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Google Stump (fl. 1700)[1] was a shy and stuttering wizard. He had some portraits of himself hung in Hogwarts Castle. In 1994 one of them hung in the Tapestry Corridor and by 1995, a portrait was in the Viaduct Entrance. Stump's portrait guarded a secret passage from there to the first floor corridor. No one had told him the password. When confronted by Harry Potter, who asked if he was really doing his job if no one used his shortcut, the portrait told the student the password. The password, Volo futurus unus, meaning in Latin "I want to be alone", brings out the shyness of the wizard. Later in the school year, he directed Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to the portrait of Giffard Abbott to obtain the password to access the shortcut behind Percival Pratt's portrait.
Behind the scenesEdit
- He may have been related to former Minister of Magic Grogan Stump.
- This individual may have died sometime prior to 1991, as many portraits hung at Hogwarts depict deceased individuals.
- His first name is Google, possibly derived from the popular search engine Google. This is further implied when one of the other portraits describes him as a "man with answers."
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First appearance)[2]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)[3]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (PC version)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter Limited Edition - The Paintings of Hogwarts: Masterpieces from the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Sets
- ↑ Seen when Hermione says, Staircases change, remember.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - PS1 version -- In the hall leading the the First-Floor Girls' Toilets in which a troll chase Harry.


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(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp reported a global 1.8 percent drop in sales at established restaurants for October - its first monthly sales fall since March 2003 - sending its shares to a year low and presenting big challenges to the fast-food chain's new CEO.
McDonald's is likely to answer the challenge with stepped-up promotions in response to resurgent rivals such as Burger King Worldwide Inc, Wendy's Co and Yum Brands Inc's.N> Taco Bell, analysts said. Those chains have re-done their menus and beefed up "value" offerings to compete with McDonald's popular Dollar Menu.
The seller of Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets last month signaled an October sales decline because of the weak global economy, which has spurred intense competition in response to diners' diminishing appetite for spending money on restaurant food.
McDonald's is in many ways a victim of its own success said analysts, who for now are giving a pass to new Chief Executive Don Thompson. Thompson took the helm at the world's biggest hamburger chain on July 1.
McDonald's for years has set the bar for growth ever higher by outpacing rivals and turning in strong sales despite modest consumer spending around the world.
"This has nothing to do with Don being in charge. It's just a matter of bad timing and bad luck. They'll get through it," Edward Jones analyst Jack Russo said.
He predicted that McDonald's would respond with more promotions this month, but he also said superstorm Sandy, which hit the U.S. Northeast at the end of October, was likely to weigh on November sales.
With more than 34,000 locations around the world, McDonald's has far more purchasing and advertising muscle than many rivals, analysts said.
Still, it will be difficult for McDonald's to post higher same-restaurant sales for November and December because last year's results were so strong, analysts said.
McDonald's shares touched a 52-week low of $85.64 on Thursday. They were down 1.2 percent at $85.79 in midday trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
October sales at McDonald's restaurants open at least 13 months fell 2.2 percent in both the United States and Europe, and dropped 2.4 percent in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region.
While the sales declines were expected, they were steeper than Wall Street estimated in the United States and Europe.
McDonald's U.S. market share losses "seem to have accelerated in recent months," Jefferies & Co analyst Andy Barish said in a note to clients.
Analysts, on average, had expected a 1.05 percent fall in the United States, a 0.69 percent decline in Europe and a 3.01 percent drop for the APMEA region, according to Consensus Metrix. The United States just edges out Europe as McDonald's largest market for sales.
Many U.S. restaurant companies, including investor favorite Chipotle Mexican Grill and McDonald's, have reported cooling demand as diners get more frugal.
Just a few weeks ago, McDonald's posted its worst quarterly restaurant sales growth performance in nine years.
Those results come as Wendy's, the second-largest U.S. hamburger chain, leaps weak year-ago results with help from a turnaround effort that includes re-doing both its menu and restaurants. On Thursday, that chain reported a 2.7 percent increase in third-quarter sales at established company-operated restaurants in the United States.
Wendy's stock jumped 5.8 percent to $4.51.
Reporting By Brad Dorfman in Chicago and Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by John Wallace and Maureen Bavdek

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A huge LOL at CBS for having the same Gallory Picture except Mallory has a pink shirt..
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This jump page should create a natural transition to our current website pages. We will take users from these jump pages directly to a "buy now" page on our website.
Visual elements - In addition to the imagery on the site, we'd like to use the following additional elements:
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The page needs to accomodate replication of similar pages with the same overall scheme. I am attaching examples of the pages - But the designer can pick ONE to create. The objects used on the design must lend themselves to print, banners and other possible advertising media. And, the page needs to use model images and logos in the attached files and website.
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This post is the seventh in a series of posts by guest authors sharing their experience with courses offered at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Here is the experience of Corey Browder Oiesen.
Waking Up Your Brain with the Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum course at SLIG
Have you ever tried to complete five complex client projects in five days? When working on our own family history projects, we often have the luxury of pondering, letting ideas sit and ferment for a while. Maybe we pick up the project again later. When working for others, this luxury goes out the window.
For clients, I try to set realistic deadlines and hours. Yet, often I find myself spending many more hours than scheduled. When I signed up for the new Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum course at the 2012 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), I wasn't thinking about my chronic over-servicing. I signed up to learn how advanced researchers approach genealogical problems. What I would find is that I learned just as much about case management as I did about researching.
Each evening at SLIG, the instructor of the day jumped into a new genealogical challenge. The students could work on it nonstop until the class reconvened 24 hours later. And if I was at all cocky about my researching skills, these challenging case studies were, for me, served with a big slice of humble pie. And I loved every bite.
The variety of instructors enriched the experience:
Jim Ison, AG, CG
Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
Karen Mauer Green, CG
Kory Meyerink, AG, FUGA
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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?The pertussis - diphtheria toxoid - tetanus toxoid - inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine belong to a group of medications known as vaccines. It is used to prevent pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, tetanus, and poliomyelitis (polio).
This vaccine is used for the primary immunization of infants 2 months old or older, and as a booster for children over the age of 4 years. It increases your defenses against pertussis and polio infections and against the toxins produced by tetanus and diphtheria bacteria.
It works by stimulating the production of your own antibodies, which will remain in the body ready to attack any future bacteria or viruses and deal with the toxins produced during tetanus or diphtheria infections.
Your child's doctor may have suggested this vaccine for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. As well, some forms of this vaccine may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here. If you have not discussed this with your child's doctor or are not sure why your child is receiving this vaccine, speak to your child's doctor.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
Each dose (0.5 mL) of cloudy, white, sterile suspension contains not less than 2.5 Lf of diphtheria toxoid, not less than 5 Lf (20 IU) of tetanus toxoid; 8 μg of pertussis toxoid, 8 μg of filamentous haemagglutinin, 2.5 μg of pertactin (69 kDa outer membrane protein), 40 D-antigen units (DU) of Type 1 poliovirus, 8 DU of Type 2 polio virus and 32 DU Type 3 polio virus. Nonmedicinal ingredients: medium 199 (as stabilizer containing amino acids, mineral salts, vitamin and other substances), sodium chloride, water for injection. Formaldehyde, neomycin, and polymycin are present as traces.
How should I use this medication?
The usual dose of this vaccine is 0.5 mL given as an injection into the muscle of the upper outer arm in children 4 years of age and older, adolescents, and adults who have been previously vaccinated against pertussis, diphtheria, polio and tetanus.
This vaccine is given by a health care professional in a doctor's office or clinic.
It is very important that this vaccine be given on a regular schedule as prescribed by the doctor. If your child misses a dose of this vaccine, check with your child's health care professional. Add all vaccines your child receives to their immunization record.
Store this medication in the refrigerator and keep it out of the reach of children. Do not allow it to freeze.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Pertussis - diphtheria toxoid - tetanus toxoid - inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine should not be used by anyone who:
- is allergic to the pertussis - diphtheria toxoid - tetanus toxoid - poliomyelitis vaccine, or to any of the ingredients of the vaccine or any components of the container
- is allergic to neomycin or polymyxin
- has a neurological disorder (such as infantile spasms, uncontrolled epilepsy, or progressive encephalopathy) that is untreated or unstable
- has had encephalopathy (brain inflammation) within 7 days of a previous dose of a pertussis-containing vaccine
- has developed low platelets following a previous dose of a diphtheria- or pertussis-containing vaccine
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who receives this vaccine. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this vaccine with your child's doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people receiving this vaccine. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your child's doctor if your child experiences these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- crying
- decreased appetite or feeding
- diarrhea
- fever
- fussiness or irritability
- headache
- redness, swelling, soreness, tenderness, or pain at place of injection
- tiredness
- sore or swollen joints
Although most of the side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your child's doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your child's doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- limpness
- rash
- unresponsiveness
- vomiting
Seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- convulsions (seizures)
- fever over 40.5°C (105°F)
- signs of a severe allergic reaction (e.g., hives, difficulty breathing, swelling of the mouth or throat)
Be sure to mention any side effects to your child's doctor, as it may mean that your child is allergic to the vaccine.
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your child's doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you after your child receives this vaccine.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before your child receives this vaccine, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies your child may have, any medications your child is taking, and any other significant facts about your child's health. These factors may affect the vaccine your child is receiving.
Allergic reactions: In rare cases, this vaccine may cause severe allergic reactions. If you notice signs of a severe allergic reaction (e.g., hives; trouble breathing or swallowing; or swelling of the lips, face, throat, or tongue), get medical attention immediately.
Bleeding: If your child has a bleeding disorder or is taking anticoagulants (blood thinners), discuss with their doctor how this vaccine may affect their medical condition and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Immune system: As with any vaccine, this vaccine may not be as effective for people with a weakened immune system (e.g., people with AIDS or cancer, people taking antirejection medications after an organ transplant, people receiving chemotherapy, or people taking any medication that suppresses the immune system). If your child has a weakened immune system, their doctor may decide to postpone the vaccine till their immune system recovers.
Infection: Your child's doctor may decide to delay this vaccine if your child has an acute infection or fever. Mild infections without fever, such as colds, usually do not require delay of the vaccine.
Seizures: If your child has an increased risk of seizures, their doctor may suggest that a medication to prevent fever (e.g., acetaminophen) be given at the time of vaccination and for 24 hours after the vaccine.
Vaccine protection: As with any vaccine, this vaccine may not protect 100% of people who receive it and may not prevent infection in those people already infected with the bacteria or virus.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: This medication should not be administered to women who are pregnant or breast-feeding.
Children: This medication is not recommended for children under 2 months of age.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between the pertussis - diphtheria toxoid - tetanus toxoid - poliomyelitis vaccine and any of the following:
- acetaminophen
- belimumab
- fingolimod
- immunosuppressants (medications used to treat cancer or autoimmune disease, or prevent organ rejection)
- azathioprine
- corticosteroids (e.g., budesonide, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, fluticasone, prednisone)
- cyclosporine
- hydroxyurea
- infliximab
- medications to treat cancer (e.g., carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, ifosfamide, vincristine)
- mycophenolate
- rituximab
- tacrolimus
- warfarin
If your child is taking any of these medications, speak with their doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your child's specific circumstances, your child's doctor may want your child to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how your child is taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that your child must stop taking one of them. Speak to your child's doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this vaccine.Tell your child's doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), supplements, and herbal medications your child is taking.
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Preventive Pest Control - Most people I know dislike bugs and crawling or flying pest or insect of any size. Some can leave a bite that stings or itches, others want to share our living spaces and our food or even our blood. Fear of insects actually rank just behind fear heights and public speaking. The sight of a spider or roach moving across the floor can cause near panic for some. The truth is that some insects do pose a real threat.
There is a troublesome ant invading Bay Area homes like never before. As the drought leaves little vegetation and water in California, the ants are entering homes in search for sustenance. The worker ants can squeeze through an opening of 1 millimeter with ease. They enter through walls, floors and plumbing pipes and can be found crawling anywhere imaginable -
Bugs were eradicated, were they not? For a while it sure seemed so, but not anymore. Bed bugs are back in hotels and in people's homes and they are as resilient as ever; able to survive without food for more than a year. Bed Bugs can carry diseases and some people have serious allergic reactions to their bites. Once bed bugs enter your home they reproduce very quickly. They travel from place to place in luggage, furniture or on people's clothing. Bed bugs got their name from their preference of living in and near the bed, where they can feast on the occupants in the night; they are drawn to warmth, blood and carbon dioxide. Every bed bug situation is different and it is important that home and business owners contact a professional company who will find the best solution for their particular situation. Call Official Pest Prevention and ask for our 3-step process to treat bed bugs.


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A Sandwich a Day: The Hot Beef Sirloin at Smokin' Woody's
Reviews of Chicago sandwiches.
For what I consider to be Chicago-style barbecue (rib tips and hot links), you can do much better than Smokin' Woody's. Uncle John's, Honey 1, and Barbara Ann's all come directly to mind. So ordering the Hot Beef Sirloin ($9.95 with one side) was like drafting a quarterback in the first round—lots of potential upside tempered with serious bust potential. Luckily, this one's a winner.
There's no reason this sandwich shouldn't work, really; lightly smoked beef sirloin, cheddar cheese, grilled onions, and Buffalo sauce loaded onto a Kaiser roll. The sirloin is smoked to a chewy, but still tender, medium. Though not much smoke permeates the meat, it has plenty of good flavor on its own. The cheddar adds a little bite and plenty of creamy gooey-ness, though I wouldn't have said no to another slice. The onions add a great sweet complement to the sandwich, and offset the formidable Buffalo sauce, which finds the right balance of tang and heat. This sandwich has franchise tag written all over it.
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A conservative group headed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a Dallas strip club owner Tuesday that it mistakenly invited her to receive an "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.
American Solutions for Winning the Future had invited Dawn Rizos to a "very private" dinner in Washington to receive the award, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Rizos, who owns The Lodge, said the group told her that her club was mixed up with a Virginia business that has the same name and rescinded the invitation. Rizos' business is legally called DCG Inc.
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Of several companies in Virginia with DCG in their names, none contacted by The Associated Press said it was being honored by Gingrich's group. Ken Schrad, a spokesman for Virginia's State Corporation Commission, found a DCG Inc. operating in the 1990s, but said it had long since disappeared.
Rizostold the Dallas Morning News that American Solutions for Winning the Future offered to reimburse her lost expenses such as plane fare and gave back a $5,000 donation she made to the group.
She termed the invitation take-back as "disappointing" and said her business is a great draw for Dallas that has won other awards.
"I thought they really wanted to give us an award," she told the Dallas Morning News.
Rizos told the newspaper she supports less government intervention in small business.
According to its Web site, American Solutions for Winning the Future is "tri-partisan organization designed to rise above traditional gridlocked partisanship to provide real, significant solutions to the most important issues facing our country."
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It's been two and a half weeks since the pope's encyclical "Caritas in Veritate" ("Charity in Truth") was released and there has been plenty of commentary in the Catholic press. Here's a sampling:
The encyclical "comes at a precarious moment for the world economy," Chris Gunty, editor of The Catholic Review, wrote in the July 16 issue of Baltimore's archdiocesan newspaper. "Everyone — from the most renowned economists to everyday Joe the plumbers — have ideas on how to fix this mess. Few have come at it from such a comprehensive position. Benedict's solution is not just about numbers, because he acknowledges that at its root, it is not about numbers, but about people."
The document is a long "meditation on the implications of Christian charity in today's world without borders. The Christian truth has always been that human life originates and develops in the relationship of love. The crisis of our time happens to have an economic face, so the pope uses that lens for much of his focus," wrote retired news editor Frank Wessling in the July 15 issue of the The Catholic Messenger, newspaper of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa.
In his column in the July 17 issue of his diocese's newspaper, The Observer, Bishop Thomas G. Doran of Rockford, Ill., acknowledged the document is not easy to get through but said it still "bears some serious reading." The pope "convincingly demonstrates that if we are more than merely cafeteria Catholics … we will have to read and ponder this encyclical in what remains of the summer and the fall, and even the winter too, to derive from it the fruit that it contains."
Pope Benedict "offers a moral framework for economic life, a word of hope, a call to solidarity and a challenge to work together to build an economy which is founded on truth and charity. The task ahead of us is nothing less than a serious moral obligation," Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Rapid City, S.D., writing in the July issue of his diocesan newspaper, West River Catholic.
In a July 16 editorial, The Rhode Island Catholic, newspaper of the Providence Diocese, tied the encyclical with pope's visit July 10 with President Barack Obama, saying the pope presented in that meeting "the truth of Catholic teaching with clarity but also charity." After their meeting at the Vatican and the release of the encyclical, the paper said, Obama "and his Catholic supporters would do well to remember the 'Veritas' part of 'Charity in Truth.'"


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A Sandwich a Day: Seared Beef Tongue at Noble Pig in Austin
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Cedar Park, a northwest suburb of Austin is home to Noble Pig, a small, unassuming deli-like shop that boasts delicious specialty sandwiches. It seems to be getting easier and easier to find beef tongue in and around Austin as more chefs are featuring it, and more customers grow to understand the beauty of this organ meat.
Noble Pig sears up generous portions of their tongue sandwiches between slices of freshly baked bread, lightly grilled and then slathered with aioli. Some smokey green onions and a tart red pepper relish brighten up the whole combination. One of my favorite bites is when the garlic from the aioli really comes through and pairs with the intense beefiness of the tongue.
Everything—from the bacon to the bread to the pickles to the aioli—is made from scratch (save the potato chips but the chef does add his own custom seasonings to them). I wish the bread was a bit more toasted and had slightly more crunch to contrast the very tender tongue, but otherwise this is an awesome sandwich.
Noble Pig plans to expand nextdoor to sell specialty meats, pâté and charcuterie items.
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Past week, I've attended LinuxCon Brazil as speaker. It took place in São Paulo, 17 and 18 November 2011. Despite not having a huge number of attendees, it was definitelly great in presentations quality.
Keynotes were interesting, relating the 20 years of Linux under many point of views, and previewing Linux's future for the next 10 months ;). Linus Torvalds confidence about Secure Boot failure drawn my attention. He defends his point considering users need, and want freedom, even in a unconscious way.
The event was plenty of good talks, as the given by Lennart Poettering, about systemd, a system and service manager, which I only had heard about previoulsy, so it was nice as an opportunity to learn a lot about it, and GNOME 3 presentation, given by Tobias Muller. It always worth to see what competitors are doing =D.
I've presented "Application Development using Enlightenment Foundation (EFL)" together with my co-worker Rafael Antognolli. We've made an overview of the libraries, webkit, gave some development tips, and talked about some products done at ProFUSION using EFL, as Electrolux's I-Kitchen softwares, and Endeavour, a browser under development, sponsored by FINEP. Below you can see slides of our presentation, also available as PDF:
Other 3 talks were given by ProFUSION guys. Demarchi explained how to become a Free Software developer, focused on students and other newcomers. Gustavo Barbieri presented "Tips and Tricks to Develop Software for CE product on Low-End Hardware", and "Demystifying HTML5″ with Sulamita Garcia (Intel). By the way, when the event started, was announced that ProFUSION became a member of Linux Foundation. Congrats!
Another nice point about attending this conference was the opportunity of knowing some guys from IBM, INDT, Samsung, and talking to some University colleagues I didn't meet by the last 4 years or so.
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"Barcelona are tracking" Livorno goalkeeper Francesco Bardi, revealed his agent, but Inter do not want to sell.
The Italy Under-21 international is owned by Inter and currently on loan at the Stadio Picchi.
"Yes, I can confirm Barcelona are tracking him," Bardi's agent Vincenzo Rispoli told Calciomercato.it.
"There are observers from many European clubs following him and I too heard, through unofficial channels, that Barcelona were interested.
"I have not had any formal contact with the Catalan club, as the player is under contract with Inter and I always respect those roles. If Barcelona do want Bardi, then they will have to discuss it with the Nerazzurri first.
"Francesco is relaxed, happy to be playing for Livorno and to be an Inter player. These rumours are certainly gratifying and I'd be a hypocrite to suggest otherwise, but I think Livorno and Inter appreciate them too. After all, it means Bardi is a goalkeeper of great quality, without forgetting he is only 21 years old."
The agent also spoke to TMW and noted Inter have no intention of selling their starlet.
"Inter already proved they believe in his qualities by the fact they didn't even want to sell half his contract to Livorno during the loan negotiations."
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Thanks so much to Mitali Perkins and Melissa Wiley for joining me for what I think was the fastest hour of my life as we discussed all things Maud Hart Lovelace and Betsy-Tacy! And thank you to all the listeners who joined in and commented and asked questions. We had a blast and hope that you did too.
There were some great questions during the show, including what books a young girl can read if she's in between the early Betsy books and the high school ones - recommendations included the All-of-a-Kind Family, The Melendy Quartet, Anastasia Krupnik, Beverly Cleary, the Penderwicks and books by Laurel Snyder.
Another listener wanted to know what other series, like Betsy-Tacy, follow the characters from a young age to adulthood and we recommended Anne of Green Gables, Harry Potter, Louisa May Alcott's books and, for their great depiction of the teen years, Madeline L'Engle's books, especially the Austin Family series. (I know I've forgotten series and titles, so please add in the comments!)
As promised, here are links to many of the things we discussed:
The Betsy-Tacy Convention - scheduled for July 19-22 in Minneapolis and Mankato, MN
The Betsy-Tacy Society - join!
Maud L listserv - for details on how to join, let me know in the comments that you're interested and I'll email you
Mitali Perkins' blog
Melissa Wiley's blog
For more background information on Maud Hart Lovelace and the Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley books, I encourage you to check out these three books:
Maud Hart Lovelace's Deep Valley by Julie Schrader
The Betsy-Tacy Companion by Sharla Scannell Whalen
Future in a Handbasket: The Life and Letters Behind Carney's House Party by Amy Dolnick
Those of you in the Southern California area, head over to Readers Inc bookstore this Saturday, Nov. 20th at 3 pm to see Melissa Wiley discuss Carney's House Party and WInona's Pony Cart and Maud in general. You can get a free Betsy-Tacy tote bag with every Lovelace purchase!
If you're at NCTE this week (National Council of Teachers of English) visit the Harper booth #820-22 at 3:30 on Friday the 19th where Mitali will be signing Emily and there are totes there too!
And look for Mitali, Melissa and me at the mid-winter ALA (American Library Association) Conference in January of 2011.
Listen in to the show now - did I mention there was a lightning round?


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The ESA summer workshop for teachers 2012
This year, the summer workshops for secondary science teachers will be held from 10 to 13 July. Application should be submitted by 4 June 2012 at 09:00 CET.
The third in a series of summer workshops organised by ESA will be held at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
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- Take action to promote ESA education resources, for example, at teacher conferences, to other schools, through publication of articles, in newsletters, blogs, websites etc.
- Complete a dissemination form issued by ESA, one year after the workshop, reporting on the actions taken in points 1 and 2 above.
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With no one able to win enough seats to form a majority, the centre-right pro-nuclear Conservative Party ended up forging an unlikely alliance with the centre-left anti-nuclear Liberal Democrats, ostensibly the greenest and most pro-renewables of the UK's three major parties. The deal banished the centre-left but pro-nuclear Labour Party - which had governed with thumping majorities for 13 years - to the wilderness of opposition.
As part of a condition of the deal that stipulated that Liberal Democrats should be given cabinet posts, the soft-left, greenish Chris Huhne was appointed to the highest political energy job in the land, that of climate secretary. Huhne will lead the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc). That may come as a relief to those who feared a Conservative energy overlord would have put wind in the shade.
Details are still vague but, under the coalition, the signs for wind look good. Some Conservatives had been hawkish on Labour's Renewables Obligation Certificates, but they will stay, at least for projects that are already benefitting from them. Meanwhile, pro-renewables elements in the coalition have won their battle to usher in a system of feed-in tariffs, fixing prices for renewables input.
While it is true that some senior Conservatives are advocates of the rollout of green energy, this is not a particularly pro-renewables party. Many of its rump - and, rumour has it, some of its ministers - do not believe in man-made global warming. As such, the party's will to set demanding targets for new wind build is weak, particularly given the traditional resistance in England to locating wind farms in the country's rural hinterland, from where the Conservatives draw their core support. A pre-election survey of the 250 Conservative candidates in the most winnable seats revealed that reducing Britain's carbon footprint was their lowest priority. A low priority is not a priority at all.
An ideal marriage
It is true that the man whom Huhne pipped to the energy brief, the erstwhile Conservative shadow climate secretary Greg Clark, has been keen to sell green power to so-called climate sceptics. He has done so on the basis that having a diverse, home-grown, low-pollution energy supply is beneficial whether man-made global warming is happening or not. Clark now finds himself in a more junior role as planning minister.
Planning is devolved to the UK's Celtic nations, so his jurisdiction covers England only. But, having someone who understands how green-energy is as much about energy security as it is about mitigating climate change in charge of planning in such a wind-power-resistant country is welcome. Sources say that, when in opposition, Clark helped nudge the Conservatives' shadow planning bill in a less nimbyish direction after emphasising that the Conservative Party would not be in office again for a long time should it come to power and the lights go out.
With Huhne in power at Decc, and Clark seemingly ready to forge a sensible line in English planning, wind has done better than it would under majority Conservative rule.
In the backroom horse-trading that always precedes coalition deals, the sector has emerged the victor. It is an accidental victor, perhaps, but a winner nevertheless.
- Ben Walker is editor of Windpower Monthly.


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NCE professor publishes key findings on ESL education
New research from National Louis proves the ability of adult English language learners to read aloud in English is affected by the learner's original writing system.
A study conducted by Kristin Lems, Ed.D., professor in the National College of Education, examined the oral reading of English language learners compared with the learner's original orthography, or writing system. Lems' study shows that learners coming from the Roman alphabet transition to oral English reading with the greatest ease, followed by learners from a different alphabetic system, such as Bulgarians. Chinese speakers, coming from a logo-syllabic orthography which is character based, require the most time to obtain oral reading fluency skills. Lems' findings were published in the inaugural edition of the journal "Writing Systems Research."
"The closer the orthography of the English language learner was to English, the more accurately and more quickly they read [aloud] in English," Lems said. "You might say that's a no-brainer, but there wasn't any research proving that."
The study tested the fluency skills of 232 literate adult English language learners. Students using variations of the Roman alphabet grasped English oral reading skills most quickly. This group included Spanish speakers and Polish speakers, who need less "triangulation" to interpret the sounds and letters of the English language and alphabet. Native speakers of other alphabetic writing systems, such Ukrainians and Bulgarians, whose languages use the Cyrillic alphabet, made more miscues reading aloud in English. Native speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, whose written language contains less of a phonological component than alphabetic systems, posted significantly lower oral reading fluency scores. In particular, native Chinese speakers were unfamiliar with the reciprocal relationship between symbols and sounds found in alphabets.
Lems says her study shows English as a second language instructors need to differentiate their reading instruction working with adult learners or young learners.
"Teachers of students from a similar orthography [to English] should be helping students work on looking for meaning as they read, because it's easy for them to just trip along and decode," Lems said. "With the Chinese speakers, [teachers] have to work on teaching skills of rapid decoding."
In particular, Lems suggests speakers from a language using the Roman alphabet such as Spanish speakers, engage in small group reading, in which readers stop frequently and retell what they have just read to a partner. This will help avoid the phenomenon commonly called "word calling." For groups with logo-syllabic writing systems, Lems recommends students practice reading passages with easier decoding, slowly building up to tackle the irregularities of the English language. Teachers should expect speakers from logo-syllabic writing systems to read more slowly and to engage in word-by-word translation as they are learning English, and should accommodate their needs accordingly.
Lems stresses her study is not an indication of ability to read, rather stressing a different point of entry into reading influenced by the proximity the two writing systems. Her next line of research is to examine how English as a second language teachers can effectively create differentiated learning plans in an era of overworked teachers.


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
My Appearance on FOX Business Yesterday
As those of you who follow me on Twitter already know, I have been on an extensive media tour with appearances on the Today Show, CNN, FOX, etc. Yesterday I stopped by FOX Business Network to discuss the implications of value-added and flat taxes. For those of you who might have missed my segment I have included an embedded video of it below, courtesy of FOX Business.com.
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Facebook unveiled its emoticons for many of its users Tuesday, with users able to use a drawing to convey feeling "wonderful", "annoyed" or "excited".
We wrote about how the social network has been working on bringing emoticons to the service in February, including working with Pixar animator Matt Jones to create better emoticons -- ones that showed "maternal love" or "resignation". So far, we didn't see any for "maternal love" or "resignation"but we did see that the emoticon for "good", "better", "free" and "curious" had the same bland smile that seemed to better indicate "medicated". The biggest smile of all the emoticons seemed to indicate "lazy."
As well as emotions, users can say what films or programs they are watching, music they are listening to, books they are reading, and what they are eating or drinking. It seems we may not need to write updates at all because we can simply punch in a canned response courtesy of Facebook.
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Analysis What do you get when an $11 billion Windows server business from Microsoft collides with a $10 billion market for supercomputers? You get a chance for Microsoft to get a little extra money for a little extra work, which is about as good as it gets for Redmond these days.
The cross-platform nature of Linux, and its resemblance to Unix - whose many flavors dominated supercomputing a decade ago before Beowulf clustering for Linux on cheap x86 boxes came along - has made it the default operating system for high performance computing in academic, government, and commercial supercomputing labs. And if revenue is any guide, Unix plus Linux still trumps Windows in the data center. But Windows can be - and probably will be - a contender in supercomputing, and this week's announcement of Windows HPC Server 2008 in New York's financial district is but round two in the ring for Microsoft.
Because supercomputing is such a nerdy thing, Microsoft was keen on pointing out all of the features that it has put into Windows HPC Server 2008, which is a cut-down version of the "Longhorn Server" Windows Server 2008 stack that has supercomputing-specific features and tunings added to the operating system.
The feature set goes beyond adding support for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocol commonly used for parallel supercomputers and now includes NetDirect, a high-speed networking stack that implements the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) protocol, a cluster job scheduler that is compatible with Open Grid Forum specs, cluster management tools, and fail-over for server nodes in a cluster.
But it may not be such features that give Windows HPC Server 2008 traction in the supercomputing space, even though features are the ante to get into the game. Familiarity with Windows and newbie HPC customers who are willing to pay for an HPC-enabled operating system is what could make Microsoft some money.
For the past several years, the so-called workgroup portion of the HPC space (machines that cost less than $50,000) has been growing considerably faster than the overall HPC server growth rate. In its latest market analysis, IDC said that the global HPC market accounted for just over $10 billion in sales in 2007 and said further that it would grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.2 percent between now and 2012. The entry segment is growing at about half again as fast as the market at large, mainly because people like to hug their servers and don't like to share them.
As compute capacity gets cheaper, it becomes economically feasible to not use a shared resource. And people get their own machinery, which people like. As HPC applications are ported and tuned for Windows and as HPC users who are unfamiliar with Linux or Unix look to add their own baby supers - particularly those users in life sciences, financial services, and other areas where Unix and Linux are black arts and Windows runs the stuff that mere mortals touch every day - Windows is going to be a popular choice.
Now, here's the funny bit. While Linux dominates the Top 500 supercomputer list, which is a who's who of supercomputing at the largest government, academic, and corporate HPC sites, a lot of the supercomputer centers do not pay for Linux licenses and support. In many cases, these HPC sites know a lot more about Linux and tuning it for HPC than Red Hat, Novell, and other commercial Linux suppliers.
Therefore, they save money by self-supporting. So if you add up all the server nodes out there in the HPC arena, and think about all of the Linux out there, the amount of support money it generates is a lot less than you might expect.
Contrast this with the future entry super buyer looking at taking the easy way out running a Windows-based machine, such as the Cray X1 announced last week. Windows Web Server 2008, the web-only version of Windows costs $469, Windows Server 2008 Standard costs $999 per server with access for five users, and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise costs $3,999 with 25 users.
The $475 per server cost for Windows HPC Server 2008 seems like a fair price by comparison, particularly when Windows Vista Business or Ultimate editions - which cost $300 and $320 respectively - don't know jack about HPC clustering. A Windows workstation with two processor sockets and maybe eight cores - that takes forever to do a job - is the choice these entry HPC customers are looking at. That extra cost for software seems minimal if it enables a baby cluster that can do a lot more work for the money.
And, this is money that will not go to a Linux vendor, because Linux is not even an option for this customer. They want to do algorithms for folding proteins, for analyzing gene sequences, or for Monte Carlo simulations to make stock picks.
Even if such customers get Windows HPC Server 2008 for half price from Microsoft and its resellers, this is more money than they would have paid for Linux. In a way, the fact that Microsoft is able to charge $475 is a measure of the barrier of adoption for Linux at the emerging low-end of the HPC server racket. People will pay not to have to learn a new thing.
Now, having said that, it will take forever and a day for Microsoft to make a lot of money in HPC. At $475 a pop, Microsoft has to sell the operating system on 2.1 million server nodes to make $1 billion. The world only consumes a little more than 8 million servers a year. So it is not like the HPC variant of the Windows stack is going rake in billions and radically expand the Windows share of the worldwide server pie. But every dollar spent on Windows in HPC is one that a Linux vendor did not - and maybe never could - capture. And that is worth something to Microsoft. ®
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With the first chords of Elektra, we are plunged into a psychologically intense and violent world. The opera shocked audiences (and even its performers!) when it had its premiere in Dresden in 1909. Today, as then, Elektra's desperate need to avenge the murder of her father by her mother makes for gripping drama. At 90 minutes, the opera is one of Strauss's most concentrated works, and in style and instrumentation one of his most modernist scores.
The political and social fractures in early 20th-century Europe, and emerging concepts of psychology, provide a rich subtext in Charles Edwards's production. The set and costumes allude to Classical and early 20th-century art and architecture, and highlight the moral decay at the heart of Klytämnestra's kingdom. Strauss's richly-orchestrated score takes the principal singers to their vocal limits. It is characterized by dramatic musical motifs, including the distinctive 'Agamemnon' motif, used to represent Elektra's obsessive thoughts of revenge. This highly dramatic opera also contains passages of great vocal beauty, including Elektra's rapturous recognition of her brother Orest, returned to avenge his father.
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Saturday, 12th October 2013
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Anderson's 40 saves enough for Senators to get by Sabres
Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - Craig Anderson stopped 40 shots to lead the Ottawa Senators in a 2-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.
Bobby Ryan posted a goal and an assist, while Zack Smith had a goal and Kyle Turris added two assists for the Senators, who came into the game having lost three of four.
"It's always fun and you feel good when you win," said Anderson, "It's a bonus that we were able to do it in a 2-1 fashion."
Tyler Ennis scored the only goal of the game for the Sabres, who have dropped four of their last five. Ryan Miller made 30 saves in the loss.
"I think that was one of our better efforts, honestly," said Miller. "They were going to be showing us a little more after losing in our building. They had more energy, more time to prepare. I thought we had the energy. We had some jump and we were creating. We just couldn't get it all to click."
Ottawa took the initial lead in the game as Turris picked up a broken pass at the low right circle and whipped it out front where Ryan swept it in for his 15th of the season at 9:22 of the first.
Buffalo, though, tied the game with 2:21 to play in the first while on the power play, as Ennis took the puck behind the net from the left side to the right where he wrapped it in for his seventh of the season.
The Senators went back on top at 6:39 of the second period. Ryan checked a defender to get the puck then made a move around another Sabre along the left wing. He then fired the puck down low for Turris, who passed it out front and saw the puck go off a defender. However, the disc found its way to the stick of Smith, who shot it home for a 2-1 lead.
Anderson made 13 saves in the second period, then helped Ottawa kill off a pair of penalties in the third, including most of the final two minutes of a 6-on-4 after Milan Michalek was whistled for holding and Buffalo pulled Miller.
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Ottawa hosts Los Angeles on Saturday ... Buffalo welcomes Calgary for a contest on Saturday ... Ottawa has taken two of three from Buffalo this season ... Buffalo was 1-for-5 on the power play, while Ottawa went 0-for-3.


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A true natural wonder
Wider than the Victoria Falls, higher than the famous Niagara Falls – and more beautiful than both: the waterfalls of Iguaçu are simply breathtaking. A visit to the Iguaçu National Park
The thunderous noise of water masses crashing down can be heard from afar. The sound echoes as far as the access road which leads out of Foz do Iguaçu and is open only to authorized buses. The closer you get, the more intense the muffled murmur becomes until it finally turns into a pounding roar.
Travelers from all around the world get out at the fourth bus stop. There is no missing the natural wonder: a tarmac path snakes through the forest, guiding visitors to the sight they have come to see. "It is fascinating, simply every time," says Celine Bohn. The Brazilian music teacher comes from Blumenau, a German town in southern Brazil where her great-grandparents, who were originally from Darmstadt, settled when they emigrated from Germany. Bohn visited the famous waterfalls on the border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay for the first time in 1992 with her three sons. "But once in a lifetime isn't enough", she says. This time she's here with her husband.
Next day they plan to pop over the border for a spot of shopping in neighboring Paraguay, which has lower tax rates. Not far from Foz do Iguaçu there is the largest shopping mall in Latin America, with more than 10,000 stores.
Once in a lifetime is not enough
Cross the Ponte da Amizade, the bridge of friendship, between the two countries and you come to the dilapidated little border town of Ciudad del Este, which attracts groups of tourists, and Brazilians in particular, with tax-free imports.
But before the hunt for bargains commences, everyone's attention turns to the water masses which can be viewed for the comparatively inexpensive sum of around €20. The Cataratas, as the waterfalls are called in Brazil, are wider than the Victoria Falls and higher than the world-famous Niagara Falls. Recently selected as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, there's no doubt that the Cataratas more than deserve this accolade.
In this panoramic cluster of waterfalls with a combined edge length of over 2,700 meters the water plunges down, often from a height of 80 meters, into vast pools. The waterfalls lie at the heart of 185,000 hectares of rainforest on the Brazilian side, with a further 55,000 on the Argentinian side. Over 2,000 protected animal and plant species are native to the Parque National de Iguaçu, which the UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site in 1986.
It takes about two hours to stroll around the waterfalls. Everyone sets out with dry feet, but the further you progress along the trail, the wetter your feet get. The fine, all-pervasive spray not only creates shimmering rainbows, it also gradually soaks clothes and footwear. All those foresighted enough to bring along a rain cape attract envious glances, despite the sweltering heat. A group of Japanese tourists even open up their umbrellas.
Not even umbrellas could protect the intrepid visitors who opt for a boat trip under the waterfalls. What we initially take to be a macabre joke turns out to a completely serious offer by the woman in the office of the small safari tour operator Macuco. For around €70, the company will take visitors to the national park in the state of Paraná as close as it gets to the waterfalls of Iguaçu in a speedboat.
"There is also a ten-minute helicopter round flight", she adds. For the Brazilian equivalent of €250. Most tourists choose to view the waterfalls without a guide from the network of paths and walkways. But for those who want a guide and extras, there is a wide choice available in the park, which is exceptionally well-organized by South American standards. The best option is to walk along the rainforest trail to the shore of the Iguaçu River and then take a tour in a speedboat raft. The sole preparation for this slightly hair-raising trip is to put on a life vest. The skipper gives a few self-explanatory instructions, including "Make sure your camera does not get wet", in Portuguese and English, as most of the guests on board are international. Then off we shoot, at breakneck speed. Past bizarre rock formations and mounds of boulders, the rubber dinghy steers straight towards a waterfall.
The water tumbles down from above and hits the sides of the raft with an almighty crash. It is only thanks to the extra powerful custom engine that the speedboat makes it through the seething whitewater. The vast masses of water cascade down here along a length of two kilometers, and the captain is free to choose where to soak his passengers with a cold shower – one of the 300 waterfalls is always close by. Celine Bohn is one of the passengers being drenched. The Brazilian clings to the American sitting next to her, a complete stranger, as the water trickles down her soaking wet hair and onto her face. "That was an amazing finale!" she cries. After half an hour the dripping passengers are deposited back on dry land.
Every year, over ten million visitors come to see this natural spectacle. Formed during a volcanic eruption and the tectonic shift of the South American continental plate millions of years ago, the so-called Devil's Throat is the main attraction of the Cataratas. It unites fourteen waterfalls and a mind-boggling 13,000 cubic meters of water per second plunge down this chasm. There have been a lot of changes in the park over the past decades. Twenty years ago, Celine Bohm and her family were not able to see down into the gigantic throat of this section of the falls; now, thanks to improved access roads, they can. One literally walks above the water. "A true wonder of the world," she says, as she leaves the waterfalls.


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The disclosure of Rex Ryan's wife-in-Sanchez-jersey-while-Tebowing tattoo could be having its intended effect, even if the effect wasn't specifically intended.
According to Newsday, former Browns and Eagles G.M. Tom Heckert has canceled his interview for the vacant G.M. job in New York.
Bob Glauber of Newsday notes via Twitter that Heckert was concerned about the team's cap situation, and not about having to work with Ryan. There's a chance Heckert, who could be a candidate to join the Chiefs, is merely taking the high road.
Regardless, the wide net that the Jets have cast with the assistance of NFL headhunter Jed Hughes (who if he's being paid by the hour has no incentive to keep the field narrow) may need to get a little wider.


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