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Grant: Japanese pitchers plagued by sophomore slumps, but can Rangers' Yu Darvish avoid one?
SURPRISE, Ariz. — The mob is gone. The expectations, however, remain.
That is just how Yu Darvish likes it.
When he arrived at Rangers camp Wednesday morning for the team's first pitchers and catchers workout of the spring, there was no throng of cameras clicking and whirring with every step he took. There was no cadre of Japanese media lining the walkway from the parking lot to the clubhouse. And when he went through drills on the first day of his second season with the Rangers, there was nobody dressed in a Rangers uniform with "Minivish" on the back.
It was a day of business.
"The ultimate goal is to win a championship," Darvish said through an interpreter after a two-hour workout that included throwing five minutes of "live" batting practice. "And as far as the reduction of the size of the media, I think it's going to be a lot better."
The media crush from Japan didn't seem to distract Darvish much last season, but the point is, he'd like to make the final transition from Japanese novelty/hero to bona fide major league star.
To do it, all he has to do is buck the trend of most Japanese pitchers who have come before him. It hasn't really been the first year in America that's caused problems for Japanese pitchers. It has been everything after that.
By and large, their twisty-turn deliveries or trick pitches have yielded quick major league success. But by the second year, the innings were dropping while the walks and ERAs were climbing.
The Rangers have long maintained they don't view Darvish as a "Japanese pitcher" but rather as a young, power arm who happened to be born in Japan. Now would be an excellent time to show an even bigger distinction than in his rookie season.
"Yu is different physically than a lot of guys," said general manager Jon Daniels. "The size, strength, and conditioning element put him in a different category. And while he's got all the secondary pitches, it's still a power approach, not a guy that has to nibble or pitch backward."
The eight Japanese natives who have started at least 40 games in the majors and were primarily starters from the outset saw their ERAs rise — on average — from 3.78 in Year One to 4.11 in Year Two. As hitters started laying off the "gyroballs" and what-not and the pitchers tried to make them miss bats, the walks per nine innings average inched up ever so slightly from 3.57 to 3.60. From there, for all but Hideo Nomo, it was a pretty steady slide toward mediocrity.
There was a point in 2012, when it seemed that Darvish was headed the same way. An electrifying start was giving way to an ineffective late summer. When he was whipped by Boston in early August, his rookie numbers were matching up quite similarly to those of Daisuke Matsuzaka, the most recent "next great pitcher" from Japan who was an injured bust five years after his debut.
Darvish, however, had finally stopped trying to be so fine and was willing to go after hitters. Manager Ron Washington saw it and called Darvish in to praise him for it and to remind him to "just make Yu Darvish happy."
"Sometimes you just make a connection," Washington said Wednesday morning. "I think he knew what I said was the truth. He knew that's what he was feeling and just needed to hear somebody else say it, too."
That bit of affirmation seemed to be all Darvish needed. He attacked hitters like he hadn't in his first four months in the majors and went 5-0 with a 2.35 ERA over his last eight starts. He had a strikeout rate of 4½-to-1 over those starts and averaged an efficient 15.0 pitches per inning.
And now there seems to be no lack of confidence coming from Darvish. While he is exceptionally guarded in his comments, he brushed off the idea that he'd have to make any adjustments to hitters to stay ahead of them for 2013.
"My goal is to have a healthy and successful spring," he said. "As long as I stay healthy, I think I'm going to have a good season. I'm not thinking about what I have to do to the hitters."
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be realized with the Secure Digital Memory Standard 4.0 specification
due in the spring. The new spec will add an additional serial pin in
order to enable 300MB/s operation, but will still be backwards
compatible with SDHC, SD, and MMC cards.
The current SD 3.0 specification released in April will serve as a
transitionary standard with added support for Ultra-High-Speed 104.
UHS104 enables read and write speeds as high as 104MB/s, and is
compatible with current SD 2.0 specification SDHC readers. There will
be SDXC and SDHC cards using UHS104 during this transition. However,
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Orman E. Street papers
Orman Street was a professor of agronomy at the University of Maryland from 1949 to 1969. Professor Street taught courses in tobacco production, tobacco anatomy, and tobacco chemistry and received numerous awards and honors for his work in this field. His papers include publications, biographical material, photographs, and reports and administrative records of the Agronomy Department. Subjects include the history of the Agronomy Department, tobacco, tobacco curing, and information on the Maryland Tobacco Extension Station in Upper Marlboro.
Important Information for Users of the Collection
This collection is open for research.
Orman E. Street papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1391
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This collection is PROCESSED.
Historical Note
Orman Elery Street was born January 5, 1903, in Revillo, South Dakota. He graduated from South Dakota State University in 1924 with a Bachelor of Science degree in soils and chemistry and completed his Master of Science degree at Michigan State University in 1927. He received a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in botany, physics, and physical chemistry in 1933.
From 1929 to 1939, he worked as a plant physiologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in Windsor, Connecticut. In 1939, he moved on to a position with the U. S. Department of Agriculture Tobacco Field Laboratory at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he conducted tobacco-related agronomic research on seed beds, fertilizer response, diseases, breeding, curing, and fermentation. In addition to those responsibilities, he began teaching agronomy as an associate professor at Pennsylvania State College in 1945.
In 1949, Street left Lancaster to accept a position as an associate professor in the University of Maryland's Department of Agronomy. He conducted research at the University's Tobacco Experiment Station in Upper Marlboro and taught courses in tobacco production. He was largely responsible for the development of that program and its later success. During his time as director of the University's Tobacco Experiment Station, the number of researchers tripled and the station's research results encouraged southern Maryland tobacco farmers to adopt such practices as seedbed sterilization, irrigation, and improved fertilization. Street was also the author of more than 100 scientific publications and received the Research Award of the Cigar Manufacturers of America in 1963 and the Maryland Crop Improvement Association's Distinguished Agronomist Award in 1973.
Street retired in 1969 but remained with the University as an acting climatologist from 1973 to the late 1970s. During his retirement, he also worked as a consultant on tobacco production with the Chun Cheng Foundation in Taiwan from 1969 to 1970. He died on October 26, 1988, in Adelphi, Maryland at the age of 85. He and his wife, Mary Fayette Kent, who died in 1947, had three daughters: Priscilla S. Tucker, Martha S. Eller, and Margaret S. (Emmy) Lear.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Papers of Orman E. Street cover the period from 1928 to ca. 1981. The collection documents Street's work in the Department of Agronomy and the department's work with the Agricultural Experiment Station, including a history of the University of Maryland's Tobacco Experiment Station in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It also documents crop projects, including sugar, corn, grass, wheat, oats, barley, hay, and annual legumes.
Custodial History and Acquisition Information
Orman E. Street donated his papers to the University of Maryland Libraries on September 25, 1981.
Processing Information
Processed by Jordan Patty, November 2004.
The materials were placed in acid-free folders, and metal fasteners were removed and replaced with plastic paper clips and acid-free paper.
EAD markup created using EAD database in Microsoft Access. Markup completed by Jordan Patty, January 2005.
Arrangement of Collection
The Papers of Orman E. Street consist of three series:
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Teaching and Publishing, 1931-[ca. 1981] (11 items)
This series consists of materials related to the teaching and publishing work of Orman E. Street. There are two compilations of his publications, one from 1960 and another possibly from 1981. Both give the date of his first publication as 1926. Three of his articles from the early 1930s on tobacco farming are also included. The research data included in the series provide a detailed account of Street's projects in the 1960s and 1970s. The series also contains a list of his thesis advisees from 1952 to 1969.
Arrangement is alphabetical by type of material and then chronological.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Correspondence, 1979
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 1
|Curriculum Vitae, 1968
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 2
|Graduate Theses Major Advisorship, [1969?]
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 3
|Publications, 1931-[1981?]
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 4
|Research Data, 1975-1977
|series 1
|box 1
|folder 5
Series 2: Department of Agronomy, 1928-[ca. 1952] (14 items)
Series II consists mainly of materials related to the Department of Agronomy's work with the Agricultural Experiment Station. Crop projects discussed include sugar and regular corn, grass, wheat, oats, barley, hay, and annual legumes. Detailed yield percentages are provided for barley (1948-1952), winter oats (1945-1952), and spring oats (1950-1952). Also discussed is the location and amount of land available for experiments. In addition this series contains reports from other faculty members in the agronomy department including W. B. Kemp, Lewis E. Erdman, O. C. Bruce, Geary Eppley, and W. B. Posey. There is also a history of the Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Tobacco Experiment Station from 1940.
Arrangement is alphabetical by type of material and then chronological.
|Box / Reel
|Folder / Frame
|Crop Project Information, [1920s]-[circa 1952]
|series 2
|box 1
|folder 6
|Reports, 1928-1941
|series 2
|box 1
|folder 7
Series 3: Photograph, 1978 (1 item)
This series consists of one black and white photograph of Orman E. Street observing meteorology equipment. This photograph was transferred to the photograph collection.
The box inventory for this series is not currently available online. Please refer to the series description above for a broad description of the materials or contact the department for more information.
Related Material
The Archives and Manuscripts Department holds many materials related to the Papers of Orman E. Street.
University publications that deal directly with agronomy at the University of Maryland appear in The Department of Agronomy (A40) and The Agronomist (C51) and include departmental reports and newsletters. Other related publications contain more general information about agricultural research at the University, such as materials on the Agricultural Experiment Station (A33) and the College of Agriculture (A37). Street was involved with two of the Agricultural Experiment Station publications: Irrigation Studies with Maryland Tobacco (A33.064) and Precipitation, Temperature and Growing Degree Days in Maryland and Delaware during 1979 (A33.091).
The University of Maryland also holds several University record groups that focus on similar topics. Records of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station cover the activities at the station in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Records of the College of Agriculture contain information on the college in the twentieth century.
In addition, the Archive and Manuscripts Department holds the Papers of Jacob Elry Metzger, who was head of the Agronomy Department from 1917 to 1939. These papers consist of Metzger's speeches and writings. The Papers of Geary F. Eppley, a professor in the agronomy department, who wrote a report contained in the Street Papers, are also located in the Archives and Manuscripts Department.
For other related archival and manuscript collections, please see the following subject guides.
Selected Search Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the University of Maryland Libraries' Catalog. Researchers desiring related materials about these topics, names, or places may search the Catalog using these headings.
- Agronomy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Maryland -- College Park
- Field experiments -- Maryland
- Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station -- Archives
- Maryland Tobacco Experiment Station -- History
- University of Maryland, College Park. Dept. of Agronomy -- Archives


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Every Kiva fellow gets excited about going out into the field. It's usually the main reason you apply to be a fellow in the first place. To meet our borrowers, see their work, and hear their stories is an experience that is difficult to put into words. As the current Kiva Fellow in Uganda, I had my first opportunity to visit our Kiva borrowers with Grameen Foundation this week.
These borrowers are part of Grameen's CKW (Community Knowledge Worker) program which centers around peer-nominated small-holder farmers (CKWs) equipped with a business-in-a-box funded by Kiva lenders. The package includes a smartphone, charger, and a scale. The CKWs use their phones to provide critical agricultural information to other farmers in their districts such as weather, crop disease and treatments, and current market prices to name a few.
Two of the Grameen trainers and I went out to deliver scales and listen to the borrowers' experiences with the program thus far. Below is a quick summary of Tuesday's trip around Central Uganda…by the numbers.
6:30am wake-up in Masaka, Uganda
7:00am Breakfast
2 pieces of toast
2 cups of Nescafe Instant Coffee
8:15am Depart for Gomba
31 cows passed
28 MTN outposts
4 passengers: two Grameen trainers, myself, and one driver
3 swamps driven through
1 wrong turn
0 street signs
10:20am Arrive at Gomba community center
Success Story: one of the CKWs told the story of how another farmer in his village grew green peppers that became diseased because the seeds he purchased were bad. The CKW alerted him to the issue with his plants and pointed him to a better source for pepper seeds. The farmer was very pleased and saw how useful the CKW's information was to him. Early adoption is often difficult for the CKW's as farmers can't see tangible proof of the benefits.
12 borrowers met
5 issues raised
1 facebook friend request
12:15pm Leave for Masaka
1,000 UGX highest price seen to charge cellphone ($0.38)
67 cows passed
28 bananas purchased
11 bananas eaten
5 different school uniforms
5 passengers
3 Michael Jackson songs listened to
2pm stop for Lunch in Masaka
2:40pm Leave for Masaka school
14 MTN outposts
2 cows
1 street sign
3:10pm arrive at school
Success story: Julius is very happy with the program so far "now when I talk everyone knows…Julius is speaking". He uses his ready-set phone charger to charge other cell phones in his village for a small price (400 UGX or $0.15) to earn additional income for his family which he puts towards his children's school fees.
21 borrowers met
4 issues raised
5pm head back to the hotel, review notes and dinner
59 pictures uploaded
1 Nile Special Lager
All in all, a successful day.
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My post count seems to keep going down, as I originally was at about 140, then went down to 132, and now am at 128. Do you know why this might be happening?
My post count seems to keep going down, as I originally was at about 140, then went down to 132, and now am at 128. Do you know why this might be happening?
Morwen: When a thread that you have posted in is deleted your post count will go down. There has been a lot of deleting going on in the summer school lately so that probably has something to do with it.
Zacko: The mods are responsible for more things around here than just the challenges. I would like to remind you that patience is a virtue and that there may not be a challenge this month. There is no guarantee that there will be a challenge every month. As for the duelling club, the point is to improve your writing by answering questions from readers and to see how other people get ideas, write, and form plots.
Okay, my thing that tells how many posts I have is stuck, no matter how many I post it always says 5.
This question has been answered in both the FAQ and this thread.Originally Posted by Pheonix song
It depends on where you post. For example, forums such as the Beta Guild and your House forum do NOT show up in your post count.
Forgive me, but I think that I have about nine of the posts that are not from my house
or the Beta guide.
As long as the posts count for the skel-grow and room of requirement and such I should have a few more posts that are not showing up.
Please do not worry about your post count. It really doesn't matter what little number you have there. The rank titles are just for fun.Originally Posted by Pheonix song
As far as your posting history goes, you have five posts that "count" towards your total post count. Maybe you did make more than five posts in the help forums, but if those threads have been removed/deleted, your post count will go down. Just worry about making sure that your posts are of good QUALITY. The number is just a number.
--Little Kitty
Amanda, I have checked your post history. Posts do not count in the ROR, Dean's Corner, or the Houses. They also do not count in this thread. By that review, you have posted five times in forums where points count.
Additionally, posts may be deleted for various reasons, such as old threads or if you responded to some of the irritating spam that has appeared in our forum.
Please do not worry about post counts. They are there only for entertainment. No one gets a prize for having the highest count. Remember - quality, not quanity.
EDIT: Apparently Little Kitty posted the same time I did. I agree 100%
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Yo! What does it mean when a story on the main site has a little ribbon thingy in the summery? Thanks.
I can't post in either beta ad sections. It says my account may have been disabled. Why would that be and how do I tell?
What the heck does it mean when a story on the main site has a ribbon on it?
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Make a pick.
Can a mod fix the poll? I set the close date for Jan. 9th but for some reason it is trying to close it on the 5th? Thanks.
Ducks in a duck walk.
As much as I will be pulling for Oregon (would normally pull for a SEC team but given my feelings on the Newton situation I cannot), I think Auburn wins a game in which the defense for both teams might as well stay on the sidelines.
Auburn wins 49-38.
Unfortunately Auburn
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
Hoping for the Ducks. They're a fun team to watch.
Cincinnati Here We Go.
26 Years and Counting...
I have no rooting interest in this game but I think Auburn wins.
I voted Oregon but the more I think about it, the more I think Auburn will win.
It is possible in the college game for a stud quarterback to absolutely take over the game and impose his will ala Tim Tebow or Vince Young. I think Cam Newton is cut from the same cloth and will be the difference. If the game is close and Auburn has the ball, push all of your chips in on Auburn.
Be less stupid.
There should be a neither choice. I think Auburn wins the game but don't think it lasts the test of time.
Oregon hasn't played against a tough defense nor a team with as much offensive firepower (Stanford was close) as Auburn. I really think this game looks similar to the OSU Oregon Rose Bowl last season with a little more points scored.
Give Auburn 1 week to prepare for the Ducks and I'd take the Ducks. Give them a month and I'll take Auburn.
I voted Auburn but I don't really know and think this is going to be a good game.
Auburn has had to play some D this year.
Oregon, not so much.
I think the Iraqi Republican Guard or the French Army puts up a better fight against the Cam Newton offense than the Oregon D.
I think Auburn will win the game by a wider margin than many expect.
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Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's office on Tuesday asked a federal court to dismiss the appeal by former state Sen. Jack Crumbly and a group of residents in his district. A three-judge panel last year rejected a lawsuit by Crumbly and the residents that claimed the Board of Apportionment violated the U.S. Constitution by lowering the number of voting-age blacks.
In Tuesday's filing, the attorney general's office said that Crumbly's attorney missed the Dec. 17 deadline to file a jurisdictional statement with the U.S. Supreme Court, and has not requested an extension with the court.


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Cowboys lose, blow 11-point lead; Philip Rivers torches Dallas for 401 yards
SAN DIEGO — The Dallas Cowboys didn't score any points in the second half Sunday because they simply didn't have the ball enough.
Philip Rivers threw for 401 yards and three touchdowns, including a 56-yarder to Antonio Gates that helped the San Diego Chargers beat the Cowboys 30-21.
The Chargers (2-2) blew late leads in their two losses. On Sunday, they scored the final 20 points to beat Dallas (2-2).
"When you don't have a lot of possessions in the second half, it's not an excuse, but you have to capitalize on every opportunity we get," said running back DeMarco Murray, who was held to 70 yards after gaining 175 against St. Louis a week earlier.
"We knew they had a good offense. We knew they were a good team. We just have to get better."
San Diego trailed 21-10 when Nick Novak started the comeback with a 42-yard field goal as the first-half clock expired.
The Chargers took the opening kickoff of the second half and Rivers moved them 80 yards, capping the drive with a 13-yard pass to Woodhead to pull to 21-20.
The way Rivers ran the offense, the Cowboys didn't have a chance to come back. They ran only seven offensive plays in the third quarter. Their second possession of the second half didn't come until the fourth quarter.
"Today we just squandered a few opportunities," Tony Romo said. "With minimal possessions it's going to come down to the things that you do right or wrong. Obviously they did a good job controlling the ball. Their offense played great today. It was impressive."
Rivers completed 35 of 42 passes, his final TD pass, to Gates, being the 200th of his career. He threw two TD passes to running back Danny Woodhead.
After having three 400-yard games in his previous nine seasons, Rivers has two in this year's four games. After 35 interceptions the past two seasons, he's been picked off only twice so far while throwing 11 touchdown passes.
Running a no-huddle, no-hurry offense under new coach Mike McCoy, Rivers gets to the line of scrimmage with roughly 20 seconds left on the play clock, enough time to read the defense and check into a different play, if necessary. It's a luxury he didn't have in Norv Turner's offense.
"I feel in sync. I have a rhythm and I'm comfortable in the pocket when we get that no-huddle going," Rivers said.
Rivers' biggest pass wasn't necessarily his prettiest. He short-armed one over the middle to Gates, who slid behind linebacker Sean Lee to haul it in and score with 6:54 to go.
Lee had intercepted Rivers on a deflected pass and returned it 52 yards for a 21-10 lead late in the second quarter. Dallas didn't score again.
"It's terribly frustrating," Lee said. "We want to be a consistent team that that wins week in, week out. Until we win games like this we're not there yet and we have to keep working."
San Diego's defense came up with a big stop in the final moments. Romo moved the Cowboys to the San Diego 7, where he hit Terrance Williams at the 1. Williams was stretching for the end zone when he was hit by Crezdon Butler and fumbled. San Diego's Richard Marshall recovered for a touchback.
A week earlier, Butler was burned on a 34-yard touchdown pass from Jake Locker to Justin Hunter with 15 seconds to play to give Tennessee a 20-17 victory. Butler was in against the Cowboys because Derek Cox left with a knee injury.
It was only the second takeaway of the season for San Diego.
After forcing Dallas to punt, San Diego took a 23-21 lead on Novak's 23-yard field goal that capped a drive starting from the Chargers 11.
Romo threw touchdown passes of 5 and 34 yards to Dez Bryant in the second quarter, when Dallas scored 21 points.
Lee got his interception return for a TD when Rivers was hit by tackle Jason Hatcher as he released the ball.
Cowboys receiver Miles Austin missed the game because of a hamstring injury.
"I think you always miss Miles," Romo said. "Miles is a great football player. If you don't have him it's always going to be tougher. But the thing is, that's part of the game. Miles knows that. The same thing when I got hurt. You have to be able to find ways to win."


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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
I recently read this article The Best Advice I Ever Got: Pearls of Wisdom From the Golf World and it got me thinking about my life/golf and the best advice I had received.
Mine comes from my father. He told me to enjoy myself above all else. Good or bad. There are plenty of things one can do that make you upset/miserable. If your "recreation" time is spent with that frame of mind, then do something else.
How about y'all?
My wife gave this advice. "Get out of the house and go to the golf course."
I've been told that if I ever want to make money in the game of golf that I need to..................................................................sell my clubs!!!
My Dad once told me that I must always respect fellow humans, especially women....My wife told me that the two word secret to a harmonious marriage I must learn was "Yes Dear". When I combine those two pieces of advice, life is indeed a more beautiful thing...
Mine was "Take up tennis".
Tempo and attitude are everything .
As silly as it sounds mine was "dress for the job you want, not the job you have".
I've extrapolated that to fit many parts of life. And it's not only about clothing.
My dad's was to calm down and not take golf so seriously, it's supposed to be fun. It's helped me a lot now that I take my kids golfing. When they hit bad shots and get upset, I tell them the same thing.
But I think I may take Mondo's or Todd's tips. I should probably do something else, but won't.
Golf Pro to me during my first ever lesson:
"You are never going to play on Tour."
Second lesson:
"Golf is going to be your hobby. Go out and have fun. Enjoy yourself."
These were the two best lessons ever....
It isn't how much you earn but how much you keep.
A poor man can only afford to buy the very best. ( You can't afford to replace inferior products ).
When I was a beginning player (around 50 years ago) an older/wiser gentlemen at my course told me to hit the ball hard - we can work on hitting it straighter later on.
Mr Hogan told me, "If you want more distance, don't hit it harder. Hit it better."
My wife told me when I took up the game, that if I was going spend that kind of money on this equipment I better plan on playing a lot of golf. I had a history of short term hobbies. Started in 1985 and still going strong. Love that woman.
My dad used to always tell me to just go hit the dang ball. Do not stand over it and waggle and hem and haw, but just walk up, take stance and hit it. Been doing it ever since then, and having good times doing it.
mine would have to be "Dont get so upset", or "quit drinking".


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More than $6.5 million awarded to sponsor projects that promote community policing, innovative problem solving and stronger partnerships
Washington, D.C. (August 2, 2012) - The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) today announced awards totaling more than $6.5 million under the Community Policing Development grant program, which funds a broad range of projects intended to advance community policing practices.
The Community Policing Development program supports innovative community policing strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best practices designed to be national in scope. For 2012, the program funded projects related to a number of public safety topic areas, including policing in a new economy, ethics and integrity, child and youth safety, and police practices. Additional topics included community policing enhancement and officer safety and wellness.
"The programs funded through the Community Policing Development awards offer the unique opportunity to not only assist local agencies in their efforts, but also provide best practices to be delivered on the national level," said COPS Director Bernard K. Melekian. "These are projects that can impact the entire practice of policing."
The Community Policing Development solicitation was open to all public governmental agencies, profit and non-profit institutions, universities, community groups and faith-based organizations. Accepted proposals were of national relevance, designed to significantly advance the field of community policing, and demonstrated an understanding of community policing as it pertains to the specific application topic area.
To learn more about the Community Policing Development grant program and review the full list of accepted applications for 2012, please visit www.cops.usdoj.gov.


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Android News
Sony Ericsson CEO discusses rumored PlayStation Phone; will it be revealed in February?
November 22, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson
Rumors, Sony Mobile
Sony Ericsson's rumored PlayStation Phone, which we've seen a prototype of in a series of pictures, just might be revealed at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February next year. When asked about the Android-powered gaming handset in an interview with Wall Street Journal, Sony Ericssons's Swedish CEO Bert Nordberg said "there's a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere."
He also told the newspaper that "the future might be brighter" when asked why the company hasn't released a PlayStation-branded phone yet. Nordberg further alluded to the device and to its unveiling by stating that Sony Ericsson is going to make plenty of "noise" at Mobile World Congress in 2011.
The CEO may of course have meant that Sony Ericsson will announce the 4.3-inch Anzu X12 and not the PlayStation Phone – but hey, why not both? Do you think we'll see the PlayStation Phone in all its gaming glory at MWC in a few months, or will SE keep pretending it doesn't exist a while longer?


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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
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Commission Opinion [COM(97) 2002 final - Not published in the Official Journal]Commission Report [COM(98) 701 final - Not published in the Official Journal]Commission Report [COM(1999) 509 final - Not published in the Official Journal]Commission Report [COM(2000) 709 final - Not published in the Official Journal]Commission Report [COM(2001) 700 final - SEC (2001) 1752 - Not published in the Official Journal]Commission Report [COM(2002) 700 final - SEC (2002) 1408 - Not published in the Official Journal]Commission Report [COM(2003) 675 final - SEC(2003) 1207 - Not published in the Official Journal]Treaty of Accession to the European Union [Official Journal L 236 of 23.09.2003]
In its July 1997 Opinion, the European Commission concluded that the transposal of EU legislation in Poland was still some way from completion, although significant progress had been made in adopting the measures listed in the 1995 White Paper White Paper on the countries of central and eastern Europe and the Internal Market..
The conclusions of the November 1998 Report were largely in the same vein, highlighting the need for greater progress on alignment, especially to meet the short-term priorities of the Accession Partnership. Greater effort was also needed in rural development and restructuring the agri-food industry. Other priorities included the modernisation of veterinary and plant health facilities. Progress in the fisheries sector was not considered satisfactory.
The October 1999 Report took a similar line to the two previous reports. It highlighted the diverse challenges posed by the integration of Poland's farm sector into the European Union. While the country had taken a step in the right direction by adopting a structural policy for agriculture, it would still take a substantial amount of work before this could be considered truly efficient. And despite some progress in adopting EU legislation, notably in the veterinary and plant-health sectors, no work had yet been done as regards the planning and budgetary arrangements for the required national and regional institutions. The situation in the fisheries sector was still unsatisfactory - there was no further progress to report in the implementation of EU legislation. The priority was still the adoption of a restructuring policy and accompanying programme.
The November 2000 Report found that little progress had been made since the previous report - substantial work remained to be done at both legislative and institutional level. Significant outstanding tasks included clarifying the role to be played by the institutions that would be implementing the EAGGF, setting up the IACS (Integrated Administration and Control System) as required by EU legislation and introducing product-promotion policies. Poland had also to make arrangements for introducing the FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) and align the management system for the market-organisation regimes with EU legislation. No further progress had been made since the previous report in the task of aligning veterinary and plant-health legislation. In the fisheries sector, progress had also been minimal - Poland needed to increase its capacity to implement the fisheries policy and introduce a control and management policy in line with EU law.
The November 2001 Report highlighted the redoubled efforts made by Poland to adopt EU farming legislation. However, levels of preparation and implementation of EU structures are not as yet sufficient.
In fisheries, as stated in the November 2001 report, Poland has adopted a Fisheries Act, on the basis of which the legal instruments implementing the bulk of the relevant EU legislation can be introduced. Progress in other fields has been negligible, with the exception of market-management policy, where a division with responsibility for market organisation has been set up within the Fisheries Department.
The October 2002 report highlighted the efforts made by Poland to align its legislation. However, little progress was made in strengthening administrative capacity and veterinary legislation. The main achievement in fisheries is that Poland has adopted a Fisheries Act which should make it possible to organise access to waters. Otherwise, progress has been made in the fields of administrative capacity, resource management, inspection and monitoring and structural assistance.
The November 2003 report shows that Poland is falling behind in several sectors. A satisfactory level has been achieved in few fields. In fisheries, Poland must act urgently do what is necessary.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is designed to maintain and develop a modern farming system that ensures both a fair standard of living for farmers and a supply of food at reasonable prices for consumers, as well as guaranteeing free movement of goods within the EU.
The Europe Agreement, which provides the legal basis for agricultural trade between Poland and the EU, aims to promote cooperation on modernising, restructuring and privatising Poland's farming and food sectors and its plant-health standards. The 1995 White Paper on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Internal Market covers legislation on veterinary, plant-health and animal-nutrition controls, as well as marketing requirements for individual commodities. The purpose of this legislation is to protect consumers, public health and animal and plant health.
The Common Fisheries Policy covers market-organisation regimes, structural policy, agreements with non-member countries, management and conservation of fish stocks and scientific research in support of these activities.
Trade with the EU in fishery products is covered in the Europe Agreement but not the White Paper.
Poland is living up to its commitments with regard to quality policy, organic farming, the farm accountancy data network and state aids. The same is true of the common market organisations with the exception of milk, beef and veal, eggs and poultry. The measures relating to trade mechanisms are only partially being respected. With very few exceptions, Poland is meeting the commitments it has made in the veterinary and plant health sectors. Unless it adopts drastic measures, Poland is not going to make up its backlog concerning: the setting up of Paying Agencies; implementing the Integrated Administration and Control System; combating transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; animal by-products; movement control of animals and combating organisms harmful to plants.
Poland is partially fulfilling its obligations on structural assistance, state aids and international fishing agreements. Some adjustments must be made to expand the administrative capacity needed to manage structural policy. Poland is withdrawing from international fishing agreements. Poland must urgently focus on resource and fleet management as well as inspection and control and market policy. Unless it takes immediate action to strengthen its administrative capacity, reinforce its legislation and make up the backlog constantly accumulated, Poland will not be ready in time.
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JUSTIN — The best season in Guyer boys basketball history came to an end Friday night as the Wildcats were overmatched inside and could not contain two post players, falling to Fort Worth Arlington Heights 58-50 in the Class 4A Region I area round.
The Yellow Jackets appeared to be in trouble early on as Guyer raced out to a big first-quarter lead and got just 10 points combined by their two stars in the post — A'Shawn Robinson and Damontre McFarland.
But the second half told a different story as Guyer (24-7) could do nothing to contain the pair, especially on the offensive glass, watching the Yellow Jackets (20-11) pull away for a win to advance to the regional quarterfinals where they will meet District 7-4A rival Fort Worth Trimble Tech, which defeated Denton earlier Friday night.
"Their size and their length really hurt us, especially with the offensive rebounds," Guyer head coach Grant Long said. "They're just so long and athletic.
"I knew if we could keep shooting the ball well [like in the first quarter] we'd be OK, but our shots just weren't falling in the second half."
McFarland, a 6-foot-8 senior, and Robinson, a 6-4, 320-pound hybrid guard/post who has signed to play football at Alabama as a defensive lineman, were too much for the Wildcats, scoring 14 points apiece and pulling down endless rebounds.
Robinson, in particular, impressed Long with his athletic ability and his ability to bang down low while also bring the ball up the floor and darting into passing lanes for steals.
"For his size, his footwork and speed are special," Long said. "He sees the floor well, and when we'd crash in on him he'd see the open guys and kick it out them. He was a special player — an impact player."
Guyer jumped out to a commanding lead in the game's first few minutes off of four points each from posts Justin Griffin and Jerrod Heard and led by as many as nine points with just more than a minute to play in the first quarter.
But the Yellow Jackets roared back in the second quarter, beating Guyer at its own game — beyond the 3-point line as Leon Sanders hit back-to-back 3s in a 38-second span to pull the Yellow Jackets to within two points before they tied it going into the half.
Robinson said he knew he and McFarland had to step up their game in the second half to neutralize Guyer's speed on the outside.
"Yeah, we knew what we had to do," Robinson said. "We knew we had to get inside because they weren't big enough for us. We knew we just had to use our size and athleticism to win the game."
Griffin fouled out with 2:38 to play, and Heard fouled out in the final minute. Post Josh Jordan, who re-injured his knee in Tuesday's bi-district win over Saginaw, missed the game and would have given the Wildcats not only another big body down low, but one of their best players.
"Josh is one of the best players in the state," Long said of his junior, who missed most of the season with an ailing knee. "The great thing about him, though, is that he's with us whether he's on the floor or not. He's an all-around leader for us and gives us so much all the time, no matter if he's playing."
As the Yellow Jackets began to build a lead in the third quarter, it appeared their free-throw shooting could do them in. On the night, they finished 16 for 36 from the foul line, including a 21-second span in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter when they went 0 for 6. But the Wildcats couldn't trim the lead from 52-45 as the Yellow Jackets got some big offensive rebounds from Robinson and Tyler Kelly.
Kelly hit some key free throws down the stretch to help ice the game and end the Wildcats' season.
"They have struggled [from the line] at times this season," said Arlington Heights head coach Jon Wagner. "But we've gotten better as the season went on and they hit them when they counted."
Guyer was led by junior guard Miles Crawford, who scored a game-high 18 points but was only 2 for 9 from beyond the arc. That was the story of the Wildcats' night. Usually a sharp long-distance shooting team, Guyer's main three 3-point threats — Crawford, Zack Duncan and Sean Choate — combined to go 4 for 19 from long range.
"We're a great outside shooting team," Long said. "So I'm very comfortable with all of our shooters we have and we'll always be able to shoot from outside. We would like a little more balance in attacking the basket and getting the ball inside, and I think their size just took that away from us."
The Wildcats still had a historic season, winning their first district title and their first playoff game in the program's relatively young history, and Long knows he still has things to be happy about from the year — his first as a head coach after being an assistant at Guyer since the 2006-07 season.
"I couldn't be more proud or more blessed to work with this group of kids," Long said. "The passion and the heart that they play with are second to none. Win or lose, that doesn't define these guys. They learn from their failures and this will only make them better."
The Wildcats will lose only one senior starter while the core of their team returns for one more season, which Long believes could be a special.
"The younger kids we have coming, and the kids we have now all have this program where it needs to be," Long said. "We won our first district championship, and won district championships in seventh, eighth, ninth [grades] and junior varsity this year. We'll be in good shape for a while to come."
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Fort Worth Arlington Heights 58, Guyer 50
Arlington Heights 11 14 17 16 — 58
Guyer 17 8 13 12 — 50
Arlington Heights (20-11) — Derrick Lightner 3, Leon Sanders 6, Lavelle Scottie 2, Justin Hemphill 7, Kendall Washington 2, Brennan Bibbs 3, Tyler Kelly 7, A'Shawn Robinson 14, Damontre McFarland 14.
Guyer (24-7) — Jerrod Heard 4, Sean Choate 6, Miles Crawford 18, Alex Partridge 2, Mitchell Willard 2, Zack Duncan 10, Justin Griffin 8.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill approved Monday by the state Assembly would allow judges to declare more than two legal parents for some California children.
Lawmakers approved SB1476 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, on a party line vote, with Democrats supporting it. The legislation would allow judges to legally recognize multiple parents when it is in a child's best interest to have more than two parental relationships.
"We live in a world today where courts are dealing with diverse circumstances that have reshaped California families," Leno said in a statement. "This legislation gives courts the flexibility to protect the best interests of a child who is being supported financially and emotionally by those parents."
The bill was inspired by the case of a young California girl who was put into the foster care system because her biological father could not be ruled a third parent when her two legal parents were unable to care for her. Supporters of the legislation say it could keep future children out of the foster care system by giving them additional legal parents who have caretaking and financial obligations.
Opponents say the bill erodes traditional parental roles and could allow children to have a limitless number of parents.
"This smacks of the state redefining parenthood," said Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks. "What's next? Are we going to parent by committee?"
Supporters say these scenarios are unlikely because the bill would not change existing standards for legal parenthood, only the number of parents a court can recognize.
To qualify as a parent, adults would have to raise the child as their own. Stepparents and parents' boyfriends or girlfriends would not qualify.
Other states, including Pennsylvania and Maine, already allow judges to recognize more than two parents in custody cases, according to Leno's office.
The California legislation, if approved by the Senate and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, would apply to a range of family structures, including a man who married a woman while she was pregnant with another man's child or a lesbian couple who conceived a child with the help of a sperm donor who has stayed involved as a father.
In 2010, married couples fell below half of all American households for the first time, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The bill passed 50-19 and returns to the Senate for a final vote.


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Released Pokémon
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Please feel free to edit this article to add missing information and complete it.
Released Pokémon are Pokémon that have been caught by a Pokémon Trainer, but are sent back into the wild.
In the games
In every main series Pokémon game, players have been able to release previously captured Pokémon. Unlike the anime, this cannot be done while traveling, but must be done with the Pokémon Storage System in a Pokémon Center. A condition coded into the game exists that disallows the release of Pokémon knowing certain HM moves, such as Surf, to prevent the player becoming trapped in an area that requires the use of that move (like Mossdeep City, which is surrounded by water). A Pokémon might also refuse to be released if it has a very high friendship level or if it is the only Pokémon in the player's party.
Released Pokémon cannot be found again in the wild. The only exception is in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, where if a legendary Pokémon is released from its Friend Area or Chimecho Assembly, it will reappear in the dungeon that it can be fought, save those who only join once when they ask to.
In the anime
Throughout the Pokémon anime, a Trainer releases a Pokémon for several reasons. The Trainer may see it as weak, as Damian did with Charmander and Paul with Chimchar. The Pokémon may have to do something that requires it to leave (such as Ash and his Butterfree). Another common reason is that the Pokémon does not listen, frustrating the Trainer, much like when Dawn caught Pachirisu. To guarantee release, some Trainers destroy the Poké Ball, as seen with Jessie and her Dustox.
Pokémon released in the anime
- James's Gyarados (Pokémon Shipwreck)
- Ash's Butterfree (Bye Bye Butterfree)
- Jessie's Shellder (The Evolution Solution)
- Ash's Pidgeot (Pallet Party Panic)
- Ash's Lapras (Viva Las Lapras)
- The Magikarp salesman's Victreebel (Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid)
- James's second Victreebel (Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid)
- Jessie's Arbok (A Poached Ego!)
- James's Weezing (A Poached Ego!)
- Misty's Togetic (A Togepi Mirage!)
- Paul's Starly (×3) (When Pokémon Worlds Collide!)
- Paul's Stantler (Different Strokes for Different Blokes)
- Dawn's Pachirisu (recaptured) (Twice Smitten, Once Shy!)
- Paul's Chimchar (Glory Blaze!)
- Jessie's Dustox (Crossing Paths)
- Cilan's Basculin (A Fishing Connoisseur in a Fishy Competition!)
In the manga
Various manga touch on the aspect of releasing Pokémon.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Pokémon Adventures arcs often culminate in the capture of a legendary Pokémon, but these are almost always released afterwards. Pokémon shown to be released include Red's Vee while under Team Rocket's control and Yellow's Seadra.
Team Plasma
Team Plasma's ultimate goal has been to convince Trainers to release their Pokémon. In Pokémon Black and White, it is revealed that their leader, Ghetsis, wanted to make himself the only Trainer to own Pokémon in Unova, making him the regions leader almost by default. N, Team Plasma's king, appears frequently to the player to battle him or her and convince them to release their Pokémon. Each time, he appears with a different team -- using the Memory Link in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 confirms that N released his Pokémon after battles with the player, and the player may encounter and catch them again.
Although there were apparently no other instances of anyone releasing their Pokémon in the games, several Trainers are seen releasing their Pokémon whenever Team Plasma holds a speech in the manga. Black himself owns a Pokémon (Galvantula) previously owned by another unseen person, and now uses on his team after he decided to keep it after Team Plasma's first seen speech and it agreed to be with him. White herself also released her company's Tepig, Gigi, although this was against her own will, as it was technically Gigi who left White after it learned about its battle capabilities.
|Pokémon training
|Catching • Nicknaming • Battling • Evolving • Trading • Breeding • Releasing
|This game mechanic article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games.


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Pair yet to reach top gear
COLLINGWOOD midfielders Dale Thomas and Luke Ball are unlikely to play major roles in the club's NAB Cup campaign, with Thomas up to three weeks from full training.
Thomas faces the prospect of entering the 2013 season on a limited pre-season as he recovers from ankle surgery, while Ball is still finding his way after a serious knee injury robbed him of most of 2012.
Although no longer in a moon boot, Thomas still requires more recovery time before he can join the rest of the Collingwood squad, casting a cloud over how much game time he will have in the pre-season competition.
''He's progressing fairly well,'' coach Nathan Buckley said on Wednesday. ''He's getting a lot of touch inside. We've been able to work specifically on his strength - he is definitely sick of the bike.
''So he's pretty keen to progress and get load-bearing as soon as possible. We will get him out on the track in three weeks' time.''
Buckley admitted it would be ''unlikely'' that Ball played any of the pre-season competition. And he could not say for certain whether Thomas would be ready for the club's round one clash against North Melbourne on March 31.
''Round one is 10 weeks away, there's a lot of water to go under the bridge,'' he said.
Meanwhile, the Pies have revealed the punishment it will impose on young defender Marley Williams, who was charged with assault for his alleged role in a late-night scuffle in his home town of Albany, Western Australia, last month.
Williams, 19, has agreed to work with the Salvation Army for 10 weeks leading up to the start of the season.
''The guys send a van out, it's basically a soup van. It goes around and they spend time with the homeless throughout Melbourne city,'' Buckley said.
''We just feel it's a good opportunity for Marley to see a different side of things and we'll be supporting him, with our leaders attending each week as he goes through that community service.''
Jon Pierik is a sports writer with The Age, focusing primarily on AFL football, cricket and basketball. He has won awards for his cricket and basketball writing.
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text: Lendl converted only 1 of 16 break chances (6.3%) in that Dallas match, a very poor performance for him. It would be interesting to find out how many first serves McEnroe made on those break points. Was it a case of McEnroe saving them, or Lendl failing to convert break chances the way he normally did? Again there's a parallel with the '81 Wimbledon final: McEnroe and Borg each converted only 2 of 15 break points. There was no real failing there on Borg's part, because McEnroe made 12 of 15 first serves on break points.


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first widely adopted drone aircraft for the U.S. Air Force was the
Predator. The aircraft originally designed to be a pure
reconnaissance vehicle that could fly and loiter in an area for up to
20 hours at altitudes up to 25,000 feet without putting a pilot in
harm's way.Eventually the military got the idea to arm the
Predator with Hellfire missiles so that the aircraft could engage
targets. The Predator has been a major success for the Air Force,
however, the sun
is setting on the drone. The Air Force has purchased its final
batch of 268 Predators from General Atomics with the last one
expected to be delivered by February 2011 reports Wired.As
the Predator drones are removed from service for various reasons,
they will be replaced with a new and more capable drone aircraft
called the Reaper.
The Reaper is a much more capable drone aircraft and was designed for
the start to be able to perform in both surveillance and attack
roles.The Reaper is able to fly at around 50,000 feet and
flies twice as fast as the Predator with a maximum speed of 260 knots
and a cruise speed of 150 to 170 knots. Perhaps the biggest
improvement for the Reaper is in its ability to carry a variety of
weapons. The Reaper will be able to carry the Hellfire AGM-114
missile and GBU-12/GBU-38 precision bombs. The Predator was only
capable of carrying the Hellfire missile. The Reaper also has more
electrical power onboard allowing the aircraft to have more
sophisticated sensors.The Air Force already owns 57 Reaper
drones and wants another 272 of them. How fast the additional Reapers
come into the fold will depend on budgets approved by Congress.
Air Force is also already looking towards the replacement of the
Reaper with a faster aircraft called the Avenger.
The Avenger is jet-powered allowing it to be much faster than the


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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation Unveils Three World Premieres at the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show 2013
TOKYO--Oct. 8, 2013: Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will unveil three world premiere concept cars at the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show 2013*1. Incorporating a new design identity that symbolizes the sense of security and functionality of an SUV, the three models highlight @earth TECHNOLOGY, MMC's next-generation advanced technologies that embody the concepts of environmental responsibility, driving pleasure, and toughness & safety.
The first of the three concepts, the MITSUBISHI Concept GC-PHEV*2 is a next-generation full-size SUV that uses a high output PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) system. The MITSUBISHI Concept GC-PHEV offers both dynamic drivability of an SUV and class-leading environmental performance. MMC's S-AWC (Super All Wheel Control) integrated vehicle dynamic control system delivers superior handling, stability as well as the all-terrain capability an SUV offers. The MITSUBISHI Concept GC-PHEV is a "connected car" that also offers next-generation preventive safety technology and driver support technology through wireless connectivity.
The MITSUBISHI Concept XR-PHEV*3 is a next-generation compact SUV loaded with a lightweight and highly efficient PHEV system with dramatically enhanced environmental performance. The MITSUBISHI Concept XR-PHEV offers nimble drivability and a body style resembling a sport coupe.
The MITSUBISHI Concept AR*4 is a next-generation compact MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) that offers both the mobility of an SUV and the occupant space of an MPV. The latest fuel efficiency technologies adopted in the MITSUBISHI Concept AR include the use of a downsized direct-injection turbocharged engine. The MITSUBISHI Concept AR provides a relaxing space for occupants through its enveloping interior design and a range of seat arrangements that provide comfort for all passengers.
*1: For more information, please visit Tokyo Motor Show .
*2: Grand Cruiser
*3: X (cross) over Runner
*4: Active Runabout


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All students are required to register with supporting documentation. Students who may have a learning disability but do not have documentation can be evaluated for learning disabilities, and screened for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
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Why DC And Silicon Valley Don't Mix Well
from the first,-do-no-harm dept
The wildly different clock speeds of Moore's Law and Washington law, however, make for increasingly damaging collisions at the intersection of technology and public policy. Even with the best of intentions, lawmakers, regulators, and judges can't possibly anticipate tomorrow's innovative products and services. Nor can they guess how specialized legislation, thrashed out over the course of years and infected by lobbyists and special interests, will return to haunt us when technology inevitably changes.However, regulators often don't understand this at all. They think that the quick pace of innovation means that companies themselves should slow down -- and that it's their job to force them to do so. Downes shares this troubling story:
Faced with the unknown unknowns of dramatically new products—social networks, location-based ads, driverless cars–the best advice for governments is simply to leave them alone. Don't just do something, stand there. At least until it's crystal clear that the market has failed, consumers are being harmed, and that lawmakers have a remedy that won't make things worse.
At a conference I attended over the summer, on the other hand, the Federal Trade Commission's Julie Brill got it dangerously wrong. Given the novelty of policy problems in privacy, cybersecurity and competition in the fast-changing Internet ecosystem, Brill argued, both Washington and Silicon Valley should proceed with caution. "Regulators need humility," she said, "but so do companies."That's not to say that there isn't room for any regulations -- but as Downes notes, the thing that DC should be most focused on is "fixes to previous government efforts that tried but failed to fix a problem that turned out not to need a regulatory solution." Other industries seem to want handouts and investments and the like, but you don't see that much in Silicon Valley.
The dynamism of the Internet ecosystem certainly calls for more humble trade policy. But the last thing we want is for companies to slow down so Washington can catch up. In Silicon Valley, we have a special name for humble start-ups. We call them failures.
I was recently on a call with some entrepreneurs and some government officials, in which we were discussing a few laws -- and the government folks kept asking the entrepreneurs if they needed help protecting against copycats (generally foreign ones). The entrepreneurs kept ignoring the question -- and it kept getting asked. Eventually, someone on the call said: "Um. No. Look, someone's going to copy us. We know that. But we don't care because we know we can innovate faster than anyone who copies us." The government folks seemed confused, with one saying something to the effect of "that's great if you can do that, but..." But that really is the difference in mindsets. Entrepreneurs really just want to build stuff and are confident (sometimes too confident) in their own abilities to compete. We don't want government handouts -- we want government to get out of the way.
That's not to say companies should be free to do absolutely anything, but as Downes notes, we don't need the government fiddling around where there is no evidence of real harm. If there is harm, then you can understand why it can make sense to get involved -- but too often government officials seem to think they should get involved just because there's a possibility of harm, or because a competitor got beaten. But that's not good for innovation and it's not good for the public.


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text: You make a decent point in that some of John's best results come on slow courts because he has time to set up and use his explosive power! But what screws John is a medium pace court his movement will never be on par with the say Novak or Rafa so it's hard to control the points by playing the right way with attacking tennis! To be fair there are barely if any lighting quick courts any more but just looking at how John's game would work on such a surface and you have to like his chances, movement wouldn't be an issue as his serve would be very difficult if not impossible to returning on an old school lightning fast court! Then if the other guy got nervous and missed a few first serves John could take some big swings and jus needs one break and the set is as good as his! Or win one point on the other guys serve in the breaker. This is why the tournament organisers are wrong to not exploit this and prepare a an abosolutely lightning fast deck! It would have rewarded attacking tennis and prevented yet another battle of attrition!


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copyright the Chronicle March 18, 2015
by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT — Legislators from the Northeast Kingdom were told in no uncertain terms to oppose Montpelier's efforts to shut down small schools and consolidate districts.
That stern warning came from school board members from around Orleans County and was delivered Monday night at a gathering held at the North Country Career Center. About 20 legislators and school board members sat around a big table while another 30 or 40 people sat nearby.


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Greed, debt, Bain and the death of KB
In trying to change the subject from Bain Capital, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has talked a lot about reducing the nation's debt. The irony of this strategy, according to Matt Taibbi in the Sep tember 13 issue of Rolling Stone, is that Mr. Romney "is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time." The impact of that debt creation strategy was seismic right here in Pittsfield with the demise of KB Toys, which Bain Capital purchased in 2000. Mr. Romney was supposedly gone from Bain a year earlier but the New York Times has revealed that he was an investor and beneficiary for 12 more years.
Much has been said and written this campaign about Bain Capital, a company that doesn't build anything tangible but buys companies that do, usually struggling ones, redesigns them, and sends them off to sink or swim. Not enough has been said and written about Bain's strategy of saddling these companies with huge debt that forces them to take all the risk while Bain profits through the magic of "dividend recapitulations" regardless of the fate of those companies.
In Mr. Taibbi's article, entitled "Greed and Debt. How Mitt Romney and Bain Capital staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs -- and stuck others with the bill," Heather Slavkin Corzo, the senior legal policy adviser for the AFL-CIO, succinctly described this complex strategy with an analogy. "The dividend recap is like borrowing someone else's credit card to take out a cash advance, and then leaving them to pay it off," said Ms. Corzo.
Which brings us to KB, whose headquarters were in Pittsfield. It's a sad and familiar story here in the Berkshires recapped and elaborated upon by Mr. Taibbi, who in his research visited an "Irish pub" here (we'll bet it was Patrick's) to meet with former high echelon employee Lenny Patnode, who was laid off in 2008 after 38 years with KB without a day's severance.
Bain purchased KB for $320 million, with large banks financing all but $18 million of the purchase. About a year and a half later, Bain claimed its dividend recapitulation, forcing KB to redeem $121 million in stock and borrow $66 million. Of this total, $83 million went to Mr. Romney and other Bain owner and investors. KB slid into bankruptcy, never to re-emerge, while as Mr. Taibbi writes, Bain earned a return of at least 370 percent on its deal.
KB's top management could have made a fuss but had millions of reasons for silence. CEO Michael Glazer received an $18.4 million bonus from Bain to smooth the deal and CFO Robert Feldman claimed a $4.8 million bonus. KB employees hit the bricks, most or all without severance packages or health insurance.
There is no denying that KB had a problems independent of Bain. It lost its prestige niche when it overexpanded into second-tier malls and was underpriced by big discount chains like Walmart. It didn't react quickly to the advent of video and cell phone games. Bain, however, never offered KB Toys a strategy for survival, nor could it. There are no toy experts at Bain. Bain's expertise is in making money for Bain, and burdened by debt thanks to Bain, KB Toys was doomed even it had developed a coherent business plan. An important and unique Berkshire company was gone, leaving an empty building downtown and loyal employees like Lenny Patnode out of work.
"In microcosm, the KB fiasco speaks to why corporate America is held in such low regard today," The Eagle stated in an editorial of January 27, 2009. The editorial was reacting to the awarding of cash bonuses to KB executives charged essentially with the task of shoveling dirt on KB's grave but it also came in the context of the ongoing U.S. economic meltdown caused by the greedy Wall Street firms operating on the Bain philosophy of corporate profits first and ethics and fairness be damned. Mr. Romney can't run from his record at Bain where debt was a business strategy that cost workers in Pittsfield and elsewhere their jobs. He'll have to answer for it.
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text: Many are familiar with The Captains' Table, an anthology featuring many of the captains of the Star Trek universe, including but not limited to James Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Kathryn Janeway, Christopher Pike, Hikaru Sulu, Will Riker, and others. Yet, Spock is conspicuous by his absence, as the one-time captain of the Enterprise has no story of his own, either in the introductory novel of the series, or it's sequel, which featured many less-celebrated commanding officers of Star Trek lore. Most people think of Spock as Kirk's right-hand, a position in which he spent a significant portion of his career. Yet, he held the rank of captain for at least eight years (2285-2293) before the Enterprise was decommissioned, and was its commanding officer when the ship was assigned to Starfleet Academy. It's surprising that that no story revolving around his character was included, as there are still so many things about his character that we don't know. Much as Christopher is, I'm fascinated by the period of time immediately following The Motion Picture, as there are only a limited number of novels devoted to this era of the Enterprise crew. Perhaps a novel could be written in which Kirk is absent from the Enterprise- perhaps enjoying a well-deserved vacation on Risa- leaving Spock to carry on without him, a scenario that always seems to be bring out the best- and the worst- in the rest of the Enterprise crew- McCoy, in particular. Throw in the crew's becoming accustomed to the ship's revamped systems, the abrupt change in command from Decker to Kirk, and the numerous non-human species serving aboard the vessel, and the potential for a strong story is there.


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a resident of San Ramon
on Dec 29, 2008 at 9:13 am
This really hits home. These people are angels that make these kinds of things. My daughter was born early and we didn't have anything ready for her-- but thankfully we received a couple of hats and blankets from people/organizations like them.
a resident of Livermore
on Dec 29, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Now this is what I call cool! Thank you.
No thanks to beth and anna...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...because they have so many friends to give them blankies which mean something?
a resident of Foothill Place
on Jan 3, 2009 at 1:12 am
Cholo (and others),
Why is it that my (apparently) minority opinion is so threatening? Should I have unsolicited charity foisted upon me? I'm glad Amory appreciated it. I on the other hand had months and months of NICU time after my child was born early - plenty of time for people who actually knew s/he was born to make blankets.
NICU babies aren't automatically charity cases. Sometimes being treated like one pours salt in the wound of already traumatized NICU parents. I don't know why that's so hard to understand.
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 4, 2009 at 2:34 pm
It's clear that a good deed is not about beth! A good deed matters beyond what you think or feel. Giving is a matter of maturity and not the trauma of the NICU. Ta-ta...hahahahahahahahahaha...in other words, grow up!
a resident of Beratlis Place
on Jan 4, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Cholo does not inspire but this time he got it right. Beth needs to grow up and see something things Cholo's way.
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 5, 2009 at 10:20 am
poor poor bethy...she had a trauma and now a baby shouldn't receive a blankie? po bethy, po po bethy and anne...po girls!
me thinks bethy and her sidekick annie needs to feel loved? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...hahahahhahahahahahahahahahah...
a resident of Foothill Place
on Jan 6, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Are you kidding me, Bill? I didn't say that no one should receive blankets. I said that perhaps there are better places to give these blankets - babies who need them. And if you, Bill (and Cholo for that matter), have never been a recipient of these blankets, my opinion automatically carries more weight on the matter.
A good deed definitely matters beyond what the giver thinks or feels but is entirely dependent on what the givee thinks or feels about the gift. Otherwise, the deed is not good.
Whatever - I'm out.
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 6, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Some religions see the issue differently. In my opinion, a good deed is a good deed and G_d knows it! Hashem has spoken...
bethy, you and annie are the charity cases here...clearly, some people were not loved as children and now you trash people who engage in good deeds. sad sad sad girls...sad sad sad...
a resident of Foothill Place
on Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 am
Oh please Cholo - I simply stated my opinion - you're the one who runs all over these boards trashing people - way to project...good job trying to attack me instead of attacking my argument.
And please do find me one religion who says giving charity to people who don't want it and who don't need it is a good deed. Not any that I know...
I think everyone's hearts are in the right place - I'm just saying that either find a place where everyone wants the charity or everyone needs the charity. The NICU isn't necessarily that place.
a resident of Southeast Pleasanton
on Jan 7, 2009 at 9:32 am
The NICU wasn't the place for YOU, therefore you can't speak for all people. If you didn't want the help, you should of just said "no thank you" and moved on. So move on now!
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 7, 2009 at 11:14 am
No matter how you try to eSplain yourself, you just uglier and uglier and uglier! sad sad sad sad girl...sad sad sad sad girl...hahahahahahahahahahahahah....BUSTED!
bad girl, no donut!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 7, 2009 at 11:44 am
Interesting, Cholo. For someone who says I'm out/off, you're sure posting a lot... :
"Posted by Cholo, a resident of Livermore, on Dec 31, 2008 at 12:02 am
I'm off to Donostia for a few months so that I can ski ski ski...Hooray!
So happy I won't have to read any more ugly posts by Wondering, Beth or Annie!
I also plan to ski in Biarritz with the "in-crowd"! HOORAY!!!
TA-TA Potato Heads...hahahahahahahahahah! "
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm
How do you know that I'm not already in Donostia? Computer exist in Europe!
Catch you later Atemis!
a resident of Livermore
on Jan 8, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Final advice to SUPPORT beth: Daven to Hashem, you will find the answer.
By the 15th, I will be in LONDON! Like I said, when the going gets tough, the tough get going! In France one can find excellent dental care for FREE! After I receive Free dental care, I will go to Biarritz and enjoy skiing. From there, I will go to Donostia for the best sea food on the planet, black squid soup and tasty tapas.
HOORAY!!! AMBULANCE TORRES IS NO LONGER STANDING IN FOR ME...TOOooo QUIET FOR ME. I NEED TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT'S A BIG LOUD MOUTH.
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Corner infielder blocked by All-Stars at Major League level
By Jesse Sanchez / MLB.com
"I just have to go out there and do my part and I can't worry about who is ahead of me," said Alonso, 23, who is hitting .240 for Triple-A Louisville. "That's out of my hands. I just have to go out there each day and do the right thing and hope for the best."
Alonso seems to have the right approach. All-Star first baseman Joey Votto is ahead him on the depth chart at first base and Scott Rolen is ahead of him at third base on the big league level. Complicating matters for Alonso is the fact that top Reds prospect Juan Francisco is also a third baseman.
"At first, I was having some issues with it, but I've matured a little bit," Alonso said. "It hasn't been that bad. I just have to focus on my job. I do what I can in batting practice, in the games and I just have to worry about Triple-A right now."
That's probably a good idea. It seems the Reds are also doing their part.
In an effort to provide more playing time for the young Cuban, the Reds shifted Alonso to left field to start the Minor League season. He was also rumored to be part of the package the Reds were offering the Mariners for Cliff Lee before Seattle sent the pitcher to Texas.
When asked about the possibility of a trade, Alonso shrugged. Then, he chose his words carefully when asked to describe the first half of his season. The slugger's average is down and he has six home runs and 34 RBIs in 279 at-bats. He's walked 29 times and struck out 48.
He went 1-for-4 in Sunday's XM Futures Game.
"Overall, it's been going well," he said. "I've just been hitting the ball hard, run the bases and try to play good defense."
Alonso was quick to point out that he is not the only one who has grown up over the summer. He said Louisville teammate Aroldis Chapman has also come into his own in the Minor Leagues. The two became fast friends during Spring Training and their relationship has grown over the summer.
For his part, Chapman is 5-6 with a 4.32 ERA in 20 games (13 starts) for Louisville. It's unclear when or if Chapman will get a big league callup or what his role will be when that happens.
But like Alonso, Chapman will be ready.
"Chapman's getting prepared, really starting to mature. He's running and doing all of his work," Alonso said. "He's really been a good competitor and he's one of the hardest workers on the team. That guy is a workaholic."
As for Alonso, he knows the purpose of Sunday's game was to peek into the future, but he's content to stay in the present.
"Today is a game, just like other games I play in," he said. "It's fun, but I'll have 70 more games to play when I get back. I can't think about it too much. I need to just do my job."
Jesse Sanchez is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Discussion in 'Racing' started by STROM-CRF450X-990SMT, Jul 2, 2012.
Yes, I see I got the course a little off in one or two spots. That's only a small problem. I'll have that figured out and fixed before dinner time.
I just rode that route last weekend!!!
Once upon a time, Scott dropped a waffle coated with maple syrup on a white sheet of A4 paper, late one friday night...
The next morning, he spotted it lying on the table, cut it down to A5 width, put it in the Hog's roadbook holder and set off...
That's what I meant. I wouldn't expect you to be able to sleep otherwise.
*tossing* *turning* Mrs HogWild: Honey, you were talking in your sleep all night, something about "where was the sand wash?"
That's EXACTLY how the "grid" part of the Pahrump Loops roadbook route happened!
HRC: Honda's Rally Conundrum
HRC, Honda's eponymous racing arm has a problem. In racing back to its place at the sharp end of long distance rally stardom after a 24 year break, it has created high hopes and even higher expectations throughout a rabid and vociferous rally fan base. Some of these hopes may have been dashed as in the midst of last minute preparations in California,two of the team's top riders, this year's Rally dos Sertoes winner, Felipe Zanol, and Dubai based motocross and baja star, Sam Sunderland crashed and unfortunately, were injured to the point that Sunderland is out and Zanol's participation is questionable at best....continued
Johnny Campbell will have to step in as was insinuated earlier in the HRC campaign. Maybe Honda can talk Jimmy Lewis out of his Dakar retirement to use his masterful nav skills that he taught Cyril Despres, when Cyril was his waterboy.
Well that won't be back in action for a while - but it will be back in action
Still no more news on Philipe as yet.
The op has been carried out and initially no problems, Sam has a scan on the other wrist later today, so fingers crossed
That's not good news at all. Will see how things unfold over the next month.
Honda should put Colton Udall on one of those bikes after winning Baja.
Absolutely. Zanol would be representing Brazil. Replace a Brazilian with an Argentinian?!? No way!!! There's as much rivalry as possible, Brazil being the bigger market (by a factor of 5 - in terms of population alone).
I have scanned the web and twitter in Portuguese also but can't find no more news on Zanol, quite worrying indeed
Despres published a nice video with just his highlihted roadbook of one of the Morocco rally stages - besides riding, the guy can paint lots of notes, scriblling and so on - quite interesting for the fanatics like ourselves (sorry for the off topic): http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/WV8OUe1rTHI/hqdefault.jpg
Same here. Haven't been able to find any more news.
If HRC would go for it, what a perfect mochilero for JC. He expressed interest in Dakar during a post race interview with Scotty Breauxman on Race-Dezert after JCR Honda's hard fought Baja 1000 win this year.
He is a great person. I met him at Jimmy Lewis' rally navigation clinic. He helped Kevin Muggleton change out a tube on the trail, stagehand has the video. He takes the time to help people all the time. I do not know if JC would want him to be exposed to more risk at this stage in his career, as he is groomed for baja. If the F5r's want to rally behind a racer with podium potential, it is CU. He is fast, smart and young. To propel him to HRC recognition, we should get permission from JC to put together a grass roots effort to get him to Australia this year. (free shipping) It is a Honda dominated event, and Colton could surf while there as well (he loves to surf!) This could give him the experience and exposure needed in route to the big show in 2014 and beyond. I am willing to put my money where my mouth is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyWIWWKMzuo&feature=player_embedded Watch the video, he is the kind of guy you would be happy to let your sister or daughter date!
Ha ha - my daughter has been going out with Sam for 4 years and we are very happy - now there's a riding partnership that would sit pretty well with the marketing boys! Sam and Colton that is, not my daughter
Sam should be at JC's race day tomorrow, he is having another scan today - you may struggle to recognise him though as he looks native SoCal, but he'll be the one with his wrist in plaster
The plaster will blend right in, hell my kid was on crutches at the JC Christmas Classic last year. It's the funny way of talking that will give him away
Maybe, but the standard MX vocabulary will be right up there dude
Thanks for the info- disregard my post!
No one has mentioned Kendall Norman as a replacement rider... he knows Hondas, he goes fast, but I'm guessing he and Johnny are unlikely to be on the same team...
Kendall would would be good. Is there some bad blood with JCR?
What about Casell, Bell, Pearson or Hengeveld?


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There is a growing amount of material available about automated testing in the perl community. I have noticed that often times when an engineer reads an article or listens to a talk on this topic that he or she will respond either by giving a reason that they can't implement it in their workplace, or by asking how they can implement it in their specific workplace given some set of reasons that it's tough.

In the past 10 months, I have transformed my huge mod_perl application from one with no unit tests to having about 50% test coverage. Each of the 7 engineers who have been on the team have used the tests and added to them. The application and the testing environment that I have for it are not perfect, but they're better than they were before, and they'll soon be better than they are now. I did it without issuing an edict requiring unit testing or by having management require it, or even know about it.

Looking back on the progress, I don't really think it was that hard. In fact, I think that there were three main methods that I used to grow this testing system into what it is now. I've essentially tricked my peers (and myself) into becoming better programmers with these methods, and I'll bet that you can too.

Boiling a Frog

They say that you can put a frog in a pan of water, set it on the stove, and bring the water to a boil. This will cook the frog without it jumping out. If you drop the frog in hot water, he'll jump right out. Apparently, it's the sudden change in environment that scares the frog. It's probably not true, but I don't really care to try. Nonetheless, it makes a good analogy.

When I started adding unit tests to my code, I didn't really see that it was necessary to convince all of the other members of my team to fully test their code. I knew that if I tested all of the code that I touched or added eventually we would have dozens and then hundreds of tests that tested parts of the whole application.

As I wandered around the application fixing bugs and adding new features in my normal course of work, I would add unit tests. I knew that each time I checked in a test case the rest of the team would see the new code in the svn commit emails. They knew that unit tests were being added even if they didn't contribute to them. (You do have subversion set to send out emails with patches each time someone commits code, don't you?)

Occasionally, someone checked in a change that broke a few tests when the nightly smokebot was run. I fixed the code or the tests, checked in the patch, and sent a mail to the developer that broke the test cases. I let him know that I made a small change to preserve backwards compatibility, or something like that and moved on. Eventually, the water boiled so to speak and a few other developers running the test suite themselves and adding tests to try out their new code. This meant that I was no longer the only one writing unit tests. The test suite was growing more quickly. That's powerful.

The Ping-Pong Method

The "ping-pong" method is another trick I used to build up our test suite. After I noticed another member of my team check in a new method for an object, I'll try to use it. I write a test case that instantiates the object and tries to call that method. Typically, I find a place where the documentation doesn't really match the behavior. So, I'll send over a mail to the author:

"Hey, Carl. I'm trying to use the new 'bark' method I saw that you just added to the Dog object, and I can't quite figure it out. The docs say that I can optionally pass a volume paramteter, but if I leave it out, the dog doesn't bark. Is it required, or should there be a default?"

Typically, they'll write back and say that there's something missing from the documentation or the code and often even check in a patch or mail one to me. I'll update the test cases that I'm working on and them check them in. Through this back and forth exchange, I can make sure that I understand most of the new code that goes into the application, that the code does what the original author expects it to do, and that there exist test cases to prove it. Knowing that I will be writing test cases for their code eventually started to encourage the other team members to write well-documented, usable code and eventually even their own test cases. After a few weeks of "ping-pong", I'll bet most developers will start writing their own unit tests.

The Ratchet Method

Once the members of the team agreed for the most part that we should be writing test cases for our code and adhering to some kind of coding standard, I checked in a few tests that touch all of the files in the application. These test for violations of POD syntax and POD coverage and for violations tested by Perl::Critic.

When I got started, of course, not all files could pass POD checks or Perl::Critic, so I listed these that failed and made them TODO tests. If a file passed Perl::Critic at level 5, but not severity level 4, I made sure that it was tested at 5 and added a TODO test for it at 4, or whatever level we're shooting for. When files are modified, if the new code causes to file to no longer pass a POD syntax or coverage test or a Perl::Critic test, a developer will know that he needs to clean up his code to match the level of quality that was already there. If a new file is added, since it won't be in the list of current exceptions, it will be required to pass all of the tests at the desired level.

By creating tests like this that test current levels of some measure of code quality, I can ensure that new code added will not be worse than the current level. The tests act as a ratchet that constantly ensures new code is measured as good as or better than the current code.

I think that these three methods are pretty good ways to inject unit testing into your application. At the very least, they're pretty good responses next time someone claims that they can't start writing unit tests for their code since not all members of the team have "drunk the Kool-Aid". Now go start writing better code.
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