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Will the Yankees turn to Hall?
He isn't nearly as big a priority as Cliff Lee, Derek Jeter or Mariano Rivera. But don't be surprised if you hear the Yankees linked to free-agent utility man Bill Hall before the off-season is over.
Hall works out in the off-season with Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long. The Yankees could use a veteran utility player. And Hall is on a list of free agents in whom the Yankees have interest, major-league sources say.
The Yankees might be limited in their remaining payroll flexibility if they sign Lee, Jeter and Rivera. The Red Sox likely are in the same position – interested in Hall, but addressing other needs first.
Hall, who turns 31 on Dec. 28, batted .247/.316/.456 for the Red Sox last season, hitting 18 home runs in 344 at-bats. He played six defensive positions – all three in the outfield and every one in the infield but first base.
The Yankees would benefit from such versatility. Jeter turns 37 on June 26. Third baseman Alex Rodriguez turns 36 on July 27. Jorge Posada, 39, will be the primary DH.
Among free agents, Jerry Hairston Jr. is similar to Hall, but offers less power. Ty Wigginton is a player in whom the Yankees have had past interest, but played mostly at first last season. Hall appeared mostly in left and at second base, but third was his primary position in 2008 and '09.
The Yankees did not carry a true backup at third last season, using Ramiro Pena as their utility infielder. Pena, Eduardo Nunez and Brandon Laird all represent young, affordable options in utility roles.
"We have a good utility guy in Pena," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. "We think Eduardo Nunez will be an everyday shortstop in the big leagues, but he very well could be a utility guy for us. Laird plays first base, third base and outfield.
"Obviously, are there better veteran guys available in free agency or the trade market? Very probably, there are. But is that the best way to go? We'll just have to wait and see."
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You heard right, I have a small Jet 9x20 lathe also that I traded for a couple of years ago. This thing is the one I mentioned earlier and is sold under several brand names for wildly differing prices. The Jet version goes for as much $1399 and the HF version which is a different color of the same machine goes for as little as $599 with more equipment than the Jet! This thing is sold by Enco, Jet, Cut Master, Birmingham and a bunch of other brands but none of them are worth squat and the more expensive versions are no better than the ones from HF. They are reasonably powerful enough for their size but are terribly inaccurate and just plain ill designed along with being almost comically crude in construction. The larger lathes are much better built and as long as someone does not expect the durability of a good American machine they are accurate enough and worth what they cost but just like the small machines there are many brands of the same machine for varying prices. If I don't find a good deal soon I most likely will buy that Grizzly G4016 13x40 but to anyone thinking of buying a Chinese lathe, BE CAUTIOUS! I am fully aware of what I am buying and it's limitations but to someone who may be accustomed to running a "real" machine and expecting that kind of performance they will most likely be disappointed.
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Grizzly has a good name, people like there products, about 2 years ago i bought a Taiwan lathe (can't remember name) It actually is a pretty good lathe for the money, $400 has everything i want, 12x36 both English and metric threading capability 12 speed forward/revers, probably about late 50's or early 60's. I was missing one gear for metric threading, but i have found one that will work with a little modification...I couldn't afford more than that. And i heard the small mini lathe are not worth getting...
|I have been watching Craigslist for some time now and it seems that anything within a reasonable range of where I am is either worn out or priced too high. I did find a good deal on a Bridgeport mill and my partner and I scooped that one up but I just can't find a decent lathe. I did miss a real bargain on a 16" Logan a while back so I guess it is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Oldred- I joined a website called http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/index.php
and they have a classified section with some quality stuff for reasonable prices.
Also, I looked on craigslist and saw some good deals on there for machinery.
Later, mikey
I too am a connoisseur of fine junk!
I have several old tractors in various stages of restoration and a 1968 John Deere 350 bulldozer which is my pet project at the moment. Now you guys have me yearning for that new lathe I have been thinking about for the last couple of years. I have given up on finding something like Mikey stol...err, traded for, so I will probably just buy a new Chinese import, Grizzly has a 13x40 that has developed quite a following with the home machinist crowd and I can buy it for less than rebuilding my Summitt. Certainly nowhere the quality of the old American or European iron but OK for what I need it for.
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Hay, Your my type of guy, Look at all that neat junk.........Good thing i was not there...About 6 months ago i bought a Kalamazoo Horizontal saw, this weighs about 800 lb. 1" blade, hydraulics,14" , liquid cooling pump, real nice, $125...I sold it on ebay about 2 weeks after i bought it, ($550 ) the buyer paid with Money Order, He has never come to pick it up. I contacted him about 3 months ago, he said "Yea i'll send a truck, it never came, saw is still in my barn.....I hope he's not here on the HR board.......
|F&J, Even if it is total junk and you can't get anything on it to work you would probably get more than what you paid for it from a scrap dealer!
I spotted this horizontal milling machine at the fall farm show/auction. These machines are/were owned by the farm and were part of the original farm owners machine shop.
I almost did not bid because it's easy to buy stuff, but then never get it to work. There was a reserve price, but I bid...then nobody else bid. So, the auctioneer said "no sale" but the guys who run the farm machine shop said to accept my $100 bid.
Now to get it home, along with a car, and other auction buys...like that blue orchard sprayer with 2 cherry 40 ford wheels . The chevy can take the weight Ok.
We used my sons crawler bucket loader to get it in the shop..through the pass door. That was fun. The crawler he got at the summer show. We buy too much stuff there
Just this weekend I figured out the many electric controls to put on the Ebay 3 phase converter...and it now works. But, sure enough, the end mill toolholder is worn on the bore. I found a new surplus one on ebay for $9.
I'm going to try to cut new window regulator gears for my 32 Nash as soon as I receive the tool holder.
I also found a way to mount a 4 jaw on my 1900 lathe, so I could make a new oil pump gear out of a modern spur gear, for the 1918 studebaker. it worked good, and the stude runs fine now...with oil pressure..
Oh man! You are set to make chips for life.
later, mikey
Mikey, my partner owned his own shop in Cleveland, Ohio for several years and bought a lot of tools and tooling from a dealer. His half brother was also a machinist and shop owner that bought from the same dealer. He called us and said the old dealer, long retired was dieing of cancer and wanted to sell his hobby machine shop in his basement. He sent us a short list of the key items and said the entire price was $2500 and was worth a lot more. We bought it based on his recommendation and beat feet with a 3/4 ton pu and a 5X10 closed trailer. When i walked into the basement, I immediately asked for the Yellow Pages and rented a one way box van (17 footer was the largest I could find) We filled the box van floor (can't stack steel very high), the trailer and the PU and still had to leave stuff. The South Bend lathe, a small horizontal mill, a metal shaper, a We;;s metal band saw, and a Lincoln Welder were some of the big ticket items, but all the tooling, mics, guages, parallels, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, surface grinder, hundreds of reamers up to 1.5 inches, twist drills, bottom drils, step drills, carbide drills, end mills, collets of all sizes, and drill chucks, straight and Morse Taper, steady rest. The list goes on. We have kept a complete set of reamers and about a dozen of every twist drill size imaginable. We have enough tool steel to last a lifetime. We have sold enough stuff at flea market/swap meets to more than return our investment and pay for the trip. We have since found that there are a lot of hobby basment/garage machine shops out there that have some good stuff that has had little use and can be had for a song, relatively speaking.
That is awesome trees, I am not formally trained in anything, although I did have as much machine shop in HS as they would let me....When I opened my shop, I got a small table top mill, then a small lathe, and just started playing around.making chips and breaking stuff .
. Then I worked my way up to a better mill, then a better lathe, asked questions as I needed to, and now I am able to make most of the things I need in the shop. As you can see, I am still learning too.
Collecting the various tooling can be a bigger expense than the machinery itself...I'm always on the lookout for stuff like that at the swapmeets and garage sales.
Later, mikey
Mikey, congrats on your find. I am not a machinist but my partner is a retired master tool and die maker that started with a 4 year apprenticeship with TRW. We have an old South Bend quick change with treading capability and he can thread anything, inside or outside, but I am clueless. I enjoyed reading through this thread and you guys have motivated me to go back to school at the young age of 70. There is a Vo-Tech here so tomorrow, I will find out what it takes to start the basic course. We have all the bells and whistles to do the tough stuff so all this will cost me is the time and course(s) and my VA eligibility may still pay for that.
Thanks, guys.
That makes perfect sense now..keep from cutting so much with both sides of the tool. Less work for the tool, less heat too. I have learned something valuable today.
Thank you.
Later, mikey
|the compound is turned at 30 degrees so that as the tool is fed in its only cutting on one side. It took me a little bit to visualize this...but it made sense eventually. some people will put the compound at 29.5 degrees or feed in with the cross slide on the last few passes to clean up both sides...I've never really bothered but I've got ALOT to learn myself so it may be a better method.
Good post. Now using that thread dial makes sense.
One question though, why do you turn the compound rest counterclockwise 30*? I always thought that as long as the bit was positioned correctly that it didn't matter where the compound rest was.
Also, good tip about the suggested depth of cut per pass..I could never figure out why my threads looked cut with an axe and were not smooth on the sides...(sometimes simple things like that escape me ) I always thought it was the way I ground the bit or had it positioned..(just under center)
Later, mikey
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- Mami Tomoe
- Special Variation:
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- 2012
- Construction Difficulty:
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- Costume worn at:
- Pacific Media Expo 2012
- Sakura-con 2012
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Most parts were recycled from my old Mami cosplay ( http://www.acparadise.com/acp/display.php?c=53369)
Soul Gem: Took the gold flower part and feather of the original and glued it to the back of the flower that had the amber soul gem in it
hat: cut up the old hat and added the white leather on top
neck detail: yellow fabric folded and angled with the green gem sewn into the bow with velcro in the back.
brown outer skirt: wool pinstripe outside with black satin lining. I cut out a 2/3rds circle pattern and pleated it on the sides
Boots: modified boot cover pattern, sewed pinstripe fabric into the top
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Many communities working to reduce combined sewer overflows use monitoring with computer modeling to identify bottlenecks and areas with unused capacity or unusually high flows. Unfortunately, this approach doesn't always provide the level of detail sewer managers need to design effective systemwide solutions.
South Bend, Ind., is one such community. Fortunately, a local company — EmNet LLC — chose the city of 108,000 along the St. Joseph River to test a system developed with the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University using an Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund grant. The system — CSONet — deploys distributed real-time control and monitoring to maximize conveyance and storage throughout the entire sewer system, reducing the potential for overflows.
CSOnet is a wireless network of monitoring points called instrument nodes (INodes) and data acquisition points called "gateways." An INode is a composite fiberglass manhole cover rated to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' HS-20 highway strength standard that contains a battery-operated computer and antenna. It gathers data from a sensor mounted in the sewer and transmits it to a gateway.
Installing an INode and the gateways may be done in-house or by a sewer contractor. The gateways then are mounted on poles and receive power from the traffic signals or power lines. Signal cable in a conduit is run from the valve or pump to the gateway. It then determines how wide the valve should open or how fast a pump should run and sends the appropriate output signal through that cable to the actuator pump, which then operates the valve or pump.
The equipment begins functioning almost immediately. The gateway collects data from the INodes and uploads it to a secure Web site via a cellular connection. It then "talks" with other gateways in the area to determine which valves to open and close to maximize flows systemwide.
The Gateways replace the centralized computing center of a SCADA system, while the INodes replace the cabinets, programmable logic controllers, antennae, high-powered radios, and power supplies of permanent monitoring locations. Because every monitoring and control point behaves similarly, the system is easier to understand and use than SCADA.
Its decentralized nature also makes the system scalable and allows it to be incrementally installed, enabling sewer managers to expand deployment as needs change. It integrates with any existing SCADA system and communication infrastructure, so it can view data from SCADA systems and data from CSOnet can be viewed through an existing SCADA interface.
South Bend's pilot demonstration showed that automating a retention basin and coordinating its control with conditions in other parts of the sewer system doubled storage capability. Public works managers realized they'd underutilized capacity in many parts of the system, and in February they decided to roll out CSOnet throughout the city's 20-square-mile combined sewer system.
In its first phase, CSOnet has been used for real-time monitoring of 110 sites, making South Bend's the most densely monitored combined sewer system in the country, if not the world. The sites include all 36 outfalls, several locations through its interceptor line and trunk lines, every river crossing, and existing retention basins.
The data gathered from real-time monitoring is now being used to:
- Create compliance reports.
- Provide early detection and warning of illegal overflows and potential basement backups through alarms on the city's SCADA interface and through the CSOnet Web site. Soon, CSOnet also will be able to send alarms as text messages to sewer department employees.
- Determine potential areas for overflow storage.
- Further calibrate the computer model.
- Identify potential bottlenecks.
- Develop a proactive maintenance plan.
Next year, the department moves to the next step: from real-time monitoring to real-time control of its sewer system. CSOnet will be used to maximize inline and offline storage, reducing overflow by hundreds of millions of gallons, and to control flows into the treatment plant.
Studies show that balancing flows could reduce the amount of overflows by 25% for each storm event.
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Keeping kids in sports
Three tips to keep your child interested in sports
As daily news reports remind us about the obesity issues facing our society, there's some concern young people are dropping out of sports just when they should be encouraged to stay active.
Speculation is that kids quit because there's too much emphasis on winning or they're simply burning out early because of the overall pressures.
Max Trenerry is a psychologist and soccer coach. He's seen many kids succeed and enjoy the sport, but he's also watched kids drop out, hating practice, stressed about the game and feeling too much pressure from coaches and parents.
"That pressure may take the fun out of the sport and kids might play because of that pressure, not because of their own interest," Trenerry said.
Trenerry says when kids play to please others, or for the sake of a reward, they're at increased risk of dropping out.
So how do you keep kids in the game?
Trenerry says there are three things you need to do to keep your kids interested in sports: choices, competence and caring.
"These are basic human needs. If we don't have them we don't keep doing whatever it is," Trenerry said.
Kids need to be able to choose the sports they want to play. For competence, kids need to feel a sense of success. Their self-belief needs to come from a sense of effort and improving athletic skill regardless of winning or losing.
And young athletes need to feel cared for, that parents and coaches care about their feelings and thoughts and will take them seriously, regardless of if they win or lose the game. Kids also need to feel like they are part of a group.
Trenerry also suggests to care through your communication. He says you can do this by asking your child how practice or the game went. Instead of asking if he or she scored a goal, ask if he or she had fun and ask what he or she learned that day.
Trenerry says if you notice your child is losing interest in a sport, or if your child is stressed, talk to him or her and ask why. This will help you determine if your child no longer enjoys the sport, or if there was an incident at practice or in a game, or with a teammate, that's causing your child to be stressed.
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Search for artifacts revives piece of Brookline history
By NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent | March 28. 2013 10:01PM
The Fresh Pond Ice Company once operated on Lake Potanipo in Brookline, and Joe King has made it his mission to retrieve historical artifacts from the bottom of the lake on behalf of the Brookline Historical Society. (Nancy Bean Foster)
From 1890 to 1935, the now-sleepy town of Brookline was home to a sprawling industry known as the Fresh Pond Ice Company. According to Joe King, a member of the historical society, the ice company, headquartered in Somerville, Mass., and founded by a man named Jacob Hittenger, was happily taking its ice from Fresh Pond, an expansive lake that straddles the cities of Cambridge and Belmont in Massachusetts. But when Cambridge suddenly declared Fresh Pond a public reservoir in 1890, the ice company went north to Brookline.
On the shores of Lake Potanipo, the ice company built a sprawling complex - six stories high and 1,000 feet across at its widest point - and in the winter, men armed with saws, chisels, splitting forks and sledge hammers would carefully carve blocks of ice out of the lake and ship them by train to Boston.
In 1935, just as the age of ice men was giving way to modern refrigeration, the Fresh Pond Ice Company burned to the ground and for a while, faded from history. But eight years ago, Joe King, an avid scuba diver with a love of history, began exploring Lake Potanipo and bringing up artifacts from the ice company. After securing the necessary permits from the state, King's search for treasure began in earnest, and to date, he has amassed a growing collection of tools, hardware, and ephemera from the bottom of the lake. A padlock, massive saw blades, chisels and picks of various sizes, even a burned timber from the old building are among items King has salvaged.
"In those days, when something broke, they just threw it in the water," said King.
He has even found an ice chisel stamped with the name Jacob Hittenger, the company's founder.
"A lot of these things are priceless," said King, who has donated all of the items to the historical society.
The society's headquarters near the center of town is too small to accommodate King's finds, but another history buff, Scott Grzyb, has provided the bones of a new museum to house the Fresh Pond items.
Grzyb and his wife bought the frame of the old 38 foot x 40 foot barn, dating from 1870, and planned to use it for their business, but plans changed and for 10 years, the barn sat, disassembled, on the Grzyb's property in New York.
"I was looking for someone to buy it because I wanted a chance to see it raised," said Grzyb. But when he heard about the need for more space at the historical society, he donated the frame to the cause. A company was hired to erect the frame, and since then, residents have been donating trees from their properties to clad the barn. The trees have been milled by Bingham Lumber just down the road, and teams of volunteers have been pounding nails, fitting windows and doors, and making the barn whole again.
The total cost of the project is estimated to run around $120,000, and thus far the society has raised about half of what's needed, but piece by piece, progress is being made.
"It's really cool to have it right here in town where I can enjoy it," said Grzyb, who has had the pleasure to pound some of the nails on the siding himself.
"I'm very pleased with the whole thing," said historical society President David Fessenden. "I'm looking forward to its completion."
While fundraising for the barn project continues, and work progresses, King will continue his search for the history of Fresh Pond Ice Company beneath the ice that covers the lake still.
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SOLD!!Sony model number DSC-W80. 7.2 megapixel
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lots of cool features and takes great pictures.
here are the stats from the sony website.
Recreate the moment with the incredibly lifelike pictures you'll take with the silver DSC-W80 7.2 megapixel Cyber-shot® digital camera. Your friends will be impressed with its combination of high fashion and advanced performance. With features like Face Detection to bring out the most natural tones in faces and HD output for presentation, sharing pictures becomes an experience to remember. The convenient in-camera retouching and red-eye reduction expands your creativity while the double anti-blur solution allows low-light shooting without flash. And the Carl Zeiss® 3X optical zoom lens lets you view the action very closely through the large 2.52 LCD screen. The Cyber-shot DSC-W80 is available in four stylish colors including silver, black, white and pink.
7.2 MP Super HAD CCD
More megapixels give you more detail and definition when you make big prints or crop in tight on your subject. The advanced Sony® Super HAD (Hole Accumulated Diode) CCD design allows more light to pass to each pixel, increasing sensitivity and reducing noise.
Carl Zeiss® 3X Optical Zoom Lens Design
A top-quality Carl Zeiss® 3X Optical zoom lens design helps the DSC-W80 bring distant subjects closer and lets you frame shots quickly for better composition -- a real advantage for family sports, outdoor fun and travel photos.
Face Detection
By automatically controlling focus, exposure, color and flash, this new Sony feature reveals faces in shadow, makes skin tones look more natural and eliminates harsh facial glare -- to help bring out every expression on every face in every shot, so youll capture the personalities and emotions that make memories come alive.
The Sony Double Anti-Blur Solution
With Super SteadyShot® Image Stabilization and high sensitivity (ISO 3200), the DSC-W80 compensates for shaky hands, minimizes blur, brightens images and allows flash-free shooting to preserve the mood -- with Sony Clear RAW Noise Reduction to take care of the picture noise that can ruin low-light shots.
HD Output1
Thanks to Sony, your photo album can go high-def -- with direct HD output1 to your HDTV screen, so you can view DSC-W80 still photos in spectacular high definition clarity and detail. Your life never looked so exciting!
HD Slide Show with Music
Its the high-definition viewing experience that makes photos come alive on HDTV screens, accompanied by your choice of visual effects and any of four preset musical selections stored in memory or your favorite MP3 tunes downloaded from PC to your camera for use as background music.
9-Point Auto Focus
Because an off-center subject can make your shot more interesting, the DSC-W80 can measure auto-focus precision at 9 points on your screen -- giving you greater creative freedom to compose your image.
D-Range Optimization
Powered by the exclusive Sony Bionz® high-speed processing engine, D-Range Optimization preserves image data in bright highlights and reveals more detail in shadows or backlit areas -- for great results even in difficult lighting conditions.
In-Camera Retouching
The DSC-W80 lets you add creative effects to photos after you shoot -- including soft edge filter to soften backgrounds, cross filter to place starry dazzles at highlight points, partial color filter to mute surrounding colors, even fish-eye filter to create interesting fish-eye lens effects.
In-Camera Red-Eye Reduction
ating glowing eyes can ruin even the most creative photos -- so the DSC-W80 provides in-camera correction at the touch of a button to reduce lingering red-eye effect that other systems might miss.
Large 2.52 LCD Screen
The DSC-W80 provides a large, bright LCD screen for composing shots, checking results, sharing your photos on location -- and an optical viewfinder allows shooting in traditional rangefinder camera style.
Simple Setup Controls
A quick press of the Home button opens your user-friendly GUI -- and you can select functions by simply moving a cursor vertically or horizontally to the appropriate icon. Function names and the on-screen Function Guide display make it easier to learn camera setup operations.
31 MB Internal Memory
The DSC-W80 allows you to capture a large number of images without a flash memory card, so its great for traveling or for quick candid snapshots.
Memory Stick Duo Media Convenience
A built-in slot accepts optional Memory Stick Duo media or Memory Stick PRO Duo media -- the compact, high-capacity storage media that make it easily to upload photos to your computer or make lab-quality prints at home on your Sony Picture Station digital printer (sold separately).
14X Smart Zoom® Feature4
The Sony Smart Zoom® feature intelligently crops into the central portion of interest in your photo, avoiding the image degradation of other digital zooms.
MPEG Movie VX Fine Mode
Captures VGA (640 x 480) audio/video clips at high frame rate (up to 30 frames per second5), with length limited only by the capacity of your media.
Stamina® Battery Power
The DSC-W80 provides up to 340 shots3 with a fully charged NP-BG1 Lithium Ion battery -- enough shooting capacity to cover a long weekend or a whole vacation.
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Ok, would you take a 35mm (loaded w/zoom lens and flash) in trade?? PM me if you're interested.
Minolta Maxxum 7000 series with regular lens and a 300 mm promaster zoom lens (auto focus or manual) with a promaster 5200 series flash.
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"Yummy chocolate and luscious berries create bursts of sweetness in these treats," relates Carol Schwammel of Antioch, California. "My family enjoys the muffins even before they are done baking because they make the kitchen smell heavenly!"
Recommended: 60 Muffin Recipes Worth Waking Up For
- 1-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup fat-free milk
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries
- 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Combine the egg, milk, oil, orange juice and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in raspberries and chocolate chips.
- Fill paper-lined muffin cups or cups coated with cooking spray two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Yield: 1 dozen.
Editor's Note: If using frozen raspberries, use without thawing to avoid discoloring the batter.
Originally published as Raspberry Chocolate Chip Muffins in Light & Tasty June/July 2001, p21
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On the Hill: Thursday's Vail ski report with video
November 29, 2012
Vail official report: 0 inches new snow, four runs and six lifts open
Liftline status: No lines at Lionshead gondola and Chair 8 during 9 a.m. hour
Weather: Cloudy in the morning, but warm. No wind.
Breakdown: Another day that ends in "y," another great opportunity to catch first tracks at Vail. If you hear anyone complaining about icy or crowded conditions at Vail, you can be assured those people weren't out for the first runs that day. Vail's grooming team could turn just about any surface into corduroy heaven.
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Hi ppl
I have just cut out the templates for my cod and kidney plates and they seem to sit really low on my hips (well just below my hips actually). The siting height is dictated by the cod piece obviously.
does this sound about right? and does anyone have pics of where is sits minus the girth and ammo belts?
Sorry to ask for so much and be a pain.


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How to explain to a highschool student future perfect tenses? And what to say when they ask you what's the purpose of it? Why not use for example:
she will master relatives by the end of next week
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Well - i got my friend in Australia searching all over for more gardenmate hose connectors...
I told him to try and pick up a dozen of them for me. So far he's been able to find me 3 (at a grocery store, no less :facepalm ). He's still searching... and wont stop til he gets all 12.
Once i get them from him - i will sell them for $50 for the pair. (hey, they cost about $20 ea plus all the shipping from there and to you...)
Stay tuned... once i know he has them - then I will have a sign up list for 6 of ya.... but before then - don't ask :)


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On September 18, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Dr. Stuart Levy, professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dr. Linda Tollefson, Assistant Commissioner for Science at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, discussed how to optimize antibiotic use and how to minimize the emergence of drug resistant pathogens.
In part 2 of this 3 part video series, Dr. Levy discusses how antibiotic resistance develops, the development practices drug companies employ when producing antimicrobials, and how this process may change in the future. Dr. Tollefson outlines how the FDA is encouraging the development of antibiotics in an industry that is mostly focussed on manufacturing drugs for chronic illnesses.
Dr. Levy is Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine where he is the Director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance. He directs research on mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance. Stuart Levy is also Staff Physician at the Tufts Medical Center and he also serves as the president of The International Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics.
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I have seen some links for natural colored girth belts, but I did some digging and found this.
I realize a lot of people dye theirs a dark reddish color, but rather than starting with a white one, does anyone here think this one will work?
Dover Saddlery | Ovation Mohair Girth .
I look at some of the older ESB pics and there are some that look very brown. IF this isn't too dark, I thought it might work and just tinting it with some stain might help. Besides I like a more subdued look and some of the red belts I have seen look too maroon for me. Let me know what you guys think!


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May 25, 2014
ATHENS, Ga. -- Once again, Tennessee juniors Mikelis Libietis and Hunter Reese have played their way to the verge of college tennis history.
Libietis and Reese reached the finals of the NCAA Doubles Championships on Sunday with a 6-4, 6-2 semifinal victory over Clemson's ninth-ranked team of Hunter Harrington and Dominique Maden.
Major finals are not uncharted territory for the Vols' leading duo; Libietis and Reese have reached all three major finals this season. They won the ITA All-American Championships and made the finals of the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships during the fall, and now they have a chance of winning the biggest prize of all: an NCAA championship.
The Vols will face Peter Kobelt and Kevin Metka of Ohio State in the title match. The fourth-seeded Buckeye duo beat Oklahoma State's Jakob Sude and Arjun Kadhe 7-6, 6-3.
"They play good doubles, almost the same as we do," Libietis said. "I think it's going to be an awesome match. I hope the crowd is going to be here, and I'm looking forward to that tomorrow."
Monday's final is scheduled to begin no earlier that 1 p.m. and will follow the men's singles final, which starts at noon at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
Libietis and Reese adjusted their game to neutralize Clemson's baseline-style doubles play, eventually forcing groundstroke errors from Harrington and Maden. The Vols broke Clemson's serve once in the first set and twice in the second set.
The Vols broke Maden's serve at 3-3 in the opening set, and that proved to be the difference. A few minutes later, Reese served out the set 6-4.
"There's going to be one game where they're going to stress and that's what happened," Libietis said. "We stayed really solid. We had our game plan and what we wanted to do."
Libietis and Reese kept up the momentum in the second set, breaking Clemson's opening service game and pulling away from there. Reese again served for the match, and covering the net, Libietis hit a pair of volleys on match point to send the pair to the championship.
The Vols just beat out the thunderstorm that was slowing creeping overhead during the match. Minutes after their victory, rain started falling in Athens.
Libietis and Reese believe their form has improved with each match they have played in the doubles tournament. The two agree their best doubles so far together came in the NCAA team championships, but they feel like they are returning to that same high level of play.
"We're not quite there yet, but every match we've played in this tournament, we've gotten closer," Reese said.
Libietis and Reese now have a 35-5 record this season, including 12-1 in the collegiate major championships.
Only one Tennessee team has won an NCAA doubles title, but have boasted three additional finalists in the past.
Mel Purcell and Rodney Harmon captured the 1980 doubles title in Athens. Andy Kohlberg and Michael Fancutt were finalists in 1979. More recently, John-Patrick Smith and Davey Sandgren made back-to-back finals in 2009 and 2010.


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Game Title: iDO (International Digimon Online)
Game Site: Coming Soon
Game Features
- Explore both the Real & Digital Worlds
- Customizable 3D Characters (DW3 Style)
- Choose between Digimon Owner or Digimon Human (Spirit Evolution)
- Digimon from all Seasons
- Real-Time Digimon Battling
- Warp, Soul, Hybrid & DNA Evolution
- One Digimon Per Character
- Eight Characters on Each Account
- DNA Digivolution can be accomplished with friends
- Digimon Card Game intergrated into the game
- Familiar Citys become new again like Asuka City
- Digimon World 3 Graphics
- Free to Download & Play
Game Story
A whole new game that revolutionizes technology has been made. It's called Digimon Online (iDO for short). Your in the real world, you can do w/e you want. But to start the game, you must go to the Digimon Online Center to start the game. You enter the game w/ no Digimon at all. You must go befriend a Digimon (of baby, in-training, or rookie) so you can quest through the Digital World. After that, you train, level up, & do quests (which will be added weekly). There are many parts you can do, you may get the 4 badges, compete in the monthly tournaments, which if you win, you will be entered in the Yearly top 12. Many things to come, remember, this is still in development.
Game Team - MAGAMI
- Stunt - Game Creator
- Cyncro - Quest, Tournaments, & Special Event Ideas
- OMNIMONX - Spriter
Yes, we have a small team, & are looking for more. We need:
- Programmers
- Graphic Designers (who make graphics very similar to Digimon World 3)
- Coders
- Support Helper
Please do not reply unless you have feedback or want to be a part of the team. Also, I'm kind of new to this, I know it's my first project, but I want to get it done the way I promise. If any of you guys can help out, it'd really be appreciated.
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The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is a great way for many students to get involved in undergraduate research. UROP solicits proposals from students twice a year at the beginnings of October and March. Generally, more than 70% of proposals are approved. Students with approved proposals are paid $1400 to carry out their research. UROP also provides absolutely necessary expenses of up to $300.
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Re: Equal Rights
<3 the colors! A lot of the entries have this really pale yellow but I think your choice of a darker yellow is better. Goes with the cream shirt really well.
Re: Unipork Bacon
Poor Uniporks...
jfsiv wrote:Great job on the eye, and as for the bacon good!!!
Oh before I forget here is a great tip on how to make Halftones in photoshop ( http://shirt.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=18197 ) I forgot to mention it last time. So I hope this helps good luck.
Ha, thanks. ^.^
Love it! <3 Gorgeous design.
The mustache is definitely the selling point.
Re: Pixel Pixie's 8 Bit Bytes
Ooh, it's been fog-ified! Thanks everyone!
Spiritgreen wrote:Thanks guys. I hope the heartlessness is what makes it funny. :^)
Heartlessness almost always wins my vote. Probably because I can relate.
Good one, Spirit. ;)
schlady wrote:Haha! I'd totally get this shirt for my dad (he's a retired cop). Mmmm... cop circles!
chachachino wrote:hahaha pretty clever.
cpresti wrote:This is great!! I'm surprised donut flavored cereal doesn't already exist! They already have Cookie Crunch and that Leggo my Eggo cereal, it's the next logical choice!
It will probably happen. Maybe Dunkin Donuts cereal? Thanks for your comment
Re: SandWitch
This is awesome!
Re: Sugar and Steam
Beautiful work, Rasabi. :') Just so beautiful.
danjoneshistory wrote:I'd buy it but it's historically inaccurate. I think coffee was being used and reported on in Europe in the fifteenth century and in the Ottoman Empire before that.
I could've picked something earlier but I went with 1600s since Pope Clement VIII gave it his blessing in 1600. Could've gone with something like, "reanimating you and your goats since the 9th century", I suppose.
Re: Cop Circles
Got this in early this morning... I think 1:30ish am. But, I started my day yep, breakfast But, no doughnuts
Re: Just say NO to Bacon v2
Mercury Pig brings a message from the Gods!
Re: Just say No to Soylent Green
This should have been a red tee as well.
Re: plutos
This is the only shirt I like in the whole derby.
Re: Mercury Pig v3
say NO to soylent green
Re: English Muffin Man Version 2
This version is so much nicer! I love the background too, I am learning so much from studying others art work on these weekly assignments
odysseyroc wrote:This is probably going to get rejected for "Similar shirts exist"
That "similar" shirt is not enough alike to cause a rejection.
But I am not sure this mascot makes me feel hungry for that Most Important Meal of the Day.
Re: Lucky Pig
No pig would endorse bacon. Can't suspend my disbelief.
(But he sure is cute!)
jmgenens wrote:Boiled... (not sure how I forgot that - wish we could edit!)
Umm, I think you can edit.
By clicking that little "edit" button under your post.
tobefonseca wrote:Collab with Ramyb, hope you like it! :{D
I thought those beady little piggie eyes looked familiar...
Re: CinnaSnail
I love cinnamon rolls,
but I prefer mine without a slime trail.
Love the design!
Re: Le Creped Crusader
Now I want someone to make me crepes for breakfast!
Re: The only way
Love the colors - and the coffee!
Re: [url=http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=61889]Biskits
Why does my husband love to quote this line every time I make biscuits?!?!? And I serve them with his favorite sourwood honey, too!
Dolemite wrote:I would wear extra undies on Monday. I fell from the fog over parallel thinking too and my butt still stings.
Hahaha I'll be sure to do that... I guess...
Honestly, making it this far is waaay better than I could have hoped. I still want to improve my graphic design skills--some of these beautiful designs I've seen (for example, I recently recieved "Underwater Forest" in a random-shirt-delivery) and I have no idea where I could begin to create something like that, let alone in a day or so.
I was going to ask if the majority of other designers use illustrator or Photoshop--it'd be really cool to learn how people design these incredible shirts!
Re: Sugar Clamz!
It's "nutritious."
Re: Sleep? What's That?
Great over-caffeinated owl!
It's deliberately misspelled for trademarking purposes.
But alas this too shall be REJECTED.
Re: Muffin Man
tangolite132 wrote:Reject. Reject. Reject.
...Wait. There's not spoofs this time 'round, right?
And especially no designs invoking CURRENT, trademarked breakfast mascots
Re: Eggscellent Breakfast
I just really love everything about this design. The colors, the concept, the style, the theme... love it! Nice composition. I'd definitely wear it.
rasabi wrote:So. This submission is a year and a day later than my very first derby sub. Since my first submission was steampunk inspired I figured I'd go full circle.
Thanks to anyone and everyone who has thrown me a word of encouragement, a vote, or a thinly veiled threat against my life these past 367 (leap year wierrrrd) days!
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Oh I love these! We have a set - we got them for our son a couple years ago for his 2nd birthday. He's 5 now and they still get played with almost daily. I don't know who has more fun, my son or my husband. Great for spatial skills and creative play! And he recently started having a lot of fun making the sticks spin around by holding another stick with the opposite pole up to the end, which initiated an awesome discussion of magnets and how they work. Great toy, highly recommend.
product website for 144 piece has video: their price $240
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We received the smaller set for our son on his 3rd birthday. They're a decent toy and this is a decent price for what these go for.
He's just not that into them. Maybe as he gets older. Our 18 month old has more fun with them just throwing the balls around.
This would be a better toy at $30.
Does anyone know if the big set comes with the curved pieces too? In the photo on the guidecraft website it shows kids with curved pieces playing with the 144 piece set
jenn072075 wrote:Does anyone know if the big set comes with the curved pieces too? In the photo on the guidecraft website it shows kids with curved pieces playing with the 144 piece set
No, this is straight pieces and the balls. The curved pieces are available in other sets. I think the photos you are seeing were sent it by owners/parents so may have been different sets.
This Amazon page shows two recommended ages for the 144-piece set, 2 years and 3 years:
2 years from the manufacturer, 3 years from (I guess) Guidecraft.
I'm a preschool teacher, and these are a huge hit in my classroom. I would highly recommend them to any parent. Use them as a stepping stone to learn about magnets and architecture. The magnets are strong enough that you can pick up a smaller structure if you are careful.
Since this is a building toy, I wanted to point out an observation made years ago when I had a temp job demonstrating a different building toy. Little girls under age 5 are absolutely amazing! As long as you can keep the parents away from them, little girls are way better at building toys than boys the same age IMHO. But you must keep the parents from interfereing! For some reason parents think that if they can't do something then their little girl can't either (parents don't do this to little. boys IMHO). The thing is that girls seem to listen to their parents. I saw this over and over again. We had a play area set up and we sold the toy by getting the kids to build something, their parents would see them having fun and buy the toy. Except with little girls, the girls would jump in start building and doing amazingly well but instead of noticing, the parent would try the toy, have trouble and announce (without looking at what their girl had already built) "this is hard, you can't do this." "The little girl would look at her house (or whatever) and say "I can't?" and immediately stop building. I could never get the parents to look at what their girl had built, so I learned that if Ii wanted to sell to parents of little girls, it was absolutely necessary to keep the parents away from the girl until she was finished building and had something completed to show. The sadest thing is that this only applies to girls under age 5. Girls under age 5 were fantastic at building, age 5 and above, they were terrible or just didn't try. This led me to conclude that by age 5 little girls have properly socialized ( or as I put it--ruined) by their parents and perhaps society. So my pled for parents, esp parents of little girls--please stay out of your kids way. Please don't tell them something is hard--let them learn and discover for themselves. Most important open your eyes and look at what your kids can do! I am telling you, little girls between the ages of 2 and 5 are amazing at building things--let them do it. There is no rational reason for a two year old girl to be better at building than a five year old girl--yet I observed it over and over again. I have no comment on this particular toy, I am just saying that little girls are fantastic builders in general.
We bought a small set a few years ago for our two grandkids. These are like Duplo bricks on steroids. Our youngest grandkid always had trouble putting Duplo bricks together whereas these, to his delight, magically come together on their own due to the magnetism. They are curiously light given the strong magnetism - I've been tempted to break one open just to see what kind of magnets are used. However, they are very durable and seemingly indestructable especially since the grandson loves to toss anything he gets his little hands on - not one has broken yet. Can't say the same for the random targets that were eventual victims of said tossing.
Don't waste your money.... Magnets are very weak. Things have to be perfectly aligned or they fall down. Frustrating for younger kids.
... Seriously? They can market brightly colored magnets to kids, but can't market appropriately stronger ones to adults.
What is this. I don't even.
These are way too big to eat. The magnetic hold is a bit weak, but a child can build various simple connected structures.


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'The loss left the Rangers drifting six points out of a playoff spot, and was marked by poor playmaking decisions, giveaways all over the ice, missed coverage assignments around the net and terrible special-teams play. The Rangers couldn't do anything with six power plays other than give up one short-handed chance after another, two of which the speedy Sabres used to score goals.'
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The Canisius College hockey team lost its fifth-straight game, falling at Robert Morris, 6-3, on Saturday night. The Griffs are now 11-18-5 on the season and 10-13-2 in Atlantic Hockey play, while the Colonials improve to 18-12-2 and 13-11-1 in league play.
Juniors Kyle Gibbons and Patrick Sullivan plus sophomore Stephen Farrell all scored for the Griffs in the defeat.
The Colonials wasted no time taking the lead in the game, scoring just 1:48 into the contest when Colin South tipped a shot into the back of the net.
The teams would then go another 25-plus minutes without a goal before both schools started finding their offensive rhythm. Robert Morris stretched its advantage to two when Matt Cope tipped a shot into the net at the 8:19 mark of the second frame.
Canisius would answer right back, pulling back to within one just 56 seconds later. Senior Preston Shupe brought the puck in the Robert Morris zone and left it for Farrell. The sophomore defender then blasted it into the back of the net for his first tally of the season. Sophomore Mitch McCrank also recorded an assist on the team's first goal of the game.
Robert Morris, however, would quickly reclaim its multi-goal advantage and would even build on it. Adam Brace scored two goals 59 seconds apart at the 12:42 and 13:41 marks of the second period to extend the Colonial lead to 4-1. The senior sent a blocked shot in for the two-goal lead and then scored on a rush just a minute later after skating past the Canisius defense. Robert Morris then added a fourth goal in the period when Cody Wydo knocked in a rebound with 1:50 remaining.
The Griff did not back down and attempted to claw back into the game, scoring with just 19 seconds left in the second. From his own zone, Farrell sent a pass down the ice to sophomore Cody Freeman, who got past the Robert Morris defense. Freeman had his shot saved but Gibbons was there to clean up the rebound for his team-best 15th tally of the season.
Canisius then pulled to within two with 3:15 remaining in the game, scoring on a delayed penalty. Senior defender Ben Parker gained possession of the puck behind the Canisius net, skated down the ice and centered it to Sullivan, who knocked it in for his fifth goal of the season.
On the ensuing power play, Canisius pulled its goaltender for a two-man advantage but was unable to get any closer. After the Robert Morris penalty expired, Wydo sealed the Colonials' win with an empty-net goal with 60 seconds remaining in the game.
Canisius finished the game with a 43-23 advantage in shots. Neither team scored on the power play with the Griffs missing out in six opportunities and killing the only Robert Morris extra-man advantage.
The Griffs wrap up the regular season next weekend with a home-and-home series against RIT. The schools open the weekend in Rochester on Friday at 7:05 p.m.
Game Notes: Canisius has lost five-straight Atlantic Hockey games for the first time since losing nine-consecutive league games from Dec. 2, 2005 to Jan. 20, 2006 ... The Griffs are now 7-17-0 during the month of February since the 2010-11 season (.291 winning percentage). Canisius is 23-22-10 in Atlantic Hockey play the remaining months during the last three seasons (.509 winning percentage) ... Both of Farrell's two career goals have come against Robert Morris and the sophomore also registered a career-best two points ... Canisius lost for the first time this season when scoring at least three goals in a game. The Griffs are now 10-1-1 when netting three tallies.


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The first British explorers, colonists, and missionaries arrived in the 1850s, and the massive influx of foreigners led to the establishment of the territory Rhodesia, named after Cecil Rhodes of the British South Africa Company. In 1923, European settlers voted to become the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia. After a brief federation with Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland (now Malawi) in the post–World War II period, Southern Rhodesia (also known as Rhodesia) chose to remain a colony when its two partners voted for independence in 1963.
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I'm always surprised at the knowledge base here on TDH, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I get my Jango fix with the 501st, so on Halloween I would like to do something different that "breathes" a little better.:p
I need to know the procedure for application and what types of make-up that would be recommended to make myself look pale like a vampire. I have custom contact lenses on order and I always get an early start on the planning. I'm looking for an "Underworld"/ "Interview w/ A Vampire" look.
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Jousting With Phantoms: Democracy Denied Takes On Internet Freedom
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Phil Kerpen, vice president of Americans For Prosperity, doesn't care for the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Rule. In his new book, Democracy Denied, Kerpen devotes an entire chapter to denouncing the passage of the rule last December, which he called "the darkest day in 372 years" (betraying a propensity for histrionics and a shaky grasp of lunar science). He calls it a "regulatory coup d'etat" and a "sweeping new government regulatory power that would prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from innovating in their own networks." Again and again, Kerpen writes that the FCC is now "regulating the Internet."
But all the ire Kerpen deploys is aimed squarely against a phantom, a crushing and onerous regulatory structure that does not exist. For all the words spent attacking what (he says) the Open Internet Rule will do, he never describes what the rule actually does -- not a single word from the rule is quoted, not a single news report describing the intent of the rule is referenced.
The reality of the FCC's action does not comport with the years-long campaign of high-pitched invective telecom shills like Kerpen and AFP have waged against the push for open internet policies. Thus, we get an elaborate shadowboxing routine.
Take as an example Kerpen raising the alarm that the Open Internet Rule has inspired an international push for draconian internet regulation:
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has argued that regulating the Internet could also accidentally trigger United Nations jurisdiction. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
At two meetings of the U.N.'s World Summit on the Information Society in 2003 and 2005, the U.S. found itself in the lonely position of fending off efforts by other governments to exert U.N. or other multilateral control over the Internet. ITU member states have attempted to expand their control over Internet governance, Web address registries, and cybersecurity. These nations will likely be encouraged by talk of more U.S. Web regulation.
Early indications are that these fears were well founded. Within weeks of the new United States net neutrality rules and using them for cover, Venezuela passed a new law giving the executive authority to regulate all Internet service providers to block content that, among other things, "refuses to recognize the government's authority." [Democracy Denied, page 95]
With regard to basic chronology, this isn't accurate: Venezuela's legislature passed the restrictions on internet content on December 20, 2010, one day before the FCC approved the Open Internet Rule.
The rule passed by the FCC states that fixed broadband providers can neither block lawful content nor discriminate against certain types of content based on political or financial considerations. It acknowledges the need for ISPs to (reasonably and transparently) manage network traffic. It grants the FCC no Hugo Chavez-esque power to restrict internet content and actually puts into place the mechanism to prevent ISPs from themselves becoming content regulators. It's nothing like the oppressive Venezuelan law, and it doesn't touch on the subject areas referenced by McDowell in his op-ed. But omitting the particulars of the FCC's rule permits Kerpen to sloppily compare the two under the umbrella of "internet regulation."
This is as close as Kerpen comes to actually engaging with the regulation he claims is so detrimental to our economy and political system. The remainder of his critique is spent heaping scorn on the "radical" proponents of open internet policy, many of whom (like former White House senior advisor Susan Crawford) haven't been in government for years, or (like Free Press) are extremely dissatisfied with the FCC's ruling.
Slate's David Weigel wrote that Kerpen's book is a "polemic," a "pure distillation of what the people funding the New Right believe." And it has no shortage of fans on the right. Erick Erickson gave it a ringing endorsement, and Dick Morris wrote that "Democracy Denied catalogues the loss of freedom in a way that is both profound and important."
As challenges to the rule move their way through the courts, Kerpen's and AFP's broadsides will likely form the nucleus of right-wing attacks on the FCC and open internet supporters. But they do not reflect the current regulatory environment, and actually distort it quite badly.
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By Nik Brumsack
Arsène Wenger believes Gervinho has the ability to become a successful centre forward.
The Ivorian started his Arsenal career on the flank but has been deployed as a striker this season, scoring five times in just seven appearances.
Wenger considers Gervinho's pace and movement to be a real threat to opposing teams and is delighted with the 25-year-old's improved finishing.
"The thinking was to use well his quality of movement and his pace," Wenger said. "But of course you have to overcome a little bit of an obstacle that he doesn't correspond well to the traditional image you have of a central striker.
"I did that [changed position] with Robin van Persie. He was more a technical player, it was not obvious to put him as the central striker.
"I did it with Thierry Henry, I did it now with Gervinho and I think I will do it as well with Walcott.
"They have other qualities that is well suited to our game. Our game is based on movement and technical ability and they have that."
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The University of Colorado at Boulder is working with Denver Public School science teachers to help customize classroom science instruction using a specially designed digital library tool that will be increasingly valuable to teachers as their classrooms continue to diversify.
Known as the Curriculum Customization Service, the project's goal is to provide teachers with a web-based tool that incorporates educational digital library resources to customize science curriculum in order to better meet the needs of diverse learners.
The service was created by Digital Learning Sciences, a joint center of the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU-Boulder and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, or UCAR.
"Our vision was to create a teacher-friendly software tool that would help teachers to be more effective in their curriculum planning and in classroom instruction," said CU-Boulder Associate Professor Tamara Sumner, the executive director of Digital Learning Sciences.
"The long-term goal in this particular project is to give teachers the tools they need to be effective in engaging students in science. Teaching science is hard to begin with and when you throw in the added complexity of having such a large range of knowledge, skills and abilities in the classroom, you absolutely have to think about how you customize your instruction to really energize all of your students," she said.
The researchers provided the web-based tool to 124 middle and high school Earth science teachers in Denver Public Schools for the 2009-10 academic year.
"We picked Earth science in part because the Digital Library for Earth System Education is operated and curated here at the National Center for Atmospheric Research library and we knew it was filled with great middle and high school content that was ready to go," Sumner said.
Preliminary results from fall 2009 show that roughly half of the DPS Earth science teachers given access to the service have integrated it into their teaching practices to a significant extent. Many of these teachers report that the service makes it easier for them to integrate digital resources into their teaching and allows them to customize their instruction to support English-language learners and other diverse learners.
"An unintended outcome of the project is the creation of a virtual professional learning community," said Patty Kincaid, secondary science coordinator for DPS. "As a result, resources from the digital libraries were tagged and shared so other district teachers could benefit from the planning and expertise from others efforts, input and feedback."
Educational digital libraries provide access to collections of high-quality, interactive teaching and learning resources including classroom activities, simulations, animations, imagery, virtual labs and scientific data developed by scientists, science education specialists and federal and state agencies.
DPS teachers have used the customization service in a variety of ways, Sumner said. One of the most popular features is the collection of animations because these visualizations make complicated Earth science topics more understandable to kids.
For example, at the ninth-grade level students spend a lot of time learning about plate tectonics, such as how volcanoes are formed or what happens when two continental plates collide, Sumner said. It's difficult for a typical ninth-grader to fully understand the complex process by reading about it, but seeing animated demonstrations of what's happening when plates collide makes it much more accessible to a wide range of learners.
"One of the big goals in K-12 is to give every student who graduates a solid science education so they at least have the option of moving on to college," Sumner said. "As we strengthen high school graduation requirements, we need to give teachers the tools they need to actually make that possible. Hopefully, this service will be a useful tool for many teachers."
The Curriculum Customization Service was developed in collaboration with a team of DPS science teachers over an 18-month period and was funded by the National Science Foundation's National STEM Education Distributed Learning program.