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Putting it in perspective: OK, so the Spurs aren't exactly crushing the opposition. They've already had four games come down to the final seconds, and they've won all four — an unsustainable rate over the course of a full season. For now, however, things are going their way, and it's happening at less than full strength.
Player of the game: Tony Parker finally bounced back after an illness and a string of mediocre games with 19 points and seven assists, both teams highs. But it was Tim Duncan, continuing to play like he's a decade younger, who carried the Spurs yet again with 18 points, nine rebounds, four blocks, four assists and zero turnovers. He scored two difficult baskets in the final two minutes, a long jump shot off a pump fake and a running hook over Pau Gasol after taking Dwight Howard off the dribble. Duncan also played a key role in holding L.A.'s twin towers to a combined 8 for 19 from the floor (see below).
Play of the game: Twitter's NBA aficionados were abuzz just before the Spurs' final possession, wondering what Gregg Popovich would cook up with his team trailing by one. They weren't disappointed as Danny Green, covered by Kobe Bryant, set a quick screen in the paint on Pau Gasol before running off a pick from Tim Duncan for an open 3 that put the Spurs up two. Parker said afterward that Popovich specifically targeted Bryant's tendency to linger in the lane. And true to form, he apparently didn't even congratulate Green on the shot. The Lakers could have used some of that guile on their final trip, instead settling for a contested 3 from Pau Gasol after Kawhi Leonard blanketed Bryant.
* Duncan and Tiago Splitter, the tandem Spurs fans have so often clamored for but rarely get to see, earned a partnership as the latter started for just the eighth time in his NBA career. Like so many other moves Popovich has made over the years, the switch paid off in a big way as neither Gasol (10 points, 3-for-10 shooting) nor Dwight Howard (13 points, six turnovers) did much on the offensive end. Doubtful it will be a regular deployment, but for one night it worked wonders. Duncan was Duncan, and Splitter held his own on the glass with nine rebounds in 29 minutes.
* Having been run off the court by the Clippers in their previous visit to Staples Center, the Spurs were much stingier against the depleted Lakers, holding them to 41.9 percent shooting, forcing 17 turnovers and registering an 83.3 defensive rating (points allowed per 100 possessions). That might be good enough for the Spurs, who entered the evening 13th at 101.1, to crack the top 10 in the latter category.
* The Spurs had only eight turnovers against the Lakers after committing 61 in their previous three outings.
* Not to be an alarmist, but that's yet another injury worry for Manu Ginobili, who was questionable with more back issues. He entered the season raving about how great he felt but has yet to look it — particularly last night, when he went 1 for 8 and sat for most of the second half. Ginobili is now shooting 40 percent with 2.8 turnovers per game, the worst figures of his career. He has recorded just one game score above 10, the baseline for an average performance, according to BasketballReference.com.
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Doncaster's Lakeside is preparing for the arrival of hundreds of competitors ahead of this weekend's European Jet Ski Championship finals.
The event, which takes place from the 22-24 August, will see over 100 participants from across Europe, as well as a team from the United Arab Emirates, heading to the water to compete for the title.
Jet Ski competitions are fast-paced, exciting and visually stunning – Lakeside will come alive with movement of hundreds of state-of-the-art machines as the riders try to slalom and speed their way to victory.
The event is completely free to attend, and will be a chance to see a truly global event come to Doncaster. This is the third year that the Jet Ski Championships have been held at Lakeside, with the event growing in size year on year.
Cabinet member for Tourism, Councillor Bob Johnson, said: "It is a real privilege for Doncaster to host an event of this magnitude, and the fact that the Jet Ski Championships are so exciting and fun to watch will add even more excitement.
It is great that the facilities we have in Doncaster have been recognised by the British Jet Sport Racing Association (JSRA), and that they specifically wanted to stage the European finals here. I'm sure this decision will be rewarded with a fantastic, enjoyable event."
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Good morning. Make sure you check out yesterday's self-help reviews.
In other news, yes, we have some thoughts (positive and negative) about the new comments system. The folks in charge are watching to see what works and what doesn't. Feel free to leave some *constructive* feedback in the comments section. It will be read and considered. Just make sure that you give your advice to the letter writer first.
I have been in a relationship for eight years. About three years ago, my fiance learned that his father had been having a long-term affair. His mother had found evidence, confronted her husband, and was preparing for a divorce. She shared this with my fiance.
Ultimately, they did decide to stay together. However, the experience wreaked havoc on my relationship. My fiance was angry at his father for the affair and angry at his mother for telling him about it. Not surprisingly, my fiance was upset and withdrew with worries that the "sins of the father would be bestowed upon the son." And though I hate to admit it, I too suddenly had doubts. Would my fiance also have an affair? Could I trust him? Instead of starting from a place of trust, I found myself beginning from doubts and becoming even more possessive and insecure. Ultimately, his father apologized to him but never to me. It has been the elephant in the room at every family gathering.
I have told my fiance that I am hurt as well, and that I would like to discuss it. My fiance's response: "Why?" He doesn't think that my feelings are justified because his parents experienced a greater loss than me. The issue has driven a wedge between us because I feel like he doesn't value my feelings. It's also hurt my relationship with his parents because I have lost all respect for his father.
I know that this experience has exposed many weaknesses in this relationship, but I'm curious about just one aspect: Am I wrong to believe that there should be a discussion with his family that includes me, in which the affair is at least acknowledged? Am I expecting too much to believe that his father owes me an apology as well?
– Still Wondering About My Place, Boston
Your fiance's dad hurt a lot of people when he cheated on his wife. For all you know, his co-workers are thinking, "Why isn't he apologizing to us for bringing his relationship stress into the work place?" For all you know, your fiance's parents' friends are thinking, "Shouldn't he be chatting with us about how he messed with the dynamics of the group?"
You're one of many people who got caught up in this mess. Your fiance's dad might bring this up with you eventually, but for now he's focused on his wife. That's understandable, even though I absolutely empathize with your anger and frustration.
My hope is that he rallies as a parent and explains to his son that every marriage is different. My hope is that your fiance can watch his parents overcome a relationship tragedy with love and support. That would be a great lesson.
In the meantime, you need to focus on your own relationship. Separate yourself from this indiscretion and maybe your fiance will follow your lead. His parents are not the Ghosts of Christmas Future. They're just two people trying to make it work.
Readers? Is she entitled to a talk with the father? Is the fiance being insensitive? What should she do? Help.
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It took me a while, but I finally got my data from the Repeating Crumley set of experiments up on FigShare. Of course, I didn't call it Repeating Crumley there since that experiment has no context. You can download the data sets and figures here:
Repeating Crumley FigShare Data and Figures
The interesting thing about this site is that your data remains your data but is openly accesible. Each upload is given a citation. Mine is:
Salvagno, Anthony; Koch, Steven J; Salvagno, Anthony (2012): Repeating Crumley: Tobacco Seed Growth in D2O. figshare.
Retrieved 22:15, Mar 02, 2015 (GMT)
Also there is a little section for social media promotion and it tracks the page analytics for you as well. That is pretty neat!
It did take me a while to get this up on FigShare unfortunately. For a while I couldn't log in with Twitter, Facebook, or Google. I was asked repeatedly to sign in while trying to upload stuff. Eventually I just gave up and created a new account. Then when I tried to upload my first images, the site was unresponsive. I did spend a considerable amount of time organizing my resources so it would be presentable on FigShare, so that added to the mess a bit. And I also spent some time collecting links from my notebook to incorporate with the data so all experimental information can be collected. I also monified my active experiments page a little so some of the links are easier to navigate.
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Anything Ian says really.
I really love the bit at the end where they both think that they were both adjusting to the change when they were really just trying to give the other one time to adjust.
Also the bit where Ian realizes what Wanda is going to do and takes her away and has that talk with her that's so cute and i love it.


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With great sorrow I am sharing the unfortunate news that Kalonji's grandmother passed away yesterday, August 6, 2014. Lovingly called "Mama Frances," she was nothing but the kindest and sweetest person you'd ever want to know. We named our daughter Kaleya after her, giving her the middle name of Frances, so whenever we'd go to Alabama there was "Mama Frances" and "Little Frances."
This picture of Mama Frances and Kaleya is one of my favorites. It was taken in September 2005 when Mama Frances came to visit us for a week while we were living in the Memphis area. It was so great to have her staying with us! We even traveled to Indiana to visit Kalonji's mom so they had a chance to see each other again.
Mama Frances was born December 20, 1924 to Champ McClellan and Leola (Coleman) McClellan. She and her twin brother Frank were two of Champ and Leola's 10 children. Mama Frances was the last surviving child. Mama Frances was born and raised in Talladega and lived there a majority of her life. She did spend some time up north in Detroit, but Talladega was definitely her home. She married her husband Curtis Morrow in March of 1951 and he passed away in 1971.
We will miss you tremendously Mama Frances. We were on our way to visit you in just a week from now and are so sorry we were not able to spend that time together in life. But, we will spend it with you anyway as we come down to Talladega for your homegoing service.
Rest in peace, we love you very much. Kaleya carries your name, and now she will carry your spirit.


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Seattle, WA Chapter Event - May 18, 2013 - Calendar - Cedarville University
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May 18, 2013 from 12:30 p.m.
The Cedarville University Seattle Chapter invites you and your guests to a Seattle Locks Cruise! Join the Seattle Cedarville family for a 2.5 hour tour of the Puget Sound, Lake Union & the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Pricing will be as follows:
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If you're a Mac user and have been heinously denied access to XCOM: Enemy Unknown due to the mere profiling of the type of computer you use – civil rights is on the way this Spring, buddy. That's right; at an unannounced date you'll have the option to play the newest among the XCOM franchise on your non-PC. The version being released is the Elite Edition that contains all previous add-ons and updates up to this point: Slingshot, Elite Soldier Pack, and Second Wave. This is your reward for being so damn patient through the original release.
Finally on Mac you'll be able to fight alien invasion on a turn based strategy platform. Global alien invasion is serious business and the world needs XCOM to get it done. David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive commented:
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Manchester OKs '14 school budget
The budget was adopted by a 3-2 vote, with school directors Brian Vogel and Katy McNabb voting against it. Board Chairwoman Debbi Wraga, along with directors Kim Johnson and Margaret Conner, voted in favor.
During the meeting, Wraga said she felt the budget represented a good compromise between holding expenditures down and maintaining educational standards.
"There's not a lot I feel we can cut out of this budget," she said during the meeting, before the board took its vote. "I don't want to compromise educational quality."
With an additional $45,000 being asked for in a separate warned article voters will get to consider at the school district's annual town Meeting in March, plus retiring an anticipated deficit of more than $79,000 from the current fiscal year, the bottom line number of the proposed budget will be $11,816,730, or about a 4.5 percent increase over last year. Less anticipated state revenues, the amount raised by local taxes will come to almost $9.7 million, or about $400,000 more than last year's total of nearly $9.274 million. The actual tax rate will rise by about one cent per $100 of assessed property value, from slightly more than $1.30 to slightly more than $1.31, according to budget documents presented at Tuesday's meeting.
Vogel, one of the two board members to vote against adopting the budget, said he had hoped that in general, the school board could have found ways to be a little more frugal with taxpayer's money.
Earlier in the budget cycle, Gov. Peter Shumlin had circulated a letter to school boards across the state, urging them to hold their budget increases to about 2 percent or so, Vogel said. That would have necessitated a budget proposal about $200,000 below what the board wound up adopting Tuesday night, he added.
That would have been a challenge, even "draconian," but finding about $50,000 might have been possible, he said Wednesday morning during a telephone interview.
"Town revenues are not abundant, and there are other priories as well," he said, noting the new Park House under construction at the Rec Park and the Roundabout project.
Areas in the budget which are changing include health insurance premiums which are expected to rise by about 14 percent, or $113,743. Special education costs are rising, and scheduled to increase 16 percent, or $208,000. On the other hand, special education costs among secondary school students in grades 9-12 is showing a slight decline of about $6,000. About 56 percent of special education expenditures are offset by a state reimbursement, said Dan French, the school superintendent of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union.
The board also decided to approve about $30,000 in additional money for paraeducators, after holding back on that for several years.
"I think the budget is a responsible one in that many of our costs such as health insurance and special education are experiencing double digit increases and some revenues are down, yet we are still able to hold the tax rate increase to a nominal 1 cent," French stated in an email Wednesday. "I think the budget demonstrates the board's continued prudent financial management - the Board has held the residential property tax rate flat for the last several years at $1.30."
On the revenue side, the school is scaling back what it is seeking from the town for the rental of the MEMS building for town events to $75,000 from last year's $100,000. Anticipated tuition revenue from out-of -district students is also anticipated to see a slight decline, from about $495,000 in the current fiscal year's budget to $481,000 next year.
The board also voted to approve the language of the school district's warning to voters from the annual Town School District Meeting. The information meeting will be held Monday, March 4, at 7 p.m., at the MEMS multi-purpose room. Town Meeting voting will take place the following day; Tuesday, March 5.
The warning will ask voters to approve payment of Burr and Burton Academy's tuition rate of $14,875 for the coming fiscal year, along with the $45,000 for the bus reserve fund. Two school director posts, one a two-year term, and the other a three-year term, are also in play.
In other business following the budget vote Tuesday night at the school board meeting, Dan French, the school superintendent, noted after that in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, security and school buildings has become, and will continue to be, a much discussed topic. That discussion has farther to go, he added.
Every building principal in the BRSU is reviewing their building security. At present, only Manchester has a formal security policy in place, an outgrowth of recent construction work done to main entrance which now has a buzzer system and video cameras in place there, he said.
One key issue likely to be debated going forward is whether or not buildings should be locked from the inside after the start of the school day. That's a question over which he anticipated some push-back, he said.
"I predict that will not be acceptable," he said during the meeting.
Other elements that will be part of the school security review are enhanced emergency drilling, an emergency response protocol that will be coordinated with municipal first responders such as police, fire and rescue units, while also exploring what preventative measures can be taken in the mental health area as well.
There's a gap that seems to be widening between prevention investments and the onset of crisis thresholds, he said, adding that this will be an area of interest statewide as well.
"This will be a big topic and something we're thinking about," he said.
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Brad Laabs: Ice fishing for opener? What a difference in a year
What a difference a year makes! We are already past the halfway point of April and ice out from the lakes still seems like it is a long way out. Last year Big Detroit Lake was open water by March 23.
If you remember last year, because of the early ice out and nice weather all over the state, our Governor was considering moving the fishing opener up a week to the first Saturday in May!
This year the Park Rapids area is hosting the Governors opener. They may be auguring holes and hosting an ice fishing derby!
The big crappie tournament scheduled for this weekend on Lake Minnetonka (it is supposed to be an open water crappie tournament) has been rescheduled to April 27. Coordinators for that event are concerned the new date could still be iffy for open water!
This Saturday also marks the start of the opening date for walleye, sauger, northern pike, largemouth and smallmouth bass for Big Stone Lake on the Minnesota/South Dakota border. They are ice fishing there for their opener!
The way it is looking for us right now we may end up in the same situation as Big Stone for our opener. Things need to change dramatically for us in a very short time for us to make an ice free opening date. I am expecting (and hoping) that some of the smaller lakes and more shallow bodies of water in our area will be ice free. Some of the late ice in/ice out lakes may still be unavailable. Lakes like Cormorant, Rose, Otter Tail, White Earth, Island, and Lida are always later for ice out dates than lakes like Sallie, Melissa, Cotton, Height of Land, Rock, Shell, Toad, Big and Little Detroit (just to name a few).
This year seems extremely challenging to predict an ice out date with any accuracy. If the metro area is doubting the possibility of ice out for the rescheduled date of April 27 for Lake Minnetonka, that is not looking good for us as we historically are 2-3 weeks behind that area of the state!
This late thaw will also squeeze down the available time to get spring cleaning and projects done and out of the way so they don't interfere with valuable fishing time. I hate it when life interferes with life, and my plans don't go the way I think they should!
The good news about all this extra snow we are getting, is that it is very high moisture. I will be very happy to see lake levels get back to normal after getting so low by last fall. Mother Nature must not have heard or listened to my request of a few weeks ago, that I would like to see our moisture the rest of this spring come in the form of rain! I can tell this weather situation is getting to me.
Thankfully, I was able to get up to the Rainy River for a couple of days last week with a couple of buddies and catch some nice walleyes. My attitude would probably be really bad if not for a few of these open water trips over this last month.
At the landing as we were loading up to head home we bumped into a couple of local anglers, Merl Johnson and his son Kyle. While fishing the Rainy River on Wednesday, Kyle boated a personal best 32 inch monster walleye, one of the biggest I have heard about during this short window Rainy River season. Pictures of the fish wouldn't have been possible without the superior net job done by his father. Congratulations Kyle on catching a true trophy walleye this Rainy River season.
Now the sturgeon fisherman will be heading to the Rainy River to catch the dinosaur fish. They will be fishing a river that has still not cut its way to four mile bay and Lake of the Woods yet! What a difference a year makes!
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Contact: Ginny Painter, Communications Director, Marshall University Research Corporation 304-746-1964
Students recognized at international scientific meeting
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Two Marshall University students received special recognition for their research at this year's international Experimental Biology conference held April 21-25 in San Diego.
M. Allison Wolf, a biomedical sciences doctoral candidate from Parkersburg, received first place in her group in a poster competition held as part of the conference's Diet and Cancer mini-symposium. The mini-symposium was funded by the American Society of Nutrition.
Wolf's presentation focused on her research on the anticancer effects of isothiocyanates—a natural compound extracted from cruciferous vegetables—on head and neck cancer. Her work shows the compound both inhibits head and neck metastasis and greatly increases sensitivity to chemotherapy in therapy-resistant head and neck cancers. Wolf works in the lab of Dr. Pier Paolo Claudio, an associate professor in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the departments of Biochemistry and Microbiology and Surgery at the university's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.
Wolfe said she gained a great deal from the experience of attending the program and presenting her work.
"I really enjoyed this conference, particularly the Nutrition and Cancer Research Interest group, because it allowed me to be surrounded by people in my field," she said. "Discussing my research with others also interested in or working on isothiocyanates gave me some promising future directions to pursue."
In addition, Aaron M. Dom, a first-year medical school student from Wellersburg, Pa., was invited to do a special oral "blitz" presentation about his research on how a synthetic drug called MG624 can prevent new blood vessel growth in small cell lung cancer and could potentially serve as a therapy for the disease. Dom was invited to present by the Blood Vessel Club of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP). ASIP held its annual meeting in conjunction with the Experimental Biology conference. The club sponsors the short oral presentations to present exciting new vascular biology research and to give audience members an opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions about the research.
Dom, who is the president of the medical school's Class of 2015, did the research in the lab of Dr. Piyali Dasgupta, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Toxicology.
He said of the experience, "Our lab is honored that I was selected to present at this special session, and we were excited to share some of the work that we are doing here at the medical school. Experiences like these—in both helping with this research and in presenting at and attending a conference of this size—have helped me gain a greater appreciation for research in medicine."
Nearly 14,000 scientists and exhibitors representing academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations and private corporations attend the annual Experimental Biology meeting to share information about recent developments in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, nutrition and pharmacology.
Photo: Biomedical sciences doctoral candidate M. Allison Wolf works in the new translational genomic research institute at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Wolf recently won first place in a research poster competition at the international Experimental Biology conference. (Photo by Rick Haye/Marshall University.)
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BVSU plans search for new sup't
Search Consultant Bill Miles presented recommendations and answered questions from the BVSU board and members of the community on Wednesday, regarding the application process and how best to proceed.
The board voted not to renew the contract of current Superintendent Karen Gallese in October, but has not yet provided a reason for their decision.
Miles advised the board to focus on shaping their priorities first and determine an offer salary and qualifications desired.
Throughout the meeting the focus of the board was on searching for a part time candidate, although they have not left out the option of hiring for a full time position.
Responding to a question from Arlington School Board member Gerald Woodard, Miles said advertising for a part time superintendent would attract applications from professionals who are already retired.
"I see it as a good thing," said Miles. "If you're going to keep with part time you're going to have a very select group of applicants. It's not going to be a principal looking to move to a superintendent position because that person already has a full time job."
Woodard said his cause for concern would be in hiring a candidate who may not be interested in staying in the position long term.
"We'd like to get settled in here for five, six-seven years," said Woodard.
Miles recommended focusing the search within a 25- to 30-mile radius, to encourage applicants who would not have to relocate.
"I would be really happy if we had 10 really good candidates," said Miles, who advised the board that the salary offered shouldn't be more than $5,000-$10,000 between minimum and maximum. He also recommended requiring a Vermont superintendent certification.
"If you go with the VSBA you will get candidates from New York, and you will need to give them time to get certified," said Miles, who estimated that appropriate candidates could be presented as early as February.
A steering committee consisting of board members, teachers and residents of the community would follow through with the interview process.
Miles said he would use the employment source SchoolSpring.com as a major recruitment tool, which he noted has produced positive results in the past and is viewed by educators both nationally and internationally. The position will also be advertised locally.
Board members will decide whether to enlist the services of VSBA to facilitate the search and lead the recruitment process at a cost of $6,500 -- or to proceed on their own.
"They will advertise for us, help to form a committee, and do all of the recruitment, and then work with us to go through the candidates," said Board Chair Maureen Harvey, who remains in favor of moving forward with VSBA assistance.
The BVSU board will continue their discussion of the search -- including salary and job description -- at the next budget meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m.
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Do you have a specific list on what manga you're planning on reading or are currently finishing? If so.. give it here.
Mine so far:
- Finish Soul Eater
- Try FMA
- Try Code Geass
- Try Bleach
- Finish One Piece
- Try Mirai Nikki
Might have been a few more I forgot..
EDIT: On second thought you can go ahead and put anime in the list too.


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Website helps teach mom, dad basics for getting kids ready for school
Emily Roden hopes to teach parents to be more intentional when it comes to educating their young children.
"The achievement gap starts way before kindergarten," said Roden, who was an elementary school teacher and has worked in educational publishing. Children are already coming in kindergarten behind, she said.
Parents need to start training their children to be good thinkers and problem solvers early on, she said.
Roden struggled to come up with ideas for teaching her two children. She thought a quick video everyday would be an easy way to solve the dilemma.
That's why Roden created ReadyRosie, a video-based readiness curriculum for parents and adults who care for children up to age 4. The program was named after her 4-year-old daughter.
She consulted with education experts to build a curriculum and gathered local talent to create the videos based on the curriculum.
The two-minute videos teach adults how to improve the child's literacy and math skills while they are in everyday situations such as at the grocery store, doctor's office, a restaurant and on the bus.
"They are consistent reminders of what we can be doing to take advantage of instructional moments," Roden said.
One of the ReadyRosie videos to teach literacy shows a mother teaching her daughter how to echo words and sounds as she's driving. Another video shows a father teaching his daughter how to count while they are at a restaurant.
"One of the most important things research is showing us is word knowledge," Roden said. "Kids come to school without a lot of word exposure."
The ReadyRosie videos try to highlight six or seven words in each video, she said.
The videos will be e-mailed out to parents, teachers and caregivers Monday through Friday. In each e-mail, there is an English video, a Spanish video and an expert video, which Roden describes as the "why" behind the activity.
Roden and the ReadyRosie team are approaching school districts around the state about offering the curriculum to parents.
The school districts would pay per child and offer it to the parents at no cost, Roden said.
School districts in Texas are given grants specifically geared toward parent education, Roden said.
It's part of the Texas State Literacy Plan, the goal of which is to "ensure that every Texas child is strategically prepared for the literacy demands of college and/or career by high school graduation," according to the Texas Education Agency website. "To achieve this goal, the plan centers on early language and pre-literacy skills for age 0 to school entry and on reading and writing instruction for students in grades K-12."
The ReadyRosie team is building the curriculum on evidence-based components for literacy learning, such as phonological and phonemic awareness, concepts about print, letter knowledge and alphabetic recognition, emergent writing, speaking skills, vocabulary development and phonics and word recognition.
Roden enlisted the help of other teachers she knows, such as Candis Grover, who helps come up with bilingual content for the videos.
"I was really fascinated with the idea," Grover said when Roden approached her through Facebook. "I've always been in education, but this has been a new way. It's very creative."
Parents are the child's first teachers, Grover said. As a parent herself, she's identified strengths and challenges in her children. She knows one of her daughters learns through song and the other daughter draws. She said it will make her a better advocate for them when they start school.
Melissa Nast is the math consultant for ReadyRosie.
"What I'm trying to do with the math is show parents how they can incorporate math in their everyday life … at the dinner table or the grocery store," Nast said.
The goal of the math videos is to help parents teach their children numbers, geometry, measurement, probability and data analysis. And it doesn't have to be standard measuring with a ruler; it can be measuring how long the table is in menus, Nast said. Or creating a pattern by doing something such as setting the table, she added.
"I think a lot of times when the school asks the parents to reinforce things at home — like patterns — parents, especially if they don't have a strong math background, may not have the time to come up with things at home," Nast said.
Nast has a background in math education, teaching fifth- and sixth-graders as well as writing a book of math activities.
What's taught in the ReadyRosie videos is something parents can recreate, and it will reinforce what will be taught in the classroom, she said.
Nast was excited to be involved in the project.
"It's something I thought has been needed for a long time," she said.
Grover said the goal with the videos was to use everyday items that are already accessible to parents so they wouldn't have to go purchase items or make them.
"We want it to have a big academic influence," she said, as well as build stronger relationships between parents and children.
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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by mswood, Sep 14, 2012.
Yes, that sounds closer to the truth.
I like NuQuinn, and I can't stand lead Grease guy. Really, him? Him and Chord Overstreet both need to go. Tough dude and generic pretty girl are both okay so far. I like the Unique storyline and I want to see more of Rachael, Kurt and Blaine. Finn is pretty blah but he's better than a highly inappropriate teacher so that storyline is pretty good. I like the backpacking bit.
My balls don't lust after or respect any of the new boys and girls.
Do they have a new casting service/agent since season one?
Sue stormed out of Figgins' office, grabbed a kid's glasses off his face and threw them, and him, around, pushed other students including pushing one off the stairs, etc etc.
This issue bothers me...there would have to be some kids who don't like Sue and would file charges for assault and battery. And then sue. No pun intended. But she's allowed to physically assault students? Her verbal assaults are bad enough. And nuQuinn? I thought most schools now have some kind of no-bullying policy. I notice that, unlike Quinn and her Brittney/Santana entourage, nuQuinn is by herself.
With shows like this i've long stopped putting reality demands on them or else i'd be only counting the mistakes and don't have time to actually enjoy the episode.
Glee, much like most other shows, bend and break reality to suit their needs.. in this case to get some comedy moments out of a scene. Glee is about teenager drama and music.. that's it.
Best not to think too hard about it.
Grease Lead is the guy who won the Glee Project, right?
That's what I was thinking. Which is a big change from Irish-boy. And while "Unique" did not win the competition, s/he won the war and is part of the cast.
Is that it? I've never watched that but I guess it would explain it.
While Blake proved himself to be a well rounder performer, I thought he was a safe choice. I was pulling for Alyin.
That was the most fun I've had watching Glee in a long long time. That felt like Season 1 glee, even going back to the red shirts and jeans for the "Don't Stop Believin'" days. Yeah it was a little nerdy, but in the end it really worked for me, especially getting to know the new characters and the sensitivity with Ryders storyline. I'm not sure if this is Glee turning the corner, but the last time I had this kind of reaction was Season 1 and this one felt like an episode that would have worked really well in Glee's hayday. Looking forward to next week and of course it wouldn't be Glee without "Gangam Style".
I'm sick of Sue, she's mad at Finn for calling her daughter a retard when she says the cruelest things all the time. She's worried because Wade was attacked in the hallway but in the same episode she stormed out of Figgins' office attacking several students.
Get rid of McKinley and new Directions, make the show about Kurt and Rachel in New York, move Santana there and keep Finn, Blaine and Brittany as recurring characters, everyone else needs to go.
That was really cool, loved Dr Y and Sam's Bane impression.
Guess the discussion for Glee is dying huh?
I knew I was going to like this episode as soon as Quinn AND Santana appeared
I liked the mentor concept, and I found it amusing how nuQuinn was so obsessed with Quinn. 'WWQFD?' lol. It disappointed me a bit that Quinn had a go at Jake without actually trying to hear his side of the story. I also liked the little discussion she and Santana had.
This was an episode where liked the meat of the episode rather than the songs. The Warblers still don't do much for me, all of their songs are beginning to sound the same. The party song didn't do much for me either.
I also liked Brody calling out Rachel's behaviour.
I like what they're doing with Marley. Rachel always seemed to thrive on the pressure of being the star but Marley is having a hard time handling it. I'm glad the 'new Rachel' isn't a carbon copy. The ending wasn't a surprise but I'm glad they're dealing with it now rather than dragging it out. I hope it doesn't cost them Sectionals!
I'm watching "Thanksgiving" now and two thoughts struck me: First, you're right, the mentor thing was great. I've been annoyed at how they were using the original cast members. It seemed they didn't want to overuse them, so they opted for under-using them. They steal the show every time they appear. They worked really well in this episode, adding to the plot and not stealing the spotlight. I loved how Santana caught onto "Pretty Little Liar" right away.
Kurt and Rachel are really dragging the show down. I'm not a Sara Jessica Parker fan and her part didn't help. I've never really formed an opinion on Kate Hudson, though I do have to say, Cassandra July is the best part about the Kurt/Rachel storyline. As for them, they either get them a spin-off (so I can ignore it! ) or dump them.
^Agree totally. I'm so tired of Rachel's miss priss she's too good for visiting Lima act. Kurt would likely have to face Finn if he'd gone home for Thanksgiving, but both could have avoided the McKinley crew if they'd wanted while still being in Lima. Their friends would have liked to have seen them, and the reunion felt incomplete. This should have been the episode they return from New York, not the 'Glease' episode. Drop the New York storyline or give it it's own series...I hear there's room in the schedule where Mob Doctor used to be.
Also...wasn't Rachel the one that was 'traumatized' by being pelted by eggs in season one because they were baby birds and now she's willing to...massage...a turkey? Doesn't line up with her previous ultra-vegan attitude.
I'm so tired of the New York storyline...or tired of Lea Michele, I don't know, but between the stupid "Kiki" party thing and Gangnam style I'm not really happy with either aspect of the show. Maybe I'm finally 'out-growing' it, or it's just gotten that bad.
I feel if they dumped the NY aspect, I could really enjoy the show more. The Super-Hero episode, while cheesy (and stupid, because I doubt they'll ever show them in costume again) was my favorite of the new season and I realized why...no NY plot, no Ms. July, no SJP, no Kurt, no Brody, no Isabelle...none of that. I also realized that Will was missing and that I didn't miss him one bit. I'm fine with Finn being the new Mr. Shu, as Will really has gotten on my nerves. It also lacked Sue, and again, I didn't mind that. I kind of feel that Sue has been played out. They kept going over-the-top with her (running for senator, for example) and I don't know where else they could go with her, though the recent feud between her and Finn did bring some life back to her character.
What we did get was Blaine being awesome, again, FINALLY, and the rest of the cast really shinning. I like the developing friendship between Jake and Ryder. While I hate Kitty, I do think her manipulation of Marley is an interesting plot line, as it has served to really get me to hate her. I think they realized that they totally messed-up Quinn's character, as they were never sure if they should make her sweet, manipulative, confused, angry, bitchy, or whatever else they felt like trying that week. Keeping Kitty purely evil is a good step. Knowing the show, they can always redeem her later on.
I hated "Kiki" from the get-go and went so far as to Google it, so I knew where to direct my hatred. I softened when I found out it was a Scissor Sisters song, as I liked some of their previous songs and it made sense, since they came from the NYC gay club scene. I may not love the song, but given the context, I hate the song less, and the use of it in the show more.
As for Gangnam Style, I am an unabashed lover of the song. It makes perfect sense that New Directions would use it and I think it is a brilliant move for Sectionals. It really showed off New Directions in a way that the Warblers could never compete with. They have the Acapella bit down, but they lack the ability to go all out on numbers. And the crowd seemed to love it, which is a bonus.
The last two episodes have really turned things around for me. A few episodes, I was right there with you, but now I think there's something redeemable about the show, if they dump the NYC/Kurt/Rachel plot, find a way to keep the mentors around more, and continue to develop the new characters.
Part of the problem is that from what I understand, Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, and Ryan Murphy all take turns with the episodes and after a while, you can start to tell which one wrote which episode, without even seeing the names. Some episodes hit the drama bit a little too much, while others go for the cheese factor, and the last third of the episodes really hit the social issues hard. The show is best when it has a decent mix of the three. Too much of any of those three and too little of the other two make the show less entertaining.
I know we're not really talking about Glee anymore, but I was surprised when they did a mash-up of Danger Zone and Old Time Rock n Roll on this week's episode and it kind of worked for me. I did wish they didn't pick movies from before the 90s, but it wasn't bad. It's just when I think mash-up, Danger Zone and OTRNR don't really fit together that well.
Other than the Flashdance number being tacked on in the end, I liked this episode. It would have been even better had they ended it with Will walking away from Finn though.
^Footloose, not Flashdance
I'm seriously loving Glee right now, and I found most of that episode hilarious. When Rachel's pregnancy was revealed at the end of the previous episode my eyes rolled but it was worth it for Santana's dvd choices
Ah, I got the two confused. I've not seen either, but considering how much I've heard, I think it is easy to get the two confused.
I wouldn't say that, they're both quite different. I tend to prefer Footloose, but Flashdance has its moments.
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Currently I have a Marantz 6000 Ose which I paid £40 for would a 1st generation Exposure 2010 at £80 be a worthwhile improvement? Rest of system rotel rc850 and 2 rb850 in mono bloc with mission 752 (not freedom)
Gut feel says yes. And the price seems reasonable, so why not buy it and if it doesn't work out just sell it on - I doubt you'd lose on it.
That was also my gut feeling also, although I seem to be acquiring a few things which I need to redistribute !
Definitely worth taking a risk on I'd say. I'm sure you wouldn't lose much if you sold it on afterwards. Second hand does get you a lot more for your money.
Second hand certainly does have benefits, being in the ring place at the right time is a bii of luck, came by some Epos ES11 £50 just got dedicated stands on EBay £11.50 (Exposure 2010, Rotel RC850, Rotel RB mono blocs, Mission 752's main listening / Marantz 6000 OSE, PM40SE, Epos ES11 second system) Less than £450 spent so far ..... Any advice on a weak link? I am thinking maybe better speaker cables and interconnects may be useful.


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I have just installed the latest version of ZA extreme security 2015.
and now im getting a marked slowness on my system that wasn't there prior to that install. I can see the CPU usage when ide Is 30 - 80% and should be max 10%. I have also seen a flashing circle icon next to my mouse pointer as if something is loading in the background like when your pc first loads Windows. I'm using Win7 64bit extreme edition.
There have been no error messages
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version: 13.0.208.000
Vsmon version: 126.96.36.199
Driver version: 188.8.131.52
Antivirus engine version: 126.96.36.199
Antivirus signature DAT file version: 1149864000
AntiSpam version: 188.8.131.5273
how can I go back to previous version.


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Police raid underage drinking party
HALIFAX -- Two Halifax women were arrested Saturday night after the Vermont State Police raided an underage drinking party on Thomas Hill Road in Halifax.
Naomi Gelb, 39, and Rachel Dailey, 32, were charged with selling or furnishing alcohol to minors, enabling consumption by minors and possession of marijuana.
They were released on a citation to report to the Vermont Superior Court in Brattleboro on Jan. 8, 2013 for arraignment.
According to a police press report, the Vermont State Police received a complaint about suspicious activity on Thomas Hill Road at around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night.
When police responded to the area, they found underage intoxicated individuals in a car parked on the rural road. The police say the individuals in the car said they had just left a house party on Thomas Hill Road.
The police located the party and were issued a search warrant from the Vermont Superior Court, Windham Criminal Division. The press release says 23 under age drinkers were located at the party and issued diversion paperwork for minors having consumed alcohol.
Dailey and Gelb, who rent the house and were hosting the party, were arrested and ordered to appear in Windham Superior Court to answer to the charges.
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An elderly couple who won around $11 million from a lottery ticket in Canada have given the money away to good causes and family, according to media reports.
Violet and Allen Large, who live in rural Nova Scotia, decided they had no need for the money and, four months after the Lotto 6-49 win, have given virtually all of it to churches, animal charities, hospitals and other groups, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald reported.
"What you've never had, you never miss," Violet Large, 78, who is recovering from cancer, told the newspaper. "We have an old house, but we're comfortable and we're happy in it."
"It made us feel good," she said about giving the money away. "And there's so much good being done with that money."
Allen Large was a steel welder and his wife worked for cosmetics and chocolate companies during 30 years when they lived in Ontario. Married since 1974, they moved to Lower Truro in Nova Scotia in 1983, the paper said.
"We were pretty well set, not millionaires, but comfortable," Allen Large, 75, told the Chronicle-Herald.
He described the lottery win as "a big headache," the paper said, while his wife was concerned about "crooked people" who might try to exploit them.
'We have each other'
"That money that we won was nothing — we have each other," Allen Large told the newspaper, which said he choked back tears as he spoke.
Violet Allen had her final course of chemotherapy last week, the Chronicle-Herald said. "I've been very fortunate not to be bedfast," she told the paper.
The Chronicle-Herald said after giving some money to family, the couple made donations to various good causes such as:
- the local fire department;
- churches;
- cemeteries;
- the Red Cross;
- the Salvation Army;
- hospitals in Truro and Halifax that treated Violet Large for cancer;
- and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes.
"We're the lucky ones. I have no complaints," Violet Allen said.
The Globe and Mail newspaper said the couple lived in a 19th century home and drove a 13-year-old car and a five-year-old truck. They don't have a microwave and are even without voicemail.
'We're not high-class people'
The news has already sparked headlines as far away as the U.K., but Violet Large said they had not given away the money for fame.
"We didn't do it to get recognized. Why spend money when you already have everything you need?" she told the Globe and Mail Thursday.
"We haven't spent even one penny on ourself. We're not travelers and we're not high-class people. We live in an old house, but we're comfortable," she added.
Her husband said they had "a little bit left, not that much."
"But we had sufficient before. We worked for 30 years and put some away each year," he added, according to the Globe and Mail.
The Toronto Star reported that the news of the couple's generosity was the talk of the town.
"People who know them just know that's the type of people they are — they're just happy to have each other," Lori Hingley, owner of the Shillelagh House restaurant in Lower Truro, told the paper.
"I think people are wondering why they didn't keep any and treat themselves, but mostly people just think it's great how generous they were," she added.


text: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Toon Knapen wrote: > It's true that there is no 'general case' both OTOH all developers of > HPC applications may learn a lot of each other. It's a pitty there is > little discussion on HPC application and/or library design, which is of > course OT for the beowulf list (it's just a general remark), except for > a few hot topics (such as beowulf). It's not off-topic, its perfectly on topic. Its just that the GENERAL discussion is too broad to be useful to most people. However, everybody benefits from specific, focussed discussions on this very topic and they occur fairly often if you look at the list archives. I think what people are saying is that "what do you do if your application is so big that it runs out of main memory on a HPC compute cluster" is so broad that it cannot be answered (although I gave it a very general shot in my first response:-). Or rather, the answer is trim it down to fit or prepare to work pretty hard on THIS task as there is no simple answer. However, if you ask instead something like "I'm thinking of splitting up task X that is too big to fit in core on my system to run in parallel on a cluster; is this a good idea or should I rely on VM and swap instead?" then you might get some very focussed and useful responses that suggest things like comparing the latency and bw hits associated with disk, the extra overhead associated with the OS determining what chunks of data need to be swapped in and out, and the IPC costs involved in accessing the same data over a network. You might also get folks that ask you if your TASK can be split up or if only its DATA can be split up -- most people who use clusters use them to split up the actual work not just the data (although there can be benefit from either or both). This would then lead to an entirely constructive discussion, totally on topic, of parallel scaling, how best to measure/estimate the IPC cost of various partitionings and possible network hardware and balance them against your CPU/memory speeds and capacities. This in turn would ultimately help you parallelize your application AND engineer a cluster on which a parallelization would yield linear speedup for at least some range of sizes. So to get useful help, ask specific questions about your specific application. It may be that nobody on-list can help you, if nobody is doing that particular thing or anything "like" that. However, there are lots of things people can/will do to help if you then get very specific about your application's operational cycle, as well as generic resources you can read online on parallel programming and cluster computing (notably Ian Foster's online book on the former and my own online book on the latter, both linked to e.g. http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma and/or my personal home page). To give you a single example of how things work, let me outline the way a person doing some sort of lattice problem might proceed. For whatever reason, they want to do a lattice of 1024^3 sites. On each site there is a struct containing eight double precision (8 byte) variables. Their primary lattice thus occupies 64 GB of space (plus sundry change for the code itself, operational variables and the like), and they have a cluster of 64 2 GB nodes on which to run it. SO, they say "gee, if I put 1 GB blocks of the lattice on each node, it fits". A bit of arithmetic convinces one that this is blocks 256 to the side (since 4^3 = 64). Now, in order to advance the computation each site needs to communicate with its nearest neighbors. For all the interior sites this is a local memory hit. For all the boundary sites (on all six faces of the partitioned cube) this involves two-way IPCs with the nodes that contains the neighboring cubes. On each face there are 256^2 = 64K sites, eight bytes each is 512 KB, six faces = 3 MB of IPC's per node per step. The COST of this (in time) on (say) 100 BT is at least 100 usec per face to start talking to a node plust 0.5/10 MB/sec = 0.05 seconds, bandwidth dominated. To do all six faces requires 0.3 seconds. If you organize your code carefully you can probably find a pattern that does all of the bidirectional communications in parallel for all nodes in the SAME 0.3 seconds. The other thing to compute is how long it takes to "take a step" on a node, that is, do all the computations required on the GB of data local to the node. If we assume that the site update computation is complicated and involves e.g. evaluating a transcendental function per double precision node variable, chances are good that site updates per node will take order of seconds -- the longer the better from the point of view of parallel scaling. OTOH, it might be that each site update takes only a very small time so that updating an entire node takes only order of one second. Even in the latter case we do 64 1 GB units of work in 1.3 seconds compared to 64 seconds on a big memory machine for near linear speedup. The scaling of the computational burden with memory size and the ratio of surface (for IPCs) to volume (for the computation) gives us near linear speedup until the cost of IPCs is GREATER than the cost of updating each node in parallel. Paradoxically, making the computation smaller here is what shifts it into a poorer scaling regime -- a lattice that was only 10x10x10 would never scale out to 64 nodes because the communications latency alone would likely exceed the computational time per node. It is interesting to contemplate what happens if each site needs to communicate with ALL other sites in the computation. In that case updating any site has to loop over ALL other sites, or basically 64 GB worth of data. In this case a lattice decomposition scales very differently -- each node does a "fast" loop over the local sites and then starts a systematic exchange of data with other sites. Node memory requirements may double as well, as one may have to buffer the initial state of each node's lattice to communicate to all the other nodes, plus provide a buffer for incoming node data. IPCs now involve 32 pairs of 1 GB exchanges or an irrelevant latency hit, 1 GB/10 MB/sec = 100 seconds per pair, 3200 seconds (or almost an hour) per update of all sites. Unless I'm making egregious arithmetic errors again (very possible as longtime list humans know:-). This can STILL be very profitable for several reasons. One is that doing the full 64 GB computation still takes a very long time on our mythical big memory machine. One is now doing a double loop and computation time now scales like the number of nodes squared. The mythical machine probably needs 128+ GB of core just to hold the original and updated data, which is even more outrageous than 64 3-4 GB nodes. All of which favor decomposition. Another is that even if the computation required to update a site is SMALL so that the computation takes 64 x longer or even worse to complete than it would on a mythical 128 GB machines, this is INFINITELY FASTER than it would take to complete on a MYTHICAL 128 GB machine as there is no such beast. History is replete with examples of computations that were performed slowly and tediously because they were valuable enough to justify it even if they didn't "fit" into the "comfortable" regime. Newton's hand computations of orbits, Kepler's long and tedious work with Brahe's observations for example. You may lose horribly on parallel scaling but be able to complete the computation, and almost certainly can complete the computation faster than it would complete swapping even if the code runs fully serially on a single system and the network is used only as a big virtual memory. Finally, we're estimating using 100 BT ethernet, which is an old pokey network. We have more than an order of magnitude improvement to play with at the IPC level, and maybe have more than one PARADIGM to play with at the IPC level, if we change networks. We we could conceivably drop the overall IPC hit to 320 seconds (five minutes per site update). Anyway, this is just an example of the kind of thing the list OFTEN discusses -- if you want to see what people know about your particular problem (which may be nothing:-) then describe your particular problem in considerable detail. To get the most help, do the preliminary estimation "like" that above on your own -- your computation needs to handle N entities, updating each of these entities depends on a subset of M entities distributed in a local/nonlocal pattern, to conduct an "independent" step of the computation based on an instantaneous snapshot of the N entities requires T time per entity, and so on. THEN one can look for partitionings of the data entities with favorable ratios of computation to IPCs, or can at the very least estimate how long a parallelized version will take to run for various cluster architectures and partitionings and scales. Then you can make rational cost/benefit decisions, which is the best anyone can ever do -- maybe your problem "can" be done profitably at the scale you want to run it at, maybe it can't, but you'll fully understand either answer. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Surprise, surprise: Giants win
Isn't it funny that just when things look their most bleak, you get an unexpected break.
That's about the only way to explain the Giants' 4-1 win over the Rockies on Wednesday.
Just when the Giants looked like they were again going to send their fans toward a Golden Gate leap, they put together an unlikely rally capped by a hit by their least likely hero.
It all started in the third inning when Buster Posey led off with the Giants' first hit off Colorado's Jeff Francis. Aaron Rowand promptly followed by grounding into a double play.
The next inning, Freddy Sanchez had a one-out single. Pablo Sandoval followed by hitting the next pitch into another double play.
In the fifth, Juan Uribe led off with another single. With Bengie Molina up, the Giants tried to avoid a double play, and then ran into one. Uribe was sent on a 3-2 pitch to Molina, who swung and missed — for Francis' first strikeout of the night — and Uribe was hung out to dry.
Aubrey Huff's follow-up single figured to only highlight the fact that the Giants' inability to execute some situational hitting cost them another run. But the Posey followed with another single, and we were thinking maybe the Giants could salvage something out of this inning.
Then Rowand stepped to the plate.
First thought: Geez, not Rowand. Here comes another weak groundout or strikeout.
Second thought: No wait. Rowand's not going to see a pitch to hit, with pitcher Matt Cain on deck and two outs.
Third thought: No wait again. Rowand is going to strikeout on three pitches WAY out of the strike zone.
Francis' first pitch to Rowand was a fastbast in tight that Rowand took. Then I think we all knew what was coming next: changeup down and away. But that's not what Francis threw. Instead, he came with another fastball, belt high, right over the plate.
Rowand hammered the pitch to center for a two-run double.
The hit seemed to spark two other struggling Giants. The next inning, Sandoval delivered an RBI double to left-center. That was followed an RBI single by Bengie Molina.
And to think, it all started with a gift by Jeff Francis. Thanks, Jeff.


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This fossil was near Stanton Harcourt and was probably from the Middle Oxford Clay although there may have been some transported material.
It is 3 cm long and looks a bit like a trilobite or a leaf but has a 'head end' with what appears to be eye compartments.
We are wondering if it could be a seed case.
Can anyone help?
Some thoughts...
It does look like a single object (rather than a pair of, say, orthocone nautiloids; not actually very close).
And it is useful to see the cross section revealed by the break.
There is a hint of trilobite, true (but they died out well before the Oxfordian);
and of a Colutea arborescens (bladder senna) seed pod.
But I wonder if it is a Machaeridian?
That image is from this more general page
- http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/InvertPaleo/Trenton/Intro/PaleoPage/TrentonFauna/MiscGroups/Machaeridia/Machaeridia.htm
But they are from the Ordovician to the Carboniferous, as far as I know (well before the Jurassic Oxfordian).
See also http://coo.fieldofscience.com/2008/01/yay-machaeridians.html.
Anybody else?...
Many thanks for your suggestions.
It is more likely to be from the Oxford Clay than from anywhere else as it was with other fossils from this strata.
I am sure it is one single, bilaterally symmetrical object. Unfortunately the underside (if it is the underside!) is not visible as it is covered by matrix but the ridges give the impression that they continue and curve round underneath.
I think it actually is a rather battered section of trilobite that has been transported to the site by the processes of glaciation.
I have collected in various spots in that area and in addition to the normal oxford clay fossils I kept finding fragments of coral (which is odd because the conditions that produced the oxford clays were not suitable to corals).
When I took them in to have them identified they turned out to be from the much earlier Carboniferous period - the nearest exposures of such rocks are in the midlands so the fragments must have been broken off by moving glaciers which then carried the material south.
It's a great find though - I'll bet it would take you a while to find another one there
Thanks Ryan, but I can't take any credit for finding it as it belongs to a friend!
It does look like a battered trilobite and that was my initial thought but I'm really not sure. The fact that you have found Carboniferous material in that area makes it more likely. How very intriguing.
Hi Karen,
Thank you for sharing such an interesting find. I forwarded your images to our specialist who says he is inclined towards identifying this as a Belemnite phragmocone, the obvious dip between the two sides is
?where the siphuncle would have been.
Hope this is helpful,
FYI - www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
Many thanks Fiona,
Your belemnite phragmocone suggestion would fit with the fossil being found in the clay rather than older rocks. I admit that particular identification never crossed our minds but I am sure you are right! It is good to have the mystery solved.
Your'e welcome - thank you for providing such and interesting specimen.


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People in this thread far more intelligent than I so correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't a large part of Jordan once Palestinian land? Where is the hue and cry for Jordan to "return" the land to the Palestinians?
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sorry mate, very late here but I am not anti-Semetic and not anti-Jewish. I think the Jewish people have every right to have their own state etc......the problem is people like you call people like me anti-Semetic when we point out some of the contradictions in the Jewish position, when I'm far from that. The issues are on both sides, not just the Arab side....the Jews do not have the sun shining out of their behinds on this one and it does your arguments no favours to call people like me anti-semetic just because I am critical of the Israeli government.
Edit: just reread your post - I "despise" Jewish people? Geez man, get a grip. You are going way over the top. Stick to the arguments and try not to attack the man. You argue pretty well, though obviously we have some disagreements on this particular topic.
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We see it here in the forums as well. We have non-Americans that show up and go wild every time the topic of Israel comes up. In a way who can blame them. When you live in a country that night after night on every news broadcast deamonizes a country in a false way what would stop a sheeple already inclined to dislike Jews from buying in to the crap they are spewing. If the BBC world news spends 10 minutes of a 50 minute broadcast every night on a tiny 6 million person country in a planet of 7 billion people its no wonder why attitudes are the way they are. People are sick of it and just want the situation to go away. That is what the Palestinians are counting on and people fall for it easily. I am 100% confident that my position on the issue is the right one. I am equally clear on who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. There is no moral ambiguity here.
(In fact, here was the official PLO position on the West Bank and Gaza during that time frame, from Article 24 of the PLO Covenant: This Organization (the PLO) does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in the Gaza Strip or the Himmah area.)
Odd. One might almost think it had more to do with the fact that the Israelis are Jewish and the Jordanians are Arabs. But that can't be it, right? I await your clarification of the apparent contradiction
Israel captured the land from Jordan in 1967. Jordan abandoned its claim to the West Bank when it entered into the treaty with Israel in the mid 90s
Looking back it was a mistake for the Israelis back in '67 to allow Jordan and Egypt to abandon those areas. Hindsight is 20/20 however and it would have been impossible to predict what was to come.
The average citizens who are caught up in the endless cycle of violence are the true victims, and they are on both sides.
You seem definitely convinced of the rightness of your opinion - but a lot of the friends of Israel do not agree with you. The groundswell of opinion swinging against Israel out here is summed up in this article published in today's Sydney Morning Herald:
"Israel decisively lost the support of the [ruling] Australian Labor Party last week when the party effectively overruled its leader, Julia Gillard, to stop her casting Australia's vote in support of Israel in the UN.
And the men who led Labor away from Israel on this were the same men who led Labor towards Israel a generation ago - Bob Hawke and Bob Carr......
...... But now the same pair has led a spontaneous upswell of Labor frustration, impatience and anger against Israel. Hawke's former foreign affairs minister, Gareth Evans, had a central role. He made a speech, wrote an essay, held a caucus briefing, all arguing the case for supporting Palestine's aspirations to be recognised as a state. And Evans enlisted Hawke in lobbying the caucus. Hawke's stance assured younger Labor MPs that it was OK for pro-Israel politicians to defy its wishes on this matter.
These grand old men of Labor are not anti-Israel. They argue that they are trying to save Israel from itself.
How so? The biggest single source of Labor frustration with Israel under its current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is its policy of continuously expanding Jewish settlements on territory claimed by the Palestinians. Hawke, Carr, and the bulk of the Labor caucus believe that Netanyahu is unreasoningly belligerent. They argue that he is sabotaging any prospect of peace.
They see Netanyahu pandering to extremists and the ultra-Orthodox, creeping towards the de facto creation of a Greater Israel that swallows up the Palestinians and their land. The ultimate effect? A permanent annexing of Palestine.
This would create two classes of citizens, and the Palestinians, voteless, would be the second class. The world would respond with accusations of ''apartheid'' and boycott Israel. It would be a pariah, a version of South Africa under apartheid. And this, they argue, is the fate from which they are trying to save Israel......."
The current Israeli government and Hamas have the same goal, a one State solution.
The US, England and Germany are all allies of Israel and all condemn these settlements and they are right to condemn them.
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Civic Si or Acura RSX Type-S?
I am looking for a used car and am trying to decide between an 06-08 Civic Si or an 06 Acura RSX Type-S. The RSX seems a little faster while the Civic seems to handle better. The RSX gets better gas mileage on paper, but I think that was before the EPA changed its standards, so which really gets better mileage? Also which is more reliable? Finally some Si reviewers said they felt sorry for anyone who bought an RSX; how come? The Acura is a bit stronger and lighter.
How is the Acura stronger?
The RSX has 210 hp and 143 lb-ft of torque while the Civic has 197 hp and 139 lb-ft.
Oh, I thought you were talking about chassis rigidity, and that's something I don't believe the RSX-S can compare with to the Si, being an older design without the ACE enhancements of the Civic. You're also off on the power, which is just 201hp and 140 ft-lbs. of torque, per SAE J1349 (08/04). Officially, the two differ by 4hp and 1 ft-lbs. under the new standard. Unofficially, the Si actually has more power in non-scientific dyno comparisons. It still weighs more and, thus, the RSX-S is marginally faster.
I thought the 2006 RSX had more power than the older versions (some sources say 210 hp and 143 lb-ft while others say 201 hp and 140 lb-ft, which is pretty confusing)? Anyway I'm probably going to go with the Civic because it looks a little sharper IMO and I like the interior better (the dash on the Honda is awesome and leather seats tend to make you slide all over the place in high-speed turns). Also how does the stereo compare? The Honda's has more power but the Acura's is a Bose...
Bose Blows. Of all the lousy car and home stereos I've heard, Bose has more than their fair share, as well they should when charging big bucks for paper cone speakers.
http://www.klipsch.com/media/news-center/reviews-press-pdfs/smart-money-sound-an- d-the-fury.pdf
"Lou Reed 'would pay money not to listen to [Bose speakers].'"
daddydave Posts: 2I have a 2005 RSX type S and a 2007 Si coupe. I prefer the RSX interior with its classic instrument cluster plus and leather seats. Both cars are fun to drive. My wife thinks the Si is faster. I think that RSX has better handling and is a touch quieter, so it only seems slower.
RSX gas mileage is real. I got 32 mpg highway on a recent trip - and that was averaging 75 mph on the interstate. I just got the Si last month, so I really don't have a good track record on that yet.
mexateck Posts: 9The Civic Si actually has a wider final gear than the RSX. So technically, the RSX is indeed faster while the Civic could THEORETICALLY get better gas mileage. In essence, the RSX is actually a better car than the Civic, in terms of build quality and suspension tuning as well. However, the Civic Si has much more to offer for the money, as a fully equipped one will cost some 4 grand cheaper than an equally equipped NEW RSX Type S.
As for the MPG, I owned an 05 RSX Type S... and I managed 37 mpg on a trip from the DC area to NY and back... on one tank of gas. Meanwhile... if you're seeing people say it has 210 or 201 HP... they're both right. The EPA standards changed back in 2004 when the government mandated that ethanol be introduced into fuel... therefore lowering performance and fuel mileage. Quite frankly I find it most interesting that the only claimed benefit to ethanol in fuel is the cleaner burning... because it seems the consumer loses all around otherwise, both in cost and performance.
Anyhow, the gear box on the Si feels a tad better than the RSX... but not by much. The RSX is a much more practical car to live with because of its hatch back. I'm sorry I can't live with a small trunk again (2001 Prelude). The RSX does not offer navigation, while the Si does. However, I'd rather take the Garmin Nuvi than the crap that honda puts in their cars. Either car has excessive wind noise and a harsh/hard right on long trips.
The RSX Type is is about as close as you will get to the JDM Integra Type R. It has both the Type R cams and the Type R exhaust tip... (not that it really matters if you're going to modify it otherwise).
It all depends on what you're going for. If you're looking for a tuner car... get the RSX Type S. You can pick a used one up cheaper than a new Si, and they're more practical... AND lighter in the end.
asianboy781 Posts: 1i just pick up a used 06 si for 14 grand at 20k milage
and also saw a 06 type s for 15 at 50k milage
seems like a no brainer. yes rsx can be a tuner car but with not much source
while you can do the basics bolt ons and appearence wise on both cars
but the si have more feature and more parts
u even have cobb tuning acessport and hondata either that you can get a relash for the ecu while the type is only offer the reflash from hondata and probly the k pro to
si come stock lsd while type s doesnt
si has better sound system way better while the type s gives u a shoe box size sub woofer that you can barely hear and an acient tape deck with 6 disc cd changer that cant even play mp3 i mean come on, older cars gives u mp3 and ipod options, where did acura went wrong. so anyway type s looks sharper and more luxury due to the leather seats and classic dash
while the si gives u the hunger for power and better choice for tuning since its performance parts has flooded the market
jg88 Posts: 59Looked at both, picked an '02 rsx/s and love it. However, I'd go for a low mileage '04 type s and avoid the '06. For some reasons, the '06 got really bad ratings in consumer reports while the years before did fine.
Instead of the civic, check out the mazda 3 2.3 touring with manual, these things are very nice all around.
ricer19 Posts: 1Lets say there both used with more than 80k miles...Which one do you think is better for a turbo kit, preferably turbonetics??
kitcloudkick3r Posts: 15Id go with Neither, and scoop up the 02-05 SI "Last of the" Hatchbacks. On paper both the RSX and the 06+ SI's are faster. But there was a few changes that effect this.. 1. The 02-05 SI's are lighter, at 2606 LBS compared to the 06+ which weighed in at 2945. 2. The RSX was measured using the old method, so while it looks like it has more power it does not.. it is pretty much the same.. they changed the method of measuring performance the same time they changed the MPG measurement. 3. TOP GEAR the UK edition tested all three of these cars together and the 02-05 SI walked all over both the 06+ SI and 02-06 RSX, stating that the 02-05 SI was not only more fun to drive, but it was better on gas, feels faster, handles better, brakes better, and the interior felt more expensive.. So honestly i would get the last of the hatches if i were going to buy one..
Lastly, and a side note, there are HSB (Honda Service Bulletin's) on crunches into 3rd gear on the 6-speed. (Im sure there are SI owners on here who can confirm this) There are also notices on issues with the VTEC controller failing on some cars.. I would stay clear of the 06-11. And the 12 since it is UGLY as sin! Just my 2cents.. Best of luck..