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Rondo says he should have taken the layup after slipping on game-winning shot attempt
Dec 8, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT
We showed you Evan Turner's game-winner from Friday night's contest between the Celtics and Sixers. It wouldn't have been the deciding basket, though, had Rondo been more decisive on the game's final possession.
Boston had a final chance, inbounding the ball on their end of the floor trailing by one with 2.7 seconds remaining. It goes to Kevin Garnett with his back to the basket in isolation at the elbow, but Rondo makes a break for it, so Garnett dumps it off to his teammate instead of turning and taking the shot himself.
Rondo hesitated, then ended up slipping while trying to make up his mind, which ultimately caused the shot to fall short. Afterward, he regretted his decision, saying he should have continued to the basket instead.
From A. Sherrod Blakely of CSNNE.com:
"I should have taken the lay-up," Rondo said. "But I tried to make a plant and just slipped."
Said Garnett: "I thought he had the lay-up. It was just unfortunate. I was indecisive. I should have been more aggressive in that situation."
After the game, C's coach Doc Rivers said that Garnett was the player the Celtics wanted to take that final shot.
"But he saw Rondo cutting," Rivers said. "I didn't see it yet, so I don't really know what happened because it looked like Kevin had the shot. We had him deep, right where we wanted him."
You can't blame Garnett for being unselfish here, and if Rondo had kept going to the basket, he may very well have had time to convert a game-winner of his own, or gotten fouled at the very least.
But Rivers called that final play for Garnett for a reason. He's virtually automatic from 15-17 feet out, even fading over a defender, and even with the game hanging in the balance.
It's worth wondering if Rondo's questionable jumper — which has improved greatly — still makes him take pause in crucial situations. Either way, expect Rivers to make it clear to Garnett that next time he gets the opportunity, he needs to just take the shot.
- doctorfootball - Dec 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM
He's right. He's not even an average jump shooter. You go for the layup there
- hodaghunter - Dec 8, 2012 at 4:15 PM
"falls short"??? Looks more like it went LONG at the rim…
- giselleisasucubus - Dec 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM
That play showed two of the Celtics (&KG &Rondo's) weaknesses. Garnett has ALWAYS shied away from shooting at the end of games, and Rondo is hesitant to shoot- always. Rondo has been giving up layups for assists, which is dumb, and now his offensive game is off. He needs to drive and score more. Who gives a s**t how many assists one guy has, the assist total that really matters is overall team assists. Rondo also dribbles too much, which I think is one of the main reasons Ray Allen left. I like him as a player, but he is VERY flawed.
- eventhorizon04 - Dec 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM
1. Shot went long, not short
2. KG was smart to pass Rondo the ball – Rondo had a clear path to the basket with his defender trailing him by several feet, so with Rondo's terrific speed, he almost certainly gets a layup.
I honestly don't think there was anyone close enough to foul Rondo if he doesn't stop running, because the other defenders had their backs to him (freeze at 0:12) when he received the ball.
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Cal Poly
History 423
Modern Science in World History
Instructor: Zuoyue Wang Office: Building 94, Room 335
Winter Quarter 2014 Office Hours: M 11:35am-12:35pm; W9:30-10:30; & apptmt.
Class Time: MW 4-5:50pm Classroom: 5-255
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Course website: http://www.csupomona.edu/~zywang/hst423-w2013.html
Course Description: This course examines the
development of modern sciences, especially physics and biology, from the second
scientific revolution of the late 19th century and early 20th
century to the present, and the changing relationship between science and
society in this period. It traces how the rise of quantum and relativity
and genetic theories has changed our view of the world and of life, and how Big
Science, nuclear weapons, computers, biotechnology, and other applications of
modern science have changed the relationship between science and society.
The focus will be on Western Europe and the
What is the History of Science? History of science, as a field, rose in the post-World War II era as a response to what C. P. Snow called the "Two Cultures" problem: the increasing gap between the humanities and the sciences in understanding each other has often resulted in dangerous misconceptions in regard to science, technology, and public policy. Now perhaps more than ever a well-educated student in either the humanities or the sciences needs to understand the profound social, political, cultural, and global implications of changes in modern science. The course is intended to be a bridge across the "Two Cultures" divide as it brings students in both the humanities and the sciences together to explore both the intellectual and social aspects of modern science.
Format: Lectures will be supplemented by discussions, internet sessions, films, and videos. Professor Wang encourages you to raise questions at any time in class, during his office hours, or via email. In general, the first half of the course is a bit more technical and involves heavier reading loads than the second half, so you can devote more time to your term paper project later in the quarter.
Learning Objectives: After successfully completing this course, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the major changes in modern science in the world, explain the interactions between science and society, enhance their information literacy, improve their communications skills, both written and oral, and ability to think critically and historically. In short, the course aims to develop "3C": Clarity (in expression), Creativity (in scholarship), and Critical Thinking (about everything).
General Education (GE) Designations: This course fulfills General Education Area C-4 (Humanities Synthesis) or D-4 (Social Science Synthesis).
Prerequisites: If you want this course to fulfill your GE C-4 (Humanities) requirement, you will need to have already completed all GE lower-division requirements in Areas A and C. If you want this course to fulfill your GE D-4 (Social Science) requirement, you will need to have completed all GE lower-division requirements in Areas A and D. For detail, see University Catalog: (http://www.csupomona.edu/~academic/catalog/gen_edu/General_Education.pdf)
Knowledge of modern history, physics, and biology beyond your lower-division GE courses is not required but will be helpful. This is an upper division course that generally should not be taken before you have fulfilled your lower division GE courses or before attaining junior or senior status.
History Majors: This course fits into any of the three core course areas for Track II.
Further Tips: How Do You Succeed in This Class?
Read the Textbooks: They provide the core facts and theories in the class, and therefore it's most important to "get them done" thoroughly before moving to other sources relevant to the class. Yes, you can pick up facts on individuals and events from the web, such as wikipedia, which is indeed helpful and you should consult when trying to understand scientific concepts or discoveries, but often such facts come in as isolated pieces of information without the proper context that is developed in the textbooks. It's also important to relate your term paper with arguments from the textbooks. You do not necessarily need to agree with these arguments; in fact the best papers tend to revise the accepted views as represented in the textbooks. But, whether you agree with the textbooks or not, you need to relate your main argument with theirs, either as a confirmation or as a revision.
Engage in Informal Learning: Read the Los Angeles Times or New York Times or other news publications, listen to NPR, and watch PBS, especially its American Experiences, Frontline, and NOVA programs. These will help keep you intellectually stimulated and keep you informed of current debates over major political, social, and technological issues, which in turn would help you better understand the dynamics of historical changes in the past. Pay special attention to the daily Op-Ed pages at the end of the main section of the LAT. The LAT and NYT are available on their websites (www.latimes.com and www.nytimes.com with some contents for free) and through our library's Proquest Databases. Visit a museum and turn in a one-page report on how it relates to this course for extra credit.
Talk to Others about What You Are Learning in the Class: Trying to explain something to someone else will help you better understand what you are trying to explain. Questions from your audience are usually very helpful in giving a new way of looking at the problem. Often you will find that you do not quite "get it" yourself, but that's fine. This discovery will motivate you to read the texts again or to discuss the problem with your instructor.
Communicate with Your Instructor: Professor Wang encourages you to raise questions at any time in class and to talk to him, in class or in his office during office hours, on any issue related to this class. You can contact him outside of class via email.
Use Resources on Campus and Work on Your Writing:
Make use of reference librarians to help with your research and the
Required Books Available at Bronco Bookstore:
1. Barbara Cline, Men Who Made a New Physics
2. David Cassidy, Einstein and our World
3. James D. Watson, Double Helix
Michael Frayn,
6. William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for Students
In addition, there will be online reading assignments. Two other books are highly recommended for those who want to learn more about the history of modern physics: Banesh Hoffmann, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel and Emilio Segre, From X-rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries.
The first two books (Cline and Cassidy) are on reserve at the Library with a two-hour checkout period and overnight possibility. You need to write down the call numbers before getting in line at the Circulation Desk: rbrWAZ 3 for the Cline book and QC16.E5 C37 1995 for the Cassidy book.
Term Paper: You are required to write a paper on a topic related to the class and approved by Prof. Wang in advance. During the first two weeks of class, try to thumb through the texts to get an overview of the subject we will be studying and think about what topics you would like to write on. Be aware that topics covered later in the class might interest you more. Try to avoid big, overtly general topics, such as "A History of the Atomic Bomb." Instead, try to narrow it down to something like "Albert Einstein and the Atomic Bomb." Check out these links www.csupomona.edu/~zywang/topics.html and www.csupomona.edu/~zywang/seniorthesis.html) on my website and read our Storey text for further suggestions. You are required to submit and discuss with Prof. Wang a one-page prospectus (a title and a paragraph on your topic) on the term paper by the date specified below. A preliminary draft of your paper is due in class on Monday during the last week of class. The completed paper is due on the last day of class. It should be about 5-8 pages, double-spaced, with 12 point font and one inch margin on all sides, printed on plain paper, stapled at the upper-left corner (no plastic cover or binding please). You should use footnotes, instead of in-text citations, for the term paper. All writings in this class are evaluated for both grammar and content and there will be discussions of paper drafts later in the quarter.
A good paper will have a compelling beginning, a good survey of existing literature on your subject, a clear thesis statement, supported by a narrative built on a variety of evidence, especially primary sources such as reports in newspapers or magazines, or oral history interviews. It can describe an event or individual, but should explain how that event or individual does or does not fit in the general themes of this class. See sample paper on "Beyond Photograph 51" (on Rosalind Franklin's scientific contributions), or "Teller's Energy Source: A Historical Study of the Debate over the National Ignition Facility," or "Particle Accelerators and Scientific Risk." Be sure to do searches for relevant articles in Historical New York Times and Los Angeles Times databases available from our library's website and to make use of the oral history interviews with physicists from http://aip.org/history/ohilist/transcripts.html.
Information Literacy beyond Wikipedia: As the open online encyclopedia becomes a popular source of information, we will learn how to use it effectively so we can benefit from its strengths while avoid its pitfalls as an exercise in information literacy. As a rule of thumb, you are encouraged to use it as a starting point of research but generally not as an end point. We will discuss why scholarly (peer-reviewed) books and articles, many of them available online from our library's databases, are preferred sources of information and analysis.
Work Sheets and Discussions: Please complete the reading assignments before each session. To help you manage the reading assignments, I will post on the course website a one-page worksheet that you will be required to fill out using a word processor and bring to class. You may need to do some additional research on the web in answering some of the questions in the work sheets. We will use these worksheets for in-class discussions where you will be asked to comment on assigned readings and raise your questions about them for discussions.
Video Reviews: Following each video, you are required to write a one-paragraph review/response. You can do so in class if there is time or you can turn the review in at the next session. The review should focus on what's new and striking to you and how it relates to the class, not a summary of its contents.
Examinations: There will be a take-home midterm, which covers the first half of the class, and a take-home final exam, which covers the whole class.
Ground rules to ensure a suitable learning environment for everyone:
1. Avoid late entry or early exit without instructor's prior authorization.
2. Late works will be penalized by 1/3 letter grade per day, e.g. B to B- if one day late.
3. Repeated, unexcused absences will considerably lower your grade for the class.
4. Signing-in for another student on the attendance sheet when that student is absent is an act of misconduct subject to disciplinary actions.
5. Cell phones should be turned off during class period; no text messaging—either sending or receiving—is allowed once class starts.
6. To avoid distraction, no use of laptop or any electronics device is allowed in the classroom unless authorized specifically by the instructor.
7. In general, activities not related to this class are prohibited during class: e.g., newspaper-reading, doing work for another class, and chatting with each other.
8. If you do not use your Cal Poly Pomona email account regularly, you will need to set it up so any email sent to your CPP account will be forwarded to an email address you do use regularly. For more see link to CPP Help Desk: www.csupomona.edu/~ehelp
9. You can purchase Microsoft Windows and Office, including MS Word, at a greatly discounted price at Bronco Bookstore.
10. If you have any learning disabilities and might need special accommodations, please contact me or the Disability Resource Center (x3333).
11. Grade appeals policy: Please see this link for grade appeals procedure and policy in my courses: http://www.csupomona.edu/~zywang/gradeappeals.htm.
12. When we engage in discussion in the classroom and online, please remember that civility and an open mind help create a good learning environment. For more on netiquette see, e.g., www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
13. Please contact me via email (firstname.lastname@example.com) rather than phone or Blackboard.
14. On issues related to copyright, please see: www.csupomona.edu/~copyright
15. Plagiarism and other misconducts: See current Cal Poly Pomona Catalog regarding university policy governing student conduct and discipline, including rules against plagiarism (presenting ideas and writing of others as one's own). For more see University Judicial Affairs: http://dsa.csupomona.edu/judicialaffairs/academicintegrity.asp
Grading (general guideline):
Work Sheets, Oral Presentations, Participation in Discussions, Attendance: 25%; Midterm: 25%; Term Paper: 25%; Final: 25%.
Topics and
The lectures will cover only a few major events in depth but the students should read the texts (and sometimes doing some research online) to gain a comprehensive understanding of developments covered in class. Click on the title of each session for the worksheet; underneath the titles are the relevant reading assignments.
Week 1
1/6 Introduction
1/8 New scientific discoveries at the turn of the 20th century: x-ray, electron, and radioactivity (click on the title to download the worksheet for this session; you may need to do some additional research on the web in answering questions from this and future worksheets)
Video: Brilliant Minds.
Cline, chapters 1-3; AIP Exhibit on Marie Curie (OK to choose the brief version)
Week 2
1/13 Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and the quantum theory; Video: Einstein Revealed (pt 1, 1 hour)
Cline, chapters 4-5; Cassidy, chapters 1-3
1/15 No Class Meeting but read the Storey book and write a one-page review of what's new and useful to you in regard to selecting a topic and writing the term paper.
Storey, the whole book.
Due at the time of the next class meeting: one-page review of Storey
Week 3
1/20 King Holiday; No Class Meeting.
1/22 Einstein and the special relativity theory; Video: Einstein Revealed (pt 2, 1 hour)
Cassidy, chapter 4; AIP Exhibit on Einstein ("Formative Years"—"Public Concerns").
Optional: Jim Holt, "Time Bandits: What Were Einstein and Gödel Talking about?" New Yorker February 28, 2005.
Homework assignment after today's session: try to explain Einstein's special relativity to a friend, co-worker, or relative, write a one-paragraph report on the experience, and turn it in at the end of the next class meeting.
Week 4
1/27 Einstein's general relativity theory and modern cosmology; Einstein on social issues and religion
Cassidy, chapters 5-8; Cline, chapter 12; AIP Exhibit on Einstein (finish the exhibit).
Einstein, "Why Socialism?" Monthly Review 1, no. 1 (May 1949); John J. Simon, "Albert Einstein: Radical: A Political Profile," Monthly Review 57, no. 1 (May 2005); Time Magazine, Albert Einstein: Person of the Century; Arnold V. Lesikar (eds.), Einstein on Science and Religion (website).
1/29 From atomic physics to quantum mechanics; The Bohr-Einstein debate over quantum mechanics
Video: The Search for Reality: the Story of Quantum Mechanics (30 minutes)
Cline, chapters 6-11, 13-14 (read or browse as much as you can); AIP Exhibits on Rutherford and Heisenberg;
Collect midterm suggestions
Term Paper Proposal (with a title and a paragraph explaining your topic) Due.
Week 5
2/3 Nuclear physics to the discovery of fission; The rise of American science between the wars; video: Path to Nuclear Fission.
Badash, "Introduction," chapters 1-2; AIP Exhibits on Discovery of Fission and Lawrence and the Cyclotron.
Handout midterm
2/5 The making of the atomic bomb; Video: Birth of the Bomb; review sample student papers
Badash, chapter 3.
Week 6
2/10 The use
of the atomic bomb; Video:
Badash, chapter 4. Browse Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History by Robert H. Ferrell (pdf), pay attention to Truman's diaries on July 17, 18, and 25, 1945.
Midterm due.
German bomb project; Video:
Week 7
2/17 Science and politics in the Soviet Union and China; Video: The Genius That Was China
AIP Exhibit on Sakharov: http://www.aip.org/history/sakharov/; Michael Wines, "Fang Lizhi, Chinese Physicist and Seminar Dissident," New York Times, April 8, 2012; Dennis Overbye, "Einstein's Man in Beijing," New York Times, August 22, 2006.
Peter Neushul and Zuoyue Wang, "Between the Devil and
the Deep Sea: C. K. Tseng, Mariculture, and the
Politics of Science in Modern China,"
2/19 No Class Meeting but complete this worksheet Science and politics during the Cold War based on assigned reading and watch the video Sputnik on Youtube and write a response.
Badash, chapters 5-6.
Bring both reading worksheet and video response to the next class.
Week 8
2/24 The origins of modern genetics; Video: Double Helix (part 1, 1 hour); PowerPoint presentation
Watson, Double-helix
Bring your own laptop or tablet to class. Library/internet worksheet Library/Internet research is due at next session.
2/26 Gender and genetics; Video: Double Helix (part 2, 1 hour); PowerPoint presentation
Lynne Osman Elkin, "Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix," Physics Today, February 2003.
James Watson Online Chat at Time-Yahoo!, March 24, 1999.
Linus Pauling's correspondence on DNA at
Nicholas Wade, "Genome of DNA Pioneer Is Deciphered," New York Times, May 31, 2007.
Week 9
3/3 Peer review of term papers—Bring draft term paper to class.
See sample paper on "Beyond Photograph 51" (on Rosalind Franklin's scientific contributions), or "Teller's Energy Source: A Historical Study of the Debate over the National Ignition Facility," or "Particle Accelerators and Scientific Risk."
3/5 Biological and chemical warfare; The Original Sputnik Moment: Politics of big science during the Cold War Video: Bioterror.
Jonathan B. Tucker, "A Farewell to Germs: The U.S. Renunciation of Biological and Toxin Warfare, 1969-70 [pdf] [html]," International Security 27, no. 1 (Summer 2002), 107-148.
Zuoyue Wang, "The Politics of Big Science in the Cold War," HSPS 25, no. 2 (1995): 329-356.
Barack Obama, "Our Generation's Sputnik Moment Is Now," December 6, 2010 (video).
Week 10
3/10 Global warming; video: Hot Politics (60 minutes)
Naomi Oreskes, "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change," Science 306 (December 3, 2004): 1686; "Testimony…US Senate," December 6, 2006; (optional) Oreskes Talk at Cal Poly Pomona (video of ca. 1 hour 10 minutes, if link does not work, go to http://video.csupomona.edu/streaming/cpp/cf_index.html), January 24, 2007; Eli Kintisch, "Hansen's Retirement from NASA spurs Look at His Legacy," Science 340 (May 3, 2013): 540-541.
Browse Spencer Weart, Global Warming online book and AIP exhibit.
3/12 Science and Society Now: From Computer Science to Internet; Dark Matter and Energy; video: "Internet behind the Web"
Gregory R. Gromov, "The Roads and Cross-Roads of Internet History."
Meg Urry, "Dark Energy, Science's Biggest Mystery," CNN, October 9, 2011.
(ZW use only: "Travel in the History of Science")
Term Paper due; handout Final Exam Questions

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Major Grant Puts College at Forefront of Research on Earth's Inner Core
Bard College at Simon's Rock physics professor Michael Bergman recently won a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the solidification and deformation of Earth's inner core. Bergman's research examines changes in Earth's iron core and how its evolution relates to phenomena on the surface like earthquakes.
"I'm looking at one of those really big questions: How did this big ball of iron at the center of our planet form and how is it changing?" Bergman explains.
The funding, which runs through 2013, enables Bergman to employ a postdoctoral researcher who will teach at the College, and to create opportunity opportunities for students to contribute to laboratory research in fluid mechanics and materials science.
Students have been an integral part of his research for years, and the NSF grant lets Bergman hire several students to assist in the lab work. In collaborating with Bergman, students have coauthored papers that have been published in scientific journals, worked on complex projects over multiple years, and incorporated the research into their Senior Theses.
Bergman collaborates on experiments with Daniel Lewis, a professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In the lab at Simon's Rock, Bergman uses furnaces and other equipment to melt, solidify, and deform iron alloys that are similar in composition to the Earth's core. Then, he take samples to RPI where he and Lewis analyze the alloys using an electron microscope and a technique called backscatter electron diffraction that allows them to examine the texture and orientation of the crystalline structure of the alloy.
In February, Bergman authored a piece in Nature. Bergman's article offered expert analysis of findings by a group of scientists exploring a theory that the earth's core is migrating eastward, melting as it goes while solidifying on its western side.
Research at Simon's Rock
The strength of the sciences at Simon's Rock is a direct result of the College's commitment to a faculty that values both research and teaching. Faculty members have successfully navigated the competitive NSF grant process for many years. Grant proposals are reviewed and rated by multiple scientific panels and only 20% receive funding.
Bergman, who began teaching at Simon's Rock in 1994, has been continually funded by three-year NSF grants for 14 years. His recent success is just one indicator of the scientific community's recognition of important research being carried out at Simon's Rock. Other faculty members have received similar funding in recent years. Eric Kramer, also in physics, received an NSF grant in 2008 for his research, which applies physics methodology to biological processes to investigate how trees grow and heal themselves.
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Strap in kids, it's a long one... 18 years after leaving home I'm finally back. Truth be told I still can't believe I moved to a small town, after spending my entire adult life in cities. Either what I want has shifted or I've lost my mind...it's time to dig up some old roots and put down some new ones. My path has been a winding one, but I wouldn't change a thing. I have the curiosity and delight of a child, the self awareness of an old woman, the politics of a hippy and the values of a southern girl. At least that's what I like to think. Things I do: Just moved back so it's a little TBD...I'm working at the best restaurant in Healdsburg. I volunteer with non-profit dog rescues (I co-founded one that's still thriving in Seattle). In Seattle I made my living as a stage actress and I miss having art in my life. I drive a stick shift, think too much, make lists and then lose or forget them, smile at people on the street even if I'm in a snarky mood, appreciate the finer things as well as the simpler ones (quality isn't determined by cost), break rules when they don't make sense... Things I am: sensitive, intense, compassionate, curious, honest, energetic, silly, goofy, bright, crude, smart, smart ass, passionate, loving, loving, really loving...I wish I were better at solo adventure, but alas...maybe that's where you come in? Things I love: wine, thrift stores, live music outdoors, dawdling, smart movies (preferably ones made with little money and lots of heart), true friends, my family, lazy mornings, coffee, carbs, red meat, unexpected connections, being generous of spirit, animals, figuring out how to fix stuff, my pup, dirt roads, a great jukebox, classic country music, laughing so hard I snort, people who ask questions, people who really listen, feeling comfortable and confident being myself, seasons, live sports, going to the gym, gardening, BBQ, road trips (love riding, hate driving), Trader Joe's... Things I'm not so fond of: pretension, distribution of wealth, fundamentalists of any kind, greed, make up, "malls/department stores/shopping in general unless it's for groceries, techno music, technology problems that can't be fixed by unplugging and plugging back in, oysters/olives/pepperoni/melted cheese (I know, deal breaker for some people), driving, people who talk and don't listen, "lol" because chances are you're not! You're probably just smiling, best case scenario giggling silently on the inside, so it should be "JS" or "GSOTI"...this site has also made me very un-fond of the phrases "down to earth" and "partner in crime"-get creative kids! I grew up in a small town (Boonville, CA, pop 714) and it shows. I care more about who I'm with than what we're doing. I've never been motivated by money or status. If you're turned on by a woman with a title and a desk, I'm not your girl. If you're excited by someone whose biggest priority has always been connecting with and taking care of others, you might think I'm swell. I want to be half of a healthy partnership and hopefully have a family (not immediately-don't worry I won't demand that you spooey in a cup on our first date). Sometimes I'm surprised at how conventional I've turned out.. I could list all the usual cliche "wants" in a partner, but the reality is it all comes down to chemistry. I think we're all a little crazy. The trick is finding the crazy that works with your crazy (think Rib Eye and Syrah, or jeans and Chuck Taylors). And then having some crazy sexual attraction to round things out. I'm a sucker for salt and pepper hair, a well trimmed beard and a man in cowboy boots...or a suit...could those work together? Shit, that would be George W! I want to create a life with someone, not just live parallel lives. I think lovers/partners should inspire us to be the best versions of ourselves and be our biggest fans. I want butterflies. Here's to the adventure!
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Anywhere with wine and/or wonderful people! Mistral Kitchen, Playa Del Carmen, the Mendocino Coast, the Anderson Valley, the Hollywood Bowl on a summer night, listening to music outdoors, Bar-B-Qing in a back yard.
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Leonard Cohen, John Hiatt, Blue Grass, Classic Country, Van Morison, Gillian Welch, Gypsy Kings, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Kings of Leon, Talking Heads... red meat, red wine and good bread...
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Strange real estate laws still on the books that could cost you time and money
Losing a home you haven't lived in for a couple years to squatters. Finding out you have thousands of dollars of liens on your home after you pay a contract fully for a job.
There are some odd laws still on Florida's books that could leave you blindsided. You can protect yourself by doing your homework before making investments.
Real estate can be a great investment, but there are several ways that you could lose big time.
Most people would never guess that a law called the Adverse Possession Claims allows squatters to claim an abandoned home. Although there are several hurdles to jump for the person trying to claim the house, the law has been on the books since the 1800s.
It originally allowed people to take over abandoned cottages and farmland if they were willing pay the taxes. In these hard economic times squatters, trespassers and criminals are using the law to stake claim on vacant or foreclosed homes.
A person can take your property if they have possessed the land openly, notoriously and in a visible manner, paid property taxes, and possessed the land continuously for a period of seven years. So think twice before leaving your grandmother's house vacant for years.
An even more obscure law is costing Florida residents big-time, and could allow general contractors to rip you and their subcontractors off. If you have a remodel done on your home, and the general contractor does not pay the subcontractors, those subcontractors could legally file a claim of lien against your home.
Here's another one: Did you sell your home and begin renting a condominium to avoid an underwater mortgage? Unpaid condo association fees can catch you by surprise. A new Florida law was passed which requires the renter to pay a condominium board for assessments that go unpaid by the owner.
A recent Supreme Court ruling says this would not apply to condos if the governing documents do not have the proper language saying new laws apply. Hire an attorney before signing a lease on a condo.
None of these odd consumer laws will leave you with a smile on your face except one. You can claim old utility deposits, insurance checks and other assets you may have forgotten about when you moved across the country to be near your new love or to take a job promotion.
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We offer a one year postgraduate Social Work Fellowship in palliative and end-of-life care through the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care (DPMPC) at Beth Israel Medical Center. The training program provides experience in multidimensional assessment and intervention with patients and families, in multiple practice sites (an inpatient pain, palliative care and hospice unit, inpatient consultation service and an ambulatory practice) along the continuum of serious illness. Supervision is provided by a specialist in palliative social work.
Fellows participate in interdisciplinary rounds, case discussions, journal clubs, didactic conferences and departmental meetings with the focus on multidimensional approaches to symptom management, palliative and end-of-life care. Learning is complemented by access to interdisciplinary experts and resources such as the departmental multimedia Resource Center which houses a broad range of educational materials.
Designed to develop clinicians, leaders, and mentors, the social work fellowship was established with a grant from the Open Society Institute Project on Death in America (PDIA) through their Social Work Leadership Award and receives ongoing generous support through the Barbara Zirinsky Fund. The program is offered on a full-time basis for one year and includes stipend and benefits. Applications are currently being accepted and are available at this link:
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Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
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UPDATE (14 Jan 2010) -- the date for the Shot Calling Intermediate Clinic has been moved so that the topics will now be covered in combination with the Strategy Clinic on March 19th. The Education, Youth Development and Skills Committee apologies for any inconvenience, but the club looks forward to an exciting, jam-packed clinic on March 19th.
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Android in Aug 2012: Jelly Bean user base now 1.2 percent
Continuing their monthly tradition, Google has released the Android distribution figures, which lets us take a look at how the various versions of Android are doing.
Looking at the chart above we can see that Jelly Bean percentage has risen from 0.8% last month to 1.2%, disappointing but not surprising considering how few devices are running this right now. Ice Cream Sandwich has grown from 15.9% to 20.9%, which is pretty good.
Unfortunately, still a staggering 57.5% of Android users are on Gingerbread, down from 60.6% last month, and 18.3% users are on an even older version of Android.
Other stats show that a massive number of Android users still prefer devices that fall in the Normal display size, that is around the 4-inch mark, with hdpi resolution, that is between 200-300 ppi.
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Froyo here too. Samsung only cares about Galaxies.
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Wow...does that mean 0 percent will have Key Lime Pie? SMH.
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EVERY phone call or Internet data transfer requires electrical switches to send it to the right place. But this slows everything down, especially optical signals. The only way to speed things up is to use light rather than electrons to control where the signals go.
When an optical signal reaches a telephone exchange, the signal has to be "translated" into electricity before it can be sent to its destinationyour phone, for example. But the delay in converting from light to electricity, and then back to light again, slows the network down. So the race is on to make telephone exchange switches that are controlled by light (
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With regard to multi-firm conduct, the Sherman Act addresses this by prohibiting "[e]very contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce. Conduct falls within the scope of this prohibition only if some form of agreement or concerted action can be proven.
In considering multi-firm conduct, another distinction is also fundamental: the distinction between conduct that is deemed anticompetitive per se and conduct that may be found to be anticompetitive after a reasoned analysis. There does not appear to be a precedent for per se condemnation of single-firm conduct. Monopoly power alone, without some act of wrongful exclusion or other legally cognizable anticompetitive conduct, is not prohibited. To the contrary, as the respected jurist Learned Hand noted, "[t]he successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins. U.S. antitrust law thus does not attack monopoly power obtained through "superior skill, foresight and industry".
While the prohibition against multi-firm anticompetitive goes against agreements "in restraint of trade", it is not enough to show that an agreement in some technical way restrains trade. Under U.S. law, at least, the scope of the prohibition is limited to those agreements where the restraint of trade is unreasonable:
One such obviously anticompetitive conduct as overt price fixing, for example, is placed into this per se category of conduct so clearly detrimental to competition that detailed analysis is unnecessary. Otherwise, antitrust plaintiffs are required to demonstrate, by "the facts peculiar to the business to which the restraint is applied", the nature of the challenged conduct and why it is harmful to competition.
The following types of activity are often subject to antitrust scrutiny.
Efficiency-oriented economists reject the goal of competition and instead argue that antitrust legislation should be changed to primarily benefit consumers. No Congress or administration has supported this position. These economists largely ignore the political issues that motivated the laws in the first place.
Anticompetitive agreements among competitors, such as price fixing and customer and market allocation agreements, are typical types of restraints of trade proscribed by the antitrust laws. These type of conspiracies are considered pernicious to competition and are generally proscribed outright by the antitrust laws. Resale price maintenance by manufacturers is another form of agreement in restraint of trade. Other agreements that may have an impact on competition are generally evaluated using a balancing test, under which legality depends on the overall effect of the agreement.
Monopolization and attempted monopolization are offenses that may be committed by an individual firm, even without an agreement with any other enterprise. Unreasonable exclusionary practices that serve to entrench or create monopoly power can therefore be unlawful. Allegations of predatory pricing by large companies can be the basis for a monopolization claim, but it is difficult to establish the required elements of proof. Large companies with huge cash reserves and large lines of credit can stifle competition by engaging in predatory pricing; that is, by selling their products and services at a loss for a time, in order to force their smaller competitors out of business. With no competition, they are then free to consolidate control of the industry and charge whatever prices they wish. At this point, there is also little motivation for investing in further technological research, since there are no competitors left to gain an advantage over.
High barriers to entry such as large upfront investment, notably named sunk costs, requirements in infrastructure and exclusive agreements with distributors, customers, and wholesalers ensure that it will be difficult for any new competitors to enter the market, and that if any do, the trust will have ample advance warning and time in which to either buy the competitor out, or engage in its own research and return to predatory pricing long enough to force the competitor out of business.
From an economics perspective, the relatively recent industrial organization research has focused on construction of microeconomic models that predict and/or explain the prevalence of imperfectly competitive markets and deviations from competitive behavior, partly as a response to the criticisms of antitrust laws and policies by the Chicago School and by members of the law and economics school of thought.
In the United States, there are both state and federal antitrust laws. Enforcement of these laws takes three forms:
First, the federal government, via both the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, can bring civil lawsuits enforcing the laws. The United States Department of Justice alone may bring criminal antitrust suits under federal antitrust laws. Perhaps the most famous antitrust enforcement actions brought by the federal government were the break-up of AT&T's local telephone service monopoly in the early 1980s and its actions against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
Second, state attorneys general may file suits to enforce both state and federal antitrust laws.
Third, private civil suits may be brought, in both state and federal court, against violators of state and federal antitrust law. Federal antitrust laws, as well as most state laws, provide for treble damages against antitrust violators in order to encourage private lawsuit enforcement of antitrust law. Thus, if a company is sued for monopolizing a market and the jury concludes the conduct resulted in consumers' being overcharged $200,000, that amount will automatically be tripled, so the injured consumers will receive $600,000. The United States Supreme Court summarized why Congress authorized private antitrust lawsuits in the case Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal., 405 U.S. 251, 262 (1972):
Every violation of the antitrust laws is a blow to the free-enterprise system envisaged by Congress. This system depends on strong competition for its health and vigor, and strong competition depends, in turn, on compliance with antitrust legislation. In enacting these laws, Congress had many means at its disposal to penalize violators. It could have, for example, required violators to compensate federal, state, and local governments for the estimated damage to their respective economies caused by the violations. But, this remedy was not selected. Instead, Congress chose to permit all persons to sue to recover three times their actual damages every time they were injured in their business or property by an antitrust violation. By offering potential litigants the prospect of a recovery in three times the amount of their damages, Congress encouraged these persons to serve as "private attorneys general."
Free market economist Milton Friedman states that he initially agreed with the underlying principles of antitrust laws (breaking up monopolies and oligopolies and promoting more competition), but that he came to the conclusion that they do more harm than good.
Critics also argue that the empirical evidence shows that "predatory pricing" does not work in practice and is better defeated by a truly free market than by anti-trust laws (see Criticism of the theory of predatory pricing).
Thomas Sowell argues that, even if a superior business drives out a competitor, it does not follow that competition has ended:
Alan Greenspan argues that the very existence of antitrust laws discourages businessmen from some activities that might be socially useful out of fear that their business actions will be determined illegal and dismantled by government. In his essay entitled Antitrust, he says: "No one will ever know what new products, processes, machines, and cost-saving mergers failed to come into existence, killed by the Sherman Act before they were born. No one can ever compute the price that all of us have paid for that Act which, by inducing less effective use of capital, has kept our standard of living lower than would otherwise have been possible." Those, like Greenspan, who oppose antitrust tend not to support competition as an end in itself but for its results—low prices. As long as a monopoly is not a coercive monopoly where a firm is securely insulated from potential competition, it is argued that the firm must keep prices low in order to discourage competition from arising. Hence, legal action is uncalled for and wrongly harms the firm and consumers.
Proponents of the Chicago school of economics are generally suspicious (and critical) of government intervention in the economy, including antitrust laws and competition policies. Judge Robert Bork's writings on antitrust law, along with those of Richard Posner and other law and economics thinkers, were heavily influential in causing a shift in the U.S. Supreme Court's approach to antitrust laws since the 1970s.
Thomas DiLorenzo, an adherent of the Austrian school of economics, found that the "trusts" of the late 19th century were dropping their prices faster than the rest of the economy, and he holds that they were not monopolists at all.
The antitrust laws comprise what the Supreme Court calls a "charter of freedom", designed to protect the core republican values regarding free enterprise in America. The main goal was never to protect consumers, but to prohibit the use of power to control the marketplace. Although "trust" had a technical legal meaning, the word was commonly used to denote big business, especially a large, growing manufacturing conglomerate of the sort that suddenly emerged in great numbers in the 1880s and 1890s. Indeed, at this time hundreds of small short-line railroads were being bought up and consolidated into giant systems. (Separate laws and policies emerged regarding railroads and financial concerns such as banks and insurance companies.) Advocates of strong antitrust laws argued the American economy to be successful requires free competition and the opportunity for individual Americans to build their own businesses. As Senator John Sherman put it, "If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life." Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act almost unanimously in 1890, and it remains the core of antitrust policy. The Act makes it illegal to try to restrain trade or to form a monopoly. It gives the Justice Department the mandate to go to federal court for orders to stop illegal behavior or to impose remedies.
Public officials during the Progressive Era put passing and enforcing strong antitrust high on their agenda. President Theodore Roosevelt sued 45 companies under the Sherman Act, while William Howard Taft sued 75. In 1902, Roosevelt stopped the formation of the Northern Securities Company, which threatened to monopolize transportation in the Northwest (see Northern Securities Co. v. United States).
One of the more well known trusts was the Standard Oil Company; John D. Rockefeller in the 1870s and 1880s had used economic threats against competitors and secret rebate deals with railroads to build what was called a monopoly in the oil business, though some minor competitors remained in business. In 1911 the Supreme Court agreed that in recent years (1900-1904) Standard had violated the Sherman Act (see Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States). It broke the monopoly into three dozen separate companies that competed with one another, including Standard Oil of New Jersey (later known as Exxon and now ExxonMobil), Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco), Standard Oil Company of New York (Mobil, again, later merged with Exxon to form ExxonMobil), of California (Chevron), and so on. In approving the breakup the Supreme Court added the "rule of reason": not all big companies, and not all monopolies, are evil; and the courts (not the executive branch) are to make that decision. To be harmful, a trust had to somehow damage the economic environment of its competitors.
United States Steel Corporation, which was much larger than Standard Oil, won its antitrust suit in 1920 despite never having delivered the benefits to consumers that Standard Oil did. In fact it lobbied for tariff protection that reduced competition, and so contending that it was one of the "good trusts" that benefited the economy is somewhat doubtful. Likewise International Harvester survived its court test, while other trusts were broken up in tobacco, meatpacking, and bathtub fixtures. Over the years hundreds of executives of competing companies who met together illegally to fix prices went to federal prison.
One problem some perceived with the Sherman Act was that it was not entirely clear what practices were prohibited, leading to businessmen not knowing what they were permitted to do, and government antitrust authorities not sure what business practices they could challenge. In the words of one critic, Isabel Paterson, "As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid." In 1914 Congress passed the Clayton Act, which prohibited specific business actions (such as price discrimination and tying) if they substantially lessened competition. At the same time Congress established the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), whose legal and business experts could force business to agree to "consent decrees", which provided an alternative mechanism to police antitrust.
American hostility to big business began to decrease after the Progressive Era. For example,Ford Motor Company dominated auto manufacturing, built millions of cheap cars that put America on wheels, and at the same time lowered prices, raised wages, and promoted manufacturing efficiency. Ford became as much of a popular hero as Rockefeller had been a villain. Welfare capitalism made large companies an attractive place to work; new career paths opened up in middle management; local suppliers discovered that big corporations were big purchasers. Talk of trust busting faded away. Under the leadership of Herbert Hoover, the government in the 1920s promoted business cooperation, fostered the creation of self-policing trade associations, and made the FTC an ally of "respectable business".
During the New Deal, likewise, attempts were made to stop cutthroat competition, attempts that appeared very similar to cartelization, which would be illegal under antitrust laws if attempted by someone other than government. The National Recovery Act (NRA) was a short-lived program in 1933–35 designed to strengthen trade associations, and raise prices, profits and wages at the same time. The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 sought to protect local retailers against the onslaught of the more efficient chain stores, by making it illegal to discount prices. To control big business the New Deal policymakers preferred federal and state regulation—controlling the rates and telephone services provided by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), for example—and by building up countervailing power in the form of labor unions.
By the 1970s fears of "cutthroat" competition had been displaced by confidence that a fully competitive marketplace produced fair returns to everyone. The fear was that monopoly made for higher prices, less production, inefficiency and less prosperity for all. As unions faded in strength, the government paid much more attention to the damages that unfair competition could cause to consumers, especially in terms of higher prices, poorer service, and restricted choice. In 1982 the Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to break up AT&T into one long-distance company and seven regional "Baby Bells", arguing that competition should replace monopoly for the benefit of consumers and the economy as a whole. The pace of business takeovers quickened in the 1990s, but whenever one large corporation sought to acquire another, it first had to obtain the approval of either the FTC or the Justice Department. Often the government demanded that certain subsidiaries be sold so that the new company would not monopolize a particular geographical market. In 1999 a coalition of 19 states and the federal Justice Department sued Microsoft. A highly publicized trial found that Microsoft had strong-armed many companies in an attempt to prevent competition from the Netscape browser. In 2000 the trial court ordered Microsoft split in two to punish it, and prevent it from future misbehavior, however the Court of Appeals reversed the decision, removed the judge from the case for improperly discussing the case while it was still pending with the media. With the case in front of a new judge, Microsoft and the government settled, with the government dropping the case in return for Microsoft agreeing to cease many of the practices the government challenged. In his defense, CEO Bill Gates argued that Microsoft always worked on behalf of the consumer and that splitting the company would diminish efficiency and slow the pace of software development.
The National Football League earned a special antitrust exemption encoded in federal law as part of the AFL-NFL merger, in exchange for certain conditions, such as not directly competing with college or high school football.
Newspapers under joint operating agreements are also allowed limited antitrust immunity under the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, , et seq.
In addition, the petitioning for reduced competition is not considered a violation of antitrust laws and is considered legal under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.


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First class outcomes for GCSE results at Leek High School
Posted: August 22, 2013|
LEEK High School's Year Eleven students have produced some startling GCSE results for 2013.
Many of the youngsters excelled and several subjects had first class outcomes.
Two thirds of the students achieved at least five good GCSEs and almost a third got at least ten GCSEs at C or above.
Some individuals who stood out included: Anne-Marie Simcock who got 15 higher grades with 11 A/A*, Olivia Ferris got 14.5 higher grades with 10 A/A*, Rebecca Higton got 13.5 higher grades including nine at A/A*, Lorraine Taffeni was awarded 14 higher grades including 7 A/A*, Ryan Jones got 14.5 higher grades with 11 A/A*, Ben Farnworth got 13.5 including six at A/A*, Andrei Razoare achieved 13 higher grades including eight A/A*, and Ben Turrell got 14 higher grades of which 13 were A/A*.
Special mention should also go to Emily Osbourne who came into the school with prediction of grade E's and F's but achieved eight higher grades including three A/A*.
Headteacher, John Spencer said: "It is always good to see the able students doing so well but we also celebrate the efforts of youngsters who achieve their targets regardless, if an individual youngster's target was an E and they were awarded a D then they deserve praise.
"One hundred percent of our youngsters gained GCSE grades, over 90 percent achieved at a C and 98 percent achieved at least Level One in English and Maths.
"Amongst the subjects that have done well at Leek High are IT and sport – both achieved over 90 percent pass rates."


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More alarming was that a full 2.0% move in interest rates could cost us almost a third of our bond portfolio."
Bob Morse, client since 2009
For the last 15 years, the Morse's financial planner in Portland, Oregon did a fairly good job of recommending and managing a very conservative retirement portfolio. However, as retirement looms, the Morse's are asking more questions: How do you set up a cash stream for retirement? What about taxes? How will all this affect their estate? Is it possible to avoid paying taxes on Social Security? "Our financial planner was a good stock-broker, but not a comprehensive financial planner," said Bob Morse, who holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and has spent over 30 years running his own business and advising such major high-tech companies as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and others. "We barely understood the quarterly report that he reviewed and candidly, felt quite ignorant about most of our investments. We needed to get smarter advice and get smarter about our financial affairs."
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Look What You Got!
Pappy sees Elmer walking with a lantern and asks, "Where ya
going boy?"
The son smiled and replied, "I'm a-going courting Peggy-Sue."
The Father said, "When I went a-courtin', I didn't need me no
dang lantern."
"Sure Pa, I know." the boy said. "And look what you got !"
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i saw something dodgey with the tab
during solo it says 27th fret
as far as i'm aware there is no 27th fret
I saw that too....I think you should just bend the 24th fret up to match what the 27th would sound like...
Anyhow, you tabbed the awesome autro realy well,.


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(Australia 11 Jan 1911 – 30 Dec 2003)
35.1 x 40.7 cm sheet
This is the gum tree later immortalized by Nora Heysen's father Hans Heysen in his work. Nora Heysen remembers that it was she who first alerted her father to it.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003