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MUSKEGON, MI -- The popular West Michigan Student Showcase event highlighting student performance in the arts, academics and athletics has garnered statewide recognition from the Michigan Association of School Administrators.
Dave Sipka, superintendent of the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District, and Joel Selby, instructional services project specialist with the MAISD, were inducted into the association's "Winners' Circle" for their work with Student Showcase.
The two-day event, held at Muskegon's Frauenthal Theater each March, was deemed by the association as an effective program that can be replicated in other districts.
Schools from throughout West Michigan set their own criteria to choose student representatives in visual, performing and literary arts; academics; and athletics. About 250 students typically participate.
In a press release about the Winners' Circle inductions, MASA noted that Student Showcase often is the first recognition of their talents that participating students receive. Student Showcase judges determine top winners in the literary, visual and performing arts categories.
Lynn Moore covers education for MLive/Muskegon Chronicle. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow her on Twitter and Facebook.


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Fort Wayne, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - The Indiana Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate, Joe Donnelly was touting "enough with the extremism and gridlocks in Washington" Thursday morning as he and former-Senator Evan Bayh stopped by Fort Wayne's "Paint the Town Graphics".
The visit was part of the duo's "Main Street Tour," which allows local business owners to talk about the needs of middle class workers.
Donnelly hopes that Bayh will help draw some of former-Senator Richard Lugar's supporters away from Republican Candidate Richard Mourdock.
Donnelly said, "Senator Bayh and Senator Lugar were always such a great example of the Hoosier way, which is common sense, which is working together, focusing on what's best for our country, and at the end of the day, knowing that you tried to make our country stronger, our state stronger, and it's by working with other folks."
In May, Mourdock told CNN he hopes "bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government."
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The Royal Court Theatre presents
By Roy Williams
12 Jun
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
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A boy is found dead. D.C. Joe Stephens must return to his old neighbourhood to investigate. Shanice is avoiding his questions about her boyfriend, Emile, and his mates. Ronnie saw something, but promised Shanice she'd say nothing. But when a reward is offered, keeping quiet becomes a major test of their street loyalty.
FALLOUT is Roy Williams third play for the Royal Court. His previous play CLUBLAND won the 2001 Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright, and LIFT OFF (RCT/NT Studio) was joint winner of the George Devine Award 2000. His other work includes SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS (NT), THE GIFT (Birmingham Rep), LOCAL BOY (Hampstead), NIGHT AND DAY (Theatre Venture), THE NO-BOYS CRICKET CLUB (Theatre Royal Stratford East), JOSIE'S BOYS (Red Ladder) and SOULS (Theatre Centre). He was the first recipient of the Alfred Fagan Award and winner of both the John Whiting Award 1997 and the EMMA Award 1999 for STARSTRUCK (Tricycle).
Directed by Ian Rickson
Design: Ultz, Lighting: Nigel J Edwards, Sound: Ian Dickinson, Music: Stephen Warbeck.
Cast: Lorraine Brunning, OT Fagbenle, Jason Frederick, Lennie James, Petra Letang, Marcel McCalla, Michael Obiora, Daniel Ryan, Ony Uhiara, Clive Wedderburn.
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Pictured (L to R): Michael Obiora, Ony Uhiara, Marcel McCalla; Lennie James, Daniel Ryan; Michael Obiora, Marcel McCalla; OT Fagbenle, Michael Obiora, Marcel McCalla, Jason Frederick, Lennie James
Photography by Gautier Deblonde
Direction: Ian Rickson; Design: Ultz; Lighting Design: Nigel J. Edwards; Sound Design: Ian Dickinson; Music: Stephen Warbeck
Cast: Lorraine Brunning, O-T Fagbenle, Jason Frederick, Lennie James, Petra Letang, Marcel McCalla, Michael Obiora, Daniel Ryan, Ony Uhiara, Clive Wedderburn
Few writers are better than Roy Williams at exploring the contradictions of our multicultural society. His first Royal Court play, Lift Off, showed how white kids imitate their black counterparts. And his latest play overturns expectation showing how, in a teenager murder investigation, it is the black rather than the white cop who indulges in racist stereotyping.
The physical space itself has also been overturned. On top of the Royal Court stalls the designer, Ultz, has created an artificial stage resembling a wire-meshed basket ball court. This becomes the arena for a police probe into the killing of a bookish black teenager, Kwame, bound for university. All the accusatory evidence points to a guy called Emile who hangs out with a gang of local tearaways. But while Matt, the cop assigned to the case, is prepared to proceed patiently, his black sidekick, Joe, fatally cuts corners by over-identifying with the dead boy.
What Williams pins down brilliantly is the corrosive envy that pervades a culture of limited opportunities. Kwame, we deduce, has been killed because he wanted to escape the herd mentality of bleak housing estates. And this has repercussions at police level. Having like-wise lifted himself out of a rut, Joe cannot forgive the brutal ethos of the street gangs. From this Williams creates scenes of biting irony in which Joe yearns for the old school of police while his white colleague is imbued with a post- McPherson, liberal evenhandedness
But Williams ironies do not stop there. He also shows how sex complicated the issue. Much of the action revolves around the fatal attraction of Shanice (played with astonishing poise by Ony Uhiara) who runs the local caf. On one level, she is a well-intentioned girl who sympathises with the dead Kwames desire to escape. But, as Emiles girlfriend, she shows loyalty to the gang and is even prepared to intimidate her ex-teacher who had her kicked out of school for petty theft.
My only cavil about the show is that the opening scene is played for violence so that we miss out some of the plot information. Otherwise Ian Ricksons production does justice both to the plays moral contradictions and its visceral impact. And there are good performances from Lennie James as the self-destructive Joe, Daniel Ryan as the fair-minded colleague, Marcel McCalla as the insecure Emile and Michael Obiora as the gang leader. But what is impressive is Williams capacity for telling the truth and for exposing the division that exists with what we patronisingly term the black community.
Michael Billington, THE GUARDIAN 18 June 2003
Compelling Attraction of Opposites
One of the two London detectives in Roy Willimass Fallout takes a pretty cynical view of the teenagers he suspects of killing an African boy. He dismisses them as niggers, low-life black bastards who ought to have topped themselves. And he regards his partner Matt, who winces at words and talks primly of the need to reform the Met, as a wishy-washy liberal, a Guardian reader.
If theyd taken part at the Royal Court in a play about murder on a sink estate 20 years ago, it would have been a safe bet that the first of these cops, Joe, would have been white and vicious. But Williams is himself a black dramatist, and a notably incisive one, and he isnt interested in smarming up to Court audiences with glib, bash-the-fascist Fallout, Lennie Jamess Joe is astute, angry and black.
The reasons for Joes contempt, when they become clear, are a bit more obvious and less complex than Id hoped; but paradoxically, its testimony to the plays overall quality that they seem that way.
Fallout is essentially a reflection on race, law and order in the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence and, especially the Damilola Taylor cases and combines the intelligence with impact.
You know Williamss gang is to be feared the moment the play begins with a giant crash, and four hooded teenagers roar up from the Courts bowels into a stalls area that has been reconfigured to become a vast, wire-encircled stage. And, yes they carry out robberies and pull guns and knives out on each other when they think they have been wronged or dissed. Their girls, school dropouts or (more accurately) chuckouts, are equally wild and, as witness the mugging of a hated teacher, almost as dangerous.
Yet as youd expect of a play in which the man with the most openly racist views is black, everything is contradictory. Williamss gift is to suggest, without becoming sentimental or offering excuses, that his hoodlums are also callow, frightened, vulnerable and confused. As a result, the play is often disconcertingly funny. You my Dad? indignantly yells the gang leader, Michael Obioras Dwayne, when Joe gives him a dressing-down. maybe whats yer mothers name? comes the reply.
A street robbery ends with a silly, schoolboy quarrel about bus money, and the explanation for the death of Kwame, the young African and aspiring college boy whose head is used as a football, isnt simply what you might expect: that his superior manners and mind have excited the others jealousy. Sex and human error play more important parts. But to say more about a plot introduces a counter-part of the girl witness in the Taylor case remember the one who wanted fast food and cable TV and reward money? would be to spoil your enjoyment of Ian Ricksons cast. Obiora, James, Marcel McCalla, Ony Uhiara, Petra Letang: together, they create a scary, riveting and (above all) believable world.
Benedict Nightingale, THE TIMES 18 June 2003
You stagger out of Roy Williamss new play feeling both exhilarated and shattered. Exhilarated because this drama marks the moment when a promising dramatist spectacularly achieves his full potential; shattered because the play, though shot through with humour, is as bleak and persuasive an account of black youth culture in Britain today as you are ever likely to encounter.
In a spectacularly reconfigured Royal Court auditorium, with the acting area built over the stalls and the audience looking down from the circle, the play begins with four black youths putting the boot into an unseen victim on a fight of stairs.
When next we encounter these young thugs, they are strutting their macho stuff in a fast-food restaurant, apparently entirely unconcerned that their victim, whose head looked as though it had been used as a football, is now dead. Two detectives, a white sergeant and his bolshie black constable, set about investigating the murder to be met only by taunts, abuse and a conspiracy of silence.
The play was clearly inspired by the Damilola Taylor case. The victim Kwame was an African and a student making a real go of his life; and when a teenage girl goes to give evidence to the police, she proves a spectacularly unreliable witness.
The drama is part police procedural, part portrait of what it is like to be young and black on an inner-city estate in Britain. It has much in common with Kwame Kwei-Armahs Elminas Kitchen at the National, but Williams proves the stronger dramatist when it comes to both plotting and pace.
I was on the edge of my seat throughout, for the play never relaxes its grip, and two themes emerge particularly strongly. The first is the alarming nature of black youth culture in which you have got to be hard to be cool, and extreme violence is just an accepted rite of adolescent passage.
The second is the problems of policing such a world, particularly in the aftermath of the McPherson report that accused the Met of institutional racism. The white cop, Matt, is impeccable and sincerely liberal in his views. But the black copper, Joe, who grew up on the benighted estate, constantly challenges the new orthodoxy.
His contempt for the feckless black males is palpable. He evne calls them niggers. Give me back the old school of police. Give them boys something to really cry about. At least theyd know where they stand, he declares.
It all makes for brilliantly contentious drama, as Joe lays into Guardian-reading shit and is forced to confront his own standing, both among his own people and in the police force, where he feels he is being used as a black poster boy.
Ian Rickson gives this powerful and important drama the bruising confrontational production it deserves. Members of the audience flinch as characters are thrown against the metal grilles that separate actors from spectators on Ultzs bleak, spartan design, and the acting is superb.
Williams never draws his characters in black and white, if such a phrase is permissible in these circumstances. The best of them are flawed, even the worst reveal unexpetected glimpses of tenderness and vulnerability. Throughout, the cast catches the writers rare combination of subtlety and raw power, not to mention the wit and bite of his street dialogue.
Lennie James as Joe, fighting a war with himself as well as against crime; Marcel McCalla as the raw, bruised killer Emile; and Ony Uhiara as the sexy Shanice, torn between the demands of loyalty and human decency, give especially fine performances in this thrillingly fine play.
Charles Spencer, DAILY TELEGRAPH 19 June 2003
This is a brave and important play, acted with a savagely controlled passion; and Ian Ricksons production burns like a forest fire that will not be put out. SUNDAY TIMES
It is the most exciting new play in London; and the excitement stems not only from gripping subject-matter and incisive writing, but from the exhilarating courage which Williams shows as well. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'The play is always riveting and is written with immense dazzle in ripe street vernacular. Williams secret weapon is humour: even the most serious exchanges are shot through with wickedly funny lines. Ian Ricksons fleet-footed production brings the play to blistering life on Ultzs admirable soulless set. THE FINANCIAL TIMES
'Thanks to Rickson, his designer Ultz, and a terrific cast of young actors, the opening minutes of Fallout are among the most galvanising of any theatrical scene in the past five years. THE OBSERVER


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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Merry Christmas!
16 comments:
- getgrounded said...
And a wonderful Christmas it is! Can't wait to read the ongoing saga of what you do with it over the next few seasons. Enjoy yourself!
- November 5, 2008 at 8:44 PM
- Gail said...
Wonderful! I am so very thrilled for you and not jealous, well maybe just a tiny bit! The plants you will grow, safe from the deer! Merry Christmas!
- November 5, 2008 at 8:45 PM
- Laura said...
oh my gosh!! how exciting! this is the second super exciting thing to happen since last night!! yes, i am thrilled about the election results. i can't wait to see what is going to live in your greenhouse! looks like you're working hard with great results-have fun!
- November 5, 2008 at 9:21 PM
- Carol said...
How very exciting! I'm looking forward to seeing it filled with plants and reading your blog posts about the joys of owning a greenhouse.
"Green with envy", I am!
Carol, May Dreams Gardens
- November 5, 2008 at 9:33 PM
- Bob said...
Instead of pea gravel you should put the shredded tree mulch down like Malcolm Beck did with his green houses. He told us at our native plant meeting that it has slow releases of nitrogen and CO2, both good for plants. He remarked that he went from a mediocre green house gardener to unbelievable after doing that. It's cheaper too. Just thought I'd let you know.
- November 5, 2008 at 10:20 PM
- Anna said...
Oh I'm so happy for you! It's a fine looking greenhouse too. The future of plants looks brighter now.
- November 5, 2008 at 11:08 PM
- Northern Shade said...
How exciting to have a new greenhouse, and it has gone up so quickly. It will be fun to fill it with plants to tend.
Perhaps the workers were thinking your gardening footwear was very spiffy.
- November 6, 2008 at 12:02 AM
- Jan said...
Congratulations on the greenhouse. I am so jealous. I know you will enjoy that esp. once cold weather sets in.
Always Growing
- November 6, 2008 at 5:25 AM
- Lisa at Greenbow said...
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Growing Year...
What fun what fun. It (and you) look great. I can't wait to see those benches filled with plants.
I hope you have a tiny spot for a chair so you can sit in there and soak up the air when it gets cold. Or if you just need a spot of quiet.
- November 6, 2008 at 5:47 AM
- Diana said...
Thanks Robin - I am already enjoying just thinking about it!
Gail -- you'll just have to come back to Austin to see it! And YES, things in there will be safe from the deer!
Laura - hey - nice to hear from you. Glad you're back. Yea, wasn't Tuesday awesome? What are you up to these days?
Carol - I hope my blog posts on the greenhouse are about the joys and not the trials! Thanks for the good wishes.
Bob - thanks for the tip. I was originally going to do mulch, because of the ease of adding to it, but the greenhouse people say the pea gravel gives you humidity and holds in the heat better in the winter. Guess I'd better rethink this!
Anna - thanks - I think my tender potted plants will be happy in there as long as I keep on top of the temperatures!
Northern shade - ah, thanks for the positive thoughts on my red rubber boots. They are really cute as can be. You know, my mom always said wear something nice when you feel bad and wearing those boots when I am working hard and traipsing through the mud does help!
Jan - thanks. I'll be putting a few things in it soon enough (gotta work out the ventilation and know how hot it gets inside when it's 90 outside!) Can't wait to show it to my plants!
Lisa - what a great new lyric! Thanks for the good wishes. I just went out and stood in it and imagined where the big pots (little trees) will go and where the shade loving things need to be and all that! I will have a chair in it ASAP because I love to sit in there when the sun it out but the air is cold.
- November 6, 2008 at 8:08 AM
- Pam/Digging said...
Hey, it looks great, Diana! You must be very excited. I can't wait to hear how you use it and see more pics as you fill it up.
- November 6, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- Lori said...
OMG, I am SO ENVIOUS! :D
- November 7, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- Lancashire rose said...
Looks great Diana. I know how excited you are about starting seeds and cuttings. We put our greenhouse up in November and I bought some pretty colorful things to brighten it up. I think we have the same benches. Amish?
I have pea gravel and yes it is good for the winter warmth. Also I put a lot of pots on the ground so watering them isn't a problem. Water just runs through. I also save all my empty gallon milk jugs and fill them with water arranged around the outside edges of the greenhouse. They heat up during the day and help when there is a frost. I also have a milk house heater for when it gets really cold. This is just for winter and spring of course which is really the only time I use the greenhouse- too hot in summer and not needed. We had to buy shade cloth and now we have a vine covering. It made the greenhouse tolerable through the summer. I now have my citrus in and some agaves that are not frost hardy. I can hardly move in there. We have a temporary drip line in there for watering. Just a few ideas for you to mull over.
Have fun.
- November 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Aunt Debbi/kurts mom said...
How awesome for you. My greenhouse was an anniversary prestent. I goes back into use every year right around our anniversary. Bob had a good idea, the bark mulch has worked much better than anything else for me.
- November 8, 2008 at 8:03 PM
- Diana said...
Pam - I'm sure it will fill it up in no time; I'm gathering up ideas for things to do besides overwinter my pots, and trying to remember what I did when I had one before!
Lori - you'll have to come see it!
Lancashire Rose - Thanks for the ideas - I especially like the milk gallon tip - I'll have to do that. We will have electricity and a heater. The shade cloth may be a greater need since the sun gets so hot here even when it's too cold at night for plants to be outside.
Aunt Debbi - that's a sweet reminder of your anniversary. I'm still trying to decide between mulch and pea gravel -- I'm leaning to the gravel because of the heaters running on the floor making things hot down there on the ground...
- November 8, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Jean said...
I am pea green with envy!! :-)
- November 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM


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The final week of high school football regular season is here. Who will win this week's slate of Mid-Penn and Tri-Valley games? PennLive's Eric F. Epler and Andrew P. Shay share their picks below.
Last week Eric was 5-7-0 while Andy was 9-3-0 against-the-spread. Epler's overall record is 61-40-4 and Shay's is 58-43-4.
Click here for Lancaster-Lebanon predictions.
All games are Friday night.
Marquee Mid-Penn and Tri-Valley games:
|CD East (+3) at Central Dauphin, 7 p.m.
|Ep: CD East
|Because Chase + carries = unstoppable force
|Shay: Central Dauphin
|Only edge I see is the revenge factor for the Rams.
|Chambersburg (pick'em) at Mifflin County, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Chambersburg
|Should be well-rested and ready to close after 60-mile trip.
|Shay: Mifflin County
|Each team has lost its way the last month. Somebody has to find it, right?
|Harrisburg (-8) at Carlisle, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Carlisle
|Unknown status of Cougars RB Davis-Ray has me thinking Herd can hang.
|Shay: Harrisburg
|Pretty sure this won't be as easy as it looks on paper.
|James Buchanan (+4) at Greencastle-Antrim, 7:30 p.m.
|Ep: Greencastle-Antrim
|Just believe the Devils are angling to finish the season strong.
|Shay: James Buchanan
|Rockets' defense has to be as good as it was last week for this to happen.
|Lower Dauphin (-14) at Hershey, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Lower Dauphin
|Trojans have to build a lead but taxing Falcons won't allow it.
|Shay: Lower Dauphin
|Not sure the Trojans' passing game is equipped for this.
|Mechanicsburg (+16) at Cedar Cliff, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Cedar Cliff
|Not worried about Colts letdown because the Wildcats won this battle a year ago.
|Shay: Cedar Cliff
|Banking on the Colts' defense to hold the fort here.
|Middletown (-5) at Trinity, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Middletown
|Enough flash by Middletown to gut out a well-earned W.
|Shay: Middletown
|Running the ball is recipe for success against T-Rocks. And Blue Raider run the pigskin.
|Millersburg (+18) at Upper Dauphin, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Upper Dauphin
|Ever try to push a refrigerator? UD is the refrigerator.
|Shay: Upper Dauphin
|Trojans' offense is running too hot for the Indians to handle.
|Milton Hershey (-12) at Boiling Springs, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Milton Hershey
|Spartans need this division scrum for myriad reasons.
|Shay: Milton Hershey
|Thinking that Spartans offense finds its mojo again.
|Red Land (pick'em) at Susquehanna Twp., 7 p.m.
|Ep: Red Land
|Just can't predict which Indians side shows up on Friday night.
|Shay: Red Land
|Patriots are still plugging away with everything they have.
|Shippensburg (-3) at Gettysburg, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Shippensburg
|A positive update on RB Burt would ease my indecision.
|Shay: Gettysburg
|Warriors Colonial champs. Who saw this coming?
|State College (+7) at Cumberland Valley, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Cumberland Valley
|At minimum, Eagles really want a piece of Commonwealth pie.
|Shay: Cumberland Valley
|Hard to go against the disciplined Eagles at The Chap.
More games:
|Bishop McDevitt at Palmyra, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Bishop McDevitt 48, Palmyra 7
|Shay: Bishop McDevitt 47, Palmyra 7
|Bucktail at Carson Long, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Bucktail 42, Carson Long 14
|Shay: Bucktail 46, Carson Long 13
|Camp Hill at Steel-High, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Steel-High 40, Camp Hill 14
|Shay: Steel-High 43, Camp Hill 14
|Juniata at Pine Grove, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Pine Grove 35, Juniata 15
|Shay: Pine Grove 34, Juniata 19
|Newport at Halifax, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Newport 33, Halifax 12
|Shay: Newport 44, Halifax 7
|Susquenita at East Pennsboro, 7 p.m.
|Ep: East Pennsboro 28, Susquenita 8
|Shay: East Pennsboro 41, Susquenita 13
|Tri-Valley at Line Mountain, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Tri-Valley 21, Line Mountain 7
|Shay: Tri-Valley 28, Line Mountain 7
|Waynesboro at Big Spring, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Big Spring 28, Waynesboro 21
|Shay: Big Spring 20, Waynesboro 13
|West Perry at Northern York, 7 p.m.
|Ep: West Perry 27, Northern 18
|Shay: West Perry 20, Northern 7
|Williams Valley at East Juniata, 7 p.m.
|Ep: Williams Valley 23, East Juniata 13
|Shay: Williams Valley 34, East Juniata 9
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What determines the speed of atoms and molecules of a particular substance?
Size of the atoms and molecules, temperature of the substance
the kinetic theory states that the higher the temperature, the faster the ______.
particles that make up a substance move
According to the law of conservation of mass, ________
total mass stays the same in changes of state
According to the law of conservation of energy, _________
energy is not created or destroyed in changes of state
What happens to the particles of a substance when it condenses?
particles slow down and clump together
You have 85.5 g of flourine, which has a molar mass of 19 g/mol. How may moles of flourine do you have?
4.5 mol
Decmocritus's original atomic theory was revised because it ________.
did not have a scientific basis
Whose model determined that an atom's positive charge is concentrated in the atom's center?
What is the amount of nickel, which has an average atomic mass of 58.7 u, present in 525 g nickel?
8.90 mol
An iron atom has an atomic mass of 56. Its atomic number is 26. How many neutrons does the iron atom have?
Dalton's atomic theory stated that every element was made of atoms that could not be subdivided, atoms of the same element are alike, and ________.
atoms of different elements could form to join compounds
An element's average atomic mass is a ________ average, so ___________.
weighted, common isotopes have a greater effect than uncommon ones
You have 6.50 mol of chromium, which has a molar mass of 52 g/mol. What is the mass in grams of this amount of chromium?
338 g
The kinetic theory states that, at the same _______, heavier particles move more slowly than lighter particles.
The first person who suggested that matter was made up of atom was the Greek philosopher __________.
A region in which there is a high probability of finding an electron is called a(n) ________.
Thomson's cathode-ray tube experiment supported the theory that _______ exist inside an atom.
Rutherford's gold-foil experiment revealed that an atom's positive charge is concentrated in the atom's ________.
Main points of the kinetic theory of matter:
speeds depend on temperature and size, particles are always in motion
If you know element's molar mass, explain how you can determine that mass of a particular amount of the element.
multiply amount of element in moles by its molar mass
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There are two paths called βyz in the un-titled figure currently on page 26
Seems that one should be βx and the other βz (the one that is currently βy should be β0)?
Similar issue in the simple regression figure (unlabeled, but currently on page 22)
Somewhere around here in the documentation some explanation of the triangle should be given too: I think users will be wondering:
If it's a mean, how can it be connected to all three variables?
What does the "1" in the middle mean? Is that a mean? or a variance?
Why isn't the variance of the triangle labeled? What label would it have if it was?
Does it also have a label, or is "1" its label?
Do fixed variables have their value as the label?
What about two variables fixed to the same value: does that create labels that link them if one is subsequently freed or edited?
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The βx and β0 problems are mine. I used the same path diagrams for the simple regression, multiple regression and multivariate regression examples. I'll fix them by the next binary release. I'll put in a ticket for Hermine to fix the twin models.
As far as the triangle, that's referred to as the "constant" in mxPath statements and RAM models per McArdle & McDonald (1984), and will be used to define mean structure. It's label is "constant", and is directly tied to the GLM. For intercepts to be present in a GLM regression-style model, one needs to add a (column) vector of 1s to the matrix of predictor variables.
Mike, I was and am skeptical of the variance term for the constant, as any calculated variance is zero. The defense I've gotten from McArdle's APA Advanced Training Institutes is that the variance path (which is fixed to 1) is included to preserve path tracing rules. The original (someone correct me) specification of SEM and path tracing rules included a variable of all 1s, and that means were modeled as means-squared and were defined by all paths that led both from and two a particular variable while going through the constant. If the constant didn't have a variance path, it couldn't be included in paths, as all one-headed arrows lead from the constant. In modern usage, most people define means as all paths from the constant to an observed variable, rendering the variance path moot. I was taught to put the variance path in with a fixed value of 1, though I recognize it as something of an anachronism. I hope this not-so-subtle hint towards those with similar training gets a discussion going.
This can be confusing. Let me elaborate on Ryne's correct answer to the best of my ability.
If we use triangles solely to implement a separate means model, then the variance for the constant should be zero.
If we use triangles to implement a constant for SSCP calculations without a means model, then the variance for the constant should be one.
So, given the current model that we are implementing in FIML and RAM, we should omit the variance double headed path for the constant.
Should we implement the SSCP calculation (it is reserved, but not implemented), then we will need to include the double headed path for the constant in order for the SSCP algebra to work without requiring a separate means model.
Re: the triangle... Conceptually it was thought of as half an observed variable. It has no variance, being scored 1 for everyone in the sample. Accordingly, I think it should NEVER have a variance loop, since the variance is always zero.
I think there's a mistake in this portion of the docs at
makes a matrix called CholDZ instead of CholMZ
dimnames=list(NULL, selVars),
mxMatrix("Full", 2, 2,
dimnames=list(NULL, selVars),
CholMZ %*% t(CholMZ),
dimnames=list(selVars, selVars)),


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ovember 12, 2001
A traditional Thanksgiving dinner
Cranberry-Glazed Roast Turkey with Gravy
1 10-12 lb. turkey
1 Tbsp. salt
1 tsp. ground ginger
2 carrots, evenly diced
2 stalks celery, evenly diced
1 large onion, evenly diced
2 cloves peeled garlic
2 cans whole-berry cranberry sauce
1/2 c. Madeira wine or orange juice concentrate
1-1/2 Tbsp. flour
2 c. clear chicken broth
Salt and pepper to taste
Lower the oven rack to its lowest position and preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Remove giblet packet and neck from the turkey. Remove wing tips. Rinse the turkey in cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Rinse and reserve all of the turkey parts.
Cut the neck into 1-inch pieces. Split the gizzard into four pieces.
Mix together salt, white pepper and ginger. Season the turkey's cavity with half of this mixture. Truss (tie) the tail and legs together with butcher twine.
Place the turkey in a 9 x 13-inch baking dish or 4 qt. oval roaster with rack.
Spread the chopped vegetables and whole garlic cloves in the pan around the turkey. Put the turkey parts on the vegetable mixture in the pan. Sprinkle the rest of the seasoning mixture on the vegetables.
Place the pan in the oven and roast the turkey for approximately 3 hours, basting it periodically with its natural juices. During the last half hour of roasting, test for doneness by pressing on the leg and piercing the joint between the leg and thigh with a skewer. The juice will be clear when the turkey is done.
Combine cranberry sauce with Madeira wine (or orange juice concentrate for a non-alcoholic alternative) in a small saucepan and heat just until boiling.
During the last 15 minutes of roasting, glaze the turkey with the cranberry sauce mixture, spreading to coat evenly with a basting brush.
Remember, once the pop-up timer pops, the turkey will continue to cook for 5-15 minutes after being removed from the oven. Remove the turkey from the pan, pouring all the juices that have accumulated in the cavity into the roasting pan. Place the turkey on a large platter or on a rack with paper towels underneath it and let it rest.
Using oven mitts for safety, place the roasting pan on the stove and brown the vegetable mixture. Add the flour and cook two minutes longer. Add the chicken broth. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 10 minutes.
Strain the sauce though a sieve and add salt and pepper to taste. Before serving, gently skim the fat from the top of the gravy. Carve turkey for serving.
Classic Bread and Chestnut Stuffing
1 lb. loaf white bread
1 c. diced onions
1/2 c. diced celery stalks, prewashed
2 oz. canola oil
4 eggs, beaten lightly
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. white pepper
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 16 oz. can chicken broth, divided
Optional: 1 c. roasted, peeled and quartered chestnuts or 8 oz. canned chestnuts, quartered, or 6 oz. dried chestnuts, soaked overnight and simmered until tender, drained and quartered
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cut bread into even cubes about 1-inch square. Place bread on cookie sheet and toast in oven until lightly browned. Remove and lower oven temperature to 300 degrees.
Heat oil in saute or frying pan and add onion and celery. Saute for five minutes, stirring occasionally to ensure even cooking.
Put toasted bread cubes in a bowl. Add the eggs, seasoning and 12 oz. of the chicken broth. Mix gently without letting the mixture get mushy. If the mixture is dry, add the remainder of the broth.
Add the chestnuts (or 1 c. of any favorite add-ins, such as sauteed mushrooms; chopped, pitted prunes or apricots; sauteed sausage meat, shucked, chopped oysters; sauteed apple slices; or any combination thereof.
Turn the mixture into a lightly oiled 2 qt. baking dish and shake the dish to help air pockets settle.
Bake about 45 minutes until firm. Let rest 20 minutes before serving. Cut into squares or just scoop to serve.
Cider Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Vegetables
3 c. apple cider (sparkling or nonsparkling) or apple juice
1 c. semi-sweet white wine (such as Riesling or Gewurstaminer)
3 Tbsp. butter
1-1/4 lbs. red-skinned sweet potatoes or yams
1-1/4 lbs. white turnips
1-1/4 lbs. parsnips
1-1/4 lbs. yellow turnips (rutubaga)
Salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.Boil apple cider and wine in heavy saucepan until reduced to 3/4 c., about 30 minutes.Whisk in butter. While cider is boiling, peel and cut vegetables into 1/2-inch pieces. Divide between two 9 x 13 baking dishes. When roasting vegetables, it is preferable to spread them out; if only one roasting dish is available, toss vegetables several times during roasting to ensure even cooking and crisped edges.Pour cider/wine mixture over vegetables. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss to coat.
Roast until vegetables are tender and golden, stirring occasionally, about 40 minutes. Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley or chives to serve.
Potato Gorgonzola Gratin
2 medium-large, thinly sliced potatoes
1/2 medium onion, thinly sliced
1 medium, tart green apple, unpeeled, cored, thinly sliced
1/2 c. milk or half and half
3/4 c. Gorgonzola or blue cheese, crumbled
2 Tbsp. grated Parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
In an 8 or 9-inch casserole, arrange half of the potatoes. Layer onion and apple. Layer remaining potatoes and season with salt and pepper to taste. Pour on milk. Cover with foil. Bake at 400 degrees for 30-40 minutes until tender. Remove foil; top with cheese. Bake uncovered 10-15 minutes until lightly browned
Makes 4-6 servings.
Hearthside Cider
1 (32 oz.) bottle cran-raspberry juice cocktail
1 (32 oz.) bottle apple cider or apple juice
2 c. water
6 whole allspice
2 whole cinnamon sticks
6 apple cinnamon or orange spice herbal tea bags
1/2 c. firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 c. lemon juice form concentrate
In large sauce pan, combine juice, cider, water, allspice and cinnamon sticks; bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add tea bags; cover and let stand 10 minutes.
Remove tea bags and spices. Add sugar and lemon juice from concentrate; stir until sugar dissolves. Serve warm.
Perfect Pumpkin Pie
1 (15-oz.) can pumpkin (2 cups)
1 (14-oz.) sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1 (9-inch) unbaked pie crust
Toppings (recipes follow, optional)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. With wire whisk or mixer, beat all ingredients except pie crust. Pour into prepared pie crust. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven heat to 350 degrees. Continue baking 35-40 minutes, or as directed with one topping of choice, or until knife inserted one inch from edge comes out clean. Cool. Garnish as desired. Store covered in refrigerator.
Sour cream topping: In medium bowl, combine 1 1/2 c. sour cream, 2 Tbsp. sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla extract. After pie has baked 30 minutes at 350 degrees, spread evenly over top; bake 10 minutes longer.
Streusel topping: In medium bowl, combine 1/2 c. packed light brown sugar and 1/2 c. unsifted flour; cut in 1/4 c. (1/2 stick) cold butter or margarine until crumbly. Stir in 1/4 c. chopped nuts. After pie has baked 30 minutes at 350 degrees, sprinkle evenly over top; bake 10 minutes longer.
Chocolate glaze: In small saucepan over low heat, melt 1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate ships and 1 tsp. solid shortening. Drizzle or spread over top of baked pie.
Green Bean Casserole
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 c. milk
1 tsp. soy sauce
Dash pepper
4 c. cooked, cut green beans
1 can (2.8 oz.) French fried onions, divided
Mix soup, milk, soy sauce, pepper, beans and 1/2 can onions in 1-1/2 quart casserole.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until hot. Stir.
Sprinkle with remaining onions. Bake 5 minutes
Makes 6 servings.
Herb Roasted Turkey
1 can (14 oz.) chicken broth
3 Tbsp. dried basil leaves, crushed
1 tsp. dried thyme leaves, crushed
1/8 tsp. pepper
1 12-14 lb. turkey
Mix broth, lemon juice, basil, thyme and pepper
Roast turkey according to package directions, basting with broth mixture.
Let stand 10 minutes before slicing. Discard any remaining broth mixture.
Makes 4 servings.


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7/22 It's Santo's day
Legendary Cubs third baseman and longtime WGN Radio broadcaster Ron Santo will be posthumously enshrined into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., today. The ceremony begins at 12:30 p.m. CT. Santo was voted into the Hall last Dec. 5 by the Golden Era Ballot Committee.
On Sunday, the Cubs will wear No. 10 patches on their jerseys to commemorate Santo's election into the Hall.
* In the 15 Major League seasons of Santo's playing career with the Cubs (1960-73) and White Sox (1974), he was one of four players to amass 2,000 hits, 300 home runs and 1,300 RBIs, joining fellow Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson and Billy Williams.
* Including Santo, a total of 47 former Cubs players, managers and executives have earned enshrinement into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
— Carrie Muskat
7/19 Hall of Fame events
Ron Santo will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, and fans of the Cubs third baseman can watch the TV premiere of "This Old Cub" special edition on MLB Network on Saturday.
This is an updated version of the documentary about Santo, who passed away Dec. 3, 2010. It will air at 12 p.m. CT Saturday. The intimate and indepth film focuses on Santo's life, both on the field and off, and how he dealt with complications from diabetes that forced him to have both legs amputated below the knee. It includes humorous and very touching highlights from his days as a player and in the radio booth with broadcaster Pat Hughes. The film was produced and directed by Santo's son Jeff, and the new version includes the statue dedication at Wrigley Field in August 2011, the Hall of Fame election announcement on Dec. 5, 2011, and excerpts from an interview between father and son recorded two weeks before Ron died. Fans also can purchase their own copy of the documentary at www.santofilms.com.
Santo was voted into Cooperstown on Dec. 5, 2011 by the Golden Era Ballot Committee. A nine-time All-Star, he received 15 of 16 votes.
* On Saturday in Cooperstown, the Cubs will host a fan fest at the Fenimore Art Museum from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. CT. Special guests will include Hughes, Hall of Famers Billy Williams and Fergie Jenkins, and teammates Glenn Beckert and Randy Hundley. There will be a question and answer session, video of Santo moments, and food and drink. The Cubs contingent in Cooperstown also will include members of the Ricketts family, as well as former Cubs manager Lou Piniella.
* Sunday's induction ceremony will begin at 12:30 p.m. CT at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown. Cubs fans who can't get there can celebrate Santo's honor at a viewing party at Captain Morgan Club next to Wrigley Field.
* On July 27, which will be the Cubs' first home game after the ceremony, the team will celebrate Santo at Wrigley Field, with the first 10,000 fans receiving a commemorative Ron Santo Hall of Fame plaque.
— Carrie Muskat
7/14 Ron Santo week
Ron Santo will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 22, and there will be a series of events leading up to the ceremony in Cooperstown. It will be finalized July 27 with Ron Santo Day at Wrigley Field, when the team will honor the former third baseman with a special pregame ceremony featuring members of his family. The first 10,000 fans in the gate will receive a commemorative Ron Santo Hall of Fame plaque, courtesy of PNC Bank, while commemorative memorabilia will also be available for purchase. The team has partnered with Scotts to incorporate an honorary design into the outfield grass of Wrigley Field for that afternoon's game.
"Ron Santo embodied what it meant to be a Chicago Cub," chairman Tom Ricketts said in a statement. "This franchise couldn't be prouder as he is enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and we're honored he will forever represent the Chicago Cubs in Cooperstown. Our family looks forward to celebrating this well-deserved accomplishment with Cubs fans worldwide."
* July 17 – Cubs Corner Luncheon, Chicago
Ron's son, Ron Santo Jr., plus former teammate and Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins, and Cubs WGN Radio broadcaster Pat Hughes will reflect on Ron's Hall of Fame induction during a panel discussion at the Cubs Corner Luncheon at Wildfire restaurant in Chicago. The session will air on WGN Radio 720 AM from 12-1 p.m. CT. Tickets are $55 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Each guest receives an autographed photo of a featured panelist upon check-in and lunch. On-site registration begins at 11 a.m CT. Tickets are available at www.cubs.com/cubscorner.
* July 21 – Cubs Fan Fest, Cooperstown, N.Y.
The Cubs will host a Cubs Fan Fest in Cooperstown on July 21 in honor of Ron Santo's induction into the Hall of Fame. The party will be held in the lawn-tented section of Cooperstown's Fenimore Art Museum from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET. This casual party is for Cubs fans who wish to celebrate Santo's life and induction with other members of the Cubs community, including Ron's teammates and several members of the Cubs front office. Special guests include Pat Hughes, Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins, Randy Hundley, Glenn Beckert, the Ricketts family and others. Attendees will enjoy a live question and answer session, video of memorable Santo moments, music, food and drinks. A suggested $10 donation at the event will help benefit Chicago Cubs Charities and the not-for-profit National Baseball Hall of Fame.
* July 22 – National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Cooperstown, N.Y.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place July 22 at 1:30 p.m. ET on the grounds outside of the Clark Sports Center. The ceremony is expected to last two hours. Seating for the event is unlimited and free of charge. A blanket or lawn chair is recommended for comfortable viewing. Ball caps, yearbooks and museum membership packages are available for purchase at the Hall of Fame induction site.
* July 22 – Hall of Fame Induction Viewing Party, Wrigley Field's Captain Morgan Club, Chicago
Concurrent with the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, the Cubs will host a viewing party at the Captain Morgan Club adjacent to Wrigley Field starting at 11 a.m. CT. Attendees can watch the ceremony live on dozens of televisions from 12:30-2:30 p.m. CT just steps away from Ron Santo's statue at the corner of Addison Street and Sheffield Avenue.
* July 27 – Ron Santo Day at Wrigley Field, Chicago
The first Cubs home game following the Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be dedicated to honoring Ron Santo in the ballpark he enjoyed the most. The following activities will highlight Ron Santo Day at Wrigley Field:
- The Cubs will honor Santo during an on-field ceremony featuring members of his family before the 1:20 p.m. CT game vs. the Cardinals.
- The first 10,000 fans will receive a commemorative Ron Santo Hall of Fame plaque, courtesy of PNC Bank.
- The outfield grass in center field will showcase an honorary No. 10 design that was chosen by fans through a partnership with Scotts, the Official Lawn Care Company of the Cubs and Major League Baseball.
- Chicago Kernel Gourmet Popcorn will hand out free samples of their gourmet popcorn at Wrigley Field and sell a limited-edition collectible art popcorn tin commemorating Ron Santo's legendary career and induction into the Hall of Fame. Each tin includes a limited-edition Ron Santo baseball card.
- Majestic will offer commemorative Ron Santo Hall of Fame Cubs jerseys, T-shirts and patches for sale, with proceeds benefitting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
Fans may purchase tickets for the July 27 game at Wrigley Field at www.cubs.com.
7/3 Hall of Fame update
More than 40 Hall of Famers are expected in Cooperstown to celebrate the enshrinement of the class of 2012 during festivities July 20-23. They will gather to induct Reds shortstop Barry Larkin and the late Ron Santo, who will be enshrined July 22. Santo's wife Vicki will deliver the speech to honor the former Cubs third baseman and broadcaster. Ceremonies will begin at 1:30 p.m. ET. If you have never been to Cooperstown, it's worth the trip. Admission is free.
— Carrie Muskat
6/21 Ron Santo print
Are you a fan of Ron Santo? Artist John Hanley, in collaboration with Santo's son, Ron Jr., have produced a commemorative print celebrating the former Cubs third baseman's induction into the Hall of Fame.The 16" x 20" lithograph was created to honor Santo's outstanding career. To further honor Ron Santo's legacy, 10 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). For more info about Hanley and the Ron Santo print, please visit his website at www.johnhanleyartist.com or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
5/8 Hall of Fame weekend
Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson was at Wrigley Field on Monday, continuing preparations for the upcoming induction ceremonies in Cooperstown on July 22, which will include Ron Santo. The family of the late Cubs third baseman and broadcaster was to meet with Idelson and provide some other info and tidbits for the ceremony. Santo passed away in December 2010. His wife Vicki will deliver the speech in Cooperstown. Fans, if you've never been to the Baseball Hall of Fame, this is a good reason to go.
— Carrie Muskat
1/24 Plan now to attend HOF ceremonies
Are you planning on attending Hall of Fame induction ceremonies to honor late Cubs third baseman Ron Santo? The events will be July 20-23 in Cooperstown, N.Y., and more than 50 Hall of Famers are expected to return. Santo, who was named to nine All-Star Games in his 15 big league seasons, received 15 of 16 votes from the Golden Era Committee members at the Winter Meetings in December to gain induction. He is the 12th third baseman elected to the Hall of Fame and the 15th overall (including Negro leagues players).
The July 22 induction ceremony will place on the grounds outside of the Clark Sports Center, which is located on lower Susquehanna Avenue, just one mile south of the Hall of Fame. The ceremony is held rain or shine, unless severe weather forces the cancellation of the event. Seating for the event is unlimited and free of charge. A blanket or lawn chair is recommended for comfortable viewing. As the weather in Cooperstown can be quite warm in July, it is recommended that visitors bring a cap and sunscreen. It's a tremendous weekend.
— Carrie Muskat
12/4 Cubs to know Monday re: Santo & Hall
The Cubs are hoping for good news Monday at the Winter Meetings when they find out if Ron Santo made it into the Hall of Fame. The 16-member revamped Veterans Committee cast its votes on Sunday in Dallas. Santo, who died one year ago Saturday, is one of the candidates on a Veterans' Committee ballot representing the Golden Era of the sport from 1947-72. Santo's competition includes former players Gil Hodges, Ken Boyer, Minnie Minoso, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat, Allie Reynolds, Luis Tiant, and executives Charlie Finley and Buzzie Bavasi.
Santo failed to make the Hall of Fame in his 15 years of eligibity on the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot and also in numerous forms of the Veterans Committee. He missed by nine votes in a 2008 ballot of a post 1943 committee, and his highest vote total on the BBWAA ballot was 43.1 percent in 1998.
Hall of Famer Billy Williams, Santo's former teammate, is on the Golden Era Committee, along with Hank Aaron, Al Kaline, Ralph Kiner, Tommy Lasorda, Juan Marichal, Brooks Robinson, Don Sutton. Major League executives Paul Beeston, Bill DeWitt, Roland Hemond, Gene Michael and Al Rosen, and veteran media members Dick Kaegel, Jack O'Connell and Dave Van Dyck also are on the committee. A 75 percent vote is needed, which, in this instance, would be 12 votes.
— Carrie Muskat
8/30 Santo, Hughes on Frick ballot
You can help Ron Santo and Pat Hughes get into baseball's Hall of Fame. Santo and Hughes are among the 75 candidates vying for the 2012 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. This is Hughes' 16th season as WGN Radio's play by play announcer. Santo's last season as the team's analyst was 2010. The former Cubs third baseman, who died last December, began his broadcasting career in 1990 and teamed with Hughes for 15 seasons.
Fans can cast votes for the Cubs radio broadcasters at the Hall of Fame's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/baseballhall. This is the ninth consecutive year the fans will select three of the 10 names on the ballot for the Frick Award. Voting runs from Thursday through Sept. 30, and fans can cast votes once per day through September.
The Hall of Fame has trimmed the list of fan-eligible candidates to 75, with two representing every current big league team and 15 at-large selections. The selections were based on popularity, longevity and past voting results in the online fan balloting. Eligible candidates must have a minimum of 10 years of continuous Major League broadcast service with a ball club, network, or a combination of the two.
Results of the fan voting will be announced Oct. 5. The final 2012 Frick Award ballot will be comprised of the three fan selections, along with seven other candidates, determined by a Hall of Fame staff research team. The winner will be announced Dec. 6 at the Winter Meetings.
— Carrie Muskat
7/25 The Hawk lands in the HOF
Andre Dawson made a point of thanking Cubs fans for welcoming him to the city and supporting him during his induction speech Sunday at the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
"From my heart, thank you, Cubs fans," Dawson said as fans bowed to him "You're a true blessing in my life. I never knew what it felt to be loved by a city until I came to Chicago. You gave me new life in baseball when I arrived and you are the reason I contineud to play.
"You were the wind beneath the Hawk's wings," he said.
— Carrie Muskat


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You probably know that carbon emissions threaten the atmosphere. The Natural Resources Defense Council wants you to look down, too, at the danger faced by the world's oceans.
"Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification" was first aired on Discovery Planet Green. The 22-minute documentary, narrated by Sigourney Weaver, is now on the web.
Since the Industrial Revolution, oceans have absorbed a quarter of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels. Ocean acidity levels have risen 30 percent since that time after millions of years of relative stability, according to the film. Without a reduction in carbon emissions, a scientist says in the film, polar seas could be so acidic by mid-century that they will dissolve shells of marine organisms and shellfish.
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I think in the end it's all going to be about things like CAFO, processed, and added sugars. I was born in 1955 which means that while I ate CAFO chicken (which started in the 50s), beef and pork weren't CAFO until the 1970s, so I got to eat relatively healthy food through puberty. My grandparents didn't eat CAFO until they were already grandparents. I bring this up because in my family it was usual to live to be 85+ until my mother's generation. Coincidentally, that was the generation that fell in love with convenience foods like tv dinners, canned soups and sauces, etc. It also coincides with the proliferation of fast food places like McD and their ilk.
It's not scientific, but observationally, what I see is that the generations that ate tomato sauce made from tomatoes (not premade in a can), produce not shipped from 1500 miles away, real olive oil, homemade wine, and meats that weren't CAFO lived longer than the next generation. And they ate plenty of wheat in the form of pasta and doughs that stretched meat out for large families.


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Join us at Morning Prayer when we mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 18th, 2011, and ending Jan. 25th. Prayer cards, in both English and in Spanish, are available for all who would like a copy of the prayer for Christian unity:
Lord Jesus, you continue to pray that your disciples may be one in a unity graced by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We your people long to be one in you. May your prayer for unity open the hearts and minds of all Christians. Guide us, Lord, in your way, that we may be one in the apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer, to the glory of your name, one Lord for ever and ever.


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On Cue, al-Qaeda Threatens Iran
Kurt Nimmo | July 10, 2007
For the neocons, al-Qaeda is a dream come true. For instance, the current arch nemesis of the clash of civilizations gang, Iranor rather, the latest target, as the previous target, Iraq, is mired in engineered sectarian violence, and other targets, such as Syria, await their turnhas supposedly fallen afoul of al-Qaeda in Iraq, as the corporate media reports. The leader of an al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shi'ites in Iraq within two months, according to an audiotape, the Associated Press would have us believe, mostly because we are suckers for these sort of things. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who leads the group Islamic State in Iraq, said his Sunni fighters have been preparing for four years to wage a battle against Shi'ite-dominated Iran, precisely as their handlersthe CIA, Mossad, and MI6have planned.
But wait a minute. Didn't the nine eleven whitewash commission conclude that al-Qaeda is in cahoots with Hezbollah and thus Iran? In relation to Iran, commission investigators said intelligence 'showed far greater potential for collaboration between Hezbollah and al Qaeda than many had previously thought.' Iran is a primary sponsor of Hezbollah, or Party of God, the Lebanon-based anti-Israel group that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the CIA's favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, reported on June 26, 2004, never mind ancient animosities between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, an angle mentioned by the Associated Press.
On the one hand, al-Qaeda supposedly declares a hankering to attack Iran, while on the other, according to NewsroomAmerica, al-Qaeda is using Iran to organize and launch operations against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and elsewhere, western officials say
. The Financial Times reports that while the extent of al-Qaeda operations based in Iran isn't clear, it is believed to be taking place with the direct approval of Iran's hardline Islamic government.
Go figure.
Last year, the dead Osama bin Laden told Sunnis in Iraq to retaliate against Shiites, deviating from al Qaeda's stand of not promoting sectarian violence, CNN reported. Around the same time, the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the one-legged master terrorist wonder, railed against Shiites in a four-hour-long audiotape harangue posted on the Internet and described as an unprecedented screed that chronicled what al-Zarqawi said was a Shiite campaign throughout history to destroy Islam and help foreign invaders of Muslim lands, according to USA Today.
It is precisely this fickle character the neocons love, as Osama and Abu Musab will lash out on cue at Shi'ites one day and team up with them the next, never mind purported genocide, betrayal, or bad feelings spanning centuries. Of course, it helps that the commoners, to say nothing of no shortage of senators, are virtual no-nothings when it comes grasping the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam.
A month after the nine eleven whitewash commission made its absurd claim, Iran arrested a number of Iranian supporters of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group, ABC News reported. Iran says it has arrested and repatriated hundreds of Al Qaeda suspects in the last two years, likely because they recognize a gaggle of CIA-ISI created patsies and mental patients when they see them. Even though the whitewash commission made sure to implicate Iran, they said there was no evidence that Iran helped Al Qaeda with the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, not that a lackadaisical public is capable of making crucial distinctions, as millions remain convinced Saddam and Osama plotted mayhem and mass murder, mostly because they hate our freedom to jack up the credit card at the local mall.
Of course, as Rick Santorum realizes, the American public is easily swayed by such things, never mind the Brothers Grimm character. In an alarming display of fearmongering, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has suggested that a series of unfortunate events,' namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizen's perception of the war, writes Paul Joseph Watson. Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Santorum also hyped the necessity of confronting Iran in the Middle East, and predicted that Giuliani, Romney and Tommy Thompson would be the three surviving Republican candidates who would go head to head in the race for the nomination
. Santorum went on to clearly imply that terror attacks will occur inside America which will alter the body politic and lead to a reversal of the anti-war sentiment now dominating the country.
Naturally, this anti-war sentiment is not only easy for our representatives to ignore, as the Democrats pandered to it and then ignored widespread antiwar sentiment after the election was over last November, but it will also be easy to reverse with a bit of manufactured terrorism. Moreover, it is no mistake Santorum mentioned terrorism and Iran in the same breath.
So powerful is al-Qaeda, we are told the CIA-ISI created terror organization is operating in India. According to B. Raman, writing for Rediff News, pro-Al Qaeda jihadi organizations from Pakistan, including Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, and Lashkar-e-Tayiba, mostly active in the disputed areas of Jammu and Kashmir, are active in India, primarily because of India's close relations with the US and Israel. Al Qaeda not only looks upon India as a close associate of the US similar to the UK, but also as providing favorable conditions for its overseas operations directed against US nationals and interests in Indian territory.
Finally, CIA asset Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is protecting al Qaeda and allowing it to gain a foothold in Gaza, Reuters reports. It is Hamas that is protecting al Qaeda, and through its bloody behavior Hamas has become very close to al Qaeda, said Abbas, blaming the phantom organization, or database. That is why Gaza is in danger and needs help.
Actually, Gaza is threatened by Israel, currently engaged in a blockade threatening to destroy the territory's commercial sector and drive more people into the hands of extremists, that it to say those resisting occupation. In the last three weeks, 75 per cent of Gaza's factories have closed because they are not allowed to import raw material or export finished products, forcing thousands of families to rely on food aid to survive, notes Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization. In reality, a policy of collective punishment is being imposed upon 1.4 million people, in violation of international humanitarian law and contradictory to Israel's interest. Destroying Gaza's economy only exacerbates dependence on extreme elements.
Abbas, following his CIA script, signed off on by Olmert, is oblivious to all of this.
But never mind. We have an al-Qaeda epidemic just about everywhere, even Gaza.
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Private Equity Firm Gets Banged up by Commercial Print Deal
Private equity firms love the paper and package printing industries, but spurn further relationships with commercial printing companies. Atlas Holdings, the fund behind recycled fiber tissue manufacturer Soundview Paper Company (née Marcal) joined Blue Wolf Capital, its co-investor in Finch Paper, to acquire Twin Rivers Paper. Twin Rivers manufactures packaging, label and publishing papers in New Brunswick, Canada, and Maine. In an apparently unrelated coincidence of names and products, Peak Rock Capital acquired Atlas Paper Mills, a manufacturer of tissue from recycled fibers in Miami, FL. Private equity giant, H.I.G. Capital, acquired Caraustar Industries, a manufacturer of paperboard products and printer of folding cartons. Nekoosa Coated Products, backed by Wingate Partners, moved further away from commercial printing paper with the completion of its acquisition of IGI Corporation which manufactures specialty printing and masking substrates. These deals continue the steady flow of PE-backed deals in the paper industry, with new nuptials every month to date this year.
Wellspring Capital has apparently been dented by its foray into commercial printing. Its portfolio company, Hess Print Solutions, formed by the PE firm in 2006 with the merger of two Midwest printing companies, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filed motions include a plan for a prepackaged shotgun wedding through a 363 sale of its assets to Bang Printing.


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- The Graduate School
Doctoral Requirements
Doctoral Toolbox
- Doctoral Program Student Guide (pdf)
Requirements *
The PhD degree is comprised of four stages: coursework, prelim preparation and exam, dissertation proposal and defense, and research, writing, and defending of the dissertation. Minimum degree requirement is 33 credits beyond the Master's degree, at least 27 of which must be earned in residence at UWM. Of the total credits required, 12 credits must be completed in the PhD core courses: 921 Research Methods in Urban Studies, 984 Research Project in Urban Studies, 981 Argument in Urban Studies Scholarship OR 983 Contemporary Urban Social Structure and Change, and the quantitative competency course (history 595, sociology 760, ed psych 624). In addition, students take 6-9 credits in a methodological track they select (see below), and 6-9 credits in a topical specialization they select (see below), and 6 credits in the thesis course (991). Students may enroll for additional thesis credits but no more than 6 credits may be counted toward fulfilling the degree requirements.
Each student is expected to plan a program of study with their major professor in order to gain competence in a field of specialization. Possible areas of specialization are: Community Organizations and Nonprofits, Globalization and International Migration and Development, Housing and Gentrification, Public Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Culture, Movements, and Space, Urban/Metro Economic Development, Urban and Suburban History, Urban Politics and Administration, Urban Poverty and Inequality. Students may develop a research focus in other area concentrations, but must use care as they will need to assemble a committee of five that have similar interests/expertise.
*new curriculum adopted, Fall 2013
PhD Curriculum
33 credits required
- Ph.D. Core Courses: (12 credits)
- See frequency of offering methodological courses document
- Urban Studies 291: Research Methods in Urban Studies, 3 cr.
- Urban Studies 984: Research Project in Urban Studies, 3 cr.
- Urban Studies 981: (Argument in Urban Studies Scholarship, 3 cr.) OR 983: (Contemporary Urban Social Structure and Change, 3 cr.)
- Quantitative Competency Course: (History 595; Geography 547; Sociology 760; Ed Psych 624)
- See how often courses are offered (course-tracking.pdf)
- Methodological Track (6-9 credits)
- Statistical Analysis/Quantitative Research Design (2 course minimum)
- Urban Studies 982 Advanced Quantitative Analysis, 3 cr.
- Second Elective:
- Third Elective (possible electives below):
- Ed Psych 823: Structural Equation Modeling
- Ed Psych 825: Multiple Regression and Multivariate Methods.
- Ed Psych 826: Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data.
- Ed Psych 832: Theory of Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Soc 752 Fundamentals of Survey Methodology.
- Soc 754: Questionnaire Design.
- Soc Wrk 963: Measurement Methods and Related Multivariate Statistics.
- Soc Wrk 964: Advanced Statistical Methods.
- Geographical Information Systems (2 course minimum)
**Students who elect this specialization must take Geog 547 to complete the statistical/quantitative core competency.
- Geog 525: Geographic Information Science (4 cr.)
- Geog 625: Intermediate Geographic Information Science (4 cr.)
- Third Elective (possible electives below):
- Geog 934: GIS and Society
- Geog 960: Geographic Techniques
- Historical Methods (2 course minimum)
- One of the following two courses:
- Urban Studies 971: Seminar on the History of American Urban Problems, 3 cr.
- Urban Studies 980: Growth of Urban Society, 3 cr.
- One of the following three historical methods courses:
- Hist 712: Historiography and Theory of History, 3 cr.
- Hist 713: Historical Research Methods, 3 cr.
- Hist 715: Research Methods in Local History, 3 cr.
- Third Elective: One other 700, 800, or 900 level course in the History Department
- One of the following two courses:
- Qualitative Methods (2 course minimum)
- One of the following two courses:
Geography 727 Qualitative Research, 3 cr.
Urban Studies 979: Qualitative Research Methods, 3 cr.
- Second Elective:
- Third Elective: (possible electives below)
- Africology 700: Theories and Methods in Qualitative Research in Africology
- Curriculum and Instruction 729: Qualitative Research and Field Studies in Educational Settings
- Curriculum and Instruction 829: Advanced Qualitative Research Techniques for Education Settings
- Soc Wrk 952: Qualitative Research Methods in Social Work
- One of the following two courses:
- Program/Policy Evaluation (2 course minimum)
- Poli Sci/Pub Adm 769 Analyzing and Evaluating Public Policies and Programs
- Second Elective:
- Third Elective: (possible electives below)
- Urban Education 842: Program Planning and Evaluation in Education
- Social Work 794: Advanced Research Methods: Evaluating Social Welfare Programs
- Social Work 750: Social Welfare Policy Development and Implementation
- Poli Sci 751: Seminar in Public Policy Formation
- Poli Sci 791: Nonprofit Advocacy and Public Policy
- Poli Sci 974: Seminar in Politics and Public Policy
- Poli Sci 976: Seminar in Comparative Public Policy: (Subtitled)
- Urb Plan 810: Planning Policy Analysis
- Mixed Methods (2 course minimum)
*Graduate students intending to pursue mixed research methods in their dissertation must file with USP a plan of study created in consultation with their major professor and the program Director.
- Statistical Analysis/Quantitative Research Design (2 course minimum)
- Topical Specialization (6-9 credits):
- Thesis (6 credits minimum)
Total Credits (33 credits minimum)
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The wait-and-worry tension of the early rounds is too much for many contenders, who end up falling to players well below them on the pecking order. It's already happened to Sam Stosur and Robin Soderling at this tournament, and it almost happened to Roger Federer.
That last one -- Federer's second-round match with Gilles Simon -- was the one big gulp of the first week. Time was, Federer was an automatic entry for the second week. Remember that record 23 consecutive semifinal appearances at majors? That's six straight years. But now even Tommy Robredo has the audacity to believe he can win sets off of Federer.
All of a sudden, majors are actually two-week events for Federer. This will make it much tougher for him to hold up the trophy on Sunday. If he's forced to dig deep and find that champion's reserve in the second round, how is he supposed to do it a dozen days later against Rafael Nadal? A champion is a carefully tuned contraption; the Simon fender-bender just might have put an impossible-to-find ping deep in the machinery.
The only way to know for sure is to take the machine out on the highway and put the pedal down. That's what Federer will do today. (OK, enough with the car metaphor.) The defending champion is up against the hottest player outside the Top 5 -- his compatriot Stan Wawrinka, he of the bookkeeper visage and samurai backhand. If Roger is in good enough form to win the tournament, we are going to find out on a Melbourne Tuesday, because Wawrinka, having equaled his best finish in a major, is going to fight and fight hard for a first-ever semifinal berth.
The thing is, Wawrinka is a talented player, but even though he and Federer are both Swiss and won an Olympic gold medal together in doubles, they live in different worlds. Or should I say, they live on different levels?
The quarterfinals -- Federer's 27th straight, matching Jimmy Connors -- is where Federer lifted off into the stratosphere at the Australian Open last year. Remember that? Nikolay Davydenko had no major on his C.V., but he was the guy everyone was scared of. And for a set and half he looked like he was going to run Federer right out of the tournament. Then the all-time major champion found the gear he was looking for -- and blasted Davydenko off the court. The Russian hasn't been heard from since.
What I'm saying is this: The hand-wringing among Federer fans is for nothing. Roger hasn't exactly looked fantastic so far, but now we've reached the serious end of the tournament and the great Swiss' motivation is high. Perhaps the right metaphor for this match isn't a car. Let's get all pretentious and turn to a Sylvia Plath poem: "Out of a gap/A million soldiers run,/Redcoats, every one."
You heard it here first: Federer will wield his racket like a knife, and Wawrinka will bleed out in three sets.
-- Douglas Perry; Twitter


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Husvarming book
This is the official Husvarming book for Stavanger Concerthall, printed in a limited 2000 editions and handed out at their grand opening on September 15th 2012, celebrating the new concerthall in Stavanger, Norway. "Husvarming" means housewarming in Norwegian, it's 10 days of concerts and events happening in the concerthall as a giant housewarming party to all the people in Stavanger. Every day there is something new, and the different illustration styles help visualizing the variety and big span of different genres the concerthall will contain. The sponsor pages was printed on gold pages to praise the sponsors who contributed to making the concerthall and housewarming party possible. Folded out, the cover of the book actually resembles Stavanger Concerthall.
Client: Stavanger konserthus (Stavanger Concerthall)
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The Annual Advisory Forum in Colmar
Decidedly, Alsace is our favourite destination for the autumn! After the September training the annual forum will take place in Colmar, just half an hour away from Strasbourg.
This will be another occasion for encounters with the Council of Europe, as Luxembourg's Permanent Representation in Strasbourg has proposed to coordinate an exhibition of the cultural route panels in the Palais de l'Europe and a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the programme.
This will take place on 21 November, after which the Forum participants will be taken to Colmar for the two-day conference. The Haute Alsace Tourist Office will be organising the programme, and the French Ministry for Culture is coordinating a pilot committee to discuss proposals for themes of workshops and plenary sessions.
The first meeting of the committee is set for July 16th in Paris, where I will make suggestions for the content of the forum.
Please send any proposals you may have for discussions or contributions, your input is more than welcome!


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New pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Deanna Wildermuth will be installed as the new pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church during a special service on Sept. 27. Wildermuth most recently served as pastor at Sharon Lutheran Church in Grand Forks, N.D., one of the largest congregations in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Before joining Sharon Lutheran, Wildermuth served as associate pastor at Saint Luke's Church, in Bellevue, as well as other positions in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota.
Raised in the Puget Sound area, Wildermuth attended Western Washington University, where she focused on family and community studies. Following graduation, she worked in both the areas of child development and geriatric studies for several years. While she enjoyed that work, she determined to pursue a more formal ministry. In 1993, together with her family, she moved to Minnesota to attend the Luther Seminary in Minneapolis.
Wildermuth is married to Keith, her husband of 25 years. They have two grown sons, Alan and Daniel.
Wildermuth's installation will take place at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27. The church is located at 8501 40th Street.
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