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Research has repeatedly shown that college students involved in the extracurricular life of a campus achieve better grades and experience higher levels of satisfaction. Still, not all faculty support life outside the academic classroom. When money is tight, extracurricular activities are often the first budget items scrutinized.
Higher education faculty from around the country swarmed upon a national student activities conference in St. Louis this week to protest the high budgets spent on extracurriculars at their institutions. Little did they know they would change their tunes and become vocal fans of the National Association of College Activities (NACA).
"I went to St. Louis to raise awareness about the drastic budget cuts to my cancer research lab," said Dr. Candace Dexter, a biochemist from Santa Juanita University of Arizona. "I was frustrated and angry that I had to cut two lab workers while my students were going to see concerts and speakers like Fantasia Barrino any given night of the week. Boy, was I wrong!"
Dr. Dexter took time away from her conference protesting duties to visit a booth from Caricatures by Big Smile, after which she told her faculty colleagues that she was joining the NACA team.
"My caricature was so cute and meaningful, I could see why my cancer research has been ignored," said Dexter. "After that session I went to see a hippie guy playing an acoustic guitar and I gave him my business card. I hope he'll come to Santa Juanita this spring!"
"We were close to making a huge breakthrough in the fight against AIDS in Africa, but our funds were frozen," said medical researcher and human rights activiest Gordon Voo. "Now that I've seen Mike Super Magic & Illusion, though, I can see why our lab isn't quite as important as I'd thought. I don't know how Mike does that super magic! It was amazing!"
Many faculty were swayed by NACA's impressive exhibits, but not all were convinced of the value of student activities.
"I must admit I was seduced by the opportunity to sneak in and meet the staff from The Onion," said Max Kendalk, the dean of faculty at Western Pittsburgh University who believes 100 percent of student activities fees should be diverted to faculty initiatives. "But I have to go back and explain to my faculty that we're competing for funds against Hanson? Hanson, I tell you!"
"Hanson?" said another protestor. "When is that showcase? Can someone hold my 'Faculty, Yes! Fun, No!' sign while I check it out?"


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Black Orc, Skills and Attributes
By now you're probably impressed by the Black Orc class of the Greenskins army, and you want to know all about the skills and strategies associated with these meanies. Here you go:
The main thing to remember about the Black Orc is that he attacks with a chain mechanism, i.e., as he attacks the enemy using a skill or an ability, another set of abilities becomes available for use. So it is important that you train/buy the best skills and abilities for the character to unleash the best possible chain of tactics available.
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Skills / Abilities
The black orc career begins with four basic skills, and they are Lob Choppa, Flee, Auto Attack and Clobber. Every time you gain a new level, you also get a chance to learn a new skill. These skills can only be learned from an NPC, a career trainer.
Also, as you level up, you'll have different opportunities to advance your character. Skills and mastery points are just the broader bonuses: you also get the chance to learn new buffs, attack tactics, debuffs and even passive abilities.
There are also the War Bellows - additional skills that get activated with a loud bellow or shout, giving the team additional bonus. Your Black Orc can shout to his team mates empowering them to attack the enemy with even more vigour, or he can taunt his enemies, demoralizing them and making them weaker. There are three kinds of self-bellows that are effective only on you - Da Biggest!, which gives you 25% chance to increase your strength upon striking an opponent; Da Greenest!, which gives you 25% chance to increase your resistance upon striking an opponent; and Da Toughest!, which gives you a 25% chance to create a protective shield that absorbs damage should a foe be striking at you. Another war bellow that affects your entire army is Get 'Em. This yell encourages your team to a point where their action points begin regenerating 20% faster. This lasts for 15 seconds.
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The Black Orc has 16 different stats available in WAR online. The most important of them are – strength, toughness, weapon skill, willpower, wounds, and initiative. Depending upon what kind of character you choose, a tank style warrior, or a DPS meanie, you should focus on those stats which benefit you orc bully the most.
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Paths / Masteries
There are the Mastery plans as your character advances further. Basically these are designated career paths that your Black Orc follows. These paths are: Path of da Brawler, Path of da Toughest and Path of da Boss.
Path of da Brawler:
The Path of da Brawler shows what a true choppin' meanie the orc is. This path emphasizes pure battle aggression, and reckless brutality. A Black Orc following the Path of da Brawler does not use a shield, preferring to inflict more damage to his enemies at greater risk to his own life.
Path of da Toughest:
This path focuses on amplifying the Black Orc's defensive abilities. It makes good use of his shield and armor, as well as abilities that increase his resistance to damage.
Path of da Boss:
This path focuses in on group effects, making the Black Orc a leader in any party or warband. It increases the effectiveness of his bellows, strengthening his group for battle.
In order to choose a specific path or mastery your orc beastie needs to earn mastery points. First mastery point comes to you when you gain level 11. Thereafter you gain additional points as you level. A total of 25 mastery points can be earned that can be spent towards your chosen mastery points.
This two part article introduces you to the black orc fighter class of the greenskins. The first part begins with the basics, while the second part deals more directly with the skills and attributes available to you for the character advancement.

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I wrote a story about the dangers of police chases that was published in Sunday's paper. If you're a subsciber to the San Antonio Express-News or bought Sunday's edition, you could read my story. But you can't read it online — it's been embargoed for a few days.
I like the Internet. But I like newspapers, too. So I like this new experiment of putting an Internet embargo on a big Sunday story to encourage people to buy the newspaper. It's actually one of the few innovative ideas generated from our higher-ups. Usually, the only change we hear about in the newsroom is an announcement every once in awhile that there's going to be some lay offs or a whittling down of the paper, which in turn hurts our quality and gives readers fewer reasons to bother reading our stories.
But I actually like this idea of embargoed stories. It's about time we give subscribers a reward for sticking with the paper. We're jacking up rates yet giving away our content online for free, so we really need to give loyal readers a carrot instead of a stick. And it's not quite the same thing as a pay wall — my entire story about police chases will be posted online in a few days. We're just saying: If you pay for the paper, you get first dibs.
Related: Top five books every student journalist should own right now
It'd be nice if we take this experiment to the next level: Give subscribers exclusive online content. When my Sunday story is posted online, it will feature a video of a chase taken from a police helicopter; a map of pursuits in San Antonio; a copy of a pursuit-evaluation report for a chase that killed an innocent bystander; and a link to the raw data we analyzed for the story.
The whole story was based on these primary resources. So if we're really going to embrace this embargo concept, it'd be cool if we allowed subscribers to go online and check this exclusive content for themselves, before it's released to the general public.
Maybe non-subscribers would consider signing up for this type of deal and subscribe. Or, for those who don't want to receive the dead-tree version of the newspaper, we could allow them to pay a reduced price to sign up for online access to the exclusive stories that are published every Sunday.
Related: Sign up for updates from John Tedesco's blog
Like I said, I like the Internet. But I also want to figure out a way to share online content, and reward our loyal subscribers who stick with the newspaper. Maybe this is a good compromise.


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Mothers and Others
(Literary Masterpieces, Volume 1)
In Mothers and Others, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy joins the many scientists and theologians who have sought to determine what traits are unique to humans and why humans behave as they do. The serious involvement of science with these two questions dates back to the great British naturalist Charles Darwin and his book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871). Building on this massive work, later biologists and anthropologists have projected multiple, separate ideas of what makes people uniquely human and what distinguishes them from the other primates. Walking upright, the ability to make fire, the capacity to learn language, the mix of cooperation and competition needed for hunting big-game animalsall have been theorized as the crucial turning point that differentiated Homo sapiens' ancestors from their great ape relatives and set them on the path to full humanity.
Sociobiology, now often called evolutionary psychology, attempts to explain human social behaviors in terms of the evolutionary mechanisms that produced them. From the beginning of her career, Hrdy has been one of a very few sociobiologists who viewed the activities of early protohuman females as being at least as significant for human evolution as were those of males. Two of her previous books have documented strategies used by primate females to maximize their own, and their descendants', survival chances.
In Mothers and Others, Hrdy explores in great depth a key feature of her research and thought: the demands and social effects of human motherhood. She argues that the innate conditions of raising a child to adulthood almost require a support system of caring others if the child is to survive. In making this argument, Hrdy marshals a large array of research findings, at the same time managing to make them accessible and interesting to nonspecialist readers. Furthermore, Hrdy provides her own answer to the question of what defines humanity.
The fact that multiple caregivers are needed to raise a child means that, from their very early days, most young humans are exposed to many other people in addition to forming a primary bond with their mother. Some of these "others" around them offer attention, love, and food, backing up the mother's provision of these necessities. Others may be indifferent, or even inimical to the child's welfare. Hrdy suggests that the ability to "read" others' intentions and states-of-mind must have been an essential survival skill that shaped humans' future. The capacity to "mind read" other people, to know and care what other people think and to spontaneously share emotions as well as material objects with them, formed a basis for all later cooperative human ventures, from big-game hunting to creating such complex systems as representative government.
The book opens with a startling image: a plane full of chimpanzee passengers. Traveling in such company, the author says, any individuals would be lucky to finish the flight with all their fingers and toes intact. Despite their close genetic relationship to humans, chimpanzees seem to lack the "mental wiring" for spontaneous giving or to perceive others' wishes and emotions. These capacities underlie the existence of hospitality, good manners, and moral codesconcepts that every human society has developed.
Studies of chimpanzee behavior have demonstrated how very protective the mothers are of their young. In all species of great ape, mothers form profound and long-lasting bonds with their infants. Normally, babies are in constant physical contact with their mothers for at least half a year. They cling to their mothers as they go about their daily rounds and continue to nurse for four to seven years. Other females around a mother will be greatly interested in her babya pattern true of all primatesbut an ape mother does not normally turn her infant over to any other primate to hold, much less to "baby-sit." Indeed, a baby ape's world is defined almost exclusively by his or her mother's presence.
Human mothers' experiences with their children are different. While the human mother-child bond may be just as profound and long-lasting as it is among primates, the human lack of fur and a mother's need to do things with her hands make continuous body-to-body contact much less secure. Thus, human mothers are much more likely than primate mothers to allow other people to hold their babies, as well as to feed and amuse them. In hunter-gatherer societies, which follow a preagricultural mode of life, babies are never left alone, but mothers willingly let...
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With the walls of their churches bereft of imagery and colour and their worship centered around sermons with carefully constructed outlines (as opposed to movement and drama), Reformed Protestants have often been accused of being dour and unimaginative. Here, William Dyrness explores the roots of Reformed theology in an attempt to counteract these prevailing notions. Studying sixteenth-century Geneva and England, seventeenth-century England and Holland and seventeenth and eighteenth-century Puritan New England, Dyrness argues that, though this tradition impeded development of particular visual forms, it encouraged others, especially in areas of popular culture and the ordering of family and community. Exploring the theology of John Calvin, William Ames, John Cotton and Jonathan Edwards, Dyrness shows how this tradition created a new aesthetic of simplicity, inwardness and order to express underlying theological commitments. With over forty illustrations, this book will prove invaluable to those interested in the Reformed tradition
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Professor Brian Hodges is awarded the 2016 Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. His research has led to changes in educational practice, both scientific and practical, in the training of health professionals around the world. As an example, simulations and assessment of patients' mental health and students' communication skills are now included in medical examinations in many countries.
TORONTO, Aug. 30, 2016 /CNW/ - Professor Hodges, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada and Executive Vice President, Education at UHN and the Michener Institute for Education at UHN will receive the award and a prize amount of €50,000 at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on 13 October.
This international prize is awarded for outstanding research in medical education. The purpose of the prize is to recognise and stimulate high-quality research in the field and to promote long-term improvements of educational practices in medical training. "Medical" includes all education and training for any health science profession. The prize is made possible through financial support from the Gunnar Höglund and Anna-Stina Malmborg Foundation. It is currently awarded every second year.
"This year's prize winner was an easy choice, as Professor Hodges' research is of such outstanding significance, quality and originality. It has led to changes in practice and has had an impact on medical education. Professor Hodges has embraced both quantitative and best-practice qualitative methodologies. The outcomes of the research are well recognised as a substantial contribution to the medical education literature," says Professor Sari Ponzer, Chair of the Prize Committee.
Professor Hodges has since the early 1990s advocated a closer examination of the role that medical education plays in society. His research focuses on the nature of competence, how it has been constructed in different historical periods, across different countries and cultures, and how it is assessed using a range of assessment tools and systems. He has successfully advocated including simulations and assessment of mental health and communication skills in examinations for medical students and residents and for other health professionals. This is now standard practice in his native Canada and many other countries.
"When I was in medical school, all exams were written or oral; there were few simulations as part of the examination process. Today, the use of simulated patients is widespread internationally, and has changed the way that medical students are assessed. In a perfect world, health professionals would go back every year of their career to engage in challenging simulations to test their clinical and communication skills. That's what I'm currently working on," says Professor Hodges.
"Our research team was the first in the world to experiment with the validity of complex communication and mental health simulations. I'm proud that these types of simulations are now part of the medical examination process, in combination with physical assessment. This is important, as we often need to deal with patients or family members who are anxious or emotionally distressed in a hospital environment. It is important to have the chance to practice in a safe environment before, for example, dealing with relatives of a dying patient or a patient who is angry or confused. I'm glad there is more focus on these types of teaching and assessment these days."
Professor Hodges continues: "Communication is key for health professionals, both between patient/physician and between colleagues in the medical community. Caring and compassion are the foundation of our profession. I would also like to see a more team-based approach, as medicine is all about teamwork for safer practice. Team-based simulations should be part of all medical environments in the same way as other sectors including airlines, nuclear power and others where it's essential to work together in unison, train together to help minimise risks."
Commenting on his Prize win, Professor Hodges says: "I was really quite taken aback when I received the call from the Committee. It's a wonderful honour to be recognised for this prominent prize. As I have a strong belief in philanthropy, I will donate most of the prize money to continue to further support research in the medical education field."
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Education Northwest conducted an independent research study to examine the effects of OCDE Project GLAD® . This study addresses four research questions.
Principal Investigator Theresa Deussen explains why Education Northwest conducted this study in Idaho.
To address the research questions, we conducted a cluster randomized trial. Randomized studies are widely accepted as the "gold standard" of research designs. When properly executed, they are capable of yielding the most robust and credible estimates of a program's effects. In a cluster randomized trial, "clusters" (in this case, schools) are randomly assigned to one of two groups; one group receive the "treatment" (e.g., training), while the other group does not. When done correctly, random assignment ensures that factors that might affect the outcomes, such as teacher experience, motivation to use the program, or other factors, are randomly distributed across both the treatment and control group.
As shown in the figure below, grade 5 teachers randomly assigned to Group 1 schools received standard Project GLAD training from certified key consultants in the first year of the study. This included a two-day workshop and five days of demonstration in Year 1, as well as three days of coaching support in both Years 1 and 2. In Year 3 (2013–2014), teachers in Group 2 schools are receiving Project GLAD training and coaching support.
The two years in the red boxes provide a comparison between students who are in classrooms with Project GLAD-trained teachers, and students who are in classrooms with teachers who are not trained in the model.
During 2011–2012 and 2012–2013, the research team collected data to look at student achievement and classroom-level implementation. These included student assessment data, classroom observations, teacher interviews, and teacher surveys.


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(b) A private residence elevator installed in a nonresidential setting which was in use on July 1, 2007, may continue in use so long as the elevator:
(1) Meets the specifications as set forth in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators A17.1 5.3 "Safety Code for Elevators";
(2) Has a method of two-way communication between the car and each floor served by the elevator;
(3) Is operated automatically; and
(4) Is inspected annually by an inspector and is issued a certification of operation by the division.
(c) New residential elevators shall undergo an acceptance test performed by an inspector, and the inspector shall file a report of the test with the division.
(d) An elevator in a residential property shall be inspected by an inspector when the residential property is transferred, and the inspector shall file a report of the inspection with the division.


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It's easy to shop for your husband with these great books, toys, and gadgets all $50 and under. Plus, check out 19 super-fun free apps for dads!
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Oh no! You need a gift for Dad pronto! Click and get an instant application for his iPhone, the ideal gift for the kind of dude who likes practical gifts. Some of them are free! All apps are available through Apple's App Store. (Or click on the links below!) Another great idea: get him an iTunes gift card and suggest these awesome apps in a holiday card.
Gas Cubby MPG & Car Maintenance: Track your gas mileage and vehicle maintenance to keep your car running at its best. $4.99.
Golf Rules Quick Reference:Based on the bestseller, Golf Rules Quick Reference, this application is a pocket guide of all golf rules. Brush up on your knowledge or use it when you're stumped on the course. $9.99.
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On guard, hamburger patty! He'll grill with glory with this clever BBQ sword skewer—it comes complete with a musketeer mask. Sigh, you always knew he was a hero.
($24.99, ThinkGeek.com)
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A Guy's Guide
Give the dad-to-be in your life this hilarious—and useful—illustrated handbook from Parenting editor Shawn Bean. He'll learn how to build a car out of cardboard, swaddle junior and even deliver a baby on the subway.
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Scene It? Seinfeld Edition
Scene It? Seinfeld is the perfect way to satisfy any hard-core Seinfeld fan—it's packed with trivia questions and real clips from the entire series.
($26.95, amazon.com)
For the gift that keeps on giving all year long, sign up your brewski-loving papa for the Beer of the Month Club—they'll deliver four different varieties of American microbrews right to his doorstep. Or try another monthly club—gift options include other dad faves like wine, cigar and pizza too.
($30.95 - $42.95, greatclubs.com)
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This travel shave kit, with shaving essentials plus genuine badger hair shaving brush, is perfect for traveling—it'll keep him smooth on business trips and vacations (because we know you don't want beard burn.) Choose from lavender or white tea scents.
($35, beauty.com)
Women aren't the only ones who need a PedEgg, so they created a manly version for your guy. He can get rid of gross calluses and stinky odors without feeling like he's using your girly vanity products.
(Available at CVS and Walgreens, $10)
Road Mice
Your husband probably loves cars as much as your three year old does, so he'll think this Road Mice is a totally cool (and practical) grown-up toy. Pointing and clicking is way more fun when your computer mouse is a Dodge Charger SRT8 or a Ford GT Mustang. Compatible with Apple and PC desktops and laptops, they come in both wired and wireless versions.
($34.95 - $54.95, roadmice.com)
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The Mischief Maker's Manual
The Mischief Maker's Manual, a hilariously illustrated book, was written for kids but is great for anyone who still laughs at fart jokes and loves pulling pranks. You might want to read it first, so you know to watch out for the "Diet Coke Explosion" trick, and the "World's Largest Butt Photo." But even if you get duped by the "Invisible Toilet Force Field" prank, try to laugh and roll with the punches—it just means your husband is having a blast.
($11, amazon.com)
Some of the best foods are the messiest, but with these Dress For Dinner napkins, you've got Dad covered and it will look like he got dressed up for dinner.
($5.95 for 20, spoonsisters.com)
Just add water to these shaving papers, later up, and you've got a perfect on-the-go shave. It's way lighter than a can of shaving cream, and these will pass security in his carry-on at the airport. (You can even steal a few for your legs.)
($5.50 for 30 sheets, shopatmoxie.com)
The Dawn Patrol
Dads will be able to relate to Dawn Patrol's crimefighting protagonist, Boone Daniels, and enjoy Don Winslow's rough-around-the-edges writing style. It's like chick lit for dudes.
($10.99, randomhouse.com)
Perfect for any brand-new dad who's proud of his little chip-off-the-old-block, Footsteps Clothing has a tee for him and one for junior.
($17-24, footstepsclothing.com)
Got a sporto dad? A gift card to paragonsports.com will let him get whatever equipment he's currently coveting, from camping gear to golf clubs to running sneakers. It's also good for the last-minute gift giver; cards can be e-mailed within hours of purchase.
($25, paragonsports.com)
Dads will have fun assembling MIKRO-Man: Mars from a flat piece of steel into a 3-D masterpiece he can display on his desk. It comes with instructions, in case he's one of those rare guys who read instructions.
(Also comes in MIKRO-Man: Jungle and MIKRO-Man: The Deep mcachicagostore.org, $16)
It's hard to find kid-free quiet time these days, but Dad likes his own storytime too. With Audible.com, he can download his favorite book and listen to it on the go—in the car, during a run or whenever. Audiobooks are iPod/iPhone, Blackberry and for some, even GPS compatible.
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Mike Huckabee's new TV ad in Michigan portrays him as an energetic governor with lots of accomplishments in health care, education and tax-cutting. We've examined the education and tax-cutting claims before, so here we'll examine whether the ad is right when it says Time magazine called him "one of America's best governors."
Indeed, in November 2005, Time featured him in a story headlined "America's 5 Best Governors." (The others were Kenny Guinn of Nevada, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and Mark Warner of Virginia.)
The article said Huckabee "approached his state's troubles with energy and innovation" and cited his accomplishments with children's health care and economic growth. It called him "a mature, consensus-building conservative who earns praise from fellow Evangelicals and, occasionally, liberal Democrats."
Time isn't the only publication to honor him that month. Governing magazine (which is owned by the same parent company as PolitiFact) named him one of its "Public Officials of the Year."


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Shah Rukh Khan's youngest son, AbRam Khan turned 4 yesterday and it was a time for celebration for the Khan family. Fans were anxiously waiting for one of the Khans to post a picture of celebrations on their social media account. It was when Gauri Khan posted a picture of daughter Suhana hugging her little brother AbRam, that the picture got viral.
In no time the picture managed to get over 1 million likes on Instagram and nearly 2,000 likes on Twitter. She captioned the picture Gemini Gorgeousness, owing to the fact are both born in May and share the same sun sign 'Gemini'.
Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan's son AbRam turns 4 today! Here's why he's our favourite tiny tot in Bollywood
Last night, Shah Rukh Khan posted an emotional message on his Twitter account to express his gratitude to his fans. He was overwhelmed by the love of SRK's fans for his four-year-old son AbRam. He posted:
I felt that only parents know how to love their child…the overwhelming msgs for AbRam make me realise u all lov him so much too. Grateful.— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) May 27, 2017
AbRam is the youngest of Shah Rukh's three children. He has son Aryan and daughter Suhana with wife Gauri.Back in July 2013, the actor had confirmed the news of the birth of his surrogate son AbRam.Often on social media, Shah Rukh keeps sharing adorable photographs of the toddler, much to the delight of fans. Even during the recently-concluded Indian Premier League, AbRam became the cynosure of all eyes as he shared the frame several times with his daddy dearest.
Shah Rukh, a doting father, makes sure he takes AbRam along wherever he can. Shutterbugs caught him taking his son even during a visit to the dentist.As far as his work is concerned, Shah Rukh is busy working in a movie by Aanand L Rai, and caught up with the shoot in the heat.


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MLB Call-Ups: Teams Should Add Pinch Runners to Expanded RostersAugust 31, 2011
Well, it's the time of year when the minor league seasons are winding down and MLB teams are expanding their rosters to their full 40-man potential.
That means teams are adding more relief pitchers, pinch hitters and third catchers.
How many of those guys do you need? Sixth and seventh outfielders? Three lefties and three righties to pinch-hit? A specialist who only comes in to face three lefties when the team is up by two or more runs? Inning-eaters for all innings beyond the fourth? A guy who comes in a backstop when it's both your catchers' days off?
I'm here to tell you that there's one very underrated position that teams need to have on their expanded rosters—that of a pinch runner. A guy who specializes in coming in for one baserunning opportunity a game, usually in a pinch-hit, late-inning or extra-inning situation in order to steal bases, hustle from first to third on singles and score runs.
Having a pinch runner seems to me to be more important in this day and age. The days of the juiced power hitters are over; the days of pitcher-dominated, low-scoring games are here. And with many games being decided by only one run, and more and more teams playing small ball (or at least smaller ball), baserunning has become a more important, if overlooked, facet of the game.
Consider Herb Washington, the only player whose baseball card reads "pinch runner." In just 105 appearances (each one lasting the equivalent of one AB, as he never batted or fielded), Washington got 33 runs and 31 stolen bases. That's about a run every four at-bats, and a stolen bag every three.
A very good player in a very good lineup can get 150 runs in a season, but nobody is able to steal 200 bases in a season (the stats Washington would have gotten if he had pitch-run every bat). And the difference between 0.3 runs or stolen bases per AB, and the much smaller run and SB production of your average player, and it could be the difference between a couple victories and a couple losses or extra inning games.
Now, I know that it is somewhat inflated because Washington started every appearance on base, but the potential difference a guy like Washington can make is worth the gamble of a slot on the bench.
Bottom line: If it's September, and you're caught in a tough divisional race, get yourself a pinch runner.


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Kaetlyn Osmond is the province's newest Olympian, and her family in Marystown couldn't be happier.
"I am so nervous, and so happy, so excited that she's gone this far. I love her, and she really did do a good job," said Osmond's grandmother Joan Power.
The 18-year-old skater — who is originally from Marystown — secured a spot on the Sochi Olympic team on Saturday, after winning her second consecutive Canadian women's figure skating title.
Power said her granddaughter is always cool under pressure.
"She loves entertaining...the more praise she gets on the ice, the better she can skate."
Osmond's program — which included six triple jumps — earned her a score of 207.28, the second highest in the history of the event.
Her win comes after two injuries that compromised her training, and competition schedule for several months.
"I thought her leg might give out again, but I prayed for her," said Power.


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As the new school year approaches, consider these important parenting lessons.
If you're a parent, within the next few weeks, you will begin back-to-school shopping for your children. As you spend money on the latest sneakers, clothes and school supplies, stop for a minute and think about all of the money you just spent on materialistic items. Then, evaluate how much time you spent on sending your child back to school with renewed self-esteem for the upcoming year.
As parents, we invest thousands upon thousands of dollars on providing our children with the latest video games, toys and computers. This year, why not take steps toward investing time into your child's emotional development? In today's world, with instances of bullying occuring at all ages, healthy emotional development is critical to seeing our children become successful as preschool, elementary, middle school and high school students. How To Triumph As A "Supermom"
As a parent, I am guilty of buying my children materialistic items. After all, I am human and I want to give my children the best things in life. I have now realized that the best thing that I can give my children is a good sense of self. When the latest video game becomes a fad, my children will still have their self-esteem.
So, as you are getting your children dressed for school each day and packing up their lunches, let me remind you that you can also pack them some self confidence. Here are some great tips to begin your journey to healthy self-esteem. How can a parent help to foster healthy self-esteem in a child? These tips can make a big difference. 12 Ways To Build Confidence In Your Relationship
1. Be careful what you say. Kids can be sensitive to what you say. Remember to praise your child not only for a job well done, but also for effort. But, be honest. For example, if your child doesn't make the soccer team, avoid saying something like, "Well, next time you will work harder and make it." Instead, try "You didn't make the team, but I'm really proud of the effort you put into it." Reward effort and completion, instead of the outcome.
Sometimes, a child's skill level is just not there. So, helping kids overcome disappointments can really help them learn what they are good at and what they are not so good at. As adults, it is okay to say "I can't carry a tune" or "I couldn't kick a ball to save my life." Use warmth and humor to help your kids learn about themselves and to appreciate what makes them unique.
More confidence advice from YourTango Experts:
- 3 Simple Steps To Improve Your Self-Confidence
- How to Date With Confidence
- Are Breasts The Source Of Self-Confidence?
This article was originally published at . Reprinted with permission from the author.


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Who Killed SAV? Session 1
Lesson Plans Contents
- Lesson Plans Home
- Journey of a Raindrop to the Chesapeake Bay
- Does It Soak Right In?
- Wetlands: Here All Year?
- Types of Pollution
- Stream Creatures: Clues to Stream Health
- Muddying the Waters
- Grasses, Grasses Everywhere
- Who Killed SAV?
- A River Runs Through It
- Riparian Buffers
- Captain John Smith's Chesapeake Bay
- Succession and Forest Habitats
- Bay and Pond Food Webs
- Native vs. Non-native Species: Who Will Win?
- Wasting Water
- Going for Water
Who Killed SAV? Lesson Plan includes:
- Who Killed SAV? Home
- Background
- Session 1
- Session 2
- Classroom Assessment Suggestions
- Extensions for Students
- Resources
Session 1
Print version of "Who Killed SAV?": PDF • Word
Conduct this session in the classroom.
- Begin reading aloud Who Killed SAV? (.pdf only). Stop at the bottom of page 5 to allow students to make predictions. What could possibly have caused SAV to disappear?
- Continue reading, stopping after each suspect is described to summarize the ways in which that suspect harmed SAV.
- Divide the class into groups of 3–4 students, and assign each group a suspect: Hurricane Agnes, Clam Dredging, Development, or Nutrients. Within each group, designate one student the "accused," one the "defender," and one or more the "prosecutor(s)." Distribute the appropriate trial worksheets (listed at right) as guides for students in preparing their cases.
- Allow time for students to prepare and plan their cases as well as to do further research as needed. (See Using the Library Media Center for Project Research and Using the World Wide Web for Project Research in the Project Action Guide.)


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Wim Blockmans, Nicolette Mout, eds. The World of Charles V. Amsterdam: University of Chicago Press, 2004. vii + 364 pp. $60.00 (paper), ISBN 978-90-6984-420-6.
Reviewed by Amy R. Caldwell (Department of History, California State University, Channel Islands)
Published on H-HRE (October, 2006)
It's Your Birthday, Charles V
There is nothing like a 500th anniversary to get scholars thinking about the future of their specialty, and Charles V's birthday is no exception. "What more do we need to know about Charles V after the year 2000?" ask the editors of The World of Charles V, a multi-lingual collection of papers originally given at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2000 (p. 1). Under the unifying theme of integration, the authors provide three general directions for the future of Charles V research: interregional financial policy, the structure of political systems, and image-making for public consumption.
The first section of articles, "The Centre of the Empire," covers questions of war and finances. After Mia J. Rodríguez-Salgado's fine contribution covering the motivations behind the first war between the emperor and King Francis I of France, other chapters address matters of military financing and how the emperor worked with his regents and counselors to draw on the resources of one state to assist the whole. For example, James D. Tracy's "War Finance and Fiscal Devolution in Charles V's Realms," introduces the reader to the means by which Charles raised funds from his hereditary lands to use for war in other parts of the empire. Tracy examines Charles' ability to collect special subsidies from the parliamentary bodies in his wealthier territories: Castile, Naples, and the Low Countries. This chapter is strong on its discussion of the amounts of money for each region, but the further conclusions are explored better in Tracy's monograph on the subject, Emperor Charles V: Impresario of War.[1]
The chapters in the middle section, "Integration of the Regions," investigate the challenges involved in running a multi-regional empire, and provide a nuanced look at how the various parts of the empire related to each other. Most of the authors of these articles focus on Italy and the Low Countries, and place each local entity within a larger imperial context. This section also includes Péter Sahin-Tóth's intriguing work on the position of Hungary in Charles's anti-Ottoman defense plans. Sahin-Tóth shows the difficulties presented by Ferdinand of Austria becoming king of Hungary after the Hungarian defeat at the Battle of Mohács. He demonstrates the limits of integration in the region by discussing how the Hungarian nobility was divided over the Habsburg reign, and how they eventually had to accommodate the new regime, and vice-versa. Giovanni Muto, Giorgio Chittolini, and Arturo Pacini illustrate similar issues for Naples, Milan and Genoa, respectively, as do Erik Aerts and Aline Goosens for the Low Countries.
The final section, "Constructing the Imperial Image," shows the emperor's attempts to spread an imperial message through art and architecture. Martina Fuchs, Ulrike Becker, and Uta Barbara Ullrich contribute chapters on portraits of Charles and the 1530 entry into Bologna, which show how visual media can communicate an emperor's ideas to his subjects. These chapters, with their attention to image-making and propaganda, are arguably the volume's most historiographically up-to-date.[2] However, Alfredo Alvar's chapter on museum exhibits and commemorations in Spain around the turn of the twenty-first century seems out of place here.
Each individual article in this volume presents a unique look at the reign of Charles V. Each one shows the variety of possibilities for future research. As a whole, however, they do not fully live up to the work's overall title. What, exactly, constituted Charles V's world? One immediately notices the absence of any chapters devoted specifically to regions outside of Europe, and yet Charles V ruled large territories in the Americas. Some attention to Charles' non-European possessions would thus have been more than appropriate. The volume also could have used a more detailed introduction and tighter editing to bring the chapters together. Rather than form a cohesive whole, each chapter is concerned with a separate local context. Furthermore, many articles follow separate historiographical traditions, and others provide a repetitive historiography. Yet how often does one need to be reminded of structuralism (pp.129-132; 161-164 passim)? Indeed, the historiographical discussions in some articles run counter to the very intent of the book--to look to the future of research on Charles V. Nonetheless, the book is certainly a worthwhile volume, and one can hope that it is a sign of more Charles V research to come.
[1]. James D. Tracy, Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
[2]. Martina Fuchs has also expanded on her paper since the original conference. Martina Fuchs, Karl V: eine populäre Figur?: zur Rezeption des Kaisers in deutschsprachiger Belletristik (Mu?nster: Aschendorff, 2002).
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It's come to this: Writing professors are so desperate for new ways to teach undergraduates about academic integrity that they are assigning them to plagiarize.
That's what Kate Hagopian, an instructor in the first-year writing program at North Carolina State University, does. For one assignment, she gives her students a short writing passage and then a prompt for a standard student short essay. She asks her students to turn in two versions. In one they are told that they must plagiarize. In the second, they are told not to. The prior night, the students were given an online tutorial on plagiarism and Hagopian said she has become skeptical that having the students "parrot back what we've told them" accomplishes anything. Her hope is that this unusual assignment might change that.
After the students turn in their two responses to the essay prompt, Hagopian shares some with the class. Not surprisingly, the students do know how to plagiarize -- but were uncomfortable admitting as much. Hagopian said that the assignment is always greeted with "uncomfortable laughter" as the students must pretend that they never would have thought of plagiarizing on their own. Given the right to do so, they turn in essays with many direct quotes without attribution. Of course in their essays that are supposed to be done without plagiarism, she still finds problems -- not so much with passages repeated verbatim, but with paraphrasing or using syntax in ways that were so similar to the original that they required attribution.
When she started giving the assignment, she sort of hoped, Hagopian said, to see students turn in "nuanced tricky demonstrations" of plagiarism, but she mostly gets garden variety copying. But what she is doing is having detailed conversations with her students about what is and isn't plagiarism -- and by turning everyone into a plagiarist (at least temporarily), she makes the conversation something that can take place openly.
"Students know I am listening," she said. And by having the conversation in this way -- as opposed to reading the riot act -- she said she is demonstrating that all plagiarism is not the same, whether in technique, motivation or level of sophistication. There is a difference between "deliberate fraud" and "failed apprenticeship," she said.
Hagopian's approach was among many described at various sessions last week at the annual meeting of the Conference of College Composition and Communication, [1] in New Orleans. Writing instructors -- especially those tasked with teaching freshmen -- are very much on the front lines of the war against plagiarism. As much as other faculty members, they resent plagiarism by their students -- and in fact several of the talks featured frank discussion of how betrayed writing instructors feel when someone turns in plagiarized work.
That anger does motivate some to use the software that detects plagiarism as part of an effort to scare students and weed out plagiarists, and there was some discussion along those lines. But by and large, the instructors at the meeting said that they didn't have any confidence that these services were attacking the roots of the problem or finding all of the plagiarism. Several people quipped that if the software really detected all plagiarism, plenty of campuses would be unable to hold classes, what with all of the sessions needed for academic integrity boards.
While there was a group therapy element to some of the discussions, there was also a strong focus on trying new solutions. Freshmen writing instructors after all don't have the option available to other faculty members of just blaming the problem on the failures of those who teach first-year comp.
What to do? New books being displayed in the exhibit hall included several trying to shift the plagiarism debate beyond a matter of pure enforcement. Among them were Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age, [2] just published by the University of Michigan (and profiled on Inside Higher Ed [3]), and Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies, [4] released in February by Boynton/Cook.
Like Hagopian, many of those at the meeting said that they are focused on trying to better understand their students, what makes them plagiarize, and what might make them better understand academic integrity. There wasn't much talk of magic bullets, but lots of ideas about ways to better see the issue from a student perspective -- and to find ways to use that perspective to promote integrity.
What Students Are Saying
Roy Stamper, associate director of the writing program at N.C. State, gave a presentation about a discussion he followed (for purposes of understanding, not enforcement) on the Wolf Web [5], a student discussion board. Students at N.C. State post anonymously, and while Stamper said he didn't know if all of the students were posting with accuracy about their situations, he still found plenty of truth in what they had to say.
The discussion was kicked off by a student asking for advice about certain term paper companies and whether they sold good work. The student, apparently fearful of how this would make him look, talked about how he was "completely and utterly fried and overloaded" and didn't have enough time. But he also said he didn't want to get caught plagiarizing.
While some of the responses rated various term paper sites, there was also a strong, intense reaction from other students -- much of it critical. "The less time you spend posting on here the more time u get to work on your paper," wrote one student. Another student wrote: "It's called college. Grow up and get your shit done."
As other students joined in, offering suggestions on time management, Stamper said he was struck that the argument being put forth against plagiarism wasn't honesty, but efficiency, and that has its dangers too, as was brought home to him by this posting: "I say that if you can get away with doing 30 minutes worth of plagiarism as opposed to a few days of work ... then you my friend are efficient, and not necessarily a bad person."
Yet another student argued that term paper mills could promote efficiency without turning one into a plagiarist. This student said that he used term papers obtained online to gain ideas, but that because he then rewrites these ideas himself, it's not plagiarism. "My work, with a little help," is how he characterized it.
This prompted an angry outcry from another student, who wrote: "This shit is plagiarism by any definition. If you were caught and turned over to the office of student conduct, your ass would be nailed to the cross."
Stamper said that he shared the anger of that final student (if not the idea that the plagiarist deserved to be compared to Jesus), but that once he got past the anger, he found that his lurking online raised many questions. For instance, Stamper said that while he does not believe being overworked justifies plagiarism, he has found himself wondering about whether an intense workload puts an emphasis for students on efficiency as opposed to quality. "Good writing takes a lot of time and thought. I'm not sure I'm always giving them enough time," he said.
The other thing that the online discussion demonstrated, he said, was that many students do have a strong sense of right and wrong when it comes to plagiarism and the idea that every student born in the last 30 years believes everything online is fair to use is a stereotype. Students clearly are educable, he said, and perhaps the best approach may be peer pressure -- the plagiarists on the N.C. State site were clearly embarrassed and looked to justify themselves. Should writing instructors be looking to peer teaching -- and specifically peer pressure -- as a new tool to promote integrity, Stamper asked.
"Patchwriting" vs. Plagiarism
Several of the speakers discussed ideas related to differentiating plagiarism of the sort that involves buying a term paper or submitting another student's work with more common, and not always intentional, writing behaviors used by many students that meet textbook definitions of plagiarism but that may raise different moral and educational issues. Many cite the work of Rebecca Moore Howard (co-editor of one of the new books on plagiarism and a contributor to another), who is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University.
Howard talks about "patchwriting" as a common undergraduate technique of grouping together various sources of information, frequently with only minor changes in wording and without appropriate attribution. For her own classes, she uses a policy [6] that says such writing will generally lead to a poor grade, but not to sanctions that would go to someone who bought a term paper.
Along these lines, R. Gerald Nelms, an associate professor of composition and rhetoric at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, spoke of how plagiarism must be seen as "an educational problem that requires an educational response." Much student plagiarism, he said, is unintentional, as students don't know how to take notes, how to summarize ideas, how to attribute ideas or quotes, and what paraphrasing means (and doesn't) with regard to plagiarism.
In a handout, Nelms wrote that patchwriting is "developmental plagiarism," or "behavior that is caused by the effort of the writer not fully integrated into the community for which she or he is trying to write to imitate the behavior of that community." Such plagiarism, he said, shouldn't be viewed as acceptable, but also shouldn't draw punishment. Students who engage in patchwriting need to be taught, he said, not brought up on charges. Nelms recommended a series of teaching subjects for instructors trying to show students how to write original work.
Students need to be taught to take notes, he said in his handout -- so notes aren't just direct quotes or synopses, but also include students' reactions or potential use of information. In this way, students are starting to learn how to use information, not just how to repackage it. Similarly, he said in the handout, "integration involves more than citation," and must include efforts to show students how to mix various sources, how to attribute, and how to include original ideas.
"Restorative Justice" for Plagiarists
Christy Zink, an assistant professor of writing at George Washington University, used the controversy over the play Frozen to teach her first-year students about plagiarism. The play -- about a psychiatrist who examines serial killers -- was a Broadway hit, but also led to charges of plagiarism [7] against its author by a psychiatrist who said that writings about her career were used without her permission for the drama.
Zink is an advocate of using "restorative justice" to deal with plagiarism. "Restorative justice" [8] is an approach to criminal behavior that involves repairing the harm done by an act, but not focusing on punishment for the sake of punishment.
One of Zink's students -- even though the course was focused on a discussion of plagiarism issues -- plagiarized her work for an assignment. Zink said she was a bit stunned that in such a context, a student would engage in blatant plagiarism (she stressed that this wasn't a borderline case). But the student appealed to Zink's commitment to restorative justice, and said "isn't that why I'm here? To learn from my mistakes?"
While Zink worked out a punishment herself with the student -- involving new work and a grade punishment -- she also decided to try to apply the restorative justice ideal to the situation by talking to all three sections of the class about the situation (without identifying the student) and seeking their views on what to do. Zink's announcement to her clases that "we have a plagiarist among us" prompted a range of reactions from students.
Zink said that her students were angry at first, but that they then argued that many other considerations should go into consideration of sanctions. To most students, "intentionality matters," Zink said. Students wanted to know if the plagiarism was "an honest mistake" or deliberate. At the same time, given that the class was so focused on plagiarism, the students were doubtful that the student couldn't have known what she was doing was wrong. So the students were both interested in motivation, and not willing to accept any excuse.
The lesson, Zink said, is that while "we need the law," we also need to make decisions on more than just legalistic approaches. As another example, she described very much not wanting to like the play Frozen, in part because of the plagiarism issues. But she found herself deeply moved nonetheless.
An Unusual Sort-of Plagiarized Essay About Plagiarism
Catherine Savini, director of the Undergraduate Writing Center at Columbia University, described using an unusual essay to prod students to think in new ways. The essay, "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism," [9] appeared in Harper's last year. In the work, Jonathan Lethem makes an impassioned plea against traditional concepts of copyright and plagiarism, and he does so with words and phrases that are almost entirely plagiarized -- with no credit while making the argument, but a key at the end fessing up to his writing thefts. His technique drew attention [10] and controversy. [11]
Even Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford University law professor who is a prominent critic of copyright restrictions, wrote in to express his discomfort at finding one of his own sentences used in the essay. "The freedom that Lethem depends upon -- the freedom to integrate and build upon the work of others -- does not need the license the plagiarist takes," Lessig wrote in a letter to the magazine. "The rules against plagiarism, after all, require only that words borrowed be acknowledged as borrowed." (Lessig also applauded the essay's creativity and expressed hope that it would prompt further thought by those who seek to regulate the use of others' works.)
Savini said that this text is at once "dangerous" and provocative for students because it appears to glorify plagiarism and yet goes so far -- and copies the work of such noted authors -- that students are taken aback. "Is it a model? Is it fodder?"
When she assigned students to write about the essay, many were afraid of a plagiarism trap. "How do I cite Lethem?" was the question she received from many students, anxious about whether citations should go to Lethem, to those whose works he borrowed, both or neither. Students were so puzzled by the situation, Savini said, that many went to unusual lengths to avoid quoting from the essay they were writing about.
Then Savini told the students she wanted them to consider sharing their writing with Lethem. This further challenged students, she said, because they normally don't think about audience in writing, placing their instructors in some other category. Thinking about people as being affected by their writing was another step in viewing writing as more than completing an assignment, Savini said, but as something with ethical issues involved. "It's a difficult leap of the imagination" for many students to think about anyone other than their instructors reading their work, but they need to, she said.
"Suddenly, students were asking questions without easy answers," Savini said, about fairness, about the obligations of authors, and the relationship between authors and readers. "It's a morass I want my students to be in," she said.


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I'm trying to install Stimtracker with BIOPAC MP150, and I'm having issues with the driver being recognized by the stimulus presentation computer. I followed the instructions http://www.cedrus.com/support/stimtracker/tn1403_install_usb_win.htm, but going into device manager, the usb for the stimtracker is not recognized. Also, there doesn't appear to be signals sent to Acqknowledge on the data acquisition computer. The computer is windows 7 (chinese). Could anyone help please?


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Philapalooza: PJ talks to the media
We'll have some video later in the afternoon, but in the meantime you can kill the rest of your Friday with some quotes from Phil Jackson, who met with the media in El Segundo this afternoon ahead of Monday's media day. Clean-shaven and (relatively) spry, PJ seemed eager to get going on what looks to be an interesting season. Not that he was dancing a jig or anything, but that's not really how he rolls.
You can watch casually once the film is up ... until then, we'll all have to make do with the printed word. A lot of ground is covered, but given the serious jones for anything meaty, I figure you can absorb it. Some excerpts:
On upcoming season:
"We're excited about our year. A lot of the same players back again. There haven't been a whole lot of changes. Obviously Andrew (Bynum) coming back is a change, is a difference. We think that we're healthy coming into this training camp. Obviously we have some things that are going on -- Luke is still recovering a little bit from an operation, he'll be a little slow -- but for the most part we're relatively healthy, as opposed to last year, when we had players who couldn't compete right away. We think some of our players have played probably a little too much basketball this summer, with Kobe and Pau (at the Olympics), so we'll generate a camp around their limited work, at least this first week."
On Kobe's deciding against surgery on the torn ligament in his pinkie finger:
"I think it was a good idea. Regardless of the correction that might have been done by the surgery, he's still susceptible (to injury). I don't think there's any more of a risk than there would be if he had surgery, then got his finger caught in a jersey again. There's the same risk factor. There's probably going to be a little less strength there, or whatever, but he's going to be fine. He's played all summer with it. I wasn't happy with the way he shot the ball particularly, but I think he's adjusted to all that."
On Bynum:
"...Just looking at Andrew, he seems great, just to see him... He's still just in the playground stage here, but we'll see if he can get to that level where you compete in every moment you're on the floor. You're working and you're doing the things you have to do every moment. That's something Andrew was just getting a hold of when he was injured last year. We need to get him back to that space sometime, hopefully in this month..."
"...We've seen Andrew play about 20 games in three seasons. That's about it. He played, obviously, more games than that last year, but he reached a certain potential point where we saw a light go on where he reached an idea that "This is how I have to play to be competitive." What I'm going to ask Andrew to do in this offense is to rebound offensively, to set picks and to be a pivotal point in our offense. I'm not asking him to be a one-on-one scorer, I'm not asking him to get a lot of points, but this is a guy that's going to shore up the defense, which I think is the important aspect, rebound, which I think is the second most important thing in our offense, and to be a person who can facilitate and help our offense out.
That means receptions off screen and rolls that he was getting last year, the lobs he was getting last year, some offensive moves that he gets if he catches the ball on the move. Some things like that I think are important for our team to have, that kind of outlet. We know Pau is a different animal on the post. He's more of a polished scorer down there. To adjust the two of them on the floor at the same time and Lamar at a wing spot is going to be our situation. It's going to be our situation, our goal at training camp to figure out how to do that."
On his health:
"I'm feeling fine. I had a good summer."
On whether or not the guys have stopped thinking about the end of the Boston series:
"I don't think we've forgotten about it, let alone not thinking about it. Jeannie made me watch- what do you call those things ESPN runs in the summertime? They have a big ceremony down at Nokia? The ESPYs. She made me watch that when I got back from Montana just to spite me, and make me have to see those guys up there... There's still a little bit of angst and anger there (about the series, among the players and him).
On how PT will be distributed, and the meshing of the three bigs:
"I think there's going to have to be an understanding on this team that there's going to be personnel that are going to be better off against some teams and some opponents and some styles and ways that we're going to have to play. Whether we have a small team like a Golden State and the rest are all small forwards out there playing, the guys are going to have to adjust and sacrifice to meet the demands game by game. But we're going to have, potentially, a very large, tall, lanky, strong front line. If they can play defense together, they could be a very formidable opponent to score against.
Offensively, how we get those guys together and do that with the size they have and the abilities they have as starters, that's going to be interesting to see, and a big challenge for our coaching staff."
On entering the season as favorites:
"I don't think it's going to affect them. I think they know they failed in the Finals last year, I think they know that they've got a game that they can play. But those are players that may not be on the floor all the time together this year, so they've got to make adjustments. They know it's a curious training camp for them, one where we have to figure some things out before we know how we'll go into the regular season. I think they're ready to come in and work. I like their work ethic."
Are you excited at the prospect of having that large front line? Is it something you thought about this summer a lot?
"That's a word I don't use very often anymore, excited. I'm looking forward to seeing how they play. Lamar has to make an adjustment. He's had an advantage at power forward the last couple seasons, especially playing power forward in a guard slot, out there offensively. He's going to have to make some adjustments and we'll see how he does that. Pau's got a (different) role to play on the floor with Andrew. He's got to face the basket a little more, and play a more high post role... We've got some adjustments to make as a team, and offensively we have adjustments to make, too."
- Says they're still a team on the young side, with very veteran leadership. But in Jordan Farmar, Bynum, Trevor Ariza, and Sasha Vujacic, there are still some core players that are definitely young, growing players. Lots of speed, energy, etc. But overall, the peach fuzz is off the team.
- PJ will look to moderate Kobe's minutes as much as possible. 35 minutes is what he sees a star player like that as needing to remain in the flow of things. 38 to 40 "is getting to be a little too much at this time."
- Olympics: Impressed with the demeanor of the team, and Kobe's leadership. Not so much Kobe's shooting, but his leadership and defense.
I asked him about last year, and what a difference a year makes. Is it something he ever thinks about? How much things have changed? (He answers, without addressing Kobe specifically.)
"There's always those little issues with basketball teams. Always someone's coming up for a contract, someone's got a free agency (situation) sitting on their table. There's always a little level of tension, and players have to play knowing they have to conform to a team. A "we" issue, not a "me" issue. Basketball business goes right against basketball team. They just fight against each other."
- Not too worried about Bynum's contract affecting his play, though "maybe some of the people around him I'm concerned about." But economically, PJ believes Bynum's comfort in knowing he has a big future professionally (and therefore financially) means the extension talks won't impact his performance.
On Ariza, and his role on the team:
"I don't hesitate to say that if this team doesn't work out the way I want it to, Trevor may be a starting player, in that first five. I may just insert him and convince Lamar to come off the bench if I feel that's better for the team and we don't feel as comfortable on the floor as I'd like us to feel. That's the role I see Trevor playing for us. I think he's going to be a person who does things defensively and offensively for us that are going to be big plusses."
Is that Plan B behind Lamar starting in that large front court?
"Yeah. I have to give that an opportunity. They deserve an opportunity to see if they can play (together)."
- On the odd chance there is any confusion, Pau will be the four, Bynum the five, due to Gasol's superior face up game combined with his shooting range and mobility. But "they'll have to have interchangeable roles a lot of times in our offense and defense."
- First salvo at Vlad: "Vladdy's not come out and played with these guys at all, because he's afraid he might get hurt. So we're saving for training camp, in hopes he doesn't," Jackson said smiling. He did say Radmanovic looked good, is in good shape, and has "the same jocular nature."
- Referenced Scott Williams and Stacey King as two bigs he had playing together, like Bynum and Gasol, though those two were backups, not starters.
- PJ called Portland a potential team to make a move in the conference. The Hornets helped themselves with Posey, but losing Pargo will hurt. He mentioned Houston as a good challenger if healthy, and Dallas and Phoenix as "the two interesting teams to see how they come out of the gate and play."
- Questions that need answering through camp and into the early season: How LO will respond to being played by SFs? Pau playing defense in space away from the basket? Bynum's ability to get up and down the floor?
On adjustment of playing time- more of a concern for starters, or players in the rotation (Luke, Vlad, etc.) who played more last season but could see reduced time in '08-'09:
"I think it might involve all guys having to sacrifice minutes because of the depth of this team. There's nine or ten guys that should be playing, and the ten man rotation really limits a team to two functioning units out there on the floor, and this team could very well play with two units on the floor in the first part of the season. That does take some time away from players, and they have to adjust to it. But in the long run, I think it saves a team a lot of mileage. It did last year for us."
On Mihm:
"...I think he's moving really well, but his shot hasn't been there (like it was). He was really an exceptional shooter from distance, especially for a big guy... Right now he still hasn't made the adjustment to his new legs, his new spring, his new ability. That'll take some time in training camp, but he certainly looks like he's back and ready to play."
- Walton will be starting the season behind, which could hurt him with PT, Vlad needs to show more consistency than he did last year, and sustain the good. Ariza didn't really have a chance to integrate himself fully. The small forward spot is definitely interesting, he said.
On the "soft" label thrown at the team over the summer, and how he'd define it:
"We know that we weren't a muscular, physical team, but we were able to where we did by finesse and speed and the abilities we had. I was always impressed with our ability to be resilient. As resilient as they were. But it was noticeable in the last series, in the last game, that they came out with one specific purpose, and that was to stick us in the basket. To go down and go to the basket and get what they wanted accomplished on the boards or in the lane. It affected us. It left a sour taste in our mouths over the summer."
So would you say that's accurate? That you were a "soft" team?
"You don't get to where we are by being a soft team, but Boston was tougher than we were in the last game. They got it, they deserved it."


text: On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:> Dominik Brodowski <firstname.lastname@example.com> writes:> > I tried speedstep but it didn't work because of this check in> speedstep_detect_processor:> > /* Intel Pentium 4 Mobile P4-M */> if (c->x86_model != 2)> return 0;> > if (c->x86_mask != 4)> return 0; /* all those seem to support Enhanced> SpeedStep */> > My cpu has model == 1 and mask == 2.Strange: According to the Intel docs (24919923.pdf and 25072104.pdf) as ofJune 2002, all P4-Ms have models have model "2" and mask "4", and none havemodel "1" and mask "2". What does /proc/cpuinfo say? And are you really sureit is a speedstep-capable P4-M?I'm really doubtful of that, as the MSR_EBC_FREQUENCY_ID didn't change a bitwhile trying speedstep transitions:> cpufreq: P4 - MSR_EBC_FREQUENCY_ID: 0x8a01fe00 0x0<snip>> cpufreq: P4 - MSR_EBC_FREQUENCY_ID: 0x8a01fe00 0x0> cpufreq: currently at low speed setting - 13800 MHzObviously, this value is bogus, what's the correct CPU frequency of yournotebook?> So what can I do to make speedstep work? According to the notebook> manual, speedstep is supported on this computer.How old is it? Fresh-out-of-the-factory? Then there might, just might besome update to the P4 specifications not yet included in the documentation.And please send me a /proc/cpuinfo, just to make sure. And, BTW, have youtried ACPI and its "performance state" interface?Dominik-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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By Chris Robinson
During Friday's fights at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino I ran across advisor Sampson Lewkowicz, always one to welcome to a good conversation. Lewkowicz manages some of the sport's finest talent and has one of the most hectic schedules around as he is traveling constantly and always handling business for his clients.
Hours earlier I was in the gym with lightweight contender Robert 'The Ghost' Guerrero as he sparred some vigorous rounds in preparation for his April 9th collision with Australia's Michael Katsidis, who Lewkowicz works with closely. The lightweight tussle is shaping up as one of the most compelling fights of the early 2011 season yet while many feel the fight is a pick em', Lewkowicz has little doubt about the outcome.
"I totally believe that he will knock Guerrero out and he won't stop towards becoming a champion. He deserves it and he's a good kid," Lewkowicz coined.
At the moment Lewkowicz's prized pupil is middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, now two weeks removed from an 8th round TKO over Germany's Sergiy Dzinziruk, a victory Lewkowicz still seems smitten by. But when eyeing the Argentinean's future, Sampson concedes that there is confusion as to which exact direction the team will take but leaves hints as to the next move.
"I was frustrated from day one with Martinez because it doesn't matter; at 147 he couldn't get a fight. At 154 it was the same. And 160 is no different. If it is in the United States most likely it would be Peter Manfredo. He's a worthy challenger that, if nothing else, is available," he continued.
With no ideal opponents seeming to be available at the moment in the middleweight class, I asked Lewkowicz if a move to 168 could be in the works sometime down the road as Martinez against the likes of fighters like Andre Ward, Carl Froch, Lucian Bute and others is at least worth the thought. Lewkowicz shot down such a scenario, pointing out that the 36-year old has already filled out to his max at 160 pounds.
Lewkowicz would rather see see Martinez face someone closer to his weight class and I finished up our rap session by asking him if Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr. was more of an ideal candidate at this point.
"Pacquiao is out of the question. Mayweather is the one."


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KALENJINs vow to vote for RAILA ODINGA in 2017! The Jubilee Govt is a KIKUYU affair!00:00
.... Police boss David Kimaiyo, former Agriculture CS Felix Koskei, former Registrar of the Judiciary, Gladys Boss Shollei, former Director of the National Youth Service, Kiplimo Rugut, former Supreme Court Justice, Philip Tunoi, former acting CEO of Kenya Airports Authority, Yatich Kagungo, former Energy CS, Davis Chirchir, and former Kenya Pipeline Corporation CEO, Charles Tanui.
The leaflets also said they were perturbed that their 'own' are being fired yet they are very close to power.
The leaflets said Ruto was behind the sacking of the 12 people and accused him of failing to protect 'Kalenjin interests'
They concluded by saying that they would rather suffer in the opposition than in the government that, apparently, does not mind about them.
"Kikuyus are eating their meat and we (Kalenjins) are salivating."
"We are ready to go back to the opposition and salivate with other Kenyans in 2017," the leaflets read.
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Hi, this *seems* like it should be simple. I am trying to read an AS400 file and write every record in it to a .txt file on my "C" drive. My SQL statement reads every record in the AS400 file (confirmed by the log entry for "kount"), but for some reason unknown to this newbie it is not writing all of the records to the .txt file. There are 150 records in the AS400 file but only the first 128 records are being written to the .txt file. I'm guessing it is some type of buffering issue but I have no idea how to handle it. My code is below - cna you tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks!
FileWriter outFile = new FileWriter(downloadPath + positiveFile + ".txt");
PrintWriter output = new PrintWriter(outFile);
String fileDetail = "";
Class.forName("com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDrive r");
DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver());
conn1 = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:as400://" + datasource, Uid, Pw);
String sqlString1 = "SELECT * FROM SYSSPEC.TESTFILE1";
PreparedStatement stmt1 = conn1.prepareStatement(sqlString1,
ResultSet rs1 = stmt1.executeQuery();
int kount = 0;
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December 1, 2005
Allies hope overcome U.S. climate talk refusal
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Major U.S. allies expressed confidence
on Thursday that they could persuade a reluctant Washington to
consider new ways to fight global warming at a 189-nation
environmental conference.
gases, has ruled out joining any U.N.-led talks in coming years
on ways to rein in rising temperatures. Such talks are favored
by many at the U.N.'s November 28-December 9 climate
Host Canada and the European Union reckon they can allay
U.S. fears that any discussions would inevitably lead to
binding targets, opposed by Washington, which has pulled out of
the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming.
"This would be the start of discussions ... that do not
mean commitments to a future course," a senior Canadian
official said. "We think the United States could find a way to
join such discussions."
"We believe that it's possible to come up with a process, a
dialogue that has something of interest for everybody," echoed
Sarah Hendry, head of the British delegation which holds the
European Union's rotating presidency.
Washington bluntly told the conference on Monday that it
was not interested in discussing new commitments, saying it was
focusing on domestic measures to brake a rise in emissions and
investing heavily in clean technologies like hydrogen.
Still, Canada and the European Union hope the Montreal
talks will launch a twin track -- new talks among Kyoto nations
about what to do beyond 2012 and a wider set of discussions
also involving developing countries and the United States.
Kyoto, by contrast, requires about 40 developed nations to
cut emissions of heat-trapping gases by 5.2 percent below 1990
levels by 2008-2012. President George W. Bush pulled out in
2001, branding Kyoto an economic straitjacket.
Environmentalists said many nations were lowering
expectations about any big steps to combat global warming,
widely blamed on emissions from burning fossil fuels in power
plants, factories and cars. The 10 hottest years since records
began in the 1860s have been since 1990.
"If that's all that comes out of here then it's not
enough," said Steve Sawyer, climate policy director at
Greenpeace, of hopes for vague discussions on what many
environmentalists call the biggest long-term threat to life on
the planet.
U.N. reports say the buildup of greenhouse gases may cause
catastrophic climate shifts with more powerful storms, droughts
and floods. Icecaps could melt, raising sea levels and drowning
coastal cities and low-lying Pacific islands.
A paper submitted by a group of 77 developing nations and
China urged rich nations to consider new commitments for
cutting greenhouse gases beyond 2012 and aim to complete their
negotiations in 2008. It did not mention any commitments by
developing nations.
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Jones)


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The federal banking agencies are issuing a final rule affirming that swaps and security-based swaps that are not cleared through a central counterparty and are entered into for hedging purposes by banks with less than $10 billion in assets and commercial end users are not subject to requirements to exchange initial margin and variation margin with prudentially-regulated swap dealers and major swap participants.
The final rule, to be published in the Federal Register, leaves unchanged an interim final rule approved last fall. The interim final rule has been in effect since April 1, and the final rule takes effect Oct. 1.
Read the final rule.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Uncleared Swap Margin Exemptions Finalized for Small Banks
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