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Monday, September 10, 2012
* Leave A "Space" Writing Sticks For Kindergarten
I shared with you the fun I had helping my friend set up her
kindergarten classroom this year.
Now, I'm going to share another little project I made for her classroom.
The kids in her kindergarten classroom use popsicle sticks to
learn how to leave a "space" between words while they are writing
on big sentence paper. Last year, she had sticks with a simple astronaut glued
on them - the concept was good but they weren't very cute (no offense, Mrs. P).
We're going for cute this year
so, I asked if I could give them a makeover.
I started with a batch of popsicle sticks
that I painted with black acrylic craft paint
(paint both sides - take turns and let it dry).
I did not take a photo of this step = boring.
After both sides had good coverage and were completely dry,
I used a white out pen to add stars - you could also flick the sticks
with an old toothbrush dipped in white paint
like we did for our
Then, I printed out Space Shuttle pictures found and reduced from
Google Images - cut them out carefully and glued them to the sticks
with a few layers of Mod Podge.
Oh Mod Podge, how I love thee.
While the Mod Podge was still wet, I added a sprinkle of silver glitter
for bling and a spacey star effect!
The finished sticks look great and Mrs. P was thrilled
with her new leave a "SPACE" sticks!
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My research has not come up with any Royal Navy submarines powered with Crossley engines.
I understand the Metro-Vick tender for the WAGR X class provided the impetus for Crossley to start serious development work and build a prototype of this power plant, as until then, there was just agreement that Crossley could provide engines for locomotives to be built by the Metropolitan-Vickers/Beyer Peacock joint venture.
Crossley was a well respected builder of diesel engines used in marine and stationary applications. Many of their models were successful, - eg most, if not all of the famous Star ferries in Hong Kong were Crossley powered. Indeed some of them may still have Crossley engines.
I'd love to see a catalogue of Crossley engines to see how close in specs and configuration the HSTVee8 was to those in their existing range.


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Funcom promised something big related to The Secret World was coming today, and they've delivered, with the first in-game trailer for the upcoming modern day occult MMO.
Crecente's extensive preview of Funcom's The Secret World from Tuesday ended with a trailer that suggested something big was coming on March 25, and so it has. Behold the first in-game trailer for the game, showcasing the mode, action-oriented combat, and massive enemies you'll experience once The Secret World hits stores shelves, whenever that may be.
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WEST HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University baseball team held leads in both games of a doubleheader against in-state rival Fairfield, only to see the Stags rally to victories in both games to earn the sweep over the Bulldogs, 4-3 and 8-4, at Yale Field on Wednesday.
Yale falls to 6-24-1 overall with the losses, while Fairfield improves to 14-19 with the wins.
Yale sophomore shortstop Cale Hanson extended his on-base streak to 29 games with a single in both games. He singled in the fifth inning of Game 1 and in his first at-bat in Game 2 to keep the streak alive. Hanson failed to reach base in Yale's first two games of the season, but he has reached base in every game since. He went a combined 2-for-6 with a walk and an RBI in the two games.
In Game 1, Yale jumped out to an early lead after Ryan Brenner doubled to lead off the game and scored on a squeeze bunt by Hanson. Josh Scharff doubled in a run in the bottom of the second inning to give Yale a 2-0 lead. Brenner put Yale on top 3-0 with a sacrifice fly with one out and the bases loaded that drove in Scharff.
Fairfield responded with two runs in the top of the third inning and two more in the fifth to pull out the 5-3 win. Tyler Wosleger drove in a run with an RBI double with two outs in the third inning and then scored on an RBI single by Anthony Hajjar. In the fifth, Wosleger and Hajjar reached with back-to-back singles, and with one out, Jack Giannini drove in Wosleger with an RBI single and Hajjar scored on an RBI double by Sebastian Salvo that put Fairfield on top 4-3.
Yale threatened in the sixth and seventh innings, putting two runners on base in both innings. However, the Bulldogs could not produce the clutch hit to drive in the tying run.
In Game 2, Fairfield jumped out to the early lead with three runs in the top of the third inning, but the lead was short-lived as Yale responded with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Brenner's two-run double started the Yale rally and he scored the tying run on an RBI single by Kevin Fortunato.
The Bulldogs jumped on top in the bottom of the fourth when David Toups led off the inning with a double, advanced to third on the play on an error by right fielder Billy Zolga, and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Chris Piwinski that gave the Bulldogs a 4-3 lead.
Fairfield rallied to the win with three runs in the top of the sixth inning and two more in the seventh to pull out the 8-4 win and complete the sweep.
Brenner went a combined 3-for-6 with three RBIs to lead the Bulldogs. Jacob Hunter went 3-for-3 in Game 1. Toups also went 3-for-6 with a run scored.
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ITHACA, N.Y. – The Yale women's swimming and diving team began the year with a win Saturday over the Cornell Big Red. The Bulldogs won 10 out of 14 swimming events and both diving events, with junior Athena Liao setting two pool records in the process. The 187-113 margin of victory is the largest so far this season for the Bulldogs.
The day began with one-meter and three-meter diving at 10:00 a.m. Junior Rachel Rosenberg won both events for the Bulldogs. In the one-meter, sophomore Paige Meneses took second place and freshman Christina Brasco third, giving the Bulldogs a clean sweep. Meneses would go on to just miss the second place spot in the three-meter event by 0.60 points, finishing third.
Swimming began at 1:00 p.m. The Big Red came off the blocks quick in the 200-yard medley relay, setting a new pool record by 0.84 seconds. The second-place Yale squad also posted a faster time than the existing pool record in the event, but still it looked as if the Big Red were going to turn their 1-4 season around.
Junior Abigail Nunn put those fears to rest in the 1000-yard freestyle. Her time of 10:32.50 put her solidly in first place ahead of Cornell (10:39.51). Freshman Angela Lee and sophomore Margaret Brown finished third and fourth, respectively.
Molly Albrecht (1:52.24), Ileana Lucos (1:52.44) and captain Annie Killian (1:57.66) then went one-two-three in the 200-yard freestyle. The Bulldogs won yet another event when Cynthia Tsay touched ahead of Cornell's Emily Dean in the 100-yard backstroke.
Athena Liao then broke the pool record in the 100-yard breaststroke by nearly a full second, a record that had stood since 2003. Liao's time was 1:03.94. Hayes Hyde finished first in the 200-yard butterfly in a time of 2:04.82, well ahead of the Cornell swimmer in second place at 2:08.45. Allison West and Ileana Lucos finished third and fourth in the event.
After five straight events, the Big Red finally found success in the 50-yard freestyle. Cynthia Tsay touched second for Yale in 24.53, just behind Cornell's winning time of 24.46.
Cornell's success was short-lived, however, as the Yale then swept a very fast heat of the 100-yard freestyle. Joan Weaver won with a time of 53.66, followed by Erica Kao (54.14) and Michelle Huang (54.21). A mere 1.26 seconds separated Weaver in first place from Cornell's Jessie Holley in fifth place. Molly Albrecht then won the 200-yard backstroke in 2:04.11.
Athena Liao set yet another pool record in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:16.47. The previous pool record was 2:18.14 set last year by Susan Kim '10. The next fastest time posted was 2:24.95 by a swimmer from Cornell.
Yale had another sweep in the 500-yard freestyle. Senior captain Annie Killian edged out teammate Joan Weaver to touch in 5:09.28 to Weaver's 5:09.38. Freshman Courtney Randolph finished third in 5:10.94. Cornell then finished first and second in the 100 fly, only for Yale's Hayes Hyde and Angela Lee to finish first and second in the 200 IM immediately after.
In the last event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay, the Cornell A-team (3:35.62) out swam Yale's A-team (3:36.44), but at that point the die had been cast. Yale scored a total of 187 points to Cornell's 113. While Bulldogs have scored over 200 points the past three times they have seen the Big Red, this weekend's margin of victory is still the season's largest thus far for the Bulldogs. The win over Cornell is also the fourth in a row for the senior class.
Next weekend Yale will race against Penn and Dartmouth at home. The meet will begin at 12:00 p.m. at the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Exhibition Pool located inside Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
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Busy people like to say that the best time to sleep is when you're dead. But the best time to sleep is actually when you're young, a study of fruit flies suggests.
Newly hatched fruit flies deprived of sleep end up with brain and behavior problems later in life, scientists report in the April 18 Science. "This study is a really important advance in our understanding of how sleep and brain maturation are related," says neuroscientist Salome Kurth of the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Forward CompatibilityApril 07, 2003
There was a good intro to this post at one point in time, but thanks to a Safari caching bug when using Movable Type and comment spam, it's long gone. Hopefully the rest of this will make sense without the introduction. Oh well.
Now, about forward compatibility. The recent flap about the XHTML 2.0 draft says a lot about this. Things are deprecated to the point that no site built using valid 1.0 will work if I switch doctypes? So what am I gaining by supporting 1.0 now?
Sites from 5 years ago still work in today's browsers (aside from those that took advantage of browser–specific quirks back in the day) so why change coding practices? What works is what matters, isn't it? It is, and it isn't. It is because it is what we're used to. We know the quirks, we can code around them — the path of least resistance. It isn't, because by now we all now how much more elegant a good CSS–based layout can be.
CSS hacks are what's killing the argument. The fact that the default font size for each browser is different and that box models are broken for a large percentage of users is why people used to the four horsemen of the body tag, marginwidth and so forth, don't exactly see the grass as being greener. Can you blame them?
The bottom line is that people use what works. And right now, both work, with their own quirks. Some stay in the past, others are looking to the future. We've started seeing the shift from the one to the other, and this will continue, that's not in question. So the question you have to ask yourself is if you're going to be stuck behind, a relic of the dot–com boom, or if you're going to evolve with the rest of us.
It's been a slow transition. But it's a transition, and we are moving forward.
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I'd say the Bell and Star Choice comparison is a bit different. There you have two companies directly competing, holding on to their formats for dear life to win the most eyeballs. Think Microsoft and Netscape in the 90's.
What we have now is more along the lines of screwdrivers. If you have to unscrew a Phillips screw, you've got the right screwdriver in your box. Anyone can sell 'em, so it's more or less an open standard. (watch someone correct me and tell me there's a license fee involved…)
Anyway, point being, of course, that we have open standards that a lot of browser manufacturers support, including the big ones. No one browser can dictate the standards, they're open for everyone. Now that we have Mozilla-spawn and Safari to make things interesting again, I would say we're going to see more choice amongst users. Which makes it more important than ever to have standard code. Sure, implementations are going to be quirky. Font sizes are inconsistent, box models break. But they're getting them right. I'll be happy enough the day when IE5 is in the same position that NS4.7 is right now - the last hanger-on. At least it's far less broken.
Interesting point about forward compatibility. It's about audience alright. I fully agree that some sites, say Slashdot, CNet, and Apple for example, should be assuming their users have a clue and have browsers more recent than v5. Sites catering to poorer countries, lower income brackets, and schools of all stripes should think long and hard before axing backwards-compatiblity.
coding for compliancy means more than just a simple answer for browser/platform compatibility; it places the information ahead of the visual design. we're at a point where superfluous websites masked with flash and actionscript are no longer *wow*ing the audience. the audience is going back to the original reason why they had initial wandered onto the site, the information.
my view on XHTML, CSS, and the whole compliancy thing is mixed. although i completely agree that designers should compensate for web-related rules (as much as print designers should understand the rules and boundaries that are involved with print), whichever method used to create websites will all have problems. quirks, hacks, and workarounds still exist in xhtml just as much as there are quirks and hacks for non-compliant html.
the best example i can give is satellite TV. large companies understand that controlling the individual channels means profit. we have BELL and we have star choice. dont expect compliancy between the two because this is how they make their profit; selling specialized hardware amongst other things. browsers arent any more different in this sense because browsers each want something proprietary or unique. instead of controlling channels, they want to control website/pages. being proprietary means making profit even though it will piss off developers.
ultimately, i believe compliancy revolves around the clients' targeted audience. if the client (the owner of the website) is willing to axe off old users and abandon backwards compatibility, this will be great for fowards-compatible sites. however, this isnt (and shouldnt) be the case with all clients. each client has unique audiences and it's up to the developers to develop a product FOR the client/audience. developers who lean towards backwards OR forwards compatibility usually do so because they find one method to be easier; they're just being LAZY. like the founding leaders of FORD initially said "you can have any color of car you want… so long as it's black". we dont work with clients in this manner anymore, nor should we strive to.
The Truth About The Standards Mafia Scam
the overwhelming majority of big time corporate lawyers agree that these 'standards/accessibility' mafia scammers are totally misinterpreting 'section 508', which is an illegal regulation that exceeds its enabling statute, which has a lot of safe havens and exceptions, and which does not say what these standards/accessibility' mafia scammers say it says.
indeed, NO major govt agency website 'validates':
Library of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
In fact, Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank:
'The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Microsoft a five-year, $90 million contract to provide desktop and server software. The agreement, which will be managed by Dell Computer, will cover 140,000 desktops.'
it's pretty pathetic that these 'standards/accessibility' mafia scammers are in reality one or more of the following:
ex-employees of anti-Microsoft companies who are now jobless because they didn't bring $ to their employers
soon-to-be jobless ex-employees of failing anti-Microsoft companies that can't compete and don't bring $ to their shareholders
anti-Microsoft losers schilling out lame 'webdesign skills' to 'update' websites that they themselves 'designed' so badly in the first place
anti-Microsoft losers schilling out lame 'webdesign' books with spam banner ads on their and their lemming followers' lame looking websites
anti-Microsoft losers schilling out lame 'validators' and knowingly and falsely misrepresenting bureaucratic regs
anti-Microsoft 'the sky is falling' chicken little losers who can't code and are envious of those of us who can
anti-Microsoft 'open sourcers' who say they have more eyes to fix bugs yet who are blind to the fact that the quality of programmers not quantity is what counts, and who, after all these years still can't give away their free buggy browsers because crappy code simply can't compete in the marketplace
'standards/accessibility' mafia scammers 'talk the talk' but when it comes right down to it they really don't care about free choice or free speech, much less the rights of the poor oppressed + downtrodden disabled amongst us. they're just there to force us to waste our precious time + $ – not for the benefit of handicapped people – but for downloading/buying their buggy 'browsers'/crappy 'code'/boring 'books'/vacuous 'validators'/etc.
Indeed this thread should be dead when you have people spouting ridiculous statements about "Accessibility" and pointing to validation failures.
Don't talk about something you know absolutely nothing about.
Validating to a standard has little/nothing to do with accessibility. While being standards compliant and validating to one of those many recomendations might begin to get you on the road to accessibility you can create painfully inaccessible sites that validate perfectly. Likewise you can create painfully non-compliant sites that are excellent when it comes to accessibility.
Rules on accessibility state that you have to make every "reasonable" effort. Yes reasonable is up for interpretation. But basically you just have to show that you put effort into making a site accessible.
It doesn't take buying books, buying software, getting certified or anything else that you might think is a scam. The guidelines are all available for free on the internet. The tools to create and validate the code are all free. Accessibility is not some tool of the devil, it's not something that MS has a lock on, and it's not some conspiracy. Get a life and actually read up on a subject before you go spouting all this FUD.
"because crappy code simply can't compete in the marketplace"
So, if you think about it, I guess that�s why Microsoft *must* be a monopoly
"they're just there to force us to waste our precious time + $"
I can understand how you can "waste" time downloading software, documentation, etc. Just explain how something that is free wastes my money…
And I find it funny how you talk about free speech/choice when you categorize the world as Microsoft goodness and "anti-Microsoft losers" ; some choice…
Sorry for not letting this thread die… I just had to chime in.
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Sundried Tomato Basil Pesto Canapes - Easy
Sunday afternoon I was reinstalled as co-prez of the local Hadassah chapter (you can read a quick explanation about Hadassah at one of my posts or at the Hadassah national site). Dinner was dairy/veg potluck. I opted to bring an appetizer.
Except I wasn't sure what to make. Then the other day at the local Try-n-Save, I saw a jar of sun-dried tomatoes beckoning me.
Hmmmm ... I could make something quick and simple using sun-dried tomatoes. Maybe start with some cream cheese and top with the tomatoes. Sounds great, but needs a bit more. I know! Top that with a dollop of basil pesto. I invented a winner! Woo-hoo!
Well ... not quite. It seems as if I reinvented the wheel. The wheel in question is a torta, a layered round of herbed cream cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto.
Here, instead of having Hadassah ladies make the effort of mashing the torta in and about, then spreading a spoonful onto a baguette slice while juggling filled plates, I made the executive decision of pre-spreading the separate layers decoratively onto thin slices of French bread. Since it turned out that there were several other dip-type foods in attendance, my pre-spreads stood out outstanding.
Neufchatel (light) cream cheese could be substituted, but with the large amount of food we all brought to the potluck, the tiny amount of full-fat cream cheese wouldn't kill any diet. Too much, anyway ...
I recommend French baguettes, rather than Italian. They are both essentially the same ingredients, but French bread has a smaller diameter, making cute little one-bite canapes. I used Italian bread so the canapes were two-bites, but no one seemed repulsed.
Sun-dried Tomato Basil Pesto Canapes - Easy
Makes 30 canapes, give or take
1/2 of an Italian bread or French baguette
8 oz. brick cream cheese, softened at room temperature for 30-60 minutes
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
4 oz. jar of sun-dried tomatoes packed with oil
1/2 of a 6 oz. jar of basil pesto
Preheat broiler. Slice the baguette as humanly possible. Place slices in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet and broil for 1 minute or until nicely browned (don't wander off! They go from barely toasted to BURNT in an eyeblink!). Flip slices and broil another 30-60 or until other side is browned a bit. Remove slices from baking sheet and set aside.
Lightly drain sun-dried tomatoes. Leave a bit of oil clinging to tomatoes for extra flavor. If tomatoes did not come pre-chopped, coarsely chop tomatoes in food processor (you'll see why in a moment). Mine didn't, so I did.
Then scrape out the contents, leaving some bits and oil behind for the next step.
Place cream cheese in the processor bowl. Process until softened up and looks almost like frosting. Add salt and pepper; then process another 10-15 seconds or until the flavored oil and spices are evenly incorporated.
On each toasted slice, spread about 1/2 teaspoon of cream cheese mixture. To speed up the process a bit, I dumped the cream cheese mixture into a sandwich bag and cut off the corner, then piped the mixture onto the toasted slices.
TIP ALERT! Cut off a smaller corner than you think you need. It's always easier to make the hole larger than smaller. I had to gently remove excess mixture off almost every baguette slice before continuing.
Spoon 1/2 teaspoon of sun-dried tomato on top. I used a demi-tasse spoon; the slices are really smaller than they appear here.
Follow with a 1/2 teaspoon of pesto. Arrange decoratively on serving platter.
Looks a little Christmas-y. Or Italian-y. Either way, they were yumm-y!
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It's that time of year again, when we all develop that natural inclination to reach for something bubbly. From the festive ceremony of opening a bottle, to the golden (and sometimes rose and ruby) color, to the brimming effervescence and lively mouthfeel, sparkling wine has so many traits that make it ideal for capping off moments of celebration. And while a fresh pour of nicely chilled Italian prosecco or Spanish cava or French Champagne on its own can be a delightful beverage, sparkling wine cocktails can be even more dynamic and fun.
The history of sparking cocktails is a rich one; several classics immediately come to mind, such as the elegant French 75, the fruity Bellini, and the sweet, crisp Champagne cocktail. Today's bartenders have been busy mining this vein, not only turning out novel interpretations of some old favorites but also taking the cocktail category in exciting new directions.
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Rating: Three stars out of five
In the opening moments of "Girl Gone Wild," the aerobic workout that kicks off MDNA, Madonna goes to the naughty-Catholic-girl default position once more and recites the act of contrition. Later, in "I'm a Sinner," she offers up a tongue-in-cheek prayer with a backbeat to the Blessed Mother, Jesus Christ, and a few saints.
But with playful blasphemy having lost its ability to shock and musical progeny like Lady Gaga staking their own claim on the turf of irreverence, what does Madge have left to sell us?
Whatever it is, it wouldn't be found in the album's lyrics, which are mostly vapid and infantile. "I'm your biggest fan, it's true / Hopelessly attracted to you / You can have the keys to my car / I'll play you a song on my guitar," she sings on the pop trifle Superstar.
Leonard Cohen can rest easy tonight.
To be fair, that's not news: Surely no one looks to Madonna for poetic insight. And it wouldn't be an issue if MDNA weren't being touted as a confessional album, addressing the 2008 rupture of the singer's marriage to Guy Ritchie.
Granted, there's not much room for levels of interpretation in lines like, "I tried to be a good girl / I tried to be your wife / Diminished myself / And I swallowed my life," in "I Don't Give A." Nor do we doubt whom the violent revenge fantasy "Gang Bang" is aimed at ("Now drive, bitch, and while you're at it, die, bitch!"). But cathartic as those words may be (you can already hear arenas filled with spurned lovers shouting along) and interesting as it is to hear some heartache in the Material Girl's repertoire, few verses on the disc would cut it on the printed page.
In the end, once again, you're left to consider how effective a dance-pop album this is. It's a reverse dancing-about-architecture dilemma, because the BPM foundations, vocoders, bubbly pop songs and banks of flatulent synths here are meant for the feet, not the mind. But Madonna's work seems to have forced a generation of critics to apply the same thoughtful analysis to dance-floor disposability as they do to Bob Dylan, Neil Young or Elvis Costello, so the question of how it fares musically is a legitimate one.
The truth is, on that level, MDNA is often hard to resist. The minimalist thump, static synth and two-note melody that announce "Gang Bang" are instantly compelling and build with astonishing studio smarts (although the listing of eight names in the song's writing credits -it took three to write the Beatles' Revolver -speaks volumes about the triumph of production over songcraft in contemporary popular music).
Also impressive are the dramatic Cirque du Soleil feel of the concluding section of "I Don't Give A" and the haunting closer "Falling Free," in which Madonna, strumming a guitar and supported by actual live strings, shows us the artist within.
With much help from William Orbit (Ray of Light), who, once again, plays a key production role, along with Marco "Benny" Benassi, Martin Solveig and other knob-twiddlers, Madonna, at 53, has at the very least kept her crown. Younger pretenders to the dance-pop throne, like Gaga and Katy Perry, clearly have a way to go before they can catch up with her.
Or, as Nicki Minaj puts it in her guest appearance on "I Don't Give A," "Only one queen and that's Madonna - bitch."


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Gavin Scores 10th Goal Of Season For Yale
NEW YORK – As has been the case throughout the season, Columbia was very efficient Saturday against Yale. The Lions had 16 shots but scored on three of them en route to a 3-1 victory at the Rocco B. Commisso Soccer Stadium.
Melissa Gavin scored for the Bulldogs, her team leading 10th of the season.
The game was scoreless until late in the first half when Columbia's Alexa Yow was taken down in the box. Chelsea Ryan then converted the penalty kick.
The Lions (8-5-3, 1-3-2 Ivy) scored again just 1:10 into the second half when Beverly Leon streaked down the left side and slipped a shot inside the post.
Phoenetia scored the final Columbia goal on a blast from the left side at 61:22.
Gavin's goal came on a penalty kick after a foul was called in the box.
The loss snapped Yale's three-game unbeaten streak. The Bulldogs are now 7-6-1 overall and 2-3-1 in Ivy play.
Columbia finished with a 16-12 edge in shots.
Goalkeeper Elise Wilcox made four saves for the Bulldogs.
Yale closes out the season with a pair of games against Brown next weekend. Friday is the Ivy game at 7 p.m. at Reese Stadium. The two teams play again in Providence on Sunday in a game that won't count in the Ivy standings.
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While the establishment news media brought plenty of bad economic news in 2011, the real story hasn't been adequately told.
The true rate of unemployment and inflation and the real state of the U.S. economy, which is far worse than reported, tops WND's annual list of the 10 most "spiked" or underreported stories of the last year.
At the end of each year, many news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months.
WND's editors, however, long have considered it more newsworthy to publicize the most underreported or unreported news events of the year – to shine a spotlight on those issues that the establishment media successfully "spiked."
WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored "Operation Spike" every year since 1988, and since founding WND in May 1997, has continued the annual tradition.
Produced with the help of WND readers, here are the WND editors' picks for the 10 most underreported or unreported stories of 2011:
1. The true rate of unemployment and inflation and the real state of the U.S. economy, which is far worse than reported.
President Obama
When the Obama administration prepared to finance a 2011 budget deficit expected to top $1.6 trillion, the American public was largely unaware that the true negative net worth of the federal government reached $76.3 trillion last year.
The figure was five times the 2010 gross domestic product of the United States and exceeded the estimated gross domestic product for the world by approximately $14.4 trillion, according to economist John Williams.
Statistics compiled by Williams, based on the 2010 Financial Report of the United States Government, demonstrate the real 2010 federal budget deficit was $5.3 trillion, not the $1.3 trillion reported by the Congressional Budget Office.
The difference between the $1.3 trillion "official" 2010 federal budget deficit numbers and the $5.3 trillion budget deficit is that the official budget deficit is calculated on a cash basis, where all tax receipts, including Social Security tax receipts, are used to pay government liabilities as they occur.
"The government cannot raise taxes high enough to bring the budget into balance," Williams said. "You could tax 100 percent of everyone's income and 100 percent of corporate profits and the U.S. government would still be showing a federal budget deficit on a GAAP accounting basis."
Meanwhile, the government's own statistics showed in December that if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11 percent.
While the Obama administration touted a November unemployment rate of 8 percent, much of it was a result of people leaving the labor force, not because they've become sick or too old, but because they have been unable to find a job and have stopped trying.
What's more, the seasonally-adjusted rate adjusted for long-term discouraged workers – who were defined out of official existence in 1994 – was more than 22 percent in November.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics broadest measure of unemployment, which includes the short-term discouraged and other marginally attached works, along with part-time workers who can't find full-time employment is more than 15 percent.
Methodological shifts in government reporting also have depressed reported inflation. If inflation were calculated the way it was in 1990, the annual rate would be nearly 7 percent.
2. The Justice Department's "Fast and Furious" operation, which facilitated the delivery of American firearms into Mexico to violent drug cartels, later used in the murder of hundreds, including a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Eric Holder
The aim was to trace guns to the "big fish" in the cartel, but the practice of "gunwalking" put thousands of weapons on the street that have been used in hundreds of murders.
Two guns found at the scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's murder by cartel killers were traced to guns the ATF deliberately allowed to be sold to known cartel straw buyers in American gun shops in violation of federal gun laws. Justice Department records turned over to congressional investigators also showed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata was gunned down by cartel killers using a pistol purchased by a straw buyer in Texas with cartel ties. ATF agents knew of the buyer's cartel ties but did nothing to prevent the sale or the shipment of the gun to Mexico.
CBS News, the only establishment news agency to investigate the scandal, uncovered emails showing that Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department has used the proliferation of cartel weapons to call for expanded gun control regulations.
In October, Holder lashed out at Congress members holding him accountable for the scandal, calling them "irresponsible" and guilty of "inflammatory rhetoric."
In the letter, he claimed he first heard of "Fast and Furious" when Border Patrol agent Terry was assassinated in December 2010. But he had told Congress in May that he "became aware" of "Fast and Furious" only "a few weeks ago."
Furthermore, the Justice Department released five censored memos from July and August 2010 addressed to Holder that referred to the program by name.
3. The organizations and money behind the supposedly "leaderless" Occupy Wall Street movement.
Adbusters poster mobilizing participation in Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy movement was caught red-handed operating a nerve center staffed by professional agitators deeply tied to groups funded by billionaire activist George Soros.
The radical connections have been largely missed by the general public. CNN, the only news media outlet to receive exclusive access to Occupy's alleged headquarters, did not fully identify the activists found running it.
Activist Han Shan, for example, is the former program director for the Tides Center-funded Ruckus Society and an activist with the Tides-funded Adbusters.
Shan was listed as the contact person for protests outside the 2000 Democratic National Convention that were sponsored by both Adbusters and Ruckus.
The Tides-funded Adbusters magazine is reported to have come up with the Occupy Wall Street idea after Arab Spring protests toppled governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The Adbusters website serves as a central hub for Occupy's planning.
The Tides-funded Ruckus Society has been providing direct-action training to Occupy protesters as well as official training resources, including manuals, to Occupy training groups. Ruckus, which helped spark the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle, was also listed as a "friend and partner" of the Occupy Days of Action in October.
Another grantee of Tides is MoveOn.org, which has joined Occupy.
A public relations firm closely partnered with the Tides Foundation represented the anti-Wall Street march past millionaires' homes in New York.
Fenton Communications has been behind the public relations strategy of a who's who of far-left causes, organizations and activists, from Soros himself to Health Care for America Now to crafting strategies for MoveOn.org and a litany of anti-war groups.
The company was founded in 1982 by David Fenton, an activist who served as a photographer for Bill Ayers' domestic Weather Underground terror group.
Fenton serves on the board of numerous Tides-funded groups, while his firm represents more than 30 Tides Center grantees.
4. The role of leftwing groups and the Obama administration in the fall of Arab regimes and the rise of Islamic radicals.
George Soros
Billionaire activist George Soros has funded opposition organizations in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, where anti-regime chaos toppled the pro-Western leader of Tunisia and the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, a key U.S. ally, among others.
Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the main opposition leaders in Egypt, sat on the board of an international "crisis management" group alongside Soros and other personalities who champion dialogue with Hamas, a violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood, which seeks to spread Islam around the world by first creating an Islamic caliphate in Egypt, backed ElBaradei.
Soros leads an international "crisis management" group that long has petitioned for the Egyptian government to normalize ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. It released a report urging the Egyptian regime to allow the Brotherhood to establish an Islamist political party.
Soros' Open Society also funded the main opposition voice in Tunisia, Radio Kalima, which championed the riots there that led to the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
In September, Soros' group was looking to expand its operations in Egypt by hiring a new project manager for its Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, which is run in partnership with the Open Society Justice Initiative. The group is seeking to develop a national network of legal empowerment actors for referral of public-interest law cases. Such organizations in the past have helped represent Muslim Brotherhood leaders seeking election or more authority in the country.
Soros himself made public statements in support of the protests in Egypt, which the Mubarak government warned would result in the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country.
In a Washington Post editorial, ElBaradei recognized that if free elections were held in Egypt, "the Brotherhood is bound to emerge as a major political force, though it is far from assured of a majority."
Soros singled out Israel as "the main stumbling block" in paving the way toward transition in the Middle East.
Egypt accused the Obama administration of championing the protests and of pressuring Mubarak to resign.
Mug shots of William Ayers and Bernardine Doh
Months before protests erupted throughout Egypt, President Obama's own associates provoked anti-regime chaos on the streets. WND reported at the time the protests were led by former Weather Underground terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.
Another protest leader was Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, a far-left activist organization formed in 2002 to protest America's war in Iraq. The group previously met with Hamas and with leaders of the Taliban. Evans was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
Also protesting in Egypt was Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the anti-Israel Electronic Intifada website. WND previously reported Obama spoke at pro-Palestinian events in the 1990s alongside Abunimah. At one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for Palestinian "refugees," Abunimah recalls introducing Obama on stage.
Ayers and Dohrn were two of the main founders of the Weather Underground, which bombed the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. The group was responsible for some 30 bombings aimed at destroying the defense and security infrastructures of the U.S.
5. Compelling evidence from multiple experts that the birth certificate released by Barack Obama on April 27, 2011, is a fraud.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking to the Eastern Orlando Tea Party Nov. 12 in Orlando, Fla., about his investigation of Barack Obama's eligibility. (WND photo)
When Barack Obama announced in the spring that he was finally releasing his birth certificate after two-and-a-half years of battling court cases and ridiculing requests to prove his presidential eligibility, he declared it was time to "get serious" and move on.
It was no accident that one week before the April 27 release, some of the startling findings of two-time No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jerome Corsi's then-upcoming blockbuster book declaring Obama ineligible for the White House, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" were leaked on the most influential news and political page on the Internet, the Drudge Report.
The publicity drove the book immediately to No. 1 on Amazon.com one month before its scheduled release and obviously caught the attention of the White House.
The White House declared in April that the issue had finally been put to rest, and the public could see the document that served as "proof positive" that Obama was born in Honolulu and fulfilled the constitutional requirements for the presidency. But more than 20 document and computer imaging specialists who examined the online image either have questioned its authenticity or declared it outright to be fraudulent.
Since then, famed Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio has commissioned a "Cold Case Posse" of former cops and lawyers to investigate Obama's eligibility for Arizona's 2012 presidential ballot.He promises a report early in the new year.
Arpaio has been careful about revealing details of his probe, but when WND asked him whether he commissioned the posse merely out of obligation to his constituents or because he was personally persuaded by the evidence, he replied: "The old saying, 'Where there is smoke … .'"
Arapaio told WND the investigation is complex, and his team is "putting a lot of time into this, looking into it 24 hours a day."
"They're living this thing," the sheriff said. "I think they almost dream about it at night, with all the stuff that's come."
The experts who initially raised questions on blogs and Web forums about the document released by the White House April 27 contended it looked like it was fraudulently manufactured because it is composed of multiple layers.
Some pundits who took note of the layer argument, however, quickly dismissed it after some graphic artists pointed out that the format in which Obama's document was released, Portable Document Format, or PDF, is typically composed of multiple images.
The next day, however, a computer document specialist in Tampa with 28 years experience in the field concluded the multiple layers of the PDF document were not normal.
He was followed by a raft of others who in unequivocal terms declared it fraudulent.
In all, nearly two dozen experts contacted Corsi of their own initiative, explaining they had offered their work to many mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times, but were rejected.
6. The true mission of Islamic groups such as CAIR and other U.S.-based Muslim Brotherhood-front organizations and their infiltration of the U.S.
JROTC cadets on the USS Theodore Roosevelt
After intervention by the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Defense Department reportedly decided it will now allow Muslim students participating in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps to wear headscarves and turbans while in uniform.
The decision marked the latest influence by controversial Islamic groups on military affairs.
WND previously broke the story that an Islamic group that has been closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and was named by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas – the Islamic Society of North America – is the official endorsing agency for the U.S. Armed Forces Muslim chaplain program.
ISNA also runs regular events for the military's Muslim chaplains.
WND also reported the Army's Muslim chaplain program was founded by a terror-supporting convict while the Army's first Islamic chaplain, who is still serving, has been associated with a charity widely accused of serving as an al-Qaida front.
FBI agents arresting CAIR founding director Ghassan Elashi in 2002.
In December, five jihadists behind a Texas-based scheme by the Muslim Brotherhood to channel millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas under the guise of a charity had their convictions upheld by a federal appeals court.
The Holy Land Foundation at one time was the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. The five convicted Muslims include a member of the founding board of directors of the Texas branch of CAIR, Ghassan Elashi, who is serving a 65-year sentence.
The Justice Department named CAIR's national organization, based in Washington, D.C., an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.
Former assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, who prosecuted the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said that the Obama administration would do well to take note of the Fifth Circuit's December decision.
"Given the lengths to which the current administration goes to portray the Muslim Brotherhood – inside and outside the United States – as a 'moderate,' 'largely secular' organization," he said, "it's nice to see any part of government recognize it for what it is: an Islamist conglomerate dedicated to the destruction of Israel and committed to raising millions of dollars to support accomplishing that end through a jihadist war."
CAIR, meanwhile, is suing a father-and-son team that conducted an undercover probe that came up with 12,000 pages of internal documents confirming the group's role as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas in the U.S. The findings were published in the WND Books best-selling expose "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America"
CAIR complained in October that it was unfair for the Department of Homeland Security to single out Muslims for observation, even though some 3,094 people have been killed in 66 Islamic terror attacks in the United States in the last decade.
CAIR has been distressed with proposals in Congress that would authorize the federal department to appoint an official to coordinate efforts to deter and prevent such attacks. The Muslim group is urging Muslims "and other people of conscience" to lobby members of Congress to oppose Senate Bill 1546, which calls for the DHS secretary to "designate an official … to coordinate efforts to counter violent extremism in the United States, particularly the ideology that gives rise to Islamist terrorism as identified in the 9/11 Commission Report."
A related proposal in the House calls for the DHS secretary "to designate an official of the department to coordinate efforts to counter homegrown violent Islamist extremism, including the violent ideology of al-Qaida and its affiliated groups, in the United States."
Two Republican candidates, when asked, pledged to investigate CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood related groups for terrorism-related activities, including the Islamic Society of North America.
Herman Cain said the federal government has been "too permissive of those kinds of organizations in this country for the sake of political correctness."
Newt Gingrich said he would "support an attorney general who would look very aggressively at prosecuting any group which supports terrorism or which sends money to terrorism or which encourages terrorism."
The former House speaker said "we should be much more aggressively challenging" groups like CAIR.
"I think groups that are dedicated to replacing the United States or to destroying the United States we should actively pursue, just as we did communists and just as we did the Nazis," Gingrich said.
7. The real impact on the U.S. economy of Obama's $787 billion stimulus.
President Obama
The Congressional Budget Office in November downgraded its estimate of the benefits of President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, saying it may have sustained as few as 700,000 jobs at its peak last year and that over the long run it will actually be a net drag on the economy.
While the Recovery Act boosted the economy in the short term, the extra debt generated by the stimulus "crowds out" private investment and "will reduce output slightly in the long run – by between 0 and 0.2 percent after 2016."
The Obama administration had promised that at the peak of spending, 3.5 million jobs would be produced.
Meanwhile, Obama's stimulus bill has benefited many of the president's associates, including those who helped craft the legislation.
An adviser to Obama who played a key role in developing the energy provisions of the bill, TJ Glauthier, has served on the boards of several companies that recently received government funds, including hundreds of millions in stimulus money.
In addition to serving on the boards of major energy companies, Glauthier previously held two presidential appointments during the Clinton administration. He was the Energy Department's deputy secretary and chief operating officer, the second-highest ranking official.
Stimulus legislation also helped to fund an education initiative associated with Weather Underground terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.
8. The harmful impact of unions on the American economy.
As Thomas Sowell wrote in a column published by WND, unions "specialize in siphoning off wealth created by others."
"The most fundamental fact about labor unions is that they do not create any wealth," he said.
Sowell pointed to a bill the Obama administration is trying to push through Congress, called the "Employee Free Choice Act," as the best example of "the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding."
"Employees' free choice as to whether or not to join a union is precisely what that legislation would destroy," he said.
As more and more workers in the private sector have voted to reject union representation, the unions' answer has been to take away secret-ballot elections, he noted.
Under the "Employee Free Choice Act," unions would not have to win in secret-ballot elections in order to represent the workers. Instead, union representatives could simply collect signatures from the workers until they had a majority.
While private-sector workers, using secret-ballot elections, have increasingly voted against being represented by unions in secret-ballot elections, government unions continue to thrive as taxpayers "provide their free lunch."
John Stossel noted in a WND column how "politicians obtain union political support by granting government workers generous pensions and health benefits, leaving taxpayers liable for trillions in unfunded promises
Only 8 percent of private-sector workers still belong to unions, Stossel pointed out.
"In the private sector, wage and pension demands are tempered by competition," he explained. "If one company pays too much, a competitor takes his business."
But governments are monopolies," Stossel said. "They face no competition and get their money by force. So they can conspire with public-sector unions to milk taxpayers. That explains the fix we're in today."
In September, Teamsters union President James Hoffa, addressing a large Labor Day rally, brazenly proclaimed that labor unions – especially the huge government employee unions like the 3-million-member National Education Association and 2-million-member Service Employees International Union – provide the ground troops in the ongoing war to "fundamentally transform" America into a socialist utopia.
"President Obama, this is your army! We are ready to march! Let's take these son-of-a-b*tches out and give America back to an America where we belong," he shouted, referring to the tea party movement.
The Obama administration has been generously "funding" the union army since the inauguration, from the General Motors bailout, which blatantly favored union workers, to Obamacare, whose burdensome new regulations don't apply to many unions thanks to special White House waivers. Obama's early executive order required all federal agencies to accept construction bids only from contractors who agree to use union workers, and he packed the D.C. bureaucracy with union officials.
Unions tied to Obama also have played a large role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The protests are closely tied to the founders of ACORN and leaders of major U.S. unions, including the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.
Stephen Lerner, an SEIU board member who reportedly visited the Obama White House at least four times, called for "civil disobedience" and "direct action" to begin Sept. 17 at Wall Street.
His stated aim was to "destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement."
In an interview about the planned protests, Lerner outlined his goals: "How do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich?"
9. The looming potential for an EMP attack on the U.S. and its devastating impact.
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In a Republican presidential-candidate debate in November hosted by CNN, Newt Gingrich brought up a threat to U.S. national security that no other candidate had discussed, an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack that "would literally destroy the country's capacity to function."
Business Insider commented that "at first, we thought Gingrich had been playing too many video games, but after looking into it, it turns out EMP attacks are actually real and pretty damn scary."
In August, James Jay Carafano of the Heritage Foundation underscored its potential devastating effects in a paper titled "Clear and Present Danger: Time for a National EMP Awareness Day."
"Communications would collapse, transportation would halt, and electrical power would simply be nonexistent," Carafano said. "Not even a global humanitarian effort would be enough to keep hundreds of millions of Americans from death by starvation, exposure, or lack of medicine."
William R. Graham, who led a 2008 congressional study on the effects of an EMP attack on the U.S., said an attack over the middle of the continental U.S. "has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures that support the fabric of U.S. society and the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence and military power."
Graham, the science adviser to President Ronald Reagan, warned that several "potential adversaries have the capability to attack the United States with a high-altitude nuclear weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse, and others appear to be pursuing efforts to obtain that capability."
Iran appears to be one of those nations in pursuit of the weapon.
Reza Kahlili, an ex-CIA spy who is a senior fellow with EMPact America, wrote that Iran's Revolutionary Guards have now armed all their naval vessels with surface-to-surface ballistic missiles and have announced they soon will start missions in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Guards have also announced the ability to transfer technology under their space project to solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach any target on the planet.
EMPactAmerica is a bipartisan organization for citizens concerned about protecting the American people from a nuclear or natural EMP catastrophe. It is lobbying Congress for the SHIELD Act, which would empower the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to work with industry and other government departments and agencies to protect the national electric grid from EMP threats
10. The federal government's raid of the Gibson Guitar factory.
Armed agents from the Justice and Homeland Security Departments raided the offices and factories of the legendary Gibson Guitar company in Nashville and Memphis in August for the second time since President Obama took office.
Wearing bulletproof vests, the agents sent workers home and seized almost 100 guitars and boxes of raw materials, according to Gibson Chief Executive Officer Henry Juszkiewicz.
The raid, seeking illegally imported wood, incensed Tea Party groups and Republican lawmakers such as House Speaker John Boehner, who called it another example of an overreaching big government.
"The company's costs as a result of the raid?" Boehner said in a Washington speech on Sept. 15. "An estimated $2-to-3 million. Why? Because Gibson bought wood overseas to make guitars in America. Seriously."
In the previous raid two and a half years ago, over wood from Madagascar, the company was never charged.
The agents in August were investigating possible violations of the Lacey Act, which was enacted in 1900 to curb trafficking in fish and wildlife and expanded in 2008 to cover plants and plant products.
The raiders seized 6,000 fingerboards made of rosewood from India. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed the wood was exported unfinished, violating an Indian law that made it subject to the Lacey Act.
But India's deputy director-general of foreign trade said in a September letter that the fingerboard is "a finished product and not wood in primary form," and India allows free export of such products.
Agents "bum-rushed the building" and herded employees out so quickly that many left belongings behind, according to floor manager Johnny Alexander.
"They treated us like we were going to run back into the building and destroy guitars."


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Research Application.docThe OCDSB participates in a range of research projects and surveys which support student learning and well-being. Please review our Research Guidelines if you are interested in submitting a request for district participation in research projects and surveys. Research proposals are reviewed by the Ottawa-Carleton Research and Evaluation Advisory Committee.
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