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On Foxeys Hangout Pinot Gris braised pineapple, served with crispy puff pastry and green tea coulis
- 1200g cream
- 120g sugar
- 180g white chocolate couverture
- 1 stick cinnamon
- 2 ea Star Anis
- 3 ea cloves
- 10g Dilmah Green Tea with Jasmine Flower
- 375g under ripe pineapple, peel and cut out the core keeping it in one piece.
- 700g sugar
- 1/4 ea vanilla bean
- 50g Foxeys Hangout Pinot Gris
- 50g water
- 50g sugar
- 3g Dilmah Green Tea with Jasmine Flower
- 10g lemon juice
- 100g water
- 50g sugar
- 5g corn flour
- Green food colouring
- 375g plain flour
- 5g salt
- 188g water
- 67g soften butter
- 250g butter for rolling
- 245g egg whites
- 173g sugar
- 1/2g salt
- 168g egg yolks
- 55g almond meal
- 55g cocoa powder sifted
- Green Tea Coulis
- White chocolate delice
- Puff pastry
- Chocolate garnish
- Micro basil
- Melted chocolate
Methods and Directions
- Roast the spices until they release their fragrance, remove from roasting tray and place into a saucepan.
- Add the cream and sugar then bring to the boil.
- Add green tea and let infuse for 5 minutes.
- Whisk in the white couverture then bring the garnach back to the boil.
- Remove from heat and whisk thoroughly then pass through fine mass.
- Cover the surface and chill overnight.
- Gently whip the garnach mix on low speed until firm.
- Pipe int
- In a saucepan, make dry caramel with first sugar then remove from heat. Add pineapple and vanilla ensuring the caramel coats all sides of the pineapple.
- Place the saucepan back on stove and adding the rest of ingredients and bring the boil.
- Let simmer for 5 minutes remove the saucepan from heat and place in ice water bath to cool completely.
- Place the pineapple and the liquid into a vacuum pack on medium.
- Once the liquid it the bag is boiling seal and
- Bring water and lemon juice to the boil.
- Mix sugar and corn flour and add to the liquid, once the corn flour is cooked out add the green tea.
- Stir through remove from heat immediately and let infuse for 5 minutes.
- Pass through fine mass and cool completely on water bath.
- Store in airtight container with surface covered
- In mixing bowl, using dough hook, mix flour, salt, water and 67 g butter until just before window stage (mix until smooth).
- Rest and cover and the dough for 15 mins.
- Prepare the rolling butter into 30×40 cm.
- Roll the dough out to 30× 60 cm and place the butter onto it, leaving the dough 1/3 uncovered.
- Fold the remaining dough onto the butter and fold in half again to make 2 layer of butter and 3 layer of dough (half turn).
- Repeat the half turn 5 ti
- Make French meringue by whipping egg white and sugar until medium peak.
- Whisk egg yolks until very soft and fold into the meringue then immediately fold in the cocoa powder and almond meal.
- Spread the sponge mix onto the pre-line baking tray and bake at 180°C for about 7-8 mins.
- 250g white chocolate couverture
- 250g cocoa butter
- 30ea unmold and trimmed white chocolate delice
- Melt and temper the co
- Temper dark chocolate couverture and using pastry pallet knife, spread on the guitar sheet then use pastry comb to create straight line. Just before the chocolate is set, place another guitar sheet on top and place something semi heavy on top to let it completely set on straight.
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Charter School Segregation Target Of New Report
First Posted: 02/22/2012 8:09 pm Updated: 02/23/2012 12:11 pm
Charter schools often promise to bring greater equity to education, but a new brief starts with the assumption that they fall short in delivery — and provides recommendations to fix the alleged injustice.
"Charter schools tend to be more racially segregated than traditional public schools," said author and Penn State law professor Preston Green III, who sat on a board that considered charter-school applications in Pennsylvania. "What we tried to do is write ways to enable charter schools to promote desegregation rather exacerbate segregation."
The brief, "Chartering Equity: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Educational Opportunity," from the University of Colorado's National Education Policy Center features recommendations from both Green and University of Wisconsin, Madison education professor Julie Mead on how states and school districts can ensure that charters are integrated and helpful to disadvantaged populations. It also includes statutes that states can use to help reach those goals.
Charter schools are publicly funded, but can be privately run, and often admit students via lottery. Charter schools advocates argue that educational opportunity should not depend on zip code, and that charter schools allow for educational innovation that eventually can trickle back into the traditional system.
Detractors, however, often assert that charters siphon resources from traditional public schools without equal compensation and that they don't serve specific populations, such as special-education students, in proportion with their existence.
Either way, charter schools, championed by both the Obama administration and free-market entrepreneurs, are growing: This year, as they edge into their third decade of existence, charter schools serve a total of 5 percent of American public school students — an increase of 200,000, or 13 percent, from the year before.
According to research released in 2010 by professor Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, 70 percent of black charter school students attend a school where the bulk of their peers are also minorities — compared to 40 percent in traditional public schools.
Orfield's brother, Myron Orfield, a professor at the University of Minnesota who directs the Institute on Race & Poverty, studies charter segregation at a local level.
"I think that charters are an engine of racial segregation. They are more segregated than public schools and cause public schools to be more segregated than they otherwise would be," he said. According to a report he plans to release Friday, from 2010-2011 almost 90 percent of black charter-school students in the Twin Cities are in segregated schools — a number that actually increased by 8 percentage points over the last decade.
A common problem, Green said, is that charter schools often do not comply with federal civil-rights statutes. According to Orfield, they are legally responsible to do so, but are rarely challenged. For example, previous Supreme Court cases found "single-race schools were intentional segregation," Orfield said. "But charter schools haven't been challenged in this way, because people don't have a picture of how big a part of urban education they are."
But Ursula Wright, interim president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, rejects the premise of the brief. "I believe that charter schools have had the type of success that we currently have, serving 2 million kids across the country with hundreds of thousands on waiting lists, because people do see that we offer in many instances a better alternative," she said. "I can't agree with their starting point. The demand speaks for itself."
She added that she's heard Orfield's studies aren't "gold standard."
The brief includes recommendations for charter authorizers — groups that approve and deny applications to start charter schools — as well as state legislatures and the federal government.
One suggestion is that charter school authorizers require that in addition to academic qualifications, charter-school applicants show how "the school will broaden, not replicate, existing opportunities for struggling populations." Applicants should provide evidence that their approaches address environmental circumstances such as local achievement gaps, the brief said, and charter authorizers should factor "equal educational opportunity" concerns into renewal standards.
The brief's authors said they hoped its publication would influence the debate. Connecticut is deciding whether to increase charter-school funding. Alabama and Mississippi are considering their first charter-school laws.
Mead and Green recommend that state legislatures explicitly state in their laws that charter schools aim to "enhance equitable educational outcomes for all students, particularly those who have historically struggled," and that "charter schools must comply with all federal laws."
They also proposed new federal regulations, to be considered in the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: that federal charter-school funding be tied to advancing equal opportunity, and that states are required to collect data on recruitment, retention and discipline in charter schools.
But those recommendations, said Wright, might not be feasible. "To push a federal statute down assuming states are set up to get that level of data is a bit of an oversimplication," she said.

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Who are these foreign pickers in our forest? Why are there so many of them? Why do they search in such large groups? These and many other questions were on my mind in 1995 as I began collecting data at Chemult Study site.
I had some experience with Asians in 1992 in the Illinois Valley. It was a bumper year for matsi and the forest was full of pickers. Since I am the caretaker of 400-acre private property, I was relieved I would have the area to myself. I was in for a big surprise.
I found nobody respected the No Trespassing, Keep Out, or Private Property signs posted. Most of the season I was forced to stay within 100 yards of the private road going through the property. Every time a car was heard, run to the road, get in my car and find out if they were stopping to pick. Sometimes I would find cars parked on the property with pickers already gone. I'd have to chase them down and ask them to leave. It was distressing, but since I was caretaker, it was my job to keep everyone out at all times.
Asian pickers were the largest percentage of trespassers, nearly 50 to 1. However, they were the most cooperative and polite.
My wife was picking not far from the house, when she spotted two Asians. They had stepped onto a skid road she was walking. This was near the end of the season, so she'd had enough of trespassers. She ordered them to stop, set their things down, and walk to her. She scolded them severely, told them to get their things, and get in the car. She drove them to the house and called the sheriff. While waiting, we questioned them. They were very cooperative. A buyer in town dropped them off and told them to pick on the property. It was obvious they had no idea where they were. We asked the sheriff to take them to their camp.
All contacts with Asian pickers that year ended with similar results. It turns out they didn't know what the signs meant. They also had no concept of places they couldn't pick. In their countries, the public is allowed to pick on private lands, without a permit. The following year the local district taught Asians what signs meant. No Asian has trespassed since.
This was my experience as I began collecting data, Chemult 1995.
The season of 1995 Chemult began late August. I was to manage the harvest method study as well as manage the first commercial harvest in the study area. I already knew unauthorized pickers often picked the study site, so the first task was to re establish study border markers. With this completed, the volunteer pickers, and myself felt no one could enter without knowing they were in the study area.
I began establishing first patches to be monitored in late August. It soon became apparent a good season was coming. A good season meant lots of pickers. I expected to have lots of unauthorized pickers to deal with. Unauthorized picking was addressed in several ways, what ever the situation called for. Primary objective to limit time loss, and keep data. Data being mushrooms picked in the study not counted.
Authorized pickers were to approach, ask if they new they were in the study area, and asked to leave. In some cases Forest Service officials were called, a warning citation was issued. Most just ran as fast as they could, out of the study. My personal favorite was to wait behind a tree while as many as ten in a line would approach. Then spring out yelling WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE STUDY AREA!!!!!!!! It was like dropping a bomb. You could hear people falling, buckets rolling, and brush rustling in all directions, away from your position. I recall one occasion when they all ran but one. He just stood there looking around, wondering where all his friends went in such a hurry. I questioned him and found he was new at picking, had seen the signs, but was with experienced pickers who knew what they were doing. Later I saw all of them at the buying station. They were embarrassed, and apologized.
Data collection was going great, unauthorized picking was near zero, and the season was nearing an end. I was grateful we had made it this far without any real confrontations. Of course the worst possible situation happens.
About 1:00 in the afternoon I got word an Asian had fired a weapon at, or near one of the authorized commercial picker. I was concerned because the authorized commercial picking group was asked not to carry firearms. All complied but one. He was the one involved in the incident.
I returned to the onsite camp to find the authorized picker visibly shaken. He reported finding three Asian pickers in a study plot, inside the study area. This was an area authorized pickers were prohibited to pick. He advised the Asian picker he was in an off limits area and would have to leave. The Asian pointed the firearm at him and replied, " You leave". Two of them started leaving when the one with the firearm fired into the air and said, "I said you leave". The authorized picker returned to camp.
I obtained a description of the Asian and headed out to find him. On the way I reported the incident to the Forest Service via radio. I took my time hoping to find him still in the area. No luck, so I went to the place I new they had parked their car. There I found many Asia groups. The Asian in question wasn't among them. I chatted with this group and that, but spent most of the time talking to one family. Mother, daughter, and two young boys. The daughter's husband was still out picking. During our conversation I found out Asian families are very close and often pick together. Thus the large groups we see. Many come from country living and have foraged for income and food all their lives. That's why so many. The Forest Service LEO arrived and was able to find the Asian picker while I was chatting.
I walked back to camp and drove to secondary camp, where I had just walked to and from. When I arrived I found the family I had talked to, in a panic. The husband had not returned and was lost. I left a light burning all night, called, and blew the horn now and then all night. They found him the next morning. He had spent the night under a log, freezing, but OK.
The next night I saw the family and asked why he didn't build a fire to stay warm? The wife said they didn't have any matches, so I gave her a lighter. Also told her to watch for the study area markings. If followed, and extended, they lead to the road. She understood, but hoped it would never happen again. Well it did, two days later. This time Mother, daughter, husband and two children under five were lost. Not for long though. Rescuers found them just inside study boundary with a huge fire. All were gathered around and warm. One rescuer said it took longer to subdue the fire than to find them.
I was there when they came out of the woods. The wife ran up to me, put her arms around and said thank you repeatedly. She insisted the lighter had saved their lives.
Many other interesting circumstances happened that season. Getting hit, and almost run over by a van, unintentional. Once I was asked by a rather large Asian if anybody had ever decided to punch me out and run. I simply said no. He asks me again later, but in the end received a warning ticket.
Following seasons had far less unauthorized harvesters in the study. However it wasn't the end of meeting Asian pickers.
That fall David Arora called and asked if I could help out a couple of Asian pickers. I was reluctant at first for several reasons. The owner of the property was not friendly to Asians. This was due his experiences during war. Locals pickers would surely conceder me a traitor, but I needed reliable help. David assured me they knew what they were doing. He explained they had waited for a permit on the Oregon Dunes for years and finally got one. They problem was, they couldn't find any mushrooms. Local pickers were so good, outsiders couldn't compete. This included night hunting. Locals knew where and when mushrooms would emerge, and be there. Knowing this to be true, cause I knew veteran Dunes pickers, and that was the general strategy, vigilance and night picking. I agreed to meet them.
They arrived and were nervous, I was too. I took them into the forest and checked to be sure they knew how to pick. I felt a little silly, showing two experienced pickers how to pick. I could see they were a little confused. Not because they didn't understand, but rather cause they were anxious to pick and wondering why I was wasting time showing how to do something they had done for years. After two days, they had done fair, but I hadn't put them in an area I knew was in heavy production. I did on the third day.
My wife's patches were in need of attention. She is very particular who picks, and how her patches are picked. She instructed our new friends where to pick, and not to pick. She also directed them to patches with babies, now ready. Our friends spent the day picking in her patches. They did very well. She picked the same area the next day and reported they had done an excellent job.
They left after five days, but not without insisting I accept something from them. I had been interested in Morel picking, but didn't know a thing. They offered to teach me next season.
I did pick and camp with them the following season. They took me to their patches, I stayed in there camp, and ate there food. Couldn't spend a dime of my funds. One night they went to sell while I stayed in camp. When they returned, I was surprised I had made so much. Turns out they had added to my basket. I was also surprised to find there is no theft in Asian camps. I was concerned about a video camera I had in the car. After five days of camping, the camera in plain sight, no problem. There was one theft though. Two pickers went home for the weekend. When they returned, they found two sticks of fire wood missing.
I still have contact with our Asian friends. They live in Redmond, Oregon with mother and two children. Mushroom picking is their favorite employment, but the family must eat, so cannery work as far as Alaska it considered.
Other encounters with Asian in following years were full of surprises. I was on a pick for hedge hogs late one season after matsutake was over. I parked my rig, got out, and began getting ready. A van full of Asians passed, then stopped 100 yards down the road. Everybody knows American pickers like their space, so it disturbed me they had stopped. I had heard the stories of Asians following other pickers, and stopping where they saw picker's cars. There were no matsi to pick. In fact, no commercial value at all in the area. I got curious so I approached them to ask if they had stopped cause they saw my car. Their were six, and some had firearms. I am a Vietnam vet, so Asians with guns, should have made me nervous, but it didn't. I ask my question, one of them answered YES. My first thought was, well how would they like it if I got a bunch of my friends, and followed them around? That's the question I asked. I was surprised to hear the reply. They didn't like the idea at all. Guess they didn't realize they were intruding in my space at that time. All apologized and they left. They didn't just move further away, they left the mountain.
Most Asian pickers I have met are sincere about picking, conscientious as to picking method, and knowledgeable to fruiting habits. Those who are not, lack education in understanding American culture, laws, and tradition, language being the major barrier.


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Operators that can utilise outdoor space to expand their food offering will quickly realise the financial and commercial benefits it promises, but only if they get the set-up and specification right first, writes Karen Swift at Cinders Barbecues.
Outdoor space increases a venue's footprint and adds menu diversity. With al fresco dining, operators can facilitate a faster turnover of tables for the kitchen, increasing the covers served.
An outdoor barbecue is an al fresco chef's table and can attract new clientele to a venue they may have hesitated to try, potentially converting them to regulars.
Venues can become seasonal destination pubs or restaurants because of their al fresco offering. Cinders customers have even formed new outdoor catering divisions based on their new barbecue expertise.
Eateries can also trial cuisines al fresco. Some venues have taken our StreetWok LP20 to test hugely popular Asian cuisine. Asian dishes have then graduated to their regular menu.
To do this, operators need the right equipment. Barbecues are phenomenally popular, but only if they produce high-quality food quickly and have the reliability factor — the tenets upon which Cinders' brand was built.
Operators must also plan well, preparing side dishes, hot or cold, in the main kitchen, finding ways to prevent an off-putting queue putting a dampener on the fun, and creating interesting menus.
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They should look for the CE mark on the data plate — an assurance of quality that will continue to be a legal requirement after Brexit. Buying British-made is a wise choice and having advice and service support on a line that operates within your time-zone and in your language is key.
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This should also be a big barbecuing year. It's an Ashes summer and anything Aussie always boosts barbecuing. Britain is also hosting the Cricket World Cup, so chefs can theme barbecues around Australian, Caribbean and Asian foods according to matches played, getting everyone in the mood and making those outdoor eating areas vibrant and magnetic spaces.
Karen Swift is director of marketing at Cinders Barbecues, one of the UK's leading producers of catering barbecues, outdoor grills and barbecue accessories. www.cindersbarbecues.co.uk


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How to manage further education risks
- Our new study looks at the challenges and opportunities for further education over the next few years
- Reduced funding, increased partnerships, and reputational damage are among the key risks identified
- New strategies to cope with budget cuts can bring increased risk exposures
Further education (FE) faces an uncertain future, with the quality of provision under scrutiny, and urgent attention needed to address risks in funding, partnerships and reputation – according to our latest report on the sector.
1. Reduced funding
There are nearly five million further education students in the UK – the vast majority aged 18 and over – taking courses ranging from apprenticeships or skills training for the unemployed, to college courses.
FE students aged 18 and over are being targeted almost exclusively by the Government's on-going
education cuts – with the Department of Education protecting 5-16 funding and school sixth forms.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), said in February that funding through the Skills Funding Agency for adult skills in 2015-16 would be reduced by more than £249 million – an 11% cut – and the total BIS budget for adult FE and skills funding would be cut by 5% to £3.91 billion. Allied to this, overall teaching costs are rising for colleges, with increased pension and National Insurance contributions.
Savings and financial stability
To make the required savings, further education institutions will have to take tough decisions.
Up to 98% of FE respondents we interviewed in November and December 2014 were worried about budgetary pressures – making it by far the highest concern for the sector.
Fears for financial stability also ranked highly. Many FE institutions are now looking at new strategies to cope with reduced funding – including taking on more students, increasing class sizes, scrapping some courses and reducing staff costs.
These changes can bring with them new or increased risk exposures, including the risk of spending less time on safeguarding students' welfare.
2. Mergers and partnerships
To save money, some FE colleges are looking to either outsource or share their services, creating a larger organisation, with greater financial resources and an increased service offering that can attract a wider range of students, from a larger area.
There are also risks. For a smaller college being submerged by a larger partner, there is a loss of autonomy and identity to consider, as well as the discarding of some of its services and potential job losses.
Colleges may also need to look at structural issues such as a physical increase in size and its associated problems, for example building space and car parking. Practical issues, such as compatibility of IT systems, could also cause potential challenges.
Some larger colleges are looking overseas to offset the funding gap. One English college has established a partnership with the Nigerian government for vocational centres in Nigeria, and another is participating in a joint venture in China. Moving into new areas can lead to exposures that may not have been encountered in the UK.
Outsourcing, too, presents risk. If a service provider fails to deliver, any reputational damage will have a serious impact on the FE organisation.
This makes it essential to clarify responsibilities for service delivery from the start, with contracts carefully managed and reviewed.
3. Reputation
The need for FE colleges to promote and manage their reputation – with less funding and greater competition – has never been greater.
It is hard to build and maintain a good reputation, but easy to ruin one – from a low ranking in a league table, to poor academic results, reports of bullying or even physical damage to premises.
Robust business continuity plans are needed to help provide a speedy and proactive response to any crisis, and ward off negative press reports and adverse reaction on social media.
Facing a dilemma
Today, the FE sector faces a dilemma. Do nothing and organisations face further income loss, damage to their reputations and even closure. But embracing cost-cutting measures without careful planning presents additional risks which, if not managed well, could be just as dangerous.
Come and talk to us if you are facing any of the challenges highlighted in this article – we are on hand to provide support. Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com


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On October 4, 2010, the SEC stayed the effectiveness of its recently adopted Proxy Access Rules (Rule 14a-11, and complementary amendments to Rule 14a-8, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) during the pendency of litigation attacking the adoption of the rules. The new Proxy Access Rules were to become effective on November 15, 2010.
On September 29, 2010, Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States filed a petition with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the validity of new Rule 14a-11 and complementary amendments to Rule 14a-8. The SEC stated that it issued the stay to avoid "potentially unnecessary costs, regulatory uncertainty and disruption that could occur if the rules were to become effective during the pendency of a challenge to their validity." The petitioners and the SEC are seeking expedited review of the matter by the Court of Appeals.


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On July 4th, 2006, I embarked on a quest to become the pre-eminent American portrait painter of the 21st century. This blog chronicles that journey. With apologies to Joan Didion, I call it THE YEAR OF MAGICAL PAINTING.


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October is National Medical Librarians Month. Celebrate with us and learn about how each of the HSL librarians support OSU students, faculty, and staff:
Lynda Hartel – HSL Interim Director, and Associate Professor
With a commitment to the success of our medical and health sciences students, faculty, and staff, Lynda works to set and advocate for HSL priorities, guide strategies, assess services and resources, foster employee development, and advance our campus partnerships.
Judy Wiener – Assistant Director, Collections and Outreach, and Associate Professor
Oversees and helps set the strategic direction for all HSL print, electronic, and historical collections and collection-related services. Judy is the liaison to the HSL-affiliated libraries at Nationwide Children's Hospital, University Hospitals East, and the Library for Health Information (OSUWMC's consumer health library). She also leads HSL outreach library services and programs.
Stephanie Schulte, Head, Research and Education Services, Liaison to Medicine, and Associate Professor
Oversees librarian educational and research support efforts across the health sciences, provides customized support to medical faculty, students, and clinical staff related to clinical questions, research projects, systematic literature searches, and research impact questions for promotion and tenure, teaches the required course Mastering the Biomedical Literature in the Biomedical Science undergraduate major, and participates in the Evidence Based Inquiry and Research thread throughout the medical school curriculum.
Fern Cheek – Research Librarian and Liaison to the Colleges of Optometry and Public Health, and Associate Professor
Provides programming to support researcher needs such as assistance with data management, grant and manuscript writing, editing, etc.
Provides one on one consultations and customized workshops regarding class assignments, comprehensive searching, data management, systematic reviews, copyright assistance, research impact and open access to faculty, staff and students in the colleges of Optometry and Public Health.
Kerry Dhakal - Research & Education Librarian, and Assistant Professor
Serves the College of Nursing and clinical nurses and chaplains working at the Wexner Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital. Kerry teaches information literacy, Evidence-Based Practice and research strategies and conducts research on librarianship roles in nursing education.
Eric Schnell - Technology Strategist, and Professor
Responsible for researching, identifying, and deploying technology solutions which facilitate library and user access to information resources. These activities include networking, information systems infrastructure, and desktop and mobile device support. Eric is also actively involved with campus cybersecurity training. Serves as the HSL's liaison to the Wexner Medical Center's Information Technology Department and the campus' Office of the Chief Information Officer (oCIO).
Anna Biszaha – Research & Education Services Associate
Assists students, faculty, and staff across the health sciences with their library research endeavors. Provides instruction on a variety of HSL resources and search techniques through one-on-one consultations, class presentations, and virtual reference. Serves as the Liaison Librarian to the College of Dentistry.
Joe Payne – Collection Development Librarian
Manages access to the HSL's print and electronic resource collections including more than 6,200 eJournals, 11,500 eBooks, and 93 databases in health sciences subject areas.
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text: For the more experienced birder, Bijagua is the place to see Tody Motmot and Rufous – vented Ground – Cuckoo, though neither of these birds is easily seen, and the latter is distinctly seasonal and highly dependent on the presence of army ant swarms. These birds are found in primary rain forest located about 800m from Casitas Tenorio. Donald has worked for many years as a birding guide. Please contact us for more details about his guiding services.


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GraceKennedy profits up 18% for 2018
Revenue up $5.1 billion
The GraceKennedy Group saw both its revenue and profit increase in 2018 — despite the strategic restructuring of its operations and the review of its organisational design, cost structure and business processes.
In a news release yesterday, GraceKennedy reported 2018 revenues of $97.54 billion, representing a $5.07-billion or 5.5 per cent increase over the prior year.
Net profit for 2018 was $5.64 billion, an 18.3% or $871.5-million increase over 2017.
According to Group CEO, Don Wehby, "We have a vision to become a global consumer group by 2020, and a $100-billion company by our 100th-anniversary in 2022. With that in mind, in 2018 we continued to execute on the overall strategy of setting a strong foundation for future growth. Our results reflect that the strategy is sound, and that we are making strong, positive strides toward the realisation of our vision."
In 2017, the group had reported non-recurring gains in the amount of $455 million, in relation to the acquisition of Consumer Brands and the dissolution of non-operating subsidiaries. In 2018 the group had further non-recurring gains of $1.06 billion from the dissolution of a non-operating subsidiary. GraceKennedy also realised additional non-recurring gains of $74.7 million on the successful acquisition of Globe Finance Inc by its associated company in Barbados, CSGK Finance Holdings Ltd, through its subsidiary Signia Financial Group Inc.
Excluding these gains in 2017 and 2018, net profit for the current period would have been higher than the corresponding period by $192.3 million.
Dividends increased by 19.5 per cent over prior year, with the company paying out $1.34 billion or $1.35 per share. GraceKennedy's stock price also grew by 44.8 per cent, outpacing the Jamaica Stock Exchange's (JSE) Main Index return of 31.7 per cent.
Group CFO, Frank James advised of a change made to GraceKennedy's dividend policy, noting the board's approval of an increase in the frequency of dividend payments from three to four per year.
Under the new policy the company will also increase dividend payments to a minimum of 20 per cent of net profit attributable to stockholders, up from 15 per cent. The policy, he pointed out via the news release, is subject to available cash flow.
GraceKennedy will make an interim dividend payment of $0.35 cents per stock unit on April 4, 2019, a total of approximately $347 million. Wehby reiterated that focus will be given to substantially increase profitability and cash generation, to improve GK's dividend yield and payout ratio.
Driven mainly by its Jamaican distribution businesses, GK's food trading segment grew in both revenue and profitability when compared to 2017, with the commencement of the distribution of Catherine's Peak Pure Spring Water and the continued good performance of the Procter & Gamble portfolio contributing significantly to the segment's growth.
The launch of new products by GraceKennedy (USA) LLC paved the way for growth in the international foods division, through the Grace and La Fe brands. While Grace Foods UK saw a decline in revenue due to the loss of a third-party brand, the Grace brand in the UK showed double-digit growth driven mainly by Grace Chips, with the Nurishment brand showing some recovery in the last half of 2018.
The banking and investments segment reported a decline in revenue, but growth in profit when compared to 2017. First Global Bank experienced a decline in its loan portfolio when compared to 2017, which, combined with lower interest rates, impacted the segment's performance. The bank is however poised for growth, the release says, as it executes strategies to increase its loan and deposit portfolios by leveraging technology, introducing innovative new products, and delivering on its financial inclusion strategy.
According to Wehby, "this is a positive and exciting time in GraceKennedy's history, and we continue to work hard to ensure the company is well-poised to take its operations to the next level in the years ahead — delivering improved value to you our shareholders and our other stakeholders. We are optimistic about the future of this great company, and are confident that we have the right strategy, resources and, most importantly, the people to achieve our goal of being a $100-billion company by 2022, with significant improvement in return on equity, delivering on our profitability targets. We will do this while always remaining true to our values of honesty, integrity and trust."
The Group CEO added that the company will have an investor briefing on March 12, to expound on the results for the period under review.
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How well do you share your emotions? When the end of your life is near and you are on your deathbed, will you have regrets?
Bronnie Ware wrote a book about what she learned from being a palliative care nurse for years called "Top Five Regrets of the Dying", and one of those regrets struck a chord with me…
I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings
Because I see clients every week who have shunned, ignored and repressed their emotions, to the point where they are not expressing themselves truly or fully in the world.
Our society doesn't like emotion. We teach our children to 'buck up' and 'don't cry'. It's considered inappropriate to show anger at work, even when it's justified. It's not acceptable to be afraid, and we are all expected to feel guilty all the time.
Women who show too little emotion are "bitches" and the ladies who express too much emotion are labelled as "too emotional". Men are taught not to show fear or sadness at all, and only moderate amounts of anger are allowed.
Healthy emotional strategies are simply not understood and not taught to us as we are growing up, so we see all manner of emotional blind spots that are holding us back as adults. In addition, all of this repressed emotional energy has to go somewhere, and when it isn't expressed in healthy natural ways, it shows up as dis-ease in the body; chronic pain and other ailments are the result of bottled up emotion. So…
I challenge you to tell someone how you really feel. Today.
And if you would like to get to strengthen your emotional foundation, you'll want to know about the Resilient Mindset self-study program: Take Charge of Your Mind and Your Emotions to Secure your Bouncebackability.
I'd love your feedback! And don't forget to leave a link back to your own blog too if you have one via the commentluv feature here on the site.
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Born on a small island in the Seychelles Ming has always been surrounded and inspired by nature. After intense training in London, Ming travelled the world teaching floristry and expanding her floral knowledge.
Ming returned to London and established Veevers Carter in 1984.
Veevers Carter is a company of florists, sculptors and engineers who produce the most prestigious, spectacular and innovative floral designs in the U.K. The installations Ming and her team create share more in aesthetics and attitude with sculpture and structure; behind our creative drives lies a professionalism that allows us to transform the most unique and historic event spaces. Ming consults on major floral design not only in the U.K but internationally.
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EPIC 5 Challenge news keeps being discovered or maybe I'm finding time to read up on the event…finally. Leah Garcia did a good job of getting the sound bites off regarding the effort that all athletes were putting in. At least I think they are called sound bites, eh what do I know about news reporting.
Anyways, take some time to enjoy!
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Gaining Weight from Reading
August 15, 2012
If anyone had ever told me that you can gain weight from reading, I would have scoffed at them. Several pounds later, I'm no longer scoffing.
It all started with a six-book series that I am reading. When I know an author is going to be writing a series, I buy the books as they come out and I save them up until I have them all. This can take a few years but that doesn't matter to me because I have so many others that are waiting on my shelves for me to read. When the last book of the series is finally written, I take out all the books and read them back-to-back.
I've never gained weight from reading books so it didn't occur to me that this one should have carried a warning label. It should have said, "Do not read if you want to fit into your clothing." Then, I would have known not to start the series. I would have read something else.
All six of these books are about food in all their glorious manifestations and of the chefs who want to outdo each other's culinary offerings. On the surface, that wouldn't have been enough for me to refrain from buying the books of one of my favorite authors. However, the descriptions of the different dishes, the ingredients, the cooking preparations, and the plating of these foods so that they are appealing to the eye in preparation for the gustatory sampling of them, have been so mouth-watering, that I walk around hungry all day and dream of sugar-plum fairies at night who are baking these wonderful concoctions for my discerning palate.
At least I used to think I had a discerning palate. Now, I'm not so sure. At this point, I might even be called a human garbage pail.
I'm not usually an impressionable reader. My modus operandi is to read something for its content but not get so involved with it that I let it dictate my actions. I can honestly say this hasn't been the case with these books.
Perhaps this was my fault. I should have had something to eat before starting on the first book. Almost from the beginning, I would start to read, and the more descriptive the passages about the food, the more I found myself raiding the refrigerator. I was so engrossed in the descriptions that I didn't even realize that I was holding the book in one hand and opening the refrigerator with the other hand.
This evening, I was telling one of my clients about some foods that I used to eat on my way to school when I was young. They were sold by vendors on the street, each one hawking a different food, and by the time I got to school, I was full. I described them for my client and she got on the internet to try to find pictures of them. With each picture she emailed me, I would give it the thumbs down. They didn't look like what I had eaten.
Then, I got on the internet and I found exactly what I was looking for. I even found an article about these foods that apparently only made their appearance in the neighborhood where I lived. The article told how they disappeared shortly after I moved from that state. My descriptions didn't do them justice.
I found all kinds of pictures of these foods and emailed them to her; they brought back so many memories. We oohed and aahed over them until we were both so hungry. She probably went to bed hungry this evening while I went into the kitchen and made something to eat.
It's terrible to discover after a lifetime of reading everything that wasn't nailed down, that I now have to monitor the books I read so that I don't gain weight. I dread the idea of getting on the scale after I finish reading this series about food; I still have one and a half books to read and when I'm finished, I might have to run naked through the jungle because I can't get into my clothes.


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Yonsei UniversitySeoul, South Korea
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The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program at Dartmouth College has an undergraduate student exchange program with Underwood International College, Yonsei University. This program enables undergraduates from Dartmouth to take advantage of the unique academic and cultural opportunities offered by Yonsei University.
Yonsei University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in South Korea. Founded in 1885, it is located on a campus near the center of the capital city of Seoul, a dynamic and modern city of over 10 million residents. Underwood International College (UIC) at Yonsei University is the first four-year college in Korea to make English the language of instruction, providing an international undergraduate program with a full range of liberal arts majors across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. UIC seeks not only the top students in Korea, but attracts students from East Asia more broadly, allowing access to connections and lasting contact with students from the entire region. The UIC faculty has over 100 members, including Yonsei scholars with exemplary teaching and research experience abroad.
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General Info
Students accepted for exchange will be enrolled as full-time students at Underwood International College and will be able to select courses from its English-language curriculum. They will also be allowed to enroll in language courses, as a valuable aspect of the exchange program will be the opportunity to advance the students' Korean language ability.
Because UIC is on a semester system, Dartmouth students will leave for UIC prior to the beginning of the fall quarter at Dartmouth in accordance with the beginning of the semester at UIC.
All courses will be taught in English. Dartmouth students should take ASCL 10.02/HIST 5.04 ("Introduction to Korean Culture") prior to participating in the exchange program (or should receive an exemption from the program director) in order to gain some familiarity with Korean culture and history before going to Seoul. Though students will be given the opportunity to study Korean while on the exchange program, prior knowledge of Korean is not a requirement.
Yonsei will assume responsibility for facilitating housing, but the student is responsible for the housing costs.
Financing Your Program
Tuition and Fees
Dartmouth students pay tuition and service fees to Dartmouth; room and board fees as well as transportation to and from the program site are the responsibility of the student. Because the exchange is an official program sponsored by the College, Dartmouth students do not need to pay the transfer term fee that the College charges to students who study on outside programs during leave terms.
Financial Aid
Financial aid is available for official exchange programs arranged through the College. Financial aid awards are adjusted to reflect the actual cost of the exchange term. However, students will receive no more scholarship assistance than they would have received for a term at Dartmouth. Any extra costs associated with the program will be covered by additional loan assistance.


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Research Repository
Study of hybrid PVA/MA/TEOS pervaporation membrane and evaluation of energy requirement for desalination by pervaporation
Xie, Z, Ng, D, Hoang, Manh, Zhang, Jianhua ORCID: 0000-0002-8674-0485 and Gray, Stephen ORCID: 0000-0002-8748-2748 (2018) Study of hybrid PVA/MA/TEOS pervaporation membrane and evaluation of energy requirement for desalination by pervaporation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (9). ISSN 1661-7827
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© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Desalination by pervaporation is a membrane process that is yet to be realized for commercial application. To investigate the feasibility and viability of scaling up, a process engineering model was developed to evaluate the energy requirement based on the experimental study of a hybrid polyvinyl alcohol/maleic acid/tetraethyl orthosilicate (PVA/MA/TEOS) Pervaporation Membrane. The energy consumption includes the external heating and cooling required for the feed and permeate streams, as well as the electrical power associated with pumps for re-circulating feed and maintaining vacuum. The thermal energy requirement is significant (e.g., up to 2609 MJ/m3of thermal energy) and is required to maintain the feed stream at 65°C in recirculation mode. The electrical energy requirement is very small (<0.2 kWh/m3of required at 65°C feed temperature at steady state) with the vacuum pump contributing to the majority of the electrical energy. The energy required for the pervaporation process was also compared to other desalination processes such as Reverse Osmosis (RO), Multi-stage Flash (MSF), and Multiple Effect Distillation (MED). The electrical energy requirement for pervaporation is the lowest among these desalination technologies. However, the thermal energy needed for pervaporation is significant. Pervaporation may be attractive when the process is integrated with waste heat and heat recovery option and used in niche applications such as RO brine concentration or salt recovery.
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