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Unclaimed money search.

http://www.missingmoney.com/Main/StateSites.cfm

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Actually, not sure if this is BS or not. But this reddit thread makes it seem like it's not.

Anyway, I'm curious if anyone finds their name listed. I didn't find my name in any states where I've lived.

Photo Friday: Putting It All Together

I don't see any other mentions of Photo Friday this week, so this is my suggestion.

I just made this and it was fast, simple, colorful, and delish -

Summer Pasta with roast tomato, greens, and corn!

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Pre-heat oven to 375-350

Get an ear or two of fresh summer corn in husk.

Get some small tomatoes, ideally those multicolored kinds but whatever, so long as they're wee.

Pasta of your choice, gnocchi for a heavier meal, I used tri-color bow-ties and it was just heavy enough.

Roast corn in oven with tomatoes for about 20-30 min, check to make sure the tomatoes don't burst, you want them juuuust wrinkly.

Boil water for pasta, make pasta, you know how to make pasta.

Arrange arugula or spinach on plate.

Remove the corn and tomatoes from the oven, shuck it and then slice the kernels off the cob.

Combine pasta, corn, tomatoes on plate with greens. Make a small amount of vinagette and drizzle over plate.

Serve, bam you've just eaten a huge amount of vegetables for lunch that took almost no effort and will be great cold the next day. You're welcome.

Alternate: You can leave out the corn, this lowers the level of difficulty to "boil water".

Holiday Weekend Coming Up!

What are your plans?

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I took Friday off, and Monday is an office holiday. My Mom flew to town yesterday, and we are going to Ocean City for the weekend tomorrow! So excited to introduce my little buddy to the fun of Ocean City.

OMG SAFEWAY!

http://othercraig.me/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/05/safeway-tissue.jpg

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Yes, the Safeway mega-chain of supermarkets (known locally for me as Vons because they bought out a local chain that had been around for a hundred years) has changed the design of their house brand toilet paper package to include... A BUNNY! (That's just the regular TP package; not pictured: the Extra Strong TP package with a swan and the Extra Soft TP package with two baby ducks)

Models are in the same H1-b class as computer scientists instead of performers

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-20/h-1b-models-strut-into-u-s-as-programmers-pray-for-help.html?cmpid=

I did not know that!

Special Ed kids are cool

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My wife came home from school as pumped up as she has in quite a while. Today was Field Day. The high school where she teaches doesn't really have Field Day (that's pretty much for the younger grades), but they did it any way.

When she restarted National Honor Society at the school a couple years ago, they discussed a service mission within the school and the brightest kids in school decided to adopt the LINC kids. The LINC kids are the special needs kids.

So today NHS combined with the Fire Training Academy (the special interest school within the school) and they put on a Field Day. They did all kinds of outdoor activities with the LINC kids, including stuff like kickball. For the kids in wheelchairs, one of the NHS kids would kick the ball for them, then push the wheelchair around the bases.

Some of the NHS kids are on the volleyball team, so they taught volleyball- how to properly hit the ball and stuff- to the LINC kids using plastic beach balls.

When it was time to break for lunch, each LINC kid had an NHS or Fire Academy kid to eat lunch with.

The event was sponsored by local community leaders (including free t-shirts printed up for the occasion), and even the mayor showed up for a while.

Meanwhile, the principal was at meetings at the school district offices. During a break, someone asked what's going on at her school, since she was getting constant messages on her cell phone. The administration was beyond "green with envy" and teetered on flat-out jealousy.

The downtown special ed staff called the school and demanded to know why they weren't consulted, but the assistant principal over special ed assured them that all the activities were approved by the principal and district office permission wasn't required (he'd already checked the relevant policies).

The academic people in the district office were shocked that the kids got a whole day off from school and DEMANDED what academic purpose it served. Our principal had it all documented and had it with her.

Meanwhile the principals from the well-to-do westside schools were jealous because they know that their status-conscious bright students wouldn't dare associate with the LINC kids at their schools, even for a day.

There are days when my wife feels so fatigued from teaching at a school in an impoverished neighborhood, but then there are days like this, where she sees what big hearts kids with so very little can have. And it makes it all worth it.

The coupe de grace is that their standardized test scores came in and they made bigger gains than any other school in the district; in her own department (history and social studies), nearly every student passed the first try.

New Flickr

To be honest, I haven't had a whole lot of time to tool around with it yet, but I'd love to hear any thoughts/complaints/alternatives etc. that any of you have. Yes, I'm being lazy, but I know there are a lot of heavy Flickr users here, and I value your opinions.