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Posted: Feb 12, 2011
ATLANTA, Ga. – The Tennessee Tech softball team came up just short in a pair of pitching duels Saturday, losing one-run games against Syracuse and Georgia State. The Golden Eagles began the day with a 2-1 loss to the Syracuse Orange, followed with a 3-2 loss to the host Georgia State Panthers.
Offense was at a premium in Tech's opening contest against Syracuse as both teams combined for just six hits and 10 walks.
Tech built an early threat in the first inning as it loaded the bases with nobody out. With one out and a 3-2 count, senior Kaleigh Gates coaxed a walk to put Tech up 1-0, but a fielder's choice and a groundout ended the Golden Eagle threat.
Sophomore pitcher Claudia Harke kept the Orange in check for the first two innings, but Syracuse scored a pair in the third behind three hits and a walk to take the lead 2-1.
Syracuse pitcher Jenna Ciara locked in as she survived a pair of Golden Eagle rallies in the sixth and seventh innings to take the game 2-1 as she only gave up three hits and six walks, while striking out five.
Harke was saddled with the loss as she surrendered two runs on three hits while striking out three in four innings of work. Junior Whitney Cummings came on for the final two innings as she held the Orange hitless while striking out one.
Senior Lacie Coquerille, Cummings and sophomore Chanelle Spalding each recorded a hit, as Gates drove in Tech's only run of the contest.
As with the Syracuse game, pitching dominated during TTU's second contest of the day against Georgia State, which the Bulldogs won in the bottom of the seventh.
With only one hit in the first three innings, Tech's bats came alive in the fourth as Cummings singled to center, setting the stage for senior Callie Schmidt to belt a two-run home run to center field to put the Golden Eagles up, 2-0.
Junior Holly Thomas cruised through the first four innings, giving up only one hit while striking out two, but in the fifth Emily Althafer stepped up with a runner on and drove a pitch over the center field fence to knot the score at two.
With the scored still tied at two in the bottom of the seventh, Georgia State's Audrey Mason opened with a single down the left field line and advanced to second on a fielders choice. Cummings then walked the next batter as Mason advanced to third on a wild pitch. Mason then scored the game-winning run as Tech attempted to throw out the runner stealing second.
Kaitlyn Medlam earned the win, pitching 1.2 innings and striking three, while Cummings took the loss giving up one run.
At the plate, Schmidt reach base three times including one walk and a pair of hits, including her two-run home run in the fourth, to pace the Golden Eagles.
Tennessee Tech's next five contests come via the North Texas Tournament. The three day tournament begins Friday as the Golden Eagles square off with Centenary at 10 a.m. and Nebraska at 12:30 p.m.

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A FORMER York MP who represented the city at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration has died, aged 83.
Charles Longbottom, who died on Tuesday, won York for the Conservatives in 1959 and held it in 1964, before losing to Labour's Alex Lyon in 1966.
He was York MP when the University of York was founded, having stated on his election that he was determined to help it come to fruition.
Mr Longbottom was born in 1930 and educated at Uppingham School in Rutland. He became a barrister and stood unsuccessfully in Stockton on Tees in the 1955 General Election before winning in York in 1959, defeating Labour's Dr Douglas Poirier to become an MP, aged 29.
The Yorkshire Evening Press of October 9, 1959, reported that Mr Longbottom had visited more than 12,000 houses in the 18 months before the election, often exhausting his older party workers.
Speaking after his election, he said: "One idea I think is splendid and which I shall do anything in my power to further, is that York should become a univeristy city."
In 1961, Mr Longbottom was one of four young European politicians invited by the Young Democrats of America to John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He carried a goodwill message from the Lord Mayor of York to the Mayor of New York and he delivered a tribute speech at the York Civic Ball upon hearing of Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
In 1961 he married Anita Trapani, stepdaughter of a Greek shipping magnate, and the couple lived in Bootham. In a letter published in this newspaper after he lost his seat, he praised the local council and civil servants and said it had been a "thrilling and warming experience" to serve the city.
He remained in York for a further year before leaving to pursue business interests, becoming chairman of Austin & Pickersgill shipbuilders in Sunderland and also later A&P Appledore International Ltd. He later moved into financial industries and founded two Christian charities and was made an OBE in 2012.
Keith Wood, who was active in York Young Conservatives in the 1960s, said Mr Longbottom was a young, energetic, charismatic politician who rejuvenated the young party and said he was "a very genuine, very nice guy".
Rev Nadim Nassar, director of the Awareness Foundation, which Mr Longbottom co-founded in 2003 to try to counter religious conflict and violence, said: "He was an extraordinary person. He had in his personality a mixture of enormous experience in world affairs and also being a father figure and a carer for communities and society."
Current York Central MP Hugh Bayley said: "It is a great privilege to be elected to Parliament and especially in the great city of York. The city has grown in influence in the past 50 years and Charles Longbottom played his part in that."
Mr Longbottom is survived by his widow and two daughters.


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One board, two GPUs.
AMD has launched its two-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphic card, as expected, with a host of suppliers offering boards based on the design.
AMD claimed it's the "world's fastest" graphics card.
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The two-slot, actively cooled card sports the usual TV-out port and a pair of DVI slots - Sapphire includes adaptors for VGA and HDMI.
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Since 1998 a wide range of publications and resource materials have been produced by the IANSA Network. Production has been possible with donations and grants and all publications are produced on a non-profit basis by a small staff, including interns and volunteers who have assisted with translations and at various other levels within the production process.
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Bulletin 24: Women at Work: Preventing Gun Violence
06 May 2011
This edition includes: IANSA women active at the UN: CSW and UN Women launch • Jordan: Small arms and gender • DRC: Disarm Domestic Violence • Special Focus: The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) • and information about events and resources.
Gender and Security Sector Reform: Examples from the Ground
04 May 2011
Concrete illustrations of ways in which a gender perspective has been integrated in different security sector institutions around the world. They range from measures to counter human trafficking in Kosovo, to women's organisations' involvement with security institutions in Nepal, to female parliamentarians' contribution to post-conflict reconstruction in Rwanda. These examples can help policymakers, trainers and educators better understand and demonstrate the linkages between gender and SSR.
Peacemaking in Asia and the Pacific: Women's participation, perspectives and priorities
20 April 2011
This collection of articles explores the reasons for women's under-representation in peace processes, in terms of both participation in peace processes and gender content in agreements. The publication puts forward the experiences of women from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Timor Leste, India, Solomon Islands and Nepal, highlighting the benefits and obstacles to their participation in such processes. It contains practical recommendations on how to make international norms a reality in peacemaking as well as how to strengthen women's participation in, and contribution to, peace processes and agreements.
Towards a Typology of Wartime Rape
10 November 2010
This publication focuses solely on wartime rape perpetrated by armed groups against civilians, though this form of violence is perpetrated more widely by, and against, different actors during war. The wider perpetration of rape against other actors is not presented in this brief, but is nevertheless included in the Typology. The paper presents the progress to date in developing a typology of wartime rape as a first step toward understanding the different consequences of this form of violence in war.
Mapping Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council
21 October 2010
IANSA, as a member of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security is pleased to announce the release of the report on the NGOWG Monthly Action Points (MAP) report, 'Mapping Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council.' The report includes an overview of the results of the first year of the MAP project, indicates where the Security Council has had success and where it still faces challenges in implementation of resolutions 1325, 1820, 1888, and 1889, and provides suggestions on how the Council can better fulfil its mandate by incorporating Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in its daily work.
Promoting Women's Participation in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies
20 October 2010
The work and experience of IANSA women is included in a new publication by Global Action in collaboration with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security (NGOWG). They include: Justine Kwachu Kumche (Women in Alternative Action), Bridget Osakwe (West Africa Network for Peacebuilding), EmaTagicakibau (PACFAW Pacific), Judy Waruhiu (The Kenya Red Cross Society), Juliet Were (Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange) and Jasmin Nario-Galace (Center for Peace Education, Miriam College).
Joined-Up Thinking: International Measures for Women's Security and SALW Control
01 October 2010
This paper explores the links that should have been made, and even now might be made, between two significant UN initiatives on 'security' - UN Security Council Resolution (SCR) 1325 concerned with women in relation to peace and security, and The UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA) which dealt with small arms and light weapons (SALW) as a threat to security. The paper asks, what can SALW control policy contribute to women's security; how can SCR 1325 be used in SALW control; and how can women contribute to eliminating the 'SALW problem'?
When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2008 Homicide Data
17 September 2010
In the USA, black females murdered by men are most often killed with a gun, almost always by someone they know according to the new Violence Policy Center (VPC) report. 'When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2008 Homicide Data' details national and state-by-state information from the USA on female homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender. Firearms - especially handguns - were the most common weapon used. "These findings alarmingly demonstrate how domestic violence can escalate to homicide. More resources need to be made available to protect women and prevent such tragedies" said Kristen Rand, VPC Legislative Director.
Implementing the Women, Peace and Security Resolutions in Security Sector Reform
15 September 2010
The focus of the Tool is national-level implementation of the standards set by the four UN Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security (1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889) in security sector institutions. Reflecting the text of the resolutions, the Tool focuses on reforms in the defence forces, police and the justice sector. Issues examined include: DDR, vetting, specialised services for victims of sexual violence, prosecution of violence against women in armed conflict, measures to increase women's leadership in police and defence organisations and to promote deployment of women in peacekeeping, peacekeepers' training, operational strategies to prevent sexual violence, and gender justice.
Our bodies are still trembling: Haitian women's fight against rape
16 August 2010
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, IANSA women reported an increase in violence against women and particularly sexual violence at gunpoint in temporary shelters and camps. Many women report being raped by two or more men, almost always armed and at night. MADRE, an international women's human rights organisation that works in partnership with community-based women's organisations worldwide, has released a report which says that rapes in the camps were dramatically under-reported, and that the Haitian government and international community "have not effectively deployed their resources to provide adequate protection".


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Kanye West versus the "Today" show, round three -- or is it four? -- is in the books. And the winner is? Hard to tell.
After feeling as if the show had set him up by playing clips on yesterday's program of his 2009 MTV awards Taylor Swift-boating during a conversation about more recent events, West announced via Twitter today that he will not be performing as scheduled on "Today" on Nov. 26.
"Yo, how am I supposed to talk if you're going to be running this thing in the middle while I'm talking?" West asked host Matt Lauer during the interview. He stopped mid-sentence on a discussion about George W. Bush's new memoir and a revelation in the book that West's claim that the former prez "doesn't care about black people," had severely stung Bush.
As is his want, West took to Twitter soon after the awkward exchange with Lauer to disclose his displeasure with the segment. Lauer replied that what "Today" had done was purely business as usual and in no way was meant to offend West.
Today West tweeted: "I'm not performing on the Today Show for obvious reasons. I'm so happy the world got to see just a small piece of "the set up"
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Legislature to look at a new level of protection for pets
October 03, 2011
Boston Metro, by Michael Naughton
Advocates seeking to reduce domestic violence incidents are looking to pets to help prevent women from being battered.
A bill that would in part extend the reach of restraining and protective orders to pets will be a subject of a state judiciary hearing Wednesday.
"Victims of domestic violence have had animals killed or maimed and used as a manipulative tool," said state Sen. Katherine Clark of Melrose. who introduced the bill this year.
Recent incidents in Roxbury and Plymouth highlight the need for the bill, which is meant to remove a barrier that may keep women in an abusive relationship, advocates said.
Abusing animals "is used as a mechanism for having control over a victim either by making threats to the pet or causing actual harm to the pet," said Maureen Gallagher, the policy director at the statewide domestic violence victims' advocacy group Jane Doe, Inc. "We also have concerns because victims may not leave a situation if they fear animals will be left behind or would be hurt."
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Apple seems to have trimmed the bill for making its latest iPad along with the width and weight of the tablet computer.
The iPad Air that sells in the US for 499 dollars (£310) costs Apple 274 dollars (£170) to make, based on an analysis by research firm IHS.
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What's the purpose? • When and where? • How to register? • What to expect? • Who sponsors PyCamp? • Who is your instructor? • What you need to bring? • What you need to do to prepare? • Where to stay? • Where to eat? • How to get around? • Who's also participating? • Where's the wiki? • Where are the t-shirts? • Where are the flyers? • Where are the tags? • Where are the photos?
Camp 5 is an advanced Zope 3 training designed to keep Zope and Plone product developers in step as we migrate to Zope 3. Moving to Zope 3 is a good thing for projects such as Plone, as Zope 3's component architecture is a much simpler and at the same time more powerful way of developing.
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2001 Kerr Hall is a state of the art high technology classroom. There are wired 100Mb Ethernet connections and grounded AC power outlets at every seat. A video projection screen monitors the presentation computer at the front of the room. The seating is conference style on terraced risers all facing the instructor. A wireless microphone tracks the instructor throughout the room.
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Where To Eat
Interactive Map of restaurants near the Camp 5 official hotel.
Interactive Map of restaurants near the Camp 5 classroom.
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Two shuttle vans with a combined capacity of 19 passengers will run between the Hampton Inn official hotel and the Camp 5/BBQ Sprint classroom once in the morning and once in the evening each day. Shuttle service is first come first serve and is courtesy of the UNC-CH Department of Marine Sciences especially for Camp 5 and the BBQ Sprint.
You are in luck. Chapel Hill has free bus service. It goes pretty much everywhere in town. It starts around 6am but only runs until about 8pm. After that, a cab will run about $7 between almost any two points in town.
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Parking Information
Unfortunately, free parking is virtually nonexistent in Chapel Hill and very nonexistent on the UNC campus. Fortunately, some of the least expensive on-campus visitor parking ($6 per day) is available about two blocks from the Camp 5 classroom in the Dogwood Deck across from the hospital. Parking payment can be made by cash or credit card at the lot attendant booth. Discount coupons for all-day parking can be purchased at the Cashier's Desk in the Main (Memorial) Hospital lobby between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Discount coupons come in books of five and cost $20 per book. Once you have parked, exit the deck and turn left onto Manning Drive. At the South Columbia Street intersection, turn right and walk down the hill. Kerr and Beard Hall will be on the left as you go down the hill.
There are two parking decks on the 100 block of East Rosemary Street, one block from the north edge of campus. The municipal deck and lot are on the south side of East Rosemary and are ridiculously expensive (around $20 per day). The Bank of America garage on the north side of East Rosemary is only $6 per day fixed price (the least expensive parking in Chapel Hill).
Who's Also Participating?
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Where's the Wiki?
Want to share a room? Organize an evening outing? You can do that either on the Camp 5 email list (automatic subscription with Camp 5 registration) or you can try out the Camp 5 Wiki courtesy of The Open Planning Project, organizers of the BBQ Sprint.
Where Are The T-Shirts?
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Written by David Postlethwaite
I'm sure there are many out there using System Centre Operations Manager (or SCOM for short) it's a great tool for monitoring the Windows estate.
One area where it is lacking is updating the subscribers list for a Notification Group – in other words changing the on call person for a department.
Ideally this should be done by each department but the only person who can do this a SCOM Administrator . You don't really want to be giving everyone full admin access to the SCOM console just for this purpose.
One way round this is to create a stand alone app or web site that updates the subscribers. It is possible to do this using the .NET Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement class.
In my case I created two tables one with a list of the Notification Groups that have been defined in SCOM and another with a list of staff and their cell phones. On the web site these are held in dropdownLists. You select the Notification Group, the staff member, click OK. and it updates SCOM. Simple.
The web page also interrogates SCOM to show who is currently on call.
In these examples there is only one subscriber for each Notification Group and we simply overwrite that subscriber. It wouldn't be too difficult to loop through a list of names.
Here's code to retrieve a subscriber from a Notification Group called DeptName.
public static string FindSCOM_Subscriber(string DeptName)
string SCOMServer = "ServerName";
string returnString = "";
// make connection to SCOM Server
ManagementGroup mg = new ManagementGroup(SCOMServer);
// connect to the Notification Group
Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration.NotificationRecipient connector = new
//retrieve the subscribers
Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration.NotificationRecipient name =
//return the Name and Address (i.e. the cell phone number)
returnString = name.Devices[0].Address.ToString() + "; " + name.Devices[0].Name.ToString();
catch (Exception objException)
// if no values are found then an error is reported so we'll just return a suitable text string
returnString = " No Value";
return returnString;
Here is code to update a notification group called DeptName with the subscriber called OnCallName and a phone number of PagerNo for
In this case it overwrites the only subscriber.
public static string UpdateSCOM_Subscriber(string DeptName, string PagerNo, string OnCallName)
string SCOMServer = "ServerName";
string returnString = "";
// make connection to SCOM Server
ManagementGroup mg = new ManagementGroup(SCOMServer);
// connect to the Notification Group
Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration.NotificationRecipient connector = new
//retrieve the the subscribers
Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration.NotificationRecipient name = connector.ManagementGroup.GetNotificationRecipient(DeptName);
//Get the current recipient pager no
string RecipientAddress = name.Devices[0].Address.ToString();
string RecipientName = name.Devices[0].Name.ToString();
name.Devices[0].Name = OnCallName;
name.Devices[0].Address = PagerNo;
returnString = DeptName + " successfully changed from " + RecipientName + " to " + OnCallName;
catch (Exception objException)
returnString = "An Error occurred: " + objException.Message.ToString();
return returnString;
In conclusion this code looks quit straight forward now but at the time it was quite hard work to work out how to use the class and get the syntax correct. There were few examples around for .NET and in the end I had to translate a powershell example.
I hope it helps someone else


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Game #42: Jays at Phils pregame
Earlier today, I ran the steps of the Museum of Art like Rocky and had my picture taken by his statue. Then I took some time out to actually wander through the museum to take in some culture, and was elated to find out Philly had Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting. I'm a big fan of Van Gogh's work and many of the impressionists and enjoyed seeing some classics this morning. After that, I hoofed it from the Museum, down the Ben Frankling Parkway and all the way down to the Liberty Bell. It was a beautiful day until I got to the ballpark, where the field was covered with a tarp until about 45 minutes before game time. Hopefully we avoid the rain and get this game in tonight. I'll probably post some pictures on here later from my journey around town. For now, here's today's pregame blog:
Toronto (18-23) at Philadelphia (21-21)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Citizens Bank Park
Today's lineups:
Alex Rios, RF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Matt Stairs, LF
Jason Phillips, C
John McDonald, SS
Shaun Marcum, P
Aaron Rowand, CF
Shane Victorino, RF
Jimmy Rollins, SS
Chase Utley, 2B
Pat Burrell, LF
Greg Dobbs, 1B
Abraham Nunez, 3B
Carlos Ruis, C
Jamie Moyer, P
NOTES: Toronto pitching coach Brad Arnsberg said that the Jays shut LHP Gustavo Chacin down on Wednesday and he'll stay away from throwing for 10-14 days from that point. Chacin (out since April 30) has still experienced pain in his shoulder while playing catch. … Arnsberg said he detected a problem with RHP Dustin McGowan's release point during the young pitcher's erratic fifth inning on Friday night. … RHP Roy Halladay threw for a third straight day on Saturday and Arnsberg said he could possibly get back on a mound within the next week. … CF Vernon Wells, slowed earlier this month by a virus, hasn't homered since April 24 or collected an RBI since April 28. He said the sickness drained his strength, caused him to lose about eight pounds and has been a reason he's been struggling at the plate.
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Is it my imagination, or does Marcum bear a resemblance to Dave Stieb? They both work quickly. They both have late break to the ball. They also seems to have remarkable composure. Here's hoping Marcum grows into a long term fixture of our rotation.
Also, Rogers Sportsnet needs to have a talk with the guy running the radar gun. The only way Jaime Moyer hits 100 MPH (as the telecast said at least twice that I saw), is if he's allowed to use some form of robotic assistant to throw it for him. Or perhaps it was reading the speed of the two homeruns on the way out of the park. Hmmm.
It is quite common for the Rogers snet telecast to mention a round 100 MPH for the pitch speed and occasionally also for the catcher's return
We are finally starting to see the results of the Jay's recent draft picks and development program coming home to roost. I have heard Rios's name mentioned in the same breath as Dave Winfield, and now Marcum with Stieb.
It think next year, we could see a rotation that looks like Halliday, Burnett, Marcum, Jansen, and Chacin, with McGowan waiting in the wings. With these guys firing on all cylinders, we could see some months with an ERA for the rotation under 2.


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Experts claim evacuation plan inadequate
Editor's note: This is the ninth and final in a series of stories dealing with emergency preparedness in the 10-mile evacuation zone around Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.
BRATTLEBORO -- If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was to expand the emergency preparedness zone around America's nuclear power plants from 10 to 50 miles, all of those plants would be forced to close down.
That's according to Dr. Ira Helfand, a board member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Vice President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
As the accident at Fukushima unfolded, the NRC recommended that Americans within a 50-mile radius of the power plant complex evacuate. "Which means we need a 50-mile evacuation plan," said Helfand, who was longtime chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., and now works at the Family Care Medical Center in Springfield, Mass.
But that's not going to happen, he said, because it's impossible to conduct a wide-ranging evacuation at plants such as Indian Point, in the Hudson Valley, and Diablo Canyon, in California, which are both within 50 miles of heavily populated metropolitan areas. In all, nearly 103 million Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.
"If you had to create a 50-mile evacuation zone," said Helfand, "the only answer would be to shut down the power plants."
Ed Lyman, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, agrees with Helfand.
"Indian Point is the poster child for not doing enough," said Lyman. It's 44 miles from Indian Point, in Buchannan, N.Y., to Central Park, in New York City.
"We are talking about people that are well outside of the 10-mile evacuation zone," said Lyman, and people who live outside of the EPZ "are not party to any of the requirements of planning. All they hear is a radioactive plume is heading their way.
Even though Windham County, which is home to Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, doesn't have the population density of the area around Indian Point, those who live outside of the evacuation zone are also uninformed about the Radiological Emergency Response Plan (RERP) and what to do if there was an accident at the power plant in Vernon.
"The tunnel vision about how bad an accident can be and how extensive emergency planning measures need to be is a major issue," said Lyman. "If the accident is worse than planners have prepared for or anticipated, how do you make changes ad hoc and still have an effective evacuation?"
Larry Crist, the regional executive for the Vermont & New Hampshire Red Cross, which is tasked with finding shelter for up to 6,000 Vermonters in the 10-mile EPZ around Yankee, has also raised concerns about how prepared the region is in case of a serious accident at the plant.
"If you look at a real-world perspective and the lessons we learned from Fukushima and Irene, there is no such thing as an orderly evacuation," said Crist.
What could make matters worse for people living within the 10-mile EPZ, said Lyman, is what is called "a shadow evacuation."
"People who live outside of the evacuation zone might spontaneously evacuate and that could interfere with the ability of people closer to the plant to evacuate," he said. "A shadow evacuation has to be analyzed and predicted for specific regions. Without any kind of coordinated or coherent planning, you are asking for trouble."
"In a populated area such as that around Indian Point there would be gridlock," said Helfand.
To overcome that deficiency would require an intensive campaign of education, he said. But if one was to be conducted, people would realize "It's clearly nuts to keep this plant open."
The NRC assumes in the case of an imminent release of radiological materials from a power plant, emergency responders would take a "keyhole approach."
"People think a release of radiation can travel in a 360-degree radius," said Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the NRC. "It's not possible based on the law of physics. The plume of radioactive materials will follow prevailing winds."
The area affected by that plume is called the keyhole, he said. "That's where emergency responders would focus their protective actions, whether that's an evacuation, a shelter in place or the use of potassium iodide."
But Lyman said one of the big issues at Fukushima was the inability of officials to get real-time data and communicate it to those who might have been in the path of the plume.
The same could happen in the United States, he said, and the NRC's "keyhole approach" is inadequate.
"They don't have the data, the ability or the level of communications to make technically based decisions on the fly," said Lyman.
The keyhole approach is based on the assumption that responders will be able to quickly determine where the plume is traveling, said Crist.
"This is an assertion that has been proven incorrect in every significant nuclear power accident to date," he said. "Delays in deployment of field teams, confusion, miscommunication, public panic and distrust of authorities is normally the order of the day."
In addition, said Crist, a keyhole may grow, shrink and move around based on changing weather patterns over the course of an event that may last minutes, hours or days.
"This is an inherent flaw in RERP planning both in Vermont and nationally," he said.
While the possibility of an accident similar to that at Fukushima is remote, Lyman said the NRC has spent the last year-and-a-half assessing the accident and attempting to determine how it might relate to power plants in the United States.
"The NRC has come up with additional regulations and other requirements plant operators have to satisfy. They were caught with their pants down."
Now, said Lyman, there is "an ongoing struggle" to determine how far to go with additional safety measures and evacuation plans.
"There is a whole range of catastrophic events that plant operators have not adequately dealt with, both in preparation and design," he said.
Even though it is true a tsunami such as that which struck Fukushima could not happen at Vermont Yankee, there are a whole host of other things that could happen to the plant that could affect its safety, he said, including a cyber attack, a blackout such as that in 2003, an earthquake or a terrorist attack.
In the tri-state region around Yankee, said Helfand, all three of the reception centers that would be used to evaluate those fleeing the EPZ -- Bellows Falls Union High School in Westminster, Keene, N.H., High School and Greenfield, Mass., Community College, are less than 30 miles from Yankee.
"It is totally inadequate to evacuate people to any of those three," he said.
Emergency responders also have to consider the dangers of ordering people to leave their homes, said Helfand.
"Most of the fatalities would occur when are moving people, but you have no choice," he said. "With the risks involved with evacuations, if you're going to do it, you should get them far enough away that they are safe."
In addition, said Helfand, when we think about evacuations, we think short term.
"In the case of a nuclear accident, people are not being evacuated, but permanently removed from their homes. Even if individual lives are saved, homes, businesses, farms, schools the whole community is going to be destroyed."
In Helfand's opinion, evacuation plans are "little more than a sop to reassure people that they are safe when they really are not."
Those who live near the plant "should absolutely be worried" about the effectiveness of the evacuation plant, said Helfand.
"There is just enough disaster planning to feel safe," he said. "But the reaction you're going to get is panic."
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Kathleen spent time touring the marine and automotive school facilities to learn about these programs and how Cummins could partner as a future employer for our grads.
Additionally, Kathleen took some time to speak with a group of Marine Tech students about Cummins. Gerard Tonno, Director of Transportation Technologies, along with some instructors, highlighted and showcased the various equipment and hands on skills that students master during the course of their studies.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak, who played on-and-off lovers Kelly and Ryan for eight seasons on "The Office," are to return for the U.S. sitcom's finale.
The show is wrapping up its nine-season run on NBC this spring.
Showrunner Greg Daniels told TVGuide.com Kaling and Novak, who were also writers and producers on the show, should reprise their roles in the upcoming, one-hour series finale.
The actors are now working together on the Fox comedy, "The Mindy Project."


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Border Patrol killings of migrants raise questions on training, accountability
On a chilly January night near the Mexican border, a Border Patrol agent peeled away from colleagues and chased Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez through desert scrub. Two shots rang out.
When the agent returned, he said that Sanchez, a sinewy 5-foot-9 car mechanic who spoke English well after spending 15 years in the United States, had leapt from under a mesquite bush and lunged to seize the agent's service firearm, forcing him to shoot. No one else has come forward to contradict his story.
Sanchez's death was the 20th fatal shooting of a civilian by a U.S. Border Patrol agent since 2010 as the agency expanded rapidly. Last week, another shooting took place, bringing the total to 21.
The killings expose what lawyers and civil rights advocates assert are far-reaching problems in the nation's largest federal law enforcement agency.
Those problems, critics charge, include a resistance to adopting safeguards on the use of lethal force, watered-down training standards amid rapid expansion and a mentality that anything goes in the battle to secure America's borders.
Of the 21 dead, 16 were Mexican or Guatemalan. Most of the victims were unarmed, and some were on Mexican soil. One was a 16-year-old who was shot multiple times in the back as he stood on the Mexican side of the border fence. None of the shooters is known to have been disciplined, and the circumstances of most of the cases have not been aired in public. Sanchez's wife and children – all American citizens – are still trying to learn the name of the man who shot him.
The spate of homicides raises an uncomfortable question, the critics say: Do Border Patrol agents have a green light to fire on and kill Mexican and Central American migrants?
Guarding the U.S. border is an issue of national security, and Border Patrol advocates argue that the agency's mission can be dangerous, though the number of armed confrontations appears minimal. One agent died in a shootout on Dec. 14, 2010, with bandits in Arizona's Peck Canyon. Another notorious case happened Oct. 2, 2012, when an agent was shot and killed not far from the canyon. That incident, however, turned out to be "friendly fire," when two agents responded to a tripped motion-detection sensor.
"You're working in remote areas that are intimidating and desolate. You're often many miles from backup. You're dealing with groups that outnumber you and that you must handle alone," said Shawn Moran, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, a union for agents.
"To claim that the Border Patrol has an itchy trigger finger, we dismiss that. It's a very restrained force," Moran said.
Border Patrol public affairs officer Douglas Mosier said he couldn't comment on the agency's policies and referred a reporter to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, where a spokesman, Peter Boogaard, declined to comment.
The Mexican government calls the use of lethal force against its migrants disproportionate and is demanding more thorough inquiries.
If anyone other than a lone Border Patrol agent saw what happened to Sanchez shortly after 8:30 p.m. on the cold night of Jan. 16 not far from Arizona's southeastern border with New Mexico, they're not talking.
A deeper look into the Sanchez case reveals discrepancies among various federal, state and county agencies over what occurred.
It also reveals something else: The death of the 31-year-old Sanchez left a wake of grieving kin who are American citizens. Sanchez had spent half his life in the United States. Among his immediate family are an 11-year-old son with cerebral palsy, who lives with his mother in California, and an 8-year-old son who lives with Sanchez's widow in Phoenix. All hold U.S. citizenship.
The widow, Nataly Molina Tebaqui, says she'll file a federal lawsuit once her attorney can identify the Border Patrol agent who shot her husband in the head and chest. The federal government has refused to release his name.
"I want him to go to jail. I want him to feel my pain. I want his wife and his sons to feel the pain," said Molina, a 30-year-old accountant. "Why couldn't he have shot him in the leg or the arm?"
In statements immediately after the death, Customs and Border Protection, a federal agency under the Department of Homeland Security, and the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, which was called in to probe the killing, stated as fact that Sanchez had struggled for the agent's gun and was killed as a result.
A 12-page autopsy report by the Medical Examiner's Office in Pima County, however, offers a different picture. The report, dated Feb. 5, notes that Sanchez was shot in the upper part of his right temple and in his chest.
"Manner of death: homicide," it says.
The trajectory of the bullet wound to the head, it adds, is downward and the bullet appears lodged in the neck. The pathway of the wound to the chest is also downward, indicating that Sanchez was below the agent's firing hand, squatting or perhaps on the ground.
On the night of his death, Sanchez was dressed for warmth and to conceal himself in the dark, perhaps looking more menacing than his 161-pound frame might justify.
In addition to two pairs of dark pants and a dark jacket, Sanchez wore black gloves, a face mask and what the autopsy report called a black beanie. He carried a small pocketknife. Lab tests performed by the coroner showed he had no drugs or alcohol in his system.
Sanchez felt more at home north of the border.
When he came to the United States in the late 1990s, he followed a path well traveled by his extended clan in the dusty town of Mapastepec in Chiapas, widely considered Mexico's poorest state, which abuts Guatemala. His mother toiled as a hotel maid in Annapolis, Md., and his aunt's family lives in Jupiter, Fla.
Sanchez moved to Florida for a year or so, then went on to Arizona, where he bought cars and repaired them for resale.
He met his first partner in a coin laundry.
"Gabriel was my first love, and I was his first love," said Misty Hale.
While the relationship didn't last long, Hale said Sanchez always provided money for the care of their son, who uses a wheelchair and requires around-the-clock attention. Sanchez regularly traveled to Southern California to visit the boy.
"He wasn't a deadbeat dad," she said.
Sanchez, who never obtained residency, was deported in 2008 but returned over the border within days, Molina said. Then on April 8 of last year, U.S. marshals came knocking at the door. Molina said someone had placed a call to alert them to Sanchez. He was charged with illegal re-entry. After four months' detention, Sanchez was deported again. He settled in Agua Prieta, a Mexican border town about a four-hour drive from Phoenix.
Molina said she suspected that Sanchez had planned to surprise her by showing up for her birthday on Jan. 20. A phone call from the Mexican consulate in Tucson summoned her instead to identify his body through photos.
The Mexican Foreign Secretariat says it's "profoundly concerned" about the killings of Mexican migrants by Border Patrol agents.
"The use of lethal force in border control operations is unacceptable," it said after the latest killing of a Mexican, Jesus Flores Cruz, on Feb. 18 near the Otay Mesa border crossing east of San Diego. It demanded that Border Patrol agents alter their use-of-force policies "as soon as possible" to conform to recommendations by the agency's own Office of the Inspector General and by the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit organization in Washington that's been advising law enforcement agencies for more than three decades.
After the DHS refused for years to say when Border Patrol agents are empowered to use lethal force, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Feb. 7 that his department would release the use-of-force policy soon.
"They treat them like they are nuclear launch codes," said James Duff Lyall, a staff attorney in the Tucson office of the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit group that advocates for migrant rights
At least eight of the 21 agent-related deaths involved Mexicans who allegedly were throwing rocks at agents, often across the border fence. In three of the cases, the victims were minors. Agents shot one of those youths, Jose Antonio Elena, who was 16, multiple times in the back through the fence in Nogales. The Border Patrol declined to release video of the incident taken from an overhead camera.
Supporters of the agency say drug traffickers sometimes deploy rock throwers to divert agents from focusing on smuggling routes.
They also dispute that lethal Border Patrol encounters happen with unusual frequency, given the challenges and dangers of the job. Moran, the Border Patrol union leader, compared the agency with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which he said had numbers of deputies and officers similar to the Border Patrol in recent years.
"In 2012 alone, they shot and killed 48 suspects," Moran said.
Still, relatives of some victims say their deaths were unjustified. One man, Guillermo Arevalo Pedroza, was at a barbecue to celebrate a family birthday on the southern bank of the Rio Grande in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Sept. 3, 2012. Border Patrol agents said they were responding to rock throwing.
"In no case is there any agent publicly known to have faced any discipline or consequences whatsoever," Lyall said. "If you look at many of these incidents . . . the evidence shows that there was no justification for the fatal use of force."
The ACLU has called on Customs and Border Protection, the umbrella agency under Homeland Security, to equip its officers with body-worn cameras, saying evidence shows that the use of such recording gear cuts the use of lethal force but also protects agents from false accusations of misconduct.
Amid concerns about migration and border safety, the Border Patrol ballooned from about 11,000 agents in 2006 to some 21,300 today. Roughly 85 percent of the agents are along the Southwestern U.S. border.
In parts of the sprawling Southwest, federal agents vastly outnumber local and state law enforcement officers. The Cochise County Sheriff's Office, which patrols the southeast corner of Arizona, has 86 deputies to cover an area nearly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, said spokeswoman Carol Capas. In contrast, the Border Patrol maintains roughly 1,000 agents moving through her county, she added.
The migrant-smuggling industry in Mexico has largely fallen into the hands of organized crime, and Capas said local law enforcement was grateful for the support.
"There's more of an aggressive criminal element," said Capas, referring to smugglers of undocumented migrants and illegal narcotics. "They are more willing to fight for their loads, rather than dump them and run."
Daniel R. Ortega, a Phoenix attorney who's helping Sanchez's widow in her claim for redress from the federal government, said county and state attorneys were loath to prosecute cases against Border Patrol agents fingered in killings.
"One, they only have the version of the facts that the Border Patrol agents give, and two, these are highly political and emotional cases because the community is in such an uproar right now over undocumented immigration," Ortega said. "There are biases in convicting law enforcement officers for having shot someone."
Relatives of victims are often on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, and some fail to have immigration papers themselves, Ortega said, leaving them with little power to pursue lawsuits.
Ortega said that when Border Patrol agents killed migrants, they commonly alleged either that the migrants were throwing rocks or were trying to steal the agents' weapons.
"All of these aliens are not armed. So the only way a Border Patrol agent can justify shooting someone is that he was in imminent fear of death or injury and he had to take action," Ortega said. Afterward, few can refute the version. "The alien is dead. He can't tell you what happened."
When other Border Patrol agents or migrants are near the scene of a killing, authorities decline to identify them so that they might corroborate or deny the agent's account. Two migrants were with Sanchez and detained on the night of his death when he bolted away through scrub. One, a minor, reportedly was guiding the other two. What they saw is unknown. Both appear to be in U.S. detention centers.
"I can confirm to you that there were witnesses but I can't give you their identities," said Reyna Torres Mendivil, the top Mexican Foreign Secretariat official in charge of protecting Mexicans abroad.
Meanwhile, Sanchez's relatives simmer.
"What we all believe is that (the Border Patrol agent) fired at him because he wanted to shoot him," said Madai Velazquez Espinoza, Sanchez's aunt who lives in Florida. "That uniform doesn't give you a right to kill people."
Her son, Manuel Coutino, said the trajectories of the bullets told the story.
"How could there have been a struggle? He was on the ground," he said.
The Mexican government helped Sanchez's family return his corpse to his hometown in Chiapas state, where he was buried Feb. 8. Some 300 to 400 people turned out for the funeral. His widow posted a memorial video to him on her Facebook page, showing them during happier times.
She also voiced rage.
"Help me make the whole world understand that the United States gives uniforms to murderers," Molina posted.


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Descent into madness
Donald Crowhurst perpetuated one of the greatest frauds in sports history in a race to be the first person to circumnavigate nonstop, until it all caught up with him. Now the story is making it to the big screen in The Mercy.
It soon became clear his estimates for the boat's speed had been wildly optimistic: He had estimated an average of 220 miles per day, whereas the reality was about half that, on a good day. There was no way he was going to catch up with the other competitors or win either of the prizes, unless something extraordinary happened.
And so, just five weeks after setting off from Teignmouth, Crowhurst started one of the most audacious frauds in sailing history: He started falsifying his position. Beginning December 5, he created a fake log book, with accurately plotted sun sights, working back from imaginary positions. To make it look convincing, he listened to forecasts for the relevant areas and wrote a fictional commentary as if he was experiencing those conditions. It was quite a feat of seamanship, and only someone of Crowhurst's brilliance could have carried it off convincingly.
After a few days' practice, he felt sufficiently confident to send his first "fake" press release on December 10 claiming he had sailed 243 miles in 24 hours, a new world record for a singlehanded sailor. In fact, he had actually sailed 160 miles, a personal best perhaps, but certainly no world record. And so the great deception began. As Crowhurst slowly worked his way down the Atlantic, his imaginary avatar was already rounding the Cape of Good Hope and heading into the Indian Ocean. Gradually, partly through misunderstandings and partly due to the spin added by his agent back in the UK, Crowhurst's positions became ever more exaggerated, until it looked like he might win the race after all.
Meanwhile, the real Crowhurst was pottering around the Atlantic, "hiding" in exactly the same area he had, only a few weeks earlier, jokingly suggested a sailor might hide to falsify a round-the-world voyage. To make sure his radio signals weren't picked up by the wrong land stations, he maintained radio silence for nearly three months, from the middle of January until the beginning of April, which he blamed on his generator breaking down again. Unbelievably, he even put ashore in a remote bay near Buenos Aires in Argentina to buy materials to repair one of the hulls which had started to fall apart. Despite being greeted and logged by local officials, this rule-breaking stop remained undetected. On March 29, he reached his most southerly point, hovering a few miles off the Falklands, 8,000 miles from home, before starting his ascent up the Atlantic.
Finally, on April 9, he broke radio silence and exploded back into the race with a telegram containing the infamous line: "HEADING DIGGER RAMREZ," suggesting he was approaching Diego Ramirez, a small island southwest of Cape Horn when in reality, he was just off Buenos Aires. By this time, Moitessier had had his "moment of madness" and had dropped out of the race and sailing to Tahiti "to save his soul." The only other competitors left were Knox-Johnston, who was plodding slowly up the Atlantic and on track to be the first one home, and Tetley, racing in his wake to pick up the prize for the fastest voyage. It seems likely that Crowhurst was planning to finish a close second to Tetley, which would save him from financial ruin without drawing too much attention to his fraudulent log books.
But his reappearance in the race had a dramatic effect on the course of events. Already nursing a broken boat up the homeward leg of the Atlantic, Tetley worried he might lose the speed record to the resurgent Crowhurst, and started pushing his trimaran faster towards the finish line. Some 1,100 miles from home, the inevitable happened and Tetley's boat broke up and sank, and he had to be rescued by a passing ship.


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Hey everyone,
Ogopogo this year will be August 5-7. Time to book your calendars and those days off from work if you can!
The Run of the Ogopogo meet is held annually in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.
I noticed that the Sun Valley Cruise In folks sent out a registration email. Don't register yet. There was some suggestion of doing some different stuff on the Sunday this year, but we'll see what is decided. For now, hold off on registration if you can - still lots of time to get the early discount if need be.
I think the detailed planning and everything will come after the Dragon meet (May 21-22), but I wanted to get our official thread in now.
Post up if you're going to make it. I think we will definitely have a good turnout this year as always! Can't wait to see everyone again.
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A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Wednesday, March 20, 1912: I lost myself in reading a book, and as a result went to bed at a quarter of three this morning. I was awfully sleepy when I woke up.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Wow, Grandma must have been reading an awesome book if she stayed up until almost three a.m. And, it was even a school night!!
What could the book have been? A mystery? . A romance?
I bet that she wasn't reading The Financier by Theodore Dreiser.
A couple months ago I wrote a post about books published in 1912 that are still in print—and The Financier was one of them.
In this era of Bernie Madoff and Occupy Wall Street, I wanted to see if a hundred-year-old novel about a crooked financier would still seem relevant.
The book told the story of a man in Philadelphia who misused municipal money to become very, very rich.
Due to unexpected circumstances, the whole scheme unraveled and he went to jail.
I found the details of his financial scheming confusing and boring—but I did get insights into the psychology of someone who might commit financial fraud.
The book also explored social norms, and seemed very supportive of extra-marital affairs and divorce in a era when divorce was very rare—though the characters had to pay a price for finding happiness.
After the financier got out of jail—he did what he was born to do. He moved to Chicago and again became rich as he helped to develop the Commodity Exchange.
Bottom line: The book wasn't optimistic that human nature will change—and suggested that some people just are born to know how to make money, even if it hurts others.


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This also prevents an existing clot from getting larger.
Warfarin is used to lower the
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Warfarin can reduce the risk of stroke in anyone who has
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Bleeding: Call 911 or other emergency services right away if:
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See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug
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Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Do not take warfarin if you are pregnant. Warfarin can cause miscarriage or birth defects. If you are taking warfarin, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
If you think you might be pregnant: Call your doctor. If you are pregnant, you will take heparin during your pregnancy.
If you plan on getting pregnant: Talk with your doctor. You and your doctor will decide which medicine you will take—warfarin or heparin—while trying to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
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Matthew West turning tables on fans
For years Matthew West penned songs about his experiences, but with his new project, "The Story of Your Life," he decided it was time to turn the tables and the microphone. West wanted to give his fans a voice and a chance to tell their stories.
What happened next was a bit surprising to the singer/songwriter. With little fanfare West posted a note on his website asking fans to send in their stories, expecting a few 100 or so. Well, he didn't receive a hundred stories. He received thousands and thousands of letters from people in all 50 states and 20 countries. Stories that people wanted to share to help other or just to get it off their chests.
"I was floored by the response," said West, who will be playing Thursday, Feb. 24 at Mission Hills Church in Littleton. "Here I was reading story upon story of people's real life. It was better than TV because this was real. It was great inspiration."
West spent two months in a Tennessee cabin reading through reams of letters. And while ingesting all of these tales of triumph, brokenness and woe, West discovered something about himself. He became more aware of a void in his life that needed to be filled with love – love for another.
"The biggest thing is that it changed the way I live my life," West said. "Our world is 'me centered.' It's about self-discovery, taking care of No. 1 … and it's no different for me than anyone else. How can I improve my life? How can I make more money for me and my family?


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... catastrophic results can occur. This is a great paper submitted by a MathRight member, describing how a failure to instill mathematical rigor in school and college students can have expensive and potentially life threatening consequences.
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Welcome to the website of MathRight, an informal coalition of concerned parents, educators and members of the public. Our goal is to improve mathematics education in Ontario's schools.
The Issue
Throughout Canada, concern has been growing for some time about the quality of mathematics education in schools. Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that students are not achieving their full potential in mathematics. Recent changes in the curriculum have de-emphasized algorithms, factual learning and structured approaches in favour of a "discovery" approach.
We feel that a balanced approach in which children are given a reliable toolset of facts, algorithms and processes together with an understanding of why and how they work is best. Emphasizing one at the expense of the other can only diminish the quality of math education, and does not serve all students well.
MathRight is a non-partisan, non-political coalition of people from many walks of life and from all parts of Ontario. Please join us:
- Follow some of the links below to learn more about the issues
- Share your experiences and those of your children
- Join us and help us build a movement so that we can influence policy makers and work with teachers and school boards to give our children the best possible math education.
Contact the administrator, clive.packer (at) gmail.com if you wish more information or to join us.
MathRight has been largely inspired by and owes a debt of gratitude to the work of WISEMath.org. Please visit their site which contains a wealth of material.
The College Math Project studies the math skills of college entrants and the potential societal and economic impacts of declining achievement in math.
Macleans magazine published an excellent article on the state of math education here. Parentcentral.ca covered the issue here.
The Ontario Math Curriculum can be downloaded here in .pdf format.
Join Us
If you'd like to join the effort to improve math education in Ontario, and you're in sympathy with the concerns and objectives described here, please leave us a comment with your contact details.
You can comment on any recent post.
We'll keep you informed of events and happenings. If you have something to contribute and want to become involved, please let us know. The greater our numbers, the more we can influence things.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Why your kids can't add without a calculator | National Post
An excellent article from the National Post yesterday. H/t WISEMath.org.
Why your kids can't add without a calculator | Full Comment | National Post
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A muscle car, just not as popular as many others. Is it a British or American model?
The American Motors Corporation produced the subcompact-class Gremlin between 1970 and 1978. A number of models were produced, but it was the Gremlin powered by either a 5.0-liter or 6.6-liter V8 that's considered to be a muscle car.