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The Trayvon Martin case has claimed a new martyr. The first one was Martin, the Florida teenager gunned down on Feb. 26 by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. Now there's Michigan teacher Brooke Harris, who was fired last month, allegedly for helping her 8th-grade students organize a fundraiser for Martin's family.
Ms. Harris quickly became a cause célèbre on the Internet, where more than 200,000 people have signed a petition calling for her reinstatement. As the petition correctly noted, dismissals of this type "create an atmosphere of fear" in American schools. "We will not tolerate the silencing of our nation's best teachers," the petition declared.
But we do tolerate it, and increasingly so. Harris's firing comes at a historic low point for teacher freedom in the United States. And most of us have stood idly by, because we don't really believe that teachers should have freedom. Instead, we want them to echo our own views.
Consider the case of Jillian Caruso, who was fired from her Massapequa Park, N.Y., elementary school after her principal objected to a picture of George W. Bush that she displayed in her classroom during Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. A member of the Republican National Committee, Ms. Caruso alleged that the principal – who was married to a Democratic state assemblyman – violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and association.
Caruso's dismissal generated a few columns and blog posts from outraged Republicans. But from Democrats? Not a peep. Nor did I hear much protest – from any side of the aisle – when a federal jury ruled against Caruso in 2007.
In instructing the jury, the presiding judge emphasized that Caruso had freedom of speech in her capacity as a citizen, but not as a teacher. So she was free to support President Bush on her own time – and on her own dime – but not while she was in school.
Here the judge invoked the Supreme Court's 2006 decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which said that public employees have no First Amendment rights when they are speaking as part of their "official duties." The state hires employees to deliver a certain message, the court said, so it can also penalize those who deviate from it.
Since then, federal courts have used Garcetti to uphold the removal of an Indiana teacher who told her students she opposed the war in Iraq, and of an Ohio teacher who asked her class to report on examples from the American Library Association's 100 "most frequently challenged" books. "The right to free speech...does not extend to the in-class curricular speech of teachers in primary and secondary schools," the Ohio ruling flatly declared.
That's a huge problem for anyone who cares about American democracy. Teachers do not simply work "for" the government; they're supposed to help students learn how to function within it. So they also need to model the skills and habits that democracy demands, especially the ability to analyze and evaluate different points of view.
And they can't do that if we prevent them from taking political positions themselves, as the famed civil libertarian Alexander Meiklejohn argued in 1938. "No one can teach an art which he is forbidden to practice," Meiklejohn explained. "Slaves cannot teach freedom."
But propagandists cannot teach it either, Meiklejohn warned. So while teachers had the right to express their own views, he argued, they also had the duty not to impose these beliefs in the classroom; their job was to teach how to think, not what to think.
"The teacher-advocate wants thinking done as the only proper way of arriving at conclusions," Meiklejohn wrote. "The propagandist wants believing done, no matter what the road by which the belief is reached."
So the real question isn't whether a teacher should be able to articulate political beliefs in class, but why. If Jillian Caruso was simply trying to sway her students in favor of George W. Bush, her principal was right to intervene. But if she was attempting to teach them about Mr. Bush – and to form their own opinion of him – than she had every right to share hers.
And that brings us back to Brooke Harris, who says that her students' fundraising idea – to wear "hoodies" to school, in honor of Trayvon Martin's garb on the day he died – came out of an editorial-writing assignment about the tragedy. As the students discussed it, it would be helpful to know whether Harris challenged their views. Or did she simply lead them to adopt hers?
Many students in the class were African-American, like Harris, and some of them reportedly had been stopped by police who thought they looked "suspicious" – the same term that George Zimmerman used to describe Trayvon Martin. All the more reason for their teacher to raise tough questions. When is it OK for police to suspect someone, and when is it not?
I would also hope that any such discussion would analyze Florida's "stand your ground" law, and whether Zimmerman was acting within its bounds. And in America, remember, you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. Shouldn't Harris have also presented Zimmerman's side of the story, so that students could arrive at their own conclusions?
I don't know whether that happened. Indeed, any sentiment on behalf of Zimmerman might have provoked outrage from the same people who are now rallying to Harris's side. And in the current environment, the outcome would likely be the same: She'd be fired.
So by all means, let's make sure Brooke Harris gets to return to her classroom. But let's resolve to support the free-speech rights of all of our teachers, not just the ones we agree with.
Let's also insist that they entertain every point of view, especially those they don't share. If we muzzle our teachers, they really can't teach democracy. And if they simply teach their own beliefs, our students won't learn it.
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory" (Yale University Press).


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How to Simulate a Holographic Page Data Storage System
Yosuke Mizuyama April 14, 2016
We've learned how to simulate a simple bit-by-bit holographic data storage model in COMSOL Multiphysics by choosing an appropriate beam size and implementing the recording and retrieval process. Today, we step forward and demonstrate how to simulate a more difficult and complex, yet more realistic and interesting model of a holographic page data storage system.Ler Mais
Ed Fontes April 13, 2016
The Newman model and its variants form the standard theory used to successfully predict the behavior of lithium-ion battery design under a range of operating conditions. In the Newman model, the geometry of the porous structure of the battery electrodes is not described in detail; instead, typical averaged dimensions are used as input to describe the electrodes as homogeneous and isotropic materials. But how accurate is this approach compared to a detailed, heterogeneous geometric model? Let's find out.Ler Mais
Brianne Costa April 12, 2016
We can solve many of the world's energy sustainability problems by harnessing the power of the Sun through fusion energy. Tokamaks are devices that test the practicality of employing fusion energy on Earth. ITER, which will be the largest tokamak on Earth when complete, has required years of research and a magnitude of resources. Using COMSOL Multiphysics, a group of researchers investigated whether the tritium breeding modules (TBMs) in ITER produce magnetic perturbation that could generate unacceptable plasma losses.Ler Mais
Peng-Chhay Ung April 11, 2016
Radiators, refrigerators, and geothermal pumps all need to efficiently extract heat from one fluid to another without mixing them. Among all of the different heat exchanger designs, finned pipes aim to increase the exchange surface between the content of a pipe and the exterior using fins. Finned pipes usually show a geometrical periodicity along the length, which we will take advantage of in this demo app to reduce computational costs.Ler Mais
Caty Fairclough April 7, 2016
When it comes to creating the next generation of flat panel displays and solid-state area lighting, organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, may be used to help. While recognized for its various advantages, this emerging technology suffers from some weaknesses that reduce its overall efficiency. One such example is light loss, which is partially caused by the plasmon coupling effect. Looking to reduce the effect's prominence in OLED devices, researchers from Konica Minolta Laboratory turned to the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.Ler Mais
Walter Frei April 6, 2016
Have you ever wanted to write out mesh and analysis data from COMSOL Multiphysics into a text file? You may want to do this when passing information to another software program or even just into a spreadsheet. You often want to customize the exact format in which such data is written, depending upon the needs of the other tools with which you are working. This is very easy to do with the Application Builder. Let's find out how!Ler Mais
Yosuke Mizuyama April 5, 2016
Physicist and electrical engineer Dennis Gabor invented holography about 70 years ago. Ever since then, the form of optical technology has developed in many different ways. In this blog post, part one in a series, we talk about a specific industrial application of holograms in consumer electronics and demonstrate how to use COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate holograms in a wide spectrum of optical and numerical techniques.Ler Mais
Guest Alfred Svobodnik April 4, 2016
Today, we welcome Managing Director Dr. Alfred J. Svobodnik of Konzept-X GmbH, a COMSOL Certified Consultant and developer of multidisciplinary virtually optimized industrial design technology (M-voiD® technology). MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets allow us to listen to our favorite music almost everywhere. While driving in a car, we should also enjoy the highest sound quality. Learn how to use simulation to reproduce sound in one of the most difficult environments — a vehicle — to design better automotive sound systems.Ler Mais
Caty Fairclough March 31, 2016
Two professional chefs stand in a classroom, closely observing a soft-boiled egg. What may initially sound like a cooking class is actually part of a physics course offered at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) in the Netherlands. Using COMSOL Multiphysics, students are investigating the science behind cooking the perfect soft-boiled egg. See how this innovative blend of simulation research and food science is teaching students how to build and test models.Ler Mais
Walter Frei March 30, 2016
Whenever solid materials are heated enough, they will melt and then vaporize to a gas. Certain materials will even go directly from the solid to the gas phase, a process referred to as sublimation or ablation. If the material is heated strongly enough, there will be significant material removal. Today, we will look at how you can model this process in COMSOL Multiphysics.Ler Mais
Angela Straccia March 29, 2016
Are you solving turbulent flow problems in your CFD analyses? Then you may be familiar with the large computation time that can result from difficulties in finding the numerical solution. Such difficulties are caused by nonlinearities that arise in the turbulence model equations. Viscosity ramping can help decrease the computation time by solving for higher viscosities and using the solutions as initial conditions for the problem at lower viscosities. We'll show you how to implement this technique in COMSOL Multiphysics.Ler Mais

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Posted on April 9, 2012
My thanks to those of you who have admired my voicemail message. I am a great believer in "Entertain While You Educate", and I do my best to get my points across with a little kick, to make them the more memorable. For those of you who have NOT heard this masterpiece, the phone number is elsewhere on this website, but please don't call to listen during the hours that I'm actually on the premises, or you will be disappointed by a live response.
WHICH brings me to the matter I didn't really want to talk about today. I was having far more fun discussing naughty books, but there's this bit of the message that isn't getting across, somehow. This is where I tell you that you can drop off books "roughly from 8 to 4, Monday through Saturday."
First of all, "roughly" does not mean toss the books overhand or dump them on the dock in massive garbage bags. I am using "roughly" in the sense of "approximately". What I really MEAN is "it would work in better with the busy life of a Book Fair manager if you could bring in your books during the period mentioned." It does not forbid you from dropping off books at any other times.
In fact, you can drop off books at any time at all, though the guards will wonder what you're up to if you are stacking things on the dock at 1 A.M., and I, personally, will grumble if you drop them off on a Sunday and it rains that night. I will also say a few quickly-chosen words if you knock on the back door five minutes before I had planned to go home, but in only very rare instances will you hear these.
Now, I can understand your confusion. This very website states that you can drop books off from 8:15 to 4. So you can. This doesn't mean you will be bound in leftover spaghetti and thrown into the pit of poodles if you drop off books at 8:14. I think this number comes from the fact that the exhibit galleries open at 8:15. You don't deliver books to the galleries (most of you) so I'm not sure why this matters. Some of the guards, aware that the reading rooms are closed on Mondays, tell donors they cannot bring books in on Monday. You can, actually, and a lot of you do.
It is not Book Fair policy to mock your friends—I do that on a freelance basis—but I think you should know that they WILL get this wrong. I don't know what to make of the people who told me their friend informed them absolutely that we take books only from 10 to 4 Monday through Friday and 10 to 12 on Saturday. Are your friends the problem, or is it you? I have insufficient data for the analysis, though after I have gone through your collection of cookbooks, I may know better. (That bookmark at the rhubarb-onion salad kind of tips me off.)
"But you surely don't want books in the afternoon," someone told me. "My friend says you have weddings and stuff in the afternoon."
That is true, but I do not, personally, attend these weddings, and so far, we have had none take place out on the loading dock. I am grateful to this person, though, because I spent a pleasant hour designing a loading dock wedding, with a big cake shaped like a banana box and a rose-covered arch built entirely of copies of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Instead of a bouquet, the bride will throw a garbage bag of economics textbooks into the crowd.
I'd invite you all, but given your trouble with days and times, you'd probably show up late and the bag would land on someone unworthy.


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Top of page Macro
Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.
TopMacro is exceedingly simple, like all good software ;-). In a nutshell, it does exactly what you'd expect, inserts a "top of page" link in your Wiki page. The only option is a string that is inserted into the content of the markup. This defaults to a single circumflex "^" character (more commonly known as a caret), surrounded by square brackets. The anchor element returned includes a "Top of Page" title attribute so the user knows its purpose, and a "topofpage" class so the Wiki author may apply their preferred style rules.
[[Top]] returns: [^]
You could of course achieve the same effect by doing this:
{{{ #!html [^] }}}
Resulting in this:[^]
But who wants to do all that typing?
That's what macros are for after all. Note that the brackets do not form part of the anchor itself. This is a personal preference. If you pass a string to the macro they are omitted.
If you like the caret, but prefer to omit the brackets and style the link yourself with CSS, try something like this:
a.topofpage { display: block; height: 11px; width: 11px; font-family: 'BitStream Vera Sans',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-color: #eaeaea; color: #e9611c; padding: 1px 2px 2px; border: 1px solid #c6c7db; margin-left: -6px; } a.topofpage:hover { border-color: #000; background-color: #777; color: #fc3; }
Note that if you're going to style the anchor like this you should really pass an argument to the macro or you'll end up with the default brackets in addition to the styling.
If you want to get really fancy you can use jQuery to create a smooth scrolling effect when the link is clicked. In your site.html template add:
  ${select('*')}
Note: Returning false from the lambda, or anonymous, function prevents the browser from kicking in it's own even model.
Download the zipped source from here or clone the repository (see below) from GitHub to a location on your local drive. Unzip the archive to a temporary location, visit the 0.11 directory and run:
python setup.py bdist_egg cp dist/*.egg /trac/env/Project/plugins
Enable the macro in:
[components] top.* = enabled
You may need to restart your Web server.
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- Browse the source at: GitHub.
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At every district tournament or Florida High School Athletic Association-sanctioned state playoff game, an announcement is made to let good sportsmanship show. It's too bad that announcement isn't made at regular-season games.
At every district tournament or Florida High School Athletic Association-sanctioned state playoff game, an announcement is made to let good sportsmanship show.
It's too bad that announcement isn't made at regular-season games.
Sportsmanship takes on many forms including fans' reactions, officials' calls, the way coaches coach a game and players play a game, and how players treat their opponents.
I was watching the National Football League playoff game between the San Francisco 49ers and Carolina Panthers on Sunday when 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick mocked Carolina quarterback Cam Newton's touchdown celebration.
Any chances there were of me pulling for the 49ers in this week's game against Seattle went out the window with Kaepernick's classless gesture.
I love the attitude of Emmitt Smith, the NFL's all-time leader in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns. Smith, who scored 164 rushing touchdowns and another 11 receiving TDs, said, "Act like you've been there (in the end zone) before."
Smith never spiked the ball or did a fancy dance after a score. He simply handed the ball to the official and celebrated his score with his teammates.
It's a good example for our local teams. I witnessed a couple of unsportsmanlike incidents this past week. Each involved teams from Chipley High School.
The first incident occurred Tuesday night when Chipley's boys basketball team played at Crestview.
The Tigers led Crestview by 11 points with four seconds left in the game. Rather than let the clock run out, Chipley Coach Joel Orlando called a timeout, seemingly to set up one more scoring play at a point when the game had already been won.
Calling a timeout when you have the game well in hand is, in my opinion, poor sportsmanship.
Chipley's boys don't have a corner on poor sportsmanship.
Friday night, Chipley's girls traveled to Baker in a District 3-1A game. The Tigers led Baker 37-11 at the start of the second half and quickly scored the nine points needed to push the lead to 35 points and start the running clock.
Even with the game in hand and the clock running, Chipley Coach Kimberly Tuel continued to have the Tigers push the action against the outmanned Gators.
Running up the score on an outmanned opponent should be considered unsportsmanlike in anyone's book.
Many fans and coaches would argue that they aren't responsible for the other team's inability to score or to keep their team from scoring. The coach might say his or her job is to prepare the team to play and the opposing coach's job is to stop them.
That argument is good at college or professional levels, where teams are supposed to play on a more level playing field. But a high school coach is stuck with the talent on campus unless he or she recruits and breaks the rules.
No high school team will win a state championship by running up the score against an overmatched opponent. Good teams will win their playoff games and march to the state finals.
At the end, it only matters if you win, not by how many points you win.
One of the things I've always admired about Baker School football Coach Matt Brunson is his willingness to take his foot off the gas when a game's in hand.
Yes, Brunson-coached teams have won games by big margins and with a running clock, but it's not because he intentionally ran up the score for the sake of beating a team into submission.
Matt Brunson knows the importance of sportsmanship � and it shows.
I can think of some coaches who could learn a thing or two about sportsmanship from Matt.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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So Dude, Like, What Happened?
While it is disappointing that the Texas Rangers didn't get past the Wild Card round of the playoffs, smarter heads like the front office prevail over the fans when it comes to breaking down the season. If we just took the pulse of "message board" fans, you would think Texas won only 65 games all year. In fact, they still managed 93 wins and were a very good team overall. They just weren't a very good team over the last 14 games.
The question is, what went wrong? The front office will be addressing that over the next few weeks and make changes accordingly. To help them out, I've compiled this nifty little summary, compiled in the order I think is the most important to the eventual success level of the team.
INJURIES TO THE STARTING PITCHING STAFF: In 2011, the Rangers were the most blessed team in baseball. The starting five started all but five or six games the entire season. After converting from closer to starter, Neftali Feliz lasted only eight games, seven of them starts. His last start was May 18th before he was lost for the rest of 2012 and the first half of next season as well to Tommy John surgery. Two months to the day later, Colby Lewis went down with an elbow issue, never heard from for the rest of the season.
Jon Daniels gets a lot of credit for making the moves that built the Rangers into a winner, but not every move works every time. When Feliz went down, Texas signed Roy Oswalt. It was considered a brilliant move at the time, but Oswalt was rushed back to the big leagues a week or two too early and flopped as a starter, finishing the season in the Rangers bullpen as the middle reliever.
After Oswalt came Scott Feldman, who was as streaky as they come. Feldman started out 0-6, then won his next six decisions. Unfortunately, Scooter ended up dropping his last five decisions to end at 6-11 with a 5.09 ERA. At the trade deadline, JD acquired Ryan Dempster from the Cubs after failing to land Zack Greinke from the Brewers. To be fair, Dempster did compile a winning ledger with Texas. The problem was, he only beat teams with losing records. He lost every game he pitched against fellow playoff contenders.
Also getting a few spot starts for Texas were rookies Justin Grimm and Martin Perez. Both had one good start but also combined for four poor ones.
BULLPEN INJURIES: Coming into the season, the Texas bullpen was among the strongest in the majors. By mid-season, the pen had become an issue. There was a revolving door in middle relief. After Feliz went down and Oswalt struggled, Alexi Ogando made a spot start and promptly pulled a hamstring early after just three innings of work, losing a month of playing time. Koji Uehara, who ended the season as perhaps the Rangers most effective reliever, went down just the day before Ogando, losing six weeks of time to the DL. Mark Lowe also found his way to the injured list. During the Rangers down month of July they were relying on relievers like Michael Kirkman, Yoshinori Tateyama and rookie Tanner Scheppers. Not a great recipe.
Josh Hamilton, ROLLER COASTER: While "Message Board Fans" put the entire blame on the 2012 season on Michael Young's poor offensive showing and Ron Washington's habit of never giving Young a day off, Josh Hamilton's June and July swoon had even more to do with it. Potent as the Rangers line-up can be, it is Josh Hamilton and Adrian Beltre who pace the offense. Hamilton was the AL's Player of the Month for both April and May, but fell off the face of the Earth in June and July, batting a paltry .208 and striking out on three pitches more than any player has a right to. Hamilton compiled a 4.7 WAR for the season according to Fangraphs.com, but that's deceiving. By the end of May, Josh was at a 3.3 WAR already and pacing towards almost a 10 WAR for the season. While a drop-off from those lofty heights could be expected, it's still pretty reasonable to assume he should have given the Rangers 6-7 WAR production for the season. In other words, Hamilton probably cost the Rangers more games from June to October than Michael Young did all season on the basis of WAR.
TOO MANY PLAYERS WITH DOWN YEARS: Much has been written about Michael Young's off year. Not as much was said about the down years of Mike Napoli and Ian Kinsler. Tampa Bay Rays skipper Joe Maddon called 2011 the Year of the Napoli. There was no better hitter in baseball over the second half of 2011. This season wasn't nearly as kind. Napoli fell from a .320/.414/.631 with 30 HR and 75 RBI to .227/.343/.469 with 25 HR and 56 RBI. Kinsler had essentially the same batting average in 2012, but his power numbers were down, his walks were down and his strikeouts were up. He also regressed defensively, leading all AL second basemen in errors. Nobody, though, sunk as much as Michael Young. Young's batting average went from .338 to .277, his RBI from 106 to 67 and from 58 extra base hits, he sank down to 38 in 2012. By the WAR stat, only Jeff Francouer had a poorer year.
DEPRECIATION OF THE RUNNING GAME: In their presser, Ron Washington called a question about the fall-off in the Rangers running attack "nitpicking". I'm a Wash fan, but the question wasn't nitpicking. As pointed out in a previous post, the fall-off from 2011 to 2012 was precipitous. Stolen bases were down from 143 to 91 while getting caught one less time in 2012 than they did in 2011. They were also picked off seven more times in 2012 compared to 2011. Conversely, opposing teams stole 106 bases on Texas in 2012 compared to 85 in 2011. Overall, that's a difference of 73 bases from a year ago. By season's end, the Rangers had virtually stopped running. Over the last 30 days of the season, Texas had only three steals and were caught stealing four times. Sorry Wash, that's not a little thing.
WHEN BEING HEALTHY HURTS: Much has already been made of the Rangers offensive malaise over the last week and a half of the season. Wash has already said maybe he didn't rest his regulars enough. In a couple of cases, there could very well be something to that. Take the case of Nelson Cruz. On one hand, Cruz set personal highs in RBI with 90 and runs scored with 86. On the other, Cruz only topped last year's RBI total by three while playing in 35 more games. His home runs were down to 24 after hitting 29 a year ago. In 2011 his OPS was .821, in 2012 it was .779. Before this season, Cruz had five different stints on the disabled list over the previous two seasons. While his bat was missed, it could be surmised he had the advantage of being fresher when he returned from those DL trips. The same could be said of Ian Kinsler. 2011 was the first year in a while that Kins was healthy enough to play virtually the entire season. Playing over 150 games two years in a row, for someone with an injury history, could take its toll more than other players. Multitudes of articles have been written about innings counts for young pitchers and pitchers coming off injuries, but but hardly about game counts for young position players or position players coming off injuries. It may very well have had some effect on certain players.
THE MYSTERIOUS STOMACH VIRUS: This came early in the season, but who knows if it had an ultimate impact on the Rangers' lack of energy at season's end. In the month of May, Mike Napoli came down with a stomach virus. It spread through the clubhouse quickly. Ian Kinsler got it. Josh Hamilton got it. A host of Rangers players missed a game or two because of it. Nobody was affected more than Derek Holland. The virus caused Dutch to lose 20 pounds. At the end of May while battling the virus, Dutch didn;t make it out of the second inning, giving up 8 runs to the Mariners. Five days later, Holland's fastball velocity was down so sharply he was pulled after 5 1/3 gritty innings. He would miss the next month getting his weight back up and back into playing shape. Whether this had anything to do with Holland's dismal 4.67 ERA on the season is uncertain. Stories have come out in the last couple of seasons about players taking a long time to get their strength back after contracting Desert Fever and recovering from appendectomies. There's always the chance the stomach virus had more of an impact than just the two-week span it was spreading in the clubhouse.
On the positive side, all these things happened to the Rangers in 2012 and they still managed to get to 93 wins on the season and a berth in the Wild Card playoff. This is still a team with a lot of potential.
Next Up: Looking ahead to potential off-season moves.
Related articles
- The Running Game (Or Lack Thereof) (40yearrangerfan.mlblogs.com)
- Nolan Ryan: Josh Hamilton picked worst time to quit chewing tobacco (aol.sportingnews.com)


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Mark got off work late on Friday. He was supposed to get off at 6pm but had to stay till 8pm. It wasn't because he wanted to. It was because of the ineptitude of his employees. They could never seem to get their work done on time so he had to stay. He remembered hearing about a new bar that opened up down the street from where he worked. Figuring today seems like a good day to check it out he headed down there. All he wanted to do was have a few drinks, unwind and hopefully watch the rest of the Red Sox game. He walked in and looked around. There was only one table occupied and it was off in the corner. He noticed that there were four ladies at the table and they all appeared to be in their early to mid 20's. Mark being in his late 20's himself found himself starting to stare. After what seemed like about five minutes the bartender walked over.
Mark noticed that the bartender seemed a little distant but passed it off as just a long day. He ordered a beer and asked if the game could be turned on. The bartender handed him the beer and said "The ladies in the corner don't want the TV on." This got Mark upset. He just had a long day and wanted to watch the game. He figured he would go over and ask the ladies why they didn't want the TV on. As he started to walk over he noticed that the bartender was kneeling beside the table of the ladies. As Mark approaches one of the ladies gestures for the bartender to leave. Mark had no idea what was going on but sill figured an explanation about the TV was in order. When he got right beside the table the same lady who dismissed the bartender looked at Mark with a cold glair but did not speak.
When Mark started to speak the lady just said "shut up!" This got Mark even more mad. The lady then said "My name is Beth and these are my friends and you are?"
"My name is Mark and I was wondering why you don't want the TV on"
"Because we don't" replied Beth.
Mark tried to explain that he had long day and wanted to catch the game. The ladies didn't care and told him to leave their table. As he started to leave he stopped and turned around. Beth asked "What can we help you with now?" "I was wondering why the bartender was kneeling beside your table?" asked Mark. Beth started to laugh and one of the other ladies stated that they owned him and the bar. "What do you mean you own him?" asked Mark. All they would say is "You'll find out."
At that Mark walked away. After he finished a few more beers he was getting up to leave when he felt someone grab him from behind. As he went to speak someone shoved something cloth into his mouth and then taped his mouth shut. He then felt a pair of cuffs being placed around his wrists. Then into his ear Beth whispers "See? I told you, you would find out. You are going to become our newest slave and the best part is that there is nothing you can do about it"
Mark tries to struggle but to no avail. The ladies overpower him and force him into the back room of the bar. When they get him into the back they make sure to point out all the items they have. He sees a group of cages and other items he could not identify. At that point he heard the ladies start to laugh as they blindfolded him. They them moved him over to a table and remove the cuffs from one wrist. They then force him onto the table and secure his hands and feet to the table. Once he is secured he hears Beth say "So Ann do you think he likes the taste of your panties?" "I hope so but if he doesn't he will soon" said Ann. "Ok now we need to strip him" said a voice he had not heard yet. "Fancy you can have that job since you brought it up" said Beth. "Nyki would you like to have some fun with our newest acquisition?" said Beth. "Yes I do" said Nyki. It only took fancy about a minute or two to cut off all of his clothes. After she finished she said "You won't be needing these anymore." "Ok Nyki since he already has Ann's panties in his mouth tasting all of her goodness you need to remove your panties so you can sit on his face. Make sure that his nose is right at you pussy that way that is all he can smell. She did as she was asked and Mark found that the only air he could get was full of her arousal. The ladies noticed him getting hard and began to laugh again. That's when Nyki stated "I think he's enjoying this." All of the ladies agreed so they stepped things up a bit more. They told him that by the time they are done with him he will be their complete and utterly loyal slave just like the bartender. "You see the bartender DID own this bar until we came in on Monday. After only a day or two we were taking ownership over him and with that he also signed over the bar to us as well. We own what used to be his house, his car and everything else he owned. Soon we will own you in the same manner." said Beth. "We can already see that you are enjoying this. Your body is betraying you."
The last thing he heard was Fancy say "Now time for your conditioning slave". With that a pair of head phones were placed over his ears and taped on. Now he couldn't hear anything except what would be coming through the head phones. It wasn't too long before he thought he could hear something. It sounded like "SUBMIT" but he wasn't sure because it was really soft. He was sure he heard it a few more times but there was something else. "Music?" he thought to himself. Then he heard more words but still really soft. It sounded like "OBEY, WORSHIP, GODDESS". Then sentences started to form and he figured if he listened carefully he could find out what they were planning. He started hearing "We own you" "You are our slave" "You have no will of your own" "We are your Goddesses" "You worship us" "You will do as we say" "You will kneel at our feet". However by the time he realized what was being said it was too late. He was already repeating it in his head. The ladies knew about how long this part of the process took but they wanted to make sure he was completely conditioned. He had no idea how much time had passed between the beginning of his ordeal and now. In reality he had been captive for about 20 hours.
The gag got removed and almost instinctively Mark started repeating everything that he heard in the head phones. This was very pleasing to the ladies. They then removed the headphones and he continued to repeat the same mantra over and over again. After allowing this for about 10 minutes Nyki told him to stop. He responded with "Yes Mistress". The ladies couldn't contain their excitement with their latest conquest. They have just successfully added a second slave to their collection.
"What is your purpose slave?" asked Beth.
"I worship and obey you Mistress" replied Mark.
"Very good slave. Now what is your name?"
"I am slave Mistress"
"Very good. Now it is time for your training. Your conditioning was the easy part and you took to it well. Now it is time for our fun to begin." said Beth.
With that stated Beth mounted him and began to rape him. The whole time this was happening Nyki was still in the same spot. Mark had no way to know who was raping him but he knew he couldn't stop it. As Beth felt him nearing climax she stopped. She had Nyki slide down so that her pussy was at Mark's mouth. Beth reminded her new slave that he must please all of his Mistresses and then ordered him to eat out Nyki. The slave did as he was told. Nyki told him that he better bring her to orgasm or else he would be hating life. He knew, though he wasn't sure how, that she wasn't just looking for one orgasm but many. She told him that he better not spill a drop of her juices. He would never dream of it.
Beth brought up the idea that all the ladies take turns raping him. She felt that that would help him more easily realize his new and everlasting position in life now. They all took their turns on him multiple times except Nyki. He was completely worn out and t
ired. He couldn't fight them off now even if he wasn't restrained
Nyki asked him if he enjoyed the taste of her pussy to which Mark responded positively to. She laughed and stated "That's good slave because you will be tasting it quite often." She got off of his face and mounted his cock. She proceeded to rape him repeatedly for hours.
After they had all had their fun with him Beth brought over a CB2000 and locked him inside of it. She then locked a metal collar around his neck. What he couldn't see was that hanging from the chastity devise was a tag which stated:
Property of Mistresses Beth, Fancy, Nyki and Ann
On the collar was a similar tag except it stated:
Property of the Miss. F.A.N-B Bar
They didn't allow Mark to cum that night. As a matter of fact he was told that he would not be allowed to cum ever again unless given permission by one of them. He agreed to this (as if he had a choice). Nyki removed the blindfold from Mark's eyes and said "Gaze upon your Goddesses slave." Fancy asked him "Are you ready to start your new life slave?" He responded by saying "I have never been more ready for anything in my life, Mistress. I was born to be a slave and you helped me realize that. For this Mistress I will be forever in your debt."
Beth came over and removed the restraints and commented that they weren't needed anymore. After the restraints were removed he just stayed in the same position he was in while he was restrained. Beth told him to get off the table. As soon as he got off of it he immediately fell to his knees and kissed the feet of all of the Goddesses. After that he stayed kneeling and had his head bowed. Ann came over to him and asked him a series of questions to know what they were getting with their newest slave.
Ann: "Do you own a house?"
slave: "Yes Mistress."
Ann: "Not anymore. We own it now. You will sign the title of it over to us. Is that clear slave?"
slave: "Yes Mistress."
Ann: "Do you have a job?"
slave: "Yes Mistress."
Ann: "You will quit. You now work at this bar for us and you will not get paid."
slave: "Yes Mistress."
Ann: "Are you married?"
slave: "No Mistress."
Ann: "That's good. That means less loose ends to clean up. Ok now all of your stuff that we don't want will be sold but everything else will belong to us. You now own nothing. You don't even own your own body anymore. We control you and your body."
slave: "Yes Mistress. Anything I can do to please you. I am yours."
He took the ladies to what was his house and signed the papers to give them ownership. He called his boss and gave him no explanation as to why he was quitting just that he was. They took over ownership of his car as well. The ladies decided that Nyki and Ann would live at the house they got from the bartender with him and Beth and Fancy would live at the "new" house. Mark was made to pack up all of their stuff and load it into a U-Haul. Then drive them to there new house. Mark was then made to unpack everything for them. Beth and Fancy just sat outside watching him work. He doesn't have a problem with it after all they are Goddesses and Goddesses shouldn't have to do any work. Once everything was unpacked and set up he came outside and knelt at their side and let them know everything was done. They walked inside and were pleased at his hard work. The ladies took a seat on the couch and had him on all fours in front of them. They were going to use him as a foot rest.
At the end of the first day Mark was told that unless told otherwise from now on inside the house he was not allowed to wear any clothes anymore. He was to be completely nude except for his collar. Mark didn't question them at all. He immediately removed all of his clothes and resumed the kneeling position in front of his owners. As soon as he did this Mistress Beth looked at him and said "it's time to eat slave". Mark was expecting food but his Mistress lifted up her skirt to reveal that she wasn't wearing and panties. Mark responded "Thank You Mistress" and started leaning forward when he was stopped just out of reach of her pussy. Beth stared laughing and responded "Silly little slave. That's not for you…….yet. First you have to eat." Mistress Fancy handed Beth a dog bowl. Both Beth and Fancy sent Mark to the kitchen and told him not to return until told otherwise. He did just as he was told. Both Beth and Fancy began to finger themselves and allowed all of their juices to flow into the bowl. They then ordered Mark to return with some bread. When he arrived and assumed his place at their feet he was told that the bread was all he was going to get to eat but he had to dip it into the fluid that is in the dog bowl. He did as told and loved every piece of bread and every drop of the fluid. After he finished Beth said "Now it is time you little slut" and she raised her skirt again. Again Mark replied "Thank You Mistress" and leaned in to eat out his Mistress.
Once he started Beth rapped her legs around him so that he couldn't get away even if he wanted to. As she felt herself getting closer to orgasm she told Mark "You better not let a drop of my nectar go to waist. It is a precious gift and should be treated as such. Is that clear slut?" With his face buried in Beth's pussy he did his best to mumble "Yes Mistress." After that he didn't get any more of a warning. After some time Beth starts to orgasm and Mark starts drinking up all of her juices. After she finishes her orgasm she pushes mark away.
Fancy pulls him over and lays a giant kiss on his lips forcing his mouth open with her toung. After the kiss she looks at Beth and says "You taste lovely tonight" then looks at Mark and said "Don't you agree slave?" Mark responded with a "Yes Mistress."
A couple of weeks go by and Mark is accepting his new role in life. Beth and Fancy approach his with a bag and a smile. He promptly kneels and kisses their feet. After he does that Beth tells him that her and Fancy went shopping and got him some things. This comes as a surprise to him. When he opens the bag he is shocked at what he sees. He pulls out a pair of 5 inch heals, a red thong and a matching bra, as well a skimpy looking French Maid's uniform. He looks up at his Mistresses with a shocked look on his face. The ladies look at him and ask "What's the matter? Do you not like our taste in clothes?" To this Mark responded "Sorry Mistresses I was caught a little off guard. Of course I love your taste in clothes. You will look amazing in this outfit." Beth and Fancy start laughing and tell him "You don't get it. Those are for you to wear tonight. We are having a party and you are going to be our maid. Now go and put everything on so we can see ho you look." Mark hangs his head and starts to get dressed. As he is doing this Beth and Fancy start taking pictures. After he gets all dressed Beth and Fancy look at each other and Fancy states that she thinks Marks needs the wig as well. Beth agrees and she hands him a black hair wig. After that is on the both grab him and Beth tells him its make-up time. They do his make-up to make him look like a slut. Not too long after they finished his make up there was a knock at the door. Beth slapped Mark across the face and said "The door isn't going to answer it self, slave. What part of being a maid don't you get? Also you better kiss the feet of every woman who enters." Mark replied "Sorry Mistress. I understand." And then went to answer the door.
After all the guests have arrived and he greeted them all as he was told to Beth called him to the center of the room. She welcomed everyone and double checked that all the ladies had their feet kissed by their slave. She then said "As we all know a slave's job should never be easy. That is why we are going to make this slave's job harder for him. She then grabbed his hands and cuffed them behind his back then she attached a set of leg irons. She looks at the crowd who seem amused by
this and says "Well since you ladies are enjoying this I have one more thi
ng." She pulls out a ball gag and rubs it against her pussy and shoves it into Marks mouth and secures it. She then looks at Mark and says "You are probably wondering how you are going to do your job now. Well you are going to have to figure that out for yourself." Mark starts to worry now because now he is completely helpless.
He realizes that his worrying wasn't without merit when a group of about five ladies come up and grab him. They bring him into a bedroom which they set up to restrain him to the bed in his current state. They throw him onto the bed and secure him so he can't get away. The start laughing and one of them states "Look at you. So helpless and vulnerable aren't you? Your Mistresses made it so easy for us. Now we are going to have some fun with you." They start by pulling his thong down. One of the girls starts raping him and another tells him that she is going to remove his gag. And as soon as she does she sits right on his face and orders him to eat her out. He does as he is told and each lady takes her turn on him. After they finish with him they regag him and leave him tied to the bed. They let Beth and Fancy know where he is and they have all the ladies come up stairs to see the slave. Beth walks in and climbs onto the bed stands over Mark so she can address the crowd. She states "Ok ladies I think it is about time we remind the slave here just how low males are." With that said she starts to piss all over him. When she climbs off of him she spits in his face. All the ladies follow suit by either pissing or spitting on him and some do both. After everyone is done Mark is released and told to get back to work.
After the party is over and the last of the guests leave Beth removes the handcuffs and leg irons and the gag. She then orders Mark to clean the house including the room were he got spit and pissed on. She tells him that only after he is done may he remove his outfit and take a shower then he is to sleep on the floor at the foot of her bed.
In the morning when Beth and Fancy wake up Mark already has breakfast made and coffee and tea made. As Beth and Fancy eat Mark is kneeling beside the table waiting to get them anything they need. Once Beth and Fancy are finished with their food the dump the rest into Marks dog dish and then he is allowed to eat. This is his new life and he couldn't wish for it to be any different.


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I must start watching NASCAR more! Apparently they have decided to turn NASCAR races into demolition derbies which is great! That's just what the sport needs. Anyway, Jeff Gordon intentionally crashed Clint Bowyer which lead to both drivers teams having a batlle royal in the pit area that had to be broken up by track security and local police. When Jeff Gordon was asked why he intentionally crashed Clint Bowyer Gordon responded by saying that he couldn't take it any more and it was time to take action. Apparently Bowyer had come in contact with Gordon's car a few times in past races. I guess it's a good thing NASCAR drivers don't carry guns in their vehicles. In order for Gordon to crash Bowyer he had to slow down on the track and wait for Bowyer to catch up which is even more remarkable because it was pretty clear what Gordon was doing. Wow, I thought football was a dangerous game.
If that wasn't enough drama for one race Jimmie Johnson apparently lost his chance at winning another Sprint Cup title when one of his tires exploded near the end of the race causing him to not be able to finish. There is only one race to go this season and if NASCAR has any sense at all Jeff Gordon will not be driving in it.
In other strangeness from Sunday the St. Louis Rams and San Fran Sisco 49ers played four quarter of football, and one 15 minute overtime period and then quit and went home with the score tied at 24. Why doesn't the NFL handle ovetime like college football does? I can't remember the last time I have seen a NFL game end in a tie. The Rams played very well I thought against one of the top teams in the NFL and have nothing to show for it. Come on NFL you can do better than that.
Speaking of overtime, the Missouri Tigers defeated the Tenessee Volunteers on Saturday in four overtimes in a game that it looked like Missouri wasn't going to win at the end of the first half. College Football knows how to do overtime. Missouri now has two SEC wins and unfortunately will most likely have two SEC wins when the season ends because their chances of beating Texas AndM on November 24 are not very good. Missouri must win next week at home against Syracuse if they want to be bowl eligible.
The BCS computer was on the verge of tears after both Alabama and Oregon State lost on Saturday because it has no clue what to do if there are no undefeated teams. Just because I love total chaos I hope Kansas State and Notre Dame lose at some point before the season in a couple of weeks so that there is a total mess thus reinforcing why there should have been a playoff in college football a long time ago.
The Truman State Bulldog football team ended its tenure in the MIAA on Saturday with a tough loss against a very good Lindenwood team. I had never seen Lindenwood play before and although they didn't play their best game of the sason by any stretch of the imagination they showed me an outsanding defense and a potent offense and will definitely be a team to reckon with in the MIAA. Congratulations to the 26 seniors who played their final football game as Bulldogs on Saturday and thank you for making the commitment to Truman.
The college basketball season also kicked off over the weekend with the Truman women winning and the Truman men losing a tough game to a surprisingly good William Peen team. The Truman State volleyball team wrapped up their regular season with two wins on the road and now prepare for post season action.
The Missouri Tigers men's basketball team opened their season with a surprisingly close victory over a very scrappy SIU Edwardsville team. Missouri still has some improving to do but should have a good season and hopefully will have all the pieces to the puzzle put together by the start of SEC conference action in January.
Wow, what a busy weekend! I love this time of year. We'll be back on Wednesday with another blog in which we will endeavor to continue our string of three blogs a week. We haven't even gotten around to talking about Mark McGwire leaving the Cardinals coaching staff or Phil Jackson maybe coming back to the Lakers so there are certainly several things we can talk about and who know what other silliness the sports world will produce between now and then that I can make fun of. Please don't forget to check out the other blogs on this site written by people who assure me they aren't being paid either and thanks as always for supporting this one.
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lturner wrote:It's a completely specious argument which simply reflects his own personal prejudice (or perhaps financial interest).
most pro cyclists hate being made to wear a helmet - they fought that rule (in pro races) tooth and nail. they are all 'sponsored' by helmet makers. your suggestion they are pushing helmets on behalf of their sponsors/suppliers isn't supported by the evidence.


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I had hunted for the sheet music for this for a while with friends and family. I know my mom had it when I was a kid and would sing it along with old time hymns. I was excited to find it and purchase the download on Musicnotes. I was easy enough to play that I was playing and singing and remembering.


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With their season winding to a close, the Hood River Valley girls basketball team is trying to find some positive momentum before the playoffs start.
The Eagles played well against Hermiston Tuesday night, but not nearly good enough to beat the hot-shooting Bulldogs.
Anytime the Eagles (9-12, 2-8 CRC) did anything wrong, the Bulldogs (17-5, 10-0 CRC) punished them with a three-pointer. Anytime the Eagles did anything right, the Bulldogs responded with a three-pointer. Or at least that was the way it seemed.
Hermiston connected on 15 triples in the game and routed the Eagles 75-52.
After the game the Eagles had two games left, Friday against The Dalles and Tuesday against Hermiston again, and were fighting to overtake Parkrose to grab the eighth spot in the 5A North region and host a play-in game.
Even if the Eagles drop their final two games, they may pass Parkrose in the 5A rankings anyway. The Broncos have one game left, against No. 6 Liberty on Tuesday, while the Eagles were hosting No. 8-ranked TDW and No. 3-ranked Hermiston. The strength of schedule points gained from those games should allow them to make up the three rankings points separating them from Parkrose to allow HRV to host the Broncos in a play-in game.
But the Eagles are not thinking about the rankings; they just want to find their winning touch again after dropping 10 of their last 12 games.
"We're just looking to get two wins and finish league strong," said forward Logan Bailey.
After getting buried by the Hermiston three-point barrage in the first half, the Eagles did try to get back in it in the second half.
"We actually played pretty well," said HRV coach Tom Ames. "The ugliness was the 10 threes they didn't miss in the first half."
The Eagles, down 18 at halftime, slowly crawled back after trailing by as much as 21 in third quarter.
The Eagles opened the fourth quarter with a 10-4 run to get within 11 points following a Winans lay-up with 3:38 to play.
However nothing went right for the Eagles the rest of the way.
Taylor Smith hit a three-pointer to stop the Eagles from closing the gap and a technical on HRV coach Tom Ames continued the slide.
Hermiston capped an 11-0 run with a another three-pointer by Smith which she hit while stumbling forward and had it bounce high off the rim before falling in.
All told, the Bulldogs outscored the Eagles 15-3 in the final 3:20 to put the game away.
Megan Winans led the Eagles with 13 points; Katie White had 10, Logan Bailey 9 and Danae Burck 8 for the Eagles.
Smith scored the backbreaking points, but by the time she scored all of her six points on two baskets in the fourth quarter, Malloree Moss and Heidi Walchli had already done plenty of damage for the Bulldogs.
Moss scored 27 points and Walchli 19 to pace Hermiston. Of their 48 combined points, 27 came via three-pointers.
Moss singlehandedly stripped the Eagles of any momentum in the closing minutes of the first half.
A Katie White three cut the lead to 11 with two minutes to play, but Moss answered with a three-pointer of her own.
Bailey hit a three to bring the Eagles within 15 with less than a minute to play, but Moss came up with another dagger when she drilled a fadeaway three pointer at the buzzer to build the 18 point halftime margin.
While the Eagles cut down on the turnovers against Hermiston, Burck said they will need to continue doing it down the stretch.
"We've got to control the ball," she said.
The Eagles did see some encouraging signs against Hermiston, they did control the ball better, they played with more energy in the second half, and they got a distributed scoring effort.
However, it was not enough on a night where the Bulldogs were shooting the lights out.
"We got rained on," said Ames. "It was raining threes."
The HRV JV?team lost 52-29.
At Hermiston the HRV?boys varsity team fell 51-40 to the Bulldogs.
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In the past, I've admitted to my obsession with strollers. It's one of the pieces of baby gear that I really enjoyed shopping for and using—for reasons of style, ease, practicality… But my older son is almost 4, and I've recently come to realize that (gulp!) he may be getting too old for a stroller. If we're out with his younger brother (who's approaching 2), he normally walks or rides on the skateboard-like roller board attached to our stroller, but there are times when we're out for a full day of walking around NYC, and asking him to walk several miles seems, well, too much to ask of a kid who's only 3—which is when we pull out the double stroller, to allow him a break if need be.
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Personally, I don't think I'm infantilizing him or coddling him—I'm just being realistic about the limits of his energy and good behavior. And given the choice between allowing him to ride for a bit or, say, putting him on a kid leash to keep him close by when his listening skills seem to diminish with the miles walked, I'll gladly permit him some rest. But, even though he's well below the weight limit for our stroller, he does look kind of big in it (er, we have a mini double stroller, because what New Yorker has room for a full-size one?!)—which apparently may make me the target of fans of the blog Toobigforstroller. People can email photos of kids who look too big for their stroller (or grocery cart kid's seat) to the blog, where they are published (often without blocking out the kids' faces) along with some snarky (sometimes funny, sometimes kinda harsh) commentary. Ouch.
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While some of the submissions do look ridiculous, there are plenty of good reasons these kids could be in strollers—everything from being at the end of an exhausting day at the zoo/out on the town/etc, to developmental disabilities. There's just plain laziness on the parent's or kid's part too, I guess. What's your take? Is there a point at which a kid just too old or too big for a stroller?


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From its origins as an ambitious idea of a few people to enhance and structure civil society's efforts to prevent violent conflict and strengthen peacebuilding efforts, GPPAC has grown into an active global network. It encompasses fifteen regions, enabling a concerted effort of many committed organisations and people working together to reflect on, improve and implement civil society strategies for conflict prevention and peacebuilding worldwide. GPPAC is the result of a long process of development, built on the assumption that any overarching strategy must be based on the participation of local stakeholders; those that have a direct interest in the prevention or cessation of violent conflict.
In his 2001 Report on the Prevention of Armed Conflict, then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged "(…)NGOs with an interest in conflict prevention to organise an international conference of local, national and international NGOs on their role in conflict prevention and future interaction with the United Nations in this field." In response, the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP) - which later became the GPPAC Global Secretariat - initiated a process to convene CSOs, in collaboration with partners across several regions. Initiated after extensive consultations in 2003 and 2004, during which each region developed its own Regional Action Agenda, GPPAC officially launched its Global Action Agenda in 2005, at a worldwide conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Since then, GPPAC at the local, regional and national level has been developing and implementing strategies and programmes to put the Action Agendas into practice. You can read about our current activities and projects here.


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"Once," based on a much-loved 2007 Irish movie and the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for best musical, is the most no-frills Broadway musical imaginable.
The first thing you notice is the music-making, the spontaneity and the spirit.
About 20 minutes before the musical "Once" begins, the cast members — actors who double as musicians — take the stage of the Palace Theatre and begin a lively jam session complete with dancing. This being a pub in Dublin, the music is traditional Irish, with a Mumford & Sons flavor.
Audience members are invited to venture onstage to buy a drink and mingle. Then as showtime approaches, the crowded stage is cleared of visitors and a young man begins an imploring, nakedly emotional song titled "Leave." The lights dim and a young woman slowly ventures down the aisle toward him.
"Once," based on a much-loved 2007 Irish movie and the winner of the 2012 Tony Award for best musical, is the most no-frills Broadway musical imaginable. It takes place on a single set. The cast members, dressed in nondescript street clothes, play all the instruments (cello, violin, mandolin, accordion, banjo) and even move the scenery. The simplicity brings total focus on the touching relationship at the show's center and the warm, moving songs that punctuate it.
Guy (Stuart Ward) is a fledgling yet skilled Irish singer-songwriter-guitarist dealing with recent heartbreak and a growing sense that he will never find success as a musician. Girl (Dani de Waal) is a Czech immigrant living in a Dublin apartment with her mother and her young daughter. A pianist, she sees great promise in his music.
Drawn together by a shared love of music, the vulnerable pair find other feelings developing. "Falling Slowly," the Oscar-winning song played early on, encapsulates their attraction with affecting melody and close vocal harmonies. Other songs, including "If You Want Me," "Gold" and "When Your Mind's Made Up" are stirring enough within the context of the story — and with lyrical onstage accompaniment — to induce chills.
There is abundant humor and rousing musical interludes in the show along with deep feelings. Ward and de Waal, both from the U.K., embody their characters to the point that they never seem to be acting. The company surrounding them is versatile, colorful and ripe with talent. By show's end, I felt affection for each member. The standing ovation at show's end on opening night felt inevitable and instant. (I'll confess I was seated in the eighth row, lending plenty of intimacy in the vast theater.)
On a related note, Cibreo Italian Kitchen (formerly Bricco), across from Playhouse Square Center, 1438 Euclid Ave., is a handsome Tuscan-themed place with superb cuisine and cocktails. Reservations are a must, however; call 216-862-9212. Visit www.cibreocleveland.com for details.


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Curriculum embraces university's focus on entrepreneurism and cross-disciplinary collaboration
CLEVELAND—Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, already recognized for introducing original design concepts to business management, has formed a new Department of Design & Innovation that embraces the research university's focus on entrepreneurism, technology development and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The Weatherhead School, the first business school to create PhD programs in operations research and organizational behavior, now becomes the first to establish a design and innovation department.
"We are proud to launch the first Department of Design & Innovation in a school of management," said Weatherhead School Dean Robert E. Widing, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Management. "At the 10th anniversary dinner of the Peter B. Lewis Building in May, 2013, the renowned architect of the building, Frank Gehry, cited Weatherhead faculty as being responsible for leading the way in adopting design practices to innovate and manage. It is therefore entirely fitting and proper for Weatherhead to combine marketing, strategic management information systems and design faculty into another innovative world's-first department."
The aim, said Department Chair Richard Buchanan, is to teach Weatherhead students to apply design to imagine new alternatives, game-changing ideas and fresh perspectives—abilities essential to dynamic business leaders. "This is a department that is now oriented to innovation, studying it and creating it," he said.
Henry Mintzberg, of McGill University in Montreal, who is frequently ranked among the world's most important business management scholars, will present the keynote address at the Weatherhead School's introduction of the new department on Sept. 27.
The new department is built on the recognition that all aspects of an organization—from vision, strategy and operations to the development of new products and services—are designed. The most successful businesses are created and driven by design that goes beyond "best practices," or merely imitating what others are doing, explained Fred Collopy, professor of Design & Innovation and the Weatherhead School's vice dean.
To inspire his students to think more broadly, for example, Collopy invites practitioners from outside typical business circles—product designers, choreographers, architects—to explain and demonstrate the creative problem-solving process they experience.
"Almost to a person, they don't settle for the first idea they get. They ask themselves, 'How do we go beyond what we and others have tried so far?'" Collopy said. "There's a lesson in here for business people."
Weatherhead's new department expands its global reputation for providing students with the expertise of faculty who teach such cutting-edge management concepts as emotional intelligence, appreciative inquiry and sustainable value. Recently, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior Richard Boyatzis attracted more than 90,000 people from 188 countries for his course on "Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence"—Weatherhead's first free massive open online course, or MOOC.
The new Design & Innovation Department combines faculty from the former Marketing and Policy Studies and Information Systems departments. The new department is one of six at the Weatherhead School; the others are: Accountancy, Banking & Finance, Economics, Operations and Organizational Behavior.
Among other skills, students enrolled in the new department's curriculum will learn:
"The new department's progressive curriculum will serve not only to educate students, but also bolster the entrepreneurial talent base and culture of innovation in the region," said Joseph Jankowski, the university's chief innovation officer.
Students in the design lab at Weatherhead, where teams use new techinques to discover innovative ideas, are about to get busier, Buchanan said. For example, students will learn to apply design to better serve a client or customer through involvement with various local businesses and institutions, such as the Cleveland Clinic, Marriott Corp. and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Faculty within the new department will focus on imparting knowledge to develop organizational leaders and entrepreneurs, design strategies and operational systems, and new products and services.
"We've spent three years discussing what we have in common, what the future may be, and how we can position Weatherhead to better serve the region, the country and the world," Buchanan said. "We decided this is the theme that is going to bring us together—design and innovation. We do stand out. It's a distinctive approach. A lot of other schools are looking at this to see how we do it."
Case Western Reserve University is one of the country's leading private research institutions. Located in Cleveland, we offer a unique combination of forward-thinking educational opportunities in an inspiring cultural setting. Our leading-edge faculty engage in teaching and research in a collaborative, hands-on environment. Our nationally recognized programs include arts and sciences, dental medicine, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing and social work. About 4,200 undergraduate and 5,600 graduate students comprise our student body. Visit case.edu to see how Case Western Reserve thinks beyond the possible.
The Weatherhead School of Management is different from other business schools. We are bold in our ideas, creative in our approach, and adaptive in our interactions within a changing business environment. We've enhanced traditional management education by integrating the fundamentals of business with ideas and practices that change individuals, organizations and societies. At Weatherhead, we develop leaders as good global citizens who innovate to create sustainable value.
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Interested in learning more about Weatherhead programs? Request more information or apply now, or register for one of over 70 open enrollment courses through Executive Education.
Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University cultivates creativity, innovation, and purpose-driven leadership to design a better world.


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Our company is a regional partner organization for Home Energy Score and we are getting ready to launch the program this month. I wanted to start a thread to get some thoughts.
These are just a couple thoughts I had so far, but I'd really enjoy some dialogue about this new and exciting program.
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Hmmm...I'm thinking about buying Facebook stock. So, perhaps what I should do it look at the NASDAQ average and go from there?
The average male suit size is 44R. Is that the suit size we should all wear?
Evan, I ask these questions in the context of the NREL finding that, as you state, "the tool predicts bills very well on average". That is great from an aggregate policy and program level. It tells me nothing valuable as either a homeowner or contractor with respect to an individual home. What does the standard deviation look like when the predicting the bills against an individual home? What do the default assumptions mean, not on average, when applied to an individual home. How does a homeowner know whether their home is actually very tight or very leaky based on an average (i.e., default) value? How about those ducts? These are but two examples of very important questions since the HES also provides recommendations on improvements and even estimates the energy savings...again not necessarily based on the actual individual home, but on estimates based on defaults. [Yes, I understand that one can even a measured air-infiltration value. But that is NOT a requirement of the score. By default the HES is generated using the, er, default, in this case.]
Does this matter? Absolutely! Any default recommendation and estimate of savings with the DOE imprimatur become one metric to measure any additional recommendations and estimates against. It sets consumer expectations. And we science-based recommendations for an individual home are different than recommendations which are generated for a home that make sense "on average", DOE has just introduced a barrier to energy-savings, a barrier that now most be overcome by whoever is actually selling the project.
It a world with limitless resources, a "light-touch" is great. The more opportunities to educate individuals about their homes the better. But in the real world, even a light-touch has cost associated with it. Worthwhile analysis by DOE--before mass deployment--would be how does the tool "grease the skids for an investment grade audit", or more importantly, how does the tool increase (or decrease!) the installation of actual energy savings measures. Only then can we answer the question of whether the HES helps or hurts, and actually quantify that so we can evaluate cost-effectiveness of the tool and the approach. Just stating it will help, or guessing isn't good enough. We need to measure.
Thanks for your thoughts. You bring up some excellent points. In reference to the tool falling short when assessing an individual home, this is definitely a concern. Particularly, here in Philadelphia, there is a minor issue with scoring homes because such a large portion of our housing stock is attached housing (row-homes and duplexes), and there is no input to account for conditioned space in adjacent properties. It seems to me the tool is better suited to assess single family detached dwellings.
But remember that the HEScore tool is not meant exclusively to replace a comprehensive audit with custom recommendations. It is intended more so to be a supplement to one. I feel that most auditors worth their salt would only rely on the recommendations made by the tool as a starting off point, and that custom recommendations and estimates would be included in a full audit report.
To build on what you said, I think the ultimate goal of the HEScore tool is to strike the perfect balance between accurate and valid diagnostic measurement and estimation with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand tool that can be appreciated by energy professionals and laypersons alike. Some of the things you question about HEScore are certainly difficult to predict at this time - we will see how the tool affects the energy efficiency industry over the next few months and years. I'm sure the DOE is concerned with the same things you are, and will seek to amend the software as appropriate to address those concerns.
So if the tool falls short in providing meaningful and accurate data ... and the rater will be recommending a diagnositic audit to fill the gaps in it ... what is the home owner actually paying his $50 or $100 for?
How late into the game ... and after how many people have paid for their questionable scores ... do you anticipate the DOE to "amend the software" and will the people who paid for the inferior scores be reimbursed, or do they get a new number mailed to them?
I really think it would be in the best interest of the industry if the government quit trying to use it "stimulate the economy" and "increase jobs" and simply allowed the market to address the home owner's need to address his own issues of comfort, indoor air quality and energy efficiency.
Let me use an analogy...
Cars are sold with MPG ratings. We all know that the sticker MPG rating will not be represent PRECISELY how the car will perform in terms of gas consumption; it represents an estimate. Is it fair to say that MPG ratings on vehicles are worthless or harmful? I don't think so. Stating that the entire concept of the score is flawed because there will be deviation in the scores is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Also, any act that involves human performance will contain deviation. If two auditors perform an audit on the same house, there will of course be some degree of deviation. Does this negate the value of either of the two audits? I can predict your response to this point - that homeowners pay for the score but don't pay for the MPG rating. It is a fair point but I don't think it undermines mine. If cars were custom built as most homes are, it is feasible to think that manufacturers could add a charge to the purchase price in order to provide an MPG rating - that is if consumers demand it.
A typical homeowner can only extrapolate limited value from a standard home energy audit - it presents little opportunity to create leverage in a real estate transaction or even place value on energy efficiency. I agree that the HEScore is not perfect, but does that mean that the DOE should not even attempt to implement it?
The simple fact is that in a market that is affected by energy efficiency, but there are professionals who are not energy efficiency experts, an easy-to-understand tool is necessary if we ever seek to place value on energy efficiency in these types of situations.
Zachary - You inted to sell these scores and you have no choice but to defend them. I understand and respect that.
I have no interest in interfering with your potential source of income for people have, and will continue to spend their money on stupider things than a "score" to assign to their homes.
As stated before, I object to having home owners being subjected to this scoring without their consent ... and to have an official government record of it stored in a database without their knowledge or consent.
Not only am a certified energy auditor ... but I am also a home inspector. I can state for the record that no home owner consenting to a home inspection is aware of or even suspects that a home energy score is being compiled, if the buyer were to commission one. Giving consent to a home inspection DOES NOT equate to consenting to a Home energy Score.
The buyer who commissioned the score may not even buy the house being scored. In such an event, neither the owner of the home, the former prospective buyer or any future prospective buyer will ever derive even the smallest benefit from any information that might exist from that score.
It is wrong. It has the potential for harm since it can be used as leverage in negotiating a sale. I know you deny this, but it is already being done with similar information.
All this for something that can be readily acknowledged by everyone to be less than accurate. If it were a steak being served to the same client at a restaurant, he would send it back.
And as to the MPG analogy ... I have a different one.
Two guys are at the bar looking across the room at a young lady at a table. One goes over and says "My pal and I are rating women on a scale of 1 to 10. If you pay me $50, I will tell you how you rate against the other women in the bar and give you some pointers on how to raise your score."
She pays him the money. He tells her she is a "6", but could be an "8" if she got her teeth fixed and bleached her hair to blonde, because "I like blondes," he tells her.
She feels ripped off and warns the other ladies in the bar to ignore the guy if he comes to your table.
I am salaried employee of a non-profit organization. I will be making zero additional income because of HEScore. Assessors in our program will receive an extra $50 for generating a home score, and there will be no additional cost to the homeowner. I truthfully believe that the lack of transparency in the energy efficiency industry is a problem, and that by placing value on energy efficiency, the world will be a better place. ("You, you may say/I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one/I hope some day you'll join us/And the world will live as one")
That being said, you do make an extremely valid point about the ethics of consent. This is an issue that I will bring up during the next HEScore Partner conference call. Unfortunately, there will always be people who engage in unethical practices for their own personal gain. I will repeat the cliche I used in my previous post. I feel that demeaning the entire idea of the score just because of these issues is cutting off your nose to spite your face. (You probably view the HEScore as nose cancer and the nose deserves to go. We may have to agree to disagree)
James - hypothetically, if there were a similar scoring tool that had improved accuracy, increased range of data inputs, and addressed the issues of homeowner consent in these types of situations, would you still view it so negatively?
Not if it were proven to be all that you described PRIOR to charging for it and making recommendations to home owners based upon it --- and if it were not done without the consent and input from the home owner.
Understandable. I will definitely bring up both the recommendations issue and the consent issue at the next conference call, which is next week. In terms of the accuracy of the tool, I think the DOE made as many improvements as possible based on the pilot data, but there is always room for improvement IMO, and this will have to occur based on feedback from actual in-the-field use.
Thanks for beating this drum. I readily agree that homeowners must be informed and provide their consent before any rating or HEScore is performed on their home. I'm no attorney (so don't shoot the messenger!) but I think any parties involved that may be subject to business codes and/or privacy laws would be well advised to keep a record of their client's consent in case they might someday need it. This is particularly important at the time of sale (which is notoriously litigious), and probably even more so if any of the identifiable data will be "registered" with a government agency.
For example, under California law (B&P code 7195-7199.7) an "inspection of energy efficiency" or more recently a "HERS California home energy audit" may be included in a home inspection, and inspectors have a duty to provide these services with "the degree of care that a reasonably prudent home inspector would exercise".
The California Real Estate Inspection Association Code of Ethics (which is frequently cited when cases make it to court) states that "inspectors shall act in good faith toward each client" and "inspectors shall not disclose inspection results to anyone other than the client or the client's agent without the approval of the client".
So even out here in the Wild West (where inspectors remain unlicensed) one would be foolish to ignore this.
Hopefully, by the time of their big convention in July, the HES folks will have all of this figured out ... but then, they've had a couple of years and haven't really gotten too far.
In case they don't, I think we need to let the public know how to protect themselves from the Home Energy Score. http://jimbushart.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/how-to-protect-yourself-...
With RESNET sending out Home Depot check-out clerks and part time home inspectors with unusual "Home Energy Surveys" (note the HES connection) and the home inspectors with ASHI who have partnered for the actual "Home Energy Score" (same HES) in conjunction with THEIR home inspections ... there is bound to be confusion and mayhem.
Home sales will be lost. Home owners will be damaged. Consumers will need someone to help them recover their damages. Just sayin'....
For everyone's benefit, the correct acronym for the Home Energy Score or the Home Energy Score program is HEScore, not HES. Yes, there are some isolated cases where the incorrect acronym may have been used officially, but that is being cleared up as the program goes live.
HES is a related but distinctly different piece of software that should not be conflated with HEScore.
...but I really wish you hadn't mentioned this "bar rating" analogy.
Now RESNET and BPI are gonna have to come up with another designation.
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Xplore Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: XPLR), a manufacturer of award-winning rugged tablet PCs, announced today that it will release third quarter and nine month financial results for the period ended December 31, 2012 on Monday, February 11, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. ET. The company will conduct a conference call and webcast to review the results on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. ET. Interested parties can access the call by dialing 877-269-7756, or can listen via a live Internet webcast which will be available at: http://www.investorcalendar.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=170555. A replay of the conference call will be available until March 12, 2013 by calling 877-660-6853 and entering conference ID number: 408640. About Xplore Technologies® Xplore Technologies Corp. has been a leading global provider of truly rugged tablets since 1998. With nearly 90,000 deployments, Xplore tablets are among the most powerful and longest lasting in their class, withstand nearly any hazardous condition or environmental extreme, and feature competitive pricing and significant ROI. The company's products are sold on a global basis, with channel partners in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. Xplore Technologies' tablets are deployed across a variety of industries and sectors, such as energy, military operations, manufacturing, distribution, public services, public safety, government, and other areas with hazardous work conditions. For more information, visit the Xplore Technologies website at www.xploretech.com. Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. When used in this document, the words "may," "would," "could," "will," "intend," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect Xplore's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made including those factors listed from time to time in filings made by Xplore with securities regulatory authorities under the heading "Risk Factors." Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated or expected. Xplore does not intend and does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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