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Update 2019
I finally finished my own hexagon quilt just before last Chrismas. I am leaving the older one alone as I consider it to be a historic one.
I've done lots of quilts since 2012, and have posted one or two new pictures on these pages.
I made a Shopkins quilt which involved using lots of photos printed on to fabric for my granddaughter, and I think the Minecraft Quilt I made for my grandson is already mentioned. I thread painted a pheasant for my son for Christmas, and made a little Christmas picture using batiks and black fabric. Too many things to document here, so only a few picked out.
In 2012 I found a part finished hand stitched hexagons quilt that I had begun about 25 years previously. There was an opportunity to go to the Festival of Quilts and I thought perhaps it would inspire me to finish the quilt. It certainly inspired me, but the hand stitched quilt is still unfinished! I have taken to machine quilting like a person obsessed. So far I've made two quilts, the Pirate quilt and the Fairy quilt. These were for my grandchildren, who love them.
This year (2013) I again attended the Festival of Quilts, this time armed with my camera, and took lots of photos for future inspiration. I also became interested in picture quilts, and bought two relevant books, one about adapting from photographs, and the other about the stitchery. Kathleen Matthews signed the latter book for me, which was a nice surprise for me.
Meanwhile my cousin, on hearing that I had taken up quilting, gave me yet another unfinished hand stitched quilt! This we estimated was done by our great grandmother, or possibly great, great grandmother. It is hexagons again, but smaller than my own, and in a purely random pattern (pictured left). It is almost the right size for the top of a single bed, and I am not sure whether to attempt to finish it or leave it as it is. There are a few pieces of fabric with it that have been used in it. It's in patterned cotton, and I now find that I have just missed an exhibition all about the emergence of patterned cottons. However, this quilt has now caused me to take an interest in the research of quilts in general.
I have briefly checked out the family tree, but this in itself does not help to identify which grandmother began the unfinished quilt. I will need to research the cotton material used and attempt to date it. I have no idea where to start with this, which is what I hope to learn.
Now that I am retired, I have been really pleased to discover patchwork and quilting as a way of renewing my interest in sewing.
2014 update:
I visited the 2014 Festival of Quilts, this time my interest was largely in the pictorial quilts.
I visited the Quilt Museum, and the curator, Heather Audin, was kind enough to date the 'grandmother' part coverlet for me. It turns out to be late nineteenth/early twentieth century so it must have been either great grandma as an old lady, or grandma as a child or young lady.
I have now completed my third quilt, a large one 78 inches square, which I quilted and joined in sections. A learning curve! I call it the Roses quilt, and it is for my daughter in law who really wanted a traditional style quilt. It is made mostly from Kath Kidston fabrics.
I am about to embark on the fourth quilt, for my daughter, which will be a very modern pictorial type of quilt. It is black, pink and silver (her choice). Really exciting.
I have now joined the contemporary quilt group section of the guild. I feel that I will be able to be more creative rather than just stitching blocks, and I have a yen to make pictures.
I changed my membership from region 14 to region 10, as it seems more relevant to where I live.
2016 update
I am now more interested in art quilts, though still working through the pieced quilting methods I have not yet tried. I noticed that it is possible to purchase machines to take all the skill out of machine quilting, and I found this rather dispiriting. At least art quilts are original and skilled work.
2017 update
I undertook the Journal quilts challenge last year (Contemporary quilt group section of the Guild), and am doing the same this year. I made a seascape for my January one and I have decided to put it as my header photo. I feel that the journal quilts are a really good way of trying things out on a small scale. This year they are eleven inches square.
I have just finished a Minecraft quilt for my grandson's birthday. He is really thrilled with it, and I am glad I got things right, as I don't do computer games!


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Fundamental project management knowledge and skills are required to successfully manage all types of projects. The practical application of standard project management methodology will be enhanced with a workshop style approach, the use of participant case studies for practical exercises, and a project simulation. This course will follow the guidelines established by the Project Management Institute (PMI) ® and their Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) ®, 6th Edition.
The course will provide the student with the ability to apply project management best practices in initiating, planning, executing, and closing a project. During the workshop sessions, participants will develop a project charter, perform a stakeholder analysis and use it in developing a communication plan, develop a work breakdown structure, and conduct a risk analysis, as well as create a risk register. Additionally, participants will learn effective techniques for monitoring and controlling a project, as well as how to capture project lessons learned.
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Participants will be introduced to project management terminology and the importance of project management of organizations to realize the business benefits for their projects. After selecting the class case studies based on actual participant projects, participants will develop their project governance structure.
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Based on the class case study, participants will identify and analyze project stakeholders, as well as develop a communication plan for each. Afterwards, the attendees will develop a WBS for their case study prior to identifying task dependencies and level of effort estimates for their project schedules.
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Attendees will participate in a quality project competition and continue with the class case studies from the previous two days. Participants will identify, assess, and develop risk strategies for their project and complete a project risk register. Additionally, the importance of project change control will be discussed in detail.
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Participant teams will compete in a project simulation game where the concepts from the previous three days will be put into action. Project planning, risk analysis, resource procurement and management, and the ability to re-plan based on project progress will be the keys to success. Bonuses will not only be awarded for the team that delivers their project first, but also for how well they did according to their planned budget and schedule they submitted.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - is a psychiatric anxiety disorder most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions.
The phrase "obsessive-compulsive" has worked its way into the wider English lexicon, and is often used in an offhand manner to describe someone who is meticulous or absorbed in a cause (see "anal retentive"). Such casual references should not be confused with obsessive-compulsive disorder; see clinomorphism. It is also important to distinguish OCD from other types of anxiety, including the routine tension and stress that appear throughout life. Although these signs are often present in OCD, a person who shows signs of infatuation or fixation with a subject/object, or displays traits such as perfectionism, does not necessarily have OCD, a specific and well-defined condition.
Yes, but I know I have OCD for sure and I am proud of it. Just refer to the picture above. Yesterday, I got an email from Wandering Chopsticks concerning a VERY IMPORTANT matter: the main difference between all the various Maggi seasoning sauces from different parts of the world – which inspires me to write this posting. On a side note, before I went to Mexico, I thought all Maggi sauces tasted the same. And I couldn't be more wrong. I'm sure my fellow foodies, Steamy Kitchen and Guilty Carnivore, would also agree!
First a little history about this sauce that most people incorrectly refer to as a variation of soy sauce – its wheat. Maggi is a Swiss company well known for producing dehydrated stock cubes, instant noodles and soups since 1872. The Maggi family sold most of its products to factory workers who were too poor, occupied by long hours of work and for people that weren't getting enough nutrition in their food. They made headlines with the invention of the bouillon cube. For the impoverished, a simple soup could be made with leftover vegetables, some water and 2-3 cubes of Maggi's bouillon cubes. And today, the most popular product is the seasoning sauce, which is sold in a dark brown bottle with a thick, yellow cap. A few dashes in your soup, steak or eggs, and you're food is taken to another level. Is it healthy? Probably not. Even the bottle warns you to 'add just a few drops'. They aren't kidding because you're dealing with some serious sodium levels. For sure it has monosodium glutamate, but damn, it's good. My favorite way of eating this is over fried eggs with a few dashes of Sriracha. In fact, I'll have some now...
Ok, I'm back from eating my Maggi eggs. *Sigh* So good. Anyway, I just wanted to share with everyone one of the many outlets for my OCD. I started collecting Maggi seasonings after I had lunch with a Chicago-based foodie of Polish descent. We met for lunch at Mien Nghia one day in Chinatown, and as a gift, he brought me a bottle of Polish Maggi. You could imagine my surprise when I learned that Asians weren't the only ones to share this lovely sauce. The label was printed completely in Polish and the only thing that I understood was the distinctly shaped red cap w/ the pinpoint spout and dark brown glass. I asked if I could open it and try it out. I ripped off the seal and used my fingernail to pry open the tiny cap. I looked at the tiny spout, meant for minimal dashing upon food, and dabbed a little on my finger. I then took a whiff expecting it to smell familiar – but it was different... almost stronger and more sour. I brought my finger to my mouth and tasted it. Wow. Delicious and completely different than the sauce that sat in the kitchen of my parents' house since the day I was born. Right then, I knew that I wanted to try all of the Maggi seasonings of the world. Refer back to the definition of OCD at the top of the posting if you've suddenly forgotten what this posting is about.
The Maggi Family Portrait, from Left to Right
A. Maggi Inglesa from Mexico - tastes like a dumbed-down version of Worcestershire Sauce. I don't recommend it, go with Worcestershire Sauce.
B. Maggi Garlic Seasoning from Manila - probably my 2nd favorite Maggi that I own. Has a great garlic punch that I've used on fried eggs and food revived by the microwave oven. I bought this at the filipino market, Seafood City. I highly recommend!
C. Grandpa Maggi from My Mom's House - that is the largest size allowed by the FDA because of its potency. Anything larger than that can be categorized as a weapon of mass destruction to your kidneys. It takes a LONG time to use up this Costco-sized Maggi. If you've used up more than 5 of those in your lifetime, you're probably already dead and have somehow managed to catch free wireless in heaven to read this posting. This is the version you'll find at any Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai market. I don't think Koreans or Japanese use this sauce – it's a Southeast Asian thing. Even my relatives with the worst English comprehension know the word Maggi – pronounced "mack-key". Overall, it's very light in color and taste compared to its international cousins.
D. Maggi Jugo from Mexico (Spicy) - jugo is spanish for 'juice', or in this context, 'sauce'. I was overjoyed when I saw the icon of a chili pepper on this mini Maggi bottle. It definitely has a little spice to it, but I could use about 10x more picante. In Latin American cooking, Maggi is used mostly with soups (caldos) and braised stews such as posole, caldo de mariscos and machaca shredded beef. Mexican Maggi is WAY different than any Maggi sauce I have tasted – it is extremely thick, rich and dark. It's as dark as oil from a car that's 8,000 miles behind on an oil change – like mine. We put 2 drops on a tortilla chip, and the taste sustained for a few seconds. Awesome.
E. Maggi Jugo from Mexico (Plain) - this one has an icon of a pan boiling some food. I don't know what to infer from it? Again, it is thick and rich but not as good as the spicy version.
F. Maggi Jugo from Mexico (Soy Sauce) - this one had an icon of a sushi roll and it is what it is – soy sauce. Tastes like Kikkoman.
G. Maggi from Germany - at nearly $20 a bottle, this is the bourdeaux of Maggi Sauces. Freaking expensive but worth the money – it tastes better than Asian Maggi. I would trade this for a bottle of Mexican Maggi.
H. Maggi Jugo from Mexico (Lime) - it is what it is, Maggi with a dash of lime. Think of it as Maggi Sauce on vacation in Mexico, drinking a Corona on a white sand beach. If you don't have limes to go with your Mexican soup, this would do just fine. Tastes great on tortilla chips too!
I. Maggi from Poland - Poland gets the Silver Medal in the Maggi Olympics, closely behind Mexico and with a good lead ahead of Manila's Garlic Maggi. Sharp and pungent, this is a lapdance for your tongue. Love it, thanks again to ErikM. I use this SPARINGLY.
J. Maggi from France (Not Pictured) - this isn't pictured for a simple reason... I have it at work! Many coworkers give me the "WTF" look when I pull this out and douse my food with it. J gave me this as a gift and I love that she wants to destroy my kidneys. The French version is a little more concentrated than the Asian Maggi and has more taste in my opinion than the German version.
Here at Eat, Drink & Be Merry, we only discuss SERIOUS global issues like this. If you've tried an international version of Maggi, share your thoughts on this destructive yet delicious sauce. I've heard that Ethiopian cuisine employs a lot of Maggi Sauce, yummy. By the way, more evidence of the Maggi brand in other countries. Tonight, J & I watched the Jamaica episode of No Reservations and guess what we see in the background...
Thanks to Charlene Collins for this awesome photo of Maggi real estate. Has escrow closed on that? If not, I'm bidding $500 on that.
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Following are the questions submitted to the qualified voters of New Hampshire on November 3, 1998, together with the votes on each question:
(Questions Proposed by the 1997 General Court)
Question 1: Are you in favor of amending the constitution to provide that the minimum age requirement for state senator shall be changed from 30 to 25 years of age? (Passed by the N.H. House 323 Yes 29 No; Passed by State Senate 15 Yes 6 No) CACR22
Yes 119,104 No 169,439
Question 2: Are you in favor of amending the constitution to make it more inclusive by changing specific references to the governor and other people to gender neutral terms? (Passed by the N.H. House 303 Yes 26 No; Passed by State Senate 24 Yes 0 No) CACR18
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Scientists' annual survey found an area of 5,052 square miles of "low oxygen water," or hypoxia, off much of Louisiana's coast and part of Texas, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.
The zone is formed by nutrients that wash into the Gulf's waters -- largely agriculture fertilizer and wastewater coming down the Mississippi River. These boost algae blooms that suck up the oxygen in deep water, according to NOAA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Marine life struggles to find enough oxygen to survive within the zone.
Fish and shrimp can migrate to areas with oxygen-rich water, but some life forms in the deep water and ocean floor -- including those that serve as food for the fish and shrimp -- can't get out of the zone and eventually die.
That hurts biodiversity and makes food hard to come by for the fish and shrimp when they return, said the survey's leader, Nancy Rabalais, executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Scientists first discovered a dead zone in these waters in 1972, and it has appeared ever spring and summer since, with varying sizes.
This year's dead zone, measured from July 27 to August 2, is smaller than the five-year average of 5,550 square miles, and well under 2002's record 8,481 square miles.
But scientists had set a goal of reducing the zone to 1,900 square miles by 2015 -- and this year's measurement likely means that target won't be met, Rabalais said.
"The average we're targeting against is three times the goal. ... There hasn't been any progress in reaching that goal," she said.
Ways to shrink the zone, she said, would include changing agricultural practices, including the timing of fertilization -- ideas that have worked well on the small scale but not, so far, on the large.
There's been no evidence to show that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 had any contribution to that year's dead zone or any subsequent one, Rabalais said.
The survey is supported by NOAA and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is the world's second-largest caused by humans, Rabalais said. The largest is in the Baltic Sea.
"The number of dead zones throughout the world has been increasing in the last several decades and currently totals over 550," Rabalais said.
Dead zones amount to an expensive hit for America's fishing industry. NOAA estimates the annual cost of algae blooms to U.S. seafood and tourism industries at $82 million or more.


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For example, dimensions might include time, volatility, space, distance, density, etc. -- basically any measurement that's able to be tied to another measurement.
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Ledgewood is a 123-bed facility providing advanced, patient
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Dear Brush School District Community,
Dear Brush School District Community,
This week arriving in the mail, the Board of Education and Administration of the Brush School District is requesting your feedback on a potential property tax increase called a Mill Levy Override (MLO). This one-page document mailed to 4,581 registered voters provides an overview of the District's finances and the current recommendation for using increased funding. We are providing a 5 question survey for you to complete and return. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call, email, or visit the District Office.
Colorado School Finance is funded by a mix of property taxes, specific ownership taxes, and the state share (funded by income and sales taxes). For the upcoming 2013-2014 school year, 56.3% of total program funding comes from the local share and 43.6% comes from the state.
Since 2010, the legislature implemented a negative factor and cut the District's state share by a combined $6.2 million through next year. On average, this cut is over $1,000 per child per year for four years! In order to recover a portion of this reduced state funding and provide adequate opportunities for our students, the District proposes a $1.5 million increase in property taxes.
Property tax example:
School Levy Purpose 2012-2013 2013-2014 estimate
General Fund 27.001 27.000
Current MLO 2.194 2.084
Bond Redemption 7.340 7.340
Full Day Kindergarten 1.371 1.302
New MLO 0 7.813
Total 37.906 45.539
Actual Value Home $100,000 $100,000
Assessed value (7.96%) $7,960 $7,960
Property Taxes $301.73 $362.49
Increase $60.76
Per Month $5.06
The mill levy proposal provides funding in three key areas:
SCHOOL SAFETY: Continuing to provide safe and secure education environment utilizing cameras, keyless entries, and vestibule entries; providing School Resource Officers ("SROs") at each school to work as educators and facilitate security
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: Recovering a portion of reduced state funding to increase concurrent enrollment opportunities at Morgan Community College; Expand research-based best practices through intervention, Gifted and Talented, extended learning, and family counseling
TECHNOLOGY: Recovering a portion of reduced state funding to increase distance-learning opportunities; Update and provide mobile computing carts and provide computers for on-line state assessments
We look forward to receiving your survey. Please call, email, or visit the District with questions.
Dr. Michelle Johnstone
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A judge on Monday signed off on an agreement settling an ownership dispute over the Rev. Martin Luther King's traveling Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal that had essentially pitted the slain civil rights leader's two sons against their sister.
King's three surviving children — Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King and Bernice King — are the sole shareholders and directors of the estate. Dexter is president and CEO and Martin is chairman of the board.
During a board of directors meeting in January 2014, the brothers voted 2-1 against their sister to sell the two artifacts to an unnamed private buyer. The items had long been in Bernice's possession, and the estate filed suit about a week later asking a judge to order her to surrender them.
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Bernice King said at the time that the idea of selling two of their father's most cherished items was unthinkable. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The Bible was his personal traveling Bible and was used by President Barack Obama during his second inauguration in January 2013.
A lawyer representing the estate said during a hearing in February 2014 that the brothers voted to sell the two items because the estate needed money.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in February 2014 ordered that the items be placed in a safe deposit box with the keys controlled by the court. In an order signed Monday, McBurney said the keys to that safe deposit box are to be turned over to Martin as chairman of the estate's board and that the bank is to release the Bible, Nobel medal and its accompanying certificate and box to him.
McBurney earlier this summer ruled that the Bible belonged to the estate, a decision Bernice's lawyers were appealing. A trial on the question of ownership of the Nobel medal had been set to begin Monday.
The consent order signed by McBurney does not indicate what will happen to the two items once they are released to Martin.
The dispute over the Bible and Nobel medal was originally set to go to trial in February 2015, but McBurney halted all action in the case to give the two sides a chance to talk and see if they could resolve their differences outside of court. Lawyers for both sides told the judge in May 2015 that they were close to an agreement but not quite there, and McBurney ordered mediation at the request of Bernice's attorneys.
Former President Jimmy Carter in October confirmed he was working as a mediator in the case.
McBurney said at a hearing in June that he had been willing to allow the long delays in the case because the issues at stake are very important. But he added that it's vital for the court to keep pending cases moving.
He issued an order dated July 1 ruling that the Bible belonged to the estate, but he said the issue of ownership of the peace prize medal would proceed to trial because "genuine issues of material fact" remained.
The case was the latest in a string of legal disputes that have divided the slain civil rights icon's children in recent years.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. His widow, Coretta Scott King, died in 2006. Yolanda King, the Kings' eldest child, died in 2007.


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Hi, first post, but I'll try to repay the favor by hanging around and helping others if someone solves this problem for me
I'm working on a project for a conferenceware program and I now need to know how to draw a JComponent to any spot on the screen. My first lead from Google was the CellRendererPane, which worked fine.... If I had of wanted to draw a rectangle. The paintComponent method didn't do anything, much less tell me if something was wrong. So I went searching again and stumbled across SwingUtilities.paintComponent. This one told me something was wrong, but gave me nothing to fix it. It threw a NullPointerException about a CellRendererPane, which left me wondering if it would have worked anyway.
tl;dr: Anyone have some sample code I can have a look at? This may need to include some initialisation code that would be easy to miss (at this stage I'm just constructing the components and chucking it through the methods). Any help at all would be appreciated, as I really don't want to have to write this thing from scratch


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About the only thing this Shaft remake has in common with the original Richard Roundtree cop classic is that great Isaac Hayes theme song and similar funky score (and Roundtree pops up in a supporting role in this one). Both Shafts are swinging ladies men and both have to deal with race issues being African-American cops in a hostile world and working with a corrupt police force. What makes the remake stand out as more than just a serviceable late night TV time killer is the presence of two great unlikely villains teaming up, played by two great actors, Christian Bale and Jeffrey Wright, working at their scenery chewing best.
The original Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks is usually unjustly labeled "blaxploitation," but it's degrading because Shaft was actually much closer in class and style to an acclaimed crime film like The French Connection than say, some jive like Superfly. Shaft became a minor cultural phenomenon, birthing two decent sequels and even a short-lived television series. The inevitable remake comes 30 years later, and though it might not have delivered as a franchise starter, it does deliver perfectly as a solid action guilty pleasure.Continue Reading


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Making Your World Flat Again: Much Ado About No Follow
PageRank Sculpting Dead? (Not Exactly)
With all the chatter over the last week and half over "rel=nofollow" and Matt Cutts' statement about the link attribute, I think it's time to weigh in on it. There are a few great post that should be considered required reading before reading this post:
- Rand Fishkin's latest: Google Says: Yes, You Can Still Sculpt PageRank. No You Can't Do It With Nofollow
- The Gypsy's (David Harry) latest: SEOs Are Not Criminals
Is "nofollow" Worth Using Anymore?
After listening and reading hours of material from everyone and anyone, my consensus is no. Additionally, I've also started to notice that "nofollow" has stopped it LinkJuice drafting ways on numerous sites I work on. Not to mention Matt sounds quite serious about the levying penalties for sites employing nofollow to sculpt and/or restrict content as a means to "manipulate" PageRank. And, remember, you are an "enemy" to engines.
What Matt Cutts Has To Say About Nofollow
Q: Does this mean "PageRank sculpting" (trying to change how PageRank flows within your site using e.g. nofollow) is a bad idea?
A: I wouldn't recommend it, because it isn't the most effective way to utilize your PageRank. In general, I would let PageRank flow freely within your site. The notion of "PageRank sculpting" has always been a second- or third-order recommendation for us. I would recommend the first-order things to pay attention to are 1) making great content that will attract links in the first place, and 2) choosing a site architecture that makes your site usable/crawlable for humans and search engines alike.
There may be a minuscule number of pages (such as links to a shopping cart or to a login page) that I might add nofollow on, just because those pages are different for every user and they aren't that helpful to show up in search engines. But in general, I wouldn't recommend PageRank sculpting.
Additionally, there's this nifty NEW tag that Google created a while back called the "rel=canonical", which should help the majority of sites out there with duplicate content issues.
How To Sculpt Without Nofollow:
Rand posted some good methods for sculpting, which work, but it feels unnecessarily sneaky to me. A better way is to allow, as Matt Cutts suggests, to allow your PageRank to flow freely. Interconnectivity (internal site link structure) is a key element here. You want your site to have a "flat architecture", and even though it may not be. It's really a play off the Bruce Clay method of siloing, but ensuring that major sections of the site become visible through an internal linking structure. This allows those pages to, if the practice holds, to share and share-alike the PageRank while only giving minimal amounts to other site areas.
And, yes, removing the nofollows will be a pain in the ass, but it's one that worth it. And, yes, I really don't like that Google went back on their word with this attribute. But to put it in perspective: "It's Google's World. I just live in it." And, that's the fact. I'm an enemy combatant.


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School boards make decisions that greatly influence the education students receive, yet some school board members know very little about curriculum, brain research, child development, or what is going on state-wide, nationally, or internationally in schools.
In Maine we value local control of our schools and we are reluctant to cede decision-making authority to bureaucrats. We prefer that decisions be made by school boards in our own towns – or at the very least in consolidated school districts.
I have spent some time recently reading about 21st century learning skills and I came away from my research really worried about the state of education in many schools in Maine.
Christopher Dede, a Harvard professor who sits on the Massachusetts 21st Century Skills Task Force, remarked: You can't just sprinkle 21st century skills on the 20th century doughnut. It requires a fundamental reconception of what we're doing.
Many school leaders across the nation and beyond are tackling what it means to transform schools – however most in Maine are not. This should matter to all of us in this state, because students who grow up in schools focused on 21st century skills will clearly have an advantage in adulthood over those who do not. We want our children as well-educated as those in other towns, states, and nations.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a coalition supported by the US Government and founded in 2002 to start a national dialogue intended to move the nation's schools forward, states:
Mastery of core subjects and 21st century themes is essential for students in the 21st century. Core subjects include:
English, reading or language arts
World languages
Government and Civics
In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency in core subjects to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into core subjects:
Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy
Most descriptions of a 21st century education also include reference to: creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, and comfort with technology. Diane Ravitch, noted education historian, specifies: an understanding of history, civics, geography, mathematics, and science, so they may comprehend unforeseen events and act wisely; the ability to speak, write, and read English well; mastery of a foreign language; engagement in the arts, to enrich their lives; close encounters with great literature, to gain insight into timeless dilemmas and the human condition; a love of learning, so they continue to develop their minds when their formal schooling ends; self-discipline, to pursue their goals to completion; ethical and moral character; the social skills to collaborate fruitfully with others; the ability to use technology wisely; the ability to make and repair useful objects, for personal independence; and the ability to play a musical instrument, for personal satisfaction.
Many Maine school districts mention 21st century skills in their mission statements and strategic plans – yet most of our plans of study, and classrooms, remain essentially as they were half a century ago. We have adopted the rhetoric of school change while remaining fundamentally unchanged.
School boards, administrators, and teachers all contribute to setting the direction of a school district, however a district's school board is the final decision-maker. If we want the less forward-thinking of our schools in Maine to catch up to those many years ahead of us in the direction of positive school change, we need school board members who are familiar with the educational landscape outside their own towns.
I suggest that potential candidates for school board should be required to visit exemplary schools in Maine and elsewhere before announcing their candidacy. They should be asked to share with the electorate their vision of excellent schools and their ideas for how to help schools achieve that vision. They should be required to demonstrate an informed engagement with topics in the national educational dialogue.
Decisions made by school boards impact the lives of students in their care. Those decisions should be based on knowledge about education. I urge school boards to adopt policies that will guarantee rigorous debate and informed decision-making.


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"I wrote a love song using only Pokémon puns," reads the Reddit entry for YouTube user HelloIamDanica's pocket monster-stuffed ukulele ballad. There are several words in that sentence I would normally avoid, but her music has moved me, and I think it could move Mewtwo.
Oh god, it's infectious!
Sure it's incredibly corny, but there's something inescapably charming about a woman strumming a tiny guitar. And while yes, the lyrics are embarrassingly cutesy, I must admit: had someone written and performed this for me I would be so completely overcome with emotion there'd be glistening eyes and happy tears.
And then we'd totally Togepi. No, I do not know what that means.
Pokemon Love Song [YouTube via Reddit]


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Perhaps no one feels more strongly about the prospect of changes to Social Security than people ages 50 and older - and in Arkansas, a new survey confirms it.
AARP asked 800 Arkansans if Social Security even should be part of the discussion about reducing the federal budget deficit. Eighty-six percent said "no," which mirrors the results of the same survey in other states.
"Social Security's gotten mixed in with deficit reduction," said senior Frank Hatfield. "Social Security didn't cause the deficit, and I think it should be looked at separately from trying to reduce our deficit."
One proposal included in President Obama's budget would change the way the annual cost-of-living adjustment is calculated for benefits, using a method called the "chained CPI" (Consumer Price Index). It would ultimately reduce the amounts people receive, and Cristina Martin-Firvida, AARP's director of financial security and consumer affairs, said three out of four people surveyed in Arkansas oppose it.
"We saw very strong opposition," she said, "specifically when we asked, 'What about this idea of a chained CPI, which is a way to change the way we calculate the inflation adjustment for your Social Security benefit or your veterans benefit.' "
A majority - from 68 percent of Republicans to 73 percent of Democrats - said they'll rethink whether to support their members of Congress if they vote to approve the chained CPI adjustment.
Martin-Firvida said people's political affiliations didn't seem to matter in the survey. The view, she said, was, "Hands off Social Security, and handle any negotiations separately from the deficit debate." "That held true across party lines," she said. "We saw 85 percent of Republicans agree that Social Security should not be affected for deficit reduction."
The survey was conducted two weeks ago. AARP Arkansas officials said the results aren't surprising, since more than half of Arkansans on Social Security depend on it for at least half of their income.
The survey results are online at aarp.org/colasurvey.


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A Canning Party
Written onDecember 01 , 2011
The canning party began innocently enough. One young mother, living far from her own mother, wanted to learn how to preserve her garden's bounty. Casually, at church, she asked if she could come help me can. We set up a time, and Sarah and I spent a happy couple of hours pressure-canning green beans.
Sarah has friends. Many friends. She and her husband lead the Navigator Christian Fellowship at the University of Vermont, where Sarah discovered that at least three or four of the students in their group also wanted to learn some old-timey food preservation skills. Could they all come at once, Sarah wondered, and turn it into a canning workshop? I agreed, and we set a date at my house in early September. The students would harvest and can, I'd teach, and in the end I'd serve them all a turkey dinner with everything but the biscuit ingredients and salt coming from our own little Jericho homestead.
The day came. I typed up three pages of basic instructions and general recipes, and printed out six copies. On a dry-erase board, I listed vegetables that were ready to harvest and one or two options for the preservation of each.
By the appointed hour of 3:00 p.m. almost all of the students were there. One of them, walking up the driveway, introduced herself, then sheepishly confessed that she'd brought a friend and hoped that was all right. Other students brought friends, too. I had mentioned the workshop to one of my own friends, and she'd been so intrigued that she wanted to come, too. Come, she did—with a friend. Later, the friend of the friend asked if she could call her husband. Another student wanted to call her husband, too. In the end, there were 13 of us in a 10-by-12-foot kitchen, with spillovers into the dining and living rooms.
We presented the harvest list and invited the students to choose what they'd like to pick. The bush beans had been neglected and really needed to be harvested. There were several green and red cabbages of good size, plus leeks, turnips, kale, garlic, beets, chives, carrots, bell peppers, hot peppers, cucumbers, oregano, cilantro, parsley, sage, rosemary, and, of course, thyme. We took a tour of the garden and I handed out large bowls.
My husband, Reed, set up a pre-wash station for the root vegetables outside on a folding table. Everybody washed their harvest, came inside, and started following the written instructions. Within minutes, the house rang with talking, laughing, washing, peeling, chopping, slicing, pounding, simmering, snipping, plucking, packing things into jars, and spreading herbs on trays. I mostly ran around getting pots, pans, bowls, jars, and lids, finding extra ingredients, answering questions, and orchestrating a fine balance of timing. The beets had to be boiled while the beans were being washed; and the beans had to be out of the pressure-canner before the beets were ready to go in, but the cucumbers had to be washed before the beans, lest the pickle makers stood by twiddling their thumbs while waiting for sink space. There were harvest bowls to empty and wash so they could cool hot beets, and the beet pot would soon be needed for cooking the garlic jelly. (One brave soul decided to try garlic jelly.)
The students were on it. An assembly line morphed into being. When seven jars were full of beans, we poured boiling water over them, put on the lids, and started up the pressure canner amid reassurances that the modern units do not tend to explode like the old-fashioned ones. Meanwhile, on one corner of the dining table, three students chopped cabbages, leeks, carrots, a turnip, and some peppers to be preserved by lacto-fermentation.
On another corner of the dining table, our intrepid garlic jelly maker peeled clove after clove after clove. You know how it is when you get to talking: I'd set a whole bowlful of garlic bulbs in front of her and, before she knew it, she had peeled enough garlic to make 60 half-pint jars of jelly. She decided she'd better not make that much, but the extra peeled garlic was not a problem. Much of it went into the lacto-fermentation mix, and the rest we roasted in the oven and froze for later on.
In the living room, Reed and several students sat around the coffee table, enjoying one another's company as they snipped chives into bits or plucked herb leaves off their stems. We used to have an electric food dehydrator, but we gave it away. Now, we use the solar dehydrator out in the driveway. Said dehydrator also happens to be the family car, but when it's just sitting there in the sun with the windows closed, it does a fine job drying herbs.
Back in the kitchen, the second batch of beans was under pressure in the canner, and the cooked beets went into a bath of cold water to slip their skins. (The skins are certainly edible and full of vitamins, but they turn tough in the pickling process. I put them aside to feed to the chickens.) Armed with a simple recipe, the students boiled up a syrup of vinegar, sugar, and spices. While it cooked, they sliced the beets into hot jars.
Speaking of vinegar and sugar, did I mention cucumbers? The pickle students opted to make both sweet pickles and dill. The small cucumbers went into a gallon jar to be covered with a cold solution of water, vinegar, and salt—an age-old, crock-pickling recipe. (That's all there is to it. Dump them in and wait three weeks.) The long, Asian cucumbers became sweet sandwich slices with onions and a little garlic thrown in, seeing as we had extra. That required a boiled syrup, too, but the students finished making it just in time to wash the pan and turn it over to the students who needed it for pickling beets.
Amid the craziness, we ran out of vinegar. Reed had to make a run to the store for more. I got the turkey started in the oven, boiled potatoes as soon as a pot was empty and clean, and baked biscuits beside the roasting garlic.
When it was finally time to eat, we stood to survey our handi-work: a gallon and a half of sauerkraut, 12 quarts of green beans, 2 quarts of canned beets, 10 pints of pickled beets, 8 pints of sweet sandwich pickles, half a gallon of crock pickles, 2 trays of drying herbs, and 8 half-pints of garlic jelly.
Talk around the dinner table turned from enthusiastic and cheerful to enthusiastic and serious. Several students wanted to start a homesteading club, noting that with the imminent decline of oil as we know it, we're all going to have to know a lot more about raising and preserving our own foods. The students noted that one day's canning barely put a dent in what we still had growing out in our garden. Reed and I feed ourselves year-round with the vegetables we grow ourselves, and we only have two-thirds of an acre—in town, yet! The same was true years ago with teenage children still living at home. We're not self-sufficient by any means, but we do grow an awful lot. We get protein from homegrown dry beans and our free-ranging chickens and turkeys. More than half our fruit comes from berries on our property. Ten percent of the grain we eat comes from grinding the flint corn that grows well in the sunniest spots in our garden. If our transportation infrastructure should collapse, we might be hungry, but we would not starve.
The guests stayed to talk until about 9:30 p.m., leaving behind a clean kitchen with all the dishes hand-washed, towel-dried, and put away. Reed and I were grateful for the students' help. The students appreciated what they'd learned. We all enjoyed the local dinner and the sharing of ideas. Certainly, the success of the event rested largely on being organized and keeping things moving, but the most valuable ingredients turned out to be flexibility and an unwavering sense of humor.
The canning party did more than impart a few skills. It also left us with the confidence that greener, more sustainable living is not only possible but satisfying and fun. The UVM students may not be able to go back to their dorm rooms and grow carrots, but the knowledge will be there for them like a good jar of garden beans, ready to be opened and enjoyed, just as soon as the time is right.
Photo courtesy of Chris Sims
Good-by, and Keep Cold
by Robert Frost
This saying good-by on the edge of the dark
And cold to an orchard so young in the bark
Reminds me of all that can happen to harm
An orchard away at the end of the farm
All winter, cut off by a hill from the house.
I don't want it girdled by rabbit and mouse,
I don't want it dreamily nibbled for browse
By deer, and I don't want it budded by grouse.
(If certain it wouldn't be idle to call
I'd summon grouse, rabbit, and deer to the wall
And warn them away with a stick for a gun.)
I don't want it stirred by the heat of the sun.
(We made it secure against being, I hope,
By setting it out on a northerly slope.)
No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.
"How often already you've had to be told,
Keep cold, young orchard. Good-by and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
I have to be gone for a season or so.
My business awhile is with different trees,
Less carefully nourished, less fruitful than these,
And such as is done to their wood with an axe—
Maples and birches and tamaracks.
I wish I could promise to lie in the night
And think of an orchard's arboreal plight
When slowly (and nobody comes with a light)
Its heart sinks lower under the sod.
But something has to be left to God.
"Good-by and Keep Cold" from the book, The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright ©1923, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright ©1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.


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- Asking the kids questions that you don't think they can answer, and listening carefully to the wise things that they say.
- When running errands downtown, let your toddlers walk as slow as they want to. Bask in the joy they have for all Life.
- Encourage the kids to get Dirty ~ mud, paint, playdough.
- Then let them do water play in the kitchen sink.
Four years ago, I wanted so badly to find peace and calm, and to let go of the terrible anxiety that plagued me. I suffered. And then I punished myself for not being able to be "normal". This blog saved me, and helped me learn to accept myself, my situation at any given moment, and my new role as Mommy. I see now how terribly hard I was on myself. But I will tell you honestly, I am so grateful for the opportunities I was given in the gift of those hard times. I lived through those feelings and moments. I faced the darkest, most bitter, angry and frustrated version of myself, and I am okay now - and my kids are okay too. When I had the kind of day that made me throw up my hands and surrender, that is when I truly started to touch on the lessons I was being taught.
Now that I am on the other side of that suffering, I rejoice every day, and revel in the loveliness of my life! I feel so much better these days, and I'm reflecting today on the long journey that it's been from the start of this blog. When I created the title "Woman At Peace", it was a faint wish, a signal to the Universe for what I wanted so badly. I am so happy to report that I actually do feel at peace most days ... I feel happy, purposeful and connected. I feel that I want to spread Joy and Love to as many people as I can, and I feel blessed that I can reach people through my yoga classes. I feel privileged and honoured to be where I am, but I also know how hard I have worked to get to this place. I read somewhere recently about the revelation of Bliss as being obvious ... and to a point, I agree with the idea of happiness being an effortless state. However, one needs to be at a place in their mind and heart where they are free to enjoy that obvious state. The best way that we can fully experience the state of bliss is by knowing what the opposite extreme feels like. Anger, fear, mistrust, frustration, anxiety, worry, sadness ... they are all portals to joy.
Now, it is with mixed feelings that I announce that I am finally wrapping up this blog. I will still write, of course, but it will be on my new website: www.nicolearacki.com
It has been an incredible journey, and I feel sadness at letting it go, but it is definitely time for me to move on. I started this blog so that I could air my feelings through my writing, and so that I could have a record of the journey I was on. You can still read the articles here, as I will not be disabling the blog. Comments will still be open.
Thank you to those who supported me just by reading. Some of you I'll never meet, and I'll never even know that you read my blog, but I felt you on some level - I know I did.
The light in me sees the light in you ~ Namaste, Nicole


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GEORGIA – 13 Jul, 2017 – The common refrain in the on-demand transportation space is that drivers are not being compensated properly and as a result there is a very high churn rate in the industry. Support from the public is being sort from drivers to complete a survey found here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/researchondrivers The results from the survey will help to provide scientific evidence to underpin the case for a change of strategy by current players in the industry.
It is understood that one of the big issues in the current deployed Transport Network Companies (TNCs) models is that of poor vehicle/driver utilization rates. This became a topic of interest to Mr. Michael Treasure while pursuing his Doctoral degree program research at the George Washington University in the area of on demand transportation and the usage of autonomous vehicle in the ride sharing space. This interest lead Mr. Treasure to have personally carried out, in the Atlanta market, over 1,250 rides on both Uber's & Lyft's platforms. In carrying out these rides Mr. Treasure carefully and methodologically documented each ride, collecting data such as total miles driven on each ride, the portion of the ride in which the rider was present, unloaded miles and the wait times between rides.
The results from his research carried out on the data shows that the average loaded trip miles by a vehicle/driver was 8.87 miles, while the average unloaded trip mile was 4.21 miles. The conclusion from this was that a vehicle/driver unloaded miles per trip relative to loaded miles per trip was approximately 47.46%. That is, for every 8.87 miles driven with a passenger the vehicle/driver traveled 4.21 miles without a passenger. Additionally, his analysis showed that the average ride time of a loaded trip was 18.51 minutes, while the average wait time for the next ride was 23.66 minutes. The conclusion Mr. Treasure drew from analysis of the data was that on average, in any given period of a vehicle's/driver's work shift, the vehicle/driver spent more time waiting for the next ride than spent giving a rider a ride.
These two results combined and highlighted in his research meant that that the vehicle/driver utilization rates, measured in loaded miles relative to unloaded miles and trip time relative to wait time, were approximately 52% and 48% respectively. These poor utilization rates revelation led Mr. Treasure to conclude that there were significant improvement potentials to be had in the TNC model for vehicle/driver utilization rates.
How does Mr. Treasure's results translate to driver earnings with existing TNCs? He was able to use the data to develop a model to determine, for example, if one was interested in finding the average day's revenue for 150 loaded miles travelled with 300 minutes of trip time for that day, a driver would earn $133.30. However, from the calculated utilization rates, it would have meant that the vehicle/driver would have amassed for the day another 138 unloaded miles and 398 minutes of wait time. Looked at in another context, this would have meant that the vehicle/driver would have had an 11 hour and 38 minutes' work day, driving more than 288 miles for the day, which would translate to less than 12/hr. in gross revenue or approximately $0.46/mile. These poor results would in part explain why drivers are grossly unhappy with their earnings, majority just work a few hours per week and why there is such high churn rates in the industry.
Mr. Treasure's hypothesis is that a TNC, with focus on optimizing revenue/hr., minimizing vehicle unloaded miles and minimizing vehicle wait time, will be able to achieve better utilization rates, and provide drivers with a much more equitable revenue share. This would then lead to the vehicle/driver pool levels used in a TNC model to be rebalanced to longer term workers and better vehicle utilization, which will lower the aggregate pool level of vehicles needed to satisfy ridership demand. Such a strategy will be essential to a TNC's profitability in augmenting drivers with autonomous vehicle deployment.
To scientifically test his hypothesis, Mr. Treasure has taken a two-prong strategy. First, he is conducting a driver survey to help established whether drivers, if compensated better, and without TNCs having to increase their effective pay out rate to drivers, would be willing to work longer hours and for longer periods. The survey may be found here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/researchondrivers. Second, he has developed an algorithm to solve the utilization problem and has founded a company along with his cofounders to commercially demonstrate, at scale, the viability of his hypothesis. This new TNC commercial model has been deployed under the brand Lymousine (www.Lymousine.com).
If this is an area of interest to you and you want to see improvements in the structure of the compensation relationship between drivers and ride sharing companies then if you are a driver, we invite you to please take the survey here https://www.surverymoneky.com/r/researchondrivers. If you are a rider and is interested in helping to support a better compensation structure for riders then visit www.Lymousine.com to learn more.
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Coupling is easily my favourite. A brilliant demonstration of gender difference, with a number of insightful observations (which are hilarious because they are so true). For example, anyone who has ever seen someone telling a lie would be familiar with "the prickles, the blurts and the headlaugh."
And as well as all that clever and witty stuff, there's some just plain hilarious randomness, such as the otter line.
Haha yeah, brilliant.
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Inside the Actor's Studio
South Park (Not on Indian television but I have all seasons)
BBC's Talking Movies
A lot of stuff on Discovery Travelling and Living
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"This tournament is a joke. Grass is for cows, I'm never coming back." - Marat Safin
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Most Adult Swim shows
Law & Order: SVU
CSI: Miami
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
House M.D.
Some others I can't think of.
Greg & Dharma
War At Home
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Grey's Anatomy
And just about any reality show.
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Another great episode of 24. Incredible program and totally surpasses anything atm.
I watched the pilot of Dexter last night and thought it was very good.
Anyone else seen it?
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Nitrates and Phosphates and Algae, Oh My!
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project.
Summary and Learning Objectives
Human-induced nutrient loading of the world's oceans has been linked to increased and prolonged algae blooms, sometimes with potentially deadly consequences. In this investigation, students will create their own algal blooms, analyze satellite images of chlorophyll concentrations in the Sea of Cortés, and learn about two alarming consequences of excessive algae growthdead zones and harmful algae blooms (HABs).
After completing this investigation, students will be able to:
- understand the conditions required for algae growth;
- understand the factors that influence the occurrence and duration of algal blooms;
- interpret satellite images of chlorophyll concentrations (ocean color); and
- explain the potentially harmful consequences of algal blooms including dead zones.
Context for Use
In the previous investigation, Aquaculture, students learned that one of the drawbacks of coastal aquaculture facilities is the transfer of additional waste and nutrients to the surrounding water. In this investigation, students learn about other ways in which humans are increasing the nutrient content of coastal waters and about the ensuing consequences for land and sea. The investigation requires laboratory space and equipment, which should be procured ahead of time. For the laboratory portion of the investigation, students should be assigned to small groups of 3-5 students.
Activity Overview and Teaching Materials
In Part A, students make their own algal blooms and test what factors influence the occurrence and duration of the blooms. The following materials are needed for each group of 3-5 students:
- algal culture (available from a scientific or aquarium supplier or even from a classroom aquarium)
- water (fresh or salt depending on the type of algae)
- two 250-500 mL clear glass or plastic containers
- light source (sunny window will work)
- droppers or pipettes
- liquid plant fertilizer
- wax pencil, tape, or stickers to label containers
- microscope (10x or greater magnification)
In Part B, students use images and data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project, to look for correlations between phytoplankton blooms in the Sea of Cortés and the addition of nutrients through agricultural runoff from the surrounding land. Students create a time-series animation of chlorophyll concentration over a two-year tie period. They also generate an area-averaged chlorophyll concentration data plot showing the average chlorophyll concentration in the Sea over the same two year time period. Both visualizations are produced using Giovanni Ocean Color Time-Series Online Visualization and Analysis Tool. The Giovanni tool requires the Java 2 Platform. For more detailed information about Giovanni's compatibility with your computer's operating system and internet browser, go to the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center website. A non-Java version is also available.
Students conclude Part B by reading the article Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea, which explains the connections between the algal blooms observed in the satellite data and agricultural runoff from Mexico's Yaqui Valley.
In Part C, students learn about dead zones and harmful algae blooms (HABs). They first look at the graphic Birth of a Dead Zone from Part 1 of the L.A. Times Series, Altered Oceans. They then read the Earth Policy Institute article, Dead Zones Increasing in World's Coastal Waters. To view the Altered Oceans multimedia graphics, student computers need to be equipped with the Adobe Flash Player.
The final portion of this investigation introduces students to HABs. They revisit the Altered Oceans series to view the graphic Harmful algae blooms and their consequences and read the story Dark Tides, Ill Winds.
Printable Materials
- Activity Sheet (PDF (Acrobat (PDF) 35kB Jan28 08) and Word (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 20kB Aug7 18))
Teaching Notes and Tips
Be sure to dispose of algal cultures responsibly. Do not allow students to pour cultures down the drain without treating them first. To prepare cultures for safe disposal, do one of the following. (1) Add bleach to the culture to make a 1% solution. Leave the bleached cultures to sit overnight and then pour down the drain with running water. (2) Bring the cultures to a boil in a microwave-safe container in a microwave oven. Although this may be accompanied by an unpleasant smell, it will not contaminate your microwave or make it unsafe for future food preparation.
Possible Extensions for Part A:
- Use more than one species of algae (grown separately) to compare the growth of different species under similar conditions.
- Add treatments to test the effect of temperature or salinity on algal growth. Create graphs of final cell density versus temperature or salinity.
Because the story Dark Tides, Ill Winds in Part C is a bit long, you may choose to assign the reading and subsequent Checking In and Stop and Think questions for homework.
You can assess student understanding of topics addressed in this Investigation by grading their responses to the Stop and Think questions.
State and National Science Teaching Standards
Additional Resources
Background Information
- For background information about algal blooms, read the Wikipedia entry: Algal Blooms.
- For background information about dead zones, read the Wikipedia entry: Dead Zone (ecology).
- For background information about harmful algae blooms, visit The Harmful Algae Page, supported by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (NOAA/CSCOR/COP) grant.
- Eutrophication and dead zones also occur in bodies of fresh water such as Lake Erie. Check out the Environmental Protection Agency's informational page on the Lake Erie Dead Zone.
- Although the addition of fertilizer to the world's oceans is typically unintentional, some scientists believe that deliberate addition of certain types of fertilizer may help combat global warming. For more information about this topic, read the Science Daily article Marine Researchers Fertilize Southern Ocean To Study Climate Changes.


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When Michael Chow, now 59, arrived in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s from Hong Kong, his English skills were so poor that he was not able to get a job as an electrical engineer, although that's what he had done in the old country. So Michael did what so many other professionals from Asia have done when they came to America — get a below-minimum wage job in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. And like so many other Asian immigrants before and after him, Michael worked in several local restaurants before opening his own restaurant in 1980, and he studied cooking with all of the diligence and dedication that he had previous devoted to engineering.
The restaurant, Sang Kee, was in a tiny rented shop at 238 N. 9th St. (at Vine) with just 20 seats in Chinatown. Before long, though, Sang Kee was packed every night with customers raving in particular about Chow's delicate dumplings, noodle dishes and Peking duck. In fact, over the last 31 years Chow insists he has served over 200,000 orders of Peking duck, which he spent years perfecting.
(In Chinese culture, the middle name is treated like an American last name, so an entire family has the same middle name. Michael's middle name is Sang, as well as every member of his family, and Kee means "your business." Thus, a direct translation of Sang Kee means "Michael's business" or "Michael's restaurant.")
"There is an intricate way of cleaning the Peking ducks," Michael explained. "Then you prepare the skin for drying and put the ducks on a special hangar for several hours. The duck's cavity is filled up with special sauces and spices and sewn up. Then the cooking process begins in a large oven. The ducks are still on the hangers, and they are cooked at high heat until very brown and crisp. For almost 600 years, chefs had been preparing ducks for the Emperors of China in what is now called Beijing (previously Peking), the modern capital of China. This dish is celebrated throughout the world as a Chinese culinary masterpiece when it is prepared and served correctly."
You might say that the thousands of Peking ducks sold by Chow helped him to purchase the building he was in as well as the one next door, enabling him to expand the Sang Kee Peking Duck House from a mere 20 seats to 200 seats. And over the years Chow has mushroomed far beyond Chinatown, opening the Sang Kee take-out operation in the Reading Terminal Market, Sang Kee Noodle House in University City, Peking Noodle House in Old City, Sang Kee Corporate Catering, The Noodle Bar in Parx Casino and Sang Kee Asian Bistro in Wynnewood, which routinely has customers gladly waiting an hour for a table, even on weeknights. (The Peking ducks are all prepared at the original location and delivered daily to the other venues.)
The original Sang Kee Peking Duck House has won numerous awards such as "The Best of Citysearch," "AOL Cityguide City's Best," "City Paper Readers' Choice," "Philadelphia Magazine's Best of Philly" and "Top-100 Chinese Restaurant in USA" (out of about 40,000 Chinese restaurants) from a nationwide Chinese restaurant trade publication called Chinese Restaurant News.
Just a few weeks ago (August 12), yet another Sang Kee, this one called Sangkee (it is now being spelled as just one word) Noodle Bowl, an upscale property with 120 seats, a liquor license and unlimited parking, opened in the Edgemont Shopping Center, 4755 West Chester Pike (Route 3) in Newtown Square. This one is different from all the others, though, because it is not owned by Michael Chow but rather by another American Dream restaurateur, Win Somboonsong, who also owns Thai Pepper in Ardmore, Mikado in Ardmore, Teikoku in Newtown Square, Azie in Media, Azie on Main and Mixx in Villanova.
"My wife, Sutida, and I have loved Sang Kee since we were college students in the late '80s," explained Win, 46, a native of Thailand. "Earlier this year we had lunch at Sang Kee Noodle House and ran into Michael. We talked about our children, business, the economy and how Sang Kee serves great comfort food. That conversation led to our relationship with Michael Chow and is how the new Sang Kee Noodle Bowl began … Michael is not an owner, but we pay him a commission for the name, his recipes and the Peking ducks, which we get from his downtown restaurant."
Three of us ate at the new Sang Kee Noodle Bowl two nights before Hurricane Irene visited us, and we were surprised to see how many customers there were since the place had just opened. The kinks had already been ironed out, which is not always the case with new restaurants. The steamed watercress dumplings (four for $6) with shrimp, pork and ginger soy sauce; stuffed eggplant with shrimp and black bean sauce ($15), noodle bowl with shrimp dumpling, egg noodles and vegetables ($8) and, of course, boneless Peking duck, served with pancakes and scallions in a muscular Hoisin sauce ($19), were all in mid-season form.
For more information, call 610-353-5353 or visit www.sangkeenoodlebowl.com. For Sang Kee Peking Duck House, call 215-925-7532 or visit www.sangkeephiladelphia.com.


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NYPD Commissioner William Bratton continued to put his stamp on the department by ordering the reassignment the chiefs of the detective bureau and internal affairs, according to law enforcement and union officials.
Chief Philip Pulaski, who has been in charge of detectives since 2010, and Chief Charles Campisi, head of the internal affairs bureau since 1996, were separately told by Bratton this week that they will be moving out of those jobs, the officials said. No timetable was given for the moves or replacements named but one NYPD source said that orders announcing reassignments could come in about a week.
Both men are 62, one year shy of the mandatory NYPD retirement age. Both could be reassigned to new posts or retire, said one official who asked not to be identified.
"You just can't fire somebody or say retire . . . you have to give them options," said the official.
NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis said Bratton "has been undergoing a review of the department since his first week here and among those reviews are program, policies, staff and assignments."
Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives Endowment Association, applauded the news. He said his union planned to "work closely with the new chief of detectives to repair the damage and restore the morale of the famous detective bureau of the NYPD."
Retired Det. Sgt. Joseph Giacalone, now an instructor in law enforcement, said Pulaski had a reputation as a micromanager whose approach frustrated seasoned detectives. But Pulaski also presided over detectives who solved several highly publicized cases, including Baby Hope and the missing boy Etan Patz. Pulaski didn't return a request for comment.
Campisi's internal affairs unit has worked with federal and city prosecutors to make criminal cases against officers, one of the latest being the arrest of scores of former cops in a disability benefits fraud case. Campisi also didn't return a request for comment.
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