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'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead
from the let's-put-it-out-of-its-misery dept
In the last few days, we've seen an extraordinary wave of announcements by governments in Europe, particularly its eastern part, that they would not be ratifying ACTA immediately. That sequence of events, culminating in today's news that Germany, too, would be holding off, has suddenly made lots of people sit up and take notice.
But even against that tumultuous background, few of us would have expected that two of the most serious business publications in Europe, The Economist and Financial Times, would both go much further than simply noting the problems the treaty now faces, and declare that ACTA is pretty much dead.
Under the headline "ACTA up", The Economist says: "Protests across Europe may kill an anti-piracy treaty", and points out: "Internet activists used to be dismissed as a bunch of hairy mouse-clickers with little clout. Not any more."
The Financial Times' headline is "Latest pact on internet piracy set to be derailed", and the post makes an explicit connection with SOPA and PIPA:
A controversial international trade agreement, which campaigners fear would restrict internet freedom looks likely to be delayed or scrapped, the latest in a string of measures planned to combat online piracy to falter in the face of co-ordinated protests.
It also offers some interesting thoughts on why the ACTA revolt has been so strong in eastern Europe:
The issue has stirred up deep passions there, where access to the internet is seen as one of the rewards of belonging to a democratic society. Illegal downloading is also popular, in part because those societies are poorer than those in western Europe, and in part because many content providers have made it difficult for central Europeans to buy music and films legally online.
Finally, it has a fascinating comment from David Martin, the new European Parliament rapporteur on ACTA, who took over after Kader Arif resigned in protest at the way ACTA had been negotiated. Martin says he wants to "canvas views broadly", and to get an opinion from the European Court of Justice on whether ACTA is compatible with the European Union's current laws. As result of this approach, he says:
"Realistically, if we go down this route we are looking at a vote in the spring of 2013," he warns.
The FT quotes an unnamed diplomat who suggests that this delay may "give enough time for the post-SOPA venom to clear," so that governments can quietly ratify ACTA in their national parliaments and in Brussels next year. It sounds like a clever ploy -- let protesters tire themselves out, then push through ACTA -- but on the basis of the strength of feeling that's manifested itself in Europe recently, I wouldn't bet on it working.
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"What is science?"
I put this question to freshmen in a science college at a Tier-one research university hoping for some creative comebacks in the form of a paragraph or two. I got confusion. Science, apparently, is: everything, nature, technology, "the scientific method," and, brilliantly, what scientists do. Faced with a barrage of odd, confused generalities, I was dismayed but not surprised. For what is science? It may be among the most elusive questions in the modern world, motivating scholars in history and philosophy of science to write and reflect endlessly. Though this simple question remains foundational to these fields, most thinkers abandon it at a certain point and move on to more concrete, pragmatic concerns. But the question remains.
One way to develop a satisfactory answer is to turn the question around – "What isn't science?" This was to be my approach teaching an introduction to history and philosophy of science. I would use the concept of pseudoscience to help these budding scientists better understand what it is they think they are getting into. It's logical. After all, how can one know light without darkness, life without death, love without hate, good without evil? And pseudoscience has such pejorative connotations it's often seen as dark, even evil, or at least insidious. Value judgments aside, exploring this concept would be a way to draw my audience in and, without them noticing, teach some fundamental principles in history, philosophy and sociology of science.
Interesting, that idea of value judgments. We see values and the expression of values, (or beliefs, ideologies, or even, one might say, biases) as anathema to science. Science, conventionally understood, is "value-free" or "value-neutral." It's this kind of neutrality and objectivity that is seen as the hallmark of scientific thinking. But is this valid? In "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice," the famed purveyor of the paradigm shift, Thomas Kuhn, argues there are no real universal rules guiding choices between scientific theories and the values that inform all thinking are subjective, transcending any ultimately rational framework. Further, there are all sorts of irrational psychological and social forces that influence which theories prevail in a given scientific community.1
Kuhn's idea of paradigm shifts has profoundly impacted the way scientific ideas are understood. He said that the development of science followed a pattern – a paradigm develops, and most research is "normal" science that bulwarks the existing paradigm. Eventually, however, anomalies build up to the point of incoherence, forcing the adoption of a new paradigm – something that occurs, historically, almost overnight. He understood how important social context was in the scientific endeavor. In technical terms, Kuhn moved history and philosophy of science from an internalist to an externalist perspective. His work illustrates how contingent scientific ideas are, and further suggests that the idea of scientific realism – that science accurately describes a world "out there" independent of our subjective experience – is probably untenable. This doesn't mean there is no "dark side of the moon" even if we aren't able to see it. It merely means that this kind of ontological gymnastics is irrelevant to our understanding of science. Rather, we are left with a necessity to acknowledge social construction and a strong motivation to question the supposed objectivity and value-neutrality of science. Science, then, is subject to the same limitations as every other area of human endeavor.
What does this have to do with the teaching of pseudoscience? It reminds students that vigilance about the legitimacy of a scientific idea or theory is more important than ever and all of us, as a society, need to be gatekeepers, wary of poorly constructed science. For any citizen of the contemporary techno-scientific world this critical understanding, and the ability to evaluate a given scientific practice from methodological and social perspectives, is an essential skill. It also suggests there are reasons beyond "truth" that prompt us to deny the validity of supposedly scientific claims.
But what are these reasons? This is where pseudoscience proves illustrative. Take astrology. In a classic article, "Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience," Paul Thagard argues, contrary to many other philosophers, that there is no one clear criteria distinguishing science from pseudoscience (e.g. Popper's idea of falsifiability, the notion that all scientific theories need to be open to being refuted). Instead, through a brief but brilliant history, Thagard shows that astrology is pseudoscientific because in its 2500-plus year history, it has not once changed its basic framework or shown any progressive development at all. For Thagard, astrology's entrenched nature, the unwillingness of its practitioners to consider alternate theories or adapt their explanations based on new data, is what makes it pseudoscientific.3 At a stroke, this example gives students an instinctual sense of the importance of change and progressive development in science, making the point without understating how much foundational scientific theories remain fairly fixed.
Subjects like cryptozoology or ufology introduce students to the scientist as professional, reminding them that many social criteria – credentials, institutional affiliation and training – go into evaluating a scientist's legitimacy and claim to expertise. These fields also force students to think carefully and critically about the nature of proof.
The idea of proving seems an important aspect of scientific practice, but what does this mean? Science requires a level of demonstration (proof) and a quality of evidence that differs from unscientific or non-scientific practices. Here students learn the dangers of confirmation bias – selective and subjective use of data and evidence. Though part of all human endeavor, science seeks to minimize its impact as much as possible. The way cryptozoologists become obsessed with their subjects and pursue them with a reckless personal passion also warns us that personally investing too much in research outcomes can undermine credibility and lead to a charge of pseudoscience. Even legitimate practicing scientists can fall victim to this. Discussing the problem of confirmation bias and personal gain, I have the opportunity to ask tough questions about the procedures the modern pharmaceutical industry employs in its clinical trials. The nature of drug development also introduces the limits of contemporary science's compliance with what sociologist Robert Merton argued should be scientific norms, like communalism (openness) and disinterestedness.4
The challenge of bias and the selective use of data are also issues in alternative medicine. Alternative medicine further highlights two other problems of pseudoscience – vagueness and a misinterpretation of, or even unwillingness to recognize, established laws of nature. Most alternative medicine is dependent on the idea of vitalism – the idea of a "life force" that shapes, guides, and heals the living. The problem with vital forces or energies is that they are vague and lack concrete proof. In addition, they run contrary to what mainstream science accepts as the known forces of nature. In this sense, alternative medicine is operating in what a Kuhnian might call a different paradigm. Indeed, many aspects of alternative medicine – its rationales, methods, and understandings – not only run contrary to the conventional scientific worldview, they are actively hostile to it. So much of what pseudoscience depends on – in things like homeopathy, hypnotism, and all sorts of areas where suggestion is important – is placebo effect, a poorly understood phenomenon reminding us of the power of belief. But belief does nothing to improve our knowledge – sugar pills or injections of saline may make people feel better, but science differs from pseudoscience in the need to explain how.
Problems of belief and what can be invoked as an explanation further illustrate the way science differs from other practices. "Creation science", for example, prioritizes ancient religious texts (e.g. The Bible) as evidence to argue for an Earth created a few thousand years ago over and above almost two hundred years of observational facts that provide evidence for a very different view – an almost unimaginably ancient Earth and the amazing process of natural selection responsible for producing its startling diversity of life. Not only do creationists valorize different facts, they actively ignore facts that contradict their theories. From the point of view of method, this is just not science. They also invoke supernatural forces, violating the dedication science has had to a "naturalistic epistemology" since the practice began in ancient Greece.
At a stroke, the critical investigation of a pseudoscientific domain, like parapsychology and the study of ESP (or psi as it's now called) can highlight a number of unscientific elements – anecdotes, coincidence, and the lack of controls and clarity in experimental design. It also shows students that unexplained doesn't mean inexplicable. Without formal historical or philosophical training, students tend to see science as a collection of "facts." And, indeed, to some degree science is made up of facts. But as the French mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré said, "a collection of facts is not necessarily science." And what is a fact? Thinking about this question shows us that not all facts are created equal, and that the kind of facts that science prioritizes are better understood as evidence – a word that implies awareness, and thus the idea of seeing or experiencing. This is the kind of direct evidence science demands, generated by experiments or garnered by careful observation (and here, even, scientists generally value experimental over observational facts – after all, our senses can so often be deceived).
As an example, consider the largely forgotten Velikovsky affair. Immanuel Velikovsky was a psychiatrist and eclectic independent scholar who wrote Worlds in Collision in 1950. Using evidence (facts) found in ancient historical and religious texts, he argued that the Earth and some of the other planets in the solar system had experienced numerous close encounters and collisions with each other (in what astronomers would see as a very recent timeframe) that contributed to their formation and transformation. Velikovsky essentially suggested that references in historical documents were archetypal recollections of these events. His claims generated a hysterical response from the scientific community, and rightly so. For Velikovsky had violated accepted scientific practices – speaking to a subject in which he had no formal training, ignoring existing theories and models, and prioritizing a certain kind of evidence (textual) over and above "better" evidence generated by careful observation and experiment.
Velikovsky's catastrophism and ideas about planetary formation is a cautionary tale. 5 It recalls the ways in which wild theorizing and speculation are pseudoscientific at their core but, in certain cases, have also served the development of science. In the context of mainstream science, some of Velikovsky's insights about the importance of the catastrophic in astronomy have merit (i.e., the currently accepted theory about the formation of the moon resulting from an object impacting the Earth). Examples of the importance of heresy abound in the history of science. Figures like Copernicus and Galileo were operating outside the purview of "normal" inquiry into knowledge in their respective societies. More recently, Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, proposed in 1912 in a paradigm of gradualist geophysics, was labeled pseudoscientific and only finally accepted in the late 1950s as plate tectonics emerged as an explanatory framework.
One might ask if these renegade successes justify a kind of chaos without rules in knowledge inquiry, what philosopher Paul Feyerabend called "epistemological anarchism." 6 Well, no. For individuals this is often a laudable strategy but, collectively, it quickly leads to complete dissipation and incoherence. When it comes to creating meaning, some structure must apply and looking at pseudoscience reveals inquiry that pushes beyond the boundaries of the structure of science.
In the end, when teaching history and philosophy of science, one needs to be practical; and here science in its modern guise demonstrates its central virtue. If there is "success" in a given scientific endeavor (i.e., what philosopher Imre Lakatos called a research programme7), if it garners funding, employs researchers, produces peer-reviewed publications and technological byproducts, adds to knowledge of the natural world in a meaningful way, and, perhaps most importantly, is seen as legitimate and having merit in the wider social sphere, then it is "science". Looking at the ways many theories and ideas have failed to meet these criteria, and ended up labeled as pseudoscience, helps students fundamentally appreciate what we mean by the word.
Notes: 1. Thomas Kuhn, "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice," in The Essential Tension (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 320-339.
2. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 [1962]).
3. Paul R. Thagard, "Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience," in PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1978, Volume One: Contributed Papers (1978), pp. 223-234.
4. Robert K. Merton, "The Normative Structure of Science," in Merton, The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973).
5. Velikovsky has been the subject of intense study, most recently in Michael D. Gordin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
6. http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpfeyerabend1.htm
7. Imre Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978).
Sebastian Normandin is a Visiting Instructor in Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the history and philosophy of medicine and biology, but he remains ever fascinated by the concept of pseudoscience and the scientific fringe. His forthcoming book, with co-editor Charles T. Wolfe, Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010, will be published by Springer in 2013. You can follow him on Twitter @weirdhistorian.

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Degrees and radians
Radian is a measure of an angle, indicating the relationship between the arc length and the radius of a circle:
Since the arc length of a full circle is the same as the circumference of a circle given by:
a full circle in radians is given by:
A full circle is 3600 in degrees.
Converting from degrees to radians
Decrees are converted to radians in the following way:
Converting from radians to degrees
Radians are converted to degrees in the following way:
Convert between degrees and radians
Angles of more than 360 degrees and less than 0.
Sometimes you'll find angles in radians that are more than 3600 and less than 00.
That is, the angle in a circle is making more than a full rotation, just like when you turn around yourself several times.
However, it's only the remaining angle after the last full rotation in the circle that is of significance.
In the following example we will show you how to find it.
A given angle is 8100.
We need to find out, how many full rotations in a circle you can make. Since a full rotation is 3600 you have to divide 810 by 360. That makes 2 and the remainder 90.
So you can make 2 full rotations in a circle and you get the remainder angle 900.
Therefore 8100 is considered to be the same angle as 900.
Locations on Earth – degrees, minutes and seconds
Distances on Earth can be measured in degrees instead of ordinary length units like miles and km. If you, for instance, make a journey the whole way around the Earth, you will travel 3600.
In navigation on the sea a specific location on Earth is represented with latitude and longitude, which are usually denoted with degrees, minutes and second. One degree is divided into 60 minutes, which is divided into 60 seconds.
The location of the Empire State building in New York City is given by: 40044'54.36"N and 73059'8.5"W.
The first number is the latitude, which is 40 degrees, 44 minutes and 54.36 seconds. That is the number of degrees, minutes and seconds the Empire State building is from the Earth's equator, where the latitude is 0. The N means that it's northern latitudes, i.e. we are in the hemisphere to the north of the equator.
The second number is the longitude, which is 73 degrees, 59 minutes and 8.5 seconds. That is the number of degrees, minutes and seconds the Empire State building is from the World's Prime Meridian, which is the north-south line passing through Greenwich in England, where the longitude is 0. The W means that it's western latitudes, i.e. we are in the hemisphere to the west of the Greenwich line.
Decimal degrees
Sometimes it's more practical to use decimal degrees, which are a numbers with decimals, instead of using degrees, minutes and seconds.
The conversion between the two ways of representing degrees is given by:
So the latitude of The Empire State Building in decimal degrees is:
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Close to 47 acres of land on Raleigh-Millington Road in Millington is facing foreclosure after its owner, Turner & Edwards LLC, defaulted on a $299,039 loan through InSouth Bank dated Jan. 16, 2009.
A first-run foreclosure notice appears in the Sept. 19 edition of The Daily News and also at The Daily News Online, www.memphisdailynews.com.
The land was slated to be the home of Barret Oaks, a $40 million mixed-use senior living development.
Turner and Edwards LLC, whose principals are Bob Turner and Martin Edwards, told The Daily News in 2009 that Barret Oaks would be anchored by an assisted living facility and would also include residential, commercial and medical uses.
The 47-acre parcel sits on the southwest corner of Raleigh-Millington Road and the Paul Barret Parkway – the stretch of Tenn. 385 from Eads to Millington – bounded by the Canadian National Railway Co. track to the west.
The land's 2012 appraisal is $249,000, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property.
Turner and Edwards bought the land in 2009 for close to $400,000 from James H. Aycock III, Trustee for the James H. Aycock Testamentary Trust.
Stone, Higgs & Drexler PC was appointed successor trustee in the matter and will sell the property Oct. 12 at noon on the steps of the Shelby County Courthouse.
Per newspaper policy, calls to the parties involved, such as the property owner, deed holder or trustee, are prohibited until the notice is published.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
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A $2.6 million warranty deed has been filed for Kroger LP's purchase of Belvedere Apartments, a 10-story apartment high-rise at 1745 Union Ave.
The purchase from Belvedere Apartment Inc. includes Belvedere's attached and front parking areas. Its 2012 appraisal from the Shelby County Assessor of Property is $2.1 million.
For more on what Memphis-based Kroger Delta Division plans to do with the 48-year-old, 145,804-square-foot Belvedere at Union and Lemaster Street, read the Friday, Sept. 14, edition of The Daily News.
– Sarah Baker
Nucor Corp., which has a steel plant in Memphis, announced Tuesday, Sept. 18, it is lowering its third quarter earnings to 35 cents per diluted share from earnings a year ago of 57 cents per diluted share.
Nucor posted earnings in the second quarter of 35 cents per diluted share.
Nucor executives cited the impact of $26 million of inventory purchase accounting adjustments from the company's acquisition of Skyline Steel LLC. Nucor also took a loss on the sale of assets of its Nucor Wire Products Pennsylvania Inc. division of $17.6 million in the quarter that ends Sept. 29.
The company described the reduction in earnings for the third quarter as "modest" without the one-time charges factored in.
"Our lower performance in the third quarter of 2012 is mainly due to decreased operating performance at our steel mills, which experienced decreased profitability, particularly at our sheet mills, compared to the second quarter of 2012," Nucor executives said in a written statement from company headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
The lower steel mill margins are blamed on rising imports, a trend that began at the end of 2011.
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The state Department of Education is withholding $3.4 million in funding from the public school system in Nashville over a rejected charter school.
The Metro Nashville school board last week defied an order by the state Board of Education to approve the application from Phoenix-based Great Hearts Academies.
Members of the city's school board said they were concerned the charter school planned to draw from affluent white families, rather than to bring in students from other parts of the city to create a more diverse student body.
Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman said in a release that the department had "no choice" but to strip the funding from Nashville schools because of the refusal to follow state law giving ultimate authority on charter school applications to the state panel.
– The Associated Press
The Memphis Area Transit Authority is teaming up with Mid-South Food Bank this month for the second annual "Stuff a MATA Bus" food drive.
The event will take place Sept. 26 at the Poplar Plaza Shopping Center, on the Highland Street side, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The goal is to collect enough food to fill a 40-foot city bus.
Staff members from both agencies and volunteers will be onsite to collect food and money donations from the public. Donations will also be collected within the week leading up to the event.
Last year, the food drive collected more than 1,472 pounds of food and $1,780 in monetary donations, providing more than 4,000 meals.
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The Arthritis Foundation and Massage Envy have teamed up to host Healing Hands for Arthritis, a one-day national event to build awareness and raise funds to fight arthritis.
On Wednesday, Sept. 19, Massage Envy clinics in Memphis will donate $10 from every one-hour massage or facial to the Arthritis Foundation.
In its first year, 2011, the Healing Hands for Arthritis event raised nearly $500,000 for the Arthritis Foundation.
Recent scientific studies have found that massage therapy increases immune function, decreases stress levels and reduces recovery time for many medical conditions, including arthritis.
Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States, impacting 50 million adults and nearly 300,000 children.
More than 1.2 million adults and nearly 6,000 children in Tennessee have a doctor-diagnosed form of the disease.
The Arthritis Foundation is the world's largest private nonprofit funder of arthritis research, investing more than $450 million in strategic initiatives, resulting in treatments that have given mobility back to countless patients. In addition to funding research, the foundation fights for health care policies that improve the lives of those who live with arthritis, and partners with individuals and families on the local level to provide empowering programs and information.
To make an appointment for the Healing Hands for Arthritis event, visit www.massageenvy.com/arthritis.
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Confidence among U.S. homebuilders rose this month to its highest level in six years and many expect the housing recovery will strengthen in the next six months.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Tuesday increased to 40 in September. That's up from 37 in August and the highest reading since June 2006, just before the housing bubble burst.
Any reading below 50 indicates negative sentiment about the housing market. The index hasn't reached that level since April 2006, the peak of the housing boom.
Still, a measure of builders' outlook for sales in the next six months rose to 51. That's up from 43 in August and also the highest level since June 2006.
Builders also reported seeing the best sales level since July 2006. And turnout by prospective buyers returned to levels not seen since May 2006.
The survey, which is based on responses from 445 builders, has been trending higher since October. After a dismal 2011, homebuilders have seen their fortunes begin to turn around this year as the housing market recovery has steadily gained momentum.
Sales of both new and previously occupied homes are running ahead of last year. Home prices are increasing more consistently, in part because the supply of homes has shrunk and foreclosures have eased. And mortgage rates remain near record lows, beckoning potential buyers with good credit.
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MONROE -- It's no secret these days that point guard Jake Heaton and his Notre Dame-Fairfield teammates prefer to play fast.
On nights like Tuesday, that can prove quite problematic for everyone else.
Fueled by a big night from their backcourt, the Lancers ran past slumping Masuk 82-51 to collect their third straight win.
"That's how we play. We like to run," said Heaton, who scored a game-high 26 points. "We knew we were quicker than them, we knew we could be faster than them. It was the game plan -- beat them up the floor, get open layups."
The Lancers did that repeatedly to overwhelm a Masuk team that dropped to 1-8 overall.
"We got beat a lot in transition," said Masuk's first-year coach, Tom Zultowski.
Forward Jaylen Jennings dropped in 21 points and guard Jordan Pettway notched five points and 11 assists as the speedy Lancers led wire to wire. Their lead ballooned to 49-26 at halftime and 63-38 entering the fourth.
"Even when (Masuk) scored, we were pretty good in transition," Lancers coach Vin Laczkoski said.
For much of the night, Masuk struggled to score. It produced only 14 points in the first quarter, then saw Notre Dame reel off a 12-1 run to open the second to make it 41-15.
"We shot around 30 percent in the first half," Zultowski said. "Even though our defense wasn't there, it could've been a lot closer if we hit our shots. We had a lot of wide-open looks that we did not make."
Guards Bryan Acevedo and David Clarke each recorded 15 points to pace Masuk. Ryan Fitzpatrick and Matthew Simmeth had seven points apiece.
At 4-3, Notre Dame jumped over the .500 mark for the first time this season after getting off to 0-2 and 1-3 starts with a new-look starting lineup. A pair of 1,000-point guards in Danny Upchurch and Earl Coleman graduated, forcing the squad to gel quickly.
"The team chemistry is a lot better," said Jennings, who pulled down 12 rebounds. "We're just talking more, and we're really focusing on defense. It makes offense easier."
Part of the reason for the Lancers' slow start was a challenging schedule that included No. 6 Career Magnet (66-49 loss) and No. 1 Fairfield Prep (83-52 loss). The Lancers took their lumps in the standings, but gained quality experience.
"It definitely took some time," Jennings said. "It doesn't happen overnight. We're getting better day by day."
Eight different players scored against Masuk as the Lancers led by as many as 36.
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Jordan Pettway 1 3-3 5 Jesse McIntosh 2 3-4 8 Jake Heaton 10 2-4 26 Jaylen Jennings 8 5-6 21 Raphael Torres 1 0-0 2 CJ Davidson 4 1-4 9 Anthony Gadsden 1 0-0 2 Joseph Cantey 3 0-0 9 Justin Federici 0 0-0 0 James Gibson 0 0-0 0 Garnell Bell 0 0-0 0 Colin Burke 0 0-0 0. Totals 30 14-21 82.
Bryan Acevedo 6 1-1 15 Alexander Plescia 0 1-2 1 David Clarke 4 7-8 15 Ryan Fitzpatrick 2 2-2 7 Matthew Simmeth 2 3-4 7 Jay Buhlmann 1 0-0 2 Roberto Ramos 0 0-0 0 Cameron Kovachik 1 2-4 4 Michael Zazuri 0 0-0 0. Totals 16 16-21 51.
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Ladysmith Family and Friends, better known as 'LaFF', is a Family Centre and non-profit society providing inclusive, interactive opportunities for the development of children, families and community.
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High School Direct Admit / BSN Pre-Licensure Requirements:
- Students must be admitted to DU for the Fall semester of the same year they graduate. Example: Admitted to DU for Fall 2018 as a 2018 high school graduate.
- Requirements:
- Official high school transcript - minimum 3.50 GPA
- SAT 1160 or above (based on composite score out of 1600)
- Completed NursingCAS Application for program admission.
- High School Direct Admit Nursing seats are offered at the following Davenport University campuses: Midland, Warren, and Lansing. Apply now!
Mable Engle Nursing Program Philosophy:
The multifaceted roles of the practical and professional nurse are taught at Davenport University and include care provision, communication, management, and scope of practice.
Theoretical foundations shape the curricula and guide the nursing education. The Davenport University Nursing Program is a dynamic system that provides for the educational growth and development of the nursing student. An adaptation of Fawcett's metaparadigm is utilized and includes person, environment, health, and nursing.
- Person - The concept of person refers to the individual or individuals as part of culture, family, community or aggregate groups who interact with the nurse in a therapeutic manner.
- Environment -The environment is made up of the physical surroundings and the settings in which the person interacts with society as a whole. This integrates the totality of social, cultural, and religious foundations and influences. Individuals are affected by environment and, in turn, have the ability to effect the environment.
- Health - The health continuum from birth to death includes physical, mental, cultural, and spiritual elements. Wellness describes the function of a person at his or her maximum potential.
- Nursing - Nursing is a caring profession that is guided by the ANA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. Nursing is not limited to physical care but incorporates the promotion, protection, and optimization of health. Nursing practice is guided by research which contributes to the delivery of evidence-based practice.
Graduate Learning Outcomes:
The following learning objectives were developed by the faculty with the use of nursing criteria referenced in the MI Public Health Code, The Michigan Board of Nursing Curriculum Rules, the DU Excellence System, adaption of Fawcett's metaparadigm, and the ANA Code of Ethics.
Student/Graduate Learning Outcomes – Characteristics of the Graduate
Provide care appropriate to the scope of practice and ethical dimensions for one's own actions according to the ANA Standards of Practice.
- Practices within an ethical and legal framework and standards of professional nursing practice.
- Models accountability and responsibility for one's own actions, clinical judgments, and decision making.
- Demonstrates ethical and legal decision making surrounding health care dilemmas.
- Advocates and protects patients and organizational confidentiality.
Utilize evidence-based practice, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and the nursing process in collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team.
- Assesses wellness, health needs, and risks of individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Plans and provides holistic, culturally-sensitive, safe, and effective therapeutic nursing interventions in collaboration with individuals, families, groups, and communities in multiple settings.
- Evaluates patient outcomes and the effectiveness of professional nursing practice.
- Revises plan of care as appropriate in collaboration with individual, family, group, community, and members of the interdisciplinary health care team.
- Evaluates research and evidence-based information for application to nursing.
Engage in comprehensive, verbal, and written therapeutic communication skills to interact with patients.
- Incorporates therapeutic communication skills in interactions with individuals, families, groups and communities.
- Communicates effectively with individuals, peers, families, groups, communities, and members of the interdisciplinary health care team.
- Demonstrates appropriate college-level writing and verbal skills consistent with published expectations and standards.
- Utilizes technology for seeking, sorting, selecting, and presenting relevant information.
Manage holistic care for patients, families, and communities with complex health needs in a variety of settings.
- Distinguishes leadership and management roles in guiding members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Formulates a consumer-oriented approach in the delivery of cost-effective care.
- Prioritizes therapeutic goals for providing quality care in collaboration with individuals, families, groups, and communities.
- Delegates appropriate functions to licensed and non-licensed caregivers in a manner consistent with the Michigan Public Health Code- Nursing.
- Performs selected supervision activities related to the actions of licensed and non-licensed caregivers.
Admission Requirements:
- Davenport University Application
- Official Transcripts from Colleges, Universities or Nursing Programs (if applicable)
- Completion of ATI TEAS
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
- NURS CAS Program Application
- Two professional references
- Professional statement
Criminal Background Check and Drug Screen Policy:
All students in the Davenport University College of Health Professions (the "COHP") are required to submit to criminal background check and drug screening (collectively, the "Testing") at the time of declaring a major in the COHP. The results of the Testing (the "Results"), which shall remain confidential, shall be used by the COHP to approve or disapprove of a Student for enrollment or continued enrollment in the COHP, and/or eligibility for training programs, clinical or practicum. The Testing shall be completed by registering for the appropriate course and completing the entire testing process in the course. Each student is responsible for acknowledging and explaining positive Result(s) after completing the process. A student will be dismissed from the COHP if he or she refuses to consent to the Testing. The cost of the Testing is the part of the course fee and is the responsibility of the student.
Faculty and Staff
Associate Dean: Amy Stahley PhD, MSN, RN
Department Chair for Nursing: Kelli Leask, APRN, MSN, FNP-C
Nursing Administrative Assistant: Molly Berzley
Associate Department Chair: Deb Bosworth, MSN, RN
BSN Completion/Concurrent Associate Department Chair: Kelli Leask, MSN, APRN, FNP-C & Rebecca Ventura, MSN,
Simulation Lab/Clinical Coordinator: Shellie Raisanen, MSN
Campus Faculty: Janine Blakeslee MSN, RN, Margaret Smith, MSN, RN, Julie Polanic, MSN, RN
Associate Chair: Deanna Dubay, MSN, RN
Simulation Lab/Clinical Coordinator: Michelle Hagstrom, MSN, RN
Campus Faculty: Margaret Hovey MSN, RN, Sarah Brooks, MSN, RN
Associate Chair: Andrea Shaw MSN, RN
Simulation Lab/Clinical Coordinator: Amanda Binge MSN, RN
Campus Faculty: Joann Harrison MSN, RN, Sharon Long PhD, RN, Lynette Zigo, MSN, ANP-BC, Thelma M. Phillips, PhD, RN
Associate Chair: Aleta Pillai PhD, MSN, RN
Simulation Lab/Clinical Coordinator: Vickie Welton, MSN, RN
Campus Faculty: Kim Garza, MSN, RN, Angela Elenbaas, FNP, RN, Kelli Baumgartner, MSN-Ed, RN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Associate Dean Online: Kelly McCarron, Ed.D,OTR/L
Associate Chair, BSN-C Online: Kelli Leask, MSN, APRN, FNP-C & Becky Ventura, MSN
Associate Chair Online MSN/FNP: Jean Gordon DBA, MSN, MAAC, RN
Online Teaching and Learning Coordinator: Karen Benjamin
MSN/FNP Online
Associate Chair Online MSN/FNP: Jean Gordon DBA, MSN, MAAC, RN
Online Graduate Faculty: Jessica Abernathy DNP, WHNP-BC, CNM, FNP-BC, Dustin Spencer, DNP, NRP, RN, PMHS, NP-C, ENP-BC


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A winner was selected from 86 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
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"The Rev" lives on through his contributions to metal
Just listen to "Blinded in Chains," "Beast and the Harlot," "Bat Country," or any other Avenged Sevenfold song, and you'll hear one of the one of the best drummers that ever lived give a relentless, unadulterated performance.
Jimmy Sullivan, better known as The Rev, wasn't as widely known on the mainstream level that some of the other "great" drummers of all-time were. But his death shouldn't bring the legacy that grew more popular seemingly by the day and with every person who heard an Avenged Sevenfold song for the first time to an end.
If you were one of the lucky ones to have seen an Avenged concert before The Rev's passing, you saw a true musician at work, giving it everything he possibly had every night. If you weren't so lucky, I'm sure you can probably see clips on YouTube.
It was almost magical watching him work. If you've never heard of Avenged Sevenfold, they're a band that perfected a mix of hard rock and punk metal. On the two newest albums, the band even ventured into country, blues and types of music you'd never traditionally hear from a metal band. I like to describe them as a mixture of Metallica and Guns 'n' Roses blended with today's more scream-heavy metal. And The Rev was a driving force behind that music, coming on more strongly in recent years, especially with his vocal ability. He played many other instruments beside for the drums, like the piano and guitar. He also wrote one of A7X's more complex and popular underground songs, called "A Little Piece of Heaven."
As for myself, no other celebrity death shook me this year as much as this. The Rev was one of my few celebrity heroes in life. I've never been a person to obsess about celebrities, bands or other pop culture icons. But Avenged Sevenfold ignited something inside me the first time I heard them some four years ago. It was a perfect combination of ridiculously powering vocals in any tone, harmonic-style guitar with insane solos and ravaging drums that infiltrated each and every thought in your head. It's what brought me back into the world of rock music. I had pretty much quit listening to rock prior to that.
Needless to say, I'm glad I was able to hear and see A7X and The Rev in concert before his passing. Like so many other great musicians, he was taken far too early from not only his fans, but also his band mates, who've been best friends since high school, and his family. Regardless of however the autopsy comes back, there are millions of people like me mourning the loss of one of the great and innovative drummers.
Rest in peace Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan 1981-2009. You'll always be remembered.
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thanks, John, for a wonderful heartfelt article on one of the best talents in rock music! "The Rev" achieved a level of skill rarely seen or heard in such a short life time. What a terrible loss! It will be a difficult, time consuming effort for A7X to find another talent with even a fraction of the skill The Rev had. RIP.
....I got a little choked up yesterday when I heard the news. Not only is Avenged my favorite band of ALL time, but the Rev is truly irreplaceable. I, too, had the chance on more than one occasion to see them in concert before his passing and I am very happy about that. I don't know how they will find someone to fill his shoes, like I said before, he is irreplaceable. He will be missed....RIP Rev.


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So I was just browsing through the "ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing 2013-2016 Kiteboard Competition Rules". And was noticing some rules about not wearing any equipment that is just there for increasing weight. Or also rules that about maximums for personal gear weight.
Other than that weight possibly letting you run a slightly bigger kite wouldn't that extra weight also increase drag?
Guess I'm just wondering why those rules are there.


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Brinjal is a frequently used vegetable in our house maybe after okra, potato, tindora.Another plus is that it is available in the Indian stores throughout the year and so I cook with it often.?
Baingan Masala is one dish I learnt few months ago and I have tried it many times since. ?There are so many variations of this classic dish; some are prepared with the typical north Indian flavor, others use many spices stuff? it in the brinjal and make it the? bharwan way. Anyway this is my version of Baingan masala which has a touch of Konkani flavor to it.?
Spicy and tangy this curry goes well with rotis/pooris and daal rice. On days when I am pressed for time, I make this curry along with a kachumber (salad) and plain rice. I then heat up store bought rotis, and we eat it along with salad and yogurt rice.?
Here are other recipes using brinjal:?
- Dry brinjal curry with spice mix.
- Stuffed Brinjal/ Ennegai
- Brinjal ka Upma
- Eggplant Spinach Daal
- Brinjal and Potato ki Sabji?
Serves: 3-4
- 4-5 medium purple brinjal/eggplant/baingan (similar to these)
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 tsp Jaggery for taste (optional)
- Asafetida/hing a pinch
- Salt
- 1 Tbsp Oil
To make the coconut masala
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut (fresh/frozen)
- 1 Tbsp coriander seeds/dhaniya
- 1 Tbsp urad daal
- 1 Tbsp tamarind paste
- 3-4 red chillies
- Wash the Baingan/brinjal thoroughly and cut into long strips. Place it in a bowl of water to avoid discoloration.
- Heat a small pan; roast the coriander seeds, urad daal and red chillies in little bit oil until it turns brown.
- Next make the coconut masala, by grinding the coconut along with the roasted red chillies, urad daal, coriander seeds, tamarind, and water. The masala should be slightly coarse, thick so do not add too much water.
- In the meanwhile heat oil in a thick bottomed pan. Add the mustard seeds, let it splutter and then add the curry leaves, hing.
- Add the chopped brinjal/baingan, salt and fry until it turns light brown and is cooked.
- Add the chopped tomatoes
- Add the coconut paste and cook until the raw smell of coconut is gone. Sprinkle some water in between, so that it does not stick to the bottom. Check for taste and adjust the seasonings if required.
- Garnish with shopped coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice or rotis.?


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A night out in Norwich still remains to be the best bet if you're an East Anglian. Its nearest competitors are Cambridge and Ipswich which both lack the variety of venues and choice of pubs and bars that Norwich has to offer. In recent months Norwich has seen a regeneration of its nightlife after a […]
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The most gangsterest last name in the whole fucken world.
" An example? none needed, saechao is straight up gangster"
by anonymous100 September 23, 2006
the last name of mienh people. Who come from the moutians of Laos. Mienh people are also known as savages in bed.
hey, have you met mienh people with the last name saechao before? Emerson says," No? what are they?" They are people who come from the moutains of laos, and are savages in bed.
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When did it suddenly become mandatory to add a herb crust to a rack of lamb? You don't seem to be able to order one in a restaurant, or go round to someone's house for dinner (usually a single man who rather fancies himself as a chef) without encountering a rack of lamb with a herb crust.
And I, too, was about to reach for my blender in order to whizz up some parsley, mint, garlic, breadcrumbs and whatever the hell else there is to a herb crust on Sunday when we were cooking a rack of lamb. But then I was struck with the very clear sensation that this was peer pressure, pure and simple.
So, feeling very defiant I - (and when I say I, I mean Giles) - just roasted a seasoned rack of lamb, a snip at £34,000 from the farmer's market, in a 220C oven on a bed of rosemary and lemon for about 10 minutes, 10 minutes at 180C and then 10 minutes' rest. Giles says that if he was going to do it again he'd lightly brown it first. But there was nothing wrong with it.
We had with it baked leeks, which were very easy. I parboiled some leeks for 5 minutes in salted water and then put them in a gratin dish, poured over a modest amount of extra thick single cream and a lot of grated gruyere and baked in a 180C oven for 25 minutes. They don't look very nice in the photo but they were great.
Then we ate it dancing around the kitchen a bit to Cheryl Cole, who'd come on the radio. And when I say we, I mean I.


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Liberty News
Evangelist David Nasser speaks at convocation
Chatting with Brian Littrell from the Backstreet Boys one day, evangelist David Nasser flipped open the singer's cell phone and discovered a few celebrities listed on a first-name basis.
At Wednesday's convocation, Nasser recalled the scenario of seeing certain big names — "Tiger" and "Brittney" — in Littrell's contact list. Nasser wondered aloud what it would be like to be friends with celebrities who would actually call him back.
Turning to Isaiah 41:9-10, Nasser reminded students that they have access to The One who is even more powerful and important than any celebrity, and He knows them by name.
An excerpt from the verses says: "… I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
Anytime a believer calls out to God through prayer, He promises to answer. When you're let down by your parents or closest friends, Nasser said, God promises to still be there and heal your hurt.
David Nasser is a frequent guest speaker at Liberty University. At LU's Spiritual Emphasis Week early last semester, he encouraged students to donate the same dollar amount that their blue jeans cost to help three Ethiopian children be adopted. The offering amounted to nearly $100,000. Updating students on that unique offering, Nasser said the money will cover the adoption expenses for a family of an LU student who plans on welcoming the orphaned siblings into their home soon. The family anticipates settling the paperwork by mid-October and flying to pick up the children in November.
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An example of a pre-Dreadnought battleship, the USS Massachusetts is one of the Nation's oldest battleships. Commissioned in 1896, the Massachusetts, along with the USS Indiana and the USS Oregon, were members of the "Indiana" class of warships and the first ships constructed for the new "Steel" Navy. These heavily-armored, heavy caliber battleships were transitional models obsolete 20 years later as they contained a significant design flaw; "Indiana" warships were built without bilge keels that prevent the vessels from rolling from side to side. As a result, the Massachusetts was extremely unstable, even in calm seas, and if both 13-inch gun tubes were trained abeam at the same time, the ship would heel over, forcing one side underwater while the other side emerged from the waves.
The Massachusetts did not see much action but it did participate in the Spanish-American War, firing on the Spanish warship Cristobal Colon and helping to sink the cruiser Reina Mercedes. The ship was decommissioned in 1906 but returned to a reduced commission status in 1910 as a practice vessel for midshipmen. During World War I, the Massachusetts was employed as a gunnery practice ship. In 1919, it was decommissioned for the last time and renamed Coast Battleship No. 2. In 1921, the vessel was sunk in a training exercise by guns at Fort Pickens. Since it was still partially visible from the surface, Navy pilots used the Massachusetts for target practice during World War II. The Massachusetts is 350 feet long and 70 feet wide at the amidships and two of the battleship's 13-inch cannon rise out of the water. Even though the hull was stripped for scrap metal during the 1940s, the wreck is in relatively good condition for being submerged for 80 years and has reached a state of equilibrium with the environment. In fact, the Massachusetts was completely undamaged by the violent hurricanes of the summer of 1995.
The wreck of the USS Massachusetts--BB-2 is located 1.5 nautical miles south-southwest of Pensacola Pass. It lies in 26-30 ft. of water within the Fort Pickens State Aquatic Preserve, administered by the Florida Department of Natural Resources. There are special diving instructions at this wreck site regarding anchoring and diving equipment and a prohibition against penetrating the hull. The shipwreck is located within a Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve, and a laminated underwater guide is available from local dive shops. The preserve is open to the public year round, free of charge.
Florida's Shipwrecks: 300 Years of Maritime History features a Teaching with Historic Places online lesson plan, The Spanish Treasure Fleets of 1715 and 1733: Disasters Strike at Sea. This lesson plan has been produced by the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places program, which offers a series of online classroom-ready lesson plans on registered historic places. To learn more, visit the Teaching with Historic Places home page.
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My family and I flew up to Dayton for a couple of days to check out the Air Force Museum. When we arrived we signed up for the presidential hangar bus trip and I signed up as a standby for the restoration facility tour. They only get 44 people over there once a week, so this was a rare opportunity. Amazingly enough I got in on the restoration tour, but I had to leave the wife and kids behind. My wife was cool with that and off I went.
The tour was a 2 hour guided tour and it was amazing. First, the volunteer ladies are great and full of useful info. Second, there is something fantastic in seeing these amazing artifacts and aircraft being restored. The level of work that a museum of this caliber puts into something like this is enormous.
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Here I am, hello! Where have I been? Well, writing, obviously:
Also, being a poor influence on my child:
And appearing on podcasts! Well, a podcast.
The last couple of months have been crammed with Work and Life, but I promise, promise, promise to write more soon. I have also been reorganizing my work schedule and cleaning up my habits, such as they are, and I think I'm on a smarter track. I'll tell you all about it in my next post. (Uh, maybe after we take a look at some of the above Salads. Alluring and new? Sign me up!)
The ten-year anniversary of my blog came and went, and I sort of can't believe it's been so long. So many great things have happened in my life as a result of this blog. This is a very important place for me. I don't want to neglect it, and you, any more.
Hey, so: who's still reading? Please comment, and say hello. Tell me about you. What brought you here? What do you want to see more of? Less of? The same amount of? Do you have a blog? Why not tell us about it?


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UPDATED: Quantum Discovery buys Indiana firm
Quantum Discovery LLC, a digital-data firm based in New London that helps lawyers identify key documents, announced today the acquisition of Indianapolis-based Preferred Imaging, a litigation-support provider that serves legal departments in the Midwest.
Matt McCormack, chief executive of Quantum Discovery, said Preferred Imaging, which has fewer than 10 employees but some major clients in areas such as Chicago and Indianapolis, was a good fit with his 2-year-old firm.
"The company has longstanding client relationships, a respected name in the Indianapolis marketplace and significant (electronic-document) discovery experience and bench strength," McCormack said in a statement.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
McCormack said his company is currently adding two employees to its New London office, bringing the total staff there to 15.
"We're hiring to support our growing customer base," McCormack said.
Quantum Discovery, which specializes in services for corporate legal departments, helps lawyers for major multinational corporations sift through the thousands of pages of documents required to try a case. Using licensed "predictive-coding" software, the company can identify documents most likely to turn up information that is important to a specific case.
Brett Crist, president of the 14-year-old Preferred Imaging, said Quantum Discovery's platform for culling through documents, called Viewpoint, will help his company increase the level of services for its clients.
"With Viewpoint, clients can simplify the collection, processing, analysis, review and management of data across complex information sources, including social media, servers, email and desktops," Crist said in a statement.
McCormack added that Viewpoint can process data up to five times faster than similar types of software, allowing clients to analyze important data quickly.
Preferred Imaging and its staff will remain intact in Indianapolis.
McCormack said that he may continue to make strategic acquisitions in the future, but wants to make sure to retain the culture of a boutique operation. He said a satellite office on the West Coast wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility in the next year or so.
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We need your help! One of the main goals we have here at The Muppet Mindset is to provide you, the adoring public, with quality, hopefully daily, updates with Muppet news, articles, and what have you. Unfortunately, lately, time has not been on my side as summer vacation reaches its peak and I find myself with a social life and odd jobs. It has become increasingly harder to find time to write articles with so much going on... but I'm hoping that's where you will come in!
There is always an opportunity on the Mindset for fan contributions and every so often we like to remind our readers of that... so here is your reminder! Anyone is welcome to contribute, so if you've got something about the Muppets rattling around in your brain that you think would make a good read--write it down! Chances are, if you think it's interesting, other Muppet fans will too.
But what if you can't come up with an article? Well, we can help there too! We have a couple series of articles that we are always accepting new contributions to. Below is the list of recurring Mindset articles that are always awaiting new entries...
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Once you've written your article, submit it in an email to Ryan Dosier at firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject title: "Mindset Article: [Insert Title Here]"
As I said, we are happy to accept most articles, but we reserve the right to refuse and edit any article for length, content, or whatever. However, we're usually very lenient, so take a chance and send us an article! We'd love to have you!
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I'm reading the latest (and greatest?) book on Lance & doping, "Wheelmen." Seems well written, likely authentic, tries to give a behind-the-scenes view of how things went down. Looks like a lot of stuff that was "off the record" is now "on."
However, it's a bit disturbing that they open with a retelling of the 2004 Tour de France, making it seem like US Postal & Lance were just completely off the charts and walking away with the win because they were doping. That there could have been no other plausible reason for what went down, even to the point of severely distorting the facts-
At the base of the Plateau du Beille, a ten-mile climb so steep that most people can hardly walk it…
– and then, a couple paragraphs later you find this, describing the same climb
As the hill pushed to a 6 percent grade, on its way to an eventual 8 percent…
Such total exaggeration, later exposed by their own writing, is not a good sign. Why is it that, despite the outrageousness of the actual truth, people still feel a need to embellish it further? Even an 8 percent grade would never, ever see a pro cyclist walking up, nor even "most" recreational cyclists. But the context they're attempting to provide is that this is an unbelievable climb, something so out of the ordinary that USPS's doping was obviously responsible for Lance decimating the other riders and teams. Never mind that the other riders and teams were also heavily involved in doping (although, to be fair, Thomas Voeckler, mentioned in the events of the day, has one of the few wiki pages for a pro cyclists without any mention of doping).
With 6.2 miles still left in the 9.9 mile climb, Ullrich had already lost 40 seconds. Voeckler had lost 1 minute and 41 seconds. The riders passed the 3-mile mark, then the 1-mile mark. Armstrong was alone, far out in front of almost everyone, Ullrich a mere memory at 6 minutes behind. The Tour de France was a good as won.
No mention that Ullrich was part of a doping program just like Lance. That doping wasn't something that separated Lance's results from most others. I suspect that Ullrich (and others) will come up later in the book, but I guess, why quarrel with details and context when you've got a great story going?
It makes for very good reading, and I'm enjoying it, but you wonder how many liberties are taken with historical accounts in general. Yeah, I know, like duh. It's just that it really becomes apparent when it's a subject you know something about. "Everybody lies, I just didn't know." One of the most-famous lines from the movie Breaking Away. We previously thought that an apt analogy to doping. Didn't realize it applies to story teller as well. Maybe not an outright lie here, but certainly an error of omission, facts chosen carefully to support the spin.
Ah, the "Where's Waldo" thing. That's because I was there. I was at each of Lance's Tour de France rides starting from 2000-on. I was at the first USPS training camp that Lance attended. In 2007 I was outside the hotel in Pau moments before Vinokourav was busted for blood doping and his team sent packing. I was there for Lance's "comeback" TdFs, where many of us had this sense that Lance was trying to prove to people that he could win, clean. I was in France August 25th of last year, when it all came tumbling down. I was in Austin Texas, at Lance's bike shop, the day his sponsors pulled out. I'm either Waldo or Forest Gump.
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BC Soundliners Inc. is a 'soft adventure' marine leisure travel and transportation company. The company plans to operate pocket cruise ship(s) offering day and overnight travel experiences between the world class cruising grounds of southwest British Columbia (Greater Vancouver Region) and the nearby coastal towns, ports, bays and harbours that make up the east coast of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Strait of Georgia.
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by Lou Mancinelli
Teachers at three additional Northwest Philadelphia schools can apply for grants this fall through the recently expanded Mt. Airy Teacher's Fund, now called the Mt. Airy-Chestnut Hill Teacher's Fund.
Teachers at Chestnut Hill's J.S. Jenks Elementary School, at 8301 Germantown Ave., Mt. Airy's Parkway Northwest High School, at 7500 Germantown Ave. and the John F. McCloskey Elementary School, at 8500 Pickering St. in Mt. Airy, are now able to apply for grants under the expansion.
The new schools have been added because the total amount of allocated funds has gone underutilized the past few years, according to founder Ken Weinstein.
Established in 2007 by Weinstein, owner of Mt. Airy's Trolley Car Diner & Deli and a local real estate agent, the fund offers up to $10,000 worth of $50 to $500 grants annually designated to aide teachers as they work to enhance their students' experience.
"We have heard from many local public school teachers that they do not have the resources to fully educate their students," Weinstein said. "The Teacher's Fund was set up to help provide these resources. With the School District's current financial crisis, there is less money than ever available to our teachers."
The 2011-2012 Pennsylvania state budget cut approximately $900 million, or more than 10 percent, in funding for instruction, accountability grants, special education, teacher training, student tutoring aid, charter school reimbursements and more for public schools.
Last year, members of the teacher's fund steering committee provided 20 grants worth $6,790.92. A large portion, $2,942.73, was dedicated to projects rooted in anti-bullying campaigns. This year, two new members, both parents, Leslie Burrell and Vanessa Yingling, who will serve as liaisons for McCloskey and J.S. Jenks, respectively, have joined the committee, bringing the number of members to 10.
Current schools considered by the fund are Eleanor C. Emlen, 6501 Chew Ave.; Anna B. Day, 6324 Crittenden St.; C.W. Henry, 601 Carpenter Lane; Anna L. Lingelbach, 6340 Wayne Ave., and Henry H. Houston, 7300 Rural Lane.
"Besides funding from the state, this gives teachers additional resources," said four-year committee member Pauline Henry. Three of Henry's children have attended Houston, including one who still is a student there.
In 2007, Weinstein and his wife hosted Peter Yarrow of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary at their Mt. Airy home and raised $10,000 for the fund. Yarrow has dedicated part of his energies to spreading the message of anti-bullying. The fundraiser occurred on the heels of violence at various Philadelphia public schools and originally focused primarily on anti-bullying campaigns.
But as the years passed and teachers expressed their difficulties in acquiring resources, the project's scope widened.
Weinstein said often teachers need money to pay for field trips to places like the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin Institute. The school district no longer funds busses for trips.
This year's application process begins in October and concludes in mid-November. Past applications included a request for $315 to teach two Houston kindergarten classes about animals, their survival needs and environments through the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and a $539 request from Houston music teacher Ezechial Thurman to set up an in-house recording studio with a computer.