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The rules can be found in the top section of every forum page. Specifically, look at the last sentence.I have provided you with the necessary information to formulate the correct answer to your own question in terms of the legal domain of this site. What do you think?
...It wouldn't have hurt to just tell me, you know.
I'd guess the trading aspect? Even the first GameBoys could be linked together. It wouldn't have made sense releasing different versions otherwise.
Thanks. ...I think I need a different emulator to play it. The rom I found didn't work on the emulator I had.
Wow, this actually does look good. Too bad I don't know Chinese.
Use FCEUX, that emulator can handle mapper 163. So can nester j and the Wii version of FCEUX.
Nesterj and VNES just don't work
Anyway, would you continue to translate all the text into Eng?
instead of using it to givethe NES more lifeblood, so to speak, at leastas far as Gen I is concerned.
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Hi :) I'd like to join, but this would be my first role-play and I'm not sure what the rules are. Do I simply create a character, post her to have it approved, and then jump in?
Spoiler: Click to Show/HideI spent so long reading everything about your roleplay I love it so much!Name : JadeneAge : Young AdultGender : FemaleMate : n/aRank : Hunter (aspiring Racija)Background : Born close to the end of Renyu's reign, Jadene was too young to remember much of the previous leader. She vaguely remembers him at best, and growing up learned more of Zuya's teachings, role, and his leadership. She flourished under it. She wanted to be the best of her siblings, the fastest, the most nimble, the strongest. Not to say she doesn't care for them, but oh, as she grew she prided herself on being better. From there, she watched the trackers for a long while, wanting to grow to be like them, but her dreams changed. They rarely got to hunt, they only followed, and who wanted to be the leading follower of followers? It sounded terrible, in her opinion, so moved her interests to hunting. Strategy, ferocity, the adrenaline that pumped her heart in her ears, oh that's what she lived for. What was better than bringing home dinner, knowing you made the kill? She aspires to be in charge of the hunt, and after that, who knows? Racija is just halfway up the ladder.Personality : Prideful, vain, yet coated in a soft and warm personality, Jadene likes to be well-liked and thought of as a good wolf. It feels like some sort of justification for her guilty pleasure. While hunting is a necessity, it feels like a sport, and in her heart, she treats it as one. It sustains the pack that's true, but oh, to bring in the kill feels like a trophy. She enjoys talking to the pack, teasing and spending time with them, and she's not above helping pack members with whatever they need help with, but she's also likely to disguise a demand as a polite request, because they have no official role, so they have the time to do other things. Despite all of this, she hardly mentions things about herself that don't include her role as a hunter. She just doesn't seem to share a lot about herself, and if she does, it's the bare minimum, leaving others questioning the validity of her statement. Extras : Thanks to Zuya's rule, she is very quick about showing any anger and aggression, not at all shameful or shy about it.Played By : Cascarones
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Tonight from 10-11pm, Golden Veins vocalist and Noising Machine c0-founder, Greg Goode, will be on the online music program Iowa's finest Music. Hosted by Tito McGee, every Tuesday evening, this program showcases the very best of Iowa's musical talent.
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I found this very disturbing local story while looking for updates on the cop who hit and killed a pedestrian, dragged his body under the police cruiser for over half a mile, then claimed he didn't know he had hit anyone.
Apparently a lot of young soldiers are making it through the war, and coming home only to die in their sleep unexpectedly. Even more strangely, this has happened three times within a three-week period, to three families in West Virginia who live within an hour of one another.
Is the Veterans Administration giving returning soldiers a fatal cocktail of medication for post-traumatic stress disorder? It certainly seems that way, since all three of these young men were taking the same drug cocktail. Healthy young men don't just die in their sleep. Something stopped their respiration while they were sleeping, and I'd guess it was the drugs they were prescribed combined with their disturbed sleep patterns.
I haven't heard anything about this in the national media. Is this a national epidemic? It's possible that it is, and journalists just haven't put the pieces together to realize that.
Clearly, anyone reading this who is taking that combination of drugs (or knows someone else who is taking it) needs to contact their doctor immediately.
"He would normally stay up watching TV at night because it was hard for him to sleep and I went ahead and went to bed. The next morning when I got up, I found him on the couch, he was in the same position he was in when he went to sleep and he was already gone," Layne said.
A soldier from Kanawha City, Eric Layne left behind an 18-month old son and a baby girl on the way.
Meanwhile, Logan County resident Cheryl Endicott's son Nicholas died January 29th while being treated at a military hospital in Bethesda.
He too reportedly went to bed and never woke up.
"They told me that at 10:55, they entered his room, he was non-responsive, had no pulse so they deceased him right then and there," said Endicott.
Finally, on February 12th Stan and Shirley White lost their son Andrew, another Kanawha County service member who stopped breathing in his sleep. For the Whites, it was the second son they said goodbye too. Robert White died while serving in Afghanistan.
"You're always expecting and fearing when your children are at war that they're not going to make it back. They don't come back and lie in their bed, go to sleep and die. That doesn't happen. That's not supposed to happen," Stan White said.
Each family heard about the others' tragedies and eventually compared stories.
All three men were in their 20s, served in Iraq and died in their sleep within a three-week period, but that's only the beginning of the similarities.
Each military man was being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and had started exhibiting the same strange behavior and symptoms.
"Excessive weight gain, anger management disturbed sleep patterns, tremors," White said.
The young men were each taking a number of prescription drugs before they died, but the combination they all had in common includes Paxil, Klonopin and Seroquel.
You can read the rest of this extremely disturbing article here.
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News & Notes: Game 130
Buffalo Bisons
70-59, 2nd(-7.5)
LHP Raul Valdes 1-1, 2.11
Pawtucket Red Sox
57-74, 4th(-21.5)
LHP Rich Hill 2-0, 3.82
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Coca-Cola Field – Buffalo, NY
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TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons host the Pawtucket Red Sox in the final game of a six-game in five-day series at Coca-Cola Field (7:05 p.m.). The Herd (2-3) is looking to salvage a split after last night's 7-3 loss. The Bisons are now 41-25 (.621) at home and 37-28 (.569) against IL North opponents. After this series the Herd starts a five-game roadtrip tomorrow in Syracuse.
WILD RACE: The Bisons did not lose any ground to the Clippers in the IL Wild Card race last night. Buffalo is two games behind Columbus, as the Clippers lost to Toledo 7-3. Louisville won last night and now leads Columbus by 1.5 games in the IL West division race.
vs. PAWSOX: The Bisons are 8-7 against Pawtucket this season. The Bisons are hitting .298 with 75 runs scored (5.0/game) against Pawtucket this season, led by INF RUSS ADAMS (.481, 13-27, 2HR, 8RBI), OF LUCAS DUDA (.382, 13-34, 2HR, 8RBI) and INF MIKE CERVENAK (.333, 18-54, 1HR, 5RBI).
HOT HITTER: INF RUSS ADAMS belted another two hits last night to extend his hit streak to nine-games. During the stretch, the slugger has hit .438 (14-32) with four homers, 12 RBI and nine runs scored. In 14 games in August, Adams has 12 extra-base hits and a 1.023 slugging percentage. His 26 doubles and 41 extra-base hits for the season lead all Bisons.
DUDA MATH: OF LUCAS DUDA hit two doubles last night. Since he joined the team on June 14, Duda's 40 extra-base hits are seven more than any other hitter in the International League. Duda also leads the IL in home runs (17), slugging percentage (.650) and total bases (152) and is second in the league in doubles (21) and RBI (53) since his promotion from the Binghamton Mets.
TALE OF TWO PENS: During the month of August, the bullpen has pitched 68.0 innings, posting a 3.04ERA and 1.24 WHIP. However, Bisons relievers have a 1.33ERA and a 1.11 WHIP in the 16 Buffalo wins this month and a 9.64ERA and 1.71 WHIP in the six Herd losses. In those victories, the bullpen has pitched 54.0 innings and allowed just two home runs. In the losses, the bullpen has tossed 14.0 innings and allowed three homers.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (63-62) defeated the Marlins last night, 6-5, in a walk-off victory. INF LUIS CASTILLO drove home former Bisons INF IKE DAVIS in the ninth inning to win the game. The two teams are back in action again tonight as former Bisons LHP PAT MISCH takes the hill for Mets at Citi Field at 7:05 p.m. The southpaw has posted a 3.00ERA in his first two starts with New York.
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November, 1893, Page: 8
Page Dimensions: 30.7 x 24.5 cms
Title: A briny tale
Date: 1893
Inscription: 1 page of text. Part of 7 pages of text with 3 pen and ink illustrations.
Keywords: symbolism; metaphor; sea stories; romances
Material: Pen and ink
Commentary: In this story natural phenomena, wind, waves and sea creatures are personified and socially stratified into royalty and 'plebs'. It is a typical fairy story with the expected 'happy ending'. The main protagonists are the heroine, Princess Froth, a passive, fearful, artistic maiden, protected by her powerful father King Ninth Wave; her suitor, the virtuous, handsome and dashing Prince Spray and his rival, the evil threatening Prince East Wind. Raeburn's reference to Velasquez, Rembrandt and Whistler indicates some of the major artists whom students at Glasgow School of Art were urged to emulate. The headpiece probably represents Prince Spray, the main illustration, Princess Froth and her young siblings Ripple and Swish, and the tailpiece, the 'happy ending', where Princess Froth and Prince Spray leave for their honeymoon on a dolphin's back.


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Reports indicate that Obama has willingly affronted public opinion, sound economics, and his political base of supporters by agreeing to make significant cuts to Social Security, health programs, education, and other programs while at the same time making some of the most odious benefits for the nation's financial elite permanent.
In a new deal—though certainly out of step with "the New Deal"—offered by the White House late Monday, President Obama showed that he'd rather cut health and social service programs for the nation's poor and elderly than allow tax rates for some of the nation's wealthiest individuals to go up.
Long holding that tax rates should go back to previous and modestly higher rates for all individuals making $250,000 or more, Obama has now given that popular promise away by offering to make the Bush tax cuts permanent for all those making $400,000 or less in exchange for a deal with Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner.
In addition, reports the Washington Post's Ezra Klein in his review of what may be in the final agreement, he says, the payroll tax cut, which middle class workers have enjoyed during the current economic down turn-- and what Klein classifies as "one of the most stimulative policies"--will be allowed to lapse. Klein called it "perverse" to do such a thing.
To make up for this loss of revenue, Obama has put cuts to Social Security benefits on the table by changing the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated. The change, known as the "chained CPI" which would alter the way payments are calculated, is a cynical ploy by the White House, say most critics, because politicians likely feel they can get away by calling it an "adjustment" rather than a "cut."
But make no mistake, say economists and experts, it's a cut. And, over the long-term, a significant one. As a recent brief by the Center for Economic and Policy Research explains:
Over time, changing to the Chained CPI would result in significant cuts to Social Security benefits: a cut of roughly 3 percent after 10 years, about 6 percent after 20 years, and close to 9 percent after 30 years. In addition, lower-income retirees would lose much larger proportions of their income than wealthy ones.
Progressives were rightly outraged by Monday's announced offer.
"Using the debt ceiling to hold the country hostage to exact otherwise unacceptable cuts in education and other vital domestic programs is disreputable policy and politics," said Campaign for America's Future co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey.
Their clear message to the Obama and other Democrats considering accepting this kind of economic plan: "No deal."
Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, which opposes cuts to the program, told the Huffington Post that moving to the chained CPI is terrible and painful policy. "Almost every elected official just spent an entire election season saying they wouldn't cut the benefits of those 55 and older. The truth is the chained CPI hits everyone's benefits on day one," he said. "It hits the oldest of the old and disabled veterans the hardest. If it wasn't being bandied about as being 'on the table,' I would guess that it was created as an office joke to see who could create the most noxious and offensive policy possible."
And as Richard Eskow, also from the Campaign for America's Future Blog, writes:
The deal being floated uses the sneaky "chained CPI" to cut Social Security benefits – a lot – for current and future recipients. This supposed "correction" in calculating annual cost-of-living increases makes an already-inadequate formula even less fair to the elderly and disabled.
It's a drastic cut, too: a 3.7 percent cut for the average 75 year old, a 6.5 percent cut for 85 year olds, and a 9.2 percent cut for 95 year olds.
As Rep. Keith Ellison noted in a press release, this backdoor benefit cut would result in a "$6,000 loss for retirees in the first fifteen years of retirement and adds up to a $16,000 loss over twenty-five years."
That's draconian, especially for a program that's not in immediate crisis and doesn't contribute to the deficit. And as we've written elsewhere, the "chained CPI" targets women, minorities, the very elderly, and the poor. It also his veterans and their families hard.
It's stunning that it's even being discussed.
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And the Social Security cut is just a sample of what else the President included in what will be widely viewed as unnecessary concessions to the Republicans.
As the Huffington Post reports:
Obama's offer would allow the payroll tax holiday to expire, meaning middle class workers will see smaller paychecks in 2013. Economists have warned that the recovery is too fragile to risk a broad tax hike on workers. It would also gradually reduce Social Security, pension and Medicare benefits seniors are due to receive, taking a small bite up front, but building up to much larger cuts over time.
Obama's concession to Republicans is opposed by a majority of Americans, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll. Fifty-two percent of survey respondents said the payroll tax cut should be extended to avoid raising taxes on the middle class, while 22 percent said that it should be allowed to expire to help pay down the debt. Extending the payroll tax cut received bipartisan support: 64 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of Republicans in the survey said they supported the extension.
Despite widespread opposition not only within his base, but among many Republicans and independent voters, a deal along these lines looks very close to being reached.
As the The New York Times reports: "The two sides are now dickering over price, not philosophical differences, and the numbers are very close."
Eskow, for his part, a deal with this kind of outline sends the exact wrong kind of messageby giving legitimacy to "right-wing myths" and repeatedly debunked economic talking points. He writes:
A deal like this would also distract the nation from the real sources of our economic difficulties – like wealth inequity, a shortage of good middle-class jobs, and the misdeeds of under-regulated banks and corporations.
No deal is acceptable that undermines our social contract — our common agreement to work together and help each other — as this one would. They've made us strong and prosperous and they must be protected.
To economic progressives, like Demos senior fellow Robert Kuttner, the reported offer from Obama fulfills the fears and worst-possible outcomes that they repeatedly warned against. That is, would Obama fall for victim, again, to Republican hostage-taking and make a terrible deal, caked in poor economics, simply to look like he was being "bi-partisan" and willing to compromise.
As Kuttner wrote just weeks ago, when Obama seemed to taking a firmer negotiating stance:
The budget deal of 2011—the one that created the automatic sequesters—has already taken $1.7 trillion out of domestic spending over a decade. There is almost nothing left to cut on the spending side of the equation, except Social Security and Medicare—which are not the prime drivers of the current deficit and which do not belong in this debate at all.
As Obama points out in his moments of resolve, we just had an election to decide whether to raise taxes on the rich, or to cut Social Security and Medicare. He won. The party that would favor the wealthy and sock the middle class yet again lost.
As the bargaining gets serious, the president has a very strong hand. But he needs to play it a lot better than he has been doing.
In that piece, Kuttner wondered if Obama could be "saved from his own impulses to cave in for the sake of splendid bipartisanship (and needlessly appeasing Wall Street)."
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I had a lot of fun with this party and the games were one of the best parts. I mentioned before that when the kids arrived they got all dressed up with pirate accessories like bandannas, sashes and swords, tattoos, hooks, eye patches, mustaches, and were given a pirate name. I was really excited about the pirate names! I came up with some lists using previous pirate names, nouns, adjectives, and other various pirate words. Then I separated the words into three lists for the first, middle, and last name. I cut up each word and put all the first names in one box, second names in another, and last names (boy & girl names were separated) in another. They each drew one name from each box and then I put them together and wrote them down on little name tags I made from clipart I found online. Here are some of them... Other names that also came up with were Black Plank Dooley, Bilge Beard Helga, Peg Strap Roberta, and Shark Teeth Patty, but my personal favorites were Shifty Breath Harvey, Dead Dog Bertha, and Sea Legs Gertrude. Everyone had a good laugh at their names! I saved the lists so if you ever want to try this for your party, just let me know.
Anyway, after all the kids got dressed up they all started to sword fight. It was so cute watching them play! The next activity was Walk The Plank. The kids played this while poeple were eating and Jack was getting the pirate ship setup. I found some red buckets and a swimming pool at WalMart and had David drill some holes in the bottom of the buckets. Then got some rope and a board from the hardware store. Then tied each end of the board to the bottoms of the buckets with rope.
I painted "walk the plank" on the middle of the board. For the game it was placed over the swimming pool and the kids had to walk over it as fast as they could without falling in. They all had a blast, and by the end they were jumping in! I found this amazing Jack Sparrow character online here, and he was local! So I asked Mason if he wanted Jack to come, he was beside himself! Jack is his favorite, and with his excitement I couldn't refuse (insert wink).
BONUS: He also has a giant pirate ship that he can bring with him that the kids can play on. The ship had a ladder to climb up and a slide off. The ship also had little cannons that had smoke coming out. Here Jack is showing the kids how to properly steer a ship. What can I say, Mason loved it! This guy was great! Never broke character, his language and his mannerisms were spot on! He posed for pictures with all the kids with all those facial expressions. After the kids were all done with the ship, we played the last game called Cannonballs Away. I got some large refrigerator boxes from the hardware store. I turned them inside out and painted them to look like ships. I even let Mason name them, of course he went with Pirate of the Caribbean. I also found black water balloons at a party store. Poor David spent like an hour and a half filling up about 150 of them! The teams were divided boys against girls, and Jack explained the rules. They had to throw cannonballs to try on sink the other team's ship. The first team to sink the other ship won. And away we go! Ship going down... (Oh and do you see Captain Jack hiding behind the tree) And it's sunk! Victory to the girls! The whole game lasted about 5 minutes, but was so worth it.
We had a kids from ages 1 to 11 at the party, but there was a little something there for all of them to enjoy. And what can I say about Jack... he was truly fabulous! Everyone loved him, even all the adults! They all just raved about how great of a job he did! And he was all about the kids, he even sat right next to Mason when he was opening his presents and talked with him about each gift. Again, you can find him online here.
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text: NCI-H1573 [H1573] (ATCC® CRL-5877™) Organism: Homo sapiens, human / Tissue: lung; derived from metastatic site: soft tissue / Disease: adenocarcinoma (stage 4) General Information Characteristics Culture Method Specifications History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits View Restrictions Organism Homo sapiens, human Tissue lung; derived from metastatic site: soft tissue Product Format frozen Culture Properties adherent Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Disease adenocarcinoma (stage 4) Age 35 years Gender Female Ethnicity Caucasian Derivation The line was established in December 1986. Clinical Data 35 years Caucasian female The patient received prior radiation therapy. The patient was a smoker. 15 pack years. Complete Growth Medium The base medium for this cell line is ATCC-formulated RPMI-1640 Medium, Catalog No. 30-2001.To make the complete growth medium, add the following components to the base medium: fetal bovine serum to a final concentration of 5% Subculturing Volumes used in this protocol are for 75 cm2 flasks; proportionally reduce or increase amount of dissociation medium for culture vessels of other sizes. Remove and discard culture medium. Briefly rinse the cell layer with Ca++/Mg++ free Dulbecco's phosphate-buffered saline (D-PBS) or 0.25% (w/v) Trypsin - 0.53 mM EDTA solution. Add 2.0 to 3.0 mL of Trypsin-EDTA solution to flask and observe cells under an inverted microscope until cell layer is dispersed (usually within 5 minutes). Note: To avoid clumping do not agitate the cells by hitting or shaking the flask while waiting for the cells to detach. Cells that are difficult to detach may be placed at 37°C to facilitate dispersal. Add 2.0 to 3.0 mL of complete growth medium and aspirate cells by gently pipetting. Transfer cell suspension to a centrifuge tube and spin at approximately 125 X g for 5 to 10 minutes. Discard supernatant. Resuspend the cell pellet in fresh growth medium. Add appropriate aliquots of the cell suspension to culture vessels. Incubate cultures at 37°C. Subcultivation ratio: A subcultivation ratio of 1:2 to 1:3 is recommended. Cryopreservation Freeze medium: complete culture medium described above supplemented with 7.5% (v/v) DMSO. Culture Conditions Temperature: 37°C Atmosphere: air, 95%; carbon dioxide (CO2), 5% STR Profile Amelogenin: XCSF1PO: 10,12D13S317: 11,13D16S539: 12D5S818: 11,13D7S820: 9,11TH01: 6TPOX: 8,11vWA: 17,18 Name of Depositor AF Gazdar, JD Minna Deposited As Homo sapiens Year of Origin 1986 References NCI-Navy Medical Oncology Branch Cell Line Supplement. J. Cell. Biochem. suppl. 24: 1996. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS Other Documentation Cancer cell line mutation data Restrictions The line is available with the following restrictions: This cell line was deposited at the ATCC by Dr. Adi F. Gazdar and is provided for research purposes only. Neither the cell line nor products derived from it may be sold or used for commercial purposes. Nor can the cells be distributed to third parties for purposes of sale, or producing for sale, cells or their products. The cells are provided as service to the research community. They are provided without warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, expressed or implied. Any proposed commercial use of the these cells, or their products, must first be negotiated with the National Cancer Institute (NCI). For further information, please contact NCI's Technology Transfer Center at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at (240)-276-5514. References NCI-Navy Medical Oncology Branch Cell Line Supplement. J. Cell. Biochem. suppl. 24: 1996.


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Google caused something of a stir by releasing its quarterly financials ahead of schedule – and the results aren't good.
Net income for the third quarter was $2.18bn, compared to $2.73bn this time last year, with non-GAAP income down to $3.01bn, compared to $3.18bn on the same time period. Overall revenues were up 45 per cent from last year's $14.1bn, the company reports.
Paid clicks were up 33 per cent on the quarter, although the average cost per click was down 15 per cent. Motorola continues to be a drag on the company, losing $527m in the quarter (we hope those patents are worth it) and restructuring costs were another $349 million, albeit with a $76m tax write-off.
The figures were revealed in an 8K SEC filing which appears to have been mistakenly released early, judging from "PENDING LARRY QUOTE" on the document. Google has reportedly blamed the early release on its printer, RR Donnelley.
Those sensible and level-headed types who occupy Wall Street promptly panicked at the early news, and Google's share price slumped 10 per cent before trading was stopped. Facebook's share price is also down on the news, with traders expecting collateral damage to the social networking giant.
Google's CEO Larry Page will be holding a conference call to discuss the situation at 1:30pm Pacific Time on Thursday – and, presumably, to explain himself. ®


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the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
I think all mothers have their own idea about what patience is. For some, it may be putting up with their son's terrible twos. And threes. And fours. Others find patience in the child that refuses to eat their food. Or use the potty. Or go to bed. But special needs mothers (or maybe just me, I don't know) know and live with a different kind of patience. The kind that is more raw, more organic, if you will. Because our patience is not for actions done, but for actions longed for. I long to hear my two year old say a word. ANY word. I long to see her take her first steps. I long for her to eat without throwing up. I have always thought of myself as a patient person (Cole is laughing at this. But when it comes to children, I really have always been patient!). When I was teaching preschool, I always tried to be slow to anger, quick to listen, loving always, and remember that they are, after all, just three year olds! Which was hard sometimes when there were 30 of them! But I learned so much from "my babies" about being a mommy- more than I ever realized at the time. Being patient when it comes to behaviour is one thing, a thing that *all* parents deal with and at times, struggle with. But patience in relation to your child's development and health is another thing entirely, I am learning.
My Angel Mommy Patience Lessons....
* Remembering that when someone says that "all two year olds do that." or "that medical procedure is no big deal.", they are just trying to be supportive and helpful and they really just don't get it at all.
* Knowing that the constant hair pulling and biting are signs of affection. (I think all Angel parents can agree 100% on this one!)
* Cleaning up vomit/spit up, for the 100th time that day, and reminding myself that it will eventually end. I pray. Can I get an AMEN!
* Remembering that people do not understand just how significant Angelman Syndrome is, nor can they understand the impact this has had and will have on our life.
* Not getting angry when people ask intrusive or hurtful questions, because they just want to understand.
* Keeping in mind that people who can't see how wonderful and glorious and amazing my daughter is are not intentionally ignorant. They have just never been taught otherwise.
* Reminding myself that doctors cannot go on the word of the mother alone. Even though I *told* her last week that Ava was getting an ear infection! Achem! Sorry. :)
* Remembering that Ava isn't the only patient needing to be seen at various clinics, and that is why we have to wait months. And months. And months.
*Understanding that someones child having something small wrong with them (in comparison to AS) doesn't mean that that parent is any less upset or worried about their child than I am about Ava.
As another special needs mom- and fellow blogger- once told me: the worse thing that ever happens to a person's child is the worst thing that ever happens to them. Truer words have never been blogged, I think.
I try very, very hard to be patient with everyone. Because I understand that everyone is dealing with something in their lives, and not everyone is as open or vocal about their struggles as I am. I am and always have been an open person, and I find that talking about Ava and Angelman Syndrome is a great coping method for me. People always remark about how well I am doing, how I am handling everything in stride. And for the most part, that is true. But I am still extremely hurt. And beyond sad and angry. I still weep at times. I still ache for my sweet Angel's life and the struggles she will face. Oh how I wish I could carry those burdens for her. I still cry out to God and question His decision to not heal our daughter. And you want to know a secret? I am okay with feeling all of those things. Some people might think that I am turning from God because I say that. But on the contrary, I feel closer to the Lord than I ever have in my life. Because I rely on Him so much more to get through the day. God is BIG. Big enough that I can lay all of my feelings and emotions at His feet. Come to him broken and beaten, weary of this thing that I never wanted in my daughter's life. In my life. And he can take me and breathe new life into me, and give me what I need to make it through the day. And He does! And for that, I am so thankful.
And I am beyond thankful for this sweet Angel!


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Archbishop Rowan Williams challenges myths over aid
Wednesday 13th June 2012The Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged the 'myths' around international development and praised the overseas aid budget for its remarkable value for money.
At a reception at Lambeth Palace to launch the new Christian Aid strategy paper Partnership for Change, Archbishop Rowan Williams spoke of the importance for the Church of working in partnership with development agencies to tackle poverty, inequality and fight the stigma of disease.
Dr Williams was speaking alongside Baroness Northover, the Government's spokesperson on International Development, who cited recent research revealing the substantial misconceptions held by the public over aid.
'Apparently people think we are currently spending 17.9 per cent of the Government's budget on aid,' said Baroness Northover. 'They think we should spend 7.9 per cent but in fact we are spending 1.1 per cent.'
Overseas aid alone is even lower than that, currently only 0.54 per cent with the Government promising to increase it to 0.7 per cent by 2013.
Dr Williams said: 'When people find out the facts they are often both shocked at how low the percentage is and staggered by the effectiveness of such a low figure. I think those two reactions are what we really want. The shock at how low it is and the sense that the value for money is actually immense and apparently disproportionate.
'The Government has loyally held to the benchmark agreed and I think deserves to be applauded for that.
'We need to challenge some of the myths around this and underline the value for money that our aid budget actually entails.'
Referring to Partnership for Change, which sets out the organisation's vision of working closely with churches, the private sector and the Government in tackling poverty, he said: 'I'm personally delighted at the renewed energy around building grassroots partnerships with the churches.
'What we're seeking to do together is to hold up before our society that vision of a world given to us in trust for one another. That vision that turns the language of debt on its head and asks what do we owe to those that are most destitute most powerless, most struggling.
'Because those are the ones to whom God himself behaves as if he owed a debt of love and respect because he holds nothing back from them. So can we respond in tune to that kind of generosity and that kind of vision?'
Christian Aid Director Loretta Minghella said churches had a unique ability to cross borders and be a force for global change.
'We look to our churches for prayer for those in poverty and all those who struggle against it; we look to our churches to redouble their efforts to stimulate a deeper understanding of a gospel of justice, of commitment to love our neighbours near and far, of the challenge to be sacrificial and prophetic,' she said.
'Churches can play a key role in building a new kind of multilateralism for these critical times, reaching out across denominations and to other faiths in global community.
'Because faith crosses time zones and geographical borders and reaches beyond the end of the road.'
Co-op Group Chairman Len Wardle said the private sector also had an important role to play in alleviating poverty.
'We aim to have an impact in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, poor people in the main, across the developing world each year. And with the support of our seven million members who can campaign with us in helping to tackle poverty and supporting our pioneering approach to fair-trade or make loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world we believe we can make an unparalleled impact.
'The challenge we face is to persuade other businesses that there is commercial advantage in defining the bottom line beyond the value of a shareholders dividend.
'Our mantra should be need not greed.'


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The next United Nations climate report will "scare the wits out of everyone" and should provide the impetus needed for the world to finally sign an agreement to tackle global warming, the former head of the UN negotiations said.
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks, said his conversations with scientists working on the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested the findings would be shocking.
"That report is going to scare the wits out of everyone," Mr de Boer said in the only scheduled interview of his visit to Australia. "I'm confident those scientific findings will create new political momentum."


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What is an FTZ?
A Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) is an economic incentives program created by the federal government to facilitate international trade. An FTZ is physically located within a nation's boundaries, but legally exists outside the Customs' area. The Southwest Missouri Foreign Trade Zone can include any business in a 23 county region in Southwest Missouri (shown in blue on the map).
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Vegetarian Stuffed Pepper Recipe
My husband whipped these up for us last week and they were so delicious! I could eat them every week! They tasted great reheated over the next couple days for lunches too. They are without a doubt the best vegetarian stuffed peppers I have ever had!
Makes 8 Stuffed Peppers
4 Large Green Bell Peppers
15 MorningStar Farms Veggie Sausage Patties
1 Tbsp Italian Seasoning
1 tsp Crushed Red Peppers (Optional)
1 tsp of Salt
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
3 Cloves of fresh Garlic (Minced)
2 Cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
¼ C of Grated Parmesan Cheese
2 C Marinara Sauce
Wash the peppers and remove their stems. Cut them in half from top to bottom and remove their seeds and veins. Boil the peppers in a large pot for 7-10 minutes, until slightly tender. Remove from the pot and drain. Microwave the sausage patties for 1 minute on each side. Then run the patties through a food processor to form a consistency similar to ground beef. In a large skillet, add 2 Tbsp of Olive Oil and sauté the garlic. Add the crumbled sausage patties and toss. After a couple of minutes, add the Italian Seasoning, Red Pepper, and Salt. Continue to sauté for a few minutes. Add the Parmesan Cheese and toss for a minute. Add 1 Cup of the Mozzarella Cheese and toss until the cheese has melted. Add the Marinara sauce and cook for another minute, then remove the skillet from heat.
Preheat the oven to 350. On a baking sheet, greased with Olive Oil, arrange the Peppers with the open side up, creating small bowls. Stuff the sausage mixture into each of the peppers. Top each evenly with the remaining 1 Cup of Mozzarella. Bake for 20-25 minutes.


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The Detroit Institute of Arts has committed $100 million over 20 years to a fund that would protect its art collection and shore up Detroit's underfunded pensions.In exchange for the contributions to the fund, the DIA will be spun off from the city and transferred to the nonprofit that operates it. The DIA's commitment works out to fundraising an additional $5 million per year, something Chairman Eugene Gargaro Jr. initially said was not attainable.
DIA commits $100M to fund to protect art, shore up Detroit pensions
"The DIA's management and volunteer leadership forthrightly agreed to accept this challenge, despite its difficulty and the many other fundraising commitments the museum manages annually," he said.The museum wants to be "a material participant in this effort" to facilitate the bankruptcy, to help the pensioners and to secure the future of the DIA, Gargaro said during an interview with Crain's Wednesday afternoon following a unanimous vote by the DIA board of dierctors.
There are nearly 50 people on the DIA board, but it was unclear how many voted to commit the $100 million.With $370 million committed so far by local and national foundations, and a $350 million contribution from the state, the fund would total $820 million. With the new commitment, the museum will need to raise $17 million each year. Gargaro said in mid-January that the DIA currently raises $12 million annually to supplement $23 million in millage revenue from Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties for its annual budget. To assist it in meeting its commitment to the fund, the DIA is talking with local corporations, Gargaro said. But it's also received calls from concerned individuals offering their own support to help the DIA meet the commitment, he said. All of the contributions to help the DIA meet its $5 million year commitment should be directed to a new special fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, rather than to the museum, Gargaro said. The new trust is separate from the museum's operations and also from another set up at the Community Foundation to take other contributions to shore up the Detroit pensions. The first fund was set up following a $5 million gift from Carol and Paul Schaap, a former chemistry professor whose work led to the founding of Southfield-based Lumigen. With the new commitment, the DIA will need to raise roughly the same amount as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which brought in $18.9 million in donations toward its $28.29 million in total revenue in fiscal 2013 ended Aug. 31. A smaller Detroit cultural institution, Michigan Opera Theatre, raised $3.4 million of its $11.1 million fiscal 2013 budget, with the difference coming from grants and revenue earned from ticket sales, facility rentals, its parking garage and concessions, communications coordinator Jillian Zylinski said in an email. This year it's set a goal to raise even more, with fundraising accounting for $3.8 million of its $11 million budget, she said. Gov. Rick Snyder continues to lobby for support for his plan to contribute $350 million in state support to the fund. That plan, which could include borrowing against Michigan's annual tobacco settlement funds, drew criticism from New York-based Fitch Ratings on Monday. Fitch said Snyder's plan snubs bondholders in favor of pensioners and could set a troubling precedent. The plan to include support from foundations, private donors, the DIA and possibly the state ultimately would need to be included as part of Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's plan of adjustment for the city. Gargaro said he does not expect the DIA's commitment to the fund to have any impact on the millage revenue it receives from Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. He's talked with county leadership and the heads of the three county arts authorities that administer the millage revenue and agreements with the DIA about the $100 million commitment, and they've been supportive, he said. "My sense of our communication is there would be no negative impact to the art authority agreements," from the new commitment, Gargaro said.
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Acquiring new USB 3.0 peripheral devices can sometimes be a double-edged sword for a network administrator. On the one hand, USB 3.0 provides faster and more flexible services to agency users. But on the other, connecting them can be an issue, because not every server in the network will be upgraded with USB 3.0 ports.One way to solve that problem would be with a new 3.0 hub from StarTech.
The ST7300USBM is a seven-port USB 3.0 hub that can either be wall-mounted or slid onto a DIN rail. At only 4.8 inches by 2.2 inches by 1.7 inches, it shouldn't be hard to find a place for it in even the most crowded network room. It has seven USB 3.0 A ports that feed into a single USB 3.0 B host connection.
The hub is compliant with the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 specification, supporting up to 5 gigabits/sec of bandwidth, but it's also backward-compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.x specifications, so it can support older USB peripherals or systems that lack USB 3.0 capabilities, the company said. The industrial-grade hub also comes in an impact-resistant metal casing, so it's durable enough for industrial settings.
StarTech offers the ST7300USBM for $143 in the United States, a good price for a durable network-room hub with this many USB 3.0 ports. As the demand for peripherals outpaces of the ability to keep servers up to date, hubs such as this could help admins stay ahead of the game.
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Whether it is sporting pink to call attention to breast cancer or wearing Lance Armstrong's yellow "Live Strong" bracelet, there are many ways to increase awareness for a good cause.
Now your dog can get in on the act as well.
Hero, a pet product line made especially for shelter and rescue dogs, is a vehicle to drive awareness for the 2 million to 3 million dogs who don't make it out of shelters every year, according to its website.
The mission of Hero is to change the perception of rescue dogs; giving them a brand and a name that they deserve. The company manufactures leashes and collars adorned with the words "Hero Dog." All the products are designed to grab attention and start a conversation about the plight of rescue dogs.
These dogs deserve a chance and Hero is raising money to help them. So go online and purchase a collar and leash for your dog. Tell anyone who asks how Hero is helping spread the word about the importance of adopting a dog from a shelter. Hero donates 10 percent of every dollar spent on its products to help shelters.
Hero is also raising money on Indiegogo.
Don't have a dog? Consider buying "The Hero Mutts with Wiggle Butts," a children's book written by Hero founder Amber Rhodes. The book is an inspirational tale designed to teach children to accept people and pets who are different while showing them how to become a Hero. Each book comes with a SuperHero cape that children will love.
"Getting kids involved with helping animals is something that is very important to me, and even more important for the animals," Rhodes said. "Children need to know that adopting from a shelter is better than getting a puppy at a pet store. We want kids to be a Hero for animals."
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Tennessee State junior running back Trabis Ward and sophomore cornerback Steven Godbolt were named adidas® Ohio Valley Conference Co-Offensive and Co-Defensive Players of the Week on Sunday.
Ward carried the ball 43 times for 267 yards (6.2 ypc) and four
touchdowns as Tennessee State improved to 7-0 on the season, making the
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victory at Southeast Missouri. The 267 yards and four touchdowns were
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Among all FCS performances this season, the 43 carries were the most,
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It's is the second time that Ward has won Co-Offensive player of the week honors. He shared the award on September 10 for his three touchdown performance vs. Jackson State. He is also the first TSU player to win offensive player of the week more than once in a season since Antonio Heffner in 2008.
Ward shares the honor with quarterback Derek Carr from UT Martin.
Godbolt had four tackles (three solo) and returned an interception 62 yards to setup a key touchdown early in the fourth quarter. With the Tigers holding onto a 20-14 lead and the Redhawks driving late in the third quarter, Godbolt picked off Scott Lathrop and returned the ball 62 yards to the Southeast Missouri 26-yard line. Five plays later Ward scored from four yards out to give TSU a 26-14 advantage. Overall it marked the fourth interception of the season for the sophomore, who is ranked seventh nationally with 0.57 interceptions/game, and marked just the second time all season that Lathrop had been picked off.
This is the first OVC defensive player of the week award for Godbolt, who shares the honor with fellow DB Thad Williams from UT Martin.
It's the fifth time this season that the Tigers have had an OVC player of the week.
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pleased find my resume- please
plenteous opportunities- I'd change this to something like 'numerous'
I have successfully worked- past tense
Yours Sincerely- no need to capitalise 'sincerely'
Good luck
Hi, everyone,
I am seeking a legal assistant position found on the internet. But, I am not sure whether my application letter showed below is good enough to attract the recruiter's attention. So, I hope you can give me some advice. Any advice would be highly appreciated.
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I would like to apply for the Legal Assistant position advertised in craigslist.com. Attached pleased find my resume.
My extensive legal practice experience and strong academic background has confirmed my interest in law and legal service. I have served as a Law Clerk to a Chief Judge of Linyi City Intermediate Court, a federal court in China, where I gained valuable organizational, administrative, and writing experience. My work was so highly admired that, after clerking for only fifteen months, I was appointed to be a Judge to hear complex retrial cases. My trial practice included civil cases, commercial cases, and criminal cases, which provided me plenteous opportunities to sharpen my legal and communication skills. I also have been employed as a part-time lawyer at Zhengtong Law Firm (Beijing, China) for around two years while I was pursuing my Masters degree. I am proud that I handled eighteen cases and never lost one.
Aside from holding a Masters degree in law and a Bachelors degree in law, I received my paralegal certificate from Capital University Law School Paralegal Program (Columbus, Ohio), one of the best paralegal training programs in the country. Through my course work, I gained the requisite knowledge and experience as a legal assistant, including contract law, corporate law, and legal research and writing.
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Professor Pallas's Inept, Irresponsible Attack on DCPS
Last week, Columbia University sociologist Aaron Pallas savaged the DC Public Schools IMPACT teacher evaluation system in the Washington Post's "The Answer Sheet" blog, attacking the teacher evaluation system as "idiotic" and based on "preposterous" assumptions. Pallas asked, "Did DCPS completely botch the calculation of value-added scores for teachers, and then use these erroneous scores to justify firing 26 teachers and lay the groundwork for firing hundreds more next year?" He asserted, "According to the only published account of how these scores were calculated, the answer, shockingly, is yes."
At the same time, however, Pallas was forced to concede, "Value-added scores may have been misused in the termination of 26 teachers... [but] I cannot be sure that this is what happened." Indeed, Pallas acknowledged that he never even tried to ask DCPS how the system works and based his attack on a bizarre distortion of what DCPS does. As one academic observed, "If you read Pallas's critique, he says, 'I don't really know what DCPS did but, if they did this, it would be bad.' He'd be right, it would be bad. But they did nothing like what he said."
Pallas's WaPo piece extended the confused analysis that he first offered in his "Sociological Eye on Education" blog for the Hechinger Institute's Hechinger Report. (Full disclosure: I'm on the advisory board for the Hechinger Report and contribute occasionally to "Answer Sheet"--although these are rather ironic affiliations at the moment).
The background: A week ago Friday, DCPS fired 165 teachers for performance reasons. Another 700-odd teachers were deemed "minimally effective" and given probation. These teachers were evaluated using DC's pioneering IMPACT system. IMPACT is the fruit of a longtime collaboration between DCPS and the ubergeeks at Mathematica Policy Research. Of the 165 teachers dismissed for "ineffective" performance, value-added student achievement data factored in the evaluation of 26 (the other 139 teachers taught in subjects and grades for which value-added data weren't available). Pallas's attack on DCPS focuses on these 26. For those 26, fifty percent of their evaluation was based on the value-added metrics, forty percent on five structured classroom observations (three by their principal and two by floating "master educators"), five percent on contribution to the school community, and five percent on school-level value-added. Folks in DCPS tell me that faring abysmally on the value-added alone wouldn't suffice to get anyone fired; teachers also had to scrape bottom on the classroom observations.
There are three egregious problems with Pallas's critique. Whether they are due to ineptitude or malice is tough to say.
First, Pallas never tried to find out how IMPACT worked before blasting it. According to his account, he simply found the layman's description intended for DC teachers on the web and treated it as a technical explanation of the system that the value-added specialists at Mathematica and in DCPS's data shop had designed. I'm puzzled why Pallas was in such a hurry to attack that he didn't even try to be sure he understood his target. I contacted Pallas to ask whether he had ever even attempted to get in touch with DCPS or Mathematica. He responded, "I relied on materials published on the DCPS website, Mathematica's website, and other relevant materials I found on the Internet." Pallas had time to include eight links in his follow-up WaPo post but couldn't be bothered to call or email DCPS.
Second, Pallas baldly mischaracterizes how the IMPACT system uses value-added data. Pallas wrote, "The procedures described in the DCPS IMPACT Guidebook for producing a value-added score are idiotic." He asserts, "According to the DCPS IMPACT Guidebook, the actual growth is a student's scaled score at the end of a given year minus his or her scaled score at the end of the prior year. If a fifth-grader received a scaled score of 535 in math and a score of 448 on the fourth-grade test the previous year, his actual gain would be calculated as 87 points. Subtracting one score from another only makes sense if the two scores are on the same scale. We wouldn't, for example, subtract 448 apples from 535 oranges and expect an interpretable result. But that's exactly what the DC value-added approach is doing: Subtracting values from scales that aren't comparable."
The problem: This isn't what DCPS does. In fact, this isn't what anybody does. Pallas is critiquing an illustration intended to help classroom teachers understand the concept of value-added. The straw man Pallas so earnestly assaults has nothing to do with the IMPACT system that DCPS uses--or with value-added models used by any credible organization. Stanford University economist Rick Hanushek, who's been a technical advisor on IMPACT, said, "DCPS is very concerned about fairly attributing learning gains to teachers...[and] has developed a sophisticated statistical model to account for a variety of non-teacher factors that could affect gains, including student mobility, test error, family background, English language proficiency, and special education status. These models are not the sole determinant of teacher performance, but are part of an elaborate evaluation system that DCPS has pioneered." Hanushek observed, "Some academics are so eager to step out on policy issues that they don't bother to find out what the reality is."
Third, Pallas points out the importance of "vertical scaling"--that test scores be comparable from one grade to the next if gains over time are to be fairly calculated. He wrote, describing the DC Comprehensive Assessment System (DC CAS), "In grade four, the minimum possible scaled score is 400, and the maximum possible scaled score is 499. In grade five, however, the minimum possible scaled score is 500, and the maximum possible scaled score is 599...A fourth-grade student who got every question on the fourth-grade math assessment correct would receive a lower scaled score than a fifth-grade student who got every question wrong...That sounds ridiculous, but it's not problematic if the scale for fourth-grade performance is acknowledged to be different from the scale for fifth-grade performance." But, Pallas goes on to assert, this means those results can't be used to calculate value-added.
Pallas is seemingly unaware that every value-added effort is premised on making the requisite "apples-to-apples" adjustments in reliable and valid ways, and that there's a growing industry that specializes in doing precisely this. For Pallas to imagine he's flagging an overlooked challenge is bizarre, as is his assumption that no one in DCPS or Mathematica has acquainted themselves with the psychometric properties of the DC CAS. As one DCPS analyst said, "The idea that a firm like Mathematica wouldn't do its homework on the properties of the test and wouldn't understand the model is just crazy. All I can figure is that Pallas doesn't understand anything about the value-added space." (Now, if Pallas wants to argue that meaningful vertical scaling is, for all practical purposes, a pipe dream, and that attempting to calculate value-added learning is a fool's errand, he ought to say so. Of course, that means going toe-to-toe with the experts working on value-added models. I imagine it's more fun to just kneecap DCPS from the sidelines).
Even with a vertically scaled score, you would never try the simple subtraction exercise that Pallas imagines. Any competent analyst would seek to adjust for summer fall-off, fade-out, and a slew of other factors that could systematically bias results. For Pallas to imagine that Mathematica would not recognize or not address these challenges is hard to fathom.
Let's be clear. Is it possible that individuals will be treated unfairly when judged by five observations by two different people over the course of a year and on the basis of the adjusted performance of their students? Of course it is. No evaluation system is ever perfect, or perfectly fair. And I've urged sensible caution when adopting value-added systems for just that reason. If Pallas was flagging real problems with the design or implementation of IMPACT, that would be a useful contribution. But for him to wildly mischaracterize a careful attempt to engineer a thoughtful evaluation system is nothing short of scurrilous.
As for Professor Pallas, he wants it both ways. He wants the credibility afforded an academic expert without having to uphold academic norms of research, reason, or evidence. If he had contacted DCPS and was ignored or stonewalled, that'd be one thing. But Pallas didn't even try. Make a choice, pal. If you want the perks and the podium that come with being an academic, then act the part.


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The Pirate's Gospel yo-ho-hos and arrghs its way through 11 tracks in just over 30 minutes. Rest assured there are no harps, no cracked, shape-shifting hysterics and no appearances by Rev. Banhart. And that's just fine — Lady Diane keeps her trains running on time, each individual song blending into the Gospel's mainframe like hot wax cooling and settling into the confines of a nearly spent scented candle.
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