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Belhaven University does recognize Advanced Placement (AP) and College-Level Examination Program (CLEP). Official score reports must be sent directly to Belhaven University from the Educational Testing Service. High school transcripts with scores are not considered official notification of scores. Credit will be awarded once the office of the registrar has received the official qualifying scores and the student has met with the department chair to determine how the credit will be allocated. Students planning to enter professional school should verify that AP credit is accepted by the professional school they plan to attend. (All alternative credit must not exceed 30 credit hours toward the undergraduate degree.)
Advanced Placement Tests
A score of 3, 4, or 5 is required on an Advanced Placement exam. Students with scores of 3, 4, or 5 on the AP Test of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) will have earned, upon admission, up to eight semester hours credit granted in any one field.
Credits granted carry no grade and are not used in computing a quality point index but may be used toward a major or minor. Elective credit may also be given.
College Level Examination Program (CLEP)
Advanced placement and credit may be awarded to students who earn at least the minimum scores recommended by the American Council on Education (ACE) on the subject examinations (not the general examinations). Once the office of the registrar has received the official qualifying scores and the student has met with the department chair, credit will be awarded. Any student wishing to be exempt from certain degree requirements should take the appropriate advanced placement test of the CEEB.
Correspondence or Online Work
A student may apply a maximum of six semester hours of correspondence or online credit to satisfy degree requirements. The registrar must approve correspondence work in advance. Credit in major courses or core courses for degrees may not be earned by correspondence or online.
International Baccalaureate Program
College credit will be granted to those high school students enrolling in Belhaven University who have completed courses in the International Baccalaureate Program with a score of five or better on each higher level examination. The courses for which credit will be awarded will be those subject courses that are a part of Belhaven's general education core.
Experiential Learning Credit: (Maximum credit - 15 hours)
In order for experiential credit to be granted officially and recorded on the transcript, the applicant must have completed successfully a minimum of 12 semester hours of academic coursework at Belhaven. This type of credit may be approved by faculty in various departments through portfolios with a maximum of 15 hours of elective credit only. (Experiential credit in dance may be awarded for major credit with the approval of the dean of fine arts and the provost.) This type of credit is not transferable into or out of Belhaven University. The process for experiential credit should be completed prior to the beginning of the last course required for degree completion in the adult studies program or before the senior year in the traditional program. Assessment Fee - $150 paid at time portfolio is turned in for assessment; $75 per semester hour of credit awarded paid in full before credits are posted to transcript.
Portfolio I
Credit for professional, biblical, or technical courses, licenses, certifications, workshops, etc. or for courses taken at non-regionally accredited institutions can be awarded if documented thoroughly. Faculty members assess the validity of substantial documentation based on completion, clock hours, and content. The Portfolio I must include a r-sum-, an autobiographical sketch, and value of learning statement for each topic area. One semester hour of credit may be awarded for 20 hours of instruction that is determined by faculty to be college level. (Per standards set by CAEL)
Portfolio II
Credit for experiential learning can be awarded through an essay-writing process that will document college-level learning. Faculty award credit based upon college-level academic principles evident in the student's writing. The Portfolio II must include a r-sum-, an autobiographical sketch, and thorough documentation of the work experience being described as well as a 12- to 20-page essay describing the learning that occurred from the work experience and the resulting applications both for that situation and for future situations. Students may be referred to the English writing lab if they need aid in developing writing skills.
Credit for Work Completed in Armed Service
Credit for specialized training received in the armed services will be granted on the basis of recommendations published in A Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experiences in the Armed Services. Only those courses or programs that may be regarded as consistent with the curriculum at Belhaven University will be credited toward a degree.
A student who presents evidence of at least six months of military training with an honorable discharge may receive a maximum of four semester hours non-academic credit in physical education.
Credit from alternative credit programs may be given in a specific area in which a student wishes to major or minor, dependent upon departmental policy. Credit in Bible, history, culture, or literature courses from these sources to meet general education curriculum requirements will not be accepted. The maximum total of such credit listed above, in any combination, is 30 semester hours, not to include more than 15 hours of experiential credit. Hours earned through alternative credit programs do not carry quality points and therefore are not considered as residential hours for honors calculations.
Foreign Language Proficiency Exams
Students proving proficiency in a native language other than English will be considered to have met Goal III. Foreign students may not register for credit in their native language. Students may earn college credit for Spanish, French, or German only by taking the CLEP examination at the elementary or intermediate levels. Students may earn up to the required number of credit hours in the general education core for their major in a single language through completion of the CLEP examination with a minimum score of 50 or above or through proficiency credit. The CLEP standardized examination will preclude the use of departmental examinations except in those areas where CLEP examinations are not available.
The method of testing and the level of proficiency to be awarded for languages other than Spanish, French, or German will be determined by the chair of the foreign language department or her designee. For testing other than CLEP, a $100 fee is charged for administering a proficiency exam; an additional fee of $100 is charged if the exam is completed, but no semester hours, grades or quality points will be awarded.
Use this link to the Administration of the Curriculum section of the Catalogue if you have questions about the courses or tests.
Placement in Advanced English
Each year, the department of English selects a limited number of freshmen for placement in Advanced Freshmen English on the basis of scores on the ACT, the English Placement Test of the CEEB, and the Belhaven English Placement Test. Credit by exemption for ENG 101 (CR only, no semester hours, no grade or quality points) will be awarded upon completion of the three-hour course Advanced Freshman English (ENG 121) (with a grade not lower than a C) during the first semester.
Placement in Advanced Language
Students who wish to continue at Belhaven University a language begun in high school should take a language proficiency test to determine the college-level course most consistent with their previous training. Students who have credit for two or more units of a foreign language in high school may receive college credit, though not college hours, for the 101-102 courses in the same language after receiving a C (2.0) or better in 201-202 at Belhaven University. A waiver of language courses, especially 101 and 102, may be granted upon the Language Department's avowal of a student's proficiency. No semester hours, grades or quality points will be awarded.
Those students who are eligible to enter a foreign language course at the 300 level and complete six hours at this level may then elect to take examinations in the intermediate course (201-202) to receive six hours of credit.
Placement in Advanced Mathematics
Students who have had extensive training in mathematics in high school and who wish to continue their study in this area at Belhaven University may enroll in MAT 207 and 208 with the permission of the chairperson of the department of mathematics rather than in a lower level course.
Students who are eligible to enter the course in calculus (MAT 207 and 208) and complete six hours at this level may then elect to take examinations in algebra and trigonometry (MAT 101 and 102) to receive six hours of credit. If a passing grade is achieved on the examination, the credit hours are recorded and a grade of ES (Examination Satisfactory) is assigned. In the event of an unsatisfactory grade, no grade is recorded or credit given. The grade of ES carries credit hours, but no quality points, toward degree requirements.
Use this link to the Administration of the Curriculum section of the Catalogue if you have questions about the courses or tests.
Two-week miniterms are offered twice each year at Belhaven University: one in the spring, and one between fall and spring semesters when allowed by the calendar. These are concentrated courses that make three hours of credit available to students attending 10 class meetings (four hours each); two weekends of reflection time are incorporated in each time frame. A student may enroll in one class only. Residence halls are not open during miniterms.
Summer Session
The summer session of Belhaven University provides an opportunity for students to continue their work leading to a degree and for students from other institutions to earn credits that may be transferred to their own schools. A maximum of 15 hours may be earned during the summer session at Belhaven.
Summer Enrichment Program
A precollege summer enrichment program is available to advanced students who have completed the junior year of high school. Students admitted to the program may earn up to 15 semester hours in regular summer session courses. Full college credit is granted after a student has been accepted on a full-time basis and has satisfactorily completed one semester (at least 12 semester hours) of course work at Belhaven University. For further information contact the director of admission.
Belhaven University students may receive credit for certain courses offered at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Consult the chairman of the department of biology concerning course offerings.
The Belhaven University study travel program provides students with an opportunity to earn academic credit in courses specifically structured to include off-campus travel, domestic or foreign.
Members of the Belhaven University faculty plan the courses, arrange for and conduct the travel portion, and offer detailed instruction on campus before departure and during the time of travel itself.
The content of courses offered in the study travel program is variable. In one case, the emphasis may be on one city, region, or country exclusively, while in another it may cut across geographical boundaries to include historical, literary, artistic, or scientific aspects of several regions or countries.
Each course requires the consent of the instructor and carries three hours of academic credit and a pass/fail grade. There is no limit to the number of credits a student may earn in the program, but each course pursued must have a different emphasis. In some instances, credits may be applied toward the departmental major.


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Reds boss Brendan Rodgers is desperate to find some quality support for Luis Suarez in the striking department and is looking to the Porto striker that Liverpool were linked with on many occasions during the summer, according to talkSPORT.
The report claims Rodgers has been keeping a close eye on Martinez's progress since he joined Porto from Mexican side Jaguares, though Premier League rivals Chelsea have also been credited with an interest.
The northern Irishman is unlikely to have been put off by what he has seen, as the 26-year-old has scored 11 goals in 12 games this season, a better start to his career at Estadio da Dragao than Radamel Falcao, Hulk and Lisandro Lopez.
The report claims Rodgers is now ready to meet the buyout clause in his contract, which they state as £18.5million.
Liverpool's top scorer this season is Suarez with ten goals, but the closest to him are Steven Gerrard, Nuri Sahin and Jonjo Shelvey, all on just three strikes.
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Imagine a city of equilibrium rather than restriction.
A city of embracing its hydrological past as a beginning for a new future.
Imagine a city embracing its almost theme park like, ever-changing, culture as shopping, with prostitution, where everything and everyone is on the market, in the city's search to produce the most economic space on earth.
Imagine a city where the best of everything is available, where innovation happens as a product of the best shopping market practices. A city that everyone likes but maybe does not immediately love. But eventually does.
Imagine a city where in the extension of this thinking is taken to its logical conclusions, where we find a city like no other, a city that in fact becomes the most amazing, constantly changing fantasy, securing its relevance, if only due to its ambitions, and massive ability to change
Imagine a city where change is the norm, where architects live out their fantasies, where the Tower of Babel exists… though rather than reaching for the sky, it reaches out to the sea.
Imagine the solution to Singapore's impending irrelevancy is found precisely in Singapore's unique history of Transformation. Imagine a perfect Gated Community, a continuation of an amazing history of Additions.
A massively engorged island
Could it ever get so big?
Only if the price is right.
The topography has been continually removed
Imagine a 3 meter flood.
Imagine a 5 meter flood
Where will all the heartlander's go?
Preserve the important things. Preservation is always economic in Singapore
Singapore could follow its most famous student Dubai… where teacher finally learns from her student.
Is a New Mangrove the Answer in the shape of palms?
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To love is fight for survival:
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Singapore does both
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And of course on a massive scale.
Flooding insures Singapore's hydrological security. It also put its interior in equilibrium with the rising sea level change.
(We already know what happened in New Orleans due to its defense…)
Floating future Singapore thrusts new development in equilibrium with its surroundings – albeit an ocean one.
A short term expense insures long term viability.
In tough economic times: a new engine for growth.
Keppel Shipyard couldn't be happier. An urban form meets ocean technology at a colossal scale.
Singapore is already surrounded by the world's largest moving structures.
And the Government maybe is in on it already… but where are the Architects?
Only the engineers seem to care.
Self Flooding: A 'New Water' landscape
Flooded Interiors vs. Floating Exteriors
Self Reorganization:
The ocean currents have their way.
Density is the way to go.
Singapore shops for the best of everywhere.
A Grand Architectural Sampling: Co-opt City Strategies rather than invent new ones –
Displacement always forces innovation
Floating Ideal Cities: The Best of Anyplace
A Deformation for Maximum Frontage: Perfect Calibration of Real Estate and value.
A Dramatic Form – We even like what we see from Google Earth
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The Perfect Gated Community on a National Scale.
A return to the defensive city where everything is inside the gate.
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Where perpetual motion is replaced by perpetual change.
Where the promise of Le Corbusier is finally fulfilled.
Where the "void" in the "void deck" returns to the sea: a sea of selfconstructed New Water.
Where Singapore finally returns to its ocean faring roots embracing its uniquely Singaporean history.
A City where its manufacturing talents are retooled for self preservation.
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The Lady Bucs began the game on a 7-0 run through the first two minutes of play before the UNCG offense gained any ground. In the run, Banjo added five points while Nichelle Akers (Sumter, S.C.) added the final lay-up giving ETSU the early advantage. The Spartans regrouped to near the score at 10-7 off of a made free throw by Jasmine Dixon and took the eventual 18-17 lead at the seven minute mark for their first lead of the night. The two teams matching point for point, UNCG managed to improve its lead to 28-22 before two Turman free throws gave the Bucs two crucial points on the board. Heading into the halftime intermission, the Spartans managed the slight 35-32 lead.
For the half, ETSU tallied just eight points in the paint compared to the 18 of the Spartans, while the Bucs posted the biggest lead of the half at eight points with 10 minutes remaining on the first-half clock. Banjo led all scorers with 10 at the half, while Candace Gibson (Warner Robbins,
Knowing how important this game was in conference play, ETSU took the floor in the second half on fire. Jumping out to a 52-39 lead at the 13 minute mark, the Bucs never allowed the Spartans to gain momentum in the second half as the visitors managed just five made shots from the floor in the final period. A solid free throw shooting effort from the Bucs in the second half, as well as key shots from beyond the arc, propelled ETSU to the victory and improved their conference mark to 5-4 for the year.
"Tonight was the best game I've seen our team play all year. Kelly (Turman) and Michelle (DeVault) were key in our victory tonight with the performances they gave us," Lady Bucs head coach Karen Kemp said. "B.J. (Banjo) played great for us at the point, especially against a very tough defensive team. Overall I'm very proud of our effort, we need to continue this momentum in the week ahead."
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The warning track went unheeded by Bryce Harper on Monday night, as will the unsolicited advice about the way he should play the game.
Harper is a hustler, and that's one of the many things to love about him. He doesn't hesitate or meditate or otherwise complicate a sport that often rewards instinct, and Harper's instincts are wildly and often wondrously aggressive.
The warning track went unheeded by Bryce Harper on Monday night, as will the unsolicited advice about the way he should play the game.
Harper is a hustler, and that's one of the many things to love about him. He doesn't hesitate or meditate or otherwise complicate a sport that often rewards instinct, and Harper's instincts are wildly and often wondrously aggressive.
Of course, it is Harper's infectious zeal that also serves to ruffle some feathers -- sometimes even his own. After all, he certainly looked ruffled after his intimate moment with the out-of-town scoreboard at Dodger Stadium.
Chasing an A.J. Ellis fly ball, Harper ran smack-dab into the chain-link fencing in front of the video board, a la Wile E. Coyote. He jammed his left shoulder and needed 11 stitches on his chin. Harper's legs, ribs, hand and wrist all hurt, as did the eyes of anybody who watched the video replay. Though initial tests for concussion came back negative, Harper was still nauseous enough to sit out Tuesday's game, and his status was questionable for Wednesday, as well.
They asked Harper, once the stars had stopped spinning around his head, if he would do it any differently now that he knew the outcome. If he'd hang back and play the ball off the wall -- heck, the Nats were up, 6-0, at the time -- rather than run it down.
"I'm going to play this game the rest of my life and try to play as hard as I can," Harper replied. "That's my life being on the line, trying to kill myself on the field for my team, trying to win the World Series. People can laugh about it all they want, but at the end of the day, I'm going to look at myself at the mirror and say, 'I played this game as hard as I could.'"
Maybe I've bumped my own head a few too many times, but I'm with Harper on this one.
We can't demand our athletes to be passionate, accountable and committed and then, in the next breath, ask them to tone it down when that passion, accountability and commitment has the ability to wreck our fantasy team. We can't expect greatness out of well-compensated professionals unless we allow them to tap into the intangibles that make them great in the first place.
The desire to see Harper tone down his style of play -- a desire articulated often in the aftermath of Monday's incident -- ignores the fundamental, psychobiological issues at play here. The difficulty of behavioral change is the basis upon which such successful enterprises as Nicorette or Weight Watchers are built. People don't outright change so much as they evolve and adhere to their status or circumstances, and so it will be with Harper's high-tempo habits.
People compare this situation to that of Stephen Strasburg, who was famously shut down by the Nationals last September. They wonder how Washington could be so protective of Strasburg yet so willing to let Harper run wild.
It's a faulty comparison, because the Nats simply capped Strasburg's innings at a pre-defined point, lest he get overworked. They didn't ask him to mess with his mechanics or revise his repertoire. They didn't try to turn a power arm into a soft-tosser. And though I'm certain they'd rather Harper not disable himself on the field of play, they're not asking Harper to care less or pace more.
Harper, remember, is still relatively new to the league and his position, which might help explain how the dimensions of Dodger Stadium could sneak up on him, warning track or not. He's also a 20-year-old kid playing in the Major Leagues at an MVP-type level, and that simply doesn't happen without the intellect to adjust and adapt.
I understand and appreciate the concern for Harper. People don't want to see him run into so many walls that he compromises his career. They want to see him in line for the Hall of Fame, not the Halls of Healing. They don't want him to become the next Pete Reiser, the 1941 NL batting champ and NL MVP Award runner-up in his first full season with the Brooklyn Dodgers who never again played as many as 137 games. Reiser played the game as Harper plays it, even once fracturing his skull in pursuit of a ball at the wall.
Because people in my generation hear the name Pete Reiser and assume he's the guy who starred in "Mad About You," how about a more modern example?
I covered Grady Sizemore in his Indians heyday -- a heyday that, in retrospect, was much shorter than any of us could have imagined. He played every single day, he played hard and he played well, notching more than 30 homers, doubles and steals in 2008. But Sizemore's body began to break down by the age of 26, and now, when you hear news of him trying to rehab from his umpteenth knee surgery in the hope that he'll be able to help a team midsummer, well, it makes you somewhat hopeful and mostly sad. To cite yet another NBC sitcom, I used to compare Sizemore to Billy Mumphrey -- a character in an unpublished novel referenced in "Seinfeld" -- in that his "unbridled enthusiasm" led to his downfall.
Harper has that same unbridled enthusiasm, and he answers questions about it much the same way Sizemore did. But as I learned with Grady, it's a waste of time and breath to preach to a person about the value of altering an approach that has made him what he is today.
Better, it seems, to appreciate that approach. After all, it's essentially what we want out of people paid a king's ransom to play a boy's game. It's Harper's body and Harper's career, and he'll do with it as he pleases. But keep in mind that he'll also learn and adapt as that career goes along. Harper's body will give him all the warnings he needs.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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LONDON, UK. — February 3rd, 2009 – Alfresco Software, Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that AQA, the UK examination board, has selected Alfresco to power its new 'Examiner Extranet', enabling up to 30,000 users to have access to exam papers and related documentation online. The extranet will put an end to cumbersome paper-based processes, and provide a simple way to obtain information more quickly, at a lower cost, and with a higher degree of security.
AQA is the largest of the three English exam boards, with students taking over 3.5 million examinations through them each year. They are an independently run registered charity, meaning that all income is used for the setting, marking and administration of public examinations such as GCSEs and A-Level qualifications. With a customer base that includes teachers, examiners, moderators, examinations officers and pupils, they required a system capable of securely holding many thousands of documents.
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"Once we had agreed upon a strategy, the implementation was incredibly swift, and we have been able to pilot the project with around 200 users. We are planning to add more exam papers, marking schemes and even training material such as online demos and screen captures to further enhance the user experience." continued Peter Morris, Programme Manager, AQA. "We are delighted with the speed of implementation and the flexibility the Examiner Extranet solution brings to our operations. We intend to use Alfresco, JBoss and Enterprise DB as a strategic platform for future collaboration and content management initiatives."
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The United States of American is a bicameral legislative government controlled and operated by a two-party dominant system in which Republicans and Democrats fight at constant ends about the right course of action for our nation. There are certain powers and provisions given to these parties as they operate the day by day politics of the United States. Many of these powers lie in the different branches of government, but what we want to focus on here is the power vested in the legislative branch only. The legislative branch, comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate, is full of representatives from the two major parties who work together to develop the laws and policies under which the citizens of the United States live and operate. However, much of the progress in developing certain laws or policies is hindered by the constant differences in opinions of the two parties. Along with these differences in opinion come certain rights and powers that the parties use to help further their cause. The majority party, or those with the majority number in representation, uses that majority as a way to pass their legislation and counter proposed legislation by the minority party. This majority gives that controlling party a huge advantage and larger influence over legislation. In order to regulate the amount of power and control the majority party has, there are also powers granted to the minority party. One such power is the ability of the minority party to use a filibuster. A filibuster is defined as a type of parliamentary procedure; it is a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body whereby a lone member can elect to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a proposal. The filibuster once existed in both houses of the Congress, but it now exists only in the Senate. The House of Representatives put a permanent rule limiting the length of debate, thereby ending the filibuster power in 1842. With this realization, we shift our focus to the Senate proceedings themselves, focusing on the use of the filibuster and how the power of the filibuster changes depending on majorities within the Senate.
As stated above, what the filibuster ultimately does is provide a weapon of power to the minority party in the Senate. This is so because a filibuster must be overcome by the majority party through a cloture vote. A cloture vote is one that brings about a quick end to debate. In regards to a filibuster, a cloture vote is one in which sixty out of the one hundred senators concur on a vote to stop the filibuster. The cloture procedure originates in the Parliament of the United Kingdom but what implemented in the United under Senate Rule XXII on March 8, 1917. This concept of the cloture vote and the power associated with it is a key theme in understanding the power and importance of the filibuster. Furthermore, what is being addressed in this paper is the way in which the Senate can and does act when a majority party has the majority for a cloture vote versus when they do not. This topic is extremely relevant as we look at our United States Senate today. Just recently, there was a major shift in the Senate when the Democratic Party who currently holds the majority in the Senate as well as the House lost one of their seats in the Senate due to the passing of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. The reason this is of great significance is because until this point, the Democratic party controlled sixty of the one hundred seats, thereby granting them the power of passing a cloture vote and stopping Republican filibusters. After Republican Scott Brown won the seat previously held by Kennedy, the Republican Party gained the number of seats needed to filibuster without the imminent threat of cloture. The Senate has a great amount of power and this is one giant step that helps to balance the power between the two parties in the United States Congress. We can use this new change to evaluate how the current Congress and recent Congresses of the past act based on whether or not there exists a filibuster threat.
To begin, let us examine how the parties act when the majority party does not have the sixty members required to pass a cloture vote. In this instance, the minority party does indeed have the ability to filibuster. It is important to recognize that a filibuster is not simply used each and every time that the minority party disagrees with the majority party. Filibusters are more often times used when the minority party is strongly in opposition to the legislation proposed by the majority party. Otherwise, legislation would never be passed during times when the majority party has no cloture majority unless there is high level of defection in which members of the minority party would vote against their own party or a "nuclear option" such as the one in 2005 is proposed. This high level of defection is unlikely and therefore serves as evidence that a filibuster is not used for every issue that arises. When legislation does arise that the minority party wishes to "kill" before a vote can occur, a filibuster often times does occur. Some examples of this include Senator Robert Byrd's fourteen hour filibuster in hopes of delaying the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This fourteen hour speech was part of a fifty-seven day drag out of the debate on the Civil Rights Act. Although the act eventually passed, this long delay gave the Democratic Party time to implement other additions and strategies. Another example of the filibuster in prime use can be seen during former President Lyndon Johnson's attempt to appoint Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to The New Republic, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin launched a four day long debate during which "one senator read long passages of James F. Byrnes's memoirs in a thick Southern accent." This filibuster ultimately succeeded and Fortas was not appointed. This then allowed former President Nixon to appoint Warren Burger to the lifelong position, thus giving the Republican Party the victory they desired. For a more recent example, let us examine the Democratic filibustering of several judicial nominees in 2005, the first of whom was Priscilla Owen. Video 1 illustrates this further by depicting Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia filibustering in 2005 against the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court. What these three examples along with numerous others show is that the minority party is not powerless in the Senate, that they can control certain aspects of the Senate from the minority position, and that more importantly, the majority party cannot simply do as they please. This is not to say the majority party simply does as they please when they have the ability to stop a filibuster, but they do face less resistance.
When the majority party does control sixty or more seats within the Senate, they enable themselves the power to pass cloture and ultimately give their party a greater chance of passing legislation through the Congress. Up until January of this year, 2010, the Democratic Party held a sixty-forty majority in the Senate and had just that power. We are fortunate to be able to see a great example of this in the recent year. An article from FDL News on 23 December, 2009 illustrates that cloture power. The article titled "Senate Dems Pass Third And Final Cloture Vote On Health Care Bill – Passage Tomorrow" explains that the Senate used their majority to pass the final cloture vote on the health care bill 60-39, thus eliminating the Republican filibuster potential. The majority party's ability to control the Senate and pass this cloture is what ultimately enabled the healthcare bill to be passed by the Senate and passed on to the House for approval. Video 2 shows President Barack Obama's remarks following the Senate's passage of the healthcare bill and helps to illustrate the historic event brought forth in part by the Senate's cloture majority. Without this majority, the healthcare bill may have never been passed on and signed into law. This is one of the largest pieces of legislation signed in the last few decades and will have a significant effect on nearly all citizens in the United States. This illustrates the significance and power that the filibuster can have and the power that having a cloture majority does indeed have. The ability to use a cloture majority ultimately enables the majority party in the Senate to pass on legislation, limit debate by the minority party, and have a greater degree of power than they would have if their number of seats were less than sixty. This is not to claim that healthcare would have never passed had the Senate Democrats not had a sixty seat majority. Instead, this is simply to point out that each seat that we, the people of the United States, fill with a representative that we elect is truly significant. In this example, one seat and one member could have caused immense change that would have altered the future of healthcare for our entire nation. Aside from the actual use of the filibuster is another issue in which the filibuster has direct impact.
By simply having enough representatives in the minority to have the ability to filibuster, the minority party, regardless of which Congress or which era they belong, have the ability to place fear into the minds of not only the majority party but more so of its judicial nominees. Beginning with Senator Robert Griffin's filibuster against former President Johnson's judicial nomination which is eluded to above, there has become a long stretch of filibustering judicial nominees which continues in the present day. A former President George W. Bush nominee for the 5th Circuit Court, retired Judge Charles Pickering of New York, was successfully filibustered by Senate Democrats in 2001. He explains the problem caused by excessive filibustering further in Video 3. This explains that although the use of the filibuster does an excellent job in keeping a more equal balance of power between the two parties in the Senate, it can be overused and can even have negative consequences on the structure of our legislature or judiciary. Just as Judge Pickering states, this constant turmoil and the negative threats and actions of practices and procedures such as filibusters can and perhaps will lead to a less informed and more lackluster list of nominees and appointees to our political system. If we want to place the best minds and the best people in the positions of authority in our nation, we must begin to depolarize the two parties and work more cooperatively at achieving our desired goals. The filibuster is a significant procedure in our United States Senate, but it is one that needs to be understood and executed with greater efficiency and professionalism.
Dayen, David. "Senate Dems Pass Third And Final Cloture Vote On Health Care Bill – Passage Tomorrow." FDL News (2009): n. pag. Web. 13 Apr 2010.
"Slideshow: Famous Filibusters." New Republic (2009): n. pag. Web. 11 Apr 2010.
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Berry Updates-Year Three SummaryFarmer Adam : September 27, 2012 10:15 pm : Farm Updates, Raspberry Research, Research
The Final Year of Research
This year we experienced out first real production from the berries. several varieties produced well, while several others did not produce well at all. The less productive varieties where the same varieties that froze back to the ground last winter. Some varieties produced a late crop in September, but these were hurt this year by a lack of water – our irrigation went off August 2, about a month earlier than usual. We did have a couple of rains later in the season, but it wasn't enough and the berries clearly suffered from the stress caused by lack of water.
The link below takes you to the embedded data table where we tracked all of the harvest from the last three years. Each variety was trapped in each harvest was recorded. Also we took several measurements of berry size by counting the number of berries required to fill Half pint container. Please note that the link below contains a spreadsheet with two separate sheets one she is for the quantity harvested, the other sheet is for the berry sizes.
View Berry research data tables
Summary of Findings
Overall one of the biggest overall conclusions was the importance of frost hardy varieties for our area. Even in the mild winter of 2011 – 2012, several varieties froze to the ground greatly reducing the following years harvest. Another important conclusion from the commercial harvesting perspective, is that blackberries are much easier to pick than raspberries. The thornless BlackBerry varieties we grew were exceptionally easy to deal with and harvest off of. In addition, the consistently large berry size of the BlackBerries meant that filling pints of berries went much more quickly. As I add to the Berry patch I plan to plant mostly BlackBerries from this point on.
The Berry Varieties – Observations & Results
Freeze Sensitivity
- Heritage Everbearing
- Polana Everbearing
- Killarny Red Raspberry
- Triple Crown thornless Blackberry (very long canes, ends died back)
- Chester Thornfree Blackberry (very long canes, even more died back)
- Encore Summer Fruiting Raspberry
- Nova Summer Fruiting Raspberry
- Bristol Summer Fruiting Black Raspberry
- Encore Summer Fruiting Raspberry
- Nova Summer Fruiting Raspberry
Size and Ease of Picking
The raspberries were generally small and it took an average of 109 raspberries to fill a 6 oz container. The blackberries were consistently larger, with the smallest blackberry matching the largest raspberry. It took an average of only 41 blackberries to fill a 6 oz container. In addition, the thornless blackberries were truly thorn free, almost soft to the touch. they were a pleasure to work in, for all stages of production – pruning, trellising and harvest. Unless the market becomes saturated, I would plant these thornless blackberries over any of the other berries. Chester stands out as the biggest producer in out trials. On the raspberry side, Kilarny was the clear winner, producing early and over a long period with large berry size. Bristol, the only black raspberry in our trial, was also a large producer, and although the berries were small on average, they were borne in exposed clusters, making them a bit easier to harvest.
Final Pictures
These pictures show the drought damage on some of the berries this year.
Remember This?Farmer Adam : August 6, 2012 5:10 pm : Farm Updates
Berry Research Harvest RecordsFarmer Adam : September 4, 2011 1:46 am : Expenses, Farm Updates, Raspberry Research, Research
This is the harvest record document used to track the harvest record for all berries.
Berry Updates – Well Established Berries SlideshowFarmer Adam : August 16, 2010 3:26 pm : Farm Pictures, Farm Updates, Raspberry Research, Research
Here is a slideshow of some recent photos showing how well established the new berry planting is. For the best view, click the full screen button in the slideshow footer.
Berry Update ~ Fences, Trellises & Berries!Farmer Adam : July 11, 2010 12:26 am : Farm Pictures, Farm Updates, Raspberry Research, Research
Fences & Trellises
Work continues in the new berry planting area. The fence is now nearly complete – all the posts are in, with both heights of high tinsel wire stretched and the final lengths of barb going on today. The contractor I hired to do the work has been steadily chipping away at what seemed like a huge project when it began and the fence is just a week or two away from being done.
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Berry Update: ground cover & drip irrigationFarmer Adam : May 23, 2010 4:57 pm : Farm Updates, Raspberry Research, Research
Installing the woven ground cover
The task of laying the ground cover out, to cover each side of the eight trellised berry rows has begun. I dug the side furrows with the tractor, this furrow takes the outer edge of the ground cover fabric, while the inner edge is pinned down with a 6″ ground staple along the berry row. This process is very labor intensive with lots of rocks to clear, digging and pinning. I'll try to take some more detailed shots of this part of the project soon, but for now here is a far-off shot of the berries with the (black) ground fabric visible.
Field Preparation started for BerriesFarmer Adam : April 16, 2010 3:44 am : Farm Pictures, Farm Updates, Raspberry Research, Research
Quite a bit of work to prepare the new field for berry plantings. Some larger invasive elms had to be removed witha backhoe, and a neighbor helped with an initial discing and de-rocking with his bigger equipment.
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It was you crazy bastards that did it, not me! Thanks everyone!
That's why I have a hand-me-down Christmas tree! We'll probably get a little baby live one, and then plant it next season.
I like the tree topper! A bit pricey for me, but still cool! And I use an artificial tree that will last for many years :)
Hey... an even better topper for atheists is to not kill a tree to create a mere holiday decoration!
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The Dow rallied on the back of a strong performance by heavyweights like insurer Travelers and industrial behemoth Caterpillar. However, the Nasdaq took a fall as shares of technology juggernaut Apple tumbled by the widest margin in four years.
Today's Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 82.7 points, or 0.64%, to 13034, the S&P 500 gained 2.2 points, or 0.16%, to 1409 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 23 points, or 0.77%, to 2974. The FOX 50 dipped 0.4 point to 1039.
The utility, financial and industrial sectors all posted solid gains on the day. However, on the other side of this spectrum, technology and materials shares slipped.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares fell more than 6%, making it the worst performer of the Nasdaq 100. Traders blamed the move on a confluence of factors, including disappointment that the company appears to not be planning a special dividend before the end of the year and media reports that margin requirements are being raised by certain firms (potentially causing margin calls). The company is America's largest by market capitalization and has an outsize pull on the broader markets.
Mixed Data
The ADP National Employment report showed the private sector added 118,000 jobs in November, missing expectations of 125,000 jobs created. Digging into the report, large businesses led the hiring with 66,000 jobs, followed by medium businesses at 33,000 jobs at small businesses at 19,000.
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, which collaborates on the report, said in a conference call "several crosscurrents" impacted the reading. In particular, he reckons Hurricane Sandy cut 86,000 jobs for the overall reading. He said manufacturing and small businesses were impacted especially severely by the superstorm. Also, the early timing of Thanksgiving added between 60,000 and 70,000 jobs that Zandi expects will come out of the December numbers.
This report comes out ahead of the all-important monthly jobs report from the Labor Department. Overall, economists expect the economy to have tacked on 93,000 jobs in November, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 7.9%.
The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing PMI increased to 54.7 in November from 54.2 in October, compared to expectations of a drop to 53.5. That indicates the services sector expanded at a slightly faster pace that month. A separate report from the Commerce Department showed factory orders climbing 0.8% in October from September, better than forecasts of no change.
On the corporate front, Citigroup (NYSE:C) said it will slash 11,000 jobs and take a $1 billion fourth-quarter charge as part of a 'repositioning.' This comes at the banking giant looks to lean out its operations amid a new financial landscape.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX) announced it will acquire Plains Exploration & Production Company (NYSE:PXP) and McMoRan Exploration Co. (NYSE:MMR) in a $20 billion deal. The deal will create a behemoth in the energy and materials industries.
Trading desks already had a busy day, with several reports being released in Europe. The eurozone services sector contracted at a slightly slower pace in November. Germany, the 17-member currency bloc's economic powerhouse, saw its contraction slow to near break-even territory, while France's contraction picked up steam. A separate report showed eurozone retail sales sinking 1.2% in October from the month before.
"European data continue to signal sluggish economic activity," analysts at Barclays wrote in a note to clients.
Elsewhere, commodities markets were little changed. The benchmark crude oil contract edged lower by 37 cents, or 0.4%, to $88.16 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline dipped 0.46% to $2.677 a gallon. In metals, gold dipped $5.20, or 0.32%, to $1,691 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 rose 0.05% to 2592, the English FTSE 100 gained 0.39% to 5892 and the German DAX ticked up by 0.26% to 7455.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 climbed 0.39% to 9569 and the Chinese Hang Seng surged 2.2% to 22271.


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The price of oil crept closer to $100 a barrel Wednesday as investors waited for details on the levels of U.S. crude stockpiles.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for May delivery was up 53 cents to $99.72 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Tuesday, the contract fell 41 cents to $99.19.
Brent crude, a contract for international varieties of oil, was up 25 cents to $107.24 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
Prices might retreat if forecasts for a tenth consecutive increase in U.S. stockpiles of crude oil are confirmed in a report due later Wednesday.
Energy Information Administration data for the week ended March 21 are expected to show an increase of 2.6 million barrels in crude oil stocks and a decline of 1.8 million barrels in gasoline stocks, according to a survey of analysts by Platts.
The industry-funded American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude stocks expanded by 6.3 million barrels last week.
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U.S. and Brent crude have hovered in narrow ranges over the past week as supply and demand estimations have balanced each other out. Global supplies have tightened somewhat as Libyan crude exports have fallen, but the world may need less oil if economic growth in China and Russia slows.
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In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline gained 1.45 cents to $2.8962 a gallon.
— Heating oil added 0.79 cent to $2.9287 a gallon.
— Natural gas fell 2.9 cents to $4.382 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
YouTube Videos: Opening Day
DodgerFilms were ready for Opening Day
and Part 2
This lady is wearing a Yankees hat. Is not causing any drama (from what I can see) and security decides to kick her out because the fans are going crazy and chanting "Yankees suck!"
Fair or unfair? You decide.
How about this one? A fan is getting escorted out of the stadium. He's most likely drunk. If the security is already walking him out of the stadium, was it necessary to shove him against the door? (check at 15 seconds) Now don't pay attention to the guy that is filming the video. Just look at what's happening. Honestly, was it fair?
Are you tired of this guy? Many fans seem to still enjoy his act.
14 comments:
- Paper Boy said...
That was a jerk move by security. He wasn't going to kill these guys and still got shoved against the wall. The fan was a jerk too for irritating the cops but you need to stay under control as a cop.
- April 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Michael K. Smith said...
I agree with Paper Boy. A really idiot move by the security. He was walking out. It's one guy against 40 cops. What happened? Did he flash a gun? No. I would sue!
- April 15, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- thegreatpiazza said...
These are just wanna be cops. I hate those that they think they are the LAW. The Yankees fan was just annoying.
- April 15, 2010 at 1:44 PM
- kat said...
I sat right next to the girl with the Yankees hat and talked to her in the restroom. She loved the attention and was provoking it. Every time someone would boo her she would say, "keep it coming" and stuff like that. I know it isn't right to keep messin with her but she loved the attention. I have seen dodger fans boo other team fans but if the fan just stays quiet, they leave them alone.
- April 15, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Jarone Ashkenazi said...
- April 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Dodger Gurl said...
I read in the paper that alot of Dodgers Stadiums security guards are off duty cops.. but there are a few of them ghetto guys who made it in somehow some way who have totally abused the "power" by being a super tought security guy. I have heard MANY people say that this will be the last Opening Day for them. I don't know if I have made that decision myself yet, as I am there for a BASEBALL game and not the drama. But when the drama gets in the way of me watching my game, then its an issue
As for the Yankee girl, I think it was a bit much to take her out like that. BUT if she was provoking it, then good... she deserved it :)
- April 15, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Fernando said...
I'm surprised the mainstream media hasn't shown this video...
After all, it's a middle age White man.
Security were totally out of hand in this particular incident. The man did not need to get shoved against the door.
- April 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- Henderface said...
that guard was way out of hand with the push and the kick to the gut.
that journey guy is annoying i dont even get the whole joke, i was there when they 1st put the camera on him. they should show other people.
just like that jose, manny wanna be look-a-like in LFP. Its a baseball game take your impersonation to vegas or something and leave it out of chavez ravine.
- April 15, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- bluefanforever33 said...
A white guy drunk? You don't see to many of those at Chavez Ravine. Don't attack me, being honest!
- April 15, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- thegreatpiazza said...
I agree with Henderface. Good points.
- April 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM
- Fernando said...
deadspin posted the video.
- April 15, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- TheRickDaddy said...
I like the Dodger guy, but then again, I'm not there to see him every night. Very funny stuff when seen occasionally, though.
- April 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- Raintes said...
"Aww never mind he's white." Typical Dodger Stadium cholo talk. That's why I try NOT to get tix in the pavillion or reserved level.
- April 16, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Raintes said...
The security was outta line too. I'd sue, big time.
- April 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM


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