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The bill introduced Monday by three Democratic state senators and one Republican is the latest attempt to make teacher effectiveness a bigger part of school decisions. If passed, the law wouldn't take effect until the 2016-17 academic year.
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By Jon Saraceno, USA TODAY
DENVER Allen Iverson, peeling off his civvies, isn't as concerned about the Minnesota Timberwolves 90 minutes before tip-off as he is about listening to another kind of game plan.
"What properties does she have?" Iverson, just named to his ninth All-Star Game, asks via cellphone. "Yeah, she's done. Ain't no coming back. Who has the red and green properties? You've got the green and Boardwalk and Park Place? You got hotels on that? Oh, my God, it's over. Gotta go."
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With that the Denver Nuggets guard looks at his locker room visitor and feigns exasperation. "That was my manager 50 years old, and he and his family don't know how to play Monopoly. They keep calling me every five minutes asking me about the rules. Crazy, man."
It seems as if everyone wants Iverson for, well, The Answer.
Thirteen months ago, Iverson relocated to the Great Plains from Philadelphia, the city that sometimes gave him great pains and vice versa. The Nuggets (25-16 entering Thursday) turned to the bona fide lightning rod, as did coach George Karl, when they acquired the disgruntled former league MVP from the 76ers.
"A lot of times," Iverson says, "I deserved all of the criticism because of my own actions just being young and making dumb mistakes. Not thinking before I reacted; not thinking before I said something; not thinking when I was mad or angry."
Trading row houses for a view of the Rockies has done wonders for the league's most tenacious pound-for-pound offensive force, who for so long seemed to be a young, confused man angry at the world. Next season is the end of his four-year, $76.7 million contract, but Iverson, 32, says he wants to remain a Nugget for life until 39, when he plans to retire.
"I dig it. I'm a lot happier here that's an understatement," he says in the trainer's room as his legs are massaged. "I don't want to become a journeyman. Hopefully this is my last stop. But that probably won't end up being up to me."
The Nuggets aren't saying what they will do, but they are off to one of their best starts and are among 11 teams jockeying for eight playoff positions in the free-for-all Western Conference. Last spring they were ousted in the playoffs by the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs. Iverson shot 37%, averaging almost 23 points.
He and teammate Carmelo Anthony on Thursday were named All-Star starters for the Western Conference in the Feb. 17 extravaganza in New Orleans. "This will never get old," Iverson says.
"What tickles me most," says John Thompson, his former coach at Georgetown, "is when people say, 'For a player his size.' Hell with that if he were Paul Bunyan-sized, this (dude) would be phenomenal, the way he plays, his longevity, how hard he plays.
"There are Allen Iverson imitations, but I haven't seen a duplication."
The guard still vigorously attacks the rim with vengeance, creating havoc in the paint and getting to the free throw line. He is third in the NBA in scoring (27-point average), but his game, and influence, is muted. Despite being a co-captain, the Nuggets are not "his" team they belong to Anthony, a co-captain with center Marcus Camby.
Folks wanted to see if the Anthony-Iverson merger could succeed because they're big-time scorers. Anthony, the 23-year-old former Syracuse standout, says they have disproved the notion two superstars can't co-exist on one team.
"They said it about (Alex Rodriguez) and (Derek) Jeter, and they said it about (Dwyane) Wade and (Shaquille O'Neal)," Anthony says.
Anthony is a bigger fan of Iverson since being a teammate. "I catch myself sometimes being in awe of him," he says. "I say, 'Did he just do that?' I've never seen anyone like him."
Defensive effort still lags
Denver's on-court chemistry experiment has produced mixed results. The run-and-gun Nuggets lack the consistent defensive intensity Iverson and Anthony (fourth in the NBA in scoring, 25.5 points) deliver on offense.
Iverson, as of Thursday, was first in the league in minutes a game (41.7), third in field goals attempted (at 801, one behind Anthony), second in free throws attempted (409) and sixth in steals a game (2.07). Camby says Iverson is pro basketball's "ultimate closer."
Still, the championship shot clock ticks for player and coach.
The Nuggets were bounced in the first round of the playoffs four consecutive seasons. The last three times came under Karl, 56, who has collected an impressive 854 NBA victories but zero championship rings. The Nuggets have never won a title in their 40-year existence, starting with the old ABA.
"We definitely need each other that's the good part of the relationship," Iverson says, a bit mysteriously. "We've accomplished a lot in this league, but not the No. 1 goal. It's something he strives for every day. I have the same mentality. I'm pretty sure he understands my struggle, and I understand his. Our careers aren't complete until we do" win a championship.
The elephant-in-the-room question reverberates like the sound of a bouncing ball in an empty arena: Can one of the league's most thrilling offensive machines be unselfish enough to help the Nuggets mine playoff gold? Analyst Charles Barkley, a frequent Iverson critic, said on TNT that Iverson remains a one-dimensional player a prolific scorer who disdains defense, who does not elevate a team.
Karl describes Iverson as a "very good" defender "at times" but adds he "doesn't make the defensive commitment with an every-possession mentality." That is "not only psychological, it's subconscious."
"Here's a guy who has made his career scoring, and with big numbers," Karl says. "All great players figure out how to pace themselves and save their energy for what they do best. My feeling is, at times, (Iverson) 'cheats' the defensive end.
"I had Detlef Schrempf (in Seattle) and Sam Cassell (in Milwaukee), who took possessions off. But they had this great instinct when to take them off. AI, sometimes, doesn't have that instinct. Sometimes he takes off a possession that I wish he wouldn't. But when you're asked to play as many minutes and score as many points (as he is), I don't know if Superman could play hard every possession."
The enigmatic Iverson believes he is fortunate to play for the laid-back former CBA coach, whose offensive philosophy dovetails his. As Iverson says, Karl "wants to run and no one wants to run more than me. I've never been on a team my entire career where a coach talks more about offense than defense.
"It can't just be me," Iverson says. "It's my teammates and the coaching staff it's all of us. We can't have any slippage."
A tinge of regret
Karl says he "never has had one headache" with Iverson unlike fellow North Carolina alumnus Larry Brown, who had everything but migraines trying to rein him in.
Playing at altitude, it is Iverson's attitude that seems to have undergone a humbling transformation. Unlike when he chafed during frantic-filled days under Brown's coaching in Philadelphia, Iverson appears more pliable, more coach-friendly. Talk of suspensions and fines have vanished into thin air.
And there are regrets sort of.
"A lot of the clashes I had with Coach Brown, looking back on them, they're embarrassing to me," says Iverson, who says Brown is the best X's and O's coach in the business. "I could have handled those situations differently. There are a lot of things that I wish I could take back. But I wouldn't because I think they made me the player I am today they made me the person I am today. I just hope it won't ever happen again.
"Everything I went through in Philly, those experiences helped me become a better husband, a better father, a better teammate. It helped me become a better person. I don't make the mistakes I did."
Last week Iverson donated $100,000 for a gun buyback program sponsored by the police in his native Newport News, Va.
"When you talk about a kid who came from hard knocks and difficult times, he is what a lot of African-Americans try to make believe they are," Thompson says. "It's in to say, 'I'm from poverty, I came up hard.' But that kid pulled himself up. Allen is a survivor."
Iverson's increased maturity led him to observe in The Denver Post last month, "I'm just happy I got it before it was too late, before I was out of this league or dead or in jail."
The biggest misconception he says people have is, "I don't care about nothing but myself."
"I think that's my biggest problem I care about other people too much," Iverson says. "At times, more than I do myself."
His controversial lifestyle as a young player, his scrapes with the law and some of his questionable relationships and bad decisions have prompted Iverson to rethink his life as the married father of four.
"Every day, I pray to get better as a person and a player," he says. "I think I am better because I don't have the surroundings I (did). I actually thought (some of) my friends cared about Allen Iverson the person before the NBA, the money, the fame. That's a cold reality.
"I'm totally different from what I used to be (with) the company (I keep), the decisions I make. A lot of times, I used to react. That's what I concentrate on most now, especially when I'm mad. I think the hardest thing in the world for a black man to do is think when he's mad."
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Two facilities at Township High School District 214's Forest View Educational Center in Arlington Heights are being upgraded thanks to a recently approved Partnership Agreement with Robert Morris University. The school board approved the agreement at its Jan. 13 meeting, while applauding the administration for finding a partner to help defray costs. This latest agreement supersedes the one already in existence between the two organizations.
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"Since constructing a training facility on our property a few years ago, we have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with Robert Morris University," said Dr. David R. Schuler, superintendent. "This expanded partnership will benefit not just District 214 and RMU but all members of the community through our Community Education programs."
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After years of seemingly endless ministerial meetings, position papers and, yes, posturing by participants, the Doha Round of the World Trade Organizations seem to be taking a turn for the worse for U.S. cotton.
Cotton industry leaders have tried to be supportive of the Doha Round, the name given to the negotiations aimed at producing a new world trade agreement that began in Doha, Qatar, in 2001, said Larry McClendon, the National Cotton Council's chairman and a ginner from Marianna, Ark.
But recent developments are forcing NCC leaders to reassess how supportive they can be given the long-running criticism of and the "singling out" of U.S. cotton in the negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Speaking at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis, Tenn., McClendon said much of the Council's concern centers around the release of a new draft negotiating text by Crawford Falconer, the chairman of the WTO's agriculture committee, in Geneva last month.
"It calls for the largest cuts in U.S. farm programs shown in the Falconer text released last July while offering less market access than previously demanded by the U.S.," he said. "The market access provisions are riddled with exceptions that could easily allow a developing country to exempt most of its trade from real increases in market access.
"This is exactly the kind of trade-off U.S. agriculture feared and was at the center of our concerns presented in our July 27 letter about the July Falconer text."
McClendon said the Falconer text appears to "fall far short" of the standard U.S. farm groups established in 2005 and reaffirmed in 2007, a standard he said those groups clearly communicated with U.S. negotiators.
"USDA needs to provide agriculture with a clear analysis of exactly what gains we can expect in market access from a negotiating text so riddled with loopholes," he said. "It is hard to imagine U.S. agriculture will support the latest Falconer text if we are not given solid market access analysis to address the fears we have concerning this text.
"If our negotiators believe they have a good deal then where is the analysis by the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support their claims?"
McClendon said Cotton Council leaders will be paying particular attention to market access improvements in China, which has become a major customer for U.S. cotton despite it receiving less than favorable treatment from the Chinese government.
"China is the only country that applied double-digit import duties on our cotton exports, which reached 40 percent in the spring of 2007," he said. "China is the only country that tightly manages the availability of import licenses causing surges in export activity to meet centrally controlled mandates on landings of imports."
Why has the Council devoted so much of its time and resources to the Doha negotiations? "The answer is that eventually there will be a new set of international rules and obligations that most of the world, including the United States will acknowledge. These new standards will be in place for at least 10 years. It is in our best interests that we get the agreement right."
U.S. cotton producers, who have not been enjoying the high prices experienced by other commodities, have another concern with the Falconer text, McClendon notes. "There is a section of the text that demands we reduce our cotton program by more than 90 percent from recent spending levels."
McClendon also rejected claims from OxFam and other non-governmental organizations in Europe and the United States that the U.S. cotton program is somehow hurting African cotton producers.
"Parastatal cotton organizations in West Africa have yet to explain why their cotton producers receive less per pound for cotton than virtually every other cotton producer in the world," he said. The Council will keep asking the question of why they only get 60 percent or less of the world average price?
"The West African cotton nations have never addressed the technological deficiencies that ensure their producers will fall farther and farther behind cotton producers in China, in India, in Brazil."
McClendon said the NCC and other farm groups have been urging House and Senate agriculture committee leaders to move the 2008 farm bill forward to reduce the uncertainty now faced by production agriculture.
"A stable and consistent farm program provides an essential foundation upon which to make the long-term investments, and cropping and marketing decisions that are necessary in today's agriculture," he said.
"The farm bills advanced by the House and Senate contain significant reform to existing payment limitations and eligibility requirements including elimination of the three-entity rule; equal treatment for spouses; elimination of certificate redemptions and termination of limits on marketing loan benefits for improved accountability and transparency; and, modifications to the existing adjusted gross income test which will deny farm program payments to wealthy non-farmers."


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ASUS Eee PC 904HA
Installing Arch
With installation version 2008.06, Wi-Fi will not work after installing, and Ethernet may not either. To be safe for now, you may want to download the Core installation image and transfer the latest kernel sources to your Eee through some means after installing Arch - reuse your USB stick. You could then proceed to compiling a custom kernel following the instructions on this page.
Custom Kernel
Everything one needs to run a fully functional Eee 904HA is in the vanilla 2.6.28 kernel. You need no patches or any other fancy thing. The following will outline the bare essentials one would need in building a custom kernel. If you do not want to build most of this stuff as modules, don't, but module names are listed regardless for just-in-case rc.conf convenience.
Several things require that you have the following enabled in the menuconfig:
General setup ---> [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
[*] Networking Support ---> [*] Wireless ---> [*] Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) <*> RF switch subsystem support ---> <*> Input layer to RF switch connector ... Device drivers ---> [*] Networking device support ---> Wireless LAN ---> [*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) <M> Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support
Wifi card kernel module name: ath5k
Your Wifi toggle hotkey will not work unless you have the above RF switch support.
Device drivers ---> [*] Networking device support ---> [*] Ethernet (1000 MBit) ---> <M> Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet support
Kernel module name: atl1e
<M> Sound card support ---> <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> [*] PCI sound devices ---> <M> Intel HD Audio [*] Build Realtek HD-audio codec support [ ] Aggressive power-saving on HD-audio (0) Default time-out for HD-audio power-save mode
Kernel module name: snd-hda-intel
If your Eee isn't regularly playing any sounds or music, you may be interested in enabling the Aggressive power-saving to power your sound off.
Video/LCD backlight
Device Drivers ---> Graphics Support ---> <M> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) ---> <M> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support <M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> <M> Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G <M> i915 driver [*] Backlight & LCD device support ---> <*> Lowlevel LCD controls <*> Lowlevel Backlight controls
Video driver kernel module name: intel-agp
Everything works out of the box when using this video driver. Xorg works fine without a xorg.conf, including DRI.
Device Drivers ---> Multimedia Devices ---> <M> Video For Linux [*] Enable Video For Linux API 1 compatible Layer [*] Video capture adapters ---> [*] Autoselect pertinent encoders/decoders and other helper chips [*] V4L USB devices ---> <M> USB Video Class (UVC) [*] UVC input events device support
Kernel module name: uvcvideo
Multimedia Keys/Hotkeys
The following driver will allow most (but not all at the time of writing, kernel 2.6.28) of your Fn hotkeys to work properly, including F8 through F12. Note that the LCD backlight buttons work without this driver. Maybe the Wifi toggle does too.
Device Drivers ---> Misc devices ---> <M> Eee PC Hotkey Driver <M> Hardware Monitoring support --->
Yes, hardware monitoring support is required (module: hwmon - but would be loaded automatically when loading the hotkey module of course), as is the RF switch support from the Wifi section.
Hotkey driver kernel module name: eeepc-laptop
Do not enable any of the "ASUS Laptop" options you might find in ACPI or Misc devices menus (unless they're Eee specific, of course.) They do not pertain to Eees and will fail to load if built as modules and manually attempted.


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(Here A is the Steenrod algebra.)
I have it on good authority (p. 23) that this is true, but I can't quite make sense of it. The crux of the matter is something I've been wondering for a while:
Why exactly is it that cohomology operations are "the best we can do" (i.e./more generally, why is it that the finest structure we can impose on $E$-cohomology is that it be a module over $E^*E$)?
There might be something tied up in the qualification that we're talking about algebraic categories, which are defined here. I've never heard of these before. Presumably their properties show up in GrVecSpaces as manifestations of actual things on the topological side, which makes it seem like we're only restricting ourselves to categories that are going to preserve some information that we obviously (?) want to preserve, but probably there's more to it than that. And in any case I don't understand why those should be exactly the properties of GrVecSpaces that we care about.
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The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is a not-for-profit, independent and neutral organization, founded in 1998, with the purpose to advance social entrepreneurship and to foster social entrepreneurs as an important catalyst for societal innovation and progress. The Foundation is under the legal supervision of the Swiss Federal Government and is headquartered in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland.
The Foundations's main activities include:
- Identifying and highlighting the world's leading social entrepreneurs: Annually, the Foundation select 10-15 Social Entrepreneurs from a pool of applicants through a global " Social Entrepreneur of the Year" competition. The profiles of the selected social entrepreneurs can be searched and viewed online.
- Community building: Currently, over 330 social entrepreneurs form part of the Schwab Foundation community. They come from around the world and work in a wide range of sectors, but they have many challenges and characteristics in common. The Foundation fosters the peer-to-peer exchange of the social entrepreneurs and supports the replication of their methodologies among each other.
- Connecting social entrepreneurs: The Foundation supports the participation and active involvement of its selected social entrepreneurs at the regional and global meetings of the World Economic Forum. These meetings offer unique opportunities for social entrepreneurs to connect with corporate, political, academic, media and other leaders.
- Generating solutions in partnership: Social entrepreneurs participate in Forum initiatives, the conversations shaping the future agendas of industries, and are experts for the Forum's Global Agenda Councils. The Foundation works with selected companies to advance specific activities of social entrepreneurs or initiatives that support social entrepreneurship ( partners).
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- Additional services: The Foundation works with Harvard University, Stanford University and INSEAD to provide scholarship opportunities to the best executive education courses in the field to the selected social entrepreneurs. The Foundation works closely with leading academic institutions to publish case studies on specific social entrepreneurs for incorporation in undergraduate and graduate level courses
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At first I thought this was just a bunch of biased homers picking the Big10 to win this mythical game. I think the Big10 is down this year and I think the SEC is a little better (Yes I said a little better.....the SEC fans need to get over themselves and stop thinking they're 60 times better than any other conference). But if you're building an all star team you're taking the best of the best, and the Big10 has the 2 "best" teams in the country. You could win this argument with an OSU/Michigan combo team. When you throw in studs like the LBs from PSU then it's not really homerish to vote for the Big10.


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Well, well, Ubisoft has finally announced the latest update in the very popular, long-standing saga of Might & Magic series. M & M fanboys (& fangrrrls!) are all a-Twitter… literally. Even Notch from Mojang has gotten excited! Here's the just released announcement trailer on Youtube:
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Computers will be available so anyone can print out their ballot for any county in Washington state. Kittitas County Auditor Jerry Pettit will be providing the Election Assistance Center with two temporary ballot boxes to make sure every vote is counted.
Constituents will be voting on statewide ballot measures including I-517 regarding penalties for interfering with or retaliating against signature gatherers and petition signers as well as I-522 concerning the labeling of genetically engineered food, just to name a few. There are also three special state Senate races as well as numerous local and county races and measures.
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Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6:
As long as this card remains face-up on your side of the field, it is unaffected by any Spell Cards. During the End Phase of a turn that this card destroys a monster as a result of battle, send this card to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8" from your hand or Deck.
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It was true that Dan and Sam had different interests. Dan loved to have his dinosaurs and Ninja Turtles crash into one another at high speed with sound effects. Sam could happily sit and look at books and was only vaguely aware of who the Ninjas were. Plus, he ate organic snacks. I thought he was a good influence.
It wasn't until Dan was in kindergarten that he set me straight. "You know, Mom, I never really did like Sam," he said. He now had another friend, named Tom. The two had bonded the moment they met in nursery school, and they've remained fast friends, even now at age 10.
So it was that I abandoned the idea of friends who eat organic snacks and are good influences and learned to embrace the child my child embraced. And it made me wonder: What's a parent's role in these early friendships? Though most of us recognize that relationships aren't always easy for the 5-and-under set, we're less sure how much influence we should exert over them.
"Social skills are learned," says Meri Wallace, director of the Heights Center for Adult and Child Development, in Brooklyn, NY. "I often hear adults say, 'Just let the kids work it out.' But lots of times they don't know how. Left to their own devices, they may just start bopping each other over the head."
Here's an age-by-age guide to the skills children need to forge friendships, and what you can do to help.
Contributing editor Betty Holcomb is the author of The Best Friend's Guide to Maternity Leave.
1-Year-OldsFor young toddlers, screaming, hitting, biting, and kicking are usually the first line of both offense and defense.
"One-year-olds don't have words yet to express their emotions, so they show their pleasure or displeasure physically," says Mindy Bostick, who runs an education center in Morgan Hill, CA. "At this stage, a parent's role is just to draw the physical limits so they don't hurt themselves or another child."
That's what Laurie Schneider, a mom from Scituate, MA, is working on with her 1-year-old son, Drew. "Since he's the oldest in the group of kids we hang out with, I had him practice how to act around little babies by showing him how to touch the flowers in our garden very gently," says Schneider. "When we're around babies, we do the same thing -- just stroke them with one or two fingers."
For the most part, your child's friends will be the ones whose moms or dads you're simpatico with. And you can make it easier for the kids to get along, by helping, sharing, and taking turns, because anything that requires giving something up can be torture to toddlers. "Whatever is in their hands is theirs, and whatever is in someone else's hands is also theirs," says Bostick. "And when they have to relinquish what's theirs, they get very angry. They don't yet care about the way another child feels."
That means you'll need to be on hand to settle disputes and soothe jangled nerves. "When Max plays rough, often the only solution is to remove him from the situation," says Natasha Fishman of Staten Island, NY, whose son is 18 months. "I tell him 'No pinching' and separate him from his playmate temporarily."
Another trick: When a friend is coming over, set aside your little one's special toys beforehand. "I remember having a playgroup at our house, and when all the kids were playing with Alex's toys, he started to cry. Then he asked me when they were leaving," recalls Jane Herzog, who lives in San Mateo, CA. "After that, all the moms in our playgroup learned that it was okay to tell our kids to put away the toys that are closest to their heart."
2-Year-OldsAt 2, most toddlers have learned to speak well enough that parents can begin to teach them some phrases that will help them express their feelings. Then they won't have to hit or grab as much, says Bostick.
Still, it's a good idea to limit playdates to about an hour and vary the activities so the kids can wind down by coloring or reading a book. That can prevent many meltdowns.
Also, be explicit when you explain to your toddler how to get along with her friends. Rather than tell her to "share," Wallace suggests, have her say "Done" when she's finished with a toy so that her friend can play with it. And tell her friend to do the same: "Children don't mind giving up something as much when they know they'll get another turn."
It's smart to stick around to smooth out any altercations. "If my son and his friends are having trouble sharing a toy, the closest parent steps in and uses a timer: Each kid takes a turn for two minutes," says Carolyn Casey of Brooklyn, NY. If that doesn't work, she says, the best option is often to take away the offending toy.
3-Year-OldsOnce they're in preschool, children can find a buddy without much encouragement from you. "That's the magical year when most are ready to enjoy the company of another child. Sometimes they'll choose a friend based on similar interests or because they laugh at the same things," says Wallace. "They also may choose friends who have different personalities -- who are wilder or braver than they are."
It's hard to predict which of these early relationships will last longer than a school year, but the chances are better with support from both sets of parents. An enjoyable outing with that child's whole family can strengthen the bond even more.
But it's also common for even an intense friendship to fade at this age. For most kids, relationships tend to change as they develop new interests.
Throughout this period, you can continue to teach your preschooler ways to solve his dilemmas, but you'll have to set the limits during playtime. You might come up with ground rules with the friend's parent in advance, so that everyone is on the same page. Rules might involve what kind of consequence to impose for aggressive behavior or even which types of games are off-limits. But if you haven't done this, it's okay to invoke your house rules as long as you aren't heavy-handed. Usually, all you need to say is "We don't allow that in this house."
You can also prompt the kids to come up with their own solutions. "You might say, 'I see we have only one ball and two kids -- what should we do about that?'" says Wallace. "Very often, they'll come up with a way to take turns or even introduce some other toy to the situation."
4-Year-OldsWhen kids reach the age of 4, they begin to see themselves as part of a more complex social scene. "Children start to form groups, although these aren't by any means cliques yet -- the groups are still pretty fluid," says Bostick.
Your child may not know how to join a group, whether it's her classmates at school or a bunch of children at the playground. "You can start by giving her some words, such as 'Hi, I'm Lucy, and I'd like to play too.' Or you can encourage her to come up with an idea for a game or to think of ways she can fit into one that's in progress," says Wallace. "She can offer to be 'It' or anything else that will make the other kids want to include her."
If there's a particular group that she wants to be friends with, you can invite one of its members or even the whole gang to your house. Or ask them all out to do something fun together, such as go to a movie. "Including them will encourage them to include your child," says Wallace. Besides, it teaches her that friendships are often made by finding common ground.
Of course, while 4-year-olds grow more socially adept every day, they can still act, well, like children. Most kids don't have a lot of impulse control. In the heat of the moment, they just act.
Ann Gault of Verona, NJ, keeps an eagle eye out when her nearly 4-year-old son, Billy, plays with his buddy Trevor. "They fight quite a bit," she says. "I try to let them work things out for themselves. But if they get to the point where they're about to hurt each other, then I separate them and try to reason with them." Sometimes she'll even end the playdate and tell Billy that he and Trevor can't play together for a couple of weeks. "I think it's worth it to let the kids cool off a little bit and then try again. Having different types of friends is a good thing -- and playing with Trevor has helped Billy learn some diplomacy."
5-Year-OldsBy kindergarten, most children are social beings, with a range of friends they cherish and who cherish them. "Though they're perfectly able to pick their own playmates, they still need to learn how to assert themselves and to choose buddies who treat them well and make them feel good," says Bostick.
Your child may be playing a lot with someone who never lets him take the lead, for example. "This is an age where you can begin to talk to kids about what that feels like and what kind of friendships they'd like to have instead," says Wallace. Teach your child phrases that can help him get what he wants, such as "It's my turn to be the leader" or "I want to be first today." Or tell him he can try playing with someone else who's better at turn-taking.
If you have even the slightest concern about just how well your kindergartner is navigating his social world, volunteering to help out in the classroom or going along on a field trip can let you see him in action for yourself. And don't wait for conference time with the teacher to talk about the situation.
Over time, your child will likely gravitate, as most of us do, to the people he has fun with and the ones who really do care about him. That, of course, is the best outcome. Despite their rowdy moments, my son, Dan, and his friend Tom can be sweet and gentle with each other. When we were moving to a new house and Dan was having a tough time with it, Tom was the first to offer comfort: "We still live near each other," he assured my son. And these days, Dan will even offer his friend first crack at the PlayStation.
When I ask Dan what he likes about Tom, he's pretty straightforward: "Everything, Mom," he says. "We're best friends. I think we'll always be friends."


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Days after Braylon Edwards unleashed a Twitter storm on the New York Jets, a report suggests the free-agent wide receiver's former team almost become his current one all over again.
CBSSports.com's Jason La Canfora reported Sunday that Rex Ryan and the Jets tried to trade for Edwards soon after losing Santonio Holmes for the season, according to league sources.
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The Seattle Seahawks still were hopeful at the time that Edwards would pan out and told the Jets it would take "something significant" to make a trade happen, according to La Canfora. The deal never went down, but the Seahawks might regret that since they waived Edwards on Tuesday, one day after he said some not-so-nice things about the Jets.
"Don't blame (Jets quarterback Mark) Sanchez," Edwards tweeted Monday night. "I played there. Blame the idiots calling shots ... Mark is a beast and will (prove) it when given a proper chance."
Edwards apologized for his words, but the Jets aren't likely to come calling again in this lifetime.
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I find the end product a bit clunky at the end of the day (compared to things like rails or django), but this is one of the things that gives me hope about Microsoft, and their complete inward focus.
A bit clunky yes, but so much more intuitive than the page cycle based asp.net model which to this day (after 6 years or so of using it) still gives me fits. I always have a cheat sheet up in my cube outlining all of the page cycle events.
IMO the sweet spot for ASP is small to mid-range line of business apps. If you buy a control suite like DevExpress, you can slam together very high levels of functionality very quickly.
As soon as you step outside of that, it just becomes not worth it. Nowadays I am writing templated server controls for our in house designers to use. I do have a handle on the lifecycle, but unit testing anything we do tends to be 20x more complecated then the actual code.
Whenever I do anything in MVC, I just end up getting frustrated. I would use it over WebForms for anything other LoB apps in a heartbeat, but after learning rails and django there are things about it that just piss me off. Like the whole ViewData thing, the clunky code generation, the lack of any sort of persistence story for the model, and immature helper and validation story. The whole thing would have been less painful and alot more enjoyable if it had been designed from the ground up on IronPython or IronRuby
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Personally I love the ASP.NET model. ;-) It makes developing for the Web much more natural than any other model I tried.
I would brrrrrr if someone told me, all of sudden: forget the WebForm model - now it's all MVC...
Guess it's a matter of taste but I don't see any reason to move on now that Internet connections are getting faster and can support those huge ViewStates better ;-)


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Toffoli's two goals lead Manchester Monarchs by SharksStaff report
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The Manchester Monarchs remained undefeated in regulation and have the most points in the AHL after a 4-1 win at Worcester Wednesday night.
The Monarchs (5-0-3 for 13 points) will host the St. John's IceCaps for two games at Verizon Wireless Arena Friday (7 p.m.) and Saturday (3 p.m.).
The game was close until late when the Monarchs scored twice in the final 90 seconds. Tanner Pearson broke a scoreless deadlock 32 seconds into the second period, notching his fourth goal of the year. Tyler Toffoli set up the score. Toffoli netted his fourth of the season in the third period, blasting a pass from Linden Vey into the net at 4:29 to make it 2-0.
Worcester pulled within one with a power-play goal at 7:32. Daniil Tarasov beat Martin Jones from close range to make it 2-1.
The Sharks (1-3-0) pressured late and had a near-miss in front of the cage, but Jones weathered the storm and Manchester defenseman Nick Deslauriers skated the other way and beat Harri Sateri to make it 3-2 with 90 seconds left. Toffoli scored his second goal on an empty net at 19:11 to put the game away. Toffoli leads the team with five goals.


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October 4, 2013
Professor Robert Merton, in the classroom, 1980
"There are very few academic papers that you have a 40th anniversary for," said MIT Sloan finance professor Stewart Myers. And yet, in honor of the anniversary of the Black-Scholes-Merton options pricing model, MIT Sloan did just that, with a two-day symposium celebrating the famous model and its widespread adoption and influence.
Capping off a day of talks featuring finance professors including Deborah Lucas and Stephen Ross as well as alumna Judy Lewent, SM '72, was a fireside chat between Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, moderated by Myers. The group spoke to MIT Sloan students, alumni, and fellow faculty in a packed house that included the daughter of the late economist Fischer Black, as well as at least one former master's student of Merton's.
Merton and Scholes won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on the model, which provides a way to value options and dynamically hedge risk. The model, which can be applied to financial products ranging from interest rate swaps to mortgages as well as to a wide array of corporate investment decisions or "real options," is notable not only for its ability to solve a challenging problem, but also for its rapid uptake by practitioners and its many uses.
"It isn't just that they had a formula for a particular thing, it's that the methodology can be applied so broadly. The range of things it can be applied to is amazing," said Myers recently.
"The Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model is probably one of the most successful theories in all of the social sciences," said finance professor Andrew Lo in an interview before the anniversary event. "It is an idea that has come out of academic research that has been adopted in practice. The approach they created, not just the formula but the theoretical framework they created, launched a thousand additional research papers as well as a lot of industry practices that rely on that framework."
Entire industries, including the exchange-traded options market, the over-the-counter derivatives market, and the market for credit derivatives, evolved based on Black-Scholes-Merton. "There are multiple trillions of dollars in each of those industries, and at the heart of each of them is the analysis pioneered by Black, Scholes, and Merton," said Lo, who added that he "uses their ideas all the time" in his own work on quantitative models in financial economics.
At the event, Merton and Scholes shared good-natured ribbing and humorous anecdotes about the model's evolution, including a story Scholes told about giving an early public presentation of the work together with Black and waiting for Merton to reveal the grand finale—only to find that Merton, who did not appear, had overslept.
The pair agreed that they could not have imagined the model's impact when they published their work in 1973. Indeed, the now famous paper was initially rejected by multiple academic journals whose editors deemed it "too arcane." It was only when friends at the University of Chicago—Eugene Fama and Merton Miller—pressed their contacts at the Journal of Political Economy that the model finally made it into print.
When discussing the model's use in practice and their own early trading experience applying it, Merton and Scholes advised the audience that even the most sophisticated model is no match for a trader with inside information. "The market knows things that the models don't," said Merton. "One ounce of non-public information is going to clean the clock of the smartest person with the model and no information. You have to ask yourself, 'Is there somebody who knows more?' Use the model, use history, but also use what the market is telling you."
Looking ahead to the next 40 years, Scholes said corporate managers could use the model as they decide how to structure their companies in an increasingly technologically advanced world. The Black-Scholes-Merton approach could help determine whether or where to manufacture goods, for example, or which products to develop or innovations to pursue and which to abandon.
Merton added that the model could also be applied to risk management in emerging markets and that it could help central bankers better understand their risks as they strive to avoid another financial crisis. Developing financial markets like China's could also rely on the model to build a stronger, safer financial system that appropriately transfers risk.
"I think it will be expanded and extended in many different ways," said Lo. "One hundred years from now, people will still be reading about Black-Scholes-Merton."


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The finale of the Miss Universe pageant is Wednesday evening. The preliminary round took place on Thursday; it wasn't televised but was streamed live on the internet. You can watch it here if so inclined. The pageant's National Costume event was last night; some consider it a rather odd feature of the Miss Universe pageant, but you can watch that, too, on the Miss Universe site. With the finale only days away, betting is in full swing. You can check out the odds here.
The current favorite, at around 6 to 1, is Miss South Africa, Melinda Bam. Miss Bam, a published author and a professional painter, among other things, is definitely a strong contender:
Second place is a three-way tie among Miss Czech Republic, Miss USA and Miss Venezuela at 10-1. I like Miss USA a lot, but of the three I think Miss Venezuela has the best shot. Miss Czech Republic:
Miss USA, Olivia Culpo:
And Miss Venezuela, Irene Esser, during the swimsuit portion of the preliminary round:
At 14 to 1 are Miss Australia, Miss Mexico and Miss Puerto Rico. I personally think Miss Australia, Renae Ayris, may be the best bet to win the pageant:
Miss Mexico:
And Miss Puerto Rico. The pageant says that since winning her title, she has mailed more than 1,000 pairs of shoes to the less fortunate. So she may be the Imelda Marcos of pageantry:
One thing you will notice is that all of the favorites, with the possible exception of Miss South Africa, represent traditional pageant powers. As such, they tend to play it safe by aspiring to be Victoria's Secret models, wanting to improve the environment, and hoping to meet Nelson Mandela. You aren't likely to find the quirkier contestants, like Miss Cyprus, who likes to watch documentaries about ancient philosophers, or Miss Singapore, who works for Deloitte and "enjoys building financial models and writing reports," among the finalists. Although I am happy to see that personal favorite Miss Finland, who was trained in close combat fighting as a member of the Finnish Defence Forces and is now studying at the Estonian Business School, isn't too far down the chart at 25 to 1. Here she is, Sara Chafak, during the preliminary round:
One of the nice things about beauty pageants is that upsets are common. The field this year is very deep, as you will see if you check out the pageant site, so it is entirely possible that the winner will not come from among those pictured here.


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November 08. 2012 3:25PM
Cheshire County recount in sheriff's race
By MEGHAN PIERCE
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Eli Rivera
Just 27 votes shy of winning the Cheshire County race for sheriff, Republican candidate Earl D. Nelson of Marlborough has filed for a recount.
Nelson rand against Democrat Eli Rivera of Keene, who was declared the winner.
According to the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office, Nelson came up short with 18,839 votes against Rivera's 18,866 votes.
The Secretary of State's office said Thursday that a date for the recount has not been set yet.
In a Facebook post to supporters on Wednesday, Nelson said he had learned from the Secretary of State's office he was only 27 votes down from Rivera and would travel to Concord on Thursday to file for a recount.
"I am keeping a positive -- yet realistic -- attitude on this and I will keep you all posted as things progress. To all of you that have posted messages of thanks and encouragement for me, I am so very grateful. It has really made this situation so much easier for me to deal with. I put everything I had into this and I am still very hopeful for a successful conclusion -- however close it may be," Nelson said to supporters on Facebook. "Please remember -- there is still a distinct possibility that I could gain the votes needed to win the election. There were about 37,700 votes cast for Sheriff -- and I am only 27 votes short. With 23 towns in Cheshire County, all it would take is 1 miscounted vote in each town -- and a few with 2 miscounted votes -- to actual give me the winning total I need. That is not unrealistic at all."
Both men were vying to replace long-time Sheriff Richard Foote, who has served as sheriff for the past 14 years.
Rivera has been a Keene Police lieutenant since 1991. Nelson is a sergeant at the Cheshire County Sheriff's Office and a lieutenant at the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council.