Stillness in Every Season for August 18th.)
That they may all be one...
That the world may believe...
"... the life of the Church communion will become a sign for all the world and a compelling force that will lead persons to faith in Christ: ...so that the world may believe that you have sent me. (John 17:21) In such a way communion leads to mission, and mission itself to communion."(Christifideles Laici31)
"Thus, communion is itself mission, indeed communion begets communion and is essentially a missionary communion."(Consecrated Life in the Third Millennium - Starting afresh from Christ 33)
- Pope John Paul II in his address to the Bishops of the U.S.A. in 1987:
- Pope Benedict's visit to the U.K. 2010, in his address to Youth:


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It's December, people, which means it's National Eat Foods That Warm You Up Month! OK, we made that last part up. But with temps dropping lower and lower, you're gonna want guilt-free dishes to keep you toasty in the cold months ahead. So read on!
PER SERVING (1/4th of recipe, about 1 1/4 cups): 222 calories, 2.75g fat, 464mg sodium, 41.5g carbs, 5.25g fiber, 6g sugars, 8g protein -- PointsPlus® value 6*
This is like the fiber-infused love child of cheesy risotto and a big orange pumpkin. And each serving is HUGE!
2 cups finely chopped cauliflower
1 1/2 cups fat-free chicken broth
1 cup diced onion
1 cup thinly sliced mushrooms
1 cup canned pure pumpkin
3/4 cup uncooked brown rice
1/2 cup light plain soymilk
1 tsp. chopped garlic
1/4 tsp. salt, or more to taste
1/8 tsp. black pepper, or more to taste
2 wedges The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss cheese
4 tsp. reduced-fat Parmesan-style grated topping
In a nonstick pot on the stove, combine all ingredients except cheese wedges and Parm-style topping. Stir until well mixed. Bring to a boil.
Once boiling, reduce heat to medium low and cover. Simmer for about 35 minutes, until rice is cooked and veggies are tender.
Add cheese wedges and Parm-style topping, and stir until evenly distributed.
If you like, season to taste with additional salt and pepper. Enjoy!
PER SERVING (1 1/3 cups): 151 calories, 3g fat, 493mg sodium, 18g carbs, 2.25g fiber, 4g sugars, 13.5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4*
It's like an underwater platter of steak 'n veggie fajitas! Except the water is actually a yummy seasoned beef broth, and you don't need to hold your breath to eat it...
12 oz. raw lean beef filet, thinly sliced into bite-sized strips
2 tbsp. (about half of a 1-oz. packet) dry fajita seasoning, divided
One 14.5-oz. can diced tomatoes with chilies (not drained)
1 large russet potato (about 13 oz.), peeled and cubed
1 large onion, thinly sliced into bite-sized strips
2 bell peppers, seeded, thinly sliced into bite-sized strips
2 portabella mushrooms, sliced into bite-sized strips
4 cups (32 oz.) reduced-sodium fat-free beef broth
1 tsp. chopped garlic
2 tbsp. cornstarch
Optional topping: chopped fresh cilantro
Season beef with 1/2 tbsp. fajita seasoning and set aside.
Put remaining 1 1/2 tbsp. fajita seasoning and all other ingredients except beef and cornstarch in a slow cooker and gently stir to combine. Add beef and stir again.
Cover and cook on high for 3 - 4 hours or on low for 7 - 8 hours, until beef is cooked through and veggies are soft.
In a small dish, combine cornstarch with 2 tbsp. cold water and stir to dissolve. Turn off the slow cooker. Add mixture and stir well. Allow to thicken, uncovered, about 5 minutes.
If you like, top each serving with a bit of cilantro. Now eat!
PER SERVING (1/6th of recipe, about 1 cup): 146 calories, 2g fat, 331mg sodium, 26g carbs, 4g fiber, 5g sugars, 6g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4*
This dish is as stunning as it is delicious. Garlicky mashed potatoes -- lightened up with cauliflower (shhh!) -- swirled with super-cheesy squash puree!?! Soooooooooo goooooooood...
Ingredients: 4 cups cubed butternut squash 3 cups cauliflower florets 1 large potato (about 13 oz.), peeled and cubed 4 wedges The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss cheese 1/4 cup shredded fat-free cheddar cheese 1/4 tsp. salt, divided, or more to taste 3 tbsp. fat-free half & half 1 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown) 1/2 tsp. chopped garlic 2 dashes black pepper, or more to taste Directions: Bring 2 large pots of water to a boil on the stove. Add butternut squash to one pot; add cauliflower and potato to the other pot. Once water returns to a boil, reduce heat to medium. Allow to cook until all veggies are very tender, 15 - 20 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat broiler. Carefully drain water from the pots. Transfer cauliflower and potato to a large bowl and set aside. Transfer squash to another large bowl. Mash squash with a potato masher. Add cheese wedges, shredded cheese, and 1/8 tsp. salt, and stir until evenly distributed. Set aside. To the bowl of cauliflower and potato, add half & half, butter, garlic, remaining 1/8 tsp. salt, and black pepper. Mash with a potato masher until completely mixed. If you like, season to taste with pepper and additional salt. Set aside. Spray an 8" X 8" baking pan with nonstick spray. Spoon half of the squash mixture into one corner, and spoon the other half into the opposite corner. Evenly divide cauliflower-potato mixture between the two remaining corners. Using a spoon, lightly swirl the mixtures together. (Don't over-mix!) Broil until top is crispy, about 8 - 10 minutes. Serve it up and enjoy! MAKES 6 SERVINGS
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Earth Day Curriculum Resources
Explore New and Review Familiar Ways to Live Responsibly
Earth Day is Monday April 22, 2019. Explore new and review familiar ways to live responsibly with these lessons, projects, activities, and games.
Resources for:
last updated: February 25, 2020
In the Weeds by Harriett Sanford, The NEA Foundation
Why urban farming helps students work across disciplines and solve our biggest STEM dilemma.
Clean Energy Education
Lesson Plans, Activities and Resources Empower Students to Make Informed Choices and Develop Creative Solutions to Environmental Challenges
Advice & Support
Best of Works4Me: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Before you throw it away, read how your fellow educators across the country are keeping it green, saving money and setting great green examples for students.
Climate Education Toolkit
A FREE, easy-to-use, ready-to-go resource with everything you need to educate and engage your students on climate change.


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The lingering impasse from December's "fiscal cliff" threatens to swamp Democrats' efforts to achieve priorities such as broad changes to gun regulations and a drive for comprehensive immigration reform. But if the fights over the debt ceiling and the budget-cutting sequester stretch well into 2013, tax and entitlement reform could also be at risk, the top Democrat on the House tax-writing committee said Tuesday.
Rep. Sander Levin (D) of Michigan told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor that Congress needs to "extend, if not end" the debt ceiling for a "considerable period of time" and replace the sequester – some $1.2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade – with a mix of higher taxes and lower government spending.
Congress has roughly six weeks before those issues – and the need to extend funding for government operations – come to a head.
If President Obama and congressional Republicans can reach agreement those issues by then, Levin, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, believes there's plenty of time for Congress to handle a reform of taxes and entitlement programs in 2013.
"I'm hopeful, if we don't drag this out, as some people are saying," Levin said, referring to rumored proposals for one- to three-month debt-ceiling increases, said to be favored by some House Republicans. "Those who are saying, let's do it dribble by dribble, they're the ones who would be undermining the effort to sit down and have a serious discussion on tax reform and the entitlements."
Reform of the federal tax code, and especially lower tax rates across the board, is a priority for Republicans and some Democrats.
Nothing in law or congressional history would prevent Congress from handling a plethora of complex issues at once. But the legislative branch, coming off the least-productive congressional session in American history, has not acted in ways that square with congressional leaders' assurances that they can carry not only fiscal issues but also a host of other heavyweight legislation in the year to come.
Indeed, Congress already may have made its task of reforming the tax code more difficult. In the recent deal to avert the fiscal cliff, lawmakers agreed to raise more revenues in part by by phasing out some tax deductions for wealthy Americans – some of the very deductions that were widely viewed as grist for a tax reform plan that would reduce statutory tax rates.
Moreover, Levin said Congress would have to consider cutting other tax benefits and loopholes – such as the exemption of taxation on municipal bonds and the preferential tax treatment of financial gains known as "carried interest" – to provide revenue to offset the sequester, further shrinking the number of tax carve-outs that could be traded away for lower rates.
Levin says that eliminating these proposals would not make the end process more difficult. Instead, he believes that whittling down the tax code will make lawmakers bear down on the specifics of tax reform.
"What it does," Levin says, "is it forces people to be more concrete about what they mean when they talk about tax reform."
But in the best case, will it happen?
"I'm not very confident," Levin says. "I'm hopeful."


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$61K in Verizon equipment stolen from service centers
Officials not sure if Annapolis, Lanham cases are connected
Tens of thousands of dollars' worth of Verizon cable equipment vanished from several of the company's service centers in Maryland, and police are working to find out if the cases are connected.
In what police said appeared to be a well-planned heist, more than $61,000 worth of fiber optic equipment was stolen last week from inside two Verizon service centers and storage lots. About $38,000 worth of equipment was taken from an Annapolis lot, and $23,000 worth was taken from a lot in Lanham, Prince George's County.
"A lot of this stuff was specific to FIOS fiber optic cabling, splicing machines and different light emitters. This isn't something you can just sell on the streets," said Cpl. Amy Miguez of the Annapolis Police Department.
To avoid detection in the Annapolis case, police said the thieves stole a van from a nearby medical business, drove it to the fenced-in Verizon lot, cut a large hole in the fence, cut off the locks to six sheds and 13 trucks and loaded the stolen van.
Police said the biggest item taken was an $11,000 machine that splices fiber optic cable together.
"Somehow they know what they are going to do with this stuff, so that's what we're trying to find out now," Miguez said.
She said Verizon hasn't yet considered that the heist could be an inside job.
Meanwhile, the medical company's stolen van was found empty in Davidsonville a day later, police said.
Verizon officials said the manner in which the equipment was stolen from its storage lot in Lanham has many similarities to the Annapolis case, but police have yet to say if the cases are connected. Authorities said police in Montgomery County are also investigating a similar theft.


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A representative for Justin Bieber has moved swiftly to deny reports the singer groped a fan's breasts after a recent concert in Miami, Florida.
The Boyfriend hitmaker found himself embroiled in controversy on Tuesday after a picture of him apparently grabbing a female fan's chest went viral after she posted the snapshot on her Twitter page.
The teen, named Jocelyn, took to her Twitter page to defend her idol, writing, "NO I did NOT ask Justin to touch my boobs... He kissed me on the cheek in the picture & it looks like his hand is there."
Now a spokesperson for the pop star has spoken out to make it clear Bieber did not touch Jocelyn inappropriately.
The rep tells EOnline.com, "It's ridiculous. That definitely did not happen."
The picture scandal is the latest in a string of problems for Bieber - he split from girlfriend Selena Gomez at the end of 2012, and earlier this month, he was photographed smoking what appeared to be marijuana in a California hotel room.
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Posts Tagged 'scrum'
5 Missteps when Writing Code
5 Missteps when Writing Code
I'm often asked to look over other people's code, and these are 5 of my pet peeves rolled into a post.
tl;dr: bad documentation, no unit tests, unnecessary optimization, not auditing/logging, too strick adherence to methodology
5 Missteps in Writing Code
Like most developers I am constantly struggling to deliver in the face of unrealistic or extremely tight deadline, which can be self imposed or come from external sources. As I will likely discuss ….
5 Missteps in Writing Code
Like most developers I am constantly struggling to deliver in the face of unrealistic or extremely tight deadline, which can be self imposed or come from external sources. As I will likely discuss in a future article this can be due to over optimism or rigid planning in the face of customer demand. It can also be due to missteps which the developer themselves have made. Read the rest of this entry »
Scrum Masters as Sri Ganesha's pundits #agile #xp
You would probably not associate a god from the Indian pantheon with an Agile methodological, and there are many things that can be learned for Scrum masters from Ganesh.
In Scrum the Scrum Master focuses on 4 key areas:
- remove impediments
- buffer against distracting influences
- enforcer of rules
- focusing team on tasks
Ganesha is the Lord of Obstacles, both material and spiritually. And is worshiped as the remover of obstacles, although he also places obstacles in the path of worshipers. The Scrum Master also removes the impediments and places obstacles in the path of the team members. Ganesha fans his ears constantly to symbolize that often words are spoken, but one is not receiving inside. This is what happens when the length of the meetings is too long, or it digresses off-topic. This is also what the broken tusk is said to symbolize, with oneness of mind and single-minded devotion you can achieve everything. In your team you can keep your focus by focussing the energies on the ability of the team to create results, and allowing the members to achieve.
Image source: Vijay Bandari – Wikipedia, Anamika S
How large is a Two-Pizza Team? #scrum #xp
After reading about 2 pizza teams in Wired UK 03.12, I read that the comment came from Werner Vogels, the Amazon CTO. He says prefers two-pizza teams; "technology teams working on a given project typically can be fed by no more than two pizzas—usually eight or fewer people." This makes no sense to me, and I'm sure you may find the same.
I can easily eat a 13″ pizza at one sitting. A 13″ pizza has an area of approximately 856.3 cm2, the largest size that Dominos Pizza makes is 16″ with an area of approximately 1297 cm2. This means that I would be full at approximately 66% of the 16″ pizza, when I split it evenly the pizza only feeds two and leaves us both a little hungry.
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How does Vogels think he can feed up to 8 people with 2 pizzas?
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Design – Re-Inventing the Wheel #agile #scrum #xp
Everybody tells you not to reinvent the wheel, and I am going to explain why everybody is wrong and you should start re-inventing. Programming paradigms and design patterns are the staple of all new programmers, and they enable everybody to communicate in a common language which can be easily understood when their rules are strictly adhered to. The issue is that beginner developers have cursory knowledge, expertise and familiarity with the design patterns they are required to implement.
A recent practical example a group of relatively inexperienced programmers with the Model-View-Controller paradigm found that the controller they were using didn't make their life easier, so in some specific cases they deviated from this and implemented their own heuristics. This caused the underlying database to get more SQL queries that even Facebook reports it gets. At the point the website ground to a halt a simple investigation revealed that they bypassed the controller and model to access the database. Common heuristics would usually point to scaling vertically or horizontally.
If it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, guess what? It's a duck.
A Duck?
It is not always a duck. Current thinking is that common things are common, and common problems have common solutions. This isn't always the case, Henry Ford summed it up best: "If I had asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said a faster horse." By living in the constraints of their knowledge when people hear hoofbeats, they think horses, not zebras. And "[w]hen faced with a result that doesn't go according to plan, a series of perfectly effective short-term tactics are used until the desired outcome is achieved."[2] Some developers believe that once this hurdle has been taken all will be well, I can tell you the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.[4]
When you are in a hole, stop digging! That is exactly how we got into the mess in the first place.
How do you stop digging?
You have become increasingly convinced of the truth of your misjudgment, developing a psychological commitment to it. You have become wedded to this distorted conclusion.[1] Realizing this is your first victory. "In the material world, the unknown is a place of uncertainty and potential risk … [b]ut we make a mistake when we attribute the same qualities to the world of our thinking."[3] The second victory is having the courage to throw out everything you have done up to now, baby and bathwater.
"There is a wonderful story of a group of American car executives who went to Japan to see a Japanese assembly line. At the end of the line, the doors were put on the hinges, the same as in America. But something was missing. In the United States, a line worker would take a rubber mallet and tap the edges of the door to ensure that it fit perfectly. In Japan, that job didn't seem to exist. Confused, the American auto executives asked at what point they made sure the door fit perfectly. Their Japanese guide looked at them and smiled sheepishly. "We make sure it fits when we design it." In the Japanese auto plant, they didn't examine the problem and accumulate data to figure out the best solution—they engineered the outcome they wanted from the beginning. If they didn't achieve their desired outcome, they understood it was because of a decision they made at the start of the process."[2]
Clean Slate
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Starting with a clean slate learn to question everything you know and are told, especially what I tell you. Learned heuristics can be good, but they are only as good as your teacher. You own experience is key to be able to implement anything. Having a prototype or an example can help you, and a prototype is only as good as the developer who wrote it. Don't be afraid to start over rather than refactoring, there is little to lose and everything to gain by ignoring the old paradigm: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- How Doctors Think – Jerome Groopman, MD
- Start with Why – Simon Sinek
- Effortless Evolution – Jamie Smart
- Wall Street proverb
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Recognizing Signals #scrum #xp #agile #lifehack
Signals come from everywhere, they are tell us something about our environment. Whether it's hot or cold, wet or dry, and painful or pleasant. These signals are rarely binary, there are gradients in the signals. And we have signals with which we aren't dealing at that moment, which we'll call noise in that instance. Feedback is also a signal, perhaps it causes a painful sensation or it causes a pleasant sensation. Whatever the sensation it causes that sensation too is another signal which we can choose to regard as noise.
User Stories: How small is too small? #scrum #xp #agile
I like a User Story to be precise and target a specific functionality, a Use Case or a logical vertical of a Use Case. This means that a finely scoped task of 2 or 3 hours could be called small. It also depends at what time in the SCRUM backlog a certain User Story is implemented for it to be a small or large User Story.
At the beginning of any development project all User Stories are large, they include many additional variables everything from setting up the initial design patterns, to drastic refactoring to allow for stackable functionality. This means that a task which might take 2/3 hours once there is a working vertical to build on could take considerably longer when everything needs to be build from scratch. Ron Jeffries – SCRUM God – says Read the rest of this entry »
Code Review in SCRUM? #xp #agile #mathematics
Recently I was asked by a client to make some estimations regarding a review of a code review for a programming project. The aim of the project is to refactor the existing code for efficiency, check the security and add new functionality. Having done code reviews in the past I had an idea on how it should be done, and little idea on how to quantify the work into an estimate.
How a code review estimate is done now?
Testers in SCRUM? #agile #xp #qa
Testers are very important in SCRUM, before the sprint they help the Product Owner to refine the User Stories are help with "How to Demo" and "Definition of Done". Doing this during backlog grooming or analysis meetings allows the Testers to suggest User Stories for testing such as in the sidebar, and allows them to product examples which can be used for automated testing, help with sprint planning, among others.
"As a Tester, I want to read a log, so that I can verify that payments have been processed"
During the sprint, while programmers will be implementing the functionality, the testers will be implementing manual test scripts, automated tests and acceptance tests associated with the user story. In some places they develop the automated tests paired with a programmer, and in others they script the tests themselves. The testers would deliver "Running Tested Features", preferably together with the programmer, which comply with the Definition of Done which the Product Owner, Testers and Team have defined.
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You can see that Testers are a vital part of any SCRUM team.
Image source: Wikipedia
Sources: Lance Walton, Henrik Kniberg
Why Re-estimate User Stories? #scrum #agile #xp
On the SCRUM Development list two questions often pop up, I call them the why and when of re-estimating. There are few defined rules on re-estimating, yet estimating and re-estimating is an important part of backlog grooming. Which is why this is a recurring question in many SCRUM fora.


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A consumer group led a coordinated Carrotmob at cafes in three cities
Hundreds of Carrotmobbers bought delicious coffee
New solar panels were installed at the coffee farm in Papua New Guinea
A non-profit group made an agreement to mob Royal Kebabhaus
Carrotmobbers bought food throughout the day
The restaurant used the Carrotmob funds to buy an energy efficient fridge
Kasha Ho organized a Carrotmob with Kale's Natural Foods
Hundreds of Carrotmobbers gave Kale's their best sales in history
Kale's set up recycling facilities and began recycling its cardboard
Community Environmental Council agreed to mob Coffee Cat cafe
The cafe was mobbed by over 400 people
Energy efficient lighting was installed to reduce the cafe's carbon footprint
Abby Palmer made an agreement with Farmers Gastropub
Missouri State students ate, drank, and spent their money
The pub developed a hydroponic greenhouse to grow food locally
Impact: Parlor improves refrigeration and decreases power consumption by 30%
Impact: Store stops using plastic bags.
Impact: The bars upgrade their lighting, capture wasted energy from heat and change their power supplier.
Impact: Grocer installs heat insulation to conserve energy.
Impact: Store retrofits lighting to improve energy efficiency.
Impact: The cafe spends 201% of revenue to buy an eco-friendly fridge.
Impact: The Creperie develops Australia's first biodegradable crepe cone.
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