10 common shortcomings of secondary curriculum design and textbooks in the UK
November 8, 2015May 31, 2016 Gianfranco Conti, Phd (Applied Linguistics), MA (TEFL), MA (English Lit.), PGCE (Modern Languages and P.E.) General pedagogy, Language acquisition principles, Teacher Ed. and professional development, Uncategorized
In this post I will concern myself with issues in typical secondary school MFL curriculum design as evidenced by the schemes of work – and the textbooks these are often based on – which in my view seriously undermine the effectiveness of foreign language instruction in many British secondary schools.
Effective curriculum design is as crucial to successful MFL instruction as effective classroom delivery is and must be based on sound pedagogy and skillful planning. As I intend to discuss in this post, much curriculum planning and textbook writing flouts some of the most fundamental tenets of sound foreign language pedagogy and neglects important dimensions of language acquisition. Although Steve Smith of www.frenchteacher.net – with whom I am currently writing ‘The MFL teacher handbook’ – noted in his blog that the new editions of some British textbooks are actually addressing some of the issues I am about to discuss, there is still much scope for improvement.
Issue n 1 – Coverage vs Time available
Solution – obvious: teach less but in greater depth; recycle more.
Issue n 2 – Fluency: the neglected objective
In previous blogs I pointed out how effective foreign language teaching ought to aim at developing fluency across all four skills and especially into areas where speed of processing is paramount to be an effective communicator: oral interaction and interpersonal writing (e.g. instant messaging). Fluency was defined in previous post as the ability to produce intelligible oral or written speech in response to a stimulus at high speed. This is a crucial skill for students to develop if we want to enable them to use the target language in the real world, especially in the workplace. Yet, fluency rarely – if ever- features expicitly as a goal in UK MFL departments’ schemes of work. Hence, teachers neither plan for fluency development nor are allocated adequate resources and training to teach fluency. Nor do they formally assess fluency.
Moreover, the issue highlighted in the previous paragraph often works against the attainment of fluency as rushing through a unit entails neglecting horizontal progression. Without sufficient horizontal progression fluency cannot be obtained.
Solution – Plan for the attainment of fluency. Include activities to develop speech automatization and opportunities for its assessment.
Solution: include in the schemes of work a section in each unit headed ‘recycling opportunities’ and include activities aiming at consolidating old material. Also, make sure that each end of unit assessment tests students on material covered in previous units – or even previous years.
Issue 4 – What about communicative functions?
In PBL-based schemes of work this issue is worsened by the nature of the approach adopted which focuses on the attainment of a product rather than interpersonal communication.
Communicative functions are pivotal to effective target language proficiency. They are way more important than many other things textbooks teach.
Solution: use Finocchiaro and Brumfit’s taxonomy to fill the gaps in this area that you will identify in your schemes of work. Make sure that you recycle functions over and over again throughout the year.
Issue 5 – The 2 neglected word-classes
Textbooks, schemes of work and specialized websites focus mainly on nouns and –tragically – neglect verbs and adjectives – and hence adverbs from which adjectives are obtained. Verbs, as I pointed out in previous blogs, are essential in order to acquire a high level of autonomous speaking competence (spontaneous talk). One of the reasons for this neglect, I suspect, is that state-school English learners are notoriously bad at conjugating verbs; hence, textbooks dumb down their comprehensible input and target vocabulary by including only few essential and often more ‘learnable’ verbs.
Solution: include lists of target verbs in the schemes of work. Using quizlet or memrise to create your own online activities to drill them in (in the infinitive). You could use my verb trainer at www.language-gym.com – the pictures help the students learn the verb meaning as they conjugate – or my Work-outs.
Issue 6 – How about improvisation?
Schemes of work are usually planned around specific topics, which, in England, repeat themselves every year – how boring! However, autonomous speaking competence (spontaneous talk) is about being able to talk ‘across topics’ so to speak; to be able to have a ‘natural’ conversation with a speaker of the target language which is not bound to a specific topic or sub-topic but touches different aspects of human life and experiences. MFL departments – at least to my knowledge – never really plan for this. Yet, nearly everyone these days states that spontaneous talk is high on their agenda.
Solution: plan for one or two lessons every now and then – maybe in between half-terms? – which are entirely dedicated to talking, reading, listening and writing in the target language without being tied down to a specific topic. A very easy-to-set-up task is a general conversation task where the students ask each other a wide variety of questions covering several topics, including some that have never been covered before – but that the students possess the linguistic tools to talk about.
Issue 7 – Grammar, the ‘poor sister’
This point is so obvious that I will not dwell too long over it. British textbooks devote a ridiculously small amount of space to grammar and to its recycling. Teachers have to toil on a daily basis to resource grammar teaching.
Solution: teach more grammar and recycle it to death (see my previous post: 16 tips for effective grammar teaching’.
Issue 8 – Intercultural competence
Textbooks and schemes of work often include sections about ‘La Francophonie’ or other facts about the target language civilization. However, one very important dimension of cultural awareness is nearly always missing: how to avoid culture shock or other ‘faux pas’ and, more generally, how to train students to deal with target language native speakers in a way which is culture-sensitive and can foster effective integration. In an era where the labour market is so globalized, intercultural competence has become an important lifelong learning skill which our students need to be equipped with.
Solutions: Cultural awareness teaching should be more about the (cross-cultural) skills than the facts.
Issue 9 – Variety of topics
Every year, from year 6/7 to year 11, English teenagers keep learning about the same blocked topics, often relearning the same words. Here again, textbooks play an important role. As I tweeted earlier on today, most English textbooks seem to replicate the Metro textbook blueprint.
Solution: try new topics or combinations of topics. Prioritize topics teenagers are really interested in like relationships, entertainment, gadgets, social media, fashion, etc, rather than house chores or pets…
Issue 10 – Teaching sequences
The ‘Metro textbook blueprint’ is evident in all its successors not only in terms of the topics which receive more emphasis, but also in the way they sequence grammar structures. In a future post Steve and I will propose how we believe grammar structures should be sequenced and the rationale for it. There are many things we believe textbook writers and curriculum designers in the UK should change. One thing that springs to mind, for instance is modal verbs (e.g. Vouloir, Pouvoir, Devoir in French). One wonders why they are always introduced quite late when they are so important in everyday communication and have very high surrender value. Imagine how ‘handy’ they can be to a beginner learner, before they even start conjugating verb, followed as they are by infinitives. Moreover, their acquisition earlier on would partly address issue 5 by enabling the students to use many verbs at will quite easily.
Solution: Consider the surrender value and learnability of the target grammar structures. Would learning them earlier or later facilitate acquisition in your opinion? If so, don’t wait for the textbook sequence to teach them.
Some of the shortcomings in the typical secondary school MFL curriculum and course-book design I have just discussed are much more important than others. My pet hates are the lack of recycling, the insufficient focus on oral fluency, the neglect of verbs and adjectives and the sketchy and superficial approach to grammar. The reader should note that I have deliberately not dealt with the teaching of lifelong learning skills as I do believe that MFL teacher contact time being so limited, most of them are best taught explicitly as separate from the foreign language curriculum – unless, of course they overlap with the aims of the course (e.g. independent enquiry skills, problem solving, intercultural communication, effective communication, empathy, resilience).
Your greatest priority as a curriculum designer – and every teacher to a certain extent is one – should definitely be the systematic recycling of the target vocabulary, grammar and communicative functions and the allocation of sufficient time for deep encoding to occur. This will entail doing away with the one chapter per half-term approach, a tragic legacy of the Metro-based Schemes of Work.
November 1, 2015May 31, 2016 Gianfranco Conti, Phd (Applied Linguistics), MA (TEFL), MA (English Lit.), PGCE (Modern Languages and P.E.) Grammar teaching, Teacher Ed. and professional development, Uncategorized
Please note: this post was written in collaboration with Steve Smith of http://www.frenchteacher.net
As already discussed in previous posts, my instructional approach to foreign language teaching is rooted in Cognitive theories of L2 acquisition and, more specifically, in Skill theory (e.g. Anderson, 2000). Hence, my teaching is based on two main assumptions: (1) for any macro-skill to be fully acquired each and every micro-skill that that macro-skill can be broken down into must be fully acquired, too; (2) certain linguistic features are less teachable than others based on the cognitive challenges they pose to the learner, not on innate mechanisms (e.g. you would not ask a child who has not learnt the multiplication tables to solve a complex equation); many of the cognitive challenges will be of course posed by L1 negative transfer.
In twenty-five years of professional practice Steve and I have seen many language instructors frequently flout the above principles, often due to the pace and content dictated by ‘sketchy’ schemes of work or to the typical British MFL textbook structure. The new PBL trend further exacerbates the issue by neglecting the skill-building dimension of language learning.
This post concerns itself with a phenomenon which most teachers observe day-in day-out in their classroom with novice to intermediate learners: recurrent learner errors in the execution of the following micro-skills, which refer to the execution of high frequency and quite important linguistic features in most of the languages taught in the UK (e.g. French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin etc.)
Effectively manipulating word endings to make subject and verb agree
Effectively manipulating word endings to make adjective agree with noun/pronoun in terms of gender
Effectively manipulating word endings to make adjective agree with noun/pronoun in terms of number
Effectively manipulating word endings to make adjective agree with noun/pronoun in terms of case (German and Latin)
Placing adjectives after noun (French, Italian and Spanish)
Positioning direct/indirect pronouns before (most) verbs
Effectively decoding target language words (ability to turn letters into sound)
Teachers complain about the recurrence of student errors in these areas on a daily basis. What is most worrying is that many of these errors occur in written output, when, that is, an L2 writer has potentially more time to monitor and, consequently, to self-correct. This can only mean two things: (1) either the student lacks declarative knowledge of the grammar structure to deploy or (2) s/he has failed to apply the grammar rule due to cognitive overload. Both scenarios indicate that the to-be-applied structure is far from being routinized. Why?
The answer: for any skill to be routinized, the brain must create what Skill-theorists call a Production. A Production is like a program embedded in our Brain’s operating system which is triggered by a cue. Skill-theorist call this cue the ‘IF-condition’ of a production and the brain’s response to that cue the ‘THEN condition’. For instance, in the case of Noun-adjective agreement,
IF an adjective qualifies a noun (in French)
THEN that adjective’s ending must agree in gender and number with the noun
IF the noun is feminine
THEN the adjective adds an ‘-e’ to the ending, unless it is irregular or ends in ‘-e’ already
This Production is – at least in theory – easy to create at declarative level (i.e. as a rule). The problem is that an English-speaking novice/intermediate student’s first language will work against its application at the early stages of internalizing the rule, because of negative transfer (in English you do not change adjectival endings in this context); this is especially the case when a student is working under time constraints or communicative pressure and is not asked to focus explicitly on agreement. Hence, two, three or even four lessons on adjectival agreement will never be sufficient, like many teachers seem to presume. They are often satisfied that their students seem to get adjectival agreement right during the lessons explicitly devoted to that grammar structure and they move on to another topic or skill.
The problem is that after two, three or even ten lessons that Production is only at the very early stages of its routinization. It will take many instances of application and positive feedback on its deployment for that Production to be automatized (i.e. applied quickly and effortlessly) as the brain is very cautious before ‘deciding’ to create any new permanent cognitive structure. Hence the fundamental micro-skills listed above must be practised as extensively as possible whether in class or through homework – ideally in every single lesson – before one can assume they have been mastered.
Although I am sure that most teachers would agree with most of the above, I wonder how many MFL classroom practitioners actually focus consistently and extensively enough on ensuring that they are effectively routinized. Yet, unless we do not care about accuracy, lack of routinization of the above micro-skills can undermine the subsequent learning of important complex structures and, consequently, progression along the L2 acquisition continuum. Here is an example. Think about the first three items in the micro-skills list above:
Manipulating word endings to make subject and verb agree
Manipulating word endings to make adjective agree with noun/pronoun in terms of gender
Manipulating word endings to make adjective agree with noun/pronoun in terms of number
A few years ago I observed a lesson where the instructor was teaching her students (French) reflexive verbs in the Perfect tense (e.g. je me suis habillée) where the Past Participle has to agree in gender and number with the subject. It was clear to me not only that the students had not at all routinized the three micro-skills above but that they had not received much practice in verb-ending manipulation at all – a fundamental skill to master when learning a Latin language. Their processing ability was poor and this hindered their progression throughout the lesson. They were clumsy and slow in manipulating verbs and this impacted their accuracy and fluency.
Much of the cognitive overload that hinders language acquisition in French, Spanish, Italian and German learning is due to the insufficient practice students receive across those micro-skills. The Anglo-Saxon brain being not wired for and not used to manipulating verb and adjectival endings, a great amount of effort must be put on a daily basis by teachers on practising this specific set of micro-skills consistently  and systematically since the very early stages of learning. As I intend to show below, it is easy, not very time consuming and it pays enormous dividends. In my case, with CIE as an examination board, getting my student to be 100% correct in verb and tenses formation is a must, since the written exams assessment scheme requires high levels of accuracy (e.g. the written piece must feature the accurate use of 18 different verbs).
The same applies to any of the other micro-skills on that list. Consider word order of adjectives. Taken in isolation, the rule/Production “IF an adjective qualifies the noun, THEN place the adjective after the noun” seems easy to grasp and acquire. And at the end of a single lesson on it, teachers usually feel confident that it has been learnt. However, the above Production, when combined with the other related productions “IF the adjective qualifies a noun it must agree in gender and number with that noun” and “IF the noun is feminine THEN the adjective adds an ‘-e’ becomes much less easy to handle effectively and efficiently in cognitive terms unless the other two Productions have been highly routinized. Processing of the above Productions becomes even more cumbersome with novice learners when it occurs in the context of the creation of a complex sentence where they are coping with several structures simultaneously (e.g. conjugating the verbs in the sentence, choosing the right preposition, retrieving the correct lexis).
If novice to intermediate learners are not provided sufficient practice in the above micro-skills the risk of L1 transfer impacting student output will always be present, especially when the learners are working under pressure in contexts where there is not much time for self-monitoring (e.g exams, oral performance). This may lead to the fossilization of erroneous forms (i.e. the permanent internalization of mistakes) even when the learners know the rule(s) relative to those forms. This is a widely documented phenomenon in English secondary schools.
In conclusion, curriculum designers and teachers must reconsider the way they go about progression, in my view, or at least allow for more practice of the above micro-skills and related structures. Teachers using Independent Inquiry / PBL must be particularly cautious as this aspect of L2 learning is often neglected in their instructional approach. Creative ways must be found to embed any of the activities below.
Implications for the classroom – curriculum design and minimum–preparation teaching strategies
Systematic recycling in Schemes of Work: in the first two or even three years of instruction, schemes of work should make explicit reference to the above micro-skills and allow for constant recycling. Opportunities for regular formative assessment aimed at evaluating the routinization of the micro-skills should be included, too.
Micro-skill tracking : As I already advocated in a previous post, the use of a tracking sheet where one logs all the instances of recycling of each micro-skill in lessons can be extremely handy in assisting recycling
Grammaticality judgment quizzes (to be used only at initial stages): Write three phrases on the board of which only one is accurate: e.g. une belle femme – une beau femme – une bel femme
Gap-fills with or without options (still for the initial stages only): there are plenty of free gap-fills activities online (e.g. www.language-gym.com; www.languagesonline.org.uk ). I have uploaded lots of free ones onto www.tes.co.uk. www.frenchteacher.net has loads, too.
Online self-marking verb trainers (at any stage): I find verb-trainers very valuable to the point that I created my own (free at www.language-gym.com). I ask my students to go on it every day for five minutes purely as a habit formation tool. Do not presume that just because they get 100 % on a verb trainer module and they can conjugate verbs very fast they have routinized verb use, obviously. They need to demonstrate correct deployment of verbs under real operating conditions, first.
Mini White board activities (novice to advance stage depending on complexity)
5a. Translations (my favourite);
5b. Verb training – give pronoun, verb and tense and ask students to conjugate on the spot;
5c. From sound to letter (decoding skills) – pronounce a sound (e.g. ‘uah’ – in French) and ask students to write the combination of letters it represents (e.g. oi) ;
5d. Short dictations – utter a word that you have never taught your students and ask them to guess its spelling based on their decoding-skills repertoire
5e. Picture task –  example: picture of a green car; students to write: una macchina verde (Italian) / une voiture verte (French)
Oral translation (novice to advance stage depending on complexity) – This is another favourite of mine. Students are given cards with bullet points and need to translate them into the target language in real time. Each bullet point will elicit the execution of the target micro-skill (e.g. agreement; verb conjugation; word order). This can be done impromptu, if one wants to assess student level of fluency or after some preparation. Although they require a bit more preparation – not much, though – the cards can be used across languages.
Teachers often complain about their students’ mistakes in the execution of the following micro-skills:
However, the problem lies in the lack of extensive practice the students receive in the performance of those skills. At the early stages of instruction students must be given extensive practice as frequently as possible until there is evidence that they have automatized them and that their execution occupies only subsidiary awareness. Moving on to another topic or structure prematurely can have serious negative consequences for student learning.


Has time just flied since you started living in a different country?
However when you return back home, the changes you see around, stings you hard and reminds you of how really long you’ve been away from your home. Here are few signs that secretly whisper in your ear that you are more an expat now than anything else!
1. The confusing question
When people ask “Where are you from?”, you tend to get confused. If you need a moment to think before answering that question, then you are certainly a seasoned expat.
2. Knowledge of politics
You probably understand the politics of your resident country better than you do of your home country. And, if you can start arguing about it with a local person, then you’ve definitely been an expat too long.
3. Sending money home
4. Helping aspiring expats
You are the official light-in-the-tunnel to every young person who dreams of going abroad, as you are no longer the fresh-off-the-boat expat but the seasoned expat who is there to help others.
5. Going home for vacations
6. Changing accent
A change in your accent is also a definite sign that you’ve been living away from home too long. You begin to lose your natural accent and slowly start speaking in the accent of your resident country.
7. Juggling multiple languages
You start ‘thinking’ in two languages if the languages of your resident country and home country are different. Also, if you start using local words to express yourself better then you are immersed in your expat life.
It’s imminent that once you start living in a new country, you start adapting to their way of life and try to fit it. Over the years, it does become difficult to identify yourself with just one culture, especially if you have lived in many countries but that’s the wonderful life of an expat.


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I've noticed in the last few builds that the services menu item in Omniweb on Snow Leopard doesn't seem to be functional.
I can select some text on a webpage and when I go to clip the text (or anything else) Omniweb tells me that there "are no services offered" in that context.
Known bug? Since Apple finally made the services menu useful, I'm waiting to really give the latest versions of Omniweb a spin until I can access that functionality again.
I'm having trouble reproducing this. I have two services that appear in my context menu. They show up the same way in both OmniWeb and Safari. I then have a few additional options via Services under the OmniWeb menu.
I don't know that I've ever seen it working under Snow Leopard. I really had pushed Omniweb to the back of the shelf because I kept seeing it grow to huge memory sizes prior to the latest sneaky peaks.
Now that Safari (under Snow Leopard and as a 64 bit app) dwarfs pretty much anything else memory-wise, and since flash is such a dog, I started trying Omniweb again.
But I really do use the services menu, so I'll hope this gets fixed so that I'll be able to return to using it full time again.


The Indianapolis resident is set to open his latest venture, Roots Burger Bar, by the end of next week at 1700 W. University Ave. in Muncie, in a building owned by his parentsn he founded in 1996.
When Wise sold Scotty’s in 2016, the chain had 17 restaurants in multiple states, and he said he had lost the passion he’d felt in the earlier years. And he's still dealing with lawsuits related to the business that were filed after the bankruptcy.
“Toward the end, it became an office job,” Wise told IBJ.
In contrast, Roots will be a single location with a slimmed-down menu, allowing Wise to do what he’s always loved best—getting hands-on and interacting with customers and staff.
“I’m so excited to just go back to that,” he said.
Wise described Roots as “an all-American burger cafe” with a classic diner vibe and a focus on smashed burgers. The menu will include a handful of other entrees including tenderloins, chili dogs and fish and chips.
“I want it to be messy, and I want people to have to use lots of napkins,” Wise said.
Roots also will offer appetizers, salads, children's meals and a selection of beer, wine and liquor.
Wise worked with Craig Baker to develop the menu. Baker was co-owner of now-closed Indianapolis restaurants Plow & Anchor and Bent Rail Brewery & Restaurant.
In developing Roots, Wise said he’s drawing on his Scotty’s experience.
“You try to learn from the good and the bad, mistakes that you might have made along the way,” he said.
Wise established Scotty’s after graduating from Ball State University. He sold it 20 years later to who paid around $10 million.
Scotty’s Holdings LLC and numerousMuncie location is among several Scotty’s that has since closed.
Scotty’s recently submitted its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. The plan, which still must gain court approval, would wipe out Due North’s equity stake and give ownership to debtors-in-possession Sase Kosan and ZGrowth Capital Fund L.P. Sase Kosan and ZGrowth provided Scotty’s with $890,000 in debtor-in-possession financing to see Scotty’s through bankruptcy.
At Roots, Wise is borrowing some concepts that worked at Scotty’s—and leaving behind others that weren’t as successful.
Roots, for instance, offers a more focused menu than the sprawling selection he developed at Scotty’s. Customers loved the big menu, Wise said, but it posed an operational challenge.
Wise has experience running restaurants with focused menus.
About nine years ago, Wise managed a restaurant called Scotty’s Lakehouse in Geist for MSCB Group. He also managed another MSCB restaurant in Columbus, Scotty’s Burger Joint. Both places offered a limited selection of items.
Wise parted ways with MSCB in 2013. The Geist restaurant changed its name to Detour American Grill, and the Columbus restaurant has since closed.
Wise said he’s also being more discerning in developing the Roots brand. Scotty’s, for example, used plates stamped with the restaurant’s logo. In retrospect, Wise said, he views that as an expensive and nonessential detail. Roots will serve its food in paper-lined baskets.
Other aspects of the Roots brand: Free popcorn at each table and self-service soft-serve ice cream cones with each children’s meal.
Steve Delaney, a real estate broker for CBRE who specializes in restaurants and retail, said the Roots concept seems promising.
“People are looking for a place that’s fun for the adults and fun for the kids, and he’s trying to provide that,” he said.
After selling Scotty’s, Wise went to work for Luke Family of Brands, a Hobart-based developer and fuel supplier. Wise left that job earlier this month.
Wise has a handful of financial partners in Roots. He said he holds less than a 50 percent interest in the venture but is the largest single shareholder.
Wise declined to identify his partners but said none were Scotty’s investors.
Muncie restaurateur Phil Wills will be Roots’ general manager. Wills owned Dill Street Bar and Grill in Muncie, and one of Wise’s early jobs was as a dishwasher there. After Dill Street closed several years ago, Wills managed the Muncie Scotty’s Brewhouse until it closed.
A few other Roots features will be familiar to long-time Scotty’s fans. Wise plans to establish a loyalty program as well as a mug club where customers can buy a personalized mug to get discounts on drinks. Wise ran both at Scotty’s.
At least for now, Wise said he’s content to have just one Roots location. As Scotty’s grew, Wise couldn’t be as involved in store-level operations—his favorite part of the job. He plans to be at Roots several days a week and take an active role in operations.
Observers say a hands-on approach can help a restaurant’s chances of success—especially when the restaurateur is well-known.
Maddox said the Scotty’s Brewhouse bankruptcy might hurt Wise’s standing with some customers—even though Wise sold the company before it sought reorganization..
But Maddox also said Wise’s involvement brought many customers into both Scotty’s Brewhouse and the restaurants Wise managed for Maddox’s group.
When patrons know that the owner is on site, “you just feel like things are going to be taken care of a little better,” said Indianapolis chef Greg Hardesty.
Hardesty does all the cooking at his latest venture, a 54th Street establishment called Studio C that does pop-up meals, private dining and other food-related offerings.
Hardesty, who built his reputation at restaurants such as0 Sushi near Broad Ripple, opened Studio C earlier this year to get back to cooking without the pressure of running a restaurant.
Hardesty said he doesn’t know much about Wise’s new venture but agreed that a limited menu simplifies operations.
A smaller menu means you don’t need to stock as many ingredients, Hardesty said, and employees can be more focused.


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www.cepal.org/mdg based on data compiled by PAHO, there is clear evidence showing that several cities in the region exceed their own maximum standard for PM 10 concentration. With respect to the supplementary indicator for motorization rate, there is also a clear increase in the number of vehicles per capita in the region, with a cumulative increase of 32% between 1990 and 2000, and the further pressure on emissions from mobile sources. In regard to potential indicators for Target 7a, no official indicators have been proposed as of yet and has not been possible to build Latin American supplementary indicators mainly due to lack of official statistical series for computation purposes. These elements are addressed in detail in the study. Findings from pilot studies conducted on environmental public expenditure with respect to GDP are shown albeit not comparable, and they exhibit values below 1% for all cases, which are by all means considered insufficient. In general, official indicators associated to Target 7.C -- show a positive evolution. Indicator for coverage of safe drinking water (I7.8), though the territory aggregation still shows high disparities in terms of coverage and access to both water and sanitalso a positive change in indicators for coverage of sanitation (7.9), for national and urban and rural areas, however with a certain degree of progress which is lesser than progress made in terms of coverage for water. With respect to target 7D which proposes a reduction in the number and proportion of people living in slums, the regional analysis shows that the value for the indicator, i.e. proportion of the population sill living in slums (I7.10 proxy), has a positive trend regardless an increase of 18 million people living in slums.
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The trio came back — as did 2020 senior James Anastassiades as a graduate assistant/team manager — with blind faith last fall that somehow there would be a season this spring.
“The biggest question was, ‘Do we deserve that one year, how can we best help the program?’” said Parapunov, who has not been back to his native Bulgaria since Christmas break of 2019. “The decision had to be not only good for us but what was good for the program. We wanted to repay the fans, the state of Hawaii for everything they’ve given us.
Parapunov, the newly crowned AVCA National Player of the Year, did have a say in Saturday’s outcome. A loud one.
His team-high 13 kills meant he was in double digits in all 18 matches this season. His three consecutive aces late in the second set rattled what had been a shaky BYU serve-receive even more, with the Warriors pulling away at 23-14.
Parapunov walked off with the final award of his mega-award career, that of national tournament MVP. But all he could do during the postmatch press conference was stare at the NCAA trophy, tapping it gently to confirm it was real, and saying, “I’m so happy that my last game for the University of Hawaii was a win.
Gasman is the winningest player in program history, having played 124 of 125 career matches with a record of 105-19. It seemed fitting, then, that the 6-foot-10 middle not only will get his ring, but also the distinction of earning the final point in the last two wins over BYU. Back on March 6, 2020, his walk-off ace gave the Warriors the five-set marathon; Saturday, his seventh kill was the emphatic punctuation on the sweep.
Saturday was as much about leaving a legacy as it was about leaving with a championship.
“In all honesty, regardless of whether we had won or not tonight, it was worth it to come back,” said Cowell, who added seven kills and three aces. “The truth is, we had fallen in love with playing for the University of Hawaii. We wanted to leave a very powerful legacy just like the one that was left for us.
There’s been a void in the corner below the catwalk in the Stan Sheriff Center ever since the banner won by the 2002 team was dropped to the floor and stored in 2004. (The NCAA denied the school’s appeal over use of an ineligible player and ordered the championship vacated).
Five Warriors were named to the AVCA All-America teams on Monday, four of whom were repeat honorees. Parapunov, Gasman and Worsley were named to the first team. Cowell was selected to the second team for a second year. Sophomore setter Jakob Thelle was an honorable mention honoree.
Parapunov also has earned Big Westand had a conference-record 15 in his career.


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- Find names of parents of the bride and groom
Before searching for a marriage record you need to know:
- The approximate marriage date or the approximate birth date of the first child


Clwyd West MS Darren Millar has called for immediate action to address concerns that a pair of nesting Ospreys may not return to Llyn Brenig as a result of filming of the Channel 4 programme ‘The Bridge’.
Activists have raised concerns that the osprey chick has not been seen in days and that the parents have been disturbed by the use of flares and drones in the area.
Darren hasDwr Cymru to demand that these concerns are addressed.
“As a great lover of our wildlife in North Wales I am extremely concerned that Welsh Water and Natural Resources Wales have given the green light for filming to take place here.
“I have been in contact with Welsh Water and Natural Resources Wales to demand an explanation as to why this filming was permittedfilming at this site on local wildlife.
“If the reports of flares and drones being deployed as a part of filming are true it is important that the authorities take action to assess the damage that has been done and hold those responsible to account.
“I know activists ande reports coming from Llyn Brenig. We have a proud record of protecting our wildlife here in North Wales and it is vital that Natural Resources Wales ensure that protection continues."


EUROGROUP: NOT NEW to PREDICT the EURO’s DEMISE – Dutch finance minister jeroen DIJSSELBLOEM (NEW) – Veckans Affärer
(extensions: from paragraph six)
BRUSSELS (Direct) Predictions of the euro’s downfall has occurred in the past during my four years as the president of the eurogroup. We will continue to work to strengthen the common currency.
It said the president of the eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem told reporters on the way into the eurogroup meeting on Thursday.
He commented on the statements made to the BBC from Ted Mall, which is expected to become the U.S. ambassador to the EUROPEAN union. He said that both the EU and the future of the euro is uncertain, and recommended investors to go short on the euro in 2017.
“I have heard these predictions over four years. I am not a soothsayer, but we can only continue to strengthen the euro”, said Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
“The next few years, it looks like Europe will be on your own (without the US) when it comes to the economy and defense. Maybe it is a good thing so we must rely on ourselves to clear up our problems,” he continued.
the EU’s ekonomikommissionär Pierre Moscovici said that Ted Mallochs statement on the likely destruction within 18 months showed that he was not particularly well-informed.
“the Euro will not collapse within 18 months, or ten years or 20 years. We will make those who see our death disappointed,” he said.
He even quoted Mark Twain about the news of his death are greatly exaggerated.
“It is useless to try to divide the europeans,” he said.
Pierre Moscovici said, nevertheless, that the EMU-cooperation needs to be strengthened and that this work is underway.
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We present CLASSQL, a multi-agent model for playing real-time strategy games, where learning and control of our own team’s units is decentralized; each agent uses its own reinforcement learning process to learn and control units of the same class. Coordination between these agents occurs as a result of a common reward function shared by all agents and synergistic relations in a carefully crafted state and action model for each class. We present results of CLASSQL against the built-in AI in a variety of maps using the Wargus real-time strategy game.
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Studying the context and the Investor life, the quest for the architects is to find "God" in "Nature" and bring Him to form, in Nature: Light, Wind, The Green,...


In the Finals of America’s Got Talent, Glennis will compete against three other singers, two stand-up comedians, an electric violinist, an acrobatic group, a close-up magician, and a trapeze duo. The Final will take place on the 18th of September, and the results show will be held on the 19th.
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Eurovision 2019 to be held in Tel Aviv!


Posted on Nov 18, 2011 in ISSUE 24 in Ableton, Ari Spool, Brooklyn, Deutsche Wertarbeit, Electronica, Enya, Hippos in Tanks, King Felix, krautrock, Laurel Halo, Milan Zrnic, Richard Youngs, Sci-fi, Star Trek	John MausPlease let it be known I am not a writer. I have worked in the belly of this biz for many years (12!
Though inspired by the artists I look after, it is sometimes hard to be excited by the truckloads of bands dumped on blogs day after day. But sometimes there is something sincere and original that cuts through the unending stench of noise. I found this hope for music in John Maus (More …


Of course Trump’s extremist views were more than welcomed by his fellow racists. Trump’s lynch mob followers seem hell-bent on spewing racist rhetoric that’s not based on facts. And Trump is just fine with this.
Very dangerous rhetoric.
Same as it ever was though.
I’ve long thought that it doesn’t take much to peel the thin veneer of civilization off our brutal essence as a species.
No, the HATRED is still there. His strategy is to Divide and Conquer. How many $$$$ and Internet Research Hours was expended to find 2 women, African American to Trumpet the praise of that Billionaire embodiment of Human Toxicity??? He himself has said, “Don’t have Everyone Angry/Mad at You at the same time” (paraphrase).
Don’t care about his HATRED. Him in a position of POLICY Making is a Major Concern!
OF COURSE the hatred for blacks, Mexicans is still there, just not actively on display for a minute while he focuses on Muslims.
Americans have a short attention span and Der Trumper will get back to vilifying us when it suits his purposes.
Agreed. This is where Trump can cause the most damage and he most definitely does not need access to that type of power!
Sorry, but not sorry. Given the Islamic Caliphate’s brutal history with black Africans, I couldn’t care less and neither should black people at this stage of the game. Many Muslims of Arab, Pakistan, etc. decent/origins never NEVER cared for blacks across the diaspora. I am still waiting for the massive outcry from the Islamic world on what Boko Haram did. And no, 5 Muslims speaking out does not equate to the majority. Black people, of all religions in this country, need to look out for ourselves.
People can “Thumbs down” me all they want. The truth needs to be said.
Other POCs are getting a massive wake-up call and they just don’t how to take it. Blacks beginning (along with Native Americans). When blacks reached out our hand, other POCs practically spit in our face. So I am not here for some POC coalition now in 2015.
“” – There are lots of black Muslims that get lumped in because Muslim is not a race. People should be free to practice religion, especially since the problems black people have had in this country have been created almost entirely by Christians.
THIS is the answer to why my FATHER exposed me and my siblings to the Teachings of the NOI — The hypocrisy of ‘merica’s “CHRISTIAN” Behavior.
Islam is just as much a so-called “slave religion” as Christianity has been if not more. How do you think all those African nations became majority Muslim over centuries and centuries. Do you think the Islamists conquered Africans with ice cream and cotton candy?
It was not the Slave Religion of my ‘merican slave ancestry — MY POINT!
So you traded one slave religion for another slave religion. What kind of point is this to have made?
U still missing the POINT in addition to assuming with re to religion.
Boom….said it before I did..Thank you…I didn’t forget jack….
He is also a lot of other words that I can’t describe here, but I won’t go there. He doesn’t know anything real about terrorism. Muslims have made many great contributions in society. Muslims are the majority of the victims of ISIS and other terrorists groups in the Middle East. So, Trump is wrong. Right now, anyone that believes in Trump’s views on Muslims is an enemy of freedom. I don’t care who it is. We believe in the freedom of religion not the scapegoating of everyone in that religa theocracy. We believe in human rights and Trump’s evil commentaries are against human freedom. Even many GOP candidates have condemned Trump’s inappropriate statements.  Trump’s views should be denounced. We live in America and Trump’s views don’t represent true human values. Muslims are even veterans too and many Muslims work everyday to work in favor of tolerance and peace. How dare Trump make such outrageous, evil statements. How dare anyone support Trump after this incident. How dare Trump promote divisiveness and discrimination. We want freedom. Trump is a blowhard without a plan. We believe in justice. His racist and sexist comments are beyond the pale.
Truthseeker, good evening. I wish these naive bigots and assorted sheeple would realize that Muslims are the majority of the victims of the hateful ISIS/L regime. Just no words sometimes….
You’re corrected. These bigots and their sheeple ignore how the actions of the evil ISIS clique is antithetical to the human rights of Muslim people. ISIS has killed both Sunnis and Shia including Kurds plus other ethnic minorities in the Middle East.
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P.S. Thank you Friend.
This has to be the most dangerous rhetoric that has come out of Trump’s loud mouth to date. These are the words and ideology of a Fascist Ruler.   He is a one percent Corporate Elite who stands for everything this country’s evil past was built on; Arrogance, racism, violence, corruption etc etc.
I’ll even go out on the limb and say Trump may not hHe has a flimsy campaign structure, has not focused on basic domestic issues and he doesn’t seem to be as conservative on core issues as many believe. Once the primary kicks in, the loud mouth wind bag will be silenced.
I compare him to Mussolini also, but yes the Hitler analogies comes into play too.
Right, they were both monsters. Hitler’s aggressive propaganda machine and divisive rhetoric stirred conflict just as Trump has done. Although he has caused some damage I don’t think he will survive the Primary.
I hope that you’re right in Trump not winning the primary.  We all wish for him to not win the Republican race.
No doubt. The other thing that could happen is if Trump gets pissed off and goes Independent. His Minions will follow but he could cause major issues with the Republican voters that are currently undecided as well.
I agree. He could go Independent. If he does it, he could get 2-6% of the vote, which the GOP doesn’t want to happen, because of obvious reasons.
My Sentiment with Better wording!
FEAR mongering is how Hitler rose to political power.
No doubt and its the very FEAR that causes these white male Trump followers to lose their damn minds!
Explain how my comment defends a totalitarian doctrine or anything that resembles fascism.
It is this very rhetoric that is responsible for the subjugation of whole nations and been a catalyst for religious wars!! And it starts with the warped ideology of one misguided soul. It’s a known fact that Mr Trump is an egotistical, maniacal, arrogant man; am more so concerned about the lukewarm way the republican party has held him accountable for his extreme views and that there is actually a large segment of people that agree with him. It’s scary.
What I find shocking is all the comments by Blacks that say the statements were ‘un-American’. Just last month Blacks were calling for the destruction of American colleges and other ‘racist’ institutions but today we are care about what’s considered American? Could it be that Blacks know in a Trump White House life would be way different from the past 7.5 years of mediocrity and substandard expectations within the Black community. Perhaps we are afraid we will be held accountable for our dispositions.
Remember he said he was going to force Mexico to build a wall and have them pay for it? Remember he said he was going to change birthright citizenship even though you need to amend the constitution for that to happen? And remember he was going to tell the Chinese a thing or two even though we are trade partners with them and what happens in Beijing can have an effect here? And remember he said was going to bomb the shit out of Isis without realizing those bombs cost money and raining bombs over Syria and Iraq war increases the likelihood of civilian casualties, thus, destroying our efforts to combat isil? All these grand statements he’s made over the months hasn’t cost him a thing. This is the monster the Gop have created and it’s funny to watch them panic about the possibility that he will be the nominee for president. He can’t be stopped. He won’t be stopped.
Wow somebody else gets it. Outstanding.


The City Council unanimously approved an earned sick and safe leave ordinance for workers at Bloomington businesses on June 13, 2022. The ordinance will go into effect July 1, 2023.
The ordinance requires employers to provide some amount of sick and safe leaveBloomington. Three of Minnesota’s largest cities—Duluth, Saint Paul and Minneapolis—have already adopted similar ordinances.
The ordinance protects the well-being of Bloomington’s workforce and residents. IBloomington employers while recognizing that the city is part of a regional service and labor market.
The ordinance allows employees to in a calendar year. In businesses with six or more employees, it would be paid time off. In businesses with five or less employees, it would be unpaid time off.
Visit blm.mn/essl for more information about Bloomington's Earned Sick and Safe Leave ordinance.


I think it sort of makes sense if you know a little bit about what I am aiming for in my art practice and where I am coming from. I would describe my art practice as participatory, public art, with the live art event as the priority in my practice. So, I walk with people!
A: Actually, for the very first project if we are talking methodology, I chose and was drawn to that site because of the heavy narratives that were already in the place. It was the National War Memorial and I was looking at a collective memory, and how can you say that a memory is the same for all people?
A: It's quite cool because it gives you a perimeter. Otherwise you can research for a long time and everything but it meant that it was always going to be the starting point, the meeting point for the walk, and it gave me some practical considerations. For example, if you are looking at doing something that’s one to two hours, where can you explore from there?
E: So where does the significance of the Pohutakawa come from?
A: Well it's probably because I was asked to research them, the stories that were already circling this Pohutakawa tree. I actually once received an email from the Memorial Park Alliance, or the NZTA on behalf of the MPA (Memorial Park Alliance) and the subject line was something like “100 Pohutakawa, the significance of the Pohutakawa tree” and this idea around one hundred, it’s like if you ask a small child “how many kids were there at the party?”and they would respond with something like “a hundred!”. I love that it is not mathematically correct but we think “wow, that's so impressive!”
A: I don't have a perfect participant, but I did meet some pretty cool participants lately!In terms of audience, I was asked to specify by my supervisors, when I was doing my Master's project, who is your audience?Is it the art community or Joe Public?


10 Of The Best Hybrid SUVs That You Can Currently Purchase In The UK
Sky-high fuel prices and the push for fewer emissions have been making traditional SUVs less attractive in this day and age. Fortunately, many vehicle manufacturers have been keen on listening to the consumer’s plight. People still need big cars to haul more weight and move the family from one destination to another comfortably. However, they want to do it without having to empty their wallets to fuel their SUVs.
The above need led to the creation of the hybrid vehicle segment. One would previously have to compromise between good fuel economy and carrying capacity, but gone are such days thanks to the existence of hybrid technology. Below are some of the best hybrid SUVs that are available in the UK market.
The RAV4 is one of the most iconic vehicles that Toyota ever made, and it has quite a strong following. The Japanese vehicle manufacturer now makes a hybrid version of the RAV4 for its discerning customers that still want to own a RAV4 and achieve impressive mileage. The vehicle is powered by a 2.5-liter petro engine with a hybrid system that achieves about 48.7 miles per gallon. Its starting price is £30,635.
Mitsubishi’s hybrid Outlander has so far won customers’ hearts in the UK thanks to its impressive performance and an updated design. The vehicle is powered by a 2.4-liter engine coupled with an electric battery that allows it to achieve impressive gas mileage when the two work together. However, it can also run on the electric mode, which can propel it to a total of 25 miles before it needs a recharge and a total range of around 400 miles. The starting price is £35,760.
 and as such, it was quick to introduce hybrid vehicles into the UK market to meet the demand. The company offers the Vauxhall Grandland X Hybrid & Hybrid4. This vehicle is capable of traveling an impressive 35 miles on electric power alone, although it also has a combustion engine. The starting price is £56,955.
Volvo has a great track record when it comes to safety, and it is also one of the brands that sell hybrid vehicles. The Volvo XC90 has a hybrid version known as the T8 Twin Engine. The SUV has a 2.0-liter supercharged engine coupled with batteries that boost the vehicle’s range. It can travel 22 miles on battery power alone. The starting price is £66,645.
Lexus has already established itself as a premium luxury brand, and it only fits to have a hybrid offering. The Japanese manufacturer offers the Lexus RX 450h in the UK market for its customers looking for a hybrid. The price for one unit starts at £49,705, and a 3.5-liter V6 petrol engine powers it. However, this large engine size might impede achieving high mileage.
Land Rover offers a variety of products, and its track record is not exactly one that screams fuel efficiency. Nonetheless, the company decided to include a plug-in hybrid of the Range Rover Sport. The vehicle has a total of 400 BHP, which means that it is no slouch, and that is thanks to its 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine with 296 BHP while a battery pack provides the additional power. It can go as much as 31 miles on battery power alone. The base price for the hybrid version is £72,785.
Porsche is undeniably in the upper echelon of the best vehicle brands in the world. Not even this German brand could resist the allure of more potential sales by tapping into the demand for hybrid vehicles. The company sells a hybrid version of the Porsche Cayenne, with the price starting at £68,358. It is powered by a 3.0-liter turbo V6 engine that is assisted by an electric motor for an impressive 456 BHP total power output. Electric power alone can propel it a distance of 27 miles.
Audi also decided to have a crack at the hybrid SUV market with the Audi Q5 Hybrid. It has a 2-liter four-cylinder engine coupled with a 14.1 kWh lithium-ion battery for a total of 362 BHP. The SUV can travel 26 miles on electric mode alone, and the price starts at £49,735.
Range Rover Evoque hybrid
The normal Range Rover Evoque already has great mileage from its 2-liter engine. If you love this mini-SUV, but you want even better fuel economy, consider going for its plug-in hybrid version, which makes an impressive 300 BHP from a 1.5-liter turbocharged engine paired with a bunch of batteries and an electric motor. The price of the basic model starts at £43,850.
South Korean vehicle manufacturer KIA offers its KIA Niro PHEV, and it can be had for as little as £30,262 in the UK. It has a 1.6-liter turbocharged petrol engine coupled with an 8.9 kWh battery, which together provides a total of 139 BHP, which is not much, but it is enough to get around while achieving impressive MPG. The company estimates that the KIA Niro hybrid can achieve over 60 MPG.
Topics: Audi Q5 KIA Niro Hybrid Lexus RX 450h Porsche Cayenne Range Rover Evoque Range Rover Sport PHEV Toyota RAV4 Vauxhall Grandland X Hybrid & Hybrid4 Volvo XC90


Nowadays though we don’t think twice about opening up our phone and buying our groceries, or logging into an app to pay our utility bills. Should we be so blasé about paying for goods and services online though?
What can you do to protect your money when you shop online then?
If you’re on and old-school website or a smaller, independent website you may be asked to pay on an old-fashioned browser but is this safe?


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I will never learn. See, I know better than to say things along the lines of “this can’t possibly get much worse” or “something has to give” at this point because it always can get worse, and when things do give, they never give quite like you’d expect. So I probably should have known better than to say “if I had to do it over again…” about the biopsy.
Because now I get to do it over again. Whee!
And yes, 27 friggin’ samples, including 11 cores, and… um, it’s hard to tell exactly. I know the samples were good (I asked yesterday… was it a collecting/mounting/preserving glitch. Apparently, no.) Pathology is pretty damn subjective (if you’ve ever worked in a pet store and had to do water tests on people’s aquariums you know what I mean… C’mon, that’s sometimes unclear, and you’re just comparings on a little chart. And pregnancy tests might be easy read, but not if there’s eight more blue lines that the instructions say there should be.) And the pathologists are looking at cells under microscopes that they have to determine if they’re normal or just slightly atypical or downright abnormal or straight out “holy crap, that’s not human!” Then they have to explain why and back it up, because really a lot depends on it.
So the growth itself is made of some fibrous connective tissue, which apparently didn’t look like it was going to kill me in the next six months, but didn’t reveal a whole lot about why it was there — and, as the orthopedic doctor said, it really shouldn’t be there in the first place — and so they can’t say for sure that it’s necessarily benign. It could be scarring from an old hematoma, but… they couldn’t really tell given what they had.
My three options were a repeat biopsy, an excisional biopsy (no, thanks. I like to be mobile), or just watch it. I wanted to just watch it. I mean, hell, I’m getting scanned all the time anyway, and so a three month CT… Big deal. And, uh, it was indirectly kind of suggested by the orthopedic doctor that he’d maybe do the biopsy if he were in my shoes. So I don’t know if there was some disagreement as to what was seen, or the stuff seen in the tumor was just kind of conflicting or vague enough that a little more information is warranted. So here we go again.
I made an appointment with the doctor at DFCI as well. The orthopedic doctor said he didn’t see that starting to deal with this in a conservative way (which isn’t conservative at all, but it isn’t blazing guns madness either) would affect the biopsy sample should it be started before the procedure is repeated. Since the appointment at DFCI is two weeks away, it probably won’t matter much anyway. I gather that needing clarification is not unusual, really, here, and since we weren’t sure a biopsy was going to to be warranted to start with, maybe there is a chance this will at least clinch once and for all what that little bastard in my left ass cheek is, even if it is something that’s not directly relational to anything else… It shouldn’t be there, but since it is, it’d be reasonable to expect that we could figure out why, especially if the reason is pretty damn tame. But there can be lots of variable cells in a one inch or so area of growth.
Pain in the ass. Still beats the needle in the eye socket single fiber EMG and definitely beats the hell out of the water deprivation test, though, when it comes to it.


Lexie wore her new Valentine's jammies last night so I decided to take a few pictures of her in them this morning. As soon as the camera was out Christopher and Nicholas decided they needed to be in the pictures too!
Then Nick wanted in on the fun!
Poor Ben was taking a nap during all of this. He doesn't feel well!
Your kids are so adorable!I love Lexie's big blue eyes. Good thing she has 3 older brothers to look out for her, cause she's gonna be a heartbreaker!
I agree with Kyle- your kids are adorable!I love Lexie's new Valentine jammies- are the boys getting new heart jammies in pink?
Thanks Kyle and Mom!And no, the boys are not getting pink jammies, and yes, Christopher was upset!


A delicious delight that I’ve fallen in love with, this recipe is a combination of all the perfect ingredients to yield a mouth-watering tasting delight that you and your family will love too! Chocolate chips and buttercream are the secrets to this incredible delight.
If you enjoy the flavors of chocolate and caramel, you will adore this Caramel Turtle Cake. Topped with crispy pecans and created with the greatest chocolate cake recipe, homemade caramel frosting, and homemade caramel sauce! This Chocolate Caramel Turtle Delicacy is an incredible cake that everyone will enjoy.
I was given the task of producing a cake for one of my good friends’ birthday, and I needed to kill it.. I searched for the perfect cake to make, and eventually settled for this. The reaction was crazy! They loved it and everyone wouldn’t stop raving about how good the cake was, and asking me to prepare a batch for them.
I now have to requests for this cake. One for a birthday and another for a baby shower, and I’m sure they’ll love it! You really need to try this. It’s one of those taste it to know it recipes, and should be on your bucket list this weekend.
¾ cup unsalted sweet cream butter, melted
1 – 11oz caramel bits
1 container of chocolate fudge frosting
Step 1:Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a 9×13 baking dish with Pam baking spray. Combine the cake mix, oil, eggs, and milk in a hand mixer and beat until smooth and blended.
Step 2:Allow to bake for 15 minutes with half of the cake batter in the baking dish. Once baked, remove from oven. Combine the caramel bits, butter, and evaporated milk in a saucepan and simmer over medium heat.
Step 3:Mix the caramel mixture until it is smooth and melted. Then pour it over the prepared cake, over the caramel topping and cake, and then spread the chocolate chips and pecans.
Step 4:Place the remaining cake batter on top of the caramel mixture and bake for another 20 minutes. Allow to cool completely before using.
Step 5:Soften the chocolate fudge frosting and spread evenly once the cake has cooled. Add more chocolate chips and pecans if desired.