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Tarek and Christina El Moussa felt the sting of the housing bubble's burst like Realtors across the country.
With their business dried up, they traded in their $6,000-a-month mortgage for $700-per-month apartment rent (with a roommate), swapped luxury cars for modest ones and shared Subway sandwiches – all while expecting the birth of their first child.
The El Moussas have bounced back – they own a Yorba Linda house – and now the family business is flipping homes, a career move that has landed them a new reality series, "Flip or Flop," which will premiere April 16 on HGTV.
"They liked the fact that we were poor and were trying to make something of ourselves," said Christina El Moussa, 29.
A couple of years ago, the couple, with business partner Pete De Best, bought their first investment house in Santa Ana for $115,000. The El Moussas sold the property and split the $34,000 in profits with De Best – and the trio kept going.
Tarek El Moussa has hired three employees and is expanding into Nevada and Arizona.
On a lark, Tarek El Moussa, 31, sent in a demo tape he made with a borrowed camera to "Flip or Flop" and had a friend edit it. Before he knew it, he was signing a contract with Pie Town Productions for the new show. The couple would buy, fix up and flip 13 houses in 13 episodes.
Although the El Moussas were paid $10,000 per episode, the money they used to buy the houses was from their past investments, Christina El Moussa said.
Today, Tarek El Moussa spends most of his time hunting down new houses and showing the ones he has had fixed up to potential buyers, and Christina El Moussa lists houses for friends and family. Although Tarek El Moussa does some demolition in the show, the couple mostly relies on the skills of their contractor, Israel Battres, and his crew to rehabilitate the houses.
"I'll buy any house, any condition (and) any location as long as I can get it at the right price," Tarek El Moussa said.
TV's 'Flip or Flop' stars offer horse property in Orange for $1.34 million
When he started flipping, Tarek El Moussa would often drive around the Inland Empire scouting houses between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. after addresses were announced the night before an auction. In these sales, there are often tenants who have to be evicted.
At one house they bought in Anaheim Hills, a mother and son were getting evicted by the police – and poured concrete in toilets, smashed out all the windows and took a hammer to the wood floors before they left, Christina El Moussa said. The damage: $30,000. Insurance covered it.
Homeless people have slept on a property, used needles have been found, knives were stuck into walls.
When it came time to make the show, there was a lot of work the El Moussas didn't expect.
Sound checks, coordinating construction with shooting schedules, and getting their 2-year-old daughter, Taylor, to sit still.
"It's definitely a team effort because so many people are working on it," El Moussa said.
Battres, the couple's contractor, appeared on five of the 13 episodes that crews shot. He said balancing the show's needs and doing the construction efficiently got tricky.
"It's a lot of stop and go," he said. "We're ready to rock 'n' roll, and they're like, 'Can you not hammer loudly,' or, 'Can you do some nice demolition.' "
Safety was also a big concern, too.
"When you have TVs and cameras and (microphones), and you have other people around, safety is a huge concern so we have to work around those challenges," Battres said.
A second season is not locked down yet. The network will probably want to see what the show's ratings are first, Tarek El Moussa said.
Regardless, he's learned a lot about himself, construction work and show business.
And he believes in himself again.
"I lost all of that in 2006 and 2007," he said.
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There was an urgent call this week by retired judge John Collins of the Bronx for the Ancient Order of Hibernians to get behind the push for immigration reform this year.
Collins knows of what he speaks. He played a key role back in 1965 in opposing the Immigration and Nationality Act that shut the door on the Irish coming legally to America.
Alas he was one of a brave few who were focused on that issue in the Irish community. Very few realized just how devastating a blow the 1965 act would be to the Irish community in America.
The judge knows well that back then that the leadership of Irish America utterly missed the significance of what was occurring in Congress as European access to the U.S. was essentially ended.
Now he is saying we do not need to make the same mistake again, and he is appealing to America's largest Irish group to ensure they are part of the battle.
As he noted, "The national AOH leaders need to be in contact with the legislators and determine what is possible and what is not and what the Irish should be looking for.
"You as individual members can keep the pressure on those national AOH leaders. Only 311 Irishmen and women were able to receive documented immigrant visas in 2011.
"We are no better than any other nationality, but we do have some bragging rights and we deserve a fair shake."
He is fully correct. We are no mean people when it comes to our contribution to the United States, and we need to make our case loudly and clearly.
Every other country will be making sure their concerns are listened to, as we have seen in the recent past when countries like Australia, Chile and Mexico made side deals for their citizens.
And who can blame them? Yet, we Irish seem almost timid at times to ask on behalf of our citizens, both undocumented and future flow.
It is no time to be bashful when legislation is under review, and it looks for the first time in many years that comprehensive immigration reform is a real possibility.
Irish America and the Irish government need to prioritize this issue this St. Patrick's Day over all else. The parading and revelry is fine, but we cannot lose sight of the serious issue that lurks for so many of our community.
This is the year to make the breakthrough.

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Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne have been added to the list of performers for the 2014 American Music Awards, producers for the awards are expected to announce later on Tuesday.
The Young Money rappers plan on using their slots to debut new music from their upcoming albums.
Minaj will be joined by pop-rock singer-songwriter Skylar Grey for her recently released single, "Bed Of Lies." Minaj briefly teased the emotional ballad during a medley at last weekend's 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards in Glasgow, Scotland, which she also hosted.
Lil Wayne is expected to premiere his latest single, "Start A Fire," lifted from his long-gestating album, "Tha Carter V."


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I have completed one of the constructional tasks on my list for this year, which was to make an interface between my Elecraft K3 and my 2m transverter so that I can leave the transverter on and it will only switch to transmit when I am actually on the 2m band. Up until now I have had to switch the transverter off if I change bands, which is not so good for frequency stability.
The circuit I used was given to me by Bill W4ZV on the Elecraft reflector. It combines the KEYOUT PTT control signal with the DIGOUT signal, both available on the K3's ACC socket. DIGOUT can be configured to go low only when a transverter band is selected. I only have one transverter, so that is good enough for me.
The combining is done using a dual opto-coupler TLP627-2. I'm not quite sure why an opto-coupler is needed, but as that is what the circuit said, that is what I used. The reason it took a while to get around to making this interface is that it was some time before I had a big enough list of parts to order from a source that sold the TLP627-2.
I built the circuit on a small piece of Veroboard. Prior to building it I thought I would design the layout using some stripboard layout software. Of course there was no need to use a layout program for such a simple circuit. But I have a more ambitious project in mind that I would like to do on Veroboard and I wanted something simple to try different programs out with.
I tried several programs, including VeeCAD, VeroDes, Stripboard Designer, Stripboard Magic and DIY Layout Creator. All of the programs to a greater or lesser extent suffer from a limited library of components, especially RF components like Toko coils or trimmer capacitors that you tend to use in RF projects. Therefore their usefulness depends a lot on the extent of the shortfall and how easy it is to add new components to the library.
The Java based DIY Layout Creator was quite impressive, and runs on Linux as well as Windows. However, adding components involves creating XML files containing the Javascript to draw the component.
My ageing brain struggles with complex tasks so I was attracted to the idea of programs that could generate a stripboard layout from a circuit diagram, or at least validate that the layout matches the circuit, because I am bound to make a mistake doing it manually. VeeCAD can check a layout using a circuit network description exported from a design program like TinyCAD. It can create a layout automatically but that feature is only available in the paid version so I couldn't test it. VeeCAD's component library is a bit limited and an annoying restriction is that you can't easily change the format of a resistor to mount it on end to save space.
Stripboard Magic is the only other one of the programs I mentioned that can generate a stripboard layout from a circuit. Its circuit designer is built-in and quite easy to use. The automatic layout generator seems a bit quirky, and produces a layout that may be electrically correct but seems to put the components all over the place. However you can add the components one at a time which gives you more control over the placement, and it will then check the layout against the circuit. Adding components doesn't seem too difficult and the library uses bitmaps for images so you could make them look realistic. Stripboard Magic is an old program that was written by a now defunct company but it is the one I like best at the moment.
I'm surprised I didn't find anything better for laying out circuits on Veroboard. I'd be interested to hear what methodology other constructors adopt when building circuits on stripboard.


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Deference Ploy Is Defeated
As readers of this column are well aware, insurance companies are "stodgy" and "old-fashioned" only when it comes to paying claims. When it comes to defending against claims, insurers are swift, inventive and show very little, if any, conscience.
Even experienced disability income lawyers, are amazed at the lengths insurers will go to try to circumvent laws designed to level the playing field for claimants and policyholders.
A case in point is Curtis v. Hartford Life, 2012 WL 138608 (N.D.Ill.) which illustrates the latest tactic of some insurance companies in trying to undo the protection afforded by state legislatures to protect their citizens against the discretionary language rule in ERISA litigation. For more on discretionary language.
A U.S. Supreme Court case, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101 (1989) holds that employers, by adding a few words in their ERISA plan, can give a plan administrator, which is usually the insurance company which would have to pay the claim, discretion to decide whether or not a claim is valid. More importantly, Firestone requires reviewing courts to give deference to that decision. For more on deference.
Unless the claimant can show the denial by the insurer was "arbitrary and capricious", a very tough burden, courts are forced by Firestone to go along with the denial of benefits, even if the court feels the denial is wrong.
To make the cheese even more binding, ERISA preempts state action in ERISA matters, one of the few exceptions being the wording of policies.
For too long, Firestone gave insurance companies the best of the bargain. Then, several years ago, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (insurance officials from the 50 states) drafted a model rule for prohibiting the use of discretionary language in policies. In states which have adopted that rule, discretionary language is no longer permitted in policies issued in that state. Gone is this free ride for insurers.
At first, insurance companies attacked the policy language prohibitions as actually being covered by ERISA and, therefore preempted. This attack was foiled by Standard Ins. Co. v. Morrison, 584F.3d 837(9th Cir. 2009), in which the court upheld the state's right to determine the language of insurance policies issued in its state and held such power exempt from ERISA preemption.
Since the preemption argument didn't work, Hartford tried something else:
It used an insurance trust that was set up in Maryland, a state which doesn't have a rule prohibiting discretionary language in policies (citizens of Maryland, why do you permit this?).
Hartford then had the trust issue the policy to the Curtis's employer in Illinois, taking the position that the discretionary language prohibition does not apply because the policy is issued in Maryland, not Illinois. For good measure, Hartford added policy language that the policy was to be interpreted according to Maryland law which does not prohibit discretionary language.
However, the court did not buy this "misdirection" ploy, clever as Hartford thought it might be. The court found the tactic a subterfuge, and found that the actual terms of the insurance contract was the relationship between the insured's employer and the insurance company. Therefore, the policy language was subject to the Illinois discretionary language prohibition.
As to Hartford's claim that the policy called for Maryland law to prevail, the court said no, citing the Illinois State Supreme Court's decision in Hofeld v. Nationwide Life, 332 N.E. 2d 454 (1975) , which held that such a choice of law provision would be upheld so long as no provision of the insurance policy was in conflict with the public policy of the state. In this case there was a clear conflict with the public policy of Illinois which prohibits discretionary language.
But, never fear. In their never-ending battle to pay as few claims as possible, insurers are bound to come up with new ways to try to resuscitate the deference "hammer" that Firestone v. Bruch provides for them.


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Showcase September 2013: International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute (ISCSI 2013), held at UCSB, August 11-25 2013
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International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute
University of California, Santa Barbara, August 11-25 2013
The campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, was the site of ISCSI 2013, the International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute. The Institute was held from August 11-25 and was a combined summer school, conference, and workshop on the interdisciplinary field of spatial cognition, i.e., the study of spatial perception, thinking, reasoning, and communication by humans, nonhuman animals, and computational entities such as robots. Participants included internationally prominent instructors from geography, cartography, and geographic information science; cognitive, developmental, and environmental psychology; computer and information science; linguistics; architecture; and neuroscience. There were 56 students from 7 countries, including Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States; they were primarily graduate students and early-career researchers from these disciplines. The Institute followed up the successful ISCSI 2003 held in Bad Zwischenahn, Germany.
Feedback from graduate and post-doc attendees was universally positive. As third-year graduate student Corinne Holmes at Temple University stated, "It was surreal to start your day with a run adjacent to the ocean, fill your day with talks from some of the most influential researchers in your field, and end your day learning about 'up and coming' studies from your fellow colleagues." And the day did not seem to end there. Small break-out sessions could be seen scattered around campus following the academic day. In addition to impromptu break-out sessions, a five-mile walk ending at Goleta beach provided students an excellent opportunity to get one-on-one time with PIs and discuss various research ideas. Corinne said, "I came to ISCSI with two ideas for future research, and after multiple discussions, I'm leaving with about ten… Now I just have to figure out how I am going to get them all done!"
Funding was provided by spatial@ucsb, Spatial Cognition Research Center SFB/TR8, Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC), NSF Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences, and the College of Letters & Science, UCSB, ESRI, ETH, Zurich, University of Zurich, Cognitive Science Society, Otto von Guericke, University Magdeburg.
The Institute consisted of sixteen short courses, organized into four pairs of parallel sessions during each week. In addition, students gave short oral presentations of their research activities as they relate to spatial cognition.
The Institute's web site is http://iscsi.spatial.ucsb.edu/.
The beautiful surroundings of the summer school nurtured collegiality.
Course Schedule and Instructors:
Week 1 (August 11-17, 2013)
Keynote Speaker: Ben Kuipers, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
- Individual Differences in Spatial Cognition
Mary Hegarty, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC-Santa Barbara
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Spatial Cognition
Thomas Wolbers, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Otto von Guericke, University Magdeburg
- Development of Spatial Cognition
Nora S. Newcombe (SILC PI), Department of Psychology, Temple University
- Cognitive Issues in GIS
Martin Raubal, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich
- Human Perception and Cognition of Space I
David Waller, Department of Psychology, Miami University
- Cognitive Issues in Visualization
Sara Fabrikant, Department of Geography, University of Zurich
- Spatial Cognition in AI/Robotics
Ben Kuipers, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Christian Freksa, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen
- Human-Centered Cognitive Computing for Assistive Technologies
Mehul Bhatt, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen
Week One and Two were packed with wonderful instructors and insightful presentations.
Pictured above: Mary Hegarty, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC-Santa Barbara.
Week 2 (August 18-25, 2013)
Keynote Speaker: Jack Loomis, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC-Santa Barbara
- Spatial Thinking in Science Practice and Education
Thomas F. Shipley, Department of Psychology, Temple University
- Architectural Cognition
Ruth Conroy-Dalton, Department of the Built & Natural Environment, Northumbria University
Christoph Hoelscher, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich
- Language and Space
Thora Tenbrink, School of Linguistics & English Language, Bangor University
- Virtual Reality
Andrew Beall, WorldViz and Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UC-Santa Barbara
- Human Perception and Cognition of Space II
Frances Wang, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
- Computational Modeling of Spatial Cognition
Holger Schultheis, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen
Thomas Barkowsky, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen
- Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Gérard Ligozat, Department of Informatics, Paris-Sud University
- Behavioral Methods in Spatial Cognition
Daniel Montello, Department of Geography, UC-Santa Barbara
Our instructors are multi-talented: Daniel Montello, Week Two instructor and BBQ expert, sporting his "Kiss Me I'm a Geographer" apron.


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Citicoline -- a chemical that occurs naturally in the body and is available in the U.S. as a nutraceutical -- did not improve outcomes among patients with traumatic brain injury, the randomized COBRIT trial showed.
Functional and cognitive outcomes assessed with a battery of tests 90 days after the injury were not significantly different between the patients who received citicoline and those who received placebo, according to Ross Zafonte, DO, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues.
There were also no differences in any secondary outcome, including survival, the researchers reported in the Nov. 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The findings call into question the use of citicoline around the world, they said.
The agent is approved for use in patients with traumatic brain injuries in 59 countries. Preclinical studies and some small clinical trials have suggested that citicoline has potential neuroprotective effects and may enhance neurological repair after a brain injury, but most randomized trials in patients with traumatic brain injury have failed to show any benefit.
"The absence of an effect in prior trials and in COBRIT may be attributable either to the therapy simply being ineffective or to the heterogeneous pathophysiological nature of traumatic brain injury," Zafonte and colleagues wrote. "This would suggest that the mechanisms of action of drugs used in future ... trials would need to be tested in specific subtypes of traumatic brain injury, where they are likely to have a positive effect."
The COBRIT trial was a phase III, double-blind, randomized trial that included 1,213 patients treated at one of eight U.S. level 1 trauma centers for a nonpenetrating traumatic brain injury. The seriousness of the injuries ranged from complicated mild traumatic brain injury to severe injury.
The patients received either daily enteral or oral citicoline 2,000 mg or matching placebo starting within 24 hours of the injury.
The primary outcome was a global measure of functional and cognitive status -- the TBI Clinical Trials Network Core Battery, which includes nine scales -- at 90 days.
The trial was stopped for futility at the fourth interim analysis. The primary outcome was no different between the citicoline and placebo groups at 90 days (OR 0.98, 95% CI 0.83 to 1.15). The severity of injury did not affect the results.
The rate of a favorable outcome for each of the nine scales of the assessment ranged from 35.4% to 86.5% in the citicoline group and from 35.6% to 84% in the placebo group, with no between-group differences.
In an accompanying editorial, Robert Ruff, MD, PhD, and Ronald Riechers II, MD, of the Cleveland VA Medical Center, noted that among the possible reasons citicoline did not improve outcomes was the fact that there are many different mechanisms of injury involved in brain trauma.
"Traumatic brain injury can have regional pathology attributable to hematomas, edema, infarction, penetrating injury, and cerebral contusions. Diffuse injury mechanisms include diffuse edema, activation of inflammatory cytokines, release of excitatory neurotransmitters, extracellular potassium-induced membrane depolarization, and diffuse axonal injury," they wrote.
"Hence, optimal treatment ... may require that multiple agents and modalities be used to address all of the regional and widespread injury processes that occur in traumatic brain injury," they wrote.
The study was supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the following institutions: Temple University; University of Alabama at Birmingham; University of Maryland; University of Pittsburgh; University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center; University of Texas Southwestern; University of Washington; Virginia Commonwealth University; and Columbia University. Ferrer Grupo provided the citicoline and identical placebo used in the study.
The study authors and the editorialists reported that they had no conflicts of interest.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Zafonte R, et al "Effect of citicoline on functional and cognitie status among patients with traumatic brain injury: Citicoline Brain Injury Treatment Trial (COBRIT)" JAMA 2012; 308: 1993-2000.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Ruff R, Riechers R II "Effective treatment of traumatic brain injury: learning from experience" JAMA 2012; 308: 2032-2033.


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Bristell USA has appointed US Aviation at Denton Airport (DTO) in Texas to provide Factory Authorized Service for the Bristell Light-Sport Aircraft.
US Aviation have been a Rotax Service Center for many years with six Rotax trained, full time A&Ps on staff.
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Built in the Czech Republic by manufacturer BRM Aero, the Bristell was designed by Milan Bristela, who has experience from the Evektor SportStar and Czech Sport Aircraft Sport Cruiser programs, that features a 51-inch-wide luxurious interior, has a useful load of 617 pounds and a range of 700 nautical miles flying.
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Be'er Sheva (also spelled Beersheba, Hebrew באר שבע) is a desert city of approximately 200,000 inhabitants in southern Israel. It is the sixth largest city in the country and is very much the gateway to the Negev region of Israel. The city is spread out by Israeli standards, as there is no shortage of land in the desert, and there isn't much of a downtown, except for a few streets in the old Turkish quarter. While Beer Sheva is mostly middle class, it does have three wealthy satellite suburbs with manicured landscapes, private villas and a Palm Springs feel to them: Omer, Metar and Lehavim. A few Bedouin villages surround the city as well. Some feature tribal attractions which are worth a visit include Rahat, Tel Sheva, Hura and Laqiya. In Beer Sheva itself, some modern/experimental architecture was been explored in the 1960s. Today, this is found mostly in government and public buildings, including the Ben Gurion University and Soroka Hospital buildings.
Beer Sheva is at first sight highly disappointing for any visitor. As one enters the city, the oversized avenues and partially run down residential building blocks from the fifties and sixties make for an unwelcoming first impression. However, Beer Sheva can be of interest for any traveller who wishes to experience Israel off-the-beaten-track and there might be no better place to do this, since not even most Israelis are aware that Beer Sheva can be much more than only a stopover on the way to Eilat. The old Turkish town, as run down as it might be, has a very distinct feel and a is hugely underrated: it is the only planned Ottoman city in the entire region, erected in 1900 for strategic reasons in order to secure the Negev region and to control the revolting Beduin population. Today, the architectural and historical jewels, culinary highlights, highly welcoming people and the provincial atmosphere of Beer Sheva allow for the visitor to explore the "normal" and "unpretentious" Israel beyond Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. In addition to that, Beer Sheva offers a vibrant student community - based around the University - which has developed a great nightlife one would never expect at first sight.
Beer Sheva's importance is its function as a central place for the entire Negev. Historically it developed because of the many wells, the most famous of it being "Abraham's Well".
Biblically, the site of Beersheba is where Abraham and his son Isaac made oaths of non-aggression with the Philistines, represented by a king named Abimelech. Abraham lived in the city for 26 years and his son Isaac lived there for many years as well. It is from there that Jacob set out on his journey to "Haran" the birthplace of his mother, to flee from his brother Esau.
Beersheba is also mentioned in Joshua 19:2. It was the southernmost city of Israel in Biblical times - hence the expression "from Dan to Beersheba" was sometimes used to describe the whole kingdom.
Between the two Abimelech stories in Genesis, there are several different possible etymologies for Beersheba's name:
In Hebrew, the word for oath, "shava" and seven, "sheva" are essentially the same, hence some scholars think that the name Be'er Sheva always referred to the original oath between Abraham and Abimelech and the seven ewes were simply a sign of peace as was customary in those times.
Get in
By train
A very comfortable train ride links the city to Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya and Naharia with hourly departures.
By road
By air
The closest airport is Ben Gurion, located outside Tel Aviv.
By bus
Get around
Beersheva is served by buses, 3.80 shekel (about 90 cents). Most of these depart from behind the central bus station (on your right when getting off from an inter-city bus). If coming in by train - these will be on your left when coming out of the train station. All taxi cabs in the city are a flat rate of 20 shekel (about 5 dollars).
The Ginsburg-Ingerman Overseas Student Program at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev offers a wide array of short and long-term Hebrew language and academic studies. For German speaking students the German Language Summer University is organized yearly.
The Medical School for International Health at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev offers an MD program for North Americans.
The MAPMES (Master of Arts Program in Middle Eastern Studies) offers an English-language M.A. program to international students.
24 hour dining at Nafis located at the BIG mega shopping compound. There are also Chinese, Italian, French, Ethiopian, Argentinean, Brazilian, Indian, Bulgarian, Moroccan, Yemenite, Russian, Japanese, Spanish and many Middle Eastern restaurants in town which are moderately pricy. Beer Sheva's culinary offer is spectacular and reflects the cultural backgrounds of the inhabitants of this multi-ethnic city. Locations do change frequently and the restaurants are sometimes located in residential neighborhoods, so advice from locals (and especially students) can be essential.
The major concentrations of restaurants are:
Israeli fast food (falafel, shawarma, hummus) is readily available almost everywhere across town. Some places have gained fame for their quality (Hummus Hamsa, Universitat haShawarma, Falafel haKerem, Beit haFul).
Arabica - 12 Herzel St (08-627-7802) Saba Gepetto - 109 Rager (08-627-2829) Kifris - 1 Herzel St, old city Matte Midbar - 22 Histadrut St, old city (08-623-3370) Ta'amin - 101 Rasco Ct (08-627-0392)
China Town - Kenyon HaNegev (08-627-5489) Jade Palace - Beer Sheva Theater (08-627-5375) MOR Noodles Bar - 115 Rasco (077 766 5005)
French Mediterranean
Ahuzat Halperin - 23 Smilansky St, Old City (08-665-4854)
Hodu Ha-Ktana: Ringelblum St (08-648-9801) K,V,D
Balcona - 18 Herzel, Old City Gatro - Sports Center, Ben Gurion Blvd La Piazza - Kiriat HaMemshala Spagettim - BIG Shopping Center (08-665-5122) SD,D,S Pizza Hut - Kenyon HaNegev (1700 50 6070) K,D Dominos - (1700 70 7070) D Pizza Guta - D
Ishimoto - Derekh Metsada, (077 7551100) S,D,V Street Food - Tiv Tam, BIG Shopping Centre (08-625-2000) SD
Meat Restaurants
Amuna - 58 Keren Ka'emet St, Old City (08-627-8865) Shipuday Sof HaDerekh - 111 HaPalmach St, Old City (08-628-9155) Shipuday HaTikva - Kenyon Kiriat HaMemshelah, near Rasco City (08-665-5722) Mifgash Shaul - BIG Shopping Center (08-623-0161) Schnitzel and Grill - 8 Henrietta Szold, Rasco City (08-628-6619) Chompy - 8 Henrietta Szold, Rasco City (08-645-0130) Nafis - BIG Shopping Center (08-628-2855) S Avazi - BIG Shopping Center (08-665-5274) Meat me at Shiri - 5 Pinchas HaChotziv (08-623-4935)
Hmamsky's - Yosef ben Matiyahu (University Gate 90) Yakuta - 18 Moredai Ha Geta'ot St, Old City (08-623-2689)
South American
Barzilai - Dimona Rd, Opposite Hutzot Lahav (08-649-9942)
Misadat HaDagim Shel Zvili - 7 HaPalmach, Old City (08-627-5557)
Coffee Shops
Mona - 2 Shlomo HaMelech (054 664 7773) S,V Balkona - 81 Herzel St, Old City (08-665-1811) Ma'Afiat HaRishonim - BIG Shopping Center Mocca - 108 Rasco Ct (08-628-4339) Pocoloco - 97 Herzel St, Old City (08-628-2793) Pitput - 122 Herzel, Old City (08-623-7708) Kapulsky - Kanyon HaNegev (08-623-0425) K Betti Bar - 8 Henrietta Szold, Rasco City Siesta - Kanyon Kiriat HaMemshelah and BIG Shopping Center Aroma - Ben Gurion Campus K and BIG Shopping Center (1700701017) S Ashan Hazman - Ringelblum St (077 764 4218) Arcaffe - New side of the Big center S (free wireless, good place to study)
Forum Factor - Kiriat Yehudit, Industrial Park (08-626-2555) The Q - Kiriat Yehudit, Industrial Park Baraka - 70 Shoshet Bnei Ein Harod, Old City (08-628-7111) Red Bar - BIG Shopping Center Chika - 4 HaSadna St, Derekh Hevron (08-690-0330)
Belfast Irish Pub - Mitcham Slavador (08-623-7723) Izzy - Intersection, Omer South (052 270 0796) Publo - Near Dalet Dormitories Coca - 50 Arlozarov, behind Gimmel Dormitories Cazma Lounge Bar - 50 Arlozarov Moncheela - Gimel, opposite Coca (052 2626 266) SanGam - Merkaz HaNegev Manga - Teacher's Center, Rager St
Lots of water, it's in the desert.
And then, Go into the student pubs around the university during the semester in order to sense the country-wide famous student life of the city. The pubs around the university are: Publo, Rosa, Manga, Munchilla, Coca, Black & White and Einstein.
Get out
Beer Sheva is a convenient departure point for excursions to Arad and elsewhere in the Negev. Two good rental car agencies across from the train station (daily rate for automatic 200 Shekels - $45 on a walk in basis), but be careful' police inspectors are on the lookout for traffic and parking violations


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Mooncakes & Dumplings: The Mid-Autumn Festival
According to the lunar calendar, the moon will shine brightest on October 3 this year. In countries from China to Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, people will gather with family and friends to enjoy the view, give thanks for this year's harvest, and feast on delicious cakes and dumplings.
Originally associated with the harvest cycle and dating back over 3,000 years in China, the mid-autumn or moon festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Among our favorite traditions associated with the holiday are, of course, the foods: rich mooncakes filled with lotus seed paste and egg yolks, rice dumplings steamed over aromatic pine needles, and sweet little cakes shaped like rabbits.
Do you and your family celebrate the mid-autumn harvest or moon festival? What will you be cooking or eating?
CHINA: Zhongqiu Jie
There are many different legends associated with the Chinese moon festival, including tales of the moon goddess Chang'e, a pill of immortality, and a mythological archer named Houyi. It's also a time to celebrate the harvest season, to enjoy the bright mid-autumn moon, and to share feasts with family and friends. The holiday has become is famous worldwide for yuebing, or mooncakes, filled with lotus seed paste, egg yolks, sweet bean paste, jujubes, nuts, fruit, and other fillings. Other popular foods for the holiday include red foods, round foods, and fruits like pomelos, apples, and Asian pears.
• Learn more: Festival legends and regional mooncake variations, from Wikipedia
• Recipe: Making Mooncake with Love, from Red Cook
JAPAN: Jugoya
A custom of tsukimi, or moon viewing, takes place on Jugoya, the "15th night" (August 15 on the lunar calendar; October 3 on the solar calendar). People enjoy the moonrise and set up tables with offerings of tsukimi dango (moon viewing dumplings), seasonal fruits and vegetables, and the grasses of autumn. The dango, or rice dumplings, may be plain or filled, and are often arranged in a pyramid. Some cakes may be shaped like bunnies in reference to the legend of Tsukiyo no Usagi, a mochi-pounding rabbit that lives on the moon.
• Learn more: Japanese Moon Viewing - Tsukimi, from About.com
• Recipe: Tsukimi Dango with Matcha & Kinako, from Teacipes.com
KOREA: Chuseok
This three-day celebration is also known as Hangawi or Korean Thanksgiving. It has traditionally been celebrated with offerings of food and thanks to the ancestors, and sharing feasts and games with family and neighbors. The most important food served is songpyeon, a kind of tteok (rice cake). These half-moon shaped cakes are filled with sweet bean paste, chestnut paste, or sesame seeds and steamed over pine needles. Families may also serve newly harvested foods like persimmons, chestnuts, and jujubes.
• Learn more: Enjoy Flavors of Songpyeon, from Korea Times
• Recipe: Rice Cake (Songpyeon), from Maangchi
VIETNAM: Tết Trung Thu
This festival was traditionally a time when parents, who had been busy harvesting, stopped and focused on their children. Thus, it is also referred to as the Children's Festival. Parents and children participate in dances, art and crafts, and a colorful lantern procession. There are also offerings to ancestors and bánh trung thu (mooncakes). Square, round, or even shaped like pigs, Vietnamese mooncakes are filled with lotus seed paste, egg yolks, sweet bean paste, nuts, citrus peel, and other fillings.
• Learn more: Mid-Autumn Festival and Moon Cake Madness: Techniques to Make and How to Buy, from Viet World Kitchen
Related: Ethnic Thanksgiving: What Does Your Family Serve?
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On May 5, 4-H'ers presented the Escambia County Regional Child Advocacy Center with donated supplies from the 2015-2016 4-H community service project. This past year, Alabama 4-H, TGIF and Alabama's Network of Child Advocacy Centers (CAC) partnered in a statewide community service project. Local 4-H members from Escambia, Conecuh and Monroe counties took part in collecting school supplies and personal care items for the Escambia County Regional CAC. Generosity is a big part of positive youth development. By allowing our youth to give back, we give them a rewarding opportunity. More than 500 items were collected from the tri-county area.
For more information on 4-H in Escambia county, contact Cindy Knowlton. For more information on 4-H in Conecuh and Monroe counties, contact Emily Dent.


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European Sectoral Social Dialogue – recent developments - 2010 edition
European Social Dialogue is one of the key elements of the European Social Model. European Sectoral Social Dialogue is the essential means by which the sectoral social partners contribute to the definition of European social standards. It is dynamic and keeps attracting new sectors: today 40 sectoral social dialogue committees work to the benefit of some 145 million workers , i.e. more than three quarters of the EU's workforce, and more than 6 million undertakings. This review presents recent developments in the work of the European sectoral social dialogue committees, highlighting their advances in areas such as skills, training and lifelong learning; working conditions; health and safety at the workplace; anticipation of change and restructuring; equal opportunities; corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. It contains detailed notes for each sector, describing its employment and industry characteristics; key challenges; and representative social partners; as well as the work programme and main outcomes of the respective sectoral social dialogue committee. This publication will be available in printed format in English, French and German.


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DelPen wrote:shmenguin wrote:Is it weird that I don't associate this situation at all with patriotism?
We haven't really seen how this is hurting all the people yet. The death toll was fairly low and until they have some good ties to foreign terrorists groups and we actually see the stories of the dozens of amputees I'm not feeling the sense that this was an attack on America like 9/11 was.
the only thing ive heard so far was from my fiance. she saw on TV (i'm guessing CNN) that one of the bombers was kicked out of a mosque for being too anti american. heard 3rd-hand from a flimsy source so, yeah. its possible i guess.


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By Michael Smith
Raleigh, NC October 28, 2013 – For the second time in less than three weeks, the Carolina Hurricanes will face the Pittsburgh Penguins in a battle between the second and first place teams, respectively, in the Metropolitan Division.
The Hurricanes would like a different outcome.
In Pittsburgh on Oct. 8, a three-goal third period from the Penguins, punctuated by Jussi Jokinen's hat trick, buried the Canes in a 5-2 defeat, their first regulation loss of the young season. The two teams combined for 71 shots (Pittsburgh had 37, Carolina had 34), the most in a Carolina game this season.
"I'm not so much concerned about the amount of shots. It's where the shots come from and the quality of shots. They've got some firepower over there," head coach Kirk Muller said. "The last couple of times playing Pittsburgh, we've given them too many easy plays around the net and gave them more time than we wanted to for them to execute and make those plays. So we've got to tighten it up and play the game the right way."
Playing the game the right way begins in the first period, and the Hurricanes have made it a point to address their starts after spotting Minnesota and Colorado two goals each in the opening frames of their last two losses.
"As a group, consistently, we just have to be smarter with some of the decisions we're making, especially in the first period," Eric Staal said after Sunday's practice. "It's just about being smarter in our game and not beating ourselves in certain positions on the ice. If we do that, we'll be fine."
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"We don't have to try to go out and win the game in the first. It's more to go out and do the right things in the first," Muller said. "Come out with enthusiasm, but channel it in the right way that we're not giving up quality scoring chances."
Patrick Dwyer will draw back into the lineup after missing two games with an upper-body injury. He'll slot in on the right side on the second line, which should regularly match up against Sidney Crosby's first line.
"Patty's ready to go. He feels good," Muller said. "That's a pretty solid line to match up with some of their key lines."
Justin Peters' last start against the Penguins came in an 8-3 trouncing in the 2012-13 regular-season finale. But that was then, and this is now.
"We went in with a pretty depleted lineup last year in the last game of the year. I don't really compare it," Muller said. "We're a whole different group right now. We're fresh, and it's a big game, even for this time of year."
Nathan Gerbe will play in his 200th NHL game tonight against the same team that he faced in his second NHL game. He'll do so skating on the right wing opposite Alexander Semin, who is riding a three game point streak (1g, 3a), on the first line.
The Canes have earned points in 13 of their last 18 home games against Pittsburgh, and they hold a 15-8-3 home record against the Pens since moving to Raleigh in 1999.
Tonight's game also features two teams looking to get off the schneid; the Canes have lost two straight, and the Penguins have dropped three in a row.
"I think [tonight] will be an interesting game. There will be a lot of emotion and intensity," Muller said. "We're looking at it like we lost two. They're going to be hungry and not very happy, and we're not."
"We feel we've got a really good team in here that could be higher up on the [standings] than we are. We don't want to be satisfied with where we're at," Staal said. "We want to make sure we're striving to be one of the top teams in the East."


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Screw You, Mr. President
Helen Thomas used to ask questions in press briefings. Now she makes speeches.
Helen Thomas, the 89-year-old grande dame of the White House press corps, has resigned from Hearst News Service after her controversial comments about Jews and Israelcaused a stir. Thomas has been dropped by her speaking agency and has drawn criticism from her colleagues. In 2003, Jack Shafer wondered if the once-great Thomas was past her prime. Watch video of Thomas' comments and then read the original article is reprinted below.
Slate V: Thomas tells Israelis to "get the hell out of Palestine."
At his televised news conference last week, President George W. Bush deliberately snubbed several reporters he ordinarily calls upon, including journos from the Washington Post, Newsweek, and USA Today. But the most conspicuous recipient of the 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. freeze-out was longtime UPI reporter Helen Thomas, who has barbed and grilled every president since John F. Kennedy and almost always gets to ask a question. Bush pointedly ignored her.
Bush then dealt Thomas a second slight. By custom, Thomas concludes White House press conferences at the president's signal by saying, "Thank you, Mr. President." Bush denied her that supporting role, ending the conference with his own sign off, "Thank you for your questions," and flushing a decades-old White House custom.
Bush's slaps at Thomas are consistent with the psy-ops his information wranglers conduct day-in and day-out on the White House press corps. Bush's news conferences have become increasingly scripted, with the president calling on reporters from a preset list and refusing the follow-up questions that might trick him into saying something substantive. Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has lobotomized the White House press corps in official briefings by jawing more and more and saying less and less. (The smarter reporters play hooky these days rather than endure Fleischer obfuscations.) Last October, Fleischer maliciously tampered with the corps' self-esteem by reassigning seats in the briefing room. The new chart demoted scribes from Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report from the Park Place of the second row to the Siberia of the sixth. (Pressies live for their little perks, and the White House reporters revealed their Ted Baxterian pettiness for all to see when they bellyached about the reshuffle.)
But the reason behind Bush's double dissing of Thomas isn't directly related to his basic contempt for White House beat reporters. Bush ignored Helen Thomas because she is no longer the Helen Thomas of yesteryear, a deadline artist writing news for tens of millions of UPI readers. She left the waning wire in silent protest, after convicted felon Rev. Sun Myung Moon's News World Communications rescued it from collapse in 2000, and took a job at the Hearst News Service. There, Helen Thomas the Pundit writes a sharply partisan syndicated White House column about what she thinks—as opposed to Helen Thomas the Reporter, who wrote about what she'd learned. How bad is the column? Only a couple of Hearst papers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Houston Chronicle, publish her pieces with any regularity.
I dare say that if you were Bush or his handlers, you'd pass her over at a press conference, too. Her loathing for Bush is palpable. "This is the worst president ever," she told the Torrance, Calif., Daily Breeze in January. "He is the worst president in all of American history." Though Thomas never masked her crush on Democrats when she worked as a news writer, she comes completely out of the closet in her columns, ripping "Bush's headlong drive into war, his favor-the-rich economic policy and his campaign to put right-wing ideologues on the Supreme Court." As the child of Lebanese immigrants, Thomas knows exactly which religious button she's pushing when she repeatedly condemns Bush's plans for war on Iraq as a "crusade."
But Thomas' opinion columns are a model of restraint when compared with the snarky speeches she delivers in lieu of asking questions at White House briefings. In the past, Ari Fleischer usually gave Thomas first shot, and in recent weeks she rode a constant theme:
Thomas to Fleischer: Will you state for the record, for the historical record, why [Bush] wants to bomb Iraqi people?
—March 5, 2003
Thomas to Fleischer: [W]hy is [Bush] going to bomb them? I mean, how do you bomb people back to democracy? This is a question of conquest. They didn't ask to be "liberated" by the United States. This is our self-imposed political solution for them.
—Feb. 26, 2003
Thomas: At an earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the president deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world?
Fleischer: Well, Helen—
Thomas: And I have a follow-up.
Fleischer:—I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack in Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the president, as he said in a statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel.
Thomas: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
—Jan. 6, 2003
Thomas' talent for speechifying at news conferences dates to her career as a reporter. The day after the allies started bombing Iraq in 1991, President George H.W. Bush denounced Hussein's Scud attack against Israel in a news conference. Back then, Thomas had a very different idea of who qualified as an "innocent civilian."
Thomas: Mr. President, two days ago you launched a war, and war is inherently a two-way street. Why should you be surprised or outraged when there is an act of retaliation?
Bush I: Against a country that's innocent and is not involved in it? That's what I'm saying.
Thomas: Well ...
Bush I: Israel is not a participant. Israel is not a combatant, and this man has elected to a—to launch a terrorist attack against the population centers in Israel with no military—no military design whatsoever. And that's why. And it is an outrage and the whole world knows it and the whole world is—most of the countries of the world are speaking out against it. There can be no—no consideration of this in anything other than condemnation.
Bested by Bush, who was never particularly quick on his feet, Thomas changes the subject with a new speech.
Thomas: Why is it that any move for—move for peace is considered an end run at the White House these days?
Bush I: Well, you—you obviously—what was the question? End run?
Thomas: Yes, that is considered an end run, that people who still want to find a peaceful solution seem to be running into a brick wall.
As someone practiced in the art of vitriol, I'd be the last to deny Thomas her right to extend a middle finger at the president. And as an 82-year-old, Thomas possesses more energy and exhibits a stronger work ethic than anybody on her beat. One reporter says she's the only person with any testosterone in the White House press room. She starts each day at 5:30 a.m., reading the newspapers at a coffee shop near the White House. She responds to e-mail and answers her own phone—although she's known to hang up quickly if she doesn't like the direction the conversation takes.
But she can't give Bush the what-for and expect the White House to treat her like the grande dame. And I don't think she does. For a crabby person with a big mouth, Thomas complains very rarely. When the Moon cult bought UPI, she left in protest but didn't trash the place on the way out. Nor has she griped about receiving Bush's cold shoulder. "That was his privilege, I guess," Thomas told the New York Observer. "I think he had a right to do that."
We could applaud her for stripping the varnish off standard-issue White House lies with her acerbic questions, but rarely are her questions tailored to produce an intelligent response from Fleischer. When you repeatedly ask the question, "Why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?" you're mostly venting your spleen.
Not that Fleischer would give a useful answer to a direct question in any case. The same goes for his boss. White House briefings and presidential news conferences have become so ritualized and substanceless that many of the beat reporters have begun exhibiting all the classic symptoms of depression: guilt, worthlessness, pessimism, restlessness, and irritability.
While Bush dislikes Thomas, he and his news managers are still savvy enough to recognize her usefulness to the administration. When Fleischer changed the seating chart in the briefing room last year, he could have exiled Thomas to the back row. Instead, he kept her down front, where he uses her as his foil, addressing her liberally by first name so other White House officials reading the transcript can chuckle to themselves—We're safe! It's another question from that wacky Helen Thomas. When Fleischer calls on her, he hopes she'll heckle him and savage Bush with her eccentric, combative, accusatory, and unreasonably phrased questions—because they're so easily evaded. "We will temporarily suspend the Q & A portion of today's briefing to bring you this advocacy minute," Fleischer responded to a line of Thomas questioning at the Feb. 26 press briefing. The moment of comic relief lifts Fleischer and soils Thomas.
Which brings us to the saddest part of Thomas' decline: She often raises serious questions that are on lots of people's minds—questions that other critical journalists in the press corps might want to pose. But when spoken by Thomas' lecturing lips first, the questions sound absurd. She ends up taking the air out of the room for intelligent criticism of the president and helps make the press corps look like a Saturday Night Live skit. You can almost hear Fleischer squealing behind closed doors after the briefings: Thank God for Helen Thomas!
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The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Diverse Learners
America's schools are responsible for meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse student population, and ESEA programs must provide a wide range of resources and support to ensure that all students have the opportunity to succeed in college and in a career. ESEA includes programs that help schools meet the special educational needs of children working to learn the English language, students with disabilities, Native American students, homeless students, the children of migrant workers, and neglected or delinquent students. In addition, the federal government has a responsibility to provide assistance to certain high-need regions and areas, including rural districts and districts that are affected by federal property and activities.
In each of these areas, the Administration's ESEA reauthorization proposal will continue and strengthen the federal commitment to serving all students, and improve each program to ensure that funds are used more effectively to meet the needs of the students they serve.
A Continued Commitment
- Improving programs for English Learners and encouraging innovative programs and practices to support English Learners' success and build the knowledge base about what works.
- Maintaining and strengthening formula grant programs for Native American students, homeless students, migrant students, and neglected or delinquent students; as well as for districts that are in rural areas or that are affected by federal property and activities.
- Meeting the needs of students with disabilities throughout ESEA and through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Students with Disabilities
While the primary funding for programs specifically focused on supporting students with disabilities is through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, our ESEA reauthorization proposal will increase support for the inclusion and improved outcomes of students with disabilities. Our proposal will help ensure that teachers and leaders are better prepared to meet the needs of diverse learners, that assessments more accurately and appropriately measure the performance of students with disabilities, and that more districts and schools implement high-quality, state- and locally-determined curricula and instructional supports that incorporate the principles of universal design for learning to meet all students' needs.
English Learner Education
Our proposal will continue to provide significant formula grants to help states and school districts implement high-quality language instruction educational programs to improve the education of English Learners. Grantees may provide dual-language programs, transitional bilingual education, sheltered English immersion, newcomer programs for late-entrant English Learners, or other language instruction educational programs. Grantees may also provide effective professional development for all teachers of English Learners, including teachers of academic content areas, that is responsive to demonstrated needs identified by evaluations. To ensure that formula grant assistance in these areas supports the conditions needed to foster English Learners' success, we will require states to:
Establish new criteria to ensure consistent statewide identification of students as English Learners, and to determine eligibility, placement, and duration of programs and services, based on the state's valid and reliable English language proficiency assessment.
Implement a system to evaluate the effectiveness of language instruction educational programs, and to provide information on the achievement of subgroups of English Learners, to drive better decisions by school districts for program improvement, and to support districts in selecting effective programs.
Districts that are not improving the performance of English Learners will lose flexibility around the use of funds under this program, and must work with the state to implement more effective strategies.
Our proposal will also provide new competitive grants to states, districts, and nonprofit partners to support the development of innovative programs, build the knowledge base about promising practices, and scale up effective practices to improve instruction for English Learners, including funding for graduate fellowships to support research and leadership in developing effective practices to improve English Learner outcomes, as well as state or district partnerships with colleges and universities for developing effective teachers.
In addition, under the College- and Career-Ready Students program, states will be required to adopt and implement statewide grade-by-grade English language proficiency standards that are linked to the state's college- and career-ready academic content standards.
Migrant Education
Our proposal will continue and strengthen formula grants to states, districts, and other providers to meet the educational needs of migrant students. To ensure that funds are most effectively targeted to the areas in which migrant students live, we will update the current funding formula to incorporate more accurate and timely data. We will also strengthen and facilitate interstate efforts to support the educational transition of migrant students into local schools and communities.
Homeless Children and Youths Education
Our proposal will continue and strengthen formula grants to help states and districts put in place systems and services to meet the educational needs of homeless students. First, we will better target funds to serve homeless students by allocating funds on the basis of counts of homeless students rather than by shares of Title I allocations. Second, we will remove barriers to effective services for homeless children. And third, we will clarify provisions of the current statute where ambiguity resulted in delays in services for homeless children and youths. Our proposal will also increase transparency by requiring grantees to report on the academic outcomes for students served by the program.
Neglected and Delinquent Children and Youths Education
Our proposal will continue and strengthen formula grants to states to improve educational services for students in state-operated institutions and community day programs for neglected or delinquent children and youths. To better direct funds to support students in locally-operated institutions, our proposal will ask districts to reserve funds received under the College- and Career-Ready Students program to support programs conducted by locally-operated institutions.
Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education
Our proposal will continue strong supportthrough formula and competitive grants to states; districts; Indian tribes; Indian institutions of higher education; Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native educational and community-based organizations; and nonprofit organizations, agencies, and institutionsto help meet the unique needs of Indian students, Native Hawaiian students, and Alaska Native students.
Grantees under the Indian education program will have greater flexibility to use funds to carry out programs that meet the needs of Indian students, including Native language immersion and Native language restoration programs, and develop tribal specific standards and assessments. Our proposal will improve access to funds for Indian tribes under other ESEA programs, and recognize and strengthen the role of tribal education departments in coordinating and implementing services and programs for Indian students within their jurisdiction. To ensure that programs reflect the academic, language, and cultural needs of Indian students, we will continue to require the participation of the parents of Indian children in the design of programs. To support effective programs, we will expand eligibility to school districts and public charter schools under the Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native programs.
Rural Education
Our proposal will continue formula grants to rural districts to address the specific needs of students in rural areas, through the Small, Rural School Achievement (SRSA) and the Rural and Low-Income School (RLIS) programs. In order to improve targeting of funds, we will update the method used to identify districts as rural. To allow additional districts needed flexibility, our proposal will also expand the current "REAP Flex" authority, which allows eligible small districts to use other federal education funds flexibly, to districts that are eligible to receive funds under RLIS. In addition, we will better align the accountability requirements of the College- and Career-Ready Students program with the rural education program, so that the rural education program supports school improvement efforts in persistently low-performing districts.
To help rural districts apply for competitive grants and determine effective strategies for improving student academic achievement, the Secretary may reserve funds for national activities such as technical assistance and research on innovative programs that are designed to help rural districts overcome common capacity constraints.
Impact Aid
Our reauthorization proposal will continue significant formula grant support designed to compensate districts for the expense of educating federally-connected children and for the presence in their districts of tax-exempt federal property or other property removed from the tax rolls by the federal government. Because these funds are compensatory, districts enjoy broad flexibility in the use of these funds.


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The South Carolina board of education voted on January 9, 2008, to add Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine's popular high school textbook Biology, published by Prentice-Hall, to the official list of textbooks approved by the state. "Science teachers from across the state erupted in applause after the vote," the Associated Press (January 9, 2008) reported.
On September 4, 2007, the Union of Concerned Scientists issued "Science, Evolution, and Intelligent Design," a statement expressing concern about "current attempts to mandate the teaching of 'intelligent design' and other non-scientific accounts of the origins of species and biological diversity in our nation's science classrooms" and "the misleading interpretations of scientific principles being used to discredit and misrepresent the science of evolution," and calling
Now that the Institute for Creation Research's application for Texas certification of its graduate school is on hold until April 2008, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is being inundated by e-mails from "some of the state's leading physicians and scientists" critical of the ICR's proposal to offer degrees in science education, the Austin American-Statesman (January 24, 2008) reports [Link broken], "including a Nobel laureate w
The scientific community needs to increase its involvement in defending science education -- especially evolution -- according to a coalition of seventeen scientific and educational societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Teachers Association, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and the American Institute for Biological Sciences.
The National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine recently released Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a book designed to give the public a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the current scientific understanding of evolution and its importance in the science classroom.
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Dan McLaughlin, AKA Danny Mac, AKA the guy who had two DWIs in the last two seasons and may have soiled himself during one of his arrests, will return to call Cardinals games in 2012 for Fox Sports Midwest.
It wasn't an easy call, his bosses admit. And McLaughlin acknowledges this is "as last-chance as it gets." But he's gone to rehab for his alcoholism and still attends daily meetings, and says he's in the best shape of his life. We wish him the best.
"I'm humbled, I'm grateful," he said. "And in the same breath I'm still very, very sorry. It's still on the front burner for me. I think about it a lot. ... If it came to that, the point I didn't have a job, which for a long time I thought, I wouldn't have blamed them at all; it was my fault."
McLaughlin will return to Cards' booth [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]


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Welcome to the Madsonian, a museum of Industrial Design. Our collection represents a lifetime of appreciation for and devotion to good design, displaying the best designed and most artistic manufactured objects. From cars to toasters, and from toys to canoes...
It is becoming more and more important to think carefully about how we as a civil society use our resources. By making the everyday beautiful and well designed, and by recognizing and valuing that effort, we can reduce our throw-away culture and become one that surrounds ourselves with beauty, thoughtfulness and art.
The museum has in its collection work by designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Aalvar Alto, Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Eero Saarinen, and Marcel Breuer, to name a few.
Our Founder:
David Sellers is an architect and designer living and working in Warren, Vermont. The Madsonian is the result of his lifelong dream to honor the world's best in industrial design. Dave got his start in architecture at Yale University. He has since been designing and building in Vermont and around the world. Dave has been named one of Architectural Digest's top 100 architects.


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Student or Learner
"...he followed his directions to the mens room on the lower level..."
Does "lower level" just vaguely suggests "downstairs" without specifying which level it is? Or precisely refers to the underground basement part of a building?
"The lower level" just means the (the only one) level lower than the one he is on; not neccessarily basement. Because "the" is used, there isn't a choice of lower levels. Either there is only one lower level, or the author is refering us to a lower level he expects us to know about. If it was "a" lower level, then it would mean any level lower than the one he is on.


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Bk1980 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 160 diseños de 39 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small but growing consulting company that caters to small businesses running on Macs. Our clients say they like us because we are not the average group of IT guys, that they can connect with us unlike regular IT people. While we may have refined taste, we are also down to earth. We enjoy helping creative people reach their goals with technology. It's pretty cool to watch designers in the process. People often ask who Hugo and Wren are, as the company name is hugoWREN. Hugo and Wren are actually my 2 dogs, though they are not the company mascots.
Our client base is very design focused and are Mac users and choose to run their business on Mac. Our business continues to expand, so our cards need to reflect the design centric nature of their businesses. Our three biggest client categories are ad agencies, fashion designers, and high end retail stores.
We don't have a logo per se, but rather we just use our company name in Helvetica Neue Ultra Light formatted as: hugoWREN so that must obviously appear on the card.
Required fields are name, title, email, phone, website. I am not sure if I want to put the address on the card or not.
Must include the attached EPS somewhere.
Please note that Apple will not allow their logo on the business card by itself, it must appear as it is in the EPS file, with the worlds Consultants Network next to the logo. I will have to eliminate any designs that have the Apple logo by itself as it's not a design I would be allowed to use.
Open to both single sided and double sided cards.
Considering adding tag-lines:
Not your average IT.
Mac Retail, Business, & Creative Consulting
can be of unusual card size/shape, but nothing too crazy.
I like heavier card stock and letter pressing, but not required. Matte finish more than likely.
While I am open to creative freedom, please keep the design clean, modern, and chic. I am not sure if color would be a good idea, though I could be wrong.
I need the final file as an Adobe Illustrator document so that I can edit the contact fields and get them printed. I have CS 5 installed so any version is ok.


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U.K. magazine Classic Rock have unveiled their 2012 "Roll of Honour" at a ceremony at the Roundhouse in London. Hosted by Duff McKagan, ZZ Top were presented with the coveted Living Legend Award by 2011 winner, Jeff Beck.
Rush did well. They took Album of the Year and Band of the Year. Pink Floyd were given the award for Film/DVD of the Year and Reissue of the Year, with Status Quo taking the award for Classic Album and Rival Sons for Breakthrough. Deep Purple's late Jon Lord was given the Tommy Vance Inspiration Award.
The complete list of winners is:
Classic Rock Roll of Honour 2012
The Living Legend Award - ZZ Top
Event Of The Year - Ginger Raises £250k
Breakthrough Act Of The Year - Rival Sons
The Musicians' Union Maestro Award - Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music
Tommy Vance Inspiration Award - Jon Lord
Classic Songwriter Award - Russ Ballard
Outstanding Contribution - The Damned
Classic Album Award - Status Quo Live!
V.I.P. Award - Tony Smith
Metal Guru Award - Anthrax
Best New Band - Tracer
Album Of The Year - Rush Clockwork Angels
Reissue Of The Year - Pink Floyd Immersion
Film/DVD Award - Pink Floyd The Story Of Wish You Were Here
Band Of The Year - Rush
Spirit Of Prog Award - Family
Showman Of The Year - Nikki Sixx
Comeback Award - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd played a 30-minute set for the invited guests after a gala dinner.


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Katy is an orphan since she was about she can remember....
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Ok. So I'm doing imagines again. So I will do dirty things but not too dirty. The first chapter will tell you what I need to know. Well, I hope I get to write as many as possible!
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The highest-ranked football game in Titan Stadium history will be Saturday (Oct. 26), when #9 UW-Oshkosh hosts #5 UW-Whitewater at 1 p.m.
Both the Titans and Warhawks enter the contest with a 6-0 record (3-0 WIAC). UW-Oshkosh has won 18 straight regular season games, along with 10 consecutive at home. The winner will have the upper hand in the league title race. The Titans won the 2012 WIAC crown after UW-Whitewater captured the previous seven.
UW-Oshkosh hasn't turned the ball over in three WIAC games, while taking it away 10 times. Last week, four different Titans intercepted a pass during the 41-13 triumph at River Falls. Cole Myhra paced the offense with 154 yards and four touchdowns rushing.
Myhra leads the league with 13 touchdowns and 783 all-purpose yards (567 rushing, 216 receiving). Nick Olla has 10 touchdowns while averaging 256 passing yards per game. The Titans have an explosive group of receivers with Caleb Voss (420 yards), Zach Kasuboski (301), Joe Sommers (271) and Cory Wipperfurth (204).
UW-Oshkosh's defense ranks second in the NCAA Division III with 16 interceptions and ninth with 23 sacks. The unit features 50 tackles from Reese Dziedzic, nine tackles for loss by Ryan Stefaniak and five sacks by Cody Huemmer.
The Warhawks bring a dominant defense that ranks second nationally in scoring (6.2 points), third in total yards (196.2) and fourth in third down conversions (22 percent). Cole Klotz tops the team with 40 tackles, while Brady Grayvold has three interceptions.
UW-Whitewater defeated UW-La Crosse, UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire the last three weeks, winning each by 42+ points. Four Warhawks have at least 150 rushing yards, including 387 with four touchdowns from Jordan Ratliffe. Jake Kumerow leads the receivers with 606 yards and 10 scores.
Quarterback Matt Behrendt hasn't thrown an interception in his last 185 attempts. This season, he owns 1,407 yards and 18 touchdowns through the air.
The Titans went to Whitewater during 2012 and snapped the Warhawks' 26-game conference winning streak with a 28-13 decision. It was UW-Oshkosh's second win in the series since 1988. This will be the 105th meeting between the teams dating back to 1897.
UW-Oshkosh vs. UW-Whitewater Game Notes
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I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.
Don't forget your towel!
Just like the other gods, man-made. Great answer from the Machine!
When I first heard the story it had several stages. Each stage after the first consisted of adding to the computer's capabilities, asking the question, and the computer's replying "Not enough capability."
After as many such stages as the audience can bear, the computer replies, "There is now."
Finally the Messiah has arrived.
Wasn't that a short story by Issak Asimov?
I think the story by Asimov is called the 9 billion names of God. It is about some monks in Tibet who get a super computer to help them write the 9 billion names of god. When they finish, the world ends. As the technicians who installed the computer are driving away, they notice that the stars are going out one by one.
Can the creation destroy it's creator?
Do creators create their own destruction?


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Author Notes: Breakfast for dinner, you bet ya. I remember as a child watching Graham Kerr make omelets. I got a chance to see him do it again once I had learned to cook. It was like PBS classics or something. Never the less I made the omelet. I didn't really like it. I did like the idea of what he did though. I also really like Kaiserschmarrn, the Viennese dessert pancake. I make David Bouley's version at Christmas and just love it. This is some weird combination of the above that just works, it is souffle but not souffle. I think it is best with really crusty bread and nothing else. It is almost a course to itself. - thirschfeld —thirschfeld
Food52 Review: This is the stuff that food fantasies are made of. The creamy, dense pudding-like soufflé suspends the cauliflower puree, which is bound on top by a thin layer of gruyere. The flavors of the cauliflower, cream, eggs, and cheese are well-balanced, and the spices are distinct enough that you taste them, yet light-handed enough that they keep in the background. Nutmeg goes very nicely with curry, cayenne, and white pepper. The kosher salt and white pepper could be added to taste with the other spices to the béchamel, or sprinkled on the top with the cheese. - SallyCan —The Editors
Serves: 4-6
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
head of cauliflower, steamed until tender and cooled
cup heavy cream
tablespoons all purpose flour
tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for the pan
cup hot whole milk
cup Gruyere, grated
pinches nutmeg
teaspoon curry powder
teaspoon cayenne
pinch kosher salt
pinch fresh ground white pepper
large eggs, seperated, whites whipped until stiff
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Combine the cauliflower and the cream in a food processor and puree until it is as smooth as you an get it.
- To make the béchamel sauce place a sauce pan over medium heat and melt the butter. Add the flour and continually stir until you have a paste. Keep stirring so it doesn't brown. Once it smells like popcorn add the hot milk while whisking. Be careful it can splatter violently so make sure the milk is very hot.
- Add the curry, cayenne and nutmeg. Bring it to a boil to thicken it.
- In the bowl with the yolks whisk them to combine them. Add a 1/4 cup of the hot béchamel and whisk to temper the eggs. Add the rest of the béchamel and whisk. Add the cauliflower puree and whisk again.
- Add 1/2 a cup of the gruyere and stir until it is melted. Add a third of the stiff egg whites and fold them into the batter. Add the rest and fold them in until you see no streaks of whites.
- Butter a 8 inch enameled or non-stick skillet. Add the batter, top with the remaining cheese and bake for 20 minutes or until the top is browned and it is set in the middle. Serve immediately
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Dear cctvdirectbuy,
1- does it come with instructions to view camaera over internet explorer? From what I can see it is not client software based it is internet explorer.
2- are you able to hear sound over the internet for the cameras?
3- does it work with windows mobile 7 phone?
audio over phone? can you go back to older video from the phone?
4- i saw the plugs for the bnc for video and didn't see the plugs for the audio. am i looking at something the wrong way?
5- when looking over the internet can you archive video? view old video not just live?
6- if open and decide don't want it just get in touch with you and pay postage per the selling instructions
I appolgize for so many questions it is an electronic so I would like to get this information.
thank you
1. You can see video in either IE or DVR software.
2. Yes, DVR has audio inputs.
You need microphone for your camera:
http://cctvdirectbuy.com/index.php?main ... cts_id=179
3. It works with win mob 7. No audio over phone, no playback over phone.
4. There's cord for audio inputs.
5. yes, you can playback video over the internet.
6. you will have 14 days for return.


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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Looking Fine - Ready To Roll Fashion Show
Some pictures from the Momentum's Ready To Roll Fashion Show in Portland. This show was quite unique because it wasn't just put on for the bike crowd or bike industry. It was part of Portland Fashion Week, so you had fashion industry folk and style makers getting possibly their first taste of bike couture from Sheila Moon and others.
Does this mean Nike will launch a tweed cycling line next fall? Go to Bike Portland for the full story and more photo coverage. Thank you to Veloce Bicycles for the wonderful job of building up the Buena Vista and Smoothie used for this event.
Photos by Jonathan Maus, Bike Portland
Link to the show program(PDF)
Labels: buena vista, fashion, mixte, momentum magazine, portland, ready to roll, soma smoothie
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10 Table Runners: From Woodsy to Formal
Maybe you have a table that's too great to hide under a big cloth, or maybe you just love the look of layered linens. Either way, a table runner can be a great way to bring together a holiday tablescape, so check out these 10 options for runners — from woodsy to formal and everything in between:
Runners can be found in an array of fabrics like damask, burlap or linen, and even less traditional options like paper or twigs, and they work equally well layered over a tablecloth or sitting solo under the centerpiece.
If you have the time and inclination, you can tackle one of the DIY projects. If your hands are full with other holiday duties, save yourself some work and opt for something ready made.
1. DIY Lace Doily Table Runner — Design Sponge book via Style Me Pretty
2. Weathered Wood Plank Quilted Table Runner — ">Shannaquilts $80
3. Ready-Set-Cut Runner — ">BHLDN $228
4. DIY Bandana Table Runner — ">Country Living
5. Burlap Table Runner with Initial — burlapse $29.99
6. Crossing Paths Table Runner — //www.bhldn.com/the-shop_decor_tabletop/crossing-paths-table-runner">BHLDN $40
7. Chilewich Cubic Gunmetal Runner — ">Crate & Barrel $27.95
8. Nubby Table Runner — ">Pottery Barn $29
9. Fresh Herbs Twig Table Runner — Tab $20.74
10. Pen Strokes Paper Table Runner — Anthropologie $38
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CARLISLE, PA - The York College men's cross country team had a fantastic seventh place finish at the Mid-East Regional Meet hosted by Dickinson College in Carlisle on Saturday. Not only did the Spartans have their best finish ever as a team, junior Tim Hartung (Mohnton, Pa./Governor Mifflin) posted a fifth-place finish to make a return to NCAA Division III Championships for the second consecutive year.
Hartung was outstanding for the Green and White as he ran a stellar race. The junior was tenth midway through the race and maintained that slot until he used a great finishing kick to pass five runners over the final kilometer to earn the fifth place finish. His final time was 25:28.6 as he was two seconds out of third place and six seconds out of second place. Allegheny's Bobby Over won the event with a time of 25:09.6.
Spartan head coach Erick Camodeca was pleased with this junior standout.
"Halfway through the race Tim looked really comfortable," said the Spartan mentor. "There were five guys in front of him that were hurting at that point and I told him this was his chance. At the seven k mark, he kicked it in and really hammered home the finish."
Freshman Carus Cookman (Cockeysville, Md./Dulaney) earned a spot on the All-Region Freshman team as the CAC Rookie-of-the-Year finished 40th with a time of 26:30.6. He was the sixth highest finishing first-year runner at the meet.
"Carus finishing on the all-freshman team was very big for us," said Camodeca.
Junior Aaron Robertson (Mohnton, Pa./Governor Mifflin) finished strong as he registered a 47th place finish in the field of 343 runners. He clocked in with a time of 26:46.2. Senior Steven Childres (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Saint Joseph) ran well as he crossed the line 83rd as he recorded a time of 27:21.5.
"We needed all five guys in the top 100 and we were able to do that," stated Camodeca. "Aaron came through for us and Steven had another excellent race."
Matt Smith (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) was York's next finisher, as he placed 103rd with a time of 27:41.8. Connor Simpson (Warminster, Pa./William Tennent) notched a time of 27:46.5 to finish 106th while Michael Stetson (Old Bridge, N.J./Old Bridge) was York's final runner as he finished 156th with a time of 28:25.2.
"Today almost seemed too easy," said Camodeca. "We were really relaxed and all we had to do was come in and run which is exactly what we did."
"To finish seven as a team in the region was a significant accomplishment for this team," said Camodeca. "It is a great sign for us going into next year as we will only lose one guy. We are really excited about next year but we are also really excited about this moment for our team."
When asked if he was disappointed about the being so close to a top five finish, Camodeca said the feeling was the exact opposite.
"We did exactly what we wanted to do today. Anything in our top ten was a goal. We knew we were good enough to finish seventh and to do that was a big thing for our program. We are very happy with where we are at."
Hartung and Camodeca will now head to the NCAA Division III National Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana. The championship meet will take place on Saturday, November 17.