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Police say 'sophisticated' school drugs rings not widespread in NHBy PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 16. 2013 11:48PM
Police in the state's two largest cities say they see no evidence of schoolyard drug rings as sophisticated as the one uncovered at Portsmouth High School two weeks ago, but are under no illusions that drugs aren't being bought and sold by students.
"I'd be a fool if I said drugs weren't being used here," said Nashua Police Lt. Frank Sullivan. "But something like what I've heard about the operation in Portsmouth, we've seen no evidence of that in Nashua. I like to think the partnerships we developed with school officials and students would alert us if there was one."
Two Portsmouth brothers, ages 15 and 16, were arrested by police, suspected of operating a large drug sales operation for high school students. It allegedly included international drug shipments and money laundering, said Portsmouth police.
The siblings were arrested after a police raid at the Portsmouth apartment where they live with their mother.
Police said they confiscated methamphetamine, heroin and ketamine, along with bath salts, hashish and marijuana - drugs they believe were sold to other students attending Portsmouth High School.
Police said they also found hypodermic needles, scales, small plastic bags, cellphones, laptops and knives.
"We have not seen teens running anything on that scale in the city that I can remember, and I've been here 17 years," said Manchester Sgt. Brian LaValle, of the city's Special Investigations Unit.
"Our team has very good relationships with students and administrators in the city's schools," said Lt. Ron Mello, who oversees the Juvenile Division of the Manchester Police Department, including a team of eight school resource officers. "You can never be sure, especially with the operation they broke up in Portsmouth, but I think we would hear about that from our contacts here."
Portsmouth Police Capt. Mike Schwartz, who oversees the city's school resource officer program, says the program has been reduced from three officers four years ago to one, covering five schools in the city.
"He works to stay connected in the schools, but he's spread a little thin," said Schwartz.
Schwarz said his department is continuing its investigation into whether the two teens were assisted by adults in running the ring.
He would not comment on whether there was evidence that drugs were sold on school grounds, whether more arrests may occur, or whether the resource officer alerted authorities to the presence of the alleged drug ring.
"As this is an ongoing investigation, I can't comment any further on those efforts," said Schwarz.
A proposal to add a second school resource officer to cover Portsmouth elementary schools has been discussed during budget sessions.
"It won't get us back to where we were, but it's a good step," said Schwarz.
Both the Nashua and Manchester school districts conduct random sweeps of student lockers and common areas inside school buildings as a way to deter drug sales and use by students. Schwarz said Portsmouth conducted similar sweeps in the past, but they were dropped due to funding cuts.
Drug sweeps at some New Hampshire high schools have prompted protests from parents who complained about perceived violations of their children's Fourth Amendment rights, including an unsuccessful 2007 lawsuit brought against ConVal Regional High School by parents.
Franklin cited reasons why the sweeps are legal, saying a sweep using dogs is not considered a search under the Fourth Amendment.
An "alert" received from a drug-sniffing dog gives police and school officials reasonable suspicion to search a student's property, and that no warrant is needed by school officials to conduct the search.
School administrators are told of the sweeps a week or more in advance, and school principals often accompany the police and the dogs through a school building.
Teachers are told the day of the sweep, typically in an alert message sent to a school email account, and keep students in classes while it is under way. Parents are alerted as well, via an automated phone message.
The Nashua School District adopted a policy in 2004 requiring all students to have doctor's orders and parental consent before they can receive any type of medication in school.
Lt. Sullivan said students caught with any medication - without a prescription - can be charged with a felony. Officers call the students' parents to determine whether they have a prescription.
What happens after a student is caught with drugs varies between districts. Some districts work with a student who has committed an infraction to get them connected with further resources; other schools have a mandatory 10-day suspension, with no exceptions. Consequences vary based on whether the infraction is a first offense, second offense, or made by a chronic offender. Consequences for athletes may be different.
Portsmouth School Superintendent Edward McDonough confirmed last week that disciplinary procedures against the teen brothers charged in the alleged ring have begun. The process includes a referral to the school board for a disciplinary hearing.
"We are following the process as outlined," McDonough said. "Unfortunately, the school administration cannot provide any detail on student disciplinary matters which, by law, are confidential."
According to data provided by the state's Department of Education, in the 2007-08 school year (the last year for which statistics were available), 806 students in New Hampshire received suspensions from school for drug use, 342 of those where in Hillsborough County. There were 16 students expelled for drug possession that year.
Results from the state's 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Study (YRBS), the most recent year the survey was administered, showed 23.1 percent of New Hampshire high school students who participated in the survey said they had been offered, had purchased, or had been given an illegal drug on school property during the previous year. Survey results showed that one in five high school students in New Hampshire, or 20.8 percent, claim to have taken a prescription drug at least once without a prescription. The drugs included OxyContin, Xanax and Ritalin.
Sullivan said in Nashua, from September 2010 to the present, 46 high school students have been arrested on drug possession charges. Of those, 31 arrests were for marijuana possession, while 15 involved prescription drugs. This school year, there have been nine arrests - eight on marijuana charges and one for prescription pills.
Lt. Sullivan said the school resource officers he oversees in Nashua have reported an overall increase in the use of prescription pills over the past two years, but that much of the drug activity happens off school property.
The last sweep using drug-sniffing dogs conducted in Nashua took place in September. Two teams of four dogs simultaneously sniffed out lockers and common areas in both Nashua high schools. Each team took about 30 minutes to go through the schools. No drugs were detected.
Derry Police Capt. Vern Thomas said his department assists in sweeps in that community about once a year. He believes the sweeps are a worthwhile activity.
Thomas said in 2011, 28 youths aged 11 to 17 were arrested on drug possession charges. That number went to 46 in 2012. From ages 18 to 24, the numbers went from 28 arrests in 2011 to 38 in 2012.
Lt. Ron Mello oversees the Juvenile Division of the Manchester Police Department, including a team of eight school resource officers. He said his department also conducts random, unannounced sweeps of city schools with drug-sniffing dogs. Mello said his department typically conducts two sweeps a year.
According to figures provided by Manchester police, there were 60 youths ages 18 and under arrested for drug possession in the Queen City in 2011. The number dropped to 55 in 2012.
Salem also conducts sweeps, usually twice a year, according to Superintendent Michael Delahanty.
"It's to let the students who are bringing drugs to school, if there are any, to know that it's not going to be tolerated," said Delahanty.
Sullivan said he felt the fact that no drugs were found at the schools was a good indicator of the success of his school resource officer program, showing the work school officials and school resource officers are doing is having a positive effect in preventing drug use.


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Posted 30 May 2013. PMN Crop News.
Farming Practices to Minimize Ill Effects on Bees and Other Pollinators
Source: Iowa State University Press Release. www.cai.iastate.edu
Ames, Iowa (May 10, 2013)--Farmers being observant with seed treatments at planting and pesticide applications during the growing season could minimize ill effects on bee populations, according to Iowa State University entomologists.
In a U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency report released last week, several possible causes of national decline in honeybees were outlined, including habitat loss, poor diet, diseases, parasites and pesticide exposure. Research so far points to a combination of these factors that may be responsible for the 30 percent decline in honeybees annually since 2006.
Bees through their role in pollination are considered to be directly or indirectly responsible for about every third bite of food we eat, according to the USDA. Crops that are predominantly pollinated by honeybees have an estimated value of more than $215 billion annually worldwide.
Matt O'Neal, Iowa State associate professor of entomology, and Erin Hodgson, assistant professor and ISU Extension and Outreach entomologist, said the insecticides are used to protect the germinating seed from pests.
They advised cleaning seed treatment residues from planting equipment away from fields and minimizing off-site dust movement from treated seeds. By taking these precautions, farmers could help minimize bee exposure to a class of insecticides, called neonicotinoids, that some studies have identified as a particular concern.
Using the recommended rate of lubricants that aid the flow of seed through planters is another way to minimize exposure to bees, as well as being aware of wind speed and direction around flowering plants when applying pesticides, they said.
Alerting local beekeepers of upcoming pesticide applications is an important practice. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship maintains an Iowa Sensitive Crops Directory that includes the locations of hives: www.iowaagriculture.gov/sensitiveCropDirectory.asp.
O'Neal said farmers can encourage bee populations by growing native perennial plants around agricultural fields to improve foraging habitat. He includes specific recommendations in a recent ISU publication by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture: www.leopold.iastate.edu/conserving-beneficial-insects-native-plants.
Hodgson and O'Neal have written an article about bee health recommendations for Integrated Crop Management News: www.extension.iastate.edu/0508onealewh.htm.

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By Levi Berg
As grilling vegetables is to summer, roasting vegetables is to winter.
Not only does the cooler weather make it a wonderful time to turn on the oven, but the vegetables available in the winter are practically designed to be roasted.
Most root vegetables, such as beets, parsnips, sweet potatoes, onions, turnips, potatoes and winter squash, are perfect for roasting.
The process of roasting brings out the natural sweetness of vegetables and intensifies their natural flavors.
Are you tired of starting the New Year with a pile of debt that remains from holiday shopping?
Perhaps you are looking for ways to reduce the stress associated with shopping during the holiday season and paying for gifts, greeting cards, postage, gift wrap, decorations, food, drink, travel, long distance phone calls and other items.
Although there is not much time left here are a few suggestions from our Extension specialists for stretching your holiday dollar and managing your money and resources throughout the season and into the New Year.
Southern States Cooperative will review its operations at a series of local annual meetings, including the upcoming meeting for members of Southern States Cooperative, Inc. – Gallatin, Henry, La Grange and Shelbyville Agronomy Plants.
Most adults know winning a competition isn't necessarily a prerequisite for future success in life.
Sometimes, however, we can get caught up in the moment and put too much pressure on our children to win at whatever they do, whether it is at school or on the athletic field.
At no time of the year is this truer in Kentucky than at the start of basketball season.
As a parent, it's important for you to promote good sportsmanship in whatever activity your child chooses to pursue.
This impressive 7-pound turnip was grown by James A. McClain of Smithfield.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture was awarded a Specialty Crop Block Grant for $291,564.95 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with Kentucky institutions and organizations, including The Berry Center in New Castle, to strengthen markets for specialty crops in Kentucky.
• Dec. 8: Second Wind Dreams Committee at Extension Office at 1:30 p.m.
We meet the second Tuesday of each month. Everyone is welcome. If you haven't checked out our website go to: www.henrycountyky.com/extension/secondwind.htm.
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Almost a year since 8-year-old Palmdale boy Gabriel Fernandez was tortured to death at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend after social workers repeatedly dismissed reports that he was being abused, the Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection is reaching out to welfare agencies across the country for ways to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again.
Preparing to make its final recommendations to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors next month, the blue-ribbon panel sought ideas Monday from public and private agencies that have successfully reformed their welfare systems to better protect abused and neglected children — and through those changes, saved lives.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, the commission's Chairman David Sanders, who led L.A.'s Department of Children and Family Services from 2003 to 2006, said he wants to take proven programs and tailor a strategy for Los Angeles, which supervises the care of about 30,000 children and responds to some 180,000 allegations of abuse and neglect each year.
As the largest public child-welfare agency in the country, DCFS social workers are faced with high caseloads, poor training, outdated technologies and insufficient coordination with law enforcement and other agencies that care for children.
"The fact that the Department of Children and Family Services has had over 700 recommendations over the last five to 10 years points to how many good ideas are out there and how difficult it is to make these kinds of changes," he said.
The supervisors created the commission in June 2013 amid public outcry over the death of Fernandez, whose history of abuse had been reported to — and dismissed by — DCFS social workers.
Hoping to avert any similar tragedies, the commission invited child-welfare agencies from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Michigan and Florida, all known as success stories in the field.
Sanders — who left DCFS to become an executive at Casey Family Programs, the nation's largest foundation focused on foster care, with some $1.6 billion invested on services to benefit children and families — noted even though the other states used different techniques, they had three things in common.
"There was clarity about accountability," he said. "Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has one person in charge of multiple services; in Tampa, Florida, they had privatization, but those agencies had their contracts terminated if they weren't successful. Also, there was clarity about what they were trying to accomplish. In Tampa, they wanted to reduce child fatalities, while in Allegheny, they wanted more children to be safe in their own homes."
Sanders pointed out that each of the visiting agencies also found partners to help achieve their goals. "There was a recognition that this isn't the sole responsibility of the child-protection worker," he said. "In some cases, the community was involved."
Tennessee Department of Children's Services Deputy Commissioner Scott Modell said his agency worked to create a system that learns from its mistakes and doesn't rely on punitive responses like firing caseworkers, believing those address only the symptoms of an agency's problems and more sustained reforms are always needed.
"Errors are not random, isolated events — they really are emergent properties of the system," Modell told the commission. "If all you do is fire a person, you don't make the system any safer. In fact, there's ample evidence in other industries to suggest that makes the system less safe, because people are less likely to report because they're afraid."
Michigan is notable as the only jurisdiction to use a child-fatality review process to hone its reforms.
Colin Parks, manager of the state's Child Protection and Family Preservation Program Office, said there are panels in place specifically to study how and why children die, resulting in the institution of programs addressing everything from safe-sleep education and child-care licensing to child-passenger safety and crib and trigger locks.
In Pennsylvania, 34 county departments were consolidated into just five, and one person was put in charge of the newly unified Department of Human Services, providing a much clearer chain of command and accountability. L.A.'s DCFS currently has 36 departments, several of which handle child-welfare cases.
After Florida outsourced child-welfare services to local community organizations, child homicides in the Tampa Bay area dropped dramatically. Lorita Shirley, executive director of the area's Eckerd Community Alternatives, said the region had as many as nine child homicides in 2011. That number is down to zero, thanks to the innovative use of federal funding, better tracking of data and increased community meetings.
L.A. County is not considering privatizing DCFS, but it is increasingly relying on community organizations to become partners in foster care and other services. "We were really inspired by what happened in Tampa, which got to zero homicides of children at the hands of their parents or caregivers," Sanders said. "That's a goal Los Angeles should aspire to."


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H.S. Basketball: Central wins QCIBT crownBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 28. 2013 9:14PM
MANCHESTER - The Exeter High School boys' basketball team put up a good fight Saturday night, but not good enough to knock out Manchester Central.
Central received a game-high 21 points from junior guard Brett Hanson and beat Exeter 66-53 in the Queen City Invitational Basketball Tournament's championship game at Manchester Memorial High School. Hanson scored 105 points in three tournament games.
It was Central's 24th QCIBT title. Central has a 24-7 record in the tournament's championship game.
Central led 17-13 after one quarter and 31-27 at halftime, then increased its lead to 10 points, 48-38, by outscoring Exeter 17-11 in the third. Exeter was within five early in the fourth, but failed to get any closer.
Senior point guard Zack Holler scored 18 to lead Exeter, which beat Bedford and Merrimack to reach the title game. The Blue Hawks were seeking their second QCIBT title. Exeter won the tournament in 2007.
Trinity 64, Merrimack 36: Senior forward Carmen Giampetruzzi and junior forward Luke Testa each scored a team-high 12 points to help the Pioneers take third place in the Queen City Invitational Basketball Tournament.
Trinity was in control throughout the contest. The Pioneers led 19-12 after one quarter and 35-20 at halftime. Merrimack was held to 16 points in the second half.
Merrimack's Shayne Bourque, a 6-foot-5 senior center, led all scorers with 14. The Tomahawks received eight points from junior guard Austin Franzen and seven from senior guard Eric Gendron.
Weaver 87, Memorial 56: It's probably safe to say that Manchester Memorial didn't go all-out to win its game against Weaver High School of Hartford, Conn.
Memorial coach Jack Quirk elected to get some of his younger players some seasoning during his team's final tournament game, and Weaver posted an 87-56 victory.
Weaver led 30-10 after one quarter, 56-19 at halftime and 71-34 entering the the fourth.
"The goal in a consolation game is not necessarily to win, it's to see what some kids can do - and to make clear what they can and can't do," Quirk said. "We played scared in the first half. For whatever reason they intimidated us.
"It's very easy to mail in the second half when you're down 30. That was our goal at halftime - to win the second half. And I think we did."
Weaver, the Class S runner-up in Connecticut last season, entered the QCIBT with a 1-2 record and went 2-1 in tourney play. The Beavers opened with a loss to Merrimack, but came back to beat Bedford on Friday.
"The reason we came here was to face some size," Weaver coach Charles Silvan said. "We needed to play against some big kids to prepare us for our league."
Weaver's Mike Medlin, a 6-foot-5 sophomore guard, led all scorers with 21 points. Sophomore guard Ke'Andre Fair added 16.
Junior guard Trevon Maughn led Memorial with 19. The Crusaders received 15 from junior forward Kabongo Ngalukukondi.
Memorial, which beat Exeter 68-48 in last year's QCIBT championship game, fell to 1-3 overall (0-1 in Division I). Memorial lost to Trinity and then beat Manchester West.
Memorial has a 45-48 record in the tournament, which is in its 51st year.
West 49, Bedford 45: West used a 9-2 spurt midway through the final quarter to pick up its first victory of the season. The Blue Knights improved to 1-4 overall (0-2 in Division I).
Three West players scored in double figures: senior guard Richard Shout (13), junior forward Alfred Nyonee (12) and sophomore center Keenan Caron (10).
It was a 33-33 game with 4:58 to play, but West took the lead for good by scoring nine of the next 11 points. Bedford pulled within two points, 47-45, with 20.2 seconds left, but West sealed the victory when Nyonee made a layup with six seconds to play.
Freshman forward Colby Gendron led Bedford with nine points. The Bulldogs received seven points from sophomore forward Josh Koehler.
The loss dropped Bedford's record to 0-5 overall (0-2 in Division I).


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UPDATE Hey guys, it's lugiamania here taking over keikawa's post real quick for an announcement!
If you have a younger audience at home, or just simply want to watch something silly and funny, then be sure to tune in to Bottom Biting Bug when it launches on Crunchyroll this Saturday, October 20, at 4:30pm PDT!
Bottom Biting Bug will be available to Crunchyroll's audience in the following territories: North America, South America, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Spain.
Bottom Biting Bug is created by the husband and wife team of UrumaDelvi, and was originally a popular children's song. UrumaDelvi not only composed and sang the song, but animated the music video as well, called Oshiri Kajiri Mushi in Japanese. The song was so popular that it even broke into the top 10 on the Orion singles chart, with over 300,000 CDs sold and 1.5 million downloads.
The series features Bottom Biting Bug XVIII, voiced by singer and voice actress Tomoko Kaneda, who loves to sing and dance more than anything else in the world. When bitten by a Bottom Biting Bug, people become more cheerful and energetic, even those who were depressed or had little confidence. However, even the Bottom Biting Bug makes mistakes, and this story will feature many scenes from everyday life that will continue to evolve through the sort of humor that kids love.
What's up guys,
Midway through the week, and we're about midway through our catalog extravaganza!
Let's deliver more CATALOG titles for your viewing enjoyment with today's newest addition of: Kobato!
Like yesterday's title, this will only be available for US and Canadian audiences only. Sorry guys! Premium users will get all episodes as they become available, while free users will get 4 new episodes a week until the series completion.
Why should you watch Kobato? Here's a little sampling to show you why:
"To ease all the pain and suffering in this world is no simple task, but young Kobato earnestly believes that she has the talent and ability to do just that! However, the half- human creature known as Ioryogi doubts whether the strange girl with the mysterious past is truly ready to receive the mystical flask Kobato needs to achieve her goal, a special bottle gifted with the ability to capture the pain and sorrow of a broken heart once it's been healed! However, as there's really only one way to find out if Kobato truly deserves the right to use the flask, Ioryogi decides to send Kobato on her first assignment! Will Kobato pass the test? From the magical pages of the original manga by famed creators Clamp, the most heartwarming heroine ever is born in Kobato!"
But wait, we're not going to end things just like that.
Stay tuned throughout the week as we'll have more announcements for you!
Catalog Announcement Lineup:
10/15 - PandoraHearts
10/16 - Hell Girl: Three Vessels
10/17 - Kobato
10/18 - ?? <--- we here at CR are excited about this one! :P
10/19 - ??
Haven't heard of this series before, but those two guys in the back- I'm certain I've seen a lot of fanart of them. Especially the one on the left...
Eagerly awaiting tomorrow's annoucement
Lol can't wait XD Yesh Love Clamp's works ^^
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Good grab Keith! I think I'm more amused that Syaoran is in the center of the promotional picture rather than Kobato haha.
Even though I don't know what it is, I'm super excited about the next one!
Maji Love 3000%
Kobato...I know I heard of this anime somewhere before
hmm never mind, its not that I've heard of it before but I recognized the character designs...yeah Clamp, just read that part in the post lol
I guess I'll try this show out
if CR is excited for Thursdays' announcement, I will be too! HYPE!
wonder what it could be
What even
YES!!! I have been wanting to watch this series, but have been unable to till now. (No income = no TAN subscription, plus for some reason this computer can't play even TAN's free videos, unless they appear on here or Hulu)
I bet this is an awesome anime, just like every work CLAMP does.
weird how they're using Syaoran, Fai and Kurogane for the banner since they ONLY show up for 1 episode.
Purge the Trolls. Stay on Topic!!! -Me
Nice addition, I have yet to see this one and I have wanted to check it out for quite some time.
Also now I'm all excited over tomorrow's announcement since they took the trouble to add that they are excited for that one over at CR >.>
So far behind on anime... need to catch up
According to NISA, Toradora and Kimi ni Todoke are going to be added to Crunchyroll. I'd assume those are the next two announcements.
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According to NISA, Toradora and Kimi ni Todoke are going to be added to Crunchyroll. I'd assume those are the next two announcements.
oh well they spoiled it but it's pretty cool anyway.
Work hard, play hard, watch anime.
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According to NISA, Toradora and Kimi ni Todoke are going to be added to Crunchyroll. I'd assume those are the next two announcements.
Well there goes the surprise for the next 2 days I guess lol
Though I will be glad Toradora will be on CR, been planning to rewatch a couple of weeks ago but never actually being able to
What even
NISA just spoiled the next announcements lol
Aw shit! Hope that excited one is good!
Edit: Meh. Maybe if I watch it on here I can finish it at least.
#3 though… wish they put that one here earlier...
This one does not really interest me.
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Ever since I started this blog, at the onset of the Blogozoic Age, I've wanted to use it as a way to write down things I've learned and experienced so I don't forget them. And one very important lesson I learned yesterday is when you re-join a gym, never schedule a meeting with a personal trainer on a day when the kids are home with me.
On the surface these trainers appear pleasant and mostly humanoid, but beneath this facade lurks a black soul dedicated to inflicting pain and humiliation on the unfortunate 98% of us who have body fat over 10%. They envy us this fat, because fat is jolly and substantive and delicious, whereas they have these muscles that must be maintained with "reps" and "protein smoothies" and bizarre exercises that reduce us Normals to heaving, quivering sweatpiles.
I spent an hour with one of these amiable hellhounds right before I picked up the kids at school, and since it was raining we decided to make my birthday cake. They did most of the mixing and measuring and pouring, but I had the distinct pleasure of whipping the cream frosting into hard peaks in 98% humidity. I think they cranked the TV up a bit to drown out the OwOwOwOws coming from the kitchen.
This was birthday cake number 45, and I admit I'm a little tetched about it. It's partly because the phantom milestones of 5's and 0's tend to mess with your head (see also: gym, re-joining), but also because a high-school classmate died in his sleep two months ago. When I was still 44 and could still look up and askance at 45, the top of the fifth-decade backslope that ends with an AARP newsletter. His wake was enormous, filled with classmates and neighbors and friends from all over the town where we grew up and he still resided, with his wife and four young kids.
And I couldn't bring myself to go. I made up some bullshit excuse about traffic, but in truth I was dazed by the immediacy of it. He had cocktails with friends, kissed his kids good night, and that was it.
I can't help it. I'm only at the halfway point of my 40s, and they've already taken me to new extremes of sadness, happiness, and mortalness. And that's why I'm back in the gym, letting misanthropic mesomorphs beat me to jelly. Today is the day, and I really want to wake up tomorrow.


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The first tea was labelled "gyokuro with stems" from Itohkyuemon. I paid 1575 JPY for 100g. I chose this tea because there was a guy preparing samples for people. Even though he knew very little English he did his hardest to answer my questions and did not hesitate to prepare a separate sample of the more expensive stuff for me. Some shops were not serving samples at all.
This tea is amazing. Hands down the best gyokuro I've had. Although I have had more "green" gyokuro, there is an extra tinge of flavor I have not tasted in other gyokuros. It is not as creamy as other gyokuros. I am guessing it is the stems that are adding this extra flavor and cutting the cream a bit. I have no idea if the stems are a sign of higher or lower quality but I definitely like them. They had a similar tea without stems and it was significantly cheaper. The tea's flavor does not change significantly with subsequent steeps. It just keeps slowly dying out. A few previous gyokuros I've had have a very sharp decline in "green-ness" after the first infusion. Perhaps this is a non traditional gyokuro but it is definitely my favorite to date.
The second tea is from a shop I have no idea what it is called since everything was Japanese and the lady spoke very little English. However after she saw me looking and smelling the various teas she immediately prepared a few cups of different teas and kept saying "Try! Try!". I found this pic of the place through Google maps:
I am a sucker for anything that looks old and traditional and this shop has that in spades. They had a HUGE variety of all kinds of teas. The gyokuro I bought from them was probably the "tourist" one and I paid around 4000 JPY for 100grams.
This gyokuro is much more "green" than the previous one. Although creamy it is not quite as much as I'd like. However the green-ness lives on through multiple steeps. I found this one to be a bit more finicky than the previous one. A had to be more careful with temperature to avoid bitterness. However even when it got a little bitter, the overall taste was still very green. I've had a few gyokuros that taste very "brown" or burnt if you don't make them just right. I regret not studying Japanese to see what else this shop had in it. Also I cold brewed a batch of this one and it was awesome. I think it's too pricy considering other options available in the vicinity.
I did a tea tasting at the Obubu tea cafe in Kyoto and it was fantastic. Note that it is not a "traditional" ceremony at all given that the cafe in a huge department store food court. However huge Japanese department store food courts are something to be experienced in an of themselves. It is a modern cafe where someone makes various teas for you. The two people working were awesome and sat and chatted for close to two hours about tea and other things all while going through different teas. I also had tea in Ginza at the Ippodo store and that is a much more upscale tea cafe. The tea was very good but very expensive.
For reference here are some other similar teas I have tried:
- http://www.adagio.com/green/gyokuro.html Adagio's Gyokuro
- http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/green-t ... -green-tea Teavana's Gyokuro
- http://www.mellowmonk.com/buyGreenTea.htm#shaded_leaf Mellow Monk's Kabusecha
- http://www.o-cha.com/green-tea/uji-gyokuro-yume.html Uji Gyokuro Yume no Ukihashi
- http://www.obubutea.com/ Obubu's Kabusecha
- http://shop.ippodo-tea.co.jp/kyoto/shop ... gcd=403011 Ippodo's Kanro Gyokuro


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On Saturday, April 28, the UC Davis MIND Institute will hold a Family Open House, in recognition of Autism Awareness Month. The event will feature fun activities for the entire family, including food, live entertainment, discussion of MIND Institute research and demonstrations. More than 1,000 people attended last year's open house, and more attendees are anticipated this year.
The event will be held at the MIND Institute, 2825 50th St., from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It is free and open to the public and no reservations are required. Parking will be available in the MIND Institute parking lot adjacent to the facility.
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The open house will include "Be the Science!" information that encourages people, both typically developing and those with neurodevelopmental disorders, to become involved in clinical research. Other activities will include train rides, art projects, a charcoal portrait artist, a larger community resource area and bounce houses. Live entertainment will include performances by emcee Jack Gallagher, the "I Can Do That!" Very Special Arts hip-hop dance group, the B Street Theatre and the Sacramento Youth Symphony. Slamson, the mascot of the Sacramento Kings basketball franchise, and the GEICO insurance company gecko will both make appearances. The Cal Aggie Marching Band-Uh! also will perform.
The UC Davis MIND Institute, in Sacramento, Calif., was founded in 1998 as an unique interdisciplinary research center where parents,community leaders, researchers, clinicians and volunteers collaborate to study and treat autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The institute has major research efforts in autism, Tourette syndrome, fragile X syndrome, chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). More information about the institute, including the Family Open House, research, helpful resources and previous presentations in the MIND Institute lecture series, is available on the Web at mindinstitute.ucdavis.edu.


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Okay, so we're still here doing our thing. I am still spraying. [sigh] She's still refusing or latching on frantically and popping off multiple times, and then latching on after the spraying stops and it's just dripping and then popping off again. Mad there's no milk, mad when there is.
But I am just wondering about how many times I need to feed her. And about a baby's instincts in their sleep. These are the things I always wonder about while she's nursing.
She's six months old and doesn't sleep as much as she did, plus sometimes she wakes up as I'm nursing her or as I'm rolling her back to her bed. And sometimes something random happens like my toddler breaks through the babygate and comes crashing down the hardwood floor hall pounding "mama" on the door and the baby wakes up. And I am choking back tears and rage at both of them.
But anyway, sometimes she goes as much as six hours without a decent feed. Last weekend she went 7 hours without even a little bit of a feed. But I killed myself the rest of the day getting 8 nursings into her.
BUT she DOES NOT do this at night. At night I nurse her every 2 or 3 hours, so I don't sweat the long stretches during the day too bad. She's a little fussy and antsy when it happens, and it sucks because I have to wake up 3 times a night. But she's still exclusively breastfed, and many 6 month olds are waking up that often again anyway, so I try to have the right attitude.
My question tho is this. Are those long stretches of time during the day hurting her weight gain?? Our milk supply? She's more active during the day obviously, really active actually, so I worry she's burning through her day calories sometimes. And everything I read says that night nursing helps maintain your supply anyway. Is this anything to worry about? At all?
And the number of feedings... Lately, it's kinda hard to hit 8. :/
And if she runs purely on instinct in her sleep and at night, AND I've fed her as often as she'll let me during the day, can I let her just sleep as much as she wants at night? Or do I need to set my alarm and try to get 2 or 3 nursings into her between like 11PM and 6AM. Can you tell I'm sleep deprived??
It makes sense to me that if she's hungry she will wake up at night, right?? I mean, she's not a newborn anymore that will sleep through her hunger. Right? But then the panicky mom in me says, "nurse the baby, nurse the baby, she's gonna starve!!"
This baby makes me feel like I know NOTHING about nursing.
I'm getting ready to start solids and I don't know whether I'm relieved or anxious. With my 1st, I nursed her before every solid meal was offered and really tried to fill her up and didn't even start til she was 8 months old. Either some little calories of avocado will help take the edge off and maybe some of the pressure off her, or it will make her lose interest even more???
I really try not to pump, but every once in a while like last weekend when she went 7 hours, I did. I pumped at 3 hours on one breast and got 5 oz. in like 3 minutes. No wonder she hates nursing so much.
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I've been using the name Hguols online for a few years now. Actually, it's the name of a music project that I have - the origins of the name are explained on my project's dot com site
QuoteI've been using the name Hguols online for a few years now. Actually, it's the name of a music project that I have - the origins of the name are explained on my project's dot com siteI just assumed that you lived in Slough.Which isn't very rock'n'roll at all. If you know Slough. Ask John Betjeman.
Congrats on your sobriety.
Point being, I don't know why it works this way, but it does. I'm sure individuals here will disagree wholeheartedly, but they're entitled to their views, experiences and perceptions as free willed individuals. Which brings me to the debate aspect so cherished in sections of this forum. I'm not interested in converting or showing God to anyone.
Welcome to the site. And congrats on the sobriety. While I no longer attend AA and always had trouble with the spiritual side of it, it was invaluable as a help and the community of others certainly were a huge assist in my own struggles with substance abuse. It was nice to be reminded of my time in the rooms, thanks.
I have used the AA program as a clinician with adolescent males, and while I was put off by the "god" side of things, I do admit that for many this has been the only thing that worked. Addiction is a monster, and so I commend you on your accomplishment. I know you'll probably give the credit to god, but somewhere in the process you did, and are doing, some good personal work.And thanks for the nice introduction...
Welcome to the forum!....Really!And...as a tobacco addict, I applaud respect your sobriety.
Welcome! And congratulations on your recovery and I hope life is working out for the best.I had a look on your website and I was interested to find your music was black metal and the effect you've created with midi is interesting too. I listen to black metal and it's definitely music meant to be played loud. I find black metal to either be anti-Christian or pro-Satanist and it generally has a dislike for God, though not always, eg. my friend came across a white supremacist black metal band (note the irony). It'd be interesting to hear what your take is now that you've discovered your spiritual side. If, say, Dimmu Borgir suddenly said, "praise Jesus" without any hint of irony, I might lose touch with their music, not because I'm a hater of religion and banish it from my music collection (I still listen to Creed would you believe? Not something I like admitting[1] ), but their music kind of celebrates the heathen in me. Hope to see you around more on the forum. I've probably given all my advice for new people in your other thread, so I won't bore you with repetition. 1. I have a wide taste, don't judge me.
Quote from: Gnu Ordure on December 18, 2010, 08:26:28 PMI just assumed that you lived in Slough.....um.... ....no.....
I just assumed that you lived in Slough.
I have a wide taste, don't judge me.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- A young lineup, including four freshmen, will represent Tennessee Tech Sunday morning when the Golden Eagle women's golf team tees off in the Chris Banister Classic, hosted by Jacksonville State University. The 54-hole tournament will include 10 teams playing on the Silver Lakes Golf Course layout with 18 holes each on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
"We have a very young team this year and patience will be a key
for us," said coach Polk Brown. "It will be fun to watch and see
how they handle the collegiate tournament atmosphere."
Seniors Katherine Bell and Amanda Randolph (shown in photo) will provide leadership to the youthful TTU lineup. Joining that pair will be four players who are all classified as freshmen, but in varying stages of their TTU careers -- Madalyn Everts, Allison Geer, Megan Williamson and Katya Hoffman.
Everts started out stong last fall as a true freshman, but an injury ended her season and she was granted a medical redshirt for the year. Geer joined the roster this fall from White County High School and Williamson is a newcomer from Blackmon High School in Murfreesboro. Both are true freshmen this fall. Hoffman, meanwhile, has spent a year at Tech following graduation from Cookeville High School, and has decided to return to golf this fall after a year away from competition.
"The course we'll play on will be a tough course and we're in a really good field of teams," Brown said. "I'm anxious to see how our young players interact with the rest of the girls in the tournament."
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A painting that is the enduring image of the French revolution and adorned the 100-franc note for nearly two decades was vandalised this week at the Louvre-Lens museum, but officials there say it has not sustained any permanent damage.
One of the most iconic symbols of the French Revolution, Eugène Delacroix's 1830 "Liberty Leading the People", was defaced on Thursday by a 28-year-old woman with a black marker at the Louvre's branch in the northern city of Lens.
The famous work shows a bare-chested female figure bearing aloft the French Tricolor with one hand and a musket in the other.
"The integrity of the work has not been affected, as the inscription was superficial and remained on the varnished surface without reaching the layer of paint," a Louvre spokesperson said in a statement on Friday, amid fears that a piece of France's national heritage had been permanently defaced. Specialists have since removed the mark, which measured approximately 30 centimetres (12 inches).
The painting was immortalised after it was featured on 100-franc bank notes from 1978 to 1995.
Motive unknown
According to judicial sources, the woman scrawled "AE911" on the canvas using an indelible black marker.
On Friday morning, French media were speculating that the graffiti could be a reference to the "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth" group, which believes that the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center could not have resulted solely from the impact of two fuel-heavy airliners.
"We won't know if there is any political significance until police questioning ends," the museum's Communications Director Raphäel Wolff told FRANCE 24 on Friday morning.
"She is still under arrest and the state prosecutor is here at the museum investigating this," he added.
The vandal is due to appear before a judge on Saturday, and prosecutors have ordered that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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Authority to extend preferencesThe President may provide duty-free treatment for any eligible article from any beneficiary developing country in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter. In taking any such action, the President shall have due regard for—
the effect such action will have on furthering the economic development of developing countries through the expansion of their exports;
the extent to which other major developed countries are undertaking a comparable effort to assist developing countries by granting generalized preferences with respect to imports of products of such countries;
the anticipated impact of such action on United States producers of like or directly competitive products; and
the extent of the beneficiary developing country's competitiveness with respect to eligible articles.
(Pub. L. 93–618, title V, § 501, as added Pub. L. 104–188, title I, § 1952(a), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1917.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2461, Pub. L. 93–618, title V, § 501, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2066; Pub. L. 98–573, title V, § 502, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3018, related to authority to extend preferences, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 104–188.
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Pub. L. 104–188, title I, § 1953, Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1926, provided that:
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The amendments made by this subtitle [subtitle J (§§ 1951–1954) of title I of Pub. L. 104–188, enacting this subchapter, amending sections 2702, 3011, 3202, 3331, and 3551 of this title, section 1444–2 of Title 7, Agriculture, section 4711 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, sections 262p–4p and 2191a of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse, and section 871 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 2101 of this title] apply to articles entered on or after October 1, 1996.
"(b) Retroactive Application.—
"(1)General rule.—Notwithstanding section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930 [19 U.S.C. 1514] or any other provision of law and subject to subsection (c)—
"(A) any article that was entered—
after July 31, 1995, and
before January 1, 1996, and
to which duty-free treatment under title V of the Trade Act of 1974 [this subchapter] would have applied if the entry had been made on July 31, 1995, shall be liquidated or reliquidated as free of duty, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall refund any duty paid with respect to such entry, and
"(B) any article that was entered—
after December 31, 1995, and
before October 1, 1996, and
to which duty-free treatment under title V of the Trade Act of 1974 [this subchapter] (as amended by this subtitle) would have applied if the entry had been made on or after October 1, 1996, shall be liquidated or reliquidated as free of duty, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall refund any duty paid with respect to such entry.
"(2)Limitation on refunds.—
No refund shall be made pursuant to this subsection before October 1, 1996.
As used in this subsection, the term 'entry' includes a withdrawal from warehouse for consumption.
"(c)Requests.—Liquidation or reliquidation may be made under subsection (b) with respect to an entry only if a request therefor is filed with the Customs Service, within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 20, 1996], that contains sufficient information to enable the Customs Service—
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued new rules on Thursday to protect struggling homeowners facing foreclosure. The rules also protect mortgage borrowers from costly surprises and runarounds by their servicers.
"For many borrowers, dealing with mortgage servicers has meant unwelcome surprises and constantly getting the runaround. In too many cases, it has led to unnecessary foreclosures," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. "Our rules ensure fair treatment for all borrowers and establish strong protections for those struggling to save their homes."
Mortgage servicers are responsible for collecting payments from mortgage borrowers on behalf of loan owners. They also typically handle customer service, escrow accounts, collections, loan modifications, and foreclosures. Generally, borrowers have no say in choosing their mortgage servicers. Lenders frequently sell loans to investors after the mortgage deal is signed, and the investors, not the consumers, often choose the servicers.
CFPB said it will now permanently require mortgage servicing companies to provide clear monthly billing statements, warn borrowers before interest rate hikes and actively help them avoid foreclosure.
The rules are stricter in some respects than a proposal outlined by the agency in August. For example, companies may not proceed with the foreclosure process while they work with borrowers on steps that could prevent foreclosure. Under former rules, borrowers could lose their homes to foreclosure while they were in the process of seeking lower monthly payments.
The rules are part of a sweeping overhaul of mortgage rules by the agency. Consumers can find a fact sheet describing all the new regulations here.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 19, 2010) - Two days removed from losing at No. 71 William and Mary the ETSU women's tennis team bounced back in a big way defeating league rival No. 73 USC Upstate 5-2 at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center in Johnson City, Tenn.
With the win ETSU improved to 9-3 overall with a 5-0 A-Sun mark, while the Spartans fell to a 10-2 mark with a 4-1 record in league play.
"Upstate is a good team so I'm happy we got another conference win today," said head coach Steve Brooks. "That being said, the girls need to relax more out there. In some of the matches we have players getting tight and when that happens we start thinking too much about our shots instead of just swinging and hitting. After today's win and with another match tomorrow I hope the girls can keep improving and play a little more clean against Campbell."
As play opened the ETSU squeaked out two doubles wins for the quick 1-0 lead.
The Lady Bucs then extended their advantage to 2-0 as junior Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania) ran her winning streak to 10 straight matches with a quick 6-1, 6-1 win over Ana-Sofia Camberos.
Minutes later sophomore Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa) gave ETSU a 3-0 lead as she played strong with a 6-3, 6-1 straight set victory over Carolina Bello.
Needing only one more point to earn their third straight win at home this season senior Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) closed out the Spartans with a 6-0, 2-6, 6-1 win over No. 112 Francesca Valderrama in No. 1 singles action.
ETSU's final win of the day came as sophomore Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) earned her 11 victory this spring as the Madrid, Spain native prevailed with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 win over Monica Pezzotti.
The Lady Bucs returns to action immediately as they host Campbell with a 1 p.m. contest Saturday at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Center.
Attached above are the final results and scores from today's match between ETSU and USC Upstate.
For more information on the ETSU women's tennis team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Salsa shirt- Burda magazine 4/2010 # 112A
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I actually made this shirt last summer, however, my beach pictures of it somehow got lost on the computer before I could post them so I tried to wait until this year to get some new ones. This is the best I got (I forgot to get pictures when I was actually at the beach, so got some as we were walking away- oh, well). This is actually from the very first Burda magazine I purchased and the dress version is actually on the cover. I was at my local fabric store a few months after buying it when I found this cotton print fabric in the clearance section for $3/m! It is also the first pattern I used from a Burda magazine. The pattern is #112A from 04/2010. It is not in the pattern store, so I couldn't link to it.
Couple of minor alterations. The fabric was rather sheer, so I added a black broadcloth lining. I also added about 2-3 " to the length (I can't exactly remember how much- it was last year), because I felt the actual pattern piece was a little short. I am glad that I did that.
I love this shirt, although I feel a little conspicuous wearing it. It is rather colourful and frilly for the beach in our neck of the woods, but hey, someone has to shake things up a little!
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printed cotton (lawn??), black cotton broad cloth, 1/4 " elastic, thread
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STRATEGIC SELF-MANAGEMENT - Danish gymnasium management between playing solo and showing solidarity
Compared to other parts of the Nordic education systems the Danish gymnasium or upper secondary school has been reformed very late. Today however, the tendencies in neoliberal educational politics represented by the European Bologna process, the PISA studies and OECD's recommendations are implemented in national governance in Denmark, and the gymnasiums have to adapt to the new management technologies embedded in New Public Management: Competence orientation, accountability and commercialisation as means or ends. How are gymnasium principals coping with this new situation? This article sheds light on strategies that gymnasium heads will use to create room for manoeuvre and the discourse they draw upon in order to give these strategies political legitimacy. The analysis shows how the Danish tradition of self-management, participant or 'bottom-up democracy' continues to have considerable significance. Despite internationalisation the traditional Danish concepts of self-ownership and cooperativeness still appear to be mental shapes or frames of understanding.
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However, I totally disagree with this. ACR3 may be better than anythiing else available for the Mac, but RSE is a better converter for edges and detail, hands down. IMO even C1 produces better detail than ACR3.
the quality of the sharpening process depends greatly upon the quality of the interpolation of the original RAW file.
In this respect ACR3.1 produces much better edges than any of the other RAW convertors on the market at the moment and can be sharpened to produce a much more detailed image.
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The Colorado Rockies have named former Class A Modesto manager Jerry Weinstein to be their new catching instructor. He replaces Marv Foley, who was named minor league catching coordinator. The Rockies also named Doug Linton as their new minor league pitching coordinator, Bo McLaughlin as the new pitching coach at Triple-A Colorado Springs and Lenn Sakata as the new manager for Modesto.
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Local fave Bernard Tomic gave the Aussies a great performance during his second round loss to Marin Cilic at the 2010 Australian Open. The score: 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-4, 2-6, 4-6.
The 14th-seeded Cilic's still in, scheduled to face Andy Roddick in the quarters after fending off Stan Wawrinka and upsetting Juan Martin Del Potro in the fourth round. (That last one was a five-setter, too!)
Draw: See how the men's draw is filling out here.
We're all about the multi-color version of Nike's Rush and Crush shirt — that's the one Nadal's wearing in orange — with its whimsical colors that complement the bright blues of the Melbourne Park courts.
Buy: Nike Rush and Crush Crew in white (sold out) and orange blaze, $60, nike.com.
More pics: See a few more looks at Tomic's tee (plus what he wear to Kooyong) after the cut…
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Schools to get GCSEs 'sharp shock'
Schools that used to play the system by entering pupils for exams early and multiple times could be in for a "sharp shock" tomorrow when GCSE results are published, it has been suggested.
Those that relied heavily on "gaming" are more likely to see lower grades, according to Professor Alan Smithers.
His comments come following warnings from England's exams regulator, Ofqual, that there is likely to be "variability" in grades at a school level this summer due to the significant changes to the qualifications.
Exams regulator Ofqual warned there was likely to be "variability" in grades this summer
A move to end-of-course exams, more students taking international GCSEs (IGCSE), cuts to re-sits, a toughening up of GCSE geography, and a decision by Government that only a pupil's first attempt at a GCSE will count in school league tables are all likely to affect this year's results, the regulator said.
Further changes, such as speaking and listening assessments no longer counting towards a student's overall GCSE English grade and a move towards more exams and less coursework in the subject, could also have an impact.
Prof Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment at Buckingham University, said: "Individual schools are likely to be affected differently according to how much they relied on gaming the old system, so for some there could be sharp shocks in store."
Benchmarks set by the Government on the proportions of pupils in each school gaining at least five C grades, including English and maths, have been very important to schools, Prof Smithers said.
"Schools devised all sorts of ways to help the students that might otherwise struggle to meet at least a C grade," he suggested.
This included putting pupils in for exams early to give them practice and allow teachers to identify where pupils were falling short, Prof Smithers said, adding that some schools also used to be "quite generous in assessing speaking and listening".
These methods are no longer possible following the changes to the exams system.
Hundreds of thousands of teenagers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be waking up to their GCSE grades tomorrow.
Ahead of the results, teachers' unions called for an end to "untested tinkering" with exams.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said: "The constant piecemeal changes to GCSE exams are making it increasingly difficult for schools to prepare for GCSE exams and to accurately predict what students will achieve.
"Despite constantly shifting exam goal posts, teachers and students have worked incredibly hard to achieve the results that they will receive in the morning.
"If the Government wants to do its part to help young people get the education they need to succeed in life, it must stop this obsession with tinkering with exams."
Nansi Ellis, assistant general secretary for policy at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said: "Continually changing the format of assessments with untested tinkering has to stop. It is not allowing young people to show what they can achieve, nor is it providing them with the skills they need for work and life after school or college."
Last year, the proportion of GCSEs awarded at least a C grade fell for the second year running.
Just over two-thirds (68.1%) of entries scored A*-C, down 1.3 percentage points from 2012 - the biggest fall in the exam's 25-year history.
The proportion of entries gaining top grades also fell by 0.5 percentage points - with 6.8% achieving a coveted A*.
Prof Smithers predicted that this summer could see a slight rise in grades.
"The big drop in early entries, reduction in internal assessment, and the switch from GCSE to iGCSE, is likely to mean fewer weaker candidates this year, so prior attainment could be expected to be higher, and hence a rise in GCSE grades could be anticipated."
Last year's results showed a shift towards pupils studying traditional academic subjects, with an increased number of entries for the three separate sciences, as well as a reversal in the long-term decline of foreign languages.
It was suggested that the hikes could be down to the introduction of the Government's English Baccalaureate (EBacc), which is awarded to pupils who score at least a C at GCSE in English, maths, science, history or geography, and a foreign language.
But there are indications this year that entries numbers in some subjects are unlikely to rise again this year.
Statistics published by the exams regulator Ofqual earlier this year showed that exam entries for biology, chemistry and physics have fallen this year, with biology entries for Year 11 students down 12% to 128,000, chemistry down 11% to 130,000 and physics entries down 9% to 132,000.
But entries for GCSE Science were up 32% to 152,000 and additional science entries were up 18% to 297,000.
The same Ofqual document showed that German entries are down 2%, French has remained static and Spanish has risen 7%.
History entries have increased by 1% and geography is up 4%.
Vicky Gough, schools adviser at the British Council, said: "Provisional figures suggest that the growth we've seen in the number of foreign language exams over the past couple of years has stalled this year. While the introduction of the English Baccalaureate in 2011 gave languages a boost last year, it sadly doesn't look like it's fuelling any more upward momentum.
"The only silver lining is that it would appear that Spanish - which topped the British Council's list of the languages the UK needs the most - has bucked the trend and continues to grow."
Early indications suggest that some schools are seeing turbulence in their results, with particular concerns among some about English and maths.
Mr Lightman said: "We are getting some individual reports of volatility, but we don't know about overall trends yet.
"Some schools have seen surprises. Some schools have seen results which are lower than expected."
One headteacher reported a drop of 18 percentage points in the proportion of students achieving at least a grade C in English.
She told the Times Educational Supplement (TES): "We're absolutely furious. "Our overall results are now below the floor target [of 50% being introduced next year], and it's all down to English. The kids are going to be distraught."
Another said they had seen a "significant drop" in English language A*-C pass rate, and a third told the TES that in maths, the majority of his school's students had achieved "at least one grade lower" than predicted.
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FOREST, Va. – The Old Dominion Athletic Conference announced its 2013 all-conference football team on Tuesday and Washington and Lee claimed 10 selections, including the Rookie of the Year.
First-year running back Marshall Hollerith (Richmond, Va. / St. Christopher's) earned second team honors in addition to claiming the ODAC's Rookie of the Year Award.
Senior offensive linemen Connor Hollenbeck (Alpharetta, Ga. / Alpharetta) and Bobby Jones (Lynchburg, Va. / Heritage) were both selected to the first team for the second straight year, while Hollerith was joined on the second team by senior running back Luke Terna (Wheaton, Ill. / Benet Academy) and junior offensive lineman Micah Fleet (Cordova, Tenn. / Christian Brothers). Seniors Mark Burlee (Richmond, Va. / St. Christopher's), Michael Unholz (Glen Allen, Va. / Douglas Freeman), Peter Partee (Richmond, Va. / St. Christopher's) and Mitchell Thompson (Memphis, Tenn. / Memphis University School), along with sophomore Jake Barr (Upper Saddle River, N.J. / Northern Highlands Regional) were all named to the third team.
Hollerith rushed for a team-best 1,021 yards and 13 touchdowns on just 209 carries during the season. He amassed six 100-yard rushing games and finished fourth in the conference in both rushing (102.1 ypg) and scoring (7.8 ppg).
Hollenbeck and Jones headlined an offensive line that paved the way for an average of 346.7 rushing yards per game, third-best in Division III. For Hollenbeck, it was the fourth all-conference honor of his career. He was an honorable mention selection as a rookie, a second team honoree as a sophomore and a first team selection the last two years. Hollenbeck played in all 42 games during his career, starting each of the last 40 contests.
Jones repeated as a first team member after posting third team honors following his sophomore campaign. He also became a starter midway through his rookie season and was a fixture in the starting lineup for every game in which he played.
Fleet received second team recognition after garnering third team honors following the 2012 season. He has played in all 31 games of his career to date, starting every game each of the last two seasons.
Terna garnered his first all-conference citation after being named to the second team as an all-purpose back. He played in nine games as a running back and quarterback, totaling 705 yards rushing and six touchdowns on 104 carries. He also caught a team-best seven passes for 59 yards and was 0-for-2 passing. He completed his career with 927 yards and seven touchdowns rushing, 14 catches for 149 yards and 5-of-12 passing for 26 yards.
Burlee started all 10 games on the defensive line, finishing with 35 tackles. Including 6.0 tackles for a loss (-19). He also had one sack (-6), two pass breakups and one fumble recovery. For his career, Burlee played in 32 career games, recording 52 tackles.
Unholz received third team honors after notching second team laurels as a junior. The defensive lineman started all 10 games and posted 35 tackles, including 6.5 tackles for a loss (-22). He also had a shared sack (-4), one forced fumble and one breakup. Unholz played in 41 games during his career, totaling 126 tackles and 20 tackles for a loss.
Thompson garnered third team honors for the second straight year as a cornerback. He finished the 2013 season with 46 tackles, including five tackles for a loss (-12). He also posted two interceptions with five pass breakups and one fumble recovery. Over his four seasons, Thompson played in all 42 games, totaling 152 tackles, 14 pass breakups and three interceptions.
Barr played in nine games, starting the final seven games of the season at inside linebacker. He finished fifth on the team in tackles with 49 total stops, including 3.0 tackles for a loss (-4). He also had one sack and one pass breakup.
In other top awards, Randolph-Macon senior running back Will McGhee was named the J. Stokeley Fulton Offensive Player of the Year, while senior linebacker Trevor Ikwild of Hampden-Sydney was selected as the Lou Wacker Defensive Player of the Year. H-SC Head Coach Marty Favret was named the ODAC Coach of the Year for the fifth time, and Emory & Henry senior quarterback Kyle Boden was chosen the ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second time in as many seasons.
Washington and Lee completed the 2013 season with a 5-5 overall record and a 3-4 mark in conference play.


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Last year it was Justin Bieber, but at Sunday night's American Music Awards at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, it was a different Justin dominating the show. Justin Timberlake was named favorite male artist for both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. He also won Favorite Soul/R&B Album for "The 20/20 Experience."
Taylor Swift was also a big winner of the night, taking home four awards, including Artist of the Year.
Swift, who showed a lot of leg on the red carpet in a short gold dress, expressed disbelief that this is her third year winning the top honor. Winners are chosen by fans.
"It's kind of a little bit mind-numbingly unbelievable," Swift said. "It's a little hard to absorb it all at once. This year has been unreal for me."
Timberlake delivered a soulful performance of "Drink You Away," and gave humorous acceptance speeches. On one trip to the stage, after comedian Sarah Silverman called him a "white guy from 'The Mickey Mouse Club,'" the singer/actor quipped that it was "the first time I've been racially profiled by a white woman."
Much-nominated hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, were unable to attend the show. They appeared in a video from Miami as they accepted the award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop album for "The Heist." Macklemore, born Ben Haggerty, used the moment to comment on the death of and offer tribute to Trayvon Martin. The duo later performed their song "Can't Hold Us" live from their concert in Florida.
Lady Gaga, who showed up on the red carpet riding a white horse powered by two people inside, also sent a message to the world with her performance of "Do What U Want." Gaga, joined by R&B singer R Kelly, acted out an affair between a woman and the president. Filled with sexual innuendoes, the singer ended the performance on top of a piano as a video of her younger self played on the screen. Newspaper articles with headlines that read "Lady Gaga is Fat," scrolled alongside the video as she sang the lyrics: "You can't stop my voice cause you don't own my life but do what you want with my body."
Miley Cyrus was another highly anticipated performer, but the 21-year-old left the twerking to the show's host Pitbull, who essentially lead a tutorial early in the show. Instead, Cyrus' performance of "Wrecking Ball" was surprisingly simple and humorous with a kitten singing on a screen behind her.
Jennifer Lopez had people gasping during her tribute to Latin legend Celia Cruz as she sang in Spanish and proved age is no factor in an energetic performance that included salsa and a front flip that narrowly avoided disaster.
One Direction performed its hit "Story of my Life," but more importantly, they also took home their first AMA for Favorite Pop/Rock album, which was later followed with a win for Favorite Pop/Rock Band, Duo or Group.
"We know this is fan-voted, we absolutely love our fans, you are absolutely incredible," they said in their acceptance speech.
Their fans certainly are devoted. When the boy band arrived at the venue earlier in the evening, fans across the street ripped down portions of a fence that was blocking their view, allowing them to get a glimpse of the band before they hit the red carpet, including the sight of Niall Horan getting a last-minute lint roller run over his suit.
Also a first of the night was Ariana Grande's win for Best New Artist.
The surviving members of TLC, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, reunited onstage for the first time in years with a performance of "Waterfalls," joined by rapper Lil Mama. After it was announced the duo would be performing with a guest artist, there were rumors they would be using a hologram of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes who died in a car accident in 2002. But it turned out to be Lil Mama.
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EDUC3220 - Reading Content/Engl Lang Lrns
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This course is designed to enable the prospective teacher to utilize various instructional strategies to improve literacy across the content areas. It examines the importance of reader background knowledge and language acquisition in content classrooms. This course addresses the methods and materials to work with reading in the content for diverse learners (students with special needs and English Language Learners). Specifically, the language and culture of English Language Learners will be explored to facilitate the planning and implementation of effective instruction and assessment. Emphasis is on pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading strategies. Students will integrate reading strategies into the teaching of their content area curriculum through the development of lesson plans.
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In their need to understand the risks of chromium-6, Hinkley residents must navigate the complex world of science, with full knowledge that there's a long history of scientists revising their opinions of what's safe and what's not.
For example, in 1948, a Swiss scientist was awarded the Noble Prize in physiology and medicine for recognizing the insect-killing properties of DDT.
Twenty-four years later, the miracle chemical in the battle against insect pests was banned for agricultural use in the United States after the realization that it caused significant damage to many animal species, including birds and amphibians, and perhaps human health as well.
Remember thalidomide? Many Hinkley residents do.
The sleeping pill introduced in the early 1950s was found to minimize the effects of morning sickness in many pregnant women. Sales of the drug boomed in many countries in the late 1950s until 1962, when it was abruptly pulled from the market.
This former friend to expectant mothers was found to cause many forms of birth defects.
The story of DDT and thalidomide, and other drugs like them, led to tighter controls of medicine before releasing them to the public, said Heriberto Robles, an Irvine-based board certified toxicologist with 32 years experience in environmental toxicology and human health.
DDT and other chemical disasters led then-president Richard Nixon to create the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, said Robles, who has spoken to the Hinkley community about the effects of chromium-6 on human health.
Following a presentation late last year at the Hinkley Elementary/Middle School, Robles was asked if he would drink the water, straight from the tap, in Hinkley.
Yes, he would, he told the questioner, but his wife probably wouldn't, Robles recalled.
"The difference is knowledge," said Robles, who has a Ph.D. in toxicology and who founded Enviro-Tox Services Inc. in 2000.
"Regulatory agencies err on the side of safety," said Robles, who added that he would feel comfortable drinking water out of the tap as long as it did not exceed the current state standard, which is 50 parts per billion total chrome.
Nevertheless, he said, "the lower the better."
The human body's stomach is capable of changing chromium-6 into chromium-3, so long as the number is in line with the state standard, he said.
He would not feel as comfortable drinking water that was at the federal limit of 100 parts per billion.
"Chromium-6 can contribute to cancer anywhere in the body, depending on genetic susceptibility and level of exposure," said Max Costa, chairman of the department of environmental medicine at New York University and program director and professor of the NYU Cancer Institute.
Inhaled chromium-6 attacks the nose, hence the prevalence of severe nosebleeds in people with exposure to it, he said.Showering or swimming in chromium-6 contaminated water can lead to inhalation of the toxic chemical, Costa said in a telephone interview.
Although Hinkley residents assert chromium-6 is the cause of a variety of illnesses in themselves and relatives, there's no solid study to confirm that belief.
A 2010 toxicological review of chromium-6, developed for the federal EPA, cited numerous flaws in several large scale-studies of people who were exposed to significant amounts in drinking water.
Studies of chromium exposure at Hinkley, Topock and Kettleman City were invalid, for example, because researchers used ZIP code populations and didn't isolate people exposed to the pollution, the report said.
No current residents' well is close to the state of California's maximum contaminate level for total chromium, which is 50 parts per billion, half that of the federal EPA's, which is 100 parts per million, said Raudel Sanchez, a doctorate-level chemical engineer, employed by Brea-based Project Navigator Ltd., an international environmental engineering consulting firm. The firm has been hired by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to advise the Hinkley community on scientific issues.
"I can't think of any resident whose well registers 10 parts per billion," Sanchez said. Most are significantly below that amount, he said.
People who live within a mile of the plume's most recent boundary and have even a trace amount of chromium-6 in their well can request bottled water from PG&E, which will be delivered to their home for free.
Sometime this month, the California Department of Public Health is expected to announce a proposed maximum contaminate level for only chromium-6, not total chromium.


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March Muscle Car Madness Winner: 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429
It's done. We did it. Find someone around you and give them a big hug and a high-five. We've picked an ultimate Muscle Car in our March Muscle Car Madness bracket, and it's the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429. For those of you without any strong religious convictions, you may wish to try praying to it.