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The Federal Government has said following the effective management and containment of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country and with the report of the experts advising government to reopen the schools, all government and private primary and secondary schools in the country may resume academic activities at the middle of this month.
This new resumption date, he added, will be announced by the Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, after meeting with Commissioners for education and stakeholders, who were involved in fixing the earlier resumption date of October 13.
The Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, it would be recalled, had on August 26 announced the extension of the resumption of schools to October 13 to curtail the spread of the disease.
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USAID begins Covid-19 testing in Imo rural areas
…Umuagwo Varsity of Agric kicks-off October
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has begun Covid-19 testing in the 27 Local Government Areas of Imo State, "in a bid to reduce the impact of community spread of the virus in the rural areas of the state.
The Imo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Declan Mbadiwe Emelumba disclosed this in Owerri while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the Weekly Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Hope Uzodimma on Wednesday.
Chief Emelumba said so far, the USAID officials have carried out reasonable number of testing in Njaba LGA and reported that all those tested came out negative and that the council prayed that the result from other Local Government Areas will be the same.
He announced that the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the take off of the Imo State University for Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Umuagwo in October this year.
According to him, the approval underscores the efforts which the Imo State Government ably led by Governor Hope Uzodinma has made towards the establishment of a second university for the state.
Recently, the NUC panel was in Imo State to carry out the necessary verification exercises on the state facilities, human and physical infrastructures.
Mr. Declan Emelumba, who was flanked by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Bernard Ikegwuoha, Commissioner for Health Dr. Damaris Osunkwo and the Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to the Governor Mr. Oguwike Nwachuku, informed that the Executive Council is happy that something new is happening in the Education Sector of the State.
Emelumba said that the Imo State University of Science and Environmental Sciences, Umuagwo will take off by October when other universities would be resuming for a new academic session.
In the same vein, the Council has approved the immediate relocation of Faculty of Engineering Imo State University Owerri to its permanent site at Okigwe, stressing that Government has put all processes and facilities on ground to ensure the immediate take–off of the faculty.
Imo Governor's aide visits Oziza FM Staff, Ogechi Iwu in hospital
The Chief Press Secretary and Media Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, Mr. Oguwike Nwachuku has visited Mr. Ogechi Iwu, a journalist with Osiza FM.
The media man is hospitalized at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri over complications from diabetes that led to his right leg being amputated.
Mr. Nwachuku said the visit was to show solidarity on behalf of Governor Uzodimma to his professional colleague, assuring him of their prayers, particularly that of his principal, and the prayers of Mr. Iwu's numerous friends and well wishers who are touched by his plight.
"I am here on behalf of my principal to associate with him in this time of health challenge and to encourage him not to see the sickness as a death sentence."
Mr. Nwachuku urged Mr. Iwu to continue in the high spirit he saw him and trust God for his total recovery "because healing is a thing of mind and when a sick person is in high spirit the patient gets recovered quickly."
The spokesman of the Governor promised to bring the plight of the journalist to the attention of his principal, and assured that the Governor will, in his usual manner of one with milk of human sympathy, show concern over Iwu's plight.
Earlier, Mr. Iwu thanked the CPS/Media Adviser, the State Chairman of NUJ, Imo State, Chief Christopher Akaraonye and other journalists who were on the entourage, for coming to identify with him on his sick bed, and assured that God in his infinite mercy will quicken his recovery.
Bishop Ugorji heads IMSU Governing Council
Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has inaugurated a new Governing Council, for the Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri.
At the inauguration ceremony on Monday, August 31, the governor named Most Rev. Lucius Ugorji as the Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of the University.
Other members of the Council include: Chief Leo Stan Ekeh, Chief Tony Ezenna, Prof. (Ven.) Chinedu Nebo, Sir. Louis Ezeigwe, Chief Engr. Ernest Nwapa, Dr. (Mrs.) Uwandu Uzoma, Ugoeze Victoria Adaku Ekezie, Prof. Adaobi Obasi (Vice Chancellor) and others.
Speaking at the inauguration, Governor Uzodimma said the choice of the members is to infuse fresh air into the university because "It is in dire need to bounce back to reckoning."
He added that the choice of the members was because they have carved a niche for themselves in their chosen fields of endeavour and that they have earned solid reputation as men and women of substance in their individual trade, indices that qualified them for the appointment.
He challenged the members to bring their reputation to bear on the University, bearing in mind the task for good quality scholarship in Imo State University as well as service to humanity.
The Governor urged the members to deploy their individual accomplishments, excellence, expertise, passion for service as effectively as necessary to actualize the dream of his administration of having a highly reputable University comparable to the best Universities in the World.
He also requested the Council to "restore in words and deeds the motto of Imo State University, which is Excellence in Service".
"Imo State University currently is a classical example of a failed University," Governor Uzodimma said but strongly believed that "with a star studded Governing Council such as the one inaugurated there is no doubt that Imo is on the track to realize the dreams of her founding fathers."
He further enjoined the Council members to quickly hit the ground running and come up with policies and programmes that will reassure Imo people that the University that made them proud 20 years back is on track as he assured them of Government partnership in this regard.
In an acceptance speech, on behalf of the Council, the Chairman, Most Rev. Ugorji who is the Catholic Bishop of Umuahia thanked the Governor for the absolute confidence reposed in them by giving them the assignment and acknowledged that though the task is daunting he has a strong belief that with the calibre of members of the Council and support of the management, staff and students the University will be returned to a centre of excellence which was the dream of the founding fathers.
He said that Imo State University deserves the best and that he and his members as inaugurated will work acidulously to ensure that the target of the governor in making Imo State University one of the best universities in Africa is realised.
He congratulated fellow members and promised that God's willing, they will not fail the government and people of Imo State.
Present at the inauguration were the Deputy Governor, Prof. Placid Njoku, the Speaker Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chiji Collins, the Secretary to the State Government, Chief Cosmas Iwu, and other members of the expanded State Executive Council.
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The strong showing of the major U.S. stock indexes this week and over the past three months has seen a corresponding drop in the prices of major metals. And, in the short term, at least, experts say that major metals are not poised for a reversal.
Prices of the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), for instance, and the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) are down 2-4% this week, while the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes have risen at a 2-4% clip.
Over the past three months, these key metal-focused ETFs have been in positive territory, but have fallen sharply from their late February highs. Meanwhile, the major stock indexes have moved up over 10%, and the Nasdaq has improved roughly 20%.
Are metals expected to catch up? Based on trends in China tracked by Standard Chartered Bank, demand is looking soft, analysts said earlier this week. Plus, large money managers have cut their gold positions.
Gold prices have lost more than half of this year's gains due to speculation that improving U.S. economic data will discourage the Federal Reserve from buying more debt.
Earlier this week, gold futures for April delivery fell 3% to $1,642.90 an ounce on the Comex in New York, which was the biggest drop for such a contract since Feb. 29. At one point this week, the price touched to $1,639.20, the lowest level since Jan. 17.
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It's here! Fried Christmas!!! That delicious waft of funnel cake + corny dog + world's biggest Frito pie + horse-ish ladyman stank you'll get when you walk through the turnstiles at the fair is gonna hit you like a Lisa Frank double food rainbow. And you will love it.
See also: Fried Jambalaya, Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll Win Big at State Fair The Food of the State Fair of Texas, In Photos
The State Fair of Texas is all the things. It's weird. It's fun. It's expensive. It's got shitty parking. It's got a Midway and tamale balls! It has kids screaming their smiling faces off on rides that move at a breakneck speed of 2 entire miles per hour. And they're even going to have a glow-in-the-dark Chinese lantern light show festival thing?! Plus fried red velvet cupcakes?! Hell. Yes. Texas, you are ridiculously glorious.
There is no shortage of fried food options at the Great State Fair of Texas. So, we've created a fried food map that'll help guide you from fried chocolate-covered strawberry waffle balls to fried picnic on a stick. If you try every food on the list, congratulations, and we're sorry.
Let's start with the fried food items that were finalists in this year's Big Tex Choice Awards. The line for these foods will be longer, so have a friend stand in line while you go seek out the fried Kit Kats:
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BEST TASTE WINNER: Deep-Fried Jambalaya This one's from Abel Gonzales (aka Fried Butter and Fried Coke and Fried Cookie Batter Guy), so it's definitely one to try. Dude has a history of knowing what the heck he's doing at a fryer. His fried jambalaya is shrimp and Cajun sausage coated in lightly seasoned flour and FRIED. FRY IT!! Served with a side of spicy ranch sauce.
MOST CREATIVE WINNER: Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll A cinnamon roll dipped in a special sweet pancake batter, roll that in crispy FRIED BACON BACON BACON FRIED BACON AHMAHGAD FRIED BACON crumbles, then throw that in a fryer and FRY IT and then sprinkle it with powdered sugar. One bite is delicious, but it's also enough. Share this one.
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Chicken-Fried Cactus Bites When we tried this at the awards, it was pretty Slimer from Ghostbusters slimy. Served with a combination of sweet and spicy secret jalapeño ranch (it tells the sweetest secrets, you guys) and agave nectar dipping sauce.
Deep-Fried Divine Chocolate Tres Leches Cake A slice of chocolate tres leches cake soaked in buttermilk batter, and FUH. RIED, YOU GUYS. A light sprinkle of cinnamon, topped with whipped cream, fresh strawberry slices and peaches are drizzled with a yummy syrup. Blam. It's super sweet.
Deep-Fried Mac-N-Cheese Slider Steve Velasquez's three-cheese mac is baked until golden brown, battered in bread crumbs, THEN HE FRIES IT. Then he puts that on a slider bun with a griddled beef patty.
Fried Mexican Fire Crackers Nick Bert, winner of Best Taste in 2010 for his fried Frito pie, brings you "a yummy, spicy chicken, cheese and jalapeño mix wrapped in fresh-made masa dough and deep fried to a crispy, crunchy, explosion of flavor." FRY IT!!! It looks like a little taquito on a stick. And it tastes like one, too.
Fried Pork Wing Isaac Rousso brought you fried Pop Tarts in the past and fried salsa last year. This year, it looks like he's going the savory route again. Here's the description: "This juicy morsel is slow cooked for six hours then lightly deep fried, rolled and tossed in a smoked bacon chipotle glaze. Accompanied by old-school homemade potato chips lightly dusted in barbecue seasoning, it's a sure crowd pleaser."
Picnic on a Stick Alan Weiss is last year's winner in the Big Tex Choice Awards for Best Taste, with his fried chicken flapjacks. Apparently, breakfast-on-a-stick wasn't enough, so now he's bringing you a whole picnic on a stick. Press release says, "Pieces of delicious spicy fried chicken alternate tater tots and slices of dill pickle. Repeated three times on a stick then dipped in batter, rolled in bread crumbs, and fried until golden brown." It's cafeteria lunch on a stick. And we're into it.
Up next: the brand new foods at the State Fair.
New Territory We also received an additional list of new fried items that didn't make it into the finals of the BTCA but will still be featured at the fair this year. We haven't tried them yet, so report back with your thoughts. That Fried Cotton Candy will only go super delicious or super nasty. Can't wait to roll those dice.
Deep-Fried Baked Potato Crispy fried french fries wrapped in foil, split open and filled with butter, cheese, sour cream, chives and bacon bits. Add beef and barbecue sauce if you want. Whoa.
Deep-Fried Chicken and Waffle Chicken breast dipped in waffle batter and fried. Dusted with sugar. On a stick. If there is a God, this does not suck. Deep-Fried Red Velvet Cupcake WHAAAAAAAAT? Red velvet cupcake filled with cream cheese. Fried. More frosting. THEN THEY TOP IT WITH A FRIED CHICKEN WING. Brainsplode.
El Dogito on a Stick Spicy sausage with cheese and jalapeños, wrapped in a tortilla and fried. I mean, if you're into that sort of awesome.
Fried Cotton Candy Pink cotton candy lightly battered with funnel cake mix. Quick-fried, dusted with powdered sugar. THEY FRIED COTTON CANDY! YES PLEASE CRAP!
Fried Cow Patty OK. If they really fried poop, we're done. It's over. Whew. THEY DIDN'T FRY POOP! It's chocolate cake batter, fried, with chocolate pudding and chocolate whipped cream. So it will intentionally look like poop, but it will taste like not poop. So, there's that.
Fried Sugar Sugar cubes are dipped in pancake batter and fried, topped with caramel sauce.
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Fried Sugar Cubes Not a typo. This is listed from two different locations at the fair. So, you'll have fried sugar options. This one comes double-dipped in chocolate or vanilla batter. Or both. Then top with chocolate, caramel or fruit sauces. West Texas Apple Fried Pie Yep. What it sounds like. Potato Twist Potatoes + onion + bacon bits + bell pepper + Cajun breading + deep-fried.
Chocolate Candy-Coated Bacon Fried bacon dipped in chocolate and rolled in candy sprinkles and put directly in my mouth now thank you. Fried Kitty-Kat It's a Kit-Kat dipped in batter and fried. And it sounds like we're gonna have to eat that, too.
Merry Fried-mas, y'all.
See also: Fried Jambalaya, Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll Win Big at State Fair The Food of the State Fair of Texas, In Photos


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As I'm sitting on the patio at a new gastropub called the Blind Pig – watching the sun disappear behind Rancho Santa Margarita Lake, sharing a few small plates with good friends, catching intermittent glimpses of the Dodgers on one of the many flat-screen TVs overhead – I'm reminded of something Wolfgang Puck said many years ago. He said he can almost always guess the age of a chef by counting the number of ingredients on his plate. The celebrity chef and I were discussing his evolution in the kitchen, and he was musing about some of his earlier creations and how he, like so many young chefs eager to make their mark, hid behind the false confidence of complexity before finally gaining the maturity and wisdom to step back and remove an ingredient or two. Less can be more, and it usually is. But it's a lesson that takes time – sometimes many years – to sink in.
I'm thinking about this as I'm pushing my fork through a dish of olive-flavored quinoa that's been splashed with a bouillabaisse-inspired vinaigrette in a bowl lined with sweet pepper purée, on top of which rest two entwined deep-fried prawns that have been artfully showered with what might be pulverized peanuts and wisps of Manchego cheese. Putting all those flavors into my mouth at once is an assault on the taste buds. The coveted prawns end up fading into the background.
The cocktails here are superb. I keep thinking this as I find myself reaching more frequently for my glass than for my fork. The consulting mixologist is Gabrielle Dion, of Broadway.
Puck's observation nags at me again as I'm tasting the bone marrow – rather, not tasting it. The marrow disappears beneath a gale of smoky shallot marmalade, large pickled figs and pungent blue cheese – all interesting flavors on their own, but when they join forces like this they overwhelm the marrow's inherent deliciousness.
It's déjà vu as I'm tasting the tuna tartare, with its avocado panna cotta, puffed rice, ginger pickled carrots and sunflower soy purée. It's a stunning presentation. This is easily some of the most creative, out-of-the-box, rebellious cuisine ever to hit south Orange County. And some of it really is delicious, if slightly cerebral.
The ambitious young chef is Josh Han, who worked alongside Amar Santana at Broadway and Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's before that. He does have some great ideas, and my favorite dish is his celery "mac and cheese." Pay attention to the quotation marks around "mac and cheese." That's your first clue that this isn't really that.
The menu mentions pickled celery, but there's nothing particularly celery-like or pickle-like about the way the pasta tastes, which has a cream sauce that's more herbal than cheesy. On multiple occasions, I watch this dish get pushed aside and ignored after everyone takes their first small bite and reacts with sullen faces. They were hoping for something more akin to mac 'n' cheese, I guess, something more befitting a casual gastropub, something hot and bubbly and gooey. I reach over and claim the unwanted pasta, delighted to have it all to myself, wishing the restaurant served bread so I could scrape every last bit of sauce from the bowl.
The food here is served small-plate style, meant to be shared, and perhaps debated. There's no telling which dishes will come out first, and no way to specify any order of preference. "It comes out when it comes out," says our waitress. Service is exactly what you might expect from a fast-paced pub with high-top tables.
Servers encourage us to order two savory dishes per person. And when the food starts coming, it really starts coming. Plates and bowls pile up so fast it's impossible to make room on the table. We're juggling plates, holding them in the air or passing them around with one hand while trying to eat with the other because there's simply nowhere for the dishes to land. This isn't exactly tapas.
The beet salad is gorgeous. Golden beets are artfully decorated with crumbled cheddar cheese, along with a cumin-guava vinaigrette and little clusters of pistachio granola. Those ingredients alone make a seductive composition. The additional hibiscus-infused Maui onions and tangle of watercress aren't really necessary but don't get in the way, either – a modern version of the parsley sprig.
The lo mein is another of my favorite dishes. It appears to be one of the starkest as well – a bowl of Chinese noodles tossed with sweet-tart sun-dried tomatoes that appear to have been dusted in flour and lightly seared. It is wildly addictive and the perfect complement to a great craft beer.
The pork belly is wonderful, glazed with a sauce of black garlic and served atop French toast. And a pan-roasted chicken breast is nicely done, with a little salad of kale and grapefruit. I really like the flavors in a dish of chorizo ravioli. I just wish the ravioli dough wasn't so thick and chewy.
My least favorite dish is the chicken liver mousse, which is something I normally enjoy. There's an aggressiveness to the mousse that I find overbearing. I'm not sure how or why the chef achieves this level of acridity, but I don't care for it. I do, however, love the buttermilk biscuit and fennel-blackberry compote that it's served with. I wish I could order the biscuit and jam alone, but "The chef doesn't allow any modifications."
When it comes time for dessert, the flavors become even more experimental. There are only two choices. One is an ice cream float made with great house-made vanilla ice cream, nutmeg syrup and Pellegrino sparkling water. The water makes it taste bitter and, well, watered down. The other is a cheesecake made from brie. This results in a much gooier, less sweet cheesecake than normal, which is actually quite good. It's served in a diminutive portion along with a spoonful of bright green ice cream. The ice cream has a sharp, bitter flavor that reminds me of freshly cut grass. "What kind of ice cream is this?" I ask. "Parsley," the waitress says.
Parsley's been around forever. So has ice cream. There's a reason parsley ice cream hasn't already become popular. It's not a great flavor. Oh, and they don't serve coffee. "We don't have room for a coffee machine," the server says.
There are chefs who cook from the heart and chefs who cook from the head. And while one approach is no more honorable than the other, the former often produces the greatest artists and risk-takers. Nobody can say the menu at the Blind Pig isn't original, or complex enough, or thought-provoking enough. Is that enough to sustain a neighborhood gastropub and sports bar? I don't know. But without a doubt, I look forward to watching this chef mature.
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Solidarity! Walmart Workers' Black Friday Strike Gets Backup from Credo
Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, is just around the corner. But Walmart employees are planning to strike across the country and disrupt business as usual.
Workers have had it with low wages, crappy benefits, unreliable work schedules, and being forced to live on food stamps and Medicaid to survive. And they have been making their feelings known in protest actions during recent months. They are also sick and tired of retaliation and intimidation from management. On Wednesday, a former Walmart worker found himself handcuffed when he tried to talk to employees about the Black Friday strike.
Instead of moving toward the enhancement of the workplace, the motivation of hard-working employees and supporting fairness and safety on the job, Walmart has persistently threatened activists, intimidated workers and set its powerful muscle against any attempt on the part of employees to challenge the status quo. Walmart's response to the Black Friday strikes is to kick off shopping earlier this year, opening stores at 8pm on Thanksgiving Day. Americans are invited to rush from the family table and avoid the strikes.
Credo Action, a network of progressive activists born out of virtual network operator Credo Mobile, has announced its solidarity with Walmart workers by starting a campaign to pressure board chairman Rob Walton to meet with striking workers and hear their demands for better pay and decent working conditions. So far, Credo's petition has gathered by over 80,000 signatures.
Becky Bond, political director of Credo Action, released a statement explaining her organization's position on the giant retailer's refusal to respect its employees:
"Credo activists across the country have the backs of Walmart's striking workers. While Walmart rakes in billions in profits, many of their employees are fighting for better working conditions and fair wages. There's absolutely no excuse for the nation's largest retailer to treat their employees this way. Rob Walton should meet with the striking workers immediately."
The Walmart strikes matter to everyone. Activist and writer Matt Stoller has shown that the company has responded to protests in the past in the form of improved working conditions. "According to St. Louis Federal Reserve president William Poole," reports Stoller, "the last time there was significant labor unrest at Walmart, in 2006, the company raised wages at 700 stores."
Because Walmart is such a massive company, employing 2 million workers in the US, its practices influence the entire retail scene – and indeed the whole global economy.


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Update: This research is now again generating some mainstream headlines. Will be interesting to see if this hybrid chip paradigm will have more staying power than previous analog computing approaches.
Fifteen years ago I attempted to find an efficient randomized training algorithm for simple artificial neural networks suitable for implementation on a specialized hardware chip. The latter's design only allowed feed-forward connections i.e. back-propagation on the chip was not an option. The idea was that given the massive acceleration of the networks execution on the chip some sort of random walk search might be at least as efficient as optimized backprop algorithms on general purpose computers.
My research group followed a fairly conventional digital design, whereas at the time, analog VLSI was all the rage. A field (like so many others) pioneered by Carver Mead. On the face of it, this makes sense, given that the biological neurons obviously work with analog signals, but nevertheless attain remarkable robustness (the latter being the typical problem with any sort of analog computing). Yet, it is also this robustness that makes the "infinite" precision that is the primary benefit of analog computing somewhat superfluous.
Looking back at this I expected this analog VLSI approach to be a bit of of an engineering fad as I wasn't aware of any commercial systems ever hitting the market – of course I could have easily missed a commercial offering if it followed a similar trajectory as the inspiring but ultimately ill fated transputer. In the end the later was just as much a fad as the Furby toy of yesteryear yet arguably much more inspiring.
To my surprise and ultimate delight a quick statistic on the publication count for analog neural VLSI proves me wrong and there is still some interesting science happening:
So why are there no widespread commercial neuromorphic products on the market? Where is the neural analog VLSI co-processor to make my Laptop more empathic and fault tolerant? I think the answer comes simply down to Moor's law. A flagship neuromorphic chip currently designed at MIT boasts a measly 400 transistors. I don't want to dispute its scientific usefulness – having a detailed synapse model in silicon will certainly have its uses in medical research (and the Human Society will surely approve if it cuts down on the demise of guinea pigs and other critters). On the other hand the blue brain project claims it already successfully simulated an entire rat cortical column on their supercomputer and their goal is nothing less than a complete simulation of the rodents brain.
So what does this have to do with Adiabatic Quantum Computing? Just like in the case of neuromorphic VLSI technology, its main competition for the foreseeable future is conventional hardware. This is the reason why I was badgering D-Wave when I thought the company didn't make enough marketing noise about the Ramsey number research performed with their machine. Analog Neural VLSI technology may find a niche in medical applications, but so far there is no obvious market niche for adiabatic quantum computing. Scott Aaranson argued that the "coolness" of quantum computing will sell machines. While this label has some marketing value, not the least due to some of his inspired stunts, this alone will not do. In the end, adiabatic quantum computing has to prove its mettle in raw computational performance per dollar spent.
(h/t to Thomas Edwards who posted a comment a while back in the LinkedIn Quantum Information Science that inspired me to this post)


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What we have here is an image of Oscar nominated actor Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner, His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, and actor slash humanitarian Eva Longoria. What should the caption be?
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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 26: (L-R) Actress Lupita Nyong'o, actor Jeremy Renner, His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama and actress Eva Longoria attend The Lourdes Foundation 'Leadership in the 21st Century' Event with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the California Science Center on February 26, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images for The Lourdes Foundation)
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Research Spotlight on Hard-to-Staff Schools
NEA Reviews of the Research on Best Practices in Education
What characterizes "hard-to-staff" schools, those schools that have difficulty in finding and retaining qualified, effective teachers? Many are high-poverty inner-city schools or rural schools that, as a consequence of their location in economically depressed or isolated districts, offer lower salaries. Their districts also lack the amenities with which other districts attract teachers.
Such schools have high turnover rates and a high percentage of relatively new teachers because more experienced teachers, whose seniority gives them greater choice, tend to go elsewhere (Education Commission of the States, 2007). Consequently, these schools have great difficulty maintaining stability and developing a strong organizational culture that supports learning.
Elizabeth Glennie, Charles R. Coble, & Michael Allen say (Education Commission of the States, 2004):
Hard-to-staff schools differ from their peers in several respects. They tend to have higher percentages of students who are performing below grade level on end-of-grade tests. They have higher percentages of students who are eligible for free lunch and who are ethnic minorities. A large majority of hard-to-staff schools are middle schools, and many are located in urban areas. Asked their opinions about working conditions in their schools, teachers in both nondesignated and hard-to-staff schools are most satisfied with "Leadership" and least satisfied with "Time Management." Although their views are similar to their peers in perceptions of Time Management, hard-to-staff school teachers, however, are less satisfied with "Facilities," "Leadership," "Personal Empowerment" and "Opportunities for Professional Development."
Disparities in the Background of Teachers
Richard Ingersoll found significant disparities in the backgrounds of teachers at high-poverty vs. low-poverty secondary schools in the United States (cited in Education Commission of the States, 2007). For example, at low-poverty schools, 27 percent of mathematics teachers and 51 percent of physical science teachers lack a major or minor in their teaching field; those numbers rise to 43 percent and 65 percent, respectively, in high-poverty schools. "Within specific states, both urban and rural, students in high-poverty schools may be as much as four times more likely to have teachers without a major in their teaching field than students at wealthier schools." Poor and minority students are often served by teachers who do not have adequate subject-matter preparation for the courses they teach.
Students Who Go On to College
According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2004), 86 percent of the students in low-poverty schools who graduate in the top quarter of their high school class go on to four-year colleges. This compares to 58 percent of the top graduates at high-poverty schools. As for college completion (Education Trust, 2007), 48 percent of young people from high-income families graduate college by age 24, compared to only 7 percent of young people from low-income families.
Plans to Ensure Quality Teachers for Poor & Minority Children
The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2001 requires state departments of education to submit a plan that includes the steps it will take to ensure poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates by inexperienced, uncertified, or out-of-field teachers than are other children.
Recruiting Quality Teachers
The difficulties in recruiting quality teachers to chronically hard-to-staff schools must be addressed to ensure academic success for all students. Southeast Center for Teaching Quality (2004) says:
High quality teachers can be selective in choosing where they want to teach. Cumbersome, delayed hiring practices; lower salaries; negative labels for low-performing schools and undesirable geographic regions often deter both new teachers and veteran teachers from working at hard-to-staff schools. North Carolina is no exception to this national trend. The state has the highest number of National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) in the country, but a recent analysis shows that half of North Carolina's NBCTs serve in the 20 percent of schools with the smallest percentage of disadvantaged students, while more than one-quarter of schools serving poor and minority students have no NBCTs. The students who need accomplished teachers the most are simply not getting them. There are no silver bullets for recruiting quality teachers. The experiences in many states demonstrate that salary supplements and other financial incentives are a necessary piece of the puzzle, but monetary rewards alone are not sufficient. A broad array of incentives and supports – financial and non-financial – are necessary to attract high quality teachers to hard-to-staff schools. Most of these incentives are being implemented somewhere across the nation, but complete and comprehensive incentive packages are rare.
Additionally, Eileen Horng (UCLA, 2005) contends that the quality of teachers' working conditions is a major factor in recruiting and retaining teachers to work at hard-to-staff schools. According to Hong, education leaders and policymakers should collect data that reveal the quality of working conditions and improve those conditions that are disincentives for qualified teachers (for example, unclean or unsafe facilities, poor administrative support, large class sizes, insufficient resources for students, and school policies made without teacher participation discourage qualified teachers from working at some schools).
Barnett Berry and Eric Hirsch (National Governors Association, 2005) state that teachers, particularly in hard-to-staff schools, report feeling isolated in their classrooms, needing basic materials to do their jobs, and feeling inundated with work. Teachers feel that they have no input in the design and organization of schools and that they have minimal prospects for career advancement and professional growth.
Clearly, the task of recruiting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff schools is a challenging one. But, not having adequately trained, effective teachers results in profoundly negative consequences for students. If the nation is to guarantee all children an adequate education and solid career opportunities, there must be a qualified, effective teacher in every classroom.
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2001 (U.S. Department of Education).
- Recruiting Quality Teachers to Hard-to-Staff Schools ( PDF, 250 KB, 2pp) (Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, 2004).
- Poor Working Conditions Make Urban Schools Hard-to-Staff (UCLA, 2005).


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Law enforcement mourn loss of fellow officers
Search and recovery efforts end as the bodies of flood victims are found
Three days of search and recovery efforts came to an end on Sunday.
Crews recovered the bodies of four people who were swept away by floods, including Scott County Sheriff Cody Carpenter and Wildlife Officer Joel Campora.
Officers said now that they've completed their mission, they can begin to find closure.
"To see the pain and anguish on the faces of your law enforcement officers, it's very difficult," said Col. Jeff Crow of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Officers and first responders lined the side of Highway 71 in Y City to pay their respects, as a procession of Game and Fish Commission officers drove the body of Officer Campora into town.
"I made a promise to his wife three days ago that I was going to bring him home," said Game and Fish Commissioner Mike Knodel. "And that promise has been fulfilled."
Officers said the past few days have not been easy.
"Our whole agency is more like a family unit," said Knodel. "It's an emotional roller coaster for them. They've lost one of their brothers."
It is that sense of family that has helped officers through this tough time.
"We have a strong brotherhood in law enforcement," said Lt. DJ Pyles of the Scott County Sheriff's Department. "For me to actually go through this with these guys, really shows me how strong this bond is. I'm really proud to be a part of it."
Carpenter and Campora were friends who made the ultimate sacrifice for their community.
"Now they're heroes," said Knodel. "Let's not ever forget that."


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Last post on the astonishing versatility of five parts flour, three parts water. First it was pizza (remember this awesome pizza?… hmm, maybe a bacon and egg pizza this weekend). More recently, I made these delicious pretzels. Same dough, different products. And here it is in yet another form.
Every now and then, when I or Donna stop at On the Rise bakery, where Adam Gidlow and staff bake bread, bread, bread—the best baguette in the land, as far as I'm concerned—we pick up a loaf of sandwich bread, which young James calls "the most awesome bread ever." Last time I was there, jealous of the light airy crust and soft kid-friendly texture, I asked Adam, "What makes it sandwich bread?"
He said, "It's the exact same dough as the baguette, but a longer ferment. And it's baked in a loaf pan."
"You mean second rise?" Bakers speak in curious tongues and I wanted to make sure. Traditionally what we at home call rising, some bakers call fermenting, referring to the delicious microbial activity. This is when the yeast does most of its work and generates most of its flavor. The second rise after it's been shaped is sometimes called "proofing." Which never made sense to me—it's either proved itself in the first rise or it hasn't. Adam nodded. That's right, he explained, it goes for nearly twice the time an ordinary baguette goes after being shaped.
I'd already noticed how dense my Dutch oven bread could be if I didn't let it rise long enough. For sandwich bread, it needed even more time to open up. I'd let it rise to within an inch of its life, then score it and put it in the oven. (See this post for bread baking basics and one of my favorite of all of Donna's pix.)
Works like a charm. Want to throw in some extras? Honey? Egg white? Wheat germ for fiber? Rosemary? Go to town. Use a ratio as your starting point and you're good to go. (If you don't own the book, put it on the Xmas list you give to the loved ones who adore your cooking! Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking.)
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Everyday Sandwich Bread
20 ounces flour
12 ounces water
1 teaspoon dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt
Combine all the ingredients in the bowl of a standing mixer. (The standing mixer is a big ticket item but a powerhouse that's well worth the investment; here's the one I recommend, available at OpenSky; we WILL matching Amazon's prices!) Mix with the dough hook until the dough is very elastic, about 10 minutes on medium speed. Remove the bowl from the stand, cover it with a pot lid or plastic and let it rise till it's doubled in volume, 2 to 4 hours depending on how hot your kitchen is.
Remove the dough from the bowl, pound it down, knead it and get as much gas out as you can (you're redistributing the yeast so it can get fresh food). Shape it into a rectangle about the size of a sheet of paper. Let it rest for 10 minutes covered with a towel. To shape it, fold it over on itself, starting from the top and pinching it solidly down with the heel of your hand—fold, pound pound pound pound pound—until it's a round loaf. Drop it into an oiled loaf pan and cover with a towel, or better yet, put the entire loaf pan in a dutch oven and cover it. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees and let the dough rest till it looks like it won't rise no more.
Draw a knife lengthwise down the center to help it rise and put it in the oven. Turn the oven down to 350 degrees. (If you're cooking in a Dutch oven leave the lid on for the first half hour.) Bake for about an hour, till it's done (internal temperature of 200 degrees or so). Let it cool (it's still cooking and setting up inside!).


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Celebrity Lawyer Gloria Allred Says She Will Prove Biker Crippled by SUV Driver in NYC Highway Brawl Is Innocent Victim
Celebrity Lawyer Gloria Allred Says She Will Prove Biker Crippled by SUV Driver in NYC Highway Brawl Is Innocent Victim
Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is expected to officially announce Friday that she is representing the family of biker Edwin Mieses Jr., 32, whose spine was crushed by wealthy Manhattan executive Alexian Lien, 33, during a high-speed brawl along Manhattan's West Side Highway on Sunday.
The gripping incident publicized via a much watched YouTube video has polarized the nation with some onlookers labelling Mieses a thug who deserved Lien's spine crushing treatment while others have argued he was a victim of Lien's exploding road rage. The opinions shared on the comments section of the video over the last few days got so explosive the account holder was forced to disable it.
On Friday, through a support page on Facebook, it was revealed that Mieses had awakened from his medically induced coma.
"Jay has begun to open his eyes, he is in the process of getting better. God truly is great, may he forgive those that do not know. All your prayers and positive feedback has been wonderful!" said a post on the page on Friday morning. "We know that Jay will make a quick recovery this week. Taking it one day at a time, there is only so much he can do at this moment but he will improve over time."
According to a report in the New York Daily News , Allred will explain why Mieses is an innocent victim of the ongoing saga at a press conference with his family on Friday.
On Thursday, Lien's wife of one year, Rosalyn Ng, released a statement through their attorneys arguing that she and her husband were simply planning to celebrate their anniversary with their 2-year-old daughter when the SUV her husband was driving was swarmed by the pack of bikers Mieses was riding with.
According to the police, one of the bikers Christopher Cruz, 28, of Passaic, N.J., who is the only person charged so far in the ongoing investigation, reportedly slowed down suddenly and was bumped by the SUV. As the bikers reacted to what happened, Lien reportedly got scared and plowed over at least three of the bikers seriously injuring Mieses in the process.
The bikers chased Lien for about four miles along the highway until they caught up with his vehicle. His driver's window was smashed and he was dragged from the vehicle and pummeled so badly he had to receive stitched to his face.
"Our fear for our lives was confirmed when the incident ended with the ruthless and brutal attack on my husband, me, and, most importantly, our 2-year-old child," Ng noted in the statement through her lawyers.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner John McCarthy told ABC that the tenor and number of calls Ng made to 911 during the ordeal shows how "terrified" they were. She placed four calls from inside the Range Rover in nine minutes and only stopped when police arrived at the scene where her husband was assaulted.
One biker who was on the ride on Sunday, however, disputed that analysis. He told ABC that Lien wasn't driving like a man in fear.
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Along Came A Spider
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Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.
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The capital of the Prefecture of Fokida is built in the place of the ancient and well fortified town inhabited by the Esperians or the Ozolian Locrians. It is built at the foothill of Elatos mountain under the historical and legendary great Castle of Salona (Orgia). During the 7th century B.C. Amfissa became a city-state, marked major progress in arts and trade and remained prosperous for at least three centuries. In 338 B.C., king Philip of Macedonia ravaged the ancient acropolis and completely destroyed the town in order to punish the locals for having cultivated part of the Krisean Field, which was under the control of the Amphictyonic Council.
The town was reconstructed (along with Nafpaktos) and became one of the most influential towns of the powerful Aetolian League, reaching its peak of prosperity in the beginning of the 2nd century B.C. During the Byzantine period, it was depopulated by the Bulgarians of Samuel, while during the 100 year long Frankish occupation its name was changed to Salona. Amfissa played a major role in the Greek War of Independence (1821). It was here that on March 25th the Revolution was declared. In 1825, Amfissa was ransacked by the Turks and was definitively liberated in November 1828. Amfissa is located 186 km NW of Athens and 381 km south of Thessaloniki.
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters has us thinking about fractured fairy tales.
Freeway (1996)
Screenwriter-turned-director Matthew Bright made his name and his reputation with the demented 1982 cult musical Forbidden Zone, a collaboration with his longtime pals and collaborators Danny and Richard Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame. He brought the same pop-culture-crazed B-movie sensibility and trash aesthetic to his 1996 directorial debut, Freeway. The instant cult classic prankishly re-imagines the timeless tale of Little Red Riding Hood as a sweaty, sleaze-saturated '70s drive-in movie.
Reese Witherspoon illustrates some of the grit and fearlessness that would one day win her an Academy Award in the demanding lead role of a dirt-poor survivor from the mean streets of Los Angeles. She's picked up by the film's version of the Big Bad Wolf, a rapist and serial killer known as the "I-5 Killer," played by Kiefer Sutherland. (In one of the film's winking nods to its inspiration, the last name of Sutherland's character is Wolverton.) After Witherspoon is wrongfully imprisoned, Freeway morphs from one kind of sordid B-movie to another, from a lurid, violent road flick to an even more lurid women-in-prison movie, where our strong-willed heroine befriends a heroin-addicted lesbian played by a memorably spacey Brittany Murphy.
Freeway established Bright as a true auteur of low-rent, lowbrow sleaze, a gleefully shameless provocateur who delights in pushing buttons and grubby sensationalism, but the gravity, toughness, and heart Witherspoon brings to the role elevates it beyond a mere stunt. It would be a stretch to draw comparisons between this inspired, overachieving drive-in fodder and Walk The Line, but Witherspoon illustrates boundless, soon-to-be-realized potential playing a badass Little Red Riding Hood who's more than up to the challenge of tangling with a scary old wolf—human, animal, or otherwise.
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Materials Theory and Design Group
Research in the MTD group uses combinations of first-principles electronic structure methods, symmetry and representation analysis, with materials informatics and crystal chemistry tools to understand the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of complex inorganic materials.
Structure-driven View of Electronic Function
A main goal of the group is to identify the critical chemical compositions and atomic structural features which determine the physical properties of inorganic oxide and fluoride-based materials. This fundamental materials understanding is used to design and predict new compounds for experimental study.
Advances in structure-property relationships underlie many 20th century technology innovations and will continue to do so into the future. Find out more about our progress in formulating structure-driven axioms and theories for next-generation functional materials.
The research enterprise in academia advances knowledge through dissemination in multiple platforms. You can find most of our results in a variety of scholarly publications focused on fundamental physics, materials chemistry, and device functionality.
Our lab aims to identify and exploit structure–property relationships for the rational design of multifunctional inorganic materials. The ultimate goal is to reliably calculate all properties of any material using only its chemical composition and structure as input. We focus on technical challenges and overcoming material disparities by strategically building functionality into materials. To this end, we focus on training the next generation of innovative scientists by fostering an environment that is conducive to learning, creativity, and personal development.
Currently we have funded PhD positions for graduate students and post-doctoral fellowships available. Please feel free to contact us and inquire about project opportunities.
Northwestern undergraduates may also contact Prof. Rondinelli regarding possible research projects. A commitment of at least two quarters is expected. Ambitious undergraduates also have the opportunity to be lead authors on high impact publications.


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Parents blame sleeper for baby's health scare
Fischer Price recalls 800,000 sleepers
A Council Bluffs family believes they may have found the reason for their 3-month-old son's health problems after hearing about the recall of the Fisher Price Rock 'n Play Sleeper.
The company recalled 800,000 sleepers, saying "mold can develop between the removable cushion and the plastic frame."
Angela Teeters said that she brought her son Max to their family doctor after he began having respiratory problems, requiring him to receive breathing treatments every four hours. He also developed red bumps on his cheeks, and on the back of his head and neck.
"It was so bad. He was scratching it. We had to put mitts on him because it was bleeding because it was itching him so bad," Teeters said.
Their family doctor originally thought the rash was eczema.
Dr. Mark Rupp, an infectious disease specialist with the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said the recall is a good reminder for parents to be proactive and watch for mold.
"Anything that you see that's contaminated with mold typically if you can clean it with a bleach solution that's going to be a very effective anti-mold type of treatment," Rupp said.
The Teeters' returned their sleeper for a full refund.
If you have the sleeper, call Fischer Price for cleaning instruction at 1-800-432-5437 or go online to http://service.mattel.com./us/.


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On May 3, 2014, 10 students from the University of Maryland (Robert H. Smith School of Business) attended the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha. A brief description of the meeting appears on the Smith School's website as follows:
"For a fifth consecutive year, Tyser Teaching Fellow in finance David Kass led students from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business to the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting.
Kass and Tyser Teaching Fellow Elinda Kiss accompanied 10 finance students to Omaha for the May 3, 2014, gathering.
They absorbed a Warren Buffett-led discussion of one of the world's largest corporations, connected with well-known investors, and experienced the core of what's referred to locally as "Berkshire Weekend" and more broadly as the "Woodstock for Capitalists."
Attendance totaled close to 40,000 in the 20,000-seat CenturyLink Center. "At 3 a.m., shareholders started lining up at the entrances," said Kass, a Berkshire shareholder. "When the doors opened four hours later, shareholders of all ages ran to claim seats. … By 8 a.m., the overflow crowd was being directed to adjacent rooms to view the proceedings on closed-circuit TV."
Kass further described the early activity that included video entertainment:
"Shareholders toured an exhibit area highlighting many of the 80 Berkshire-owned companies, including Fruit of the Loom, See's Candies, H.J. Heinz, Dairy Queen and GEICO. An 8:30-9:30 a.m. video screening humorously depicted Warren Buffett and Paul Anka singing a rendition of "My Way" – originally made famous by Frank Sinatra and written by Anka.
"The video also included an animation of a future Winter Olympics taking place in Omaha. In a U.S.-Russia hockey gold medal showdown, Russia's skaters – large and muscular – threaten to beat the relatively diminutive American team 'into borscht.' The U.S. skaters are led by Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger (Berkshire Vice Chairman) and Bill Gates. With the score tied late, coach Ajit Jain (Berkshire Reinsurance CEO) designs a trick play with 'an 87-percent chance of success.' The U.S. team executes the play and wins 4-3."
Following the festivities, Buffett and Munger answered about 60 questions – primarily related to Berkshire Hathaway – from shareholders, journalists and analysts.
The students representing Smith included undergraduates Rahul Kashyup, Joseph Kucevich, Jessica Manzione, Harsha Neerchal, Lulu Son, David Tian, Eric Urda and Alex Wilson, and Master of Finance student Chuan Shen.
"Our students had the opportunity not only to attend the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and listen to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger answer questions," said Kiss. "They also were given the opportunity to meet with several renowned Berkshire Hathaway investors."
The students met with Whitney Tilson of Kase Capital. "Both David Kass and Whitney Tilson were quoted in the Omaha World-Herald, that was published the day of the meeting, and their photos were in the paper," Kiss noted.
Smith-to-Omaha Origins
"In May of 2005 (the first year Buffett began meeting with students from multiple universities), Shai was invited to bring 50 MBA and undergraduate students to Omaha for a private meeting with Warren Buffett," said Kass, who with finance professor Mark Chen, accompanied the group as faculty advisers.
A close follower of Buffett's investment strategy since 1980, Kass, on UMD's behalf, subsequently placed his name on the 'Warren Buffett waiting list' and was invited to bring 20 MBA students to meet with Buffett in 2011 and 2013.
A Berkshire annual meeting attendee since 2006, he's led 10 finance fellows to the meetings for the past five years. The itinerary includes Smith-student introductions to Dardashti at the "Yellow BRKers" get-together on the eve of the annual meeting.
"Professor Kass deserves credit for building on what was a mere spark in 2005," Dardashti said. "With almost a decade of personal dedication, he has established a tradition that continues to put the University of Maryland and Smith School increasingly on the map and on the radar for all the right reasons."
This article with pictures of the students appears at:


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OSO, Washington (CNN) -- The rain-soaked ground in Washington's Cascade Mountains offered little warning before it gave way, dumping a wall of mud onto the towns of Oso and Darrington, an hour's drive north of Seattle.
With the official death toll at 16, eight more bodies located but not recovered, and as many as 176 other people unaccounted for in the landslide that struck Saturday, crews were digging through debris up to 20-feet deep to find survivors.
As the search goes on, stories of those who escaped and those who are searching have begun to emerge:
'I can hear them tapping underneath'
It was a 911 call at about 10:45 a.m. Saturday that alerted authorities to a problem on State Route 530, a two-lane road that connects rural mountain communities.
"It is really flooding bad," the caller said. "There's a roof of a house on the road."
Then came another call. And another.
Michael Landon told a 911 dispatcher that his neighbor's house and a house on the other side of it were gone, and he was trying to find survivors.
"I am standing in the area now, and I can hear them tapping underneath and yelling at us," he told the dispatcher. Asked how many people he could hear, Landon said two. "There should be three people in this house," he said. "We are trying to find the other."
Other callers appeared to be struggling to understand what had happened.
"Everything is gone, the houses are gone!" a woman screamed into the telephone. "What happened? Can you tell me what happened?"
The dispatcher's answer: "Landslide."
'Nobody else was able to get out'
Four-year-old Jacob Spillers was in an upstairs room in his Oso house when the mudslide turned it into wreckage. He got out.
His mother was at work when the wall of earth shifted. The mountain of debris it left behind blocked her from reaching her family.
Jacob's father and three half-siblings apparently had not made it out of the house.
"Jacob told me he got out when nobody else was able to get out," said Jose Mangual, father of one of the children who hadn't escaped.
Family was planning to turn property into cemetery
Nichole Rivera last heard from her daughter, Delaney Webb, on Saturday morning through a Facebook posting.
Her daughter and her daughter's fiance were staying at the home of Rivera's parents. The couple had planned to wed there in August.
When she couldn't reach them by telephone, Rivera flew from her home in suburban Houston to Washington state to find answers.
But proximity didn't help.
As the hours ticked by, Rivera said she had little reason to believe they were still alive. "If you've seen the maps, and you've seen the extent of the devastation, and the consistency of the mud, I can tell you with great soundness they're not going to find my parents, or daughter, or her fiance," she told CNN. "I really feel that they're gone."
Rivera's aunt, Debbie Satterlee, was still coming to terms with the possibility that her brother, sister-in-law and niece might never be found amid the mud and wreckage -- all that was left of the property where Rivera's parents had once planned to put a family cemetery plot.
"It would be great to have a body," Rivera said "But if we can't we can't, they're in the right spot."
Mother of four praying husband found air pocket
At first, La Rae deQuilettes didn't worry when her husband, an electrician, didn't return home Saturday.
Ron was just working late, she told herself.
He had sent his wife of 31 years a text message that morning, saying he had arrived at the job.
But by early Sunday, when he still hadn't returned to their home in suburban Seattle, she realized her husband had been working where the landslide had struck.
"It's a living nightmare," she said.
She was trying to keep it together for their four children, praying that her husband had found an air pocket or was somewhere waiting for rescuers.
"He's a fighter," she said. "He's tall and strong. He has a heart in him like there's no tomorrow."
Police, she said, had told her that the couple who hired her husband were also among the missing.
Body of Navy officer found, his wife is still missing
The waiting ended Tuesday for the family of U.S. Navy Cmdr. John Regelbrugge, 49, whose body was found by his brothers.
His wife, Kris, was still missing.
"They were both home when the slide hit, but they haven't found her yet," said his sister-in-law, Jackie Leighton.
Regelbrugge's three sons serve in the U.S. military. Two are involved in the search, and the third was making his way home from abroad to join them.
Vietnam vet's son holds out hope
Barbara Welsh last saw her husband, Bill, early Saturday as he was leaving to help someone in Oso install a water tank.
"My husband is a survivor, and I believe in him," Welsh said of the Vietnam veteran to whom she has been married for 43 years. "And that's all you can do -- is keep believing."
Welsh's firefighter son, Wayne, was basing his hopes that his father had survived on what he has learned on the job. "It's the knowledge you get from the structure," he said. "People can last a long time out there."
He was touched by the number of people helping in the search. "I've just been down here at the fire station and seen all the volunteers come out of the woodwork," he said.
It has given his family hope, he said. They need that right now.


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Like a chainsaw made of bacon, the 2013 Shelby GT500 is magnificently batshit and distinctly American. In honor of the late Carroll Shelby, Ford, Friends of Carroll and Shelby American just released a one-off 850-hp version of the GT500 at Pebble Beach.
They also announced the addition of "Carroll Shelby Way" to Ford's Dearborn campus. Can someone please get us a shot of the commemorative GT500 doing a massive burnout on Carroll Shelby Way? It's what he would have wanted.
Shelby enthusiast, storyteller, and Ford Marketing Chief Jim Farley joined a gaggle of Shelby fans to show off their latest creation. With a custom wide-body kit, Guardsman Blue-with-Wimbledon White stripes paint job, and other touches it's a nice homage visually to the great Texan gearhead.
The more apt tribute is under the hood, though, where the big V8 is upgraded with a Ford Racing 4.0-liter Whipple supercharger. These specs make it fairly similar to a Shelby 1000 — if not identical — thus the custom bodywork.
Farley hinted at the announcement about the future of this project:
"You might also know that Carroll was a philanthropist, noted for supporting causes that moved him," added Farley. "In that spirit, this car will be taken on tour around the country, and hopefully will be used in a special way at the end of its tour, a way Carroll would appreciate."
See you at Barrett-Jacskon, then!
Photo Credit: Matt Trombley/Ford


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I'm 14, and I really want a baby!
Susie replies:I'm 14, and I really want a baby. I know how to care for them because I live with my niece and sleep in the same room with her. Whenever she cries, I usually wake up and help my sister. I'm very good with babies. I already have 10,000 dollars in the bank just for me that I could use just for the baby, and it is still growing. I am a virgin so this is not just because I want sex. I'm very mature. I make straight A's in all my classes I really don't have many friends, so it wouldn't matter if I would not have many contacts. I really think I'm ready for a baby.
It takes a lot of maturity to admit to yourself that as a parent, you will put your children first and make the kinds of sacrifices necessary to provide for them. These sacrifices include waiting to have children, and in the mean time getting a good education so you can go to college, then get a job that is enjoyable and pays enough money to raise a kid comfortably. When you have a kid, your life is no longer about you: you are responsible for the welfare of another human being.
The $10,000 is a good start, but according to the US Department of Agriculture, it costs more than $200,000 thousand dollars to raise a child from birth to the age of 18. Simple arithmetic ($200,000 / 18 years = $11,111.11 per year) shows that you don't yet have enough money in the bank to cover that child's first year.
Even if you have a lot of practice handling babies, you still have to get the rest of the package. Do you have:
- A place to live on your own? While it's nice to be close to family, it's not fair to the people who provide your shelter to impose another person into the household. Yes, extended families often live together, but wouldn't you rather have some of your own space?
- Health insurance? While the US has public health programs in place to cover some basic medical care for the poor (at taxpayer expense), it's better to be able to provide your own coverage, either by buying your own plan or by getting one through work.
- An education? You tell us you have straight A's. Well, why not take those good grades all the way to the bank and go to college?! Imagine taking that $10,000 in your bank account, and turning it into a college degree that will enable you to get a job that pays well. It's well known that people with college degrees make a lot more money than people who don't go to college, and way more than high school dropouts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says "Women with less than a high school diploma earned $323 per week in 2002, compared with $809 for those with a college degree." And check out this chart that shows how each level of income changes when you go further in school.
- A co-parent or partner? A lot of studies have shown that households do better when there are TWO parents present and able to take care of the kids. The problem a lot of young parents run into is that oftentimes boyfriends and girlfriends break up, leaving one person to take care of the baby, or the baby is put into the care of its grandparents, aunts or uncles. While many people have been raised successfully by other relatives, overall, this kind of instability is bad for the kid.
As for not having many friends, there have been real medical studies that have shown that people who have friends live longer, healthier lives than people without friends. Keep your friends. Be social. You don't need to be the Prom Queen, but you should have people around you who who care about you, people you can count on. Besides, wouldn't you like to have a baby sitter handy once in a while?
As for getting through your "I want a baby!" urges, I have some ideas you should try.
- Make some pocket money as a baby sitter. Advertise your services in the neighborhood so you can see what it's like to handle kids that aren't related to you.
- Volunteer at a hospital in one of the nurseries.
- Get a job as a day care attendant.
- Volunteer to supervise an after school program for kids K through 5th grade. Afterall, babies grow up, and you should familiarize yourself with dealing with older children.
- Volunteer as a Big Sister as part of Big Brother and Big Sisters of America.
You may want to check out the following for more information: