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McInnis Park
McInnis Park, located at 310 Smith Ranch Road in San Rafael, offers an award-winning skatepark, two softball fields, two soccer fields, a canoe launch, four tennis courts, a group picnic area, and nature trails. It is home to the McInnis Park Golf Center, managed by a private concessionaire. The 450-acre park is bordered by scenic bay wetlands to the east. Groups of 20 or more are welcome in our picnic areas with an advance reservation.
Dogs are welcome on leash in certain areas of McInnis park, but are not allowed in wetland areas because of the sensitive habitat.
McInnis group sports facilities are popular with local soccer, softball, and tennis enthusiasts. It's a beautiful setting to gather and play one game or a whole series. Field and court reservations are required. Reserve a sports field or tennis court up to one year in advance by calling Marin County Parks at 415-473-6387.
Designed by Fred Bliss, this 9-hole course is beginner friendly, but provides a short game challenge for skilled players. The golf center also includes a driving range, miniature golf, batting cages, pro shop, clubhouse, and restaurant. McInnis Golf Center is run by a private concessionaire.
The award-winning McInnis skatepark offers 25,000 square feet of features designed for all ages and skill levels. Skateboarders, inline skaters, and nonmotorized scooter riders are welcome. Check the Marin County Parks events calendar for Learn to Skate and other free events.
From Hwy 101 in San Rafael, take the exit for Smith Ranch Rd east approximately 0.7 miles. Drive over the railroad tracks and immediately turn left to stay on Smith Ranch Rd. (If you go through the park entrance, you have gone too far). Look for the sign for the skatepark, turn right, and follow the road to the skatepark parking lot.
McInnis Park is located at 310 Smith Ranch Rd, San Rafael.
From Hwy 101 in San Rafael take exit 456 for Smith Ranch Rd east approximately 0.7 mile. Drive over the railroad tracks and immediately turn left to stay on Smith Ranch Rd. The park entrance is at the end of Smith Ranch Rd. Parking is available throughout the park.
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Mexican conglomerate, Cotemar is a renowned name in the corporate world. The company has diverse investments in offshore construction, shipping, petroleum, and the hospitality industries. The company has been dedicated to providing its clients cutting edge services for close to four decades. Besides individual clients, the corporation also serves public and private companies. This is what has enabled it gain a stranglehold of the industry in the face of stiff competition from its business rivals.
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I am currently in the process of designing a new tabernacle for another sailing boat.
Fortunately, the chap who kindly made my wood burner is on the case.
There is so little on the interweb about these essential mast tools, that I thought it was only sportsmanlike to share the process with readers.
As this is the early stages and measurements and plans are still being taken, I will share some designs that I have found recently.
Interestingly, there is also an overlooked issue of galvanic corrosion between two metals but I suspect at sea this is more of an issue.
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One of the strangest things about the city was the sudden way it disappeared around the edges. One minute you were down on Sunset Boulevard surrounded by glass and concrete, and the next thing you knew you were up on Mulholland Drive, alone in the rough country. From a high window or a rooftop almost anywhere in Los Angeles you could see the mountains, and there was always something ravenous up there looking down.
I was up among the hungry creatures, standing at the edge of a cliff, with Hollywood and Santa Monica far below me in the distance. One step forward and I would be in midair. I was looking down and wondering if Haley had considered how suddenly you could go from city to wilderness. Then I wondered if it was a distinction without a difference, if the city might be the wilderness and the wilderness the city, and maybe Los Angeles's edges seemed to disappear so suddenly because there really was no separation between sidewalks and mountain paths, buildings and boulders. Up in the mountains or down in the city, either way the carnivores were in control.
I imagined Haley, out of her mind, running full speed off the cliff. I wondered what it had been like, that final second or two before she hit. Had she realized what was happening? Did she recognize the city lights below for what they were, or did she really think she was flying toward the stars? And did she think of me?
Stepping closer to the edge, I slid the toes of my shoes into the air. I looked down two hundred feet, toward the spot where she had broken on the rocks. I stood one inch from eternity and tried to imagine life without her. I could not summon up a single reason why I shouldn't take that final step, except for one. I thought about the kind of animal who would drive someone to do what my wife had done. Predators like that were everywhere. I should know. I had trained for half my life to be one of them. I was hungry, looking down on the city. If I was going to live, the hunger would have to be enough, for now. But I would sink my teeth into him, sooner or later. I would do that for Haley, and for myself, and then maybe it would be my turn to see if I could fly.
I stepped back from the edge. – Chapter 1
I paused to look at Simon and Teru, wishing there were some way to avoid it. I said, "The village we went back to on that second day was Laui Kalay."
Neither of them reacted at first.
Then Teru said, "Oh no."
Simon rose and carried his teacup to a sink. I watched as he carefully washed out the cup with a soapy cloth. He rinsed the cup, then placed it on a wooden rack beside the sink. When that was done, he didn't return to the table. He stood still, looking down into the sink.
Teru said, "You were there? When they cut off all those fingers and knocked out all those teeth? You were really there?"
I said, "The court-martial found me guilty."
"But I remember that video like it was yesterday. That marine with the knife, chopping off the corpses' fingers for their rings. The others breaking out dead people's teeth for gold. All those marines cracking jokes. They must have showed it a thousand times on television." Teru looked at me. "You weren't in it."
Still staring down into the sink, Simon said, "If memory serves, the sergeant in command was convicted of filming the unpleasantness with his cell phone, so of course he was not shown in the video."
"Holy mother of God," said Teru. "You're that guy?" – Chapter 8
Olivia screamed again, and a vision overwhelmed my thoughts. Suddenly, instead of the shack with its glowing window, I saw Haley's face contorted with terror in the darkness up above, Haley screaming at a mirror on the wall in her trailer, Haley screaming that she saw Satan, Haley screaming out for Jesus as she slammed her fists against the mirror, breaking it, bloodying her hands and yet slamming on and on. I heard the screams and saw Haley in her final moments and knew that what I saw wasn't a madman's fantasy but was instead my true and final memory of our last moments together.
I shook my head. I wiped rain from my eyes. I told myself to think of what was noble, good, and true. The vision faded, but the screams remained. I had to stop the screams this time. I started up the trail, and with my first step out into the open, a strange sense of peace descended. This was what I had been created to do. This was who I was and who I would continue to be in whatever time was left to me without Haley. It wasn't about a death wish. On the contrary, life at last had regained meaning, even if the end of life was imminent. Climbing that path, knowing bullets might slam into me at any instant, I was happy for the first time since I lost my wife. I still had a purpose, after all. I was useful. It felt like I was going home. – Chapter 48


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Named one of Food & Wine's best new chefs of 2010, Roy Choi is the chef behind Los Angeles restaurants Chego, Sunny Spot, Alibi Room, A-Frame, 3 Worlds Cafe, POT and LocoL. He is also known as the godfather of the food truck movement thanks to his success with the much-celebrated Kogi Truck. At a time when chefs and food trucks were members of distinctly different classes of the food world, Roy had the gall to rent a truck with his partners and hit the streets of Los Angeles. With a pedigree including the CIA, Le Bernardin, and the Beverly Hilton, Choi might not have seemed like a likely candidate to go roadside, hawking tacos on street corners, but this bold move garnered praise and attention of the food press and public alike. In November 2013, Choi released his autobiography, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food.
Choi's newest restaurant LocoL, has a mission to offer affordable and fresh fast food to low-income neighborhoods. Choi partnered with award-winning chef Daniel Patterson to launch the restaurant in early 2016. Up next, they hope to open LocoL locations in San Francisco and Oakland.
In 2014, Choi served as a technical advisor for the Jon Favreau film, Chef, which was loosely inspired by Choi and the food truck movement. Choi "consulted on every kitchen scene, every food porn-worthy shot — and turned what can sometimes look like fakery into an authentic representation of the inside of a restaurant kitchen."
In his free time, Choi volunteers at A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles. He empowers underprivileged kids to open their own local food-based businesses by teaching them basic cooking techniques, like how to hold a knife, how to peel, and how to heat and render fat.
With his Korean-Mexican tacos as the star, Choi has carried out, built bridges, and expanded the vision that drives him to this day.
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I am pretty sure I am getting old and grumpy, a fact often confirmed by my family. I admit that lately it doesn't take much to make me growl and that is very concerning to me. I like to think of myself as a positive, patient person who sees the good in almost any situation, although again, my family may beg to disagree on this. However, the weight of what lately seems to be a negative society is taking a toll on me.
More than once recently I have asked, often out loud, "What is wrong with people these days?" It seems that increasingly we have become a needy, "me-first" society. We all seem to want everything our way and our opinion is the only one that matters. All we worry about is how something will affect us. If we don't get our way, we take it personally and those whom we disagree with are unreasonable and wrong. To get our point across we often seem to feel it necessary to yell down and squash any opposing opinions. As a society we seem to have lost all sense of civility and compassion.
Have you ever wondered why this is? Maybe it is because we have all been told if you don't take care of yourself, no one else will. It all seems to stem back to the idea that you should get what is "rightfully" yours first without worrying about anyone else. Then there is the mindset of "I was treated that way, so everyone else should be too, whether it is right or not." All of this leads to a very self-centered way of thinking with very little regard for those around us. Please, don't think I am setting myself apart from this; I am just as guilty as anyone.
Wow, I know what you are thinking, thanks for the uplifting message. What are we going to do about it? Well, I think the answer is really pretty simple; it is the application of the answer that gets tricky. In fact we were given the answer a couple of thousand years ago and reminded of it last week during Easter. The wisest man to ever walk this earth told us to love our God first and then our neighbor before ourselves. If we all adhered to this one rule think about how different our current world would be.
We would have compassion and understanding for those we come in contact with everyday. Would we have to agree with them, would we have to walk away from our own opinions, ideas and beliefs? Absolutely not. It would, however, mean that we would try to put ourselves in their shoes and see how we would want to be treated in that situation. We would be much more caring and much less confrontational.
If we took care of those around us first, it would heal many of society's ills. Does that mean to not do anything for yourself, no, but it does mean that often you will put aside what you are doing for yourself and help someone else first. Maybe it is because I grew up in a tight knit farming community that I have seen this first hand. No matter what you have to do, you always have time to help a neighbor. This help is given, not because you expect anything in return, but because it is what neighbors do.
Like I said, the solution is simple but the application is difficult. Maybe it is because we have too much information about what we don't have. My Dad often says that the internet is the root of a lot of what is wrong and increasingly I think he is right. We see what others have and more importantly we see what we do not have. We live in a great nation where our most basic needs are taken care of without much effort and we are rich beyond the comprehension of most of the rest of the world. All of this leads us to focus on ourselves and not others.
Back to the solution, as I often tell my kids, there is only one attitude you control and that is your own. You cannot make anyone else act a certain way but the way you act is up to you and often it spreads to those around you. Good advice for anyone, but especially for a grumpy old man weighed down by the flaws of society.


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When I travel,I dress smartly,almost business-like,and stride through an airport like I do it all the time.
I check my luggage and only have a stylish shoulder bag,leaving my hands free.
The secret to my confident travel style is that I plan ahead,checking destination details on-line,mostly,
to fix a picture in my mind of every step of the way.No anxiety,no dithering,no surprises.
Ok,if a flight is delayed,I find a quiet corner of the departure lounge and read or check social media.
I don't engage in whiney conversations with my fellow travellers.
I prefer a window seat on a plane,so I have a degree of privacy during a flight.On short flights,I drink
water only.No snacks and no coffee because if there is any turbulence,I don't want to wear a coffee
stain to greet my friends or family.
I take PRESENTS,lots of presents.
Staying with friends or family can be fraught with danger.I am up early to beat the bathroom jam-up.
I carry my own mirror for my make-up and I have easy hair.
If no-one else is up,I will leave a note and walk around the block,giving later risers time to sort them-
selves out.
An unfamiliar kitchen is no place for me to cook.I will tidy up,though.At an appropriate time,I am
happy to pay for dinner without looking at the bill.
I pack clothes for most occasions so I don't have to borrow anything or look like a fruit salad.
My travel clothes do not need ironing.
I don't stay long,even though my visit is carefully planned and I may not wear all my outfits.
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You call this a slideshow? By default, over a third of the photo is covered up with usage data (of all things) on the right. Why not make showing usage data optional through a setting in the embed code?
Today was the official launch date of GermaniaBroadcast.net. I announced it on all the usual social networks.
It's actually been up for maybe a month -- with me fiddling around, adding content, rearranging it and the like. I guess, an alternative name for the thing could be, "Fun with Drupal and Content Management".
The site is built around various digital records that we have of daddy, William Klein and his radio show, "The Germania Broadcast" (1927-1970). Working with the data, I managed to organize everything into four principle categories, Events, People, Places and Library (or 'Documents').
The neat thing with Drupal is how you can connect one item in one category with items in any other. Say, the name of a singer pops up in the description of a concert in 1928 which happened at the Auditorium Theater; You can relate the person to the event and location going backwards and forward. The magic is called "Entity Reference" but again, I like to call it, 'Fun with Content Mgmt".
In any case, there's a slightly fuller explanation of the original radio broadcast plus background here: The Germania Broadcast : An Introduction.
Well, it took them a while but Bank of America is finally saying 'bye-bye' to a particularly ineffective form of online security called 'SiteKey'. Probably better known as a 'security image', the idea was to assign you an image which you were then expected to remember every time you logged in. Yeah, good luck with that.
There actually was research on this. Not surprisingly, researchers found that "users will enter their passwords even if their site-authentication images are absent." Brad Stone summarizing the results in the New York Times put it this way, "Of 60 participants who got that far into the study and whose results could be verified, 58 entered passwords anyway. Only two chose not to log on, citing security concerns."
Of course that was 2007 or more than eight years ago. The NYT article concludes with a comment from one of the original researchers, "sometimes the appearance of security is more important than security itself."
I'd only add that all too often, the mere mention of 'security' is expected to triumph over everything including common sense. The truth of course is that everything deserves a healthy measure of skepticism.
Wow, a student I've seen before just came up to the Ref Desk and thanked me for teaching him how to do research! Best feedback ever! #NLWD2015 (link)
Current Cites for March 2015 is out! You can find the issue here...
I recommended an article from The Journal of Web Librarianship with the title, "Use and Usability of a Discovery Tool in an Academic Library". It went over usability testing of the "discovery tool" (in this case, Primo by Exlibris) at KU Libraries. Funny thing is, I kept switching back and forth from the article to the two institutions I'm connected to -- just to compare notes.
Renewed my ALA membership today. Love their Profile Prefixes. Click for larger image...
Happy days are here again! At least for a while.
When people first started hooking up to the Internet, it was a two step -- or two layer -- process: You had your phone line which was owned by the local Bell carrier, and then you had an internet service provider or 'ISP' -- of which there were many.
Then the phone companies developed a slightly faster system (DSL) which, surprise, surprise, the ISPs had no access to. Within a short time, the ISPs simply disappeared. The phone companies, ATT & Verizon, after being broken up for a couple of years, zoomed back to national dominance -- this despite the fact that since DSL, they really haven't done much innovation.
And that precisely is the point where the Internet started to resemble a traditional communication network -- with mediocre service and a handful of players. All I can say is, 'bout time!
"Eat Cake!" -- happy greetings that welcomed me on the way to the Reference Desk this evening.
Current Cites for January 2015 is out! You can find the issue here...
Although my focus is usually tech, I went this month with a set of articles from Library Trends that looked at the state of libraries in countries from the former "eastern block". How libraries fared in what used to be known affectionately as "communist dictatorships" makes for interesting reading -- as well as what they've done since.
Amazing picture of daddy along with what looks like the rest of the 'American Broadcasting Station in Europe' (i.e. 'ABSIE') team in London in 1943 (see larger image). I just came upon it after going through a box of old pictures. Note, daddy is in the back with the headphones next to the guy in a sweater.
The picture above is a close-up (flipped) of the New York Times that the fellow on the right has on his desk. It dates from Sept. 30, 1943 and has the headline: "Naples' Fall Near as Allies Break Line and Pursue Fleeing Germans on Plain; Russians in Kremenchug, Aim for Baltic".
Here's a write-up I once put together on his tour of duty: "Daddy Was a DJ to the Germans in WWII" (6/9/07)
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About Pharoahe Monch
Monch released three albums as part of the rap duo, Organized Konfusion with partner Prince Poetry: The self-titled Organized Konfusion, Stress: The Extinction Agenda and The Equinox. The duo handled a large amount of production on these albums themselves. All albums received positive critical reviews, but moderate sales. As a result, the duo split up after recording their final album The Equinox in 1997. Prince Poetry has since denied the possibility of an Organized Konfusion reunion. (Last.fm)


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text: Today St. Joseph County stands on the edge of an opportunity to become a leader in the fight against domestic violence. We have already been given valuable tools to seize this opportunity. What we need now is the support of our local government officials. The federal Office on Violence Against Women awarded grant funding to 15 communities through The President's Family Justice Center Initiative. St. Joseph County was one of the communities chosen from among more than 400 initial applicants to create a Family Justice Center to help victims of domestic violence and their children escape lives of abuse and fear. Family Justice Centers across the country have already demonstrated their effectiveness in reducing the homicide rate in the communities where they have been established. The San Diego Family Justice Center opened in 2002, and the city has seen a reduction from more than 30 domestic violence homicides in 2001 to only five domestic violence homicides during 2005 (83 percent reduction). Indianapolis -- home to The Julian Center, which was designated a Family Justice Center in 2004 -- had 17 domestic violence homicides in 1998, but only five domestic violence homicides in 2005 (71 percent reduction). Additionally, no one who has sought help at a Family Justice Center in San Diego or Indianapolis has become a victim of homicide. St. Joseph County was first immersed in the reality of how brutal a domestic violence homicide can be when Lisa Bianco was murdered by her ex-husband Alan Matheney in 1989. Sadly, this is not the last domestic violence homicide to occur in our community. Since Jan. 1, 2003, the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office has filed five cases involving domestic violence homicides or attempted homicides. By opening a Family Justice Center in the county, we hope to see the same great reduction in our domestic violence homicide rate as experienced in those communities with family justice centers. Casey Gwinn, the national director for technical assistance for The President's family justice Center Initiative and founder of the family justice center movement, visited our community most recently on March 21 and toured the proposed space for the Family Justice Center of St. Joseph County in the First Bank Building. Casey called this space the "best location" of any of the Family Justice Centers in the country. He cited three reasons for his enthusiasm for this building. First, local survivors of domestic violence who participated in focus groups told us that they want the Family Justice Center to be housed in a building that provides anonymity. Most victims of domestic violence will not go to a shelter or a police station because of the sigma attached to entering one of these buildings. They feel "marked" as a victim and fear being caught by someone they know. They want to be able to enter the building as any regular resident, perhaps going to see an attorney or signing up for a bank loan. Second, close proximity to the courthouses provides better security and access to the courts for victims of domestic violence. Not only will they have access to support services that will work with them on a safety plan for themselves and their children, but they also will be able to get a police escort to and from court hearings if this is necessary to ensure their safety. Third, locating the Family Justice Center in a building in the heart of downtown, with the support of local government, sends a message to all victims of domestic violence: Your lives and safety are a priority for this community. We will not sit by while you suffer in silence, but will provide a safe haven for you to get help. St. Joseph County has an opportunity to fulfill its obligation to help victims of domestic violence and their children through a plan that is not only morally responsible, but also financially responsible. The Family Justice Center grant provides for $500,000 to secure a location for the center. We have proposed putting this significant sum toward the purchase of the First Bank Building. County government can cover the remaining purchase price with unobligated reserve cash funds. The county would simply convert part of its cash reserves to a non-liquid asset: the First Bank Building. We ask our county government leaders to take advantage of this federal grant, as an opportunity to meet the public safety needs of women and children; to do something positive for the good of our community. Michael A. Dvorak is the St. Joseph County prosecutor.


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As it happens, the villanelle is uniquely suited to describing The Taste of America because both rely heavily upon repetition. The Hesses are not afraid to make their point a sixth, eighth, or twelfth time, on the off chance, one supposes, that you were sleeping through the first five, seven, or eleven, for which you could certainly be forgiven.
Poets and students of poetry may feel that I have taken certain liberties with the villanelle form. Let me hasten to assure you that this impression is a figment of your imagination. Any extra syllables, faulty rhymes, metrical anomalies, or a general lack of
A Poem for the Hesses
Sauces with flour are library paste,
Culinary depravity
American people have terrible taste
Modern cooks value nothing but haste
Appearance over quality
Sauces with flour are library paste
Fannie Farmer, a talentless waste,
Pilfered every recipe
American people have terrible taste
Julia Child we can never (never, never, never, never) sufficiently lambaste
Though we did try tirelessly
Sauces with flour are library paste
Our small farms having been displaced
We churn out flavorless, sad poultry
American people have terrible taste
Our forefathers' tables were wonderfully graced
But all now is catastrophe
American people have terrible taste
Sauces with flour are library paste
I want to be very clear about two things. First, the Hesses make several valuable points in The Taste of America, and there is a good deal to be learned from the book. Second, I don't like them, not one little bit.
I may not be entirely rational about this issue. It turns out that the quickest way for a food writer to get on my bad side is to go after Julia Child, the culinary figure than whom I hold no one in greater reverence. The edition of The Taste of America that I have includes the original manuscript of the book and a number of appendices. In the original book, there are unkind words for Mrs. Child, but then there are unkind words for any number of people, and the Hesses certainly have worse things to say about Craig Claiborne, James Beard, and Fannie Farmer.
In 1997, however, the Hesses wrote "Icon Flambé" for The Nation. It is difficult to imagine what might have prompted this dyspeptic attack on an eighty-five-year-old woman, but in the absence of an actual police report, we can only assume that Mrs. Child did not, in fact, eat any of the Hesses' children. Whatever the motivation, "Icon Flambé" takes a few instances in which the Hesses claim that Mrs. Child strayed from culinary ideals and from this infers that she was a fraud who made no valuable contributions to American cuisine. One might suppose that someone who had reached her eighties and had had such a huge impact on so many American cooks might have made a few minor mistakes along the way but might reasonably expect to be judged by the totality of her actions and achievements rather than by a few actions with which the authors did not agree. But one would be mistaken.
And, indeed, one might forgive the Hesses for writing a hatchet piece about Mrs. Child if it had disappeared along with the back issues of The Nation, but they included it in the revised version of The Taste of America, so one can only assume that they are proud of their invective.
If there was information about John Hess' early years in The Taste of America, I missed it, but the authors are very clear that Karen Hess was the daughter of a Midwestern protestant minister. I was afflicted with a number of protestant ministers during my own youth, and, as a whole, I did not find these people to have a great appreciation for gray areas, and the Hesses certainly carry on this tradition of obtuse intolerance. One can easily imagine the Hesses picturing themselves at the right hand of God looking down at various figures in American culinary history, saying, "Chaff, chaff, wheat, chaff, chaff, chaff, chaff, chaff, wheat, chaff, chaff...."
The Hesses' main beef with Mrs. Child (and many others) appears to be that she emphasized technique over the quality of ingredients. There is probably merit to the complaint that the gourmet movement generally held that you could make any food more attractive by throwing money, bizarre ingredients of questionable quality, overly fussy processes, and a lot of time at it, but it does not follow that technique is unimportant. Mrs. Child had television shows that were mainly about technique, but that is clearly the sort of thing that is easiest to teach on television. How many episodes of The French Chef might reasonably have been spent on trips to the market demonstrating how to pick fresh fish? It's not like you can demonstrate smell over the television. Nonetheless, I remember a number of occasions where she emphasized the importance of ingredients, saying that if you couldn't obtain a good specimen of a particular ingredient, you were better off leaving it out.
You cannot cook well with awful ingredients, but neither can you cook well with awful technique, and the relative importance of each depends a great deal on what you're preparing and serving. Certainly, if you're serving raw peaches, the quality of the peaches is paramount. But if you take a cook who knows how to make pie dough and a cook who doesn't, give the first Gold Medal flour and store brand salted butter and the second the finest artisan flour and the freshest imaginable butter, and compare the results, you'll find that the person who knows how to make dough will have prepared something superior. Naturally, you would want the person who knows the technique to have the best possible ingredients, but the technique is unquestionably important, and somebody has to teach the technique. For millions of Americans, myself included, that person was Julia Child, and to suggest that all of those people, myself included, eat worse because of the influence of Mrs. Child is the purest poppycock.
I do not, however, want to treat the Hesses the same way that they treated Mrs. Child. It would be wrong to ignore all of the good and important information in The Taste of America simply because its authors are mean spirited. (And there are certainly parts of the book where the invective is amusing. There is a lengthy discussion of restaurants, for example, where it is difficult not to laugh at the descriptions of culinary excess. If only that discussion had been half as long. Alas.)
Most of us long for a world where we can find fresh produce full of taste and free of pesticides. Where local dairies milk local cows and prepare local butter and local cheese that can be purchased (locally) fresh any time we want it. That we do not live in such a world, however, is really not the fault of the gourmet movement. It is, rather, the necessary result of overpopulation and failed agricultural policies, a point that the Hesses make eloquently, but not until the penultimate chapter of the book, leaving me to say, "yes, but" any number of times in the earlier chapters.
It is perhaps difficult to appreciate The Taste of America today in the same way as one would have when it was originally published. Many of the situations that the Hesses deplore are still around, but there has certainly been an increase in the availability of organic produce and an increase in the diversity of produce generally. There have been people (Alice Waters leaps to mind) who have been emphasizing the importance of starting with the best possible ingredients. Some of these people may indeed have been inspired by The Taste of America. And certainly, if we all followed the Hesses prescriptions, we would all enjoy our food a good deal more. Whether their prescriptions can really be scaled to the population as a whole remains an open question. As does whether the book would be more effective with less repetition, less bile, and fewer attacks on Julia Child.


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How your life is affected by negative energy and how to deal with it
You know that like poles attract. That is why it is true to say that positive people are attracted to positive energy and negative people are attracted to negative energy. In most cases we deceive ourselves that only other people have negative energy. However, that is not true. The truth is that negativity could be deep-rooted in you but might go unnoticed. This is because there are times when negativity disguises itself.
In some cases you might even think that positive people are not acting real. You might think that they are just naïve, are faking their smiles, they are living in denial or they are simply hiding their heads in the sand. Do you think there is something positive about the way those people act or are they simply happy?
Think about this: Who said that being realistic means that something will go wrong and that you have to agree to that? It is also not true to say that being realistic is definitely negative. If your view for the world is realistic, you will always be negative. Things will always go as you think. If you think that they will go wrong, they definitely will and on the other hand, if you think that things will go right, they definitely will. Your unconsciously held beliefs will change you into a negative person without you realizing it.
Now if you have a lot of negativity in yourself and do not know it, it will be hard to know whether you are trapped in a cloud of negative energy that could be pulling you to the wrong people, feelings and situations. Now how would you know that it is not you who is responsible for the negativity? Below is a quick test to measure the height of negative energy that is in you.
- Do you grumble? Always or sometimes
- Are you always taking about what is not right in the world than about what is right? This includes the bad weather, government, traffic, in-laws, economy and such other things.
- Do you disapprove? Always or about some people.
- Do you pay attention to tragedy and drama can you go away from the TV when there are news about disaster or is it possible for you to disassociate yourself with the lives of celebrities who are dysfunctional?)
- Do you hold other people responsible? Always or sometimes?
- Do you think that you are not in charge over most outcomes?
- Do you feel like an injured person? Do you speak about those who have done things to you?
- Do you appreciate what you are or have or do you wait until you feel that things are working right for you before you start appreciating?
- Do you think that things are happening to you? Or do you think that they are taking place through you?
The following are two important points;
You are a negative person if you are only grateful when your things go right. Appreciation is a positive move. You should be grateful for all things even the not so pleasant ones. You are a victim if you always believe that something wrong will happen to you. At such times it is usually easy to act negative because that is power that you can easily give up. Think about this option. Who or what would you blame when there are good things that are happening to you: Do you always give yourself credit for all the good things that happen to you? Do you think that the good things happened to you because you worked hard so you deserve it? Do you blame other people or other external forces for the bad things that happen to you and your failures? Why should it be that way, you think that good things happened because of your efforts but you blame others for the bad things? Most people only want to get credit, but no-one wants to take fault.
If your answer to any of the above questions is yes, then there is some degree of negative energy in you. This is something you should get rid of. To do this, you simply need to train your mind to choose positive energy. Here is yet another point that you should take into consideration: Have you ever noticed that positive thinking people always get what they desire in life. Such people continue enjoying their lives even when things are not going right.
The following are 3 steps to enable you deal with negative energy
- Have power over your possession
Don't always think that every bad thing that happens to you is another person's fault. Dalai Lama had this to say "When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy."
- Get rid of negative feelings and replace them with positive thoughts
Most people think that it is not easy to get rid of negative feelings but the truth is that it is possible. You can do this by putting a lot of practice, show commitment and decide to look at the world through the eyes of anything that can do right instead of wrong. Be your own guard. Train yourself to speak only positive things. No negative things should come out of your mouth.
- You can make use of Love and Above Spiritual toolkit to make your energy clear. This will bring additional love, more light into your life. Imagine your positive side as a replacement of negativity. Triumph over what happened more from your soul instead of what is the reality. Craft in you what you would want and let it in on the outside world. No one would want to have negative energy leak into their lives yet this is something that most of them allow. However, most of us allow this to happen unwillingly.
It is advisable that you realize that you are responsible for what your future holds. This is why you should start shaping your life the way you would want it to be.


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Jenna Coleman tried 70 different contact lenses for Victoria.
The 30-year-old actress portrays the former queen in the forthcoming ITV drama and, although she had no problem getting into character, it was a long process trying to find the right shade of blue coloured lenses to brighten her eyes.
Speaking at a Q&A for the new series at London's Kensington Palace on Thursday, Jenna explained: "I think we were in the zone of about 70 pairs of contact lenses.
"We did different camera tests and again it was Nic Collins - head of make-up - it was her idea, which was great because any of the portraits that we look at, the first thing we see are her eyes.
"Her eyes just pop out to you so I think it's great to look so different.
"In terms of comfort, they were fine, other than when we shot by candlelight. I was living in a rose-tinted world because everything was a haze, which wasn't unpleasant."
And, although the new drama draws particular attention to Victoria's small height, Jenna is adamant she's average in terms of how tall she is but producers had to work the cameras in such a way that would make her look smaller.
She told BANG Showbiz: "We had certain photographs on set of me and Tom [Hughes, who plays her husband Prince Albert] where it plays very well on the height from.
"I think they were in heels for some of their bits."
* Victoria will hit television screens on August 28 on ITV


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Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that is usually caused by exposure to asbestos. Since asbestos exposure is usually the cause of Mesothelioma it is usually pretty easy to prove in court that you work related exposure was the cause of your Mesothelioma. Smoking does not cause cancer but it can amplify the effects of Mesothelioma as cause by exposure to asbestos.
Since most asbestos exposure is caused in the work place then you can easily trace and prove where your asbestos exposure occurred and this makes it very easy to win a lawsuit against the company that caused your exposure to Mesothelioma.
Many lawyers nationwide specialize in Mesothelioma and suing the companies that caused you to get Mesothelioma through the workplace exposure to asbestos. Many of these cases will never go to court as it is cheaper for the defendant to settle the case with a large sum of cash before it ever goes to trial.
If you or a family member has been diagnosed with Mesothelioma then do some research and find some Mesothelioma law firms to talk to. These lawyers that specialize in Mesothelioma lawsuits will in many cases take your case on with no retainer. You only need to pay the lawyer when you receive payment from the offending company. If you lose your Mesothelioma lawsuit case then you do not need to pay the lawyer. The odds of you losing your case are very slim. If a Mesothelioma lawyer takes your case with no retainer then the lawyer is very confident that you do in fact have a case and will in all probability be able to squeeze a large sum of money out of the company for you and your family.
There are many lawsuits in our country that are baseless. These lawsuits are only brought to try and win some money. Mesothelioma lawsuits do not fall into this category. If you or a loved on has Mesothelioma then you need to contact a Mesothelioma lawyer now. A person diagnosed with Mesothelioma will be very limited in what work they can do if any. They also will die and not be able to support their family. A company that disregards safety and allows it's employees to be around asbestos is morally wrong. These offending companies need to pay for their crimes and t help support your family after you have passed away from Mesothelioma cancer.


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It was the first week of 2 week school holidays here.
Sorry, I've had to block out one journaling card for privacy reasons.
Really it was a week of taking photos, walks, working (even the kids) and movies. Love school hols!
Supplies used: Becky Higgins Design A pages, Midnight Edition, Paislee Press journaling cards and elements, Studio Calico NSD freebie and the timeline element is by Ali Edwards and part of Hello Story class.


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■ Have your instructor certificate renewal application and a valid Discover, MasterCard, Visa or electronic check information.
■ Follow this link to go to the online Driver Education Instructor Renewal System. Or, from www.Michigan.gov/sos, click on "Driver License and State ID" and "Driver Education." The link to the online system is in the center of the page.
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text: Two student awards will be handed out at this year's Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) being held this week, March 22-26 in San Diego. Corning and the OSA Foundation will announce the winner of the Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition, and Infinera and OSA will announce the Infinera Outstanding Student Recognition prize.The seven finalists competing for the Corning award were selected from a record 425 student paper submissions. During this year's show, the finalists will present their research and will be judged by the conference general chairs and program chairs based on innovation, research excellence and author presentation skills. The grand-prize winner will receive $1,500 and two papers of honorable mention will receive $1,000 each during the post-deadline paper session at OFC/NFOEC on Thursday, March 26. "Every year the Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition draws submissions from some of the most promising students in optical communications and networking, and this year is no different," said Biswanath Mukherjee of the University of California at Davis and one of this year's OFC/NFOEC technical program chairs. "These students have an understanding of the field far beyond their years and to recognize their work with this award is an honor for the committee." Finalists for the Corning award are: • Mohammad Alfiad, Eindhoven University of Technology, The NetherlandsPaper: 111-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK Transmission over LEAF: Optical Versus Electrical Dispersion Compensation • Cleitus Antony, University College Cork, IrelandPaper: SOA Based Upstream Packet Equalizer in 10Gb/s Extended-Reach PONs • Jeffrey Lee, Eindhoven University of Technology, The NetherlandsPaper: Discrete Multitone Modulation for High-Speed Data Transmission over Multimode Fibers Using 850-nm VCSEL • Quoc Thai Nguyen, FOTON-ENSSAT, FrancePaper: 16x2.5 Gbit/s Downstream Transmission in Colorless WDM-PON Based on Injection-Locked Fabry-Perot Laser Diode Using a Single Quantum Dash Mode-Locked Fabry-Perot Laser as Multi-Wavelength Seeding Source • Mamoru Takagi, University of Tokyo, JapanPaper: 400Gb/s Hybrid Optical Switching Demonstration Combining Multi-Wavelength OPS and OCS with Dynamic Resource Allocation • Ming-Chun Tien, University of California at Berkeley, USAPaper: Optofluidic Assembly of InGaAsP Microdisk Lasers on Si Photonic Circuits with Submicron Alignment Accuracy • Bo Zhang, University of Southern California, USAPaper: Polarization-Based Fast-Swept Optical Spectrum AnalyzerThe Infinera Outstanding Student Recognition prize finalists were selected form the pool of student submissions to the Optoelectronic Devices category for this year's show. The prize will go to a student that exhibits outstanding optical communications research in the area of optoelectronic devices and photonics integration.Submissions were reviewed and scored by the OFC/NFOEC technical program committee and finalists were selected based on standard OFC/NFOEC paper review criteria. Finalists will also be judged by the conference general chairs, program chairs and a representative from Infinera based on their innovation and research excellence. A $1,500 prize will be bestowed upon the winner during the OSA Foundation reception at this year's show."We are very pleased to offer this new award to up-and-coming researchers in optoelectronics," said Dave Welch, co-founder and chief marketing and strategy officer of Infinera. "Infinera believes innovation is critical to the future of our industry and this award will help stimulate and recognize innovation among the next generation of scientists and engineers."Finalists for the Infinera award are: • Akram Akrout, Lab de Photonique et Nanostructures, CNRS, FrancePaper: Generation of 10 GHz Optical Pulses with Very Low Timing Jitter Using One Section Passively Mode Locked Quantum Dash Based Lasers Operating at 1.55 µm • Aaron Albores-Mejia, COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, The NetherlandsPaper: Low-Penalty Monolithically-Cascaded 1550nm-Wavelength Quantum-Dot Crossbar Switches • Rene Bonk, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, University of Karlsruhe, GermanyPaper: 1.3/1.5 µm QD-SOAs for WDM/TDM GPON with Extended Reach and Large Upstream/Downstream Dynamic Range • Chen Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USAPaper: Push-Pull Modulation of Coupled-Cavity VCSELs • Alberto Gatto, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyPaper: VCSEL to VCSEL Injection Locking for Uncompensated 40-km Transmission at 10 Gb/s • David Geisler, University of California at Davis, USAPaper: 3 b/s/Hz 1.2 Tb/s Packet Generation Using Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation Based Optical Transmitter • Ming-Fang Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAPaper: 42.8-Gb/s Chirp-Managed Signal Transmission over 640-km SSMF with Large Dispersion Tolerance • C. 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Kwok, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UKPaper: Two-Electrode High Power Tapered Laser with up to 40.5 W/A Static Modulation Efficiency and 700 Mb/s Direct Modulation Capability • Sheng Liu, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UKPaper: An Optical Frequency Comb Generator as a Broadband Pulse Source • Vojtech Olle, Centre for Photonic Systems, University of Cambridge, UKPaper: 20 GHz Picosecond Pulse Generation by a 1300nm Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Master Oscillator Power Amplifier • Devang Parekh, University of California at Berkeley, USAPaper: 90-km Single-Mode Fiber Transmission of 10-Gb/s Multimode VCSELs under Optical Injection Locking • Juan Petit, Institut Telecom, Telecom ParisTech, FrancePaper: Enhanced 10-Gb/s NRZ Transmission Distance Using Dual Modulation of an Integrated Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser Transmitter • Molly Piels, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USAPaper: Microwave Nonlinearities in Ge/Si Avalanche Photodiodes Having a Gain-Bandwidth Product of 300 GHz • Xiankai Sun, California Institute of Technology, USAPaper: Hybrid Electrically Pumped Evanescent Si/InGaAsP Lasers • Ming-Chun Tien, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, USAPaper: Optofluidic Assembly of InGaAsP Microdisk Lasers on Si Photonic Circuits with Submicron Alignment Accuracy • Haibo Wang, University of Cambridge, UKPaper: Lossless Multistage SOA Switch Fabric Using High Capacity Monolithic 4x4 SOA Circuits • Benjamin Wohlfeil, Technische Universitaet Berlin, GermanyPaper: Thermal Limits for Integration of Directly Modulated Lasers with Driver IC on SOI • Panagiotis Zakynthinos, National Technical University of Athens, GreecePaper: Wavelength Conversion for NRZ Signals with Enhanced Regenerative Characteristics • Wissem Sfar Zaoui, University of California at Santa Barbara, USAPaper: Origin of the Gain-Bandwidth-Product Enhancement in Separate-Absorption-Charge-Multiplication Ge/Si Avalanche Photodiodes • Lin Zhang, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USAPaper: A High-Speed Silicon Modulator Based on an Embedded-Ring-Resonator StructureFor more information, visit: www.ofcnfoec.org


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Dear friends:
So much for the "good ol' summertime!" Record-breaking heat, rampant forest fires in some places and flooding in others has us praying for people around the country as well as around the world at the moment. We give thanks for UMCOR and congregations and individuals who are opening "cooling stations," providing water, supporting firefighters and beginning clean up.
Of course, work at United Methodist Women presses on—both here in the office and around the country. A series of great jurisdiction meetings and regional schools has concluded and the special nominating committee has begun its work. I am very pleased to share this information with you.
Nominations for leaders of the Board of Directors of United Methodist Women are:
Yvette Richards, President
Tupouseine Kelemeni, Vice President
Becky Thompson, Secretary
Judith Pierre-Okerson, Chair of the Committee on Governance
Nichea Ver Veer Guy, Chair of the Committee on Finance
The people who were elected as directors at the Jurisdiction meetings are the following:
Cindy Staufferer, Minnesota
Angie Lauver Staver, West Ohio
Vickie Newkirk, Indiana
Irma Clark, Northern Illinois
Gail Boykin, New York
Carmen F. S. Vianese, Upper New York
L. Diane Braun, West Virginia
Esther Unica Barkat, West Virginia
Yvette Richards, Missouri
Karon Mann, Arkansas
Becky Thompson, Oklahoma Indian Missionary
Stacie Hawkins, Texas
Tonya Murphy, North Georgia
Lynne Gilbert, Western North Carolina
Emily M. K. Booker (Kathy), Tennessee
Marie Judith Pierre-Okerson, Florida
Michelline Cooper, South Carolina
Grace Pyen, North Georgia
Jo Ann Hayden, Alaska Missionary
Topou S. Kelemeni, California-Pacific
The following five additional Board members have also been nominated and have agreed to serve following election at the Organizational Meeting of the Board on August 16, 2012:
Elizabeth Leyva, Rio Grande Conference
Nichea Ver Veer Guy, West Michigan Conference
Ann Davis, North Carolina Conference
Daisy Tavarez, New York Conference
Deborah Williams, Desert-Southwest Conference
We look forward to the leadership of each of these women along with all who have been elected by their jurisdictions. God has blessed United Methodist Women with a rich resource of gifts and talents. We pray for wisdom and skill as the new board is organized, to receive these gifts to guide and support the organization on behalf of women, children and youth around the world.


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The house's birth and final secrets come to light. The Polk legacy is spoiled. The Millers dare an escape. Welcome to American Horror Story: Roanoke, "Chapter 5".
This article includes reactions to the episode in which we discuss specific details and events. SPOILERS may occur, so read at your own risk.
The End Is the Beginning Is the End…
We see for ourselves the historic story of Edward Philippe Mott, a Philadelphia eccentric who purchased the house and grounds as a retreat in 1792. He filled it with artwork and insisted the Shakers building the house craft underground tunnels through the woods as well. Tragic accidents befell the builders throughout the construction. He left a wife and heir behind to live in the mansion with his black male lover, Guinness. You can see quickly why he'd want a private retreat.
The Roanoke villagers torment him and slash up the artwork. He blames the servants and locks them naked inside the root cellar, where they remain until found years later. The colonists soon roast Mott while his lover escapes. However, the police catch up with Guinness and jail the escaped "slave" and put him to death. The house stays in the Mott family until it dies with Dandy Mott in 1952. (See AHS: Freak Show for more on his life.)
Edward ends up being their savior, as he guides the Millers through his escape tunnels. He abandons them in the woods, where the Polks catch up to them. I had high hopes for the Polks and thought they'd be the kooky but misunderstood heroes. Turns out that Mama Polk (beautifully played in a cameo by favorite Frances Conroy) is just as crazy as the rest. The Polks have a pact with the colonists, and they deliver blood sacrifices in exchange for security for their bumper cannabis crop. Oh, and they also make jerky from human flesh. They've got Elias in their clutches, but his limbs leave a rancid taste in Mama's mouth; he gets a hammer to the face to end his troubles.
En route to returning to the house, Matt makes one more escape attempt and kills Cain Polk in the process. Mama is very upset and hobbles Shelby in retaliation. This may or may not impact her yoga career, so we'll see how the rest of the night plays out.
After their delivery and moments from roasting Flora, Ambrose says enough is enough and pulls his mother into the pyre. This provides enough distraction for the newly released Lee to drive up and ferry the Miller trio to safety and medical attention (with an assist by Edward). They all sleep together in a cheap motel and make plans to head back to Los Angeles. Shelby still has nightmares where The Butcher visits her, carried on a strange mist.
Cut short
The end of the episode and tease for the next imply that we've hit the end of "My Roanoke Nightmare", and perhaps Roanoke itself. The house is scuttled; the Polk, Miller, and White families part company. It looks like all the Millers survived to tell the talk after all, which may be the point of the documentary we've been privy to. And we've finally seen the dandy role Evan Peters was to play. Was it worth the new format that confused many a fan and newcomer to the show? Perhaps. Now we wait for the foretold twist that we see in the misty next episode teaser.
American Horror Story broadcasts on Wednesdays on FX Networks.
For a full recap of "Chapter 5", visit the American Horror Story Wiki.


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Math Quest - A Problem Solving AdventureThursday, July 10, 2014
One of my favorite math units to do with upper elementary students is Math Quest! I very rarely repeat units in my classroom (there are too many great new things to try, right?), but Math Quest is one I have returned to year after year. So, I thought I'd share some of the ways I use this AMAZING Interact Unit with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade students.
Math Quest is set up like a game to engage and motivate students. (See the game board below!)
Students earn "travel dots" for solving math problems; each travel dot is worth one space on the game board. As students work their way towards the treasure chest at the top of the board, they earn special "powers" and gold. The team of students with the most gold at the end of the unit wins! SO MUCH FUN!
Now for the math . . . ! The unit is designed to help students become competent, confident, and creative problem solvers. Throughout the unit, students explore six problem-solving strategies:
- Guess and check
- Look for a pattern
- Work backward
- Make a picture or a diagram
- Use Logical Reasoning
- Make a table or a chart
Students work in teams and then on their own to apply each problem-solving method. The Math Quest unit provides all of the problems for team practice and individual application. Each set of problems is tiered to provide varying levels of challenge. I've found that levels A, B, and C correspond pretty well with grades 3, 4, and 5.
When introducing a problem-solving strategy, I follow an "I do," "We do," "Y'all do," "You do" approach. With "I do," I introduce and model the strategy. I select a different problem for "we do" and the students and I solve it together; the students record their work in their math notebooks, while I write on the board. If all goes as planned (ha, right?), then we move on to "y'all do." In this stage, students work in their teams of 4 to solve the problem together. We use Student Learning Teams to ensure meaningful learning. In a student learning team, each student has a specific "job," which promotes individual accountability, equal student responsibility, and positive interdependence.
And then finally, "you do," where students practice and apply the problem-solving strategy independently.
Due to the complexity of the problems, I require my students to use a problem-solving mat to guide and illustrate their thinking. The work mat guides them through the important steps of understanding, solving, explaining, and checking the problem. Prior to using the mat, my students tended to RUSH, particularly through steps 1 and 4, which seriously compromised the accuracy of their work! I've found that the mat helps my students to navigate and solve complex problems with greater independence and accuracy.
I then use a holistic rubric to score the completed mats. While it is not as descriptive as an analytic rubric, I find it more user-friendly for the purpose of scoring LOTS of math problems each week.
When I designed the problem-solving mats and rubrics, I wanted to emphasize the importance of the problem-solving process. Therefore, I wanted students to be rewarded for showing their work and thinking. As a result, students can actually earn more points for an incorrect answer where they have shown their reasoning, then if they simply record the correct answer. With that said, there is a lot of value in accuracy, as well! That is why there is such a large numerical gap (4 – 10) between the two highest scores. I want students to participate in and value the problem-solving process, but I also want them to recognize that accuracy is essential.
Putting an emphasis (and a score!) on the problem-solving process is a new way of thinking for many students. I've found though, that once students understand and use the problem-solving maps & rubrics that it dramatically improves the quality of their work and thinking.
In my experience, when my students take ownership of the rubric, they are more likely to understand and invest themselves in the process. Therefore, I enlist them to help me build the criteria. I provide the descriptors and we discuss each one. In the discussion, we address the value of the problem-solving process, the importance of accuracy, and our ultimate goal of accomplishing both! As a class, students then decide what point value each level of performance is worth. We record their decisions on paper and use this an anchor chart. It keeps the criteria clear and available and students can refer to it easily throughout the year.
At various times, we revisit the rubric and discuss. As a class, students may change the point values or even modify or add to the descriptors. It is great to hear them reflect on the problem-solving process, what worked well, what they value, and how they want their accomplishments recorded.
OK PAUSE! If you've read this far, you are a total rock star and deserve a FREEBIE! hug, hug, kiss, kiss! Here's a link to download my "Guidelines for Team Work" for free.
Before I sign off on this incredibly long post, I want to share one more of my favorite aspects about Math Quest - FATE CARDS!
Students love fate cards because they add excitement and introduce the unexpected! At the beginning of each class, teams randomly select a "fate card." Each card provides a different scenario or task, which can cause teams to gain or lose points, gold, and/or their position on the board. Most importantly, they are hysterical! While some cards require academic thinking, (such as calculate the average height of your team or state one of Newton's 3 laws of physics), some cards are just silly and fun. For example, students can earn points for wearing a real shower cap, singing a song, or remaining silent for the entire math class.
Fate Cards take about 2-3 minutes of class time to complete, but are often the highlight of my students' day! They can not wait to get to math class so they can pull cards and earn points. I've even had students create their own fate cards - in their free time!! - to add to the pile. I LOVE my students!!!
So, what do you think? What questions do you have? Leave me a comment and let me know! I'd love to hear from you.
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Would you play everyday, once a week, or what? Love the idea of the game but I'm curious how this would fit in with your "regular plans". Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Ricky! I've done it a few different ways.:Delete
1. 30 minutes a day of our 90 minute math block
2. Once a week for 45 minutes.
3. As a center activity in our math rotations
Math Quest is also a great anchor activity! Students who finish early can always grab their problem solving packets and be meaningfully (and happily!) engaged. Does this help? Let me know if you have any other questions!
I can't find the problem solving mat, rubric or any math quest stuff. I clicked on the links and they took me to your TPT store but I can't identify which product would have these things in.Delete
Hi Lynda,Delete
Thank you for your interest! I've updated the links, so they should take you to the correct resource now. It is called "Problem Solving Mats and Rubrics." Please let me know if you have any other questions. :-)
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM
I love this game and play it in my class also, Thank you for the added problem solving mat I can't wait to make the change. I think I am going to play again at the end of the year and have the students make fate cards too.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm so happy to hear from someone who also uses and loves Math Quest! Thanks for your comment! Let me know how it goes with the problem solving mat. I'd love to hear your thoughts!Delete
Thanks for sharing your problem solving mat and rubric! I am excited to try them with my students this year. I have a question about your problem solving mat and rubric that has to do with a product that I am putting on Teachers Pay Teachers. Would you mind e-mailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com?ReplyDelete
Fantastically Fourth Grade
- AnonymousOctober 11, 2015 at 6:57 PM
I checked out Math Quest online via your link and it says it's for 4-7th grade and the CCSS links are for those grades as well. I teach 3rd grade so I was disappointed as I thought I could use this with my 3rd graders and have the push for my high students. What do you think?ReplyDelete
Hi There! Thanks for your question! I have used Math Quest with my high ability 3rd graders for past few years and have found it to be a great match! At times I will supplement or tier activities with word problems from the "Problem Solvers Series." Problem Solvers focuses on the same problem solving strategies as Math Quest, but provides individual books for grades 1-6. Here's a link to the series, if you're interested: http://www.mheducation.ca/school/schoolGraphics/creative_cat2005_problem_solving.pdf I am out of the building this week for a conference, but when I return to school on Monday I will look more closely at the problems included Math Quest and share further feedback with you. If you have other questions in the meantime, please let me know! Thanks again for being in touch! ChristyReplyDelete
thanks for this share,ReplyDelete
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I use this game with our gifted/talented program gr 3 students. THey love it and beg to play it in 4th and 5th!ReplyDelete


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