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Roger Brown's Diamond Notes: Astros, Lancers know each other wellBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 13. 2014 12:19AM
The Londonderry High School and Pinkerton Academy of Derry baseball teams are anything but strangers, but they'll get to know each other a little better when they meet in the Division I championship game Saturday (4 p.m.) at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.
It'll be the sixth time the teams have faced each other in the last two years. Londonderry went 3-0 against Pinkerton last season, and the teams split two regular-season games this year.
"I think it's an accurate representation of the best teams in Division I this year," Londonderry coach Brent Demas said. "We've seen them a lot the last two years, so there's not going to be a lot of surprises. We know what to expect and they know what to expect, so it's just going to come down to execution."
Third-seeded Pinkerton (16-6) hasn't won a Division I title since 1986, when the Astros beat Keene 3-2 in the Division I championship game. Fifth-seeded Londonderry last won the Division I championship by beating Salem, 5-2, in the 2010 title game. Exeter, the No. 11 seed, upset top-seeded Londonderry to win last year's championship.
The Pinkerton/Londonderry matchup is one of four state championship baseball games scheduled to be played at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium on Saturday. The Division III game will begin at 10 a.m., and will be followed by the Division IV contest at 1 p.m. The Division II title game between No. 1 Goffstown (19-2) and No. 3 Plymouth (15-4) is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Saturday's pitching matchup is expected to be Londonderry's Tom Corey and Pinkerton's Connor Donahue.
Donahue is 4-2 and pitched a one-hitter when Pinkerton beat Exeter 4-0 in the quarterfinals. He has 1.65 ERA, with 47 strikeouts in 46 2/3 innings.
Londonderry did not face Donahue during regular season.
"Connor Donahue will be going for us," Pinkerton coach Steve Campo said. "We're not going to hide that."
Corey is 3-2 with a 2.28 ERA in seven starts this season. Two of those starts came against Pinkerton.
"He's earned it," Demas said. "He's a big-game pitcher."
Campo was an outfielder at Londonderry and played for Demas his senior season. He was an assistant coach at Londonderry before taking over at Pinkerton last season, when Londonderry beat Pinkerton in the semifinals.
One other interesting note: Michael Campo, Steve's brother, is the president of the Londonderry baseball booster club.
"I'll predict that it's going to be a good game, and that you're going to see good pitching and defense," Demas said.
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THE feel-good story of the postseason continues to be the seventh-seeded John Stark of Weare softball team, which will face top-seeded Coe-Brown of Northwood in Saturday's Division II championship game at Southern New Hampshire University (4:30 p.m.).
Joan Kilar, whose twin daughters play for John Stark, died of breast cancer in February, and the team dedicated its season to her. The Generals wear pink ribbons on the uniforms and batting helmets.
Catcher Jill Kilar hit a grand slam in the seventh inning to help John Stark defeat Goffstown in Saturday's quarterfinals, and both Kilar sisters factored in a two-run 10th-inning rally that handed John Stark a 4-3 victory over ConVal of Peterborough in Wednesday's semifinals. Shortstop Jackie Kilar tied the game when she scored from third on her sister's single, and then Lyndsey Turner's single scored Kendall Keim with the game-winning run.
"The girls came to me and asked if we could dedicate the season to the mom, Joan Kilar," John Stark coach Rick Sweeney said following his team's victory over Goffstown. "Every once in a while it seems to inspire at the right time."
Until this year, the John Stark program had never advanced past the semifinals.
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THE Division I softball championship game features two programs looking for their first state title: top-seeded Spaulding of Rochester and third-seeded Dover. The Red Raiders (19-2) and Green Wave (16-5) will meet Saturday night (7) at SNHU.
Spaulding, which will carry a 17-game winning streak into the contest, had never advanced to a championship game before this season. Dover's only championship-game appearance came in 2009, a 2-0 loss to Concord.
Spaulding beat Dover 6-2 during the regular season.
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THE Division III and Division IV softball championship games will be played at Plymouth State University on Saturday. Top-seeded White Mountains of Whitefield (19-0) will face third-seeded Campbell of Litchfield (16-3) for the Division III title, and second-seeded Wilton-Lyndeborough (17-2) will meet fourth-seeded Portsmouth Christian of Dover (17-4) to decide the Division IV champion.
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THE Goffstown baseball team will be trying to win its first championship since 2008 Saturday. The Grizzlies competed in Division I that year, and beat Salem 4-3 to win the title. Goffstown was the top seed for last year's Division I tournament, but was upset by Portsmouth in the championship game.
Plymouth's last title came in 1999, when it beat Laconia 14-4.
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The South Korean player had a 13-under 200 total after opening with rounds of 65 and 67 at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club.
"Actually, honestly, I don't like leading, that feeling. I like chasing better," Choi said. "But like today, I think I played too much safely. So tomorrow, I'm not going to think about my score, even two-shot lead. I just go out there with a general score and play my game. I want to play lower than any day."
She birdied the first hole before play was delayed for more than four hours because of lightning and rain, and finished with four birdies and a lone bogey on the 10th hole. For the third time in two years, the lights at course were turned on to help players finish.
"I think I had a pretty hard time today," Choi said. "It was raining all day. That's why I play so long. We wake up like 12 hours ago and that's a pretty long day. I have to focus on my game, play my game, just play one shot at a time. I think that's my goal tomorrow."
She won the U.S. Women's Open in July for her first major title and sixth LPGA Tour victory.
South Korea's Inbee Park, the tour money leader, was second after a 65.
"I think I played much better in the rain than hot," Park said. "The front nine was a little bit disappointing but I just knew the birdies would come out. I just tried to trust myself.
"I think I still need a lot of birdies tomorrow to win. I'll just go out there and play aggressive and try to get myself a lot of birdies."
Australia's Karrie Webb was four strokes back after a 68.
Norway's Suzann Pettersen was 8 under, following her second-round 64 with a 70. She was in contention and only a stroke behind Choi at the turn, but had a double bogey on the 15th and a bogey on the 16th.
Japan's Ai Miyazato also was 8 under after a 68.
The tournament opens the tour's four-event Asian swing. The HanaBank Championship is scheduled for next week in South Korea, followed by stops in Taiwan and Japan.

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Michael Carrick accepts Manchester United's impressive record against Tottenham will count for little when the champions put their title credentials on the line at White Hart Lane on Sunday.
Not since May 2001 have United been beaten by the north London outfit, a run that stretches back 25 games, but this Tottenham side is far more accomplished than many United have faced down the years, including the one Carrick joined them from in 2006.
It is only recent defeats at Manchester City and Arsenal that have ended their realistic chances of finishing top, and Carrick does not feel that alone will take away Spurs' hunger for victory, as he said: "We have a decent record down there, although it won't count for much this weekend."
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NEW ORLEANS — Texas Tech coach Kristy Curry has a message for anyone thinking about dethroning Baylor in the NCAA women's basketball tournament: Good luck.
"Nobody can come close to them," said Curry, whose team is a No. 7 seed in the tournament, which begins Saturday and ends April 7-9 with the Final Four in New Orleans Arena. "Anybody who beats them is going to have to have a game that is beyond perfection, and Baylor is going to have just a really poor night at all five positions. That doesn't happen very often."
Curry should know.
Her Lady Red Raiders lost to Baylor (39-1) twice this year — 90-60 and 89-47 — in a season when the Lady Bears' average margin of victory was 27.1 points. Last season, the Lady Bears were a perfect 40-0 with a winning margin of 26.3.
And if Baylor senior center Brittney Griner, the likely repeat national Player of the Year, knows what might do in her team, she's not giving it up.
"I can't tell you now," she said during Monday's revealing of the 64-team bracket. "I'll wait until after it's over."
And while few expect it not to be over for Baylor until the Lady Bears are again cutting down the nets, there are potential pitfalls.
While the top seed in the Oklahoma City Region is at home for the first two rounds, against No. 16 Prairie View (17-14) on Sunday and then versus the winner of Florida State (22-9) and Princeton (22-6) on March 26, the potential regional final opponent is No. 2 seed Tennessee (24-7).
That's the same Tennessee that Baylor beat in last year's regional final, ending the career of legendary coach Pat Summitt.
Under former longtime assistant Holly Warlick, the Lady Vols won the Southeastern Conference's regular-season championship after being picked fifth in the preseason.
And then, should the Lady Bears make it to the semifinals, they could meet Stanford (31-2), the No. 1 seed in the Spokane Region and the only team to beat Baylor this season. That was 71-69 in Hawaii in the season's third game. Baylor beat Stanford in last year's national semifinal.
Finally, the championship game could be a repeat of last year's national title game against Notre Dame, the No. 1 seed in the Norfolk Region.
But the only defeat for the Fighting Irish (32-1) was a 73-61 homecourt loss to Baylor on Dec. 5. Plus Notre Dame, which lost to Texas A&M in the 2011 championship game, has a potential semifinal date with Connecticut (29-4), which the Irish has beaten three times this season and which is the No. 1 seed in the Bridgeport Region.
Like Baylor/Stanford, Notre Dame/UConn would be a rematch of last year's Final Four.
"This team surprised a lot of people this year with our ability to finish games," Notre Dame senior guard Skylar Diggins said of her team's dominance against the Huskies. "It's just different players stepping up at different moments."
Diggins also said that, while disappointing, falling short in the past two national title games has been a good learning experience.
"We've lost to two very good teams in both of those situations, but we knew we left it all on the court," she said. "We were excited about what we did last year, but now our goal is to win six."
Of the No. 1 seeds, Notre Dame has the toughest path just to get to the regional.
While Baylor, UConn and Stanford are all at home for the first two rounds as predesignated sites, the Irish must play at Iowa, where their potential second-round foes are the ninth-seeded Hawkeyes (20-12).
Ohio State was the only early site where the home team did not make the tournament, but selection committee chairman Carolayne Henry said that other bracket considerations made sending the Irish there impossible. ULCA, Stetson, Oklahoma and Central Michigan wound as the teams in Columbus, but Henry said the committee was not concerned about poor attendance there.
Henry also said the geographic considerations played a role in California, a No. 2 seed, winding up in the Spokane region with Pac-12 rival Stanford.
But to Curry, no matter who winds up where, Baylor will be the team to beat.
"They're not just as good as they were last year," she said. "They're much beyond that."


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Adele is deliberately keeping her baby's name a secret because she is convinced the news is too "personal" to share.
The soul star and her boyfriend Simon Konecki welcomed their first child together in October (12) but the Grammy-winner has remained tight-lipped about the details and refused to reveal what she has called her little boy.
Adele returned to the spotlight at the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (13Jan13) to pick up the Best Original Song trophy for her Bond theme tune Skyfall, and during the event, she described her experiences as a new mum.
However, the Rolling In The Deep hitmaker insists her son's name will remain a secret.
Adele tells People.com, "I am exhausted, that's how motherhood changed me. I have eczema from boiling bottles... I am not sharing his name at the moment. It is very personal to me. I am enjoying him on my own."
The singer has reportedly been keeping the name quiet by refusing to register his birth back in her native U.K. and faces a fine if she does not fill in the official paperwork.


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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) November 17, 2012
Oilman and orthopedic trauma surgeon Dr. Rafik Benaissa is very concerned about Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber's decision to detain brother Riadh Ben Aissa in a Bern prison without charges.
"My brother was arrested in Switzerland in April of this year just on the suspicion of crimes he has not committed. He is sitting in a Bern jail cell measuring 2 x 4 meters with no windows and allowed only one hour a day to see the daylight. My Geneva attorneys talk about an "unusual" kind of detention for Switzerland. Since my brother exited Libya during NATO bombardments, he suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome, a difficult condition I have been helping him with just before his arrest," says Dr. Rafik Benaissa.
"In a state of confusion and great fatigue, Riadh Ben Aissa faced unfair and outrageous accusations from SNC Lavalin in December 2011 in the form of an internal investigation. We feel that his medical condition prevented him from properly facing this additional stressful situation. Mr. Ben Aissa trusted SNC Lavalin would treat him fairly. For him, SNC Lavalin was his home. SNC Lavalin's decision to dismiss him dishonorably in February 2012 took him by surprise. Riadh Ben Aissa was responsible for SNC Lavalin operations in Libya when the revolution started in February 2011. His efforts to evacuate the SNC Lavalin personnel from Benghazi and Tripoli were heroic, but so was his road trip to Tripoli from Tunisia in August 2011 when he was able to secure a large payment from the Libyan government to SNC Lavalin for construction work completed in Libya," says Tunisia-based attorney Hatem Kourda.
"Between March 2011 and September 2011 and as thousands of Libyan and African refugees flooded the refugee camps of Southern Tunisia, my brother's phone was jammed with hundreds of calls from African and Libyan friends stranded in Libya and desperately asking for help. He ended up shutting down his phone and eventually changed phone number. In January 2012, my brother said that he still lived with the calls from people stuck somewhere in Libya in a major war and screaming for help, some of them saying that they had lost family members. He said that he felt a deep guilt and sorrow not to be able to help people who were so hospitable with him when he stayed in Libya. My brother spent 27 years in Libya and these major changes took a toll on him as an exceptionally dedicated and hardworking SNC Lavalin employee who made so many friends over there. In January 2012, my brother was suffering from a full blown post-traumatic stress syndrome. His detention in a Bern prison is outrageous and could aggravate his condition," adds Dr. Rafik Benaissa.
"We are very disturbed by Swiss Attorney General Mr. Michael Lauber's decision to detain Riadh Ben Aissa without charges and without a clear deadline in his detention. We unfortunately see in the Swiss Department of Justice's decision to detain Mr. Ben Aissa an obvious political vendetta that reminds us of the year where the Swiss Government was having trouble with the Kadhafi regime and was itself dealing with a Swiss citizen detained in Tripoli. There is something hateful and brutal about Riadh Ben Aissa's arrest in Switzerland that is very disturbing. It is an inappropriate saga of unfairness and hatred which is typical of vendettas that follow regime changes except that it is happening in Switzerland. A Justice Department from a civilized country arrests a family man and treats him as a criminal until he is proven innocent. The rules of international justice and human rights are reversed," adds Attorney Hatem Kourda.
"I'm looking forward to an end to this shameful political vendetta and looking for justice for my brother and for my family. I will certainly hold the Swiss Department of Justice accountable before an International Court or a US Federal court should something happen to my brother and have already had several phone conferences with a law firm from The Hague in the Netherlands and my US-based attorneys," concludes Dr. Rafik Benaissa.
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By Raheem Salman
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The most senior member of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's entourage still at large has urged Sunni Muslim anti-government protesters to stand their ground until the Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, is toppled.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri heads Saddam's now-banned Baath party, whose leaders fled or went underground after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that overthrew the Sunni strongman and empowered the Shi'ite majority.
Over the past two weeks, tens of thousands of Sunnis, some waving Saddam-era flags, have staged demonstrations in a show of anger against Maliki, whom they accuse of marginalizing their community and monopolizing power.
"The people of Iraq and all its nationalist and Islamic forces support you until the realization of your just demands for the fall of the Safavid-Persian alliance," said Douri, addressing protesters in footage broadcast on the pan-Arab news channel Al Arabiya.
Douri said he was in the Iraqi province of Babil but the authenticity or timing of the video could not be verified.
The Safavid dynasty ruled Shi'ite Iran - which at times also controlled parts of modern-day Iraq - from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Since Maliki came to office in 2006, Iraq has edged closer to its neighbor, which wields strong influence over several Iraqi Shi'ite parties.
In the video, Douri was surrounded by men in military uniform. He said the Baath leadership was considering launching a campaign to "justly and decisively" punish civilians and soldiers who supported what he described as Iran's "Safavid project" for Iraq.
"It is a clear plan to destroy Iraq and annex it to Iran," he said. "We warn those traitors, agents and spies ... who support the dangerous project ... that the national resistance will confront them."
The influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a rival to Maliki who has voiced support for the Sunni rallies, said Douri and his followers were agents of the United States and Israel, and urged the protesters to denounce him.
"If the government is not able to seriously and urgently capture (or kill) him, this will be our job, we, the soldiers of God upon earth," he said in a statement on his website.
Douri, seldom seen since 2003, was the deputy head of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council under Saddam, and took over as Baath Party leader after Saddam was executed in 2006.
After the 2003 invasion, he was ranked sixth on the U.S. military's list of 55 most wanted Iraqis and a $10 million reward was offered for his capture. U.S. officials accused him of organizing the insurgency that peaked in 2005-07.
The conflict in neighboring Syria, where a Sunni-led insurgency is fighting to remove a leader backed by Shi'ite Iran, is whipping up sectarian tension across the region and straining a precarious political balance between Iraq's Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish factions.
That has raised concern about a relapse into intercommunal slaughter in Iraq just over a year after U.S. troops withdrew.
A car bomb parked near a vegetable and fruit market in the town of Kanaan in Diyala province killed two people on Saturday, police said, in an attack the mayor blamed on Baathists seeking to ignite sectarian strife.
At least four Shi'ite pilgrims were also killed by a car bomb near the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala.
The protests in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland pose a new challenge to Maliki, who is already at odds with the autonomous Kurdish region in the north.
Iyad Allawi, the head of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya political bloc, on Friday called on Maliki to resign and for an interim government to take over pending an early election.
Failing that, he said Maliki's alliance should select an alternative prime minister.
The latest crisis gathered pace just hours after President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd seen as a moderating influence between the political groups, suffered a stroke and was flown to Germany for medical care.
Talabani's medical team said on Saturday the 79-year-old was responding very well to treatment and had "passed the difficult stages more quickly than expected", but gave no details about his health or whether he was able to communicate.
(Additional reporting by Ahmed Tolba in Cairo and Suadad al-Salhy in Baghdad; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Kevin Liffey)


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Tetradrachm or Sela. Silver. Undated (year 3-4) (134-135 AD). Obverse: Tetrastyle facade of the Temple of Jerusalem, with the Ark of the Covenant. Paleo-Hebrew inscription: "Shimon". Reverse: Lulav (bundle of twigs and foliage), and etrog (citrus fruit) at l. Paleo-Hebrew inscription: "To the Freedom of Jerusalem". AJC 51, TJC 267, Mildenberg 85.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - December 24, 2013 --Police say a man dressed as Santa delivering toys in southeast Washington, D.C., was popped in the back with a pellet gun as he walked down the street.
A D.C. police statement says the man on Tuesday morning heard a popping sound and felt a sharp pain. He is recovering.
Video posted on the website of WJLA-TV shows the man waving and walking down the street and exclaiming "This is awesome." He starts to say "Merry Christmas" when suddenly he turns around, shouts in pain and says he's been shot in the back with a pellet gun.
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The Sterlington Police Department has planned an Active Shooter Class Saturday. The class, which will simulate an attack on the local school, is designed to help prepare local law enforcement in the event of such an event.
An individual will play the role of a shooter with a handgun containing blanks.
"It will be simulated ammunition," said chief Barry Bonner. "It will look and sound like a real incident."
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asshole: "YEAH BUDDY, YEAH YEAH, YEAH BUDDY!"
by CrunkHipstrGoat September 28, 2011
An exclamation usually occuring in a club between male members of Jersey Shore when any of them experience a positive opening for flirting. It serves as an encouragement for the guy(s) in question to pay the girl insane amounts of alcohol while fistpumping heavily, drive her to your crib once her clothes start peeling off by themselves and take a few for the team. Then proceed to tell the bitch off next morning and prepare excuses for your girlfriend. In the event that she doesn't ask about it, you'll be rewarded with another "YEEEEAH BUDDY!" from the crew.
*drunken skank walks by and stares, exagerrating her hip movement like she's drowning in her panties*
Mike: I think we got a good situation.
Pauly D: YEAH BUDDY!
Mike: I think we got a good situation.
Pauly D: YEAH BUDDY!
by Supafriez April 11, 2011
Catch phrase sure to be used for the summer of '09. Dervived from the 1st line from the song "Ice Cream Paint Job" by O.J. Da Juiceman.
"Yeah buddy, rollin' like a big shot. Chevy tuned up like a NASCAR pitstop"
by cognacJ August 04, 2009
A term used when one agrees strongly with the other. The person usually replies "yeah dude" not exactly expressing the word with passion.
(yeeee-ah buddy)
(yahhhh dooooddde)
(yeeee-ah buddy)
(yahhhh dooooddde)
person 1: "the tractor aint runnin no good"
person 2: "yeah buddy!"
person 1: "yeah dude"
person 2: "yeah buddy!"
person 1: "yeah dude"
by truevermonter123 July 09, 2011


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The IF function is one of the most popular functions in Excel, and it allows you to make logical comparisons between a value and what you expect. In its simplest form, the IF function says:
IF(Something is True, then do something, otherwise do something else)
So an IF statement can have two results. The first result is if your comparison is True, the second if your comparison is False.
If you want to skip ahead to working with multiple IF statements, see: Advanced IF functions - Working with nested formulas and avoiding pitfalls.
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Technical details
Use the IF function, one of the logical functions, to return one value if a condition is true and another value if it's false.
IF(logical_test, value_if_true, [value_if_false])
For example:
=IF(A2>B2,"Over Budget","OK")
Argument name
logical_test (required)
The condition you want to test.
value_if_true (required)
The value that you want returned if the result of logical_test is TRUE.
value_if_false (optional)
The value that you want returned if the result of logical_test is FALSE.
Simple IF examples
In the above example, cell D2 says: IF(C2 = Yes, then return a 1, otherwise return a 2)
In this example, the formula in cell D2 says: IF(C2 = 1, then return Yes, otherwise return No)
As you see, the IF function can be used to evaluate both text and values. It can also be used to evaluate errors. You are not limited to only checking if one thing is equal to another and returning a single result, you can also use mathematical operators and perform additional calculations depending on your criteria. You can also nest multiple IF functions together in order to perform multiple comparisons.
Note: If you are going to use text in formulas, you need to wrap the text in quotes (e.g. "Text"). The only exception to that is using TRUE or FALSE, which Excel automatically understands.
How to get started
The best way to start writing an IF statement is to think about what you are trying to accomplish. What comparison are you trying to make? Many times, writing an IF statement can be as simple as thinking through the logic in your head: "what should happen if this condition is met vs. what should happen if it's not?" You will always want to make sure that your steps follow a logical progression, or else your formula won't do what you think it should. This is especially important when you create complex (nested) IF statements.
More IF examples
=IF(C2>B2,"Over Budget","Within Budget")
In the above example, the IF function in D2 is saying IF(C2 Is Greater Than B2, then return "Over Budget", otherwise return "Within Budget")
In the above illustration, instead of returning a text result, we are going to return a mathematical calculation. So the formula in E2 is saying IF(Actual is Greater than Budgeted, then Subtract the Budgeted amount from the Actual amount, otherwise return nothing).
In this example, the formula in F7 is saying IF(E7 = "Yes", then calculate the Total Amount in F5 * 8.25%, otherwise no Sales Tax is due so return 0)
Best Practices - Constants
In the last example, you see both "Yes", and the Sales Tax Rate (0.0825) entered directly into the formula. It is generally not a good practice to put literal constants (values that may need to change from time to time) directly into formulas, because they can be hard to find and change in the future. It's much better to put constants into their own cells, where they are out in the open and easily found and changed. In this case, it's OK, because there's only one IF function and the Sales Tax Rate will rarely change. Even if it does, it will be easy to change it in the formula.
Calculation operators
If you want to learn more about the different calculation operators you can use in formulas, (< less than, > greater than, = equals, <> not equal to, etc.), see this article: Calculation operators and precedence.
Using IF to check if a cell is blank
Sometimes you need to check if a cell is blank, generally because you might not want a formula to display a result without input.
In this case we're using IF with the ISBLANK function:
=IF(ISBLANK(D2),"Blank","Not Blank")
Which says IF(D2 is blank, then return "Blank", otherwise return "Not Blank"). You could just as easily use your own formula for the "Not Blank" condition as well. In the next example we're using "" instead of ISBLANK. The "" essentially means "nothing".
=IF(D3="","Blank","Not Blank")
This formula says IF(D3 is nothing, then return "Blank", otherwise "Not Blank"). Here is an example of a very common method of using "" to prevent a formula from calculating if a dependent cell is blank:
IF(D3 is nothing, then return nothing, otherwise calculate your formula).
Nested IF example
Where a simple IF function has only two results (True or False), nested IF functions can have from 3 to 64 results.
In the above illustration, the formula in E2 says: IF(D2 equals 1 then return "Yes", otherwise IF(D2 equals 2 then return "No", otherwise return "Maybe")). Note that there are two closing parentheses at the end of the formula. Those are required to complete both of the IF functions, and if you try to enter the formula without both of the closing parentheses, Excel will try to correct it for you.
A word of caution
While Excel will allow you to nest up to 64 different IF functions, it's not at all advisable to do so. Why?
Multiple IF statements require a great deal of thought to build them correctly and make sure that their logic can calculate correctly through each condition all the way to the end. If you don't nest your IF statements 100% accurately, then a formula might work 75% of the time, but return unexpected results 25% of the time. Unfortunately, the odds of you catching the 25% is slim.
Multiple IF statements can become very difficult to maintain, especially when you come back some time later and try to figure out what you, or worse someone else, was trying to do.
Multiple IF statements require multiple open and closing parentheses (), which can be difficult to manage depending on how complex your formula becomes.
Common problems
What went wrong
0 (zero) in cell
There was no argument for either value_if_true or value_if_False arguments. To see the right value returned, add argument text to the two arguments, or add TRUE or FALSE to the argument.
#NAME? in cell
This usually means that the formula is misspelled.
Need more help?
You can always ask an expert in the Excel Tech Community, get support in the Answers community, or suggest a new feature or improvement on Excel User Voice.
See also
IFS function (Office 365, Excel 2016 and later)
Advanced IF functions - Working with nested formulas and avoiding pitfalls
Training videos: Advanced IF functions
The COUNTIF function will count values based on a single criteria
The COUNTIFS function will count values based on multiple criteria
The SUMIF function will sum values based on a single criteria
The SUMIFS function will sum values based on multiple criteria
Use error checking to detect errors in formulas
Excel functions (alphabetical)


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ETHANOL PLANT owners and corn growers have plenty to smile about with the newly signed Energy Bill. The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) included in the bill calls for 4 billion gallons of ethanol to be blended into the nation's fuel supply in 2006.
While manufacturers are currently producing ethanol close to the 2006 rate, they will need to ramp up their efforts over the next six years to meet a nearly doubled annual standard of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. Additionally, the energy law does not give MTBE (methyl-t-butyl ether) producers the groundwater liability protection that they were seeking, making it more likely that ethanol will become the fuel additive of choice.
Dave Burger, CPA and ethanol expert for Kennedy and Coe, says individual ethanol plants will benefit significantly from a higher threshold for the small producer tax credit. "Before, they only gave a federal tax credit to plants producing 30 million gallons of ethanol or less per year," he says. "Most of the modern plants were built around the 40-million-gallon model. So in 2004, they couldn't receive a small producer tax credit because they were too large."
The typical 40-million-gallon plant will now qualify for the $1.5-million-dollar federal tax credit per year because the new energy law has been expanded to include producers of up to 60 million gallons.
"In some cases, this may allow small producers to offset all of their federal tax — including the alternative minimum tax — which is very unusual," Burger says. "It dramatically improves the usefulness of the energy law's expanded federal income tax credit."


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With the American political season culminating (finally!) in November with election day, I couldn't help but identify some musical equivalents of the campaigning and posturing that had been going on. It occurred to me that some people speak about their preferred music with the same fervor that political devotees crusade for their preferred candidate. And much like it is with party loyalists, often touting a favored style of music can go hand in hand with condemning whatever's perceived as the opposition. While I'm not interested in entering the political arena with my blog, I will offer a position about partisan musicianship: it does not serve anyone's best interest for music people—be they performers, teachers, or listening connoisseurs—to disparage other musicians and styles in an effort promote their own.
Let me be specific. I don't believe that the long-term success of classical music depends on convincing enough of the general public that popular music is comparatively inferior. Similarly, attendance at jazz concerts will not likely grow through its supporters taking to Facebook to mock the musicianship of performers like Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj. And toward the other side of the aisle, I'd say that no one is in a position to dismiss classical music and jazz as boring or weird before making an effort to understand the cultures, values, and purposes of these styles.
Musical exclusivists can easily condemn non-preferred styles if they judge all music by the same set of standards. Comparing apples to oranges is a well-known no-no, but unfortunately it's still done in music circles. "Quality" is defined differently across the diverse styles that make up Western music. Classical music tends to value precise performance of a notated score; compositions are largely judged by things like harmonic and textural sophistication and extended structural development. Jazz places a premium on harmonic complexity and rhythmic variation, with improvisatory performance being an important hallmark. Popular music typically values creativity outside of harmonic complexity, instead relying on sound (timbre) combinations, rhythmic groove, and melodic memorability; live performances are expected to have a strong visual component, through facial/bodily expression, gesture and dance, and performer-audience interaction. If you apply the values of one musical style to another, you can quickly reject it as bad music. Calling a pop song bad music because it uses only three chords is like calling a classical composition bad music because you can't sing along to the melody after one hearing. Yes, the crisp texture of an apple makes for a really bad orange.
Several months ago, in the throes of the political campaigning, I commented on Facebook that it was easy for me to dismiss people's opinion of what is the best thing—be it a political party, social cause, or musical style—when that thing corresponds exactly to what's familiar and deeply assimilated by them. In such cases, I wonder whether they ever adopted that thing because they were convinced of its merits, or whether they "just know" it's the best because it's what they're used to. What gets my full attention, however, is when someone espouses a thing in which they do not have such an obvious vested interest. I don't often encounter this. It's far more common to find people making cases for what is personally dear to them, sometimes doing so in pretty unpleasant ways. When followers of a cause defend it so harshly, I suspect that they're actually hindering the advancement of it.
Perhaps it's human nature, when considering unfamiliar things, to compare them to what we already know and are comfortable with. In response to my comment on Facebook, my friend Chris Varga offered me an excerpt from the book The Jazz Musician's Guide to Creative Practicing, by David Berkman. In it, this highly accomplished musician encourages his readers to listen to music without deciding whether or not they like it. Berkman says:
That's difficult to do. For many people, deciding whether or not they like a piece of music is the first thing they think of when they hear a new piece. Often younger players have strong ideas about who they like and who they don't. I still have favorite players…but I am more appreciative of more players now than when I was younger. A lot more of them are just too good not to like, even if you don't want to sound like them yourself.
I'd like to see more musicians striving to be pluralists, accepting and even applauding those whose music making is different than their own. And here's where I acknowledge that my musical-political analogies eventually break down. I recognize that in politics, there are important moral issues and governmental policies being debated, and that there truly are positions in opposition to each other. But I think this is very rarely the case in music. People are capable of enjoying a huge variety of musical styles, and they can all coexist on our iPods! So though I'm skeptical about every seeing much bi-partisan action in the political arena, I hold out much greater hope for music.
Copyright 2012 Robert H. Woody
Source of image: junsjazz on Flickr Creative Commons.


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Elizabeth Johnson: Bad for your faith?
Not by a long shot!
Dismay doesn't even begin describe my reaction to the U.S. bishops' doctrine committee's determination that Elizabeth Johnson's Quest for the Living God (Continuum, 2007) "contaminates" traditional Chrsitian theology. (You can read the bishops' statement here.) Most embarrassing is it's point-by-point, "let's find everything possible wrong with you," quality, which you expect to find in a breathless blog post but not from a committee of nine bishops.
Further, not a single attempt was made to actually discuss the questions with the theologian herself--what would have been a very entertaining conversation, I am sure. Instead, says the committee's spokesperson, Father Thomas Weinandy, "They felt it was self-evident in the book what she was saying and that it was wrong. The bishops felt it was expedient, since this book has become so popular, to act upon it immediately." Nor did the committee reveal who brought the book to the committee's attention.
Is that how we behave in the household of God? Just issue blanket staements ripping apart a dedicated theologian's work without even a phone call? Elizabeth Johnson is a brilliant theologian, and her work is deeply rooted in the theological tradition while also being challenging. Indeed, she does a great service to the church by trying to speak and write in ways that respond to the needs of contemporary people--not a trait I find often in bishops.
If you don't believe me, read what her work as it has appeared in U.S. Catholic. It's good stuff, and good Catholic stuff to boot: our most recent interview with her; and an essay that appeared in April 2010.


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Professor of Law Setsuo Miyazawa will join the UC Hastings faculty in the fall of 2013. Currently a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University Law School in Tokyo, Japan, Professor Miyazawa is an expert in the legal profession, the judicial system, criminology, and the sociology of law. He will teach at UC Hastings in the fall and at Aoyama Gakuin University in the spring.
"UC Hastings is honored to welcome Professor Miyazawa to the faculty," says Chancellor & Dean Frank H. Wu. "We look forward to learning from him as we continue to reach out to the Pacific Rim."
"Professor Miyazawa is one of the world's leading scholars of Japanese law," notes Professor Keith Hand, who is also an expert in East Asian legal systems, specifically Chinese Law. "His experience and insights will be invaluable as we develop our East Asian legal studies curriculum and position a growing number of students to take advantage of career opportunities in East Asia."
In fact, Professor Miyazawa is already a familiar face at UC Hastings. He has been teaching part of the fall semester for the past four years, offering a course entitled "Introduction to the Japanese Legal System." In August 2012, Professor Miyazawa helped organize UC Hastings' first-ever symposium to look at the successes and failures of efforts to reform the Japanese justice system. Japan has the fewest lawyers per capita of any developed country. As a result, Japanese citizens have difficulty accessing their justice system, which is largely self-regulated, tightly controlled, and lacks both transparency and a mechanism for checks and balances.
Professor Miyazawa has been writing and teaching about Japanese legal reforms at law schools around the globe. "I am committed to the reform of legal education and expanding the number and quality of judges," he says. He also believes there need to be more attorneys in Japan. "No one else is shining a light on this."
About joining the UC Hastings faculty, he says, "In spite of the increasing importance of East Asia for American lawyers, no law school in California has a stable program on East Asian law. Under the leadership of Chancellor & Dean Wu, UC Hastings has been quickly filling this vacuum. I admire UC Hastings and wish to be a bridge between East Asia and North America in the field of legal studies." He is already planning a conference on corporate governance in Japan for October 2013.
Professor Miyazawa is a member of a number of academic associations in criminology, law, and sociology, and currently serves as the Vice President for the Asian Criminological Society. He has published 18 books, including Justice System Reform and Citizens' Perspectives (2001) and The Reality of the Legal Process (1994), as well as more than 200 articles appearing in such journals as Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Punishment and Society, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Law & Society Review. Professor Miyazawa has held permanent positions at Hokkaido University, Kobe University, Waseda University, and Omiya Law School. He has been at Aoyama Gakuin University since 2007. He has held visiting positions at more than ten US law schools, including Harvard, NYU, Berkeley, UCLA, Duke, and the University of Pennsylvania.


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Model Kate Upton started to lose her hearing and eyesight while shooting the cover of the new Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Edition in Antarctica because her body was shutting down from the cold.
The busty beauty landed the front page of the publication for the second year in a row and in late 2012 she jetted to the southernmost continent for the spread.
Dressed in skimpy clothing and scarves and snow boots, Upton struggled to contend with the freezing temperatures, and she dealt with the side effects for months afterwards.
During an appearance on NBC's "Today" on Tuesday, she said, "When I came back I was losing hearing and eyesight because my body was shutting down; it was working so hard to keep me warm… It was freezing.
"I'm from Florida, so it wasn't great for me… I could really only do it for a minute (at a time), and then everyone would come running and throw blankets on top of me… (and) hold me."
However, the area's natural beauty made it all worthwhile: "It was the most beautiful place I've ever been. Every time, before I took off my coat, I would enjoy just the views. The mountains were pink, the water was glass, it looked like little ice cubes were in the water, it was gorgeous… The penguins kept me going, they're adorable and anytime I was like, 'I can't do it anymore, I can't,' I would look at them and I was like, 'OK, (I'll do it) for them.'"


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Carbon is a natural part of every known life form on Earth, and it is one of the most common elements on our planet. By itself, carbon is not a bad thing. But humans affect the balance of the world's atmospheric gasses every day by how we live, travel, and choose to consume. Today, our actions are releasing carbon in the form of CO2 at an alarming rate, leading to global warming.
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Our good friends over at OmniMoto.it have shared with us today their experience riding BMW's World Supersport and World Superbike S1000RR machinery. Getting a chance to flog the bikes of Sylvain Barrier, Lorenza Zanetti, Ayrton Badovini, James Toseland, Leon Haslam, and Troy Corser around the famous Monza circuit in Italy, OmniMoto's Lorenzo Gargiulo certainly had a tough day in the office. Even translated into English, this Italian bike tester is well…very Italian in his assessments, but we think the subtle differences between the Superstock, satellite Superbike, and factory Superbike shine through in his writing. Enjoy. — Ed.
There are opportunities in the moto-journalism profession that are to be jumped on, and this is one of them. I could tell you the story about how today, in order to reach Monza to try the three motorcycles I'm about to write about, I slept only 3 hours, or how I had to work on a Saturday, and how I had to somehow fit in 1,000 other obligations and make up a lot of excuses in order to free my schedule, but the basic fact is the following: the opportunity to ride on a track, three SWBK motorcycles is so overwhelming that everything else became of secondary relevance.
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Twilight star Kellan Lutz has donned a tuxedo to spoof James Bond in a new online comedy video.
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I didn't think the rhetoric coming from those in favor of the HHS contraception mandate could get any more ridiculous, but indeed it has. The language, whether it was stated boldly on television, in print or online in countless blogs, tweets and Facebook posts, went so far from reality at one point I expected Rod Serling to pop up and tell us we had really and truly entered "The Twilight Zone." It's another universe all right — void of fact and filled with and fueled by fictitious scenarios designed to promote confusion, fear and hate. It's another strong reminder of why we need to reclaim the language being used in this issue.
Purchasing contraception and getting prescriptions for contraceptive drugs and devices is still perfectly legal. Hobby Lobby and other plaintiffs did not demand that CVS and Walgreens remove the items from their store shelves. Nor did they demand doctors stop prescribing birth control. The plaintiffs just did not want to pay for something that violated their beliefs. Never mind that, in the case of Hobby Lobby, the company was already covering the costs of 16 different types of contraceptives for its employees. The craft store chain filed a suit because they didn't want to cover abortifacient drugs in their company health care plans. In the end, that meant only four of the 20 drugs that are supposed to be covered under the new health care law were eliminated in the Hobby Lobby plan.
Those are just a few of the facts. But that is not how the Supreme Court decision was described by those in favor of the mandate. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, said on MSNBC that the Supreme Court ruling was going to "turn the dial back." She accused conservatives of using the long arm of the government and now the "long hand of business" to "reach into a woman's body and make health care decisions for her." Really? So it is OK for an employer to make a decision to pay for items certain folks want covered? Then, and only then, can companies and the government reach as far as they want and swing those long arms anywhere and any way they choose.
Another lawmaker said the decision "jeopardized basic health care coverage and contraception access for a countless number of women." Since when is birth control "health care?" Particularly when you consider the connection between the birth control pill and increased cancer risks. This is the same drug that was labeled a Group 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organization several years ago, and yet those not wanting to pay for birth control are the ones waging the "war on women." And need we remind those attacking the decision that, again, contraception is still readily available?
But wait, there is more. In addition to NOW claiming on its website that the Hobby Lobby win was decided by an "activist court that sided with anti-woman forces," the group is also calling for Americans to "ditch the Dirty 100." The "Dirty 100" is a list of HHS mandate plaintiffs who, according to NOW, are "using religion" to discriminate against women. The Little Sisters of the Poor are on that list. Yes, the same hard-working, holy women who dedicate their lives to caring for people from all different faiths and backgrounds are being accused by women of discriminating against women. My head is spinning.
English novelist George Orwell said something regarding the language often used in politics, a statement so very apropos for today. Political language, he said, is "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Welcome to our culture.
Teresa Tomeo is the host of "Catholic Connection," produced by Ave Maria Radio and heard daily on EWTN Global Catholic Radio and Sirius Channel 130.
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Stanford wide receiver Jamal-Rashad Patterson (21) reacts as he looks to the field during overtime of an NCAA college football game against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Notre Dame won in overtime 20-13. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame knew what was coming. Stanford doesn't get cute inches from the goal line.
And after three years of getting pushed around by the Cardinal, the Fighting Irish pushed back, winning the most important shoving match they've had all season.
Or did they?
A wall of Notre Dame defenders stopped Stepfan Taylor inches from the goal line on fourth down in overtime and the seventh-ranked Irish remained unbeaten with a 20-13 victory against the No. 17 Cardinal on a soggy Saturday in South Bend.
Taylor kept reaching and turning with bodies underneath him, and his knee never did hit the ground before reaching the ball across the goal line. But the officials ruled it was too late. The whistle had blown, and that meant the play was stopped.
Taylor finished with 102 yards on 28 carries. He needed 103.
The celebration had to wait for a replay review. The call stood. Irish fans who weren't already on the field spilled out of the stands, and Notre Dame's national title hopes remained alive. The Irish are 6-0 for the first time since 2002.
"Physically, we controlled the line of scrimmage," Irish coach Brian Kelly said of the last play. "Classic. Classic goal line stand."
Stanford coach David Shaw wasn't so sure.
"I didn't get a view of the last play," Shaw said. "Stepfan swore to me that he got it. That he got over the goal line on the second effort. The officials looked at it and said he didn't get in, so he didn't get in."
TJ Jones made a reaching 7-yard touchdown catch from Tommy Rees on the first overtime possession to give the Fighting Irish (6-0) a seven-point lead.
Stanford (4-2) responded by driving to a first-and-goal at the 4.
Behind its big strong offensive line, Taylor ran for 1 on first, 2 on second and inches on third down. That left one play from inside the 1 and the Notre Dame defense, led by Carlos Calabrese, held up Taylor and moved him backward.
"Very good opponent in Stanford, but today Notre Dame was better," Kelly said.
It had been a few years since that was the case. Stanford had won three straight in the series, physically dominating the Irish, with Andrew Luck at the helm.
With Luck gone to the NFL, the Irish stood up to the bullies.
Rees relieved Everett Golson after the sophomore took a helmet to the head during Notre Dame's game-tying field goal drive late in the fourth.
In the overtime, Rees lofted a 16-yard pass to Theo Riddick to convert a third-and-8 to the 7. On the next play, he threw behind Jones on a slant and the receiver reached back for a sliding two-handed catch and a 20-13 lead.
Then the Fighting Irish defense, which has now not given up a touchdown in four straight games, made it stand. Almost half the field was covered with Notre Dame fans, as rain poured down during the postgame celebration. They didn't seem to mind.
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Jordan Williamson's 27-yard field goal with 6:12 put the Cardinal up 13-10, and the Fighting Irish drove into Cardinal territory when Golson absorbed the helmet hit from Usua Amanam that was flagged for 15 yards.
Golson came out looking shaken and Rees came in. He completed an 11-yard pass to Tyler Eifert, and then on third-and-4 from the 28 Eifert drew a pass interference call on Terrence Brown that gave the Irish a first down at the 13.
The Irish couldn't punch it in and Kyle Brindza kicked a 22-yard field goal with 20 seconds left to tie it at 13.
Two of the nation's best defenses figured to dictate the game on a gray, rainy day and they didn't disappoint.
Notre Dame defensive tackle Stephon Tuitt was in the Stanford backfield all day and Manti Te'o was all over Stanford ball carriers.
On the other side, Shayne Skov and Ben Gardner gave Golson and the Irish very little room to operate.
Golson alternated between scary and spectacular all day, completing 12 of 24 for 141 yards and a touchdown. He also lost two key fumbles — one that gave Stanford's Chase Thomas recovered in the end zone in the second quarter for a touchdown and the other that gave the Cardinal the ball back after Golson had made a long run deep into Stanford territory.
Josh Nunes had a similar day for Stanford, going 12 for 25 for 125 yards with two interceptions.
The Irish got their offense going in the third quarter, outgaining Stanford 114-19, but couldn't get any points, in part because Golson fumbled inside the Cardinal 20.
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The third season under a coach has traditionally been a memorable one at Notre Dame. Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine and Lou Holtz all won national titles in Year 3 of coaching the Irish.
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Pieces of Meaning in Free Verse Poetry
Lesson 6 of 8
Objective: SWBAT describe how words, phrases, and illustrations add meaning to a story.
Big Idea: Read the poem, look at the picture, consider your feelings-What helps us understand the poem better?
- in the swim by Douglas Florian
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: poetry, literature, rhyme, repeating words, rhythm, illustration
- Set up the whiteboard
- poetry tree
- 'Pieces of Meaning' worksheet
- ipads (to take pictures of the poetry)
I chose this book because it has great illustrations and multiple examples of free verse poetry. The poems were short and my kids really loved the different kinds of fish featured. You could use another poetry book that has good pictures, but this one was available and at the 2nd grade reading level.
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Common starting point
- "Today we are talking about a kind of poem called 'free verse'." (Here's our poetry tree before we added the ideas - Write 'free verse' on the trunk of the poetry tree)
- "Any ideas what 'free verse' means?" Take ideas - one of my student mentioned there were verses in music - good connection!
- "This kind of poem may have rhyme or rhythm repeating words. It may or may not have sentences or phrases or just words. 'Free verse' is the kind of poetry with no rules - it can be written any way that the author wants." This is how I explained explained free verse poetry.
- "We read these poems help us to 'read fluently' or smoothly". Write that on the leaves of the tree."
This is one of the later lessons in my poetry unit. I used the 'poetry tree' in all of my lessons in this unit to create a tool that pulled together all of the ideas and kinds of poetry. The kinds of poem are listed down the trunk and the ways that poetry help us are listed on the leaves. I discussed repetition, rhyming and repeated words in my other lessons, including Poetry: What Is It?, Dogs and Haikus: What's the Plot?, Poetry Takes Shape, Synonym Adjective Verb-Put Them In A Cinquain and Reading Acrostics: Poetry of Letters, Don't Worry: Alliteration and Onomatopoeia Help Us and Long Vowels and Limericks: Looking at Poetry. If you have not discussed these poetry features with your students, spend a few moments talking about these important parts of poems.
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Teacher's Turn
Give the purpose of the lesson
- "Today we will read some 'free verse' poems and talk about how we get meaning from different features of poetry - from the title, words and phrases, feelings, and illustrations."
- "Then you can describe why you like the poem and how it makes you feel."
- Take a few moments to go over the vocabulary (repeated words, rhyme, etc) on the whiteboard. Here was my explanation of the organizer and review of the vocabulary.
Introduce strategy - teacher models
- The first poem I'll read is called 'the Catfish'. I'll write that on the puzzle piece on the whiteboard."
- "Listen to this poem as I read it." Read the poem, emphasizing rhythm and rhyme.
- "I hear rhyme that makes it fun to read and rhythm, which makes me read smoothly and fluently. I'll write on the puzzle piece."
- The illustration shows me the 2 kinds of 'catfish' so it helps me to understand the topic." Write that next to 'illustration'.
- "I like this poem because its funny and I like that it has a 'play on words' - cat-fish. I'll write that on the last puzzle piece."
- "Now let me put them all together. Each way that I look at a poem, the title, the illustrations, the words and phrases and my feelings about the poem help me to understand it better."
- This is how I reviewed the model and what the whiteboard looked like then I was done.
Practice strategy - guided practice
- "Let's try one together - I'll read 'The Salmon'." Write that on my puzzle piece as the title.
- Read it. "What words and phrases do you hear that give it meaning?" Take ideas - rhyme, short phrases, repeating words. "I'll add that to the puzzle piece on the board."
- "What about the illustration? What do you see?" Take ideas - a fish jumping wildly, waterfall, lots of fish. "I understand that the salmon must jump upstream to lay their eggs. The text was confusing, but the illustration makes that easy to see." Write that on the pieces. Here were some ideas that my students had.
- "How does this poem make you feel? Why do you like it?" Take ideas - it has shape that shows words/fish going up. It also has short phrases, like the fish just jumping short little ways. These were my kids' ideas of why they liked the poem.
- Here is a peek into one of my student's perceptions of the practice and a look another example that I put on the whiteboard.
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Students Take a Turn
Assign Task
- "I'm passing out puzzle piece paper - it has the features of poetry that give it meaning - words and phrases, feelings, title, and illustrations."
- "I want you to take a picture of 2 favorite 'free-verse' poems with the iPad. (or kids can share books if you have enough)."
- "Let's take a moment to talk about Ipad Rules.
- I did give some tips for taking pictures with the ipad.
- "While you're waiting to pick your poems, cut your puzzle pieces."
- "Read your poem on the ipad, look a the picture and think about how each piece of the puzzle adds meaning - illustration, words/phrases, and their feeling/emotions about that poem."
- This is what it sounded like when I set the task.
Guide students as they work
- Guide students to pick poems and share books or take pictures with the iPads.
- Check on their cutting - remind them that the pieces need to fit together.
- This is what it looked like when they were filling out the pieces.
- Use this time as a kind of formative assessment. Here's a video of me asking a student about what she thinks.
- I also had to remind them to use the resources on the whiteboard for spelling and ideas.
It's really very difficult to find enough books for a class set, so I often use the iPads as document cameras. The kids take pictures of their favorite page to work on individually. This way, they are all working simultaneously, even though I only have one book.
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Put it together and share
Put it together and share
- I had the kids come up and present their ideas about their poem, reading it, showing the picture and sharing their ideas from the puzzle. Here's an example of how I discussed a poem with a student before she presented to the class.
- Here's an example of a completed project.
- It was great to hear each student's ideas about their poetry. They had very specific opinions about what they liked. One student really liked the repeating words.
The true goal in this lesson is not the creation of a puzzle - it's the realization by the students that meaning is added to poetry from different sources (illustrations, words/phrases, feelings, and the title) - these poetry features. Students need to consider how the illustrations bring meaning to the plot, characters and setting (RL.2.7). They are also reflecting how the words and phrases specific to poetry (rhythm, rhyming, repeating words) bring so much more meaning. (RL2.4) The Common Core Standards emphasize that the students attend to these text features and the intentional wording so they become active participants in their reading and the teacher becomes more of a facilitator to the learning process.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
I would pair students with academic challenges with other students. The vocabulary and reading level is upper second grade (2.9) and it will be difficult for those with reading problems to digest the poem. However, they should have lots of good ideas to share with the group about the illustrations and perhaps the rhyming or rhythm.
Those with more academic abilities should be able to condense their answers into thought provoking ideas and go beyond - 'it makes me feel good' to statements like 'it reminds me of a time when I went fishing' or 'the shape of the poem shows the direction that the fish migrate.'


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Another Lakeland police DUI case hit trouble in court this week after an officer failed to abide by a judge's request for documentation, according to court records.
LAKELAND | Another Lakeland police DUI case hit trouble in court this week after an officer failed to abide by a judge's request for documentation, according to court records.
The incident caused State Attorney Jerry Hill to write another letter to LPD complaining about an officer. In this case, it involved Officer Michael Kellner's refusal Sunday to submit documentation called a probable-cause affidavit. The defendant, Derrick McGary, 38, was released from jail Monday because the document wasn't provided.
While the case can still be prosecuted, the lack of response meant McGary was released without any pretrial conditions, such as posting bail, pretrial supervision, restrictions on driving, curfew, random monitoring and restrictions on drinking alcohol and visiting bars, said Assistant State Attorney Brian Haas.
"These are all things, tools, that are used to protect the public and ensure that they come back to court like they are supposed to," Haas said.
Lakeland police spokesman Sgt. Gary Gross said prosecutors notified the department about the incident Wednesday and said LPD is reviewing how to handle the situation.
"At this time, the incident has been documented on an Employee Incident Report and has been forwarded to the Office of Professional Standards," Gross said. "Chief Womack will then review the EIR and make a decision on who will investigate the alleged incident, either the direct supervisor or an investigator from OPS."
Earlier this year, the State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute 45 cases handled by Officer David Edds, and Hill wrote a letter critical of LPD's handling of the cases and saying he would no longer use testimony from Edds.
Edds drew a lecture from a judge after he testified during a June 18 DUI trial that he had a driver sign an incomplete affidavit and then filled in the rest of the form later. He also made changes to another record that already had been notarized. A jury found the defendant in that case not guilty. Edds has since quit the force in lieu of being fired.
The most recent problem stems from an incident last weekend when Kellner arrested and charged McGary with driving under the influence, according to reports.
At the time, McGary's blood-alcohol level registered 0.136 and 0.134, according to records.
When McGary had his first court appearance Sunday, Circuit Judge James Yancey requested to see a probable-cause affidavit, which explains why the officer made the arrest and gives more detail than a citation.
Kellner had submitted only the citation.
"I'll hold him over until tomorrow," Yancey said, according to court transcripts. "We'll bring Mr. McGary ... back tomorrow for first appearance again because I don't have an affidavit up here to tell me what's going on, which, oh well it's probably because it's the Lakeland Police Department, but that's all right, all right we'll bring him back over tomorrow."
The probable-cause affidavit isn't something always required by judges, Haas said.
"It depends on the facts and circumstances of the case and the preference of the judge."
Yancey told prosecutor Kyle McNeal that he had 24 hours to produce the necessary documentation, records show.
McNeal sent an email that day to Kellner requesting the additional documentation, records show.
Kellner's reply to McNeal on Sunday said LPD officers don't do, and have never done, probable-cause reports on DUIs unless the defendant refused a breath test or if their test results were below 0.08, the blood-alcohol level at which a person is considered legally drunk.
"The breath test itself is probable cause for the arrest," Kellner wrote to McNeal.
Kellner also sent email to his supervisor, Sgt. Chad Mumbauer, about 5 a.m. Monday, explaining his understanding of LPD's policy, and providing some commentary.
"This must be a new judge," Kellner wrote to his supervisor.
"Or it's someone confusing us with PCSO. I know they have to do (report) continuations on everything traffic or otherwise."
Mumbauer forwarded the email string to Assistant State Attorney Stacie Kaylor asking for guidance on the case and for future DUI cases.
"Everyone makes mistakes," Hill wrote to Mumbauer.
"Officer Kellner's actions in this case were not mistakes. His email back to my office and failure to do what the judge directed reflects an attitude. Officer Kellner responded in the way he did out of an unacceptable arrogance."
In his letter, Hill told Mumbauer that while he appreciated him following up with his office in an email, the solution to the situation was simple: "If a circuit judge asks for a probable-cause statement, you get it to him. I hope that your agency can make that clear to Officer Kellner."
Gross said Thursday a directive was immediately issued to all officers that if a DUI arrest is made, a probable-cause form must be completed and accompany the DUI citation and defendant to jail.
This wasn't McGary's first time in court.
"In 2011, Mr. McGary was prosecuted by my office and convicted of driving under the influence," Hill wrote in his letter to Mumbauer. "As you may be aware, Florida law provides for harsher penalties for subsequent DUIs."
Kellner, 45, has worked for the department on three different occasions, according to department records.
He was first hired in 1997 and worked until 2006.
He was rehired again in 2006 and quit again about a year later.
His latest employment stint with the department began in 2011.
He is paid about $42,000 a year.
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