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The new Citroen C3 Picasso MPV will receive new updates from 1November.
The car on the road is now available with a new Euro 5 HDi 110 engine and 6-speed transmission alongside the addition of a Connecting Box (USB and Bluetooth connectivity) as standard specification on VTR+ and Exclusive trim levels. Citroen has also introduced a new limited edition to the MPVs line-up - the C3 Picasso BLACKCHERRY.
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Crosslinking of membrane-bound immunoglobulins, which are B-cell antigen receptors, causes proliferation and differentiation of B cells or inhibition of their growth. The receptor-mediated signaling involves tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins and rapid activation of Src-like kinases. The amino acid sequences of five proteolytic peptides of p75, a major substrate of protein-tyrosine(s) in the signaling, showed that p75 is the human HS1 gene product. The HS1 gene is expressed specifically in hematopoietic cells and encodes p75HS1, which carries both helix-turn-helix and Src homology 3 motifs. p75HS1 showed rapid tyrosine phosphorylation and association with a Src-like kinase, Lyn, after crosslinking of membrane-bound IgM. Thus, p75HS1 may be an important substrate of Lyn and possibly other protein-tyrosine kinases upon B-cell antigen receptor-mediated signaling.
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Senators passed a bill to change state law to respond to a court ruling that determined pit bulls are "inherently dangerous" animals.
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The bill addresses an April decision by Maryland's highest court that created a breed-specific, strict-liability standard for owners of pit bulls or pit bull breeds.
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I know this is thinking WAY to far in the future, but just for the discussion, what do you think will happen AFTER the Wii? Will Nintendo keep with the motion sensor? SHOULD they keep with the motion sensor? Will there be something new after that even? Some people won't like me for this topic because the Wii hasn't even come out. But think about it. What will Nintendo possibly do to astound us again?
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You know, I've always dreamt about a console like that. A console that could detect your brainwaves and it can tell what you want it to do. But that would sort of defeat the purpose of getting physically involved in the game. You would walk into your friends house and see people just sitting on the couch SEEMINGLY watching television. But it ISN'T television. It's them playing a video game and kind of just yelling at the tv.Originally Posted by Mitch2025
All your wii are belong to mii.
i think gaming is going to die out.
"what will be next?"
If i knew that i wouldn't have to save up to buy a wii... I'd be too rich!
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Can't say,
If Wii fails then Nintendo will probaly just stick with handhelds, the thing their best with.
If Wii is a great success then well, probaly something like the Wii, but up-to-rival graphics, tons of more features, and included feedback, like if people don't like the self-insert disc tray (just an example, i dont even know why ps3 or 360 havent done this genius idea) then for the next one they wont use a self-inserting disc tray.
We shall see what happens.
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Yes, and it's things like the Wii and DS that keep it alive and make it grow, people will get bored, and are bored, of the same old games, just different plots, animations and what not. I say if we go 20 more years with the same old things, it will die, and the only thing left would probaly be MMORPGS. (don't ask)Originally Posted by Jakobthelyre
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I don't know if gaming would completely die out. If it DID it would have to be at the beginning of a new generation of kids because a generation that already has games most likely loves to play them. I currently love video games. And if that generation just stopped making new video games, the abrupt transition would make everyones' head implode. Not cool.
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Ron Sparks spent the last Saturday of campaign 2010 on familiar turf for a Democrat. Robert Bentley spent his last Saturday on the campaign trail on unfamiliar ground for a Republican.
For both men, it was the same ground -- Legion Field in Birmingham -- for the 69th edition of the Magic City Classic football game between Alabama State University and Alabama A&M University.
For Sparks, Saturday was about motivating a key constituency of the Democratic base, black voters. For Bentley, it was about trying to broaden the appeal for him and his party among voters who normally give their votes to Democrats in large numbers. If experts are right, those voters will have to turn out in big numbers and vote for Sparks if he is to beat Bentley, whom most polls show with a comfortable lead.
"At this point, yes, it is about getting your voters to the polls," Sparks said as he darted from person to person outside Legion Field, shaking hands, exchanging hugs and posing for pictures with those happy to meet him, such as Darrell Harris of Montgomery.
"He's for the people, all the people," Harris said of Sparks. "I like the courage he has. He's for legalizing gambling, and in a state like Alabama with the influence of the churches, that takes guts."
Sparks posed for a photo with 12-year-old Galen White of Birmingham, who recently completed a school report on him.
"I had to write about him, about his job as agriculture commissioner and about his qualifications for governor," said the Green Acres Middle School seventh-grader.
As Galen posed with Sparks, his mother, also named Galen White, snapped the picture.
"I like what he (Sparks) stands for, and I'll vote for him and not just because he's a Democrat," White said. "I think President Barack Obama needs a good team to support him around the country, and I like the fact that Ron Sparks supports the president and doesn't run away from him like so many are doing right now."
Sparks wasn't making any prediction Saturday about Tuesday's election but said he believes he has momentum.
"I see it everywhere I go, on the faces of everyone I talk to -- we're in this race," Sparks said. "If we get our voters to the polls, I'll take my chances. We've got this race down to single digits. I know it, and Dr. Bentley knows it."
Whatever Bentley knows, the information does not seem to alarm him at all. With just a few more days left in a campaign that for both men has lasted 18 months, Bentley sounds calm and confident, even as he campaigns among voters that are not likely to cast ballots for him in significant numbers.
Asked if his appearance at the Classic is evidence that he feels his lead is so large that he can spend a day in traditional Democratic Party territory instead of GOP territory, Bentley chuckled.
"Our polls look good right now, but that's not why I came to Birmingham and to the Classic," Bentley said. "Are most of the people here going to vote for me? Probably not, but I think more will than most might realize. But that's not the point either. If I win, I'm going to be governor of all the people of Alabama. This state has an unlimited future, but to realize it, we all have to work and live together and treat each other with respect, and that means listening to those who don't always agree with you. Somebody doesn't have to vote for me for me to respect what they think."
William Donald of Mobile shook hands with Bentley Saturday and was happy to meet him.
"I'm glad he came," Donald said. "It showed respect for the tradition the Classic is and respect for the two schools and really a kind of culture that you don't see a lot of Republicans making an attempt to learn about."
So, is Donald voting for Bentley?
"Oh no. I'm voting for Sparks because I think whether we like it or not, gambling isn't going away and we should tax it and make sure crooks don't run it, and I hope Sparks will do that," Donald said.
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Syracuse, NY -- Months after his client pleaded guilty to draining the brokerage account of former Pyramid executive Richard Pietrafesa, attorney John Parrinello continued to dispute how much Mary Jo Vasile should pay back.
Vasile, 39, was sentenced Monday to five years probation, but Judge William Walsh held off on ordering her to repay the more than $300,000 Assistant District Attorney Mary Gorman said Vasile stole.
Gorman said Vasile owed $282,918.49 in addition to $30,000 she had already repaid to Matthew Paulus, a friend of Vasile's. Paulus repaid about $55,000 to Pietrafesa to cover funds taken from Pietrafesa's account to pay bills for Paulus and Vasile.
On Monday, Parrinello said he and his client went over Paulus's bills and found some had nothing to do with Vasile. He mentioned a $5,000 Armani suit, a trip to Italy and restaurant meals.
Walsh said he would settle the restitution question by looking over documents from Gorman and deciding how much Vasile needed to repay. Under the terms of the plea deal under which Vasile was sentenced, she cannot appeal her five years of probation, but could appeal Walsh's restitution order.
Despite her guilty plea, Vasile has not stopped saying Pietrafesa, 54, gave her permission to make withdrawals from his private brokerage account. The two worked together at Pyramid from March 2008 to June 2009.
Pietrafesa left the company this spring, shortly after The Post-Standard reported Vasile had been charged with stealing from his account.
Pietrafesa told police he did not give anyone permission to use his account.
Following Vasile's sentencing on a charge of second-degree grand larceny, Gorman explained that Pietrafesa has been repaid for his loses by Bank of America because it was a Bank of America account Vasile paid down with Pietrafesa's money. Ultimately, she said, whatever restitution Vasile pays will be to Bank of America.
Vasile is looking for work in the Rochester area, Parrinello said, and he asked Walsh to have Vasile's probation overseen by Monroe County officials.
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William Eggleston's pioneering video work "Stranded In Canton" has been restored and reformed by Mr. Eggleston in collaboration with film-maker Robert Gordon and is finally available, almost thirty-five years later.
The book from Twin Palms Publishers contains forty frame enlargements from the digital re-master, a brief appreciation from filmmaker Gus Van Sant, and a DVD of the 77-minute film itself, along with more than thirty minutes of bonus footage and an interview with Mr. Eggleston and Mr. Gordon conducted at the Toronto Film Festival.
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Haus der Kunst, Munich
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One of the most influential photographers of the last half-century, William Eggleston has defined the history of color photography. This exhibition will be the artist's first retrospective in the United States and will include both his color and black-and-white photographs as well as Stranded in Canton, the artist's video work from the early 1970s. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States as well as to the Haus der Kunst in Munich following its New York presentation.
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The bear was trapped in a live trap by DNR, said spokesman Bruce Nunn.
The bear was removed from the area.
The Town of New Glasgow had been told about the bear by a resident who saw it at the Off Leash Dog Park, located across the street from the former John Brother MacDonald Stadium.
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Right about now, in a place unknown, Yankee GM Brian Cashman has a smile ear to ear.
For the first time, Joba Chamberlain is making Cashman look good.
Over the last year or so, ever since the Yankees converted Chamberlain from a reliever to a starter, there's been plenty of buzz over whether the Bombers made the right move. Fans on both side of the fence have certainly made good arguments, but through good and bad, the Yankees have stayed the course in keeping the big right-hander in the rotation.
And last night, he displayed why it might just be the right move.
Chamberlain went eight innings for only the second time of his career, shuting down Tampa after allowing three hits and just two walks in the Yanks' 6-2 win. Joba improved to 7-2 and lowered his ERA to a solid 3.58. He's a far cry from that horrendous performance he put on against the Mets on June 12.
The only problem now is what's going to happen when Chamberlain hits his innings limit, which is apparently 150. After last night's outing, Chamberlain is at 110 2/3 innings. There's two months left in the regular season and, clearly, Joba has established himself as the Yanks' No. 3 starter.
Something's got to give and it's going to be big-time interesting to see how the Yankees handle this. Do they scrap the innings-limit plan? Convert him to a reliever to cut down on his innings?
I say the heck with the innings limit. It's time to stop babying him. Can you imagine if they had this type of plan for Whitey Ford or Allie Reynolds? It's ridiculous. He's throwing well. He's confident. He's injury-free.
Now is not the time to start toying with our recent success. And just who are they going to replace him with anyway, Jason Hirsh???
I know it's only three straight solid starts. I know he's young and things can change in a New York minute. But the Yanks have to ride the wave with Joba now and if they don't, they better have a better alternative.
Brian Bruney? Wow. Talk about falling off the face of the earth. He can't find the strike zone and when he does, it's batting practice. He's got two months to right the ship. If the Yanks are going to make the playoffs and do some damage in October, they're going to need him contributing.
Lastly, I hate dwelling on the past, but now that we're 3 1/2 games up on the Sox, I can't help but think about where we'd be if we had won, say, just two of those eight games we lost to them earlier this season.


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LOS ANGELES -- For the second time in three games, Detroit Pistons coach Lawrence Frank faced questions about juggling lineups. But this time was more pointed and more detailed. And this time, he didn't discount the possibility or react incredulously.
The Pistons competed and held double-digit leads their first two games. Not so Sunday, when the previously winless Los Angeles Lakers minced them 108-79, a game the Pistons trailed by 21 points after one quarter and by as much as 36 in the third.
The problem isn't the bench, it's a starting group that was outscored 81-27 by the Lakers' starters, which Frank dubbed "a hell of a disparity" and which only stirs the pot of change.
After facing questions about changing starting lineups following a loss to Phoenix, Frank on Sunday didn't make any promises to that end, but also didn't dismiss it.
"I think it will happen in time, once it's earned and once it's based on merit," he said. "Look, a lot of things can change. Every day, there's moves that are made. We'll continue to look at it."
The 0-3 Pistons' starting guards, Brandon Knight and Rodney Stuckey, combined for two points. Stuckey was 0 of 6 from the floor, leaving him at 1 of 23 for the season.
The biggest problem is that the Pistons' three youngest starters, Knight, Stuckey and Greg Monroe, haven't played well. Elder statesmen Tayshaun Prince and Jason Maxiell, the starters fans most want to see replaced, are doing their parts to hold together the starting group.
"We'll continue to evaluate and look at it," Frank said. "We comb through this thing very, very closely, and we also have a vision for this team in terms of where we want to go. We know this is a building group. It's unacceptable to get your doors blown off but we did. And yet, we know we are a young, building group. There's a big disparity between us and the Lakers.
"That said, they (the Lakers) just played hard. They played hard. They left it all out there. They're sitting in the locker room and they've got nothing left. That's what everyone should be doing. I think everyone has the right intent to start the game. But once they really kicked us, we didn't do what we needed to do in terms of a response."
Frank called the game "total domination" and "a TKO," leaving Prince to acknowledge that the starters have very little cohesion and decisions on player rotations are up to the coach -- and up in the air.
"Even though I'm playing in the game, I can't see everything that's going on," Prince said. "But it's up to him. Obviously, right now, even though it's early, the second group have a better offensive flow than the first unit."
Frank likened the Pistons to a Broadway show in which some of the actors are botching their roles and said when things go bad, "we lose our poise and our discipline."
"I don't want to broad stroke it," he said. "We're just talking about tonight. Tonight was unacceptable, as a team. It was unacceptable. It can't happen."
The Pistons continue their six-game swing through the Western Conference with a game Tuesday at Denver, the first of four games in five nights.
"Once the emotion wears off and we assess the game, we'll figure out where we move forward from here," Frank said. "But I'm not, still, contrary to what you may want, I'm not willing to Armageddon the team."
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Residents who live in and along Eden Isles, Oak Harbor, Clipper Estates, U.S. 11 and Lakeview Drive near Slidell will be without water service Thursday while Coast Waterworks repairs a leak along Marina Drive.
After starting work on the leak Monday, the company determined that it needed to fabricate a longer repair clamp, which is being created in Texarkana, on the Texas-Arkansas border.
Residents should bring water to a rolling boil for one minute before using it once the repair is complete and continue to boil their water until further notice, officials said.
For more information, contact Coast Waterworks at 985.641.7932.


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SPRINGFIELD -- A Springfield man arrested Monday was ordered held without right to bail after pleading not guilty to the 1991 murder of 90-year-old Myrtle Marrett.
Police Department records show that Faustino Diaz, 54, of 490 Chestnut Street, was arrested on Monday afternoon on charges of murder and aggravated rape.
Marrett was found beaten to death in her apartment at Wright Town Houses, an elderly housing complex off Union Street, on Jan. 20, 1991.
Marrett's body was found in her apartment by a relative at about 11 a.m. on Jan. 20, 1991.
Marrett was found "beaten severely about the face and head," police said at the time. She was apparently slain sometime during the night. Marrett lived alone in the apartment at Walnut and Union streets.
Residents of the complex said after the murder they were shocked to hear of the nature of their friend's death. They said Marrett was an outgoing, religious person. She had been a widow for 16 years at the time of her death.
Hampden District Attorney Mark G. Mastroianni said Diaz was a maintenance worker at the housing complex where Marrett lived.
He said police reinvestigating the case got a DNA sample from Diaz recently and found a match to fluids found at the murder scene.
The Marrett case is among a group of unsolved cases the Hampden District Attorney's Office has been re-examining because of a potential to benefit from new technological and scientific advances, Mastroianni said.
For Springfield cases, the DA's office coordinated efforts with Police Commissioner William Fitchett to have two detectives assigned to each case, according to a statement Mastroianni released Tuesday morning. Mastroianni identified and selected a small number of cases through consultation with detectives and a review of files. A prosecutor was assigned to work with two detectives in each case.
According to Mastroianni's statement:
"As efforts in unsolved cases require significant time, the District Attorney's office had the assigned detectives work primarily on overtime hours and paid the overtime from drug forfeiture and other D.A. funds as available. Agreements were made with the Commissioner with the understanding that the D.A.'s office would monitor the hours and specific investigative needs relative to each case. Budget cuts to the police department made police department funding unrealistic and not sustainable. This was an innovative and cooperative way to put available D.A. funds, including those from drug forfeiture, to good use in assisting law enforcement.
This program started last spring and Lt. Thomas Kennedy and Detective Anthony Pioggia from the Springfield Police Department were specifically assigned to this case. These detectives made significant investigative accomplishments which led to these developments in the Marrett case. The Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab and its DNA Unit were very involved and contributed to a large degree with the investigation."
This is a developing story. Updates will be posted to MassLive.com as our reporting continues.
UPDATE: Fernando Diaz agreed to give DNA sample to police in new investigation of 1991 murder


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MOSS POINT -- Students across Moss Point are collecting academic supplies and holiday items to send to a New York school ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Donations will be collected until Dec. 14 then delivered to students at Elias Bernstein Intermediate School on Staten Island, New York, according to teacher Sheri Andrews at Magnolia Junior High and Stephanie Packer, district communications director.
"We hope, at this time of devastation, it will raise the morale of the students," said Andrews, who wants to help students and teachers get back to some normalcy. "Anyway we can raise their morale and get them back to the learning process, that's our whole goal."
Packer said Sandy's Holiday Backpacks of Hope serves as the Moss Point School District's holiday community service project. The drive is meant to focus on children, and will help students living on Staten Island enjoy the Christmas holiday.
"We are trying to collect any type of Christmas items, or holiday season items that they can give to these children," said Packer. "We want to do it because they came down every year to give to our children."
New York City firefighters canceled their annual toy delivery to Jackson County this year because of the devastation from Sandy in the Northeast. Instead, the firefighters plan to provide toys to families in the hurricane area.
Andrews said monetary donations will be used to purchase items that will fill the backpacks for the students, similar to the national Backpack Buddy program that supplies food to needy children during weekends.
Andrews said the Moss Point drive also includes academic supplies, which students at Magnolia began collecting as part of a school drive. They combined their efforts with the district's plan to provide toys for the New York children.
The teacher said Backpacks for Hope is spearheaded by students of the Superintendent's Advisory Council, and led by the junior high students because they lost their school during Hurricane Katrina. "They know first-hand how hard it is to rebuild a school," said Andrews.
Packer agreed. "The whole district is going to rally to this. Our students are leading the way; they are storing it, wrapping it."
Packer said the all students, teachers, district personnel, community organizations and residents are involved in the drive. First and second-graders at Kreole Primary School are making holiday cards to be included in the backpacks.
Items may be donated at Moss Point's Kreole Primary, East Park Lower Elementary, Escatawpa Upper Elementary, Magnolia Junior High, Moss Point High School, Moss Point Alternative Center, and the school district administrative office.
At present, organizers do not have a student count at the Staten Island school, but Packer said they are collecting donations for the families of the students, who also have siblings. "During the collection process we are considering all ages. It's not just affecting one student. It's a family," she said.
The communications director said the school district also has reached out to fire and police department chiefs and the mayor of Moss Point, which is also accepting donations at the old fire station downtown to send to victims of Hurricane Sandy.
As well, the district is working with sororities and fraternities, Moss Point High Alumni Association, Magnolia High School Alumni Association, Jackson County Ministerial Alliance, and other community service organizations.
Packer that while students are the focus of the school district drive, it does not take away from collection efforts by Moss Point officials to provide blankets, construction tools, food, household supplies, clothing and other items.
Hurricane Sandy formed in the Caribbean on Oct. 22 and hit nine countries including Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Bermuda, United States and Canada.
In the U.S., the superstorm struck states along the eastern seashore from Florida to Maine and into Midwest states including Michigan and Wisconsin. Some 24 states were affected directly or indirectly with heavy rains, gale and hurricane winds, drenching rain and flooding, and heavy snow as Sandy mixed with two winter systems in the Northeast.
What: Sandy's Holiday Backpacks of Hope
When: Now until Dec. 14.
Where: All campuses in the Moss Point School District
Details: Donations will be distributed to students at Elias Bernstein Intermediate School in Staten Island, NY
Details: School supplies, food and holiday items may be donated at all schools in the Moss Point School District and the district's administrative office. Monetary donations should be made out to Moss Point School District.
Contact: Teacher Sheri Andrews at 228-475-1429, ext. 4107, and communications director Stephanie Packer at 228-474-3399 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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CNS coffee mugs!
Now you can have your own CNS mug! Thermal tumbler ($10) and ceramic mug ($5) available at the CNS Advising Center at 220 Morrill II.
Undergraduate Commencement takes place over two days. There are two separate events you can attend: University Commencement and CNS Senior Celebration. Please plan on attending both ceremonies.
The University Commencement will take place on Friday, May 6, from 4:30-
The College of Natural Sciences Senior Celebration will be held on Saturday, May 7 in the Mullins Center from 5:00-7:00 p.m. This ceremony allows the college to recognize graduates in a special way: graduates' names are announced as they cross the stage to shake hands with college leaders, and receive a commemorative UMass medal (pictured here) and a special farewell gift from the college. Two jumbo video screens broadcast each graduate's time on stage, which will also be captured by a professional photographer.
Space is limited. While tickets are not required, graduating seniors are requested to limit their number of guests to four, if possible.
The program for the 2015 CNS Senior Celebration (PDF) is now available.
Astronomy and Physics Joint reception, 2:00-4:00 p.m., 1033 Lederle Graduate Research Tower
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Reception, 2:30 p.m., Berkshire Dining Commons
Biology Graduation lunch, 12:30-3:00 p.m., Franklin Dining Commons
Chemistry Reception, 2:00-3:30 p.m., ISB 221
Environmental Science, Environmental Conservation, and Geosciences Joint reception, 2:00-3:45 p.m., Cape Cod Lounge
Food Science Reception, 2:00 p.m., Pilot Plant: 127 Chenoweth
Mathematics and Statistics Reception, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Room 1634, Lederle Graduate Research Tower
Microbiology Reception, 2:00 p.m., Amherst Room, 10th floor, Campus Center
Physics and Astronomy Joint reception, 2:00-4:00 p.m., 1033 Lederle Graduate Research Tower
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Reception, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Student Union Ballroom.
Dessert and coffee. Families and friends welcome. Short presentation at 2:30 p.m.
Veterinary and Animal Sciences Celebration, 12:00-3:00 p.m., ISB first floor atrium
Accessibility information for the Mullins Center.
Traffic on and around campus may be extremely heavy on both days, so please plan accordingly. Shuttle buses will operate in a loop around central campus between 7:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Parking is available near the Mullins Center. Food and beverages may be purchased at Mullins Center kiosks. CNS t-shirts will also be available for purchase.
At 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, family and friends may enter the main doors of the Mullins Center. Another ceremony precedes the CNS Senior Celebration, so guests will not be admitted to the Mullins Center until 4:00 p.m.
At 7:00 p.m., the CNS Senior Celebration ends. Graduates and families should plan to meet in the concourse hallway under the lettered section that matches the first letter of your last name.
A video of the entire Senior Celebration event will be available on this site shortly after the ceremony ends. To give you an idea of what the CNS Senior Celebration looks like, a video of the 2015 CNS Senior Celebration is now available for viewing.
While some faculty have specific roles in the event, all CNS faculty are warmly encouraged to attend the Senior Celebration. The graduates appreciate the support and enjoy the opportunity to make their final goodbyes.
All faculty attending the Senior Celebration should meet in the Green Room in the Mullins Center at 4:00 p.m.
Tent map with department line order (pdf)
Regalia Information
Academic regalia is required for all Commencement ceremonies. Rental of academic regalia is pre-paid by the Provost's Office and is provided to faculty free of charge. The deadline for ordering regalia is April 15, 2016 and can be ordered through the Faculty Regalia order form. Depending on your needs, External Relations and University Events may still be able to obtain regalia for you after this date. Call the Office of External Relations and University Events at 413-577-1101 with any questions.
Regalia Pickup
Commencement Regalia can be picked up at the Campus Center Store at these times:
Returning Regalia
After your ceremony, please return your regalia to the University Store located in the Campus Center. Regalia cannot be left at the Undergraduate Commencement ceremony. If, for any reason, you cannot return your regalia to the University Store, please return it to 305 Whitmore, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Volunteers from the CNS and university community make the Senior Celebration happen. Our 30+ student and staff helpers are essential to this festive event! Please join us. Email Jane Markarian at jlmarkar [at] cns [dot] umass [dot] edu if you would like to join our volunteer team. Types of jobs we will need assistance with:
The Stockbridge School Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2016, from 10:00—11:30 a.m in Bowker Auditorium in Stockbridge Hall.
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Two people were killed and a third was seriously injured in a single vehicle traffic crash Friday night in rural Lane County.
Oregon State Police continue to investigate the crash on Poodle Creek Road north of Noti.
It occurred at 11 p.m., when a Kia Sephia sedan was heading southbound on Poodle Creek Road near milepost 4 when it traveled off the roadway, rolled multiple times and struck several trees, said Lieutenant Gregg Hastings, and OSP spokesman.
The car's three occupants were ejected as the car came to rest off the highway.
The rear passenger, Christopher Sean Manley, 41, of Veneta, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver, Raymond Schuylier Wyman, 23, of Noti, died at an area hospital. Neither of the men was using safety restraints.
The driver's girlfriend, Jessica Marie Parker, 19, of Noti, was treated at Sacred Heart Medical Center -- RiverBend for serious injuries. The woman wore safety restraints, Hastings said.
The names of the car's occupants will be released later this afternoon to allow families more time for next of kin notifications.
OSP troopers from the Springfield Area Command office are continuing the investigation into the cause of the crash. Alcohol is a possible contributing factor. Poodle Creek Road was blocked over 5 hours during the investigation.
The crash happened near the end of a two-week statewide campaign focusing on proper use of safety restraints. OSP and Oregon Department of Transportation remind drivers and passengers that statistics show people who don't wear seat belts are twice as likely to die in a crash than belted occupants.
In 2012, 61 of Oregon's 198 occupant fatalities were reportedly unrestrained.
-- Kimberly A.C. Wilson


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Tottem also oversees the chapel leaders for all of Detroit's minor league teams Toledo, Ohio; Erie, Pa. and Grand Rapids.
Tottem spoke to a group of about 60 at Grosse Pointe Woods First Presbyterian Church Wednesday evening and delivering a lecture/sermon that several in attendance called interesting and compelling.
He connected a religious message with real-life experiences as the Tigers chaplain, time spent as a 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics chaplain and as a kid who graduated Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills in 1976, about the same time found God.
Tottem, who has been with the Tigers since 1991, declined a one-on-one interview, citing "strict" rules forbidding it within the Baseball Chapel, the organization overseeing the 500 volunteer chapel leaders throughout the the Major and Minor leagues.
In his discussion, he did however reveal some insights about his dealings with the Detroit Tigers that many people likely do now know:
- There are four sermons each Sunday at Comerica Park: One for safety workers, one for the visiting team, one for the Tigers and a final one for umpires.
- In old Tiger Stadium, Tottem conducted services for the Tigers in their weight room. If someone happened to be working out, they got a sermon "for free" he said. The visiting team sermon was delivered in the community showers, sitting on towels or standing. There is a designated space in the new stadium for religious services.
- There are two chapel services offered for the minor league teams, one in English; the other in Spanish. Half the league is Spanish speaking, said Tottem, so "the lower you go, the harder it is for the guys to understand English because they are newer to it."
- Detroit Tigers pitcher Darin Downs, a devout Christian was struck in the head nearly four years while pitching AA in Tampa and nearly died. The ball ricocheted off his head and into the dugout. He could not talk and subsequently spent five days in intensive care. "Since then I have been applying the Lord's Word into my life, marriage and family," Downs wrote in a testimony that Tottem shares in his ministry.
- Some current Tigers who identify as practicing Christians and participate in Tottems chapel: Ramon Santiago, Quintin Berry, Darin Downs, Tori Hunter, Casey Crosby, Don Kelly, Matt Tuiasosopo,
- Tottem's Score Ministries creates religious-style baseball cards with current and former Detroit Tiger players, including Torii Hunter, Darin Downs, Matt Tuiasosopo,Willie Horton and Donnie Kelly. On the front is a traditional baseball action shot of the player; on the back is a story explaining how they came to become faithful Christians.
- Frank Tananna, who pitched played Major League Baseball from 1973 to 1993 — from 1988 to 1992 with Detroit — is a friend of Tottem's and a preacher
Baseball Chapel is an international ministry recognized by Major and Minor League Baseball and is responsible for the appointment and oversight of all team chapel leaders. Learn more about Baseball Chapel and about Tottem's Score International Ministries.


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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Chickens and Stripes
23 comments:
you just can't go wrong with chickens and stripes! i love this dress on you!ReplyDelete
I like the pattern mixing. It's really nice. The tights and boots are great.ReplyDelete
Your chicken dress is amazing!ReplyDelete
I think the pattern mixing and the different collar shapes work together perfectly!ReplyDelete
Chickens! I love the little animal prints I'm seeing. I thrifted a linen skirt with birds on it that I'll be wearing soon. I love how you've got the chicken dress styled.ReplyDelete
This dress is so cute!! And I love the tights you added!!ReplyDelete
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Cannot believe you have a red dress with chickens on it!!! That is so bomb. Now I need something with chickens (although they terrify me in real life)...great pattern for mixing too, as you well demonstrate.ReplyDelete
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Ahaha the chickens are awesome! As is the pattern-mixing.ReplyDelete
A chicken dress! That is definitely one of the most whimsical patterns I have seen on a piece of clothing in a while.ReplyDelete
That chicken dress is sensational! I mean seriously!! I love it! KiahReplyDelete
Gracey this dress is absolutely adorable on you. Love the entire outfit, great mixing going on this week my friend. Thank you for dropping in to visit me, it means a lot. Have a great week. Going to check out your other posts. dawn suitcase vignettes xoReplyDelete
Two thumbs up for chickens and stripes - and add another thumb for accessories :)ReplyDelete
I love the chicken print and it reminds me of William Carlos Williams poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow."ReplyDelete
The dress and shirt underneath are adorable! I love using a shirt underneath dresses on a cool day. The boots top off your outfit perfectly!ReplyDelete
That dress is amazing. Like, for really real. Nothing like chickens on a cool day...ReplyDelete
I love this look - I had a similar problem with tights/leggings yesterday and ended up wearing a completely pastel outfit with BLACK leggings (I was in a rush for work and just had to go with it!!!) hahaha. Weather shmeather! :)ReplyDelete
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PS so jealous of the chicken print dress! I have the perfect chicken tapestry bag at home for it!! :)ReplyDelete
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I love that you have a dress with chickens.ReplyDelete
OH EM GEE!!!! where do you even get a chicken patterned dress? Eshakti is marvelous!ReplyDelete
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What an adorable print! I love a cute animal print!ReplyDelete
That chicken dress almost made me pee! It is soooo cute.ReplyDelete
This is so cute. I love the pattern mixing you have going on. You've given me inspiration for when I finish this 30x30.ReplyDelete
That is seriously the best chicken dress I have ever seen.ReplyDelete
Hooray! Comments! I love comments!! (And cake, but if you just leave a comment, I'll manage the cake on my own).


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Leather jackets: Who wears it best?
April 10, 2013 Chic-Story 80723 reads 45 comments
A Bollywood favorite off late seems to be the highly coveted leather jacket. More and more of our ladies seem to be adopting this as the code to be cool. The biggest patrons of course are Sonakshi Sinha and Priyanka Chopra who are often spotted in them especially while travelling. Sonakshi loves to repeat her favorite one while PC changes it up often. Though black wins unanimously, brown is also a hot choice.
Who looks best in the leather jacket?


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Where Things Stand
At some point in their lives, everyone will need access to health care or medical treatment. Yet the cost of this essential service threatens to destabilize our countrys economy.
The unprecedented rise in the cost of health care is challenging businesses, households and government alike. Meanwhile, nearly 50 million did not have coverage in 2010. Furthermore, while health care costs are steadily increasing, higher cost does not necessarily translate as better quality, and some care providers are actually able to offer high-quality care while reducing cost. Something has to give, but reforming our health care system is a complex task. Any reform measures should address several important problems in our current system: ensuring that all Americans have access to care, and not just emergency care but prevention services and care for chronic conditions; bringing costs under control; and maintaining or improving quality of care. While some reform proposals are more dramatic than others, any significant effort to fix the problems will involve substantial change and affect everyone one reason why the topic is such a magnet for controversy. But with spiraling prices, millions uninsured and worsening health care performance compared to other countries, weve reached a point where kicking the issue down the road for others to address, as weve done for many decades, would be economically disastrous and morally irresponsible. Concern over the health care systems sustainability began long before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA or, informally, Obamacare) in 2010, though the legislation has put the issue back at the forefront of political and household discussions. Whether one agrees with it or not, the ACA aimed to tackle part of our health care problem, providing access for many populations of uninsured Americans. Still, many will remain uninsured, and how to cover them remains an open question. Lots of other questions remainincluding whether the tax penalty imposed by the laws individual mandate is high enough to achieve its intent of encouraging individuals to purchase health insurance, and whether states will be able to implement the changes effectively. And, of course, the politics surrounding the act are far from over. While the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld the ACA in June of 2012, with the condition that individual states have no obligation to expand existing coverage of the uninsured poor, Congressional critics of the ACA have vowed to defeat it. It remains to be seen whether the legislation will survive the newly ignited political debate. Perhaps most importantly, the law only begins to address the spiraling cost of healthcare, which, in a time of tight budgets and rising debt, is going to be a critical part of any solution. The challenge of how to handle the health care needs of growing numbers of Americans at an affordable cost and high level of quality will continue.
Facts to Consider
- The cost of health care has taken an increasing share of the United States economy, and has been rising faster than inflation and GDP growth for years. In 2010, the U.S. spent 17.9 percent of the nations economy on healthcare, compared to only 7.2 percent in 1970 and to 9.5 percent on average across 34 member countries of the international Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- There were nearly 50 million people uninsured in the U.S. in 2010. Three-quarters were members of families with one or more workers, most of whom work full-time. Even after current legislation from the Affordable Care Act kicks in, we will still have about 20 million uninsured Americans, if not more.
- In 1999, about 64 percent of Americans received health insurance from their employers. By 2010, that had dropped to 55 percent.
- People above the age of 65 account for the most health care spending and the amount of health care dollars devoted to older Americans is going to continue to increase steadily. This is important because the 79 million Baby Boomers are turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day and will continue to do so until 2030. This fact, paired with gains in life expectancy, means that Medicare will balloon from an enrollment of 47 million in 2010 to 85 million in 2035.
- Evidence indicates that increased spending does not necessarily equate with higher quality. Many health care systems actually provide high-quality care at relatively low cost, suggesting that we dont always need to spend more to get better care and outcomes.
A Looming Fiscal Challenge
The rising cost of health care is the biggest financial challenge facing the United States, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Experts say that, without significant reform, the cost of health care could make it impossible for the federal government to balance its budget. Yet the government is not the only one spending money on health care. The $2.6 trillion we spent in 2010 was split across individuals, employers and the government. Just two programs Medicare, the federal health insurance for the elderly and disabled, and Medicaid, which is shared between states and the federal government and provides health care to the poor take up just over 20 percent of the federal budget and are growing between two and three times faster than the economy as a whole. States arent sheltered from the cost, either; Medicaid is generally the second-largest item in state budgets. Meanwhile, increases in health care premiums have outpaced both inflation and growth in workers earnings over the past decade. This puts a strain on the ability of individuals, families and businesses to purchase coverage. For this reason, some employers may decide to increase the amount that covered workers pay to visit the doctor or go to a hospital (called cost sharing). For workers, the impact is both direct and indirecttheir own contributions to their health care coverage may increase, and/or employers may limit wage increases or decrease wages to offset their costs. In 2011, a full 50 percent of Americans reported having cut back on medical care in the past year because of cost, and 17 percent said theyd encountered serious financial hardship due to medical bills, having to spend most or all of their savings, or being unable to pay for basic necessities like food or heat. Moreover, while some of this reduction in medical care may have involved eliminating unnecessary care, some is likely to have been a cut back on necessary care.
How We Spend
Americans are proud of the advanced medical technology that marks U.S. health care.
But it is expensive, and is one reason why our per capita spending on health care is higher here than the 33 other countries in the OECD. Yet for all the money we spend, it is highly questionable that we are getting the best care we could. One sign? Americans have a shorter life expectancy than the citizens of 49 other countries. There are other contributors to the high cost of health care. For example, the brand name prescription drugs we buy here are more expensive than the same drugs in many other countries, where national governments negotiate lower prices for everyone. There are also incentives in our system for doctors and patients to use more treatment than many experts think is necessaryor even healthy! Much of American health care goes to treat diseases and conditions that could be prevented. For example, poor lifestyles such as a lack of exercise and unhealthy eating habits have contributed to a soaring rate of obesity among adult Americans that make chronic illnesses more likely. Excessive drinking and smoking contribute toward many other diseases. Medical costs of people with largely preventable chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes account for 75 percent of the $2 trillion spent annually on health care in the U.S. The delivery of medical care in the U.S. is also inefficient, with multiple layers. Experts say this makes administrative costs as much as 30 percent of health care spending nearly double what Canada spends. Our system of health care is really many hundreds of different approaches; employer-provided private health insurance plans with different rules for every situation covers a little less than half the American population, with government health care plans covering millions more. Moreover, the cost of the same operation or treatment can vary widely among hospitals in the same large city, with little explanation and few ways of finding out. Experts and the federal government have pushed for changes that would increase efficiency and reduce waste waste that by some estimate takes up one-third to as much as one-half of the cost of health care. For example, some advocate for reducing unnecessary hospitalizations, moving to evidencebased procedures (those that rigorous research has shown to be effective), avoiding expensive treatment when a less-expensive course of care is just as effective, and avoiding overuse of antibiotics and medical testing. Many experts also support electronic record keeping to make complete medical histories readily available to doctors, and accountability measures that reduce medical errors. Some experts argue, however, that these measures wont make much of a dent in reduction of long-term health care costs.
Where Do We Go from Here?
The country cant afford the status quo when it comes to health care.
However, as we seek to bring health care spending to a more sustainable path, we need to be careful not to make unacceptable sacrifices when it comes to access or quality of care. For example, increasing the amount that patients pay for a doctor or hospital visit may reduce costs for employers and discourage people from getting unnecessary treatment. However, it could also make the cost of care prohibitive for some and prevent people from pursuing treatment that they do need. The fundamental issue goes beyond dollars and cents. Who gets health care, who pays for it, and how? How can the rising costs of healthcare be controlled? How do we balance the need to control those costs against the need to maintain or improve quality and increase access? These policy choices may wind up being very personal indeed; the decisions made in this debate could affect the care given to those we love the most, and have much to do with the quality of life in Americaall the more reason we must wrestle with and determine the costs and tradeoffs were willing to accept when it comes to health care.
Approach One
Move to government-provided, universal health care to make sure everyone gets covered.
All Americans deserve to have access to affordable and high-quality health care, regardless of their income level, employment situation or pre-existing medical conditions. To achieve that, the U.S. should move to a single system of government-provided health insurance to make health care accessible to all. The system would work much like an expanded Medicare system, giving everyone medical coverage no matter what their age or whether or not they have a job. As with Medicare, the government would provide insurance, but not delivery of care. Doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers would continue to be private or non-profit just like they are now. Each American would have access to a standard list of health care services, including important preventative care that too many go without.
This should be done by:
This should be done by:
- Creating a single payer system, where the government provides health insurance for everyone by connecting the new health care system with government programs working already, such as Medicare.
- Replacing current insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays with a tax that would help fund the system.
- The government negotiating lower prices for drugs, the way other countries do, so Americans wouldnt pay such high prices for pharmaceuticals.
- Centralizing administrative procedures (as Medicare does now) to provide a uniform set of regulations and one universal set of insurance forms to cover everyone, saving hundreds of millions of dollars by ending the current inefficient system with its thousands of different forms and different rules for every insurance company
Approach Two
Give consumers more choice in their health care and use competition and accountability to bring costs down.
To decrease the cost of health care, we need to minimize government bureaucracy and maximize Americans choices for insurance and care. Purchasing health care coverage should be like the purchase of auto insurancepeople should be able to buy from a wide variety of companies, all of which will compete for business. Meanwhile, we need to make the system more accountable and efficient. Government can help by making insurance options and the care process more transparent and easier to navigate. It can also give tax credits to individuals and businesses to make the purchase of insurance more affordable.
This should be done by:
This should be done by:
- Putting purchasing power in the hands of consumers. Move away from employer-provided health care and instead help individuals to pay for their own health insurance through extensive tax credits or expanded Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
- Making the system easier to navigate with openness about prices. Have prices for doctors fees, hospital costs, etc. listed on a web site and easily accessible. Make information about hospitals mortality rates and rates of hospital-based infections publicly available to penalize the institutions that arent doing enough to maintain quality of care.
- Giving the elderly more flexibility in their health care choices. Medicare hasnt changed significantly since 1965. The government should set an amount it will spend per patient and give that amount directly to the Medicare recipient in the form of a voucher. That way he or she can purchase the insurance that fits his or her needs Low-income and sick patients will receive a larger amount to assure that they would be able to purchase coverage.
Approach Three
Rather than taking risks with a radical change, tweak the current system to make it gradually more affordable and accessible.
Many aspects of our health care system need improvement, but we can make health care more efficient and affordable without radical change by concentrating on incremental solutions that are broadly accepted. A little more than half the population gets employer-funded medical insurance, and many are satisfied with their coverage. Switching to a government-funded system for everyone or a pure consumer model where everyone fends for themselves would create too much upheaval.
This should be done by:
This should be done by:
- Tackling one of the biggest problems that the uninsured face steep medical bills for emergency treatments and providing catastrophic coverage for everyone. People would have to pay some amount for routine care, but catastrophic insurance would cover the high expenses associated with accidents or a serious disease.
- Capping the amount individuals pay for health care services or establishing set prices for services in order to make insurance policies more affordable. The government should also limit growth of insurance premiums by forcing insurers to negotiate better contracts with health care providers.
- Improving the quality of care by incentivizing use of treatments that are grounded in best-practices research and requiring that care providers use electronic medical record systems to improve communication among doctors.
- Encouraging the broad use of best practices by which a number of innovative healthcare providers have figured out to run their operations less expensively while treating their patients more effectively.
- Requiring preventative health care for everyone to reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes in the U.S. Encourage citizens to make healthy decisions. The Affordable Care Act does provide for expansion of wellness programs, but we should further increase government spending on public health programs that teach the benefits of and tools for healthy living, disease prevention and alternative treatment options.
Health and Human Services Department:
The United States Department of Health and Human Services: The Departments website features statistics, podcasts, support for military families, tips on prevention, resources for low-income families and individuals, and much more.
Understanding Health Care:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: This agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promotes health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: This federal agency oversees Medicare and Medicaid.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: A nonprofit, private foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. Kaisers website offers research, facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: A private philanthropic organization devoted exclusively to projects on health care issues.
The Commonwealth Fund: A private foundation working toward a high performance health system, the Commonwealth fund offers research, analysis of policy and delivery, state and national scorecards and a downloadable collection of charts across multiple areas.
OECD: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development promotes policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. A portion of the website is devoted to describing and comparing the health policies, cost and outcomes of OECD member and non-member countries. This is a good resource to see how the U.S. compares internationally.
Young Invincibles: Information and resources to give young Americans a voice in the debate over health care reform.
Tools to Act and Interact:
The Health Care Options Matrix: From the Wellpoint Foundation, this tool outlines each states public and private health care options for individuals and groups in almost every demographic profile, as well as offers a reference list of phone numbers and web sites.
HealthCare.gov: Learn about the ACA and what it means for you, find health insurance, and get help using health insurance.
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In many respects, it looked like a typical summer math enrichment class. Students in shorts sat around a U-shaped table working on math problems while a teacher circulated, checking here and there on students' progress.
But typical it wasn't. Observers, including university professors, graduate students, student teachers, practicing teachers and researchers, filled three risers, carefully watching every move the students made. A group of cameramen and sound technicians recorded everything going on. That's because the students were studying at the University of Michigan Elementary Mathematics Laboratory in a two-week course that started this week.
The lab is set up to teach on two levels.
At the most basic level, it teaches math to fifth-graders, most of them from the Ypsilanti school district.
But at the same time, it teaches teachers.
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"Things are always changing," said teacher Sheril Simpson of Erickson Elementary School in the Ypsilanti Public Schools. "There's newer concepts, and this is a chance for me to learn about them. I want to make sure I'm staying abreast of the current concepts in teaching."
Each day, before the students file in for class, the observers gather in a room to hear Dean Deborah Lowenberg Ball of the University of Michigan School of Education outline her teaching plan for the day.
Lowenberg Ball, one of the nation's leading experts in mathematics education, told those gathered that morning that one of the things she is working on in this session is trying to get students to reason mathematically.
Observers got to see that for themselves an hour later, when the students shared their answers to a problem. Lowenberg Ball repeatedly asked the students to explain how they got to the answer they gave, even when the answer was correct.
After more than two hours of class time, the students went to lunch and then to an arts enrichment course.
The observers gathered to discuss the day's classroom experience before splitting up into various groups for further learning. Simpson said the lab has been helpful as she prepares for her third-grade classroom.
"I've been paying attention to the amount of time she's (Lowenberg Ball) been spending on one concept to make sure students are mastering it, instead of concentrating on the number of problems the students are doing. It's about making sure the students know the concepts being taught."


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Pope will still visit Britain after leak of 'appalling' Foreign Office memo
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Glad he is still coming, we can arrest the paedophile enabler for crimes against children.
Somebody get a cell ready in the Hague.
Let's hope Labour aren't still in or they'll probably do it that the demonstrations are on a different route to this clown. Just so he doesn't have to see it.
"It's absolutely despicable, these [ideas] are vile, they're insulting, they are an embarrassment, and on behalf of I think the whole of the United Kingdom we'd want to apologise to his Holiness the Pope."
Personally I find the Pope's hatred of gay people, women, and children far more despicable, vile, insulting, and embarrassing, than the memo which was released.
F*** the Pope – the vile, Nazi, paedophile protector.
What else do we have to do to make him cancel his trip ?
Can't he take the hint ?!
The thing is, we don't NEED him to come over here to arrest him. A major part of the legal case being put together against Josef Ratzinger is that the Vatican is NOT a real sovereign state after all, mostly because it was founded unilaterally by Benito Mussolini in the 1920s and has no more international legal basis than any of his other legislative provisions. The Vatican is essentially just another part of Italian soil – and Italy is very much a member of the international community, with extradition treaties and obligations in cases of this sort.
I made a comment which was censored by Pink News.
Apologies – I should not have referred to Ratzinger as a 'Nazi, paedophile protector'.
That is inaccurate.
A more accurate description would be 'former Nazi, alleged paedophile protector'.
I hope the civil servant who wrote the memo gets a massive promotion. He is obviously a person of great intelligence and wit.
I heard the Bishop of Chichester on the Today programme this morning saying that these comments were not acceptable as "free speech"-the line had been over stepped.
Well-THATS RICH-coming from the Church of England after all they had said about "Free Speech" in relation to the Equality Bill.
You don`t like it when RELIGION is on the receiving end of FREE SPEECH do you Bishop?? Yet-you are quick to DEFEND Free Speech in the House of Lords-when its directed against homosexuals??
WHAT a HYPOCRITE!!
I think there is a huge opportunity (fnaar, fnaar) for Durex to bring out commemorative "Benedicked" condoms to celebrate the visit.
Gross…I'll take a gross of those condoms!!
So the government will ban a man from the country for condemning islam. But then they defend a man and welcome him with a state visit for condemning homosexuality. More proof the powers in the UK can get away with being anti gay and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
If a man WERE allowed into the country that said about islam what nazinger has said about homosexuality, there would be mulsims with placards threatening him with his death.
What will gay people do? Dress up in pink costumes, sing lady gaga songs and make twats of ourselves. And we wonder why we have no visible power or freedom.
You get nothing in this heterosexual world for being nice and 'gay'. History proves the only language that heterosexuals understand is fear and intimidation. It's how the catholic church got power, its how the monarchy got power, its how islam got power, its how black people have got power, its how everyone who has power gets power. Fear and intimidation.
Stupid queers think we've got freedom if we get equal marriage rights. I won't be happy till there's a gay prime minister or president. But then we know what the powers do to that – Pim Fortuyn.
equal marriage rights is part of freedom, I hope he gets arrested when he lands, many Christians don't see how their own set of loonies preach hate but they see it clearly from Islamic ones! The Scottish secretary says the ideas are disgusting etc but I bet he doesn't condemn the Pope's homophobia or various other evils like covering for pedos
His brand of condoms would probably have pin-prick holes in them!
Too right Squidgy- LITTLE PRICK comes to mind!!
I hope Jim Murphy loses his seat. How dare he presume to apologise for the whole of the country. I am not sorry, the Pope deserves to be mocked for his views which are largely out of step with the vast majority of people in this country and he certainly should not be immune from criticism no matter where that comes from. Seems gay people are open to criticism but not religious people.
Damn and blast!! What do we have to do to stop this Bugger?
who wrote this document? can we vote for him in the election? He is the only one in government that seems to know what the taxpayers want
So any chance we could ask him to open a few abortion clinics whilst he is here?
…or you could try the direct approach. I have sent this to http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/58.html and will report if I get a response:
"I would like Mr Jim Murphy to confirm his comments – does Mr Murphy truly think homosexual weddings are "vile, insulting, they are an embarrasment" as reported in Pink News? http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/04/26/pope-will-still-visit-britain-after-leak-of-appalling-foreign-office-memo/#
"If Mr Murhpy does think homosexual weddings are vile, I must ask for his immediate resignation.
Jim Murphy does not speak for the vast majority of people here in Scotland, especially on this subject.
Jim Murphy is a nobody, he does nothing for the people of Scotland, hes a dreamer and blowhard.
As for the situation with this Pope carry on, best way forward is he doesnt come to the Uk at all, its not as if hes really important or anything, just a vile little man who allows priests and the like to abuse and use young boys for sexual gratification.
Maybe he should be arrested if he comes to this country, people like him think their untouchable. ban him from coming to the UK.
I am from Brazil, South America, but now I am having an uncontrollable desire to go to UK to join the protesters against this hateful cult leader. Luckily I already have a passport.
Comment #7 by SimonM
"I made a comment which was censored by Pink News"
Join the club. Religion is special, you see…….
The Pope may be technically a head of state, and I suppose deserves the treatment awarded to any head of state, but he does not yet walk on water, raise people from the dead or any of those things. So why is he treated as if he does?
Head of state my fudging tits.
Where is the insult in that memo? Where is the mockery?
I see only real-life issues that the Pope and his church should be answering to. Mockery, my ass.
I distant myself from anyone who makes any apology about the memo. Regardless of whatever any senile idiot may think, it was a brainstorming and hence suggestions all of which I cannot see what is wrong with any.
The pope should rather thank the people and see if he can use the opportunity to perform any of the suggestions so as to show he is human… I doubt he is and hence have nothing near any respect or regard for him and his ilk.
As for all those who are really concerned at the state of things and how LGBT people are being ignored, well, would you come out to stand up? I will. Remember Bob Marley, "Stand up for your right".
If you will, then start getting ready. On Mr. Ratzinger's arrival and through his stay, we can if nothing, stand up and show our disgust with placards and banners. Lets begin the plan now. Check my blog to get in touch… that's if pinknews doesnt delete this.
I dont say any hate or evil against anybody. I respect people's religion or belief and continue to seek fairness and tolerance. On that note, my wish is that Mr. Ratzinger respect me for who I am and get same from me. But if he is preaching hate towards LGBT people, its no different then for us to say he is a danger to the progress of human and the world.
Jesus would not have said the vile things he said… hence he is damned eternally to hell; I declare.
"The Rt Rev Malcolm McMahon told the BBC: "I think it's a lot worse that we invite someone into our country – a person like the Pope – and then he's treated in this way."
"I think it's appalling manners more than anything else."
I think its equally appalling and disgusting that this bigot gets to denigrate our lives, our orientation and equality as well as beyond bad manners. These religious nutters always play the victim when the tables are turned on them.
Squidgy, if Cameron were PM, he wouldn't be any different. He'd issue an apology, make no mistake about that, no different than Labour, both as bad as one another.
I agree with Brido #20. Jim Murphy doesn't speak for the people of Scotland, in fact, most of us can't stand him. He's represents a marginal constituency and I hope he loses it to the Conservatives, the only Conservative win I'll be happy about! By the way, why was the Secretary of State for Scotland apologising on behalf of the people of the UK for a Foreign Office memo?
Despite all the justified hilarity the fact is it was an official government document and, therefore, a terrible slap in the face for the Holy See. Officials on both sides must be be worried about the reception the Pope will get in UK. Only a few months ago a woman leaped over a barrier and grabbed him by the crozier.
I don't think he will come; he'll feign some sort of illness at the last moment. He couldn't show his face, not with the scandals growing bigger by the day; the bishop of Bruges resigned recently and the primate of all Ireland is also poised to resign sooner or later. OH THE SHAME OF IT ALL.
Who is this muppet,scotish secretary chappie,Jim Murphy to apologise on my behalf?! I absolutely make no apology to ratzinger or vatican city for this document and it's contents.I listened to Paul Ross on 'THis Morning',(yes,I was THAT bored),proclaiming how the contentes of the document might be seen as slighly amusing in some late night comedy club!WTF? Ross,me old mate,it IS damn amusing,hilariously amusing,and not just in some late night comedy venue.If ratzinger and his cronies don't like it,STAY THE FECK AWAY!
Get sewing boys and girls. Lots and lots of over-the-top Pope costumes, acres of glittery fabric and paste-jewels and a ridiculous mitre – preferably looking phallic!
We need lots of gay Popes out there parading in the streets while Benny is here.
And let's start brainstorming good messages for boards to hold up as well.
Let's turn this September visit into a kind of "Papal Mardi Gras"!
Of course he should come, so he can be told he's not welcome!
I am reminded of the old joke about the opposition to the last Pope's visit to Scotland. The foul, homophobic anti-Catholic fringe sect called something like The Church of Zion in Glasgow, led by Pastor Jack Glass were gatehring with their banners saying "No Pope here" and Pastor Glass was giving it the rabble rousing sectarian rubbish about the Pope being the anti-Christ and how he was not welcome in Scoltnad when wee shuggie at the back pipes up "but whit if he disnae turn up?" to which Glass says "efter aw this work – he bloody better turn up". Maybe you had to be there.
I bet Special Branch will be watching Peter Tatchell.
#21 Not a very safe place for Brazilians here in the UK. You could be murdered in cold blood by the police and they would get away with it.
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He's already been told in no uncertain terms he is not welcome in Ireland. We would bring the IRA out of retirement and give them back their guns to deal with this Nazi brute if he dared to set foot on Irish soil. You completely misjudge the depth of anger there is here in Ireland for what the Catholic Church, for which so many Irish men and women died over the centuries, has done to this country and its children for probably 1500 years.
Even the old people are seething with anger at the appalling way this Nazi pig has responded to the pain and grief evident in our country.
Ireland will probably be the first European Western formerly xtian country to ban all religion, which will be ironic…. and about time too.
On the Nazi thing, I wonder what he done when he was in the Hitler Yoof and if perhaps Nuremburg is still applicable. I think it is an insult to the dead of two world wars to have invited a self confessed Nazi to the UK. The war graves all over France and Belgium must be in turmoil as the dead spin in anger.
So, besides the anti-gay thing, this brute has a lot more serious issues to answer for. I say take him out and shoot him as soon as he arrives.
What a bl*ody stupid thing to say, JonCK, in both 33 and 34. Grow up.
"It's absolutely despicable, these [ideas] are vile, they're insulting, they are an embarrassment" …but the pope has the right to his own opinion.
That was something along the lines of how I thought that paragraph would end when I first started reading it, I think it is disgusting these people apologising for the whole of the UK, for the fact that the apology was for some people suggesting that the pope might do some, far from evil stuff and the fact they thing this is vile in comparision to what he says about gay people (and whoever else the pope is ignorant about or don't like).
I find it an incredible insult that the UK has issued a grovelling apology to this excuse of a man! Apart from all of the serious homophobic abuse he heaps on us, this man has been accused of covering up for pedo priests, and for praising others equally guilty of covering up abuse cases.. just to protect his precious church.
´Appalling manners´? well, they say the truth hurts!
This man MUST be arrested. Just based on what we already know, and what has already been revealed, there is a serious case for him to answer.
I love the public servant. Someone with guts and balls. Hope he is also Gay. To stand up to an institution like the church. We need more of it. The Pope is a nobody, just like all the world's population. He might think he is somebody, but he isn't. He also should never think he is above ridicule, contempt or anything. Your Government is wrong to apologise. If the truth hurts, so be it.
As I read the article, I was struck by the Foreign Office's reaction. I suppose at that level of government you have to pretend that world leaders are great folks and welcome in your country, no matter what their past and what they represent. I was glad to see I was not the only one who found it so hypocritical. Makes you wonder though…wonder what the Foreign Office would have done in 1933 if someone in their ranks had maligned poor Adolf as a racist, homophobic jew-hater?
…'I wonder what he done when he was in the Hitler Yoof?' They probably sat him and his brother in a corner with their Adolf and Eva dolls away from the other boys.
JohnCK's right though
The document is an hilarious and very welcome send-up of that evil fart in a frock. Thank goodness it was leaked and has received enormous publicity.
#35 Whats wrong with what JonCK says in either post April.
Far as i can see the first one is Fact and the second, as far as I know the abuse and coverup in Ireland has been horrendous. Don't you ever read the papers?…… and the Sun doesn't count as a paper!
#35, who the fuk are you to tell someone else to grow up.
problem is JonCK, most men on ere think dressing up in glitter fabric, stick on jewels and pink feather boas is gonna get a point across. well it is, that we're stupid bitch queers they can continue to fuk over again and again. No wonder we don't have any respect or equality.
"The memo, which also called for the Pope to bless a homosexual marriage, was emailed around Whitehall by Steven Mulvain, a 23-year-old Oxford graduate who describes his sexual orientation on a social networking website as "gay"."
Seems the Torygraph got it before the Fag-Rags.
A Gay Asian Muslim. That's going to put the cat amongst the pigeons.
Can't we offend him some more to ensure that this disgusting creature does not set foot in England. Paedophile protector, bigot, sureoly he is not welcome in England.
For an hilarious take on the scandal-ridden catholic church, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k – The Papenfuehrer & his corrupt college of cardinals is clearly the "gift that keeps on giving".
Rob-N, Noorani is clearly Asian but where is the info he is gay?
Mulvain is described as gay, and unfortunately there isn't a photo of him.
I would LIKE Noorani to be gay, because he's a stunner.
It's a pity that it's too late for Steven Mulvain to run for parliament….
This nazi pope guy really looks like the possesed girl from the movie 'exorcist'.. lol the true evil is the pope himself
Argos: I stand corrected. I guess I was speed-reading.
Nevertheless, I wonder what Muslims would say if one of their elders was given the same treatment by a German?
They would probably be burning flags within half a day.
I guess you were reading CARELESSLY, Rob-N.
"they don't have any understanding of Catholism"…. what you mean they dont know that almost 5000 of RCC priests have been or are under investigation for paedophilia and that their bishops, cardinals and the pope himself continue to cover it all up. Yea right…
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