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Reversing the position it took in May, the Freeland School Board has voted to allow some students from other districts to attend its schools through the state schools-of-choice program. Just not very many.
Freeland's decision appears to be an attempt to game state policy in order to pad its budget. The district is allowing an extraordinarily limited number of students from outside districts to attend its schools in order to access additional state funding. This has implications for how the state aims to use additional per-pupil funding to encourage districts to make policy changes.
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At its June meeting, the school board voted to allow up to five additional kindergarten students from other districts to attend Freeland schools. This may sound strange, since recently a survey of 650 Freeland residents found that more than 70 percent were strongly opposed to opening up the district. Further, in May the school board voted against becoming a schools-of-choice district.
According to the district's board meeting report, Freeland Superintendent Matthew Cairy, however, told the school board during its June meeting that it might be prudent to reconsider their vote. Under the state's "best practices" incentive program, if a school district meets seven of eight best practices, it receives additional state money based on the number of students enrolled in the district. The Freeland district, Cairy said during the board meeting, could meet six of the best practice with little difficulty.
To meet the last best practice, the district could either provide health or physical education in line with state policy, or become a school of choice district by opening its schools up to students from other districts.
According to the board meeting report, meeting the health education best practice would require additional staff time and class space, and was not worth the additional state money. But it seems that offering a few students attendance promised a better financial return.
The board meeting notes read: "In light of the deficit budget for 2012-2013, Supt. Cairy recommended that the Board re-consider the Schools of Choice option." And the board agreed, voting to allow up to five kindergarten students attend Freeland schools for the 2012-13 school year. If five kindergarten students actually enroll, the Freeland district's total enrollment will increase by less than 0.3 percent.
As a result, the Midland Daily News reports that the district could receive $131,000 in incentive money from the state. That comes to $26,200 per kindergartner, much more than the $8,065 the Freeland district reports spending per-student.
Given the incentives in place (a community opposed to opening up its district, a blunt state incentive and a budget deficit), Cairy and the Freeland board acted in a rational, self-interested way in order to get their district more money.
However, Freeland's use of the best practices incentives raises questions about the program. If one of the goals of the program is to help students in failing districts have access to better options, is allowing just five students in accomplishing that goal? What about just one student?
What if a district allows choice in such a limited way that no students are feasibly able to attend the district? Such a scenario seems possible, and when large sums of state money are at stake, it doesn't make much sense to reward districts merely for "participating."
In light of the Freeland district's actions, it may be wise to reconsider how participation in the schools-of-choice program is evaluated and rewarded. Instead of rewarding token participation, the state could require that districts pass some objective threshold. The state could require that districts free up at least 1 percent of student seats in order to be considered truly participating in schools of choice.
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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: Cutting Tebow was logical optionDAVE D'ONOFRIO
August 31. 2013 8:27PM
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tim Tebow just kept smiling Thursday night, no matter who approached him, how many cameras were in his face, or what the question asked of him. It seemed, at times, almost permanently affixed - a picture of the seemingly genuine positivity that represented his best chance of sticking with the Patriots this season.
Tebow wasn't going to make it as a quarterback in New England. Not with Tom Brady ahead of him. Heck, not with Ryan Mallett ahead of him. If he made it based on football reasons it was going to be because he could help the Patriots prepare for read-option QBs in practice, though that would've occupied one of the precious 53 spots on the active roster.
His best hope was that Bill Belichick would decide his unique ability as a spiritual, emotional, hard-working leader brought enough value to the locker room that he was worth keeping him around. That worked at the University of Florida, where he was a two-time national champion. And at Denver, where he led the Broncos to a division title and a playoff win.
But in between those instances, and again last season with the Jets, it became apparent that in order for Tebow to wield his influence and help transform his team into winners, he must be empowered. He must be important on the field, too. And that was never going to happen in New England.
So Saturday, Belichick made the only logical choice. Forced to release a dozen players in order to pare his roster down to 53, the coach cut Tebow loose - a decision that turns all those No. 5 jerseys into collectors' items, and potentially tosses the quarterback's NFL career onto the scrap heap along with them.
If that does indeed prove to be the case, it'll mean that Tebow's last NFL touchdown pass was the overtime bomb he threw to Demaryius Thomas when the Broncos beat the Steelers in the wild-card round after the 2011 season. And Tebow himself must now acknowledge that it's a possibility.
He said he thought he was improving after he threw a pair of touchdown passes in Thursday's exhibitions - but when asked what he would bring to the team if the Patriots kept him, he didn't bother to site his ability as a football player. He spoke of himself as a person.
Or, a case could be made, as a cheerleader.
Someone that will just work hard, Tebow answered, loves the game of football, will always hopefully, Lord willing, have a great attitude, a great work ethic, and someone that tries to be an encourager in here.
Perhaps there will be a team out there that looking for those qualities and will give Tebow a chance. It's unlikely, given that he lingered on the free-agent market for a while after the Jets released him last spring, but perhaps he showed something during this preseason that intrigues someone somewhere.
We know now that it won't be Foxborough. And it was probably never going to be. It made sense that because of his prior relationships with Belichick and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, and because a third quarterback is a necessity in training camp, but for a Pats team that prefers to keep only two QBs, and throws a lot, Tebow's purpose in the regular season was never apparent nor explained.
So perhaps his personable positivity and that smile ever-present, right through his final moments as a Patriot got some thinking otherwise. But, really, Saturday's news was inevitable all along.
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After Aaron Hernandez's arrest for murder put a stain on the franchise, some theorized that the Pats might make roster decisions with public perception in mind, and perhaps prioritize character and community over football.
They didn't. Tebow is evidence to a certain degree, but more obvious was the release of punter Zoltan Mesko. In order to save more than $900,000 against the salary cap, and avoid having to pay the incumbent a raise next season, the Patriots kept rookie Ryan Allen over Mesko, winner of the team's top community service award just a year ago, and a fixture at the team's service events since the day he arrived.
It wasn't enough to keep him, even if the competition on the field revealed little in the way of discernible differences between he and Allen, but Mesko was by all accounts among the nicest guys on the Patriots roster. And that was reflected in the gracious goodbye he left on his Facebook page Saturday.
"First and foremost, I want to thank the New England Patriots for everything they have done for me,'' he wrote. "I have nothing but love in my heart as I depart this great organization. Mr. Kraft, the coaches, the strength staff, the trainers, the media personnel, the marketing department, the rest of the amazing staff members at Gillette, and especially my teammates - THANK YOU for all that you have given and have done for me.
"I want to say that I see the silver lining in things now more than ever, and am a true believer that things DO happen for a reason. This goes out to anyone that will ever come across a mere bump in the road; be thankful, be positive, because there's a deeper purpose of WHY things happen that we may not yet, or may never come to understand. Just believe. I will miss New England, and more than anything, I'll be missing the smiles on those kids whom I visited and acted like a goofball in front of. It was ALL worth it. God bless.''
In Tebowian fashion, he finished the post with a smiley-face emoticon.
Based on the Patriots' other cuts, the team expects tight end Rob Gronkowski to be ready for his return before Week 6, having cleared a roster spot for him and expect them to pick through other teams' cuts to add a defensive lineman or two. They cleaned house at that position Saturday, releasing ex-second round pick Jermaine Cunningham, Justin Francis and Marcus Forston. Expect them to look for help on the interior, specifically.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Patriots for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.

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Jerry Brown skipped quickly over many topics in his State of the State talk Wednesday — but he lingered over one. Between the speech's traditional beginning, hailing Californians for fixing the state's fiscal crisis, and the end, vowing to tackle more troubles tout suite, Brown spent a chunk of the speech promoting the principle of local control.
It's encouraging to hear a California politician, especially one widely seen as an old-school, big-government Democrat, increasingly express affection for the idea that many decisions are better made by local authorities than at the state and federal levels.
It's also encouraging to see the idea gaining momentum among good-government thinkers like the people at California Forward, whose 2014 agenda includes supporting and refining Brown's push for local control, reversing the trend of responsibilities moving from local governments to the state after Proposition 13 capped property-tax increases.
The notion has gained momentum with more than its natural conservative constituency. No wonder: It recognizes that California is a collection of distinctive places, takes advantage of local officials' more intimate knowledge of local needs, increases accountability for the officials closest to the people, and gives residents a better chance to participate directly in government decision-making.
But as has been demonstrated when the principle has been applied to K-12 school funding, prison and jail realignment and open-government laws, making it work in the real world is easier said than done, especially as local authorities face the challenge of paying for their new power. The first step is for leaders to show they're sincere about making the effort. From Brown on down, that has not yet been proven.
Brown talks a good game. In last year's State of the State address, Brown sent listeners scrambling to the dictionary by introducing the word "subsidiarity." As he said, this is "the idea that a central authority should only perform those tasks which cannot be performed at a more immediate or local level" — Sacramento's role should be subsidiary. Approve his Local Control Funding Formula, he urged, to reform a system in which "distant (state) authorities prescribe in minute detail what is taught, how it is taught and how it is to be measured."
In Wednesday's State of the State, "subsidiarity" was back, Brown admitting it's "a rather clunky word." After congratulating lawmakers for enacting local-control school funding, Brown moved on to citing the transfer of thousands of prisoners from state to counties' supervision as an example of the wisdom of local control.
But Brown must prove his commitment. For their part, cities, counties and school districts must show they welcome a power shift even with the headaches it would bring them.
Critics ask if Brown is using a fancy principle of political science to dress up a prison policy forced on him by a federal court order. And if "subsidiarity" is a big word for punting responsibility away from the state budget.
Local governments are wary of the state giving them new power without sending along the funds to pay for the programs, imposing unfunded mandates. Think of the deserved heat California officials took last year when they relieved local governments of some important requirements of the state Public Records Act, so the state no longer would have to reimburse them for carrying it out.
The state must not use the push for local control as an excuse to dump the bill on local taxpayers.
Even where the state does provide resources, as in the new K-12 school funding system that sends more funding to districts with higher percentages of disadvantaged children, local control means dozens of local debates over how to spend it.
Better to have local debates, though, than the old tangle of education revenue streams and rules imposed from the Capitol.
The first step in promoting local control is to agree the principle is a smart one. Overall, it would be good for cities, counties and school districts. It would be good for voters and other direct participants in their government.
But turning principle into practice? That will take sincere cooperation among the state's seats of power, from the biggest to the smallest.


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Before I tell the story of the greatest escape in the history of top-flight English football, here is an account of what must be the greatest soccer escape ever. In this story, Carlisle manages to stay in professional football (avoiding relegation to the semi-professional league) on a last minute goal by an emergency goalkeeper
Now, this is more like it. The greatest escape ever, ever, ever in the history of great escapes. Roy of the Rovers couldn't have written it. Not even the bloke who wrote Roy of The Rovers could have.
'What, the goalie is on loan? Playing his second game for the club? And the goalie scores? The winner? In the very last game of the season? With the very last kick of the game? Meaning Carlisle United not only don't get relegated, but they stay in the football league, of which they have been a proud member for 72 years? You're having a bubble mate'.
This is what Carlisle fans would have said to you beforehand (if they spoke in an affected London accent and you owned a time machine). On loan goalkeeper Jimmy Glass earned himself a place in footballing folklore, if not a contract with Carlisle, after his miraculous goal against Plymouth preserved their league status (they lost it five years later).
Carlisle needed to beat Plymouth to stay up. With five minutes stoppage time having been already played, and the match level at 1-1, Glass journeyed up to Plymouth's penalty area more in hope than expectation, before firing a shot in from six yards. The goalie had saved the day. 'If that's not entertainment I'm a banana', quipped Carlisle's owner Michael Knighton afterwards. Quite.
Glass then had the temerity to ask Knighton for a pay rise following his last-gasp winner, which had saved Carlisle millions and Knighton his job. The request was duly turned down. Glass was swiftly despatched from whence he came (Swindon) before disappearing in to the footballing ether (otherwise known as a life as a cab driver in Dorset). Now there's gratitude for you.
The club that went down instead of Carlisle (Chester I think it might have been) tried to reverse the result on a technicality. English football rules prohibit teams from taking on new players in the last weeks of the season, but there is an exception for goalkeepers, since a late season injury to a team's keepers would be so prejudicial. In an argument worthy of liberal Democrats, the club argued unsuccesfully that the recently acquired Glass scored the winning goal outside of his capacity as a goalkeeper.


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Our friend Marcos Villegas over at FightHubTV caught up with Michael Bisping ahead of his UFC on Fox 1 middleweight contender match-up this weekend and the brash Brit is not surprisingly confident of his chances Saturday night against Chael Sonnen, who he has been preparing to fight his whole life apparently.
"Well, you know…um… it's a difficult match-up. There's no two ways about it. Chael Sonnen is widely regarded as the number one contender and he's closing in on a match with Anderson Silva. I was training for Demian Maia, who himself is a very, very dangerous opponent. He actually holds a very good win over Chael Sonnen. Demian Maia submitted Chael Sonnen. I've been training hard — as hard as humanly possible, to be honest, for my fight with Demian Maia. A fight with Chael Sonnen, there's a lot of people out there who don't want to take that fight," he explained. "I didn't think about it for a second. I jumped at the opportunity. I'm a fighter. This is what I do and I want to have the title. A lot of people said, 'Oh, you've only got a week to prepare.' I disagree. I've been preparing for this my whole life. I've been training in martial arts since I was about nine years old; I've been training hard for this fight. It doesn't mean anything. At the end of the day, I don't care about the style, we're gonna get in there and fight and it's gonna be who's the better fighter. I believe I'm the better fighter, but we'll see what happens…I believe this is my destiny to be world champion and Chael Sonnen's in my way."Read More DIGG THIS


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Montravius Adams has gone through a tumultuous week of preparation for the Under Armour All-America Game.
On Monday in the first practice session, Adams injured his ankle and was forced to miss most of practice and then all of the second practice session on Tuesday.
The 6-foot-3, 281-pound defensive tackle gave it a go during today's third practice session but came up limping after participating in a one-on-one drill.
"I aggravated my ankle injury," Adams said about his injury. "I'm not going to do anything tomorrow since tomorrow is just a walkthrough, but I'm going to see how I feel Friday [for the game]."
Although his status for the All-America game is uncertain, the one thing that is certain for Adams is he will be taking an official visit to Florida this weekend. The Vienna (Ga.) Dooly County prospect has been to the campus several times, but he wants his mother to see what Florida is all about.
"I've been to Florida a couple of times already," Adams said. "I really just want my mother to see [the campus] and see how she likes it."
Adams continues to be recruited by Florida defensive line coach Bryant Young and the two have developed a close relationship.
"The reason we get along so well is he just accomplished a lot of things I want to accomplish, too. His NFL success really helps," Adams said.
For the Gators, Adams' time at the trainer's table has been a productive one. Adams said that Florida commitments Marcell Harris and Matt Rolin have been recruiting him to Florida during their time together.
"They were talking to me back when I was icing my ankle," Adams said. "They were both just telling me to come to Florida."
The participants in the Under Armour game were treated to a trip to Disney World on Tuesday, and Adams found some time to try out a few of the rides.
"I rode on the Tower of Terror. I screamed a little," Adams said laughing.
Adams will arrive on campus this weekend for his official visit to Florida after the Under Armour All-America Game on Wednesday.


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Police seek man they say passed counterfeit bill at Manchester mall
– Police are looking for a man pushing a small child in a stroller who they say passed a $100 counterfeit bill and may have passed others at stores at the Mall of New Hampshire over the weekend.
About 3:40 p.m. Sunday, a man bought a $30 gift card at Olympia Sports and paid for it with a $100 counterfeit bill. He received $70 in change.
Police said the store did not know the bill was a counterfeit until their bank notified them Monday after discovering the fake bill in the store's deposit.
The man who passed the counterfeit bill is described as Hispanic, in his 20s with a shaved head and pushing a small child in a stroller. He was about 5-foot-11, weighing between 240 and 260 pounds. He had a piercing over his eye.
Police believe the man may have passed counterfeit bills at other stores in the mall that same day, although they say those incidents have yet to be confirmed.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org


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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (Sept. 26, 2009) - Led by No. 98th-ranked senior Yevgeniya Stupak's (Kyiv, Ukraine) two wins during second day action of the 2009 Cissie Leary Invitational, the ETSU women's tennis team continued its hot-play inside the Lott Tennis Courts on the campus of Penn University, Saturday.
Stupak - the tournament's top seed - picked up victories over Purdue's Bhavani Tirmurti 6-0, 6-0 and Jessie Rhee of Yale, 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1. With her semifinal victory the Lady Buc captain will face Yale's No. 2-seeded Vicky Brooke in Sunday's final.
"Overall, it's been a good tournament for Yevgeniya because this is the type of competition she needed to play to get better," said head coach Steve Brooks. "These girls typically play indoors a lot of times, therefore their style of play is a bit more aggressive. This forced Stupak to work on hitting shots from the baseline more, which should help her next week and at the ITA regionals later this fall."
In doubles action, Stupak along with junior teammate Kelly Holtzhausen (Johannesburg, South Africa), advanced to Sunday's four final as they made quick work of the Penn doubles team of Anderson and Wolf, 8-2. With the win the ETSU duo will now face fourth seeded Rabot and Sammons of Purdue in Sunday's semifinal.
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Friend of Boston bomb suspect to be released on bailBy ERIK LARSON and JANELLE LAWRENCE
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May 06. 2013 7:30PM
BOSTON - Robel Phillipos, a college friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who is accused of lying to federal investigators, was ordered released on bail into the custody of his mother.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler in Boston on Monday allowed Phillipos released under "strict house arrest." His mother, Genet Bekele, agreed to act as his third-party custodian. A $100,000 bond will be secured by a home put up by supporters, some of whom were in court.
Phillipos, 19, must also take a drug test before he is let out and be subject to later random testing, Bowler said. Phillipos, shackled and dressed in an orange prisoner's jumpsuit, told the judge he understood the terms of his bail.
Phillipos, who attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with Tsarnaev, 19, and two other students, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, were arrested May 1, about two weeks after the bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev, both from Kazakhstan, are accused of disposing of a backpack containing firework wrappers they found in Tsarnaev's dorm room on April 18, after the FBI released pictures of Dzhokhar and his brother, Tamerlan, 26.
Phillipos argued in court papers that he should be released on bail because he isn't a flight risk and hasn't been accused of disposing of evidence or aiding in the attack. Phillipos's bail agreement also calls for electronic monitoring, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston said in a court filing.
Arkady Bukh, the new attorney for Tazhayakov, 19, said it's unlikely his client will be released on bail at a May 14 hearing in Boston federal court because he's in the country on a student visa from Kazakhstan and has no family in the U.S. Suspects with no local ties are often viewed as flight risks when seeking bail.
"We do anticipate quite a difficult bail situation," Bukh, of Brooklyn, N.Y., said in a phone interview Monday. Tazhayakov "was cooperating before the arrest and after the arrest, and is still willing and able to work further with the government. I don't think we have much disputes on the facts."
Bukh said he was hired because Tazhayakov's father, who traveled to the U.S., wanted his son to have a Russian-speaking lawyer. He also said the scheduled court hearing next week may be delayed. Bukh replaced Harlan Protass, who declined to comment on the change in legal representation.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov face five-year prison terms if convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice. Both men were arrested on April 20 on immigration violations, the U.S. said. They are being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Middleton, Mass. Phillipos, a U.S. citizen, faces a maximum sentence of eight years in jail if convicted.
The government asked that a hearing on whether there is enough evidence against Phillipos for the case to move forward be held May 16.
"Phillipos is not charged with having any knowledge whatsoever of the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013, or with helping the surviving suspect after the incident," his attorney, Derege Demissie, said in a May 4 court filing. "Nor is there any allegation that Mr. Phillipos removed, tampered with, or destroyed any potential evidence after the bombing."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested after a four-day manhunt in which his brother was killed and faces two capital counts of using a weapon of mass destruction. He's being held without bail at a federal prison medical facility in Devens, Mass., according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Phillipos, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov agreed to voluntary detention at their initial court appearance on May 1. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann said at that hearing that the government opposed bail for Phillipos because he's a flight risk.
Prosecutors said Phillipos lied in three interviews with investigators on April 19, 20 and 25. He first claimed to have been napping and watching television when the dorm-room visit took place, prosecutors said. He later said that he, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov had visited the dorm and left without entering the room because no one was there, according to the U.S.
In a fourth interview, on April 26, Phillipos confessed to the false statements and agreed to sign a statement about what actually happened, the government said. Details from his statement appear in the criminal complaint alongside slightly different versions of events supplied by Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov.
Prosecutors said Phillipos was the first of the three to recognize Tsarnaev in images of the bombing suspects after they were made public by the FBI around 5 p.m. on April 18.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Maryland is joining the Big Ten, leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference in a shocker of a move in the world of conference realignment that was driven by the school's budget woes.
The announcement came Monday at a news conference with school President Wallace D. Loh, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and athletic director Kevin Anderson.
"The membership of the Big Ten enables us to guarantee the financial sustainability of Maryland athletics for a long, long, long time," Loh said.
Loh added that Maryland athletics has been living "paycheck to paycheck." The school had eliminated seven sports programs earlier this year.
"The director and I are absolutely committed to begin the process to reinstate some of the teams we had to terminate," Loh said.
Maryland will become the southernmost member of the Big Ten member starting in 2014.
"Really in the last year it's become so obvious that major conferences are expanding outside of their regions," Delany told the AP in an interview before Maryland's news conference on campus in College Park. "You have multiple major conferences all in multiple regions.
"It seemed to us that there was a paradigm shift occurring around us. And therefore the question is how do you respond to that in a way that stay true to yourself, but is also only responsive not to the world you want but the world that you live in."
Rutgers is expected follow suit by Tuesday, splitting from the Big East and making it an even 14 schools in the Big Ten, though Delany would not confirm that.
The Terrapins were a charter member of the ACC, which was founded in 1953.
"Our best wishes are extended to all of the people associated with the University of Maryland," ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a statement. "Since our inception, they have been an outstanding member of our conference and we are sorry to see them exit. For the past 60 years the Atlantic Coast Conference has exhibited leadership in academics and athletics. This is our foundation and we look forward to building on it as we move forward."
There was speculation last week the Big Ten and Maryland were talking. On Saturday, it became clear the discussions were serious.
"Space is not the divide that it was once upon a time," Delany said.
Maryland also gives the Big Ten a presence in the major media market of Washington. D.C.
Rutgers, in New Brunswick, N.J., and about 40 miles south of New York City, puts the Big Ten in the country's largest media market, and most heavily populated area.
Delany said demographics were a huge part of this decision. The population is not growing as quickly in the Big Ten's current Midwestern footprint as it is in other areas of the country, and it has hampered the Big Ten's ability to recruit, especially in football, its signature sport. The Big Ten felt it needed to change that.
"We think demographics have fueled our growth the last 100 years," Delany said.
"We're not growing at the same rate as others, the questions is if you project out to 2030, what do we need to do? I think we need to stay true to ourselves as far as our philosophy, the balance, the kind of institutions we interface with.
"But also if we want to continue to succeed. Success is often, in many cases, empowered by demographic advantage. And that was being eroded both by consolidation by other conferences around the country, some into our natural, historic area. Also by a different growth rate, some people are growing by 3 or 4 percent some by 1� percent.
"What we're doing is not creating a new paradigm, we're responding to a new paradigm but for very kind of historic reasons. We understand that success requires a dynamic involvement with rich demographics."
For both schools, the move should come with long-term financial gain. The Big Ten reportedly paid its members $24.6 million in shared television and media rights revenues this year.
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The impression I had is that he was offered the position before they realized who he truly was. Remember, Sengoku said that it was two years after Ace left East Blue and formed his crew before they figured out he was Roger's son, but he was already under Whitebeard's care by then. So he was probably offered the position when he was captain of the Spade pirates.....
And yeah, I'm interested in seeing what Luffy is going to do, myself. He's inevitably going to get a raised bounty for his Impel Down shenanigans anyway, so he might as well stir up a little trouble in Marineford too, yeah?
And yet while Luffy was busy having adventures in an island full of hot amazons, an underwater prison, and is now caught in the midst of a war that will change history as we know it, Zoro is forced to be the slave of a goth loli with a fetish for zombie animals. Which character seems more interesting now?
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^That's the only way Luffy can outdo Zoro, when he's not on the field.
Bad news people, The next week's issue of one piece [chapter 553] will be a double issue. Which means there will be a chapter next week [553], and then after a week break.
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Damn just saw some of the pages and Whitebeard does look beastly. Like I said at AP, with the spoiler of that Ace wanted to kill WB and what I can see on the pics it looks like Whitebeard could of killed of Ace crew while Ace and his crew were fighting marines. I could be wrong as hell though, hope the scrypt gets translated soon and it will clarify things. But damn if WB did kill his nakama.
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btw, did anyone else think that Akainu looked extremely old in the spoiler pic we currently. Obviously this was due to his very gaunt appearance, but still, he looked far older than the other Admirals.
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and so far Marco is the winner for best panel in this chapter.
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I just realized how once again Oda planned Whitebeard powers out. From that scene with Shanks, I thought it was Haki that made the skies split [I know I mentioned this one before] and the boat shake hard like it did. But it was his Earthquake Fruit.
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I don't think Luffy's ship got sunk. And even so, they got Jimbei so it doesn't matter. Moria, Crocodile, and Daflamingo, I wonder just how they plan on taking Whitebeard's head now.
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Wow, the narration text for the end of the chapter is awesome (as translated by Svg at AP forums):
Yep, I can definitely smell "epic" in the air.
Anyway, it does seem like Whitebeard's power is what split the sky apart during his earlier scuffle with Shanks. In the spoiler pics it looks like the sky is literally "cracking" when he activates his power. However, I didn't see the admirals stepping up to stop the tsunami like the earlier summary mentioned. Maybe it was a mistake on the spoiler provider's part....?
Heh, I found it kinda amusing to see Ace getting the holy hell beaten out of him by Whitebeard for some reason. And as I figured, Marco DOES have seniority over him since he's already present on Whitebeard's ship in the flashback (Jozu's probably there too, but I don't see him yet). I'm still hoping that we'll see the rest of the commanders by at least next chapter.....
Oh, and I gotta say that I love the look on Moria's face after Whitebeard activated his power. It's like he's all "WTF is that?"
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That's funny. Especially since he was just like, "I'm getting pumped up. BRING IT ON WHITEBEARD!"
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By the way, a few more pics came out. Ace actually attempted to kill Whitebeard even after he invited him onto his ship (HUGE LOL at that scene of him trying to kill old Newgate while he was asleep ). Interestingly enough, one of the pics also shows Ace talking to the commander that eventually got killed by Blackbeard (at least, I THINK that's him). Heh, old Garp got quite a shock when he found out Ace became a pirate, too. We even see his jolly roger and wanted poster (too bad the bounty's not shown, though). And yeah, I'm pretty sure now that the reason why Ace and Jinbei fought is because Ace wanted Whitebeard dead. Quite an interesting relationship Ace has with his (biological) dad's former rival......
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^Didn't Ace starte off with a suprememly powerful fruit (or did some recent spoilers change that?), so he would be able to surge ahead quite quickly.
That being said, I'm not sure why you are belittling Luffy taking a mere 3-4 months to reach the half-way point of the Grand Line. He has had a major superstar rise in fame/infamy easily comparable to Ace's rise. About the only difference is that Luffy hasn't stumbled upon a Yonkou that forces him into their service, yet.
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Speaking of that, what makes the scene of Ace trying to kill Whitebeard in his sleep all the more funnier is the fact that he's clearly in fire mode when he sneaks up on him, yet he still got smacked around by that old man. I guess this also kinda confirms that Newgate is a Haki user, since he was able to directly damage a Logia user (albeit in a rather comical fashion in this case).....
By the way, when Luffy tells his group that Roger was Ace's dad, he blurts right afterward that it was supposed to be a secret. Oh, that silly Luffy!
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Plus so far luffy has done more harm to marines than Ace has ever done . So i don't how Ace track record is better . Did he beat any warlords, did he take down any of marines strong holds.
It also seem he fought jimbei because he wanted to meet WB.
Also people talking about BB back stab someone Ace just to back stab WB more that once.
Luffy might be stupid but there are worst things.
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EVERYBODY IN AEROSPACE, IT seems, is enticed by the huge potential market that is China. The complexities of dealing in that market are never far below the surface, however, as events reminded us last month.
In early October, the Kanwa Information Center, which describes itself as a "non-government-run news agency," put out a report that the "mysterious Z-10 combat helicopter that was indigenously developed over a 15-year period" is powered by the PT6C-67C imported from Pratt & Whitney Canada. The center's director, Andrew Chang, noted that the U.S. has had an embargo against military exports to China since the 1989 attack on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and speculated that this case "may make Washington call for a tighter policy, especially regarding NATO countries."
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I talk often about creating a visual journey in each image for the viewer. This image of a group of friends out for a stroll underneath the Brooklyn Bridge serves as a good illustrative example. Have a read below as I break down exactly how I've constructed a visual journey through the inclusion and arrangement of particular compositional elements within the scene.
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That baton was initially taken up by 19-year-old Swan , who defied her ranking of 204th in the world to claim an impressive straight-set victory against 27-year-old RomanianBegu in 56 minutes on Court 14.
Harriet Dart , 21, gave seventh seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic a scare but her Wimbledon debut ended in a 7-6 (7-2) 2-6 6-1 defeat.
Fellow wildcard Liam Broady was beaten 7-5 6-0 6-1 in the men's singles by Canada's Milos Raonic while Slovenian Aljaz Bedene beat Cameron Norrie 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 in a gruelling match.
Temperatures on day one at the All England Club touched 30C as fans were drenched in glorious sunshine.
The hottest recorded day at Wimbledon came in 2015, when thermometers registered a scorching 35.7C - breaking a record which had stood since 1976.
With the current heatwave forecast to continue over the next fortnight, that may well be broken.
If the temperature is above 30.1C, female players are allowed a 10-minute break in between the second and third sets, but there is no such rule for the men.
Among the victors on day one was American Sam Querrey, who beat Australia's Jordan Thompson 6-2 6-4 6-3.
The 30-year-old, who got married to Abby Dixon last month, said he had postponed his honeymoon plans to step up his grass-court preparations for Wimbledon.
"We went home for three days and flew over for Queen's, if you count that as a honeymoon!" he said.
"I don't think Abby does. Maybe at the end of the year, we will do a honeymoon somewhere close to where we live."
Possibly one of the most bizarre moments of the first day came from Frenchman Gael Monfils, who challenged his own serve, which was called in, against compatriot Richard Gasquet.
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British number one Johanna Konta, a semi-finalist last year, will open proceedings on court two on Tuesday.
She takes on Russia's Natalia Vikhlyantseva, who is ranked 106th in the world.
Kyle Edmund, the British men's number one, is first up on Court One against Alex Bolt of Australia.
Defending women's champion Garbine Muguruza plays first on Centre Court, as tradition dictates, with Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep following.
England play Colombia in the last 16 of the football World Cup at 19:00 BST, and that match could clash with Britain's Heather Watson, who is fourth on court 12.
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Best draft pick: In keeping with the theme of improving the offensive line, the Bengals drafted center Billy Price from Ohio State with the 21st pick obtained from the Bills. They are immediately better on the offensive line.Best draft pick:
Best acquisition: We'll say it's a tossup between wide receiver Jarvis Landry and quarterback Tyrod Taylor . The Browns traded a 2018 fourth-round pick and a seventh-round pick in 2019 to the Miami Dolphins for Landry. The Browns, who had been hoarding draft picks the last several years, traded a third-round pick in 2018 for Taylor. Both players fill huge needs for Cleveland. Landry becomes the team's No. 1 receiver and Taylor gives No. 1 draft pick Baker Mayfield time to learn.
Best draft pick: Sorry, it's not Mayfield. The Browns could have traded back in the first round and still drafted him. Cornerback Denzel Ward, the other high first-round pick, was also a reach. Guess we'll go with third-round pick Nick Chubb from Georgia. Although he's going to have to find playing time behind Carlos Hyde and Duke Johnson, Chubb could be an important insurance policy if one of them gets hurt.
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The Maison de l'architecture is a unique space for architectural, urban and landscape research on a regional scale. The organisation hosts and leads projects and actions of mediation in architectural culture, collaboratively with elected officials, building owners, town planners, developers, notaries and lawyers, engineers, builders and industrialists.
Kurbis is a collective of architects, designers and photographers who work in situ to document contemporary living spaces through photography for the benefit of residents and as a consequence offers a medium to decipher the structure of urban space townscape and its influence on the life of citizens.
The "House of architecture" together with Kurbis are developing insights, with a focus on new professional practices around the notion of use to support construction stakeholders in the design of the living spaces of tomorrow.
Formerly the city was built around the specialization of places, where each building was assigned an individual function, however today, housing addresses almost all of these activities, which previously were spread throughout the city. For example, the bedroom serves as a reception area for teenagers, a film can be projected and viewed in a bathroom, the kitchen has become the avatar of the office, sport is done in the living room, the seniors are kept as long as possible at home and soon, fresh products will be directly delivered by customised drones ordered by the refrigerator itself.
The 21 century city operates on a B2P format at many levels and housing is beginning its digital transition towards a connected, multi-functional and evolutionary space. Thinking about the habitat of the future means to think in terms of the resident rather than purely in terms of the built surface. Furthermore, it implies to fully understand its possibilities instead of speculating on its specific location.
To better grasp the nature of this relationship between use and space, this collaborative project aims to question the imagination of people active from the areas of sciences and arts, design and digital, local communities and citizen associations to reveal new ways of life within society's current and future issues: ecology, mobility, solidarity – in a framework of shared values such as wellbeing and sustainability, sensibility and aesthetics, intimacy and conviviality, accessibility and solidarity.
Kurbis is looking for partners who are already working on projects where user operations build the foundations and are an integral part of the creative process. The objectives are to understand how different professions should obtain user data and equally form a reservoir of creative experiences to integrate models that invent new design tools shared between civil society and professionals from the building industry.
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Extra Program - Detailed Description
Extra Program - Detailed Description
- Teams and Age Groups
- Coaches
- Professional trainers
- Practices
Beginning in U10 through U19, our core program is split into two-year age divisions. However, Extra will be split into single-year divisions as follows:
Age Guide for 2011-2012 Registration Year
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|8/1/01 and 7/31/02
|8/1/00 and 7/31/01
|8/1/99 and 7/31/00
|8/1/98 and 7/31/99
|8/1/97 and 7/31/98
In this first year of Extra, we plan to have one boys team and one girls team per division.
All coaches will be well-qualified volunteer AYSO coaches. More information for coaches is available.
In order to ensure that participants in the Extra Program will receive the best coaching possible, all Extra teams will be assigned a professional trainer who will work side-by-side with the team's coaching staff at practices. These trainers will be selected from the group of professional coaches already engaged by Region 76. Each trainer is an outstanding coach in his/her own right, with years of extensive playing and coaching experience with club, high school, and/or professional soccer. All of the trainers are experienced in working with youth soccer players of all ages, and all are Safe Haven-certified.
- All Extra Side-by-Side teams will be required to practice two times during the weekdays.
- Please see Parent and Player Expectations for practice attendance requirements.
- Practices will generally run for 1.5 hours. However, depending on the age of the players, the trainer's preference, and field availability, practices may run longer or shorter.
- Practices will be conducted by both the volunteer coaches as well as paid professional trainers.
- Practice fields are still being finalized but they will most likely be selected from the following list:
- Beverly Hills High School
- La Cienega Park
- El Rodeo School
- Horace Mann School
- Community Magnet School
- Carthay Elementary School
- Games
- Cost
- The regular season registration fee, the amount of which depends on when you signed up ($150 early bird, $200 pre-season, $250 post-June 1). Payment is made with your online registration.
- A special Extra fee, which will be $350.00 for the Fall season. This will cover your child's uniforms, field usage, and professional trainers twice per week, and a small administrative fee to run the program. Payment is due within three days of your acceptance. Log in to www.ayso76.net and go to My Account, Family Profile and click on the Post-Season Assignments tab [there may be a separate tab for Extra; if so, click on this].
- In addition, there will be a charge of approximately $80 to cover the cost of the team's fees to play in a Thanksgiving tournament and the Sportsmanship Cup in December. This will be due by November 1.
- Scholarships
- Parent Commitments
- Player-Parent Commitments
Other practice fields may be added that are outside the Beverly Hills area and some driving may be required to get there. This geographic area may include as east as downtown LA, as west as West LA, as south as Slauson Ave., and as north as Hollywood. This will especially be true for the upper divisions where there is a higher likelihood of Extra team being formed collaboratively with another region.
During the Extra Fall season, the games will be played on the weekends, usually on Saturdays, but there may also be games played on Sundays. The games will be played against other Extra teams, except during the Thanksgiving tournament and the Sportsmanship Cup. Approximately half of the games will be played in Beverly Hills and the other half will be played somewhere in the same geographical boundaries described above concerning practice fields. The Extra Spring season games will be played on the weekends all over Southern California, just like the other tournament teams.
To play on an Extra team, players must be registered for our 2011 season, although they do not need to be registered to try out. The cost of the fall portion of the Extra program is $350 above the cost of a regular season registration, so there is still a benefit to early registration. Full details are as follows:
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Fall Fee
|Turkey & Sportshmanship
Tournament Fees
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|Pre-Season (through June 1)
|Regular Season(after June 1)
At the conclusion of the Fall part of the Extra season, Extra teams can choose to enter tournaments, and additional costs will be determined by the number of tournaments attended, and will be similar to the costs of participating on a tournament team.
Scholarships for Extra players will be available for families with demonstrated need. A financial aid application is required.
Please review the Parents Page, which contains important information about the commitments parents are required to make
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PARIS --Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman says she is "shocked and disgusted" by a video in which designer John Galliano says he loves Adolf Hitler. Portman says in a statement that "as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way."
Both stars work with Christian Dior. Portman is spokesmodel for Miss Dior Cherie perfume. Galliano has been suspended as Dior's creative director pending an investigation into an alleged anti-Semitic incident in a Paris cafe last week.
Portman's statement was provided Tuesday to The Associated Press after a video posted online showed Galliano, in a different incident, drunkenly telling a cafe patron, "I love Hitler."
Portman won the best actress Oscar on Sunday for "Black Swan."


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Im working on one of these for a friend. The symptoms they had were no battery use though the battery is lit green. While the keyboard/mouse stopped responding.
I figured possibly the connections were loose to the bottom of the system. They are fine. I then attempted to upgrade system after seeing it an ancient version (656). I totally missed the keyboard/ mouse fix specific for that firmware until after I attempted a upgrade.
It worked, however. The system will not boot as its trying to update the firmware now, and sees no battery (again though the green light is on and the EC checks out). So it shuts itself down.
I'm guessing either messed up eprom in the battery or a bad battery. I have a life multi charger at home I can attempt to at least see if it has any charge. If it does. Not sure whats steps to do next. If it doesn't. Is there a trick I can do to stop it or bypass checking for battery or at least bypass the firmware for the moment? Until I can find a new battery.


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In the 12 July 2009 New York Times Magazine, Lisa Belkin writes:
I'm speaking as a woman here, one of those who have watched the cuckold wives (a word that technically doesn't apply to wives; I can find nothing in the dictionary that applies to sexually betrayed women, though you would think Webster would have added one by now)
Ms. Belkin is wrong; there is a perfectly good word for a female "cuckold." The word is cuckquean. It's a 16th century coinage, first recorded by John Heywood in 1562.1 The word is relatively rare, which is probably why Ms. Belkin didn't find it in her desktop dictionary (neither Merriam-Webster's Collegiate nor American Heritage list the term). But it can be found in the OED, the Shorter OED, and in Merriam Websters Third.
Cuckquean is formed from the stem of cuckold and from quean, a disparaging word for woman, often used to refer to prostitutes or simply to brazen women. Quean is related to queen, and they share a common Germanic root, but the two words come from slightly different Old English words, cwene and cwen. As one might expect with two words that are so similar, their meanings in Old English are often difficult to distinguish from one another.
Riddle #74 in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript is one of the early citations:
Ic wæs fæmne geong, feaxhar cwene, ond ænlic rinc on ane tid.
(I was a young maiden, a gray-haired quean, and had only one man at a time.)2
It's interesting that a common root should develop a pair of such different words.
1Oxford English Dictionary, cuckquean, 2nd Edition, 1989, Oxford University Press, accessed 13 July 2009, http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50055355.
2Dictionary of Old English: A-G online, 2007, University of Toronto, s.v., cwen, cwene, accessed 13 July 2009.
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Only one day after making a splash at San Diego's Comic-Con International, Warner Bros.' "Mad Max: Fury Road" makes a play for a wider audience, with the first trailer for George Miller's action vehicle showcasing the intensity of star Tom Hardy and the movie's chase scenes.
Watch it below.
Set for release May 15, 2015, the film, which also stars Charlize Theron, sees Hardy step into the role originated by Mel Gibson in "Mad Max," the high-octane post-apocalyptic action film that spawned two hit sequels.
In an interview with Hero Complex this weekend in San Diego, Miller said that he never could have imagined retuning to the franchise that launched his career so many years later.
" 'Mad Max,' was my very first film," Miller said. It was made for $350,000, which even back then was very low-budget. I'd hardly ever been on a set, and just everything went wrong. I thought, I'm not cut out for this. I remember I had a conversation with Peter Weir, who'd already made a couple of movies, and I told him I felt like I had no control over the process. And he said, 'That's how it always is. You've got to think about it like you're in a war and you're going on patrol. You don't know where the land mines are. But you've still got to get your troops through.' "
Click here to read the rest of the interview with Miller, and let us know what you think of the trailer — and the character posters in the gallery above — in the comments section.
— Gina McIntyre and Josh Rottenberg | @LATHeroComplex
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Class of 1956 gives bronze work to honor 'the undying Wofford Spirit'
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – In 1989, Carl McCleskey began his career as an artist with a one-man show at Wofford College. On Tuesday, March 25, he returned to the college to unveil a very special outdoor sculpture, "The Wofford Terrier." He and his wife, Betsy Scott, were commissioned by the college's class of 1956 to create the piece, which honors "the undying Wofford Spirit."
The new Terrier found his place at the entrance of the Campus Life Building, which houses "The Commons" student center, the Tony White and McMillan theaters, and the Benjamin Johnson Arena. He is about one and one-half times life size, and together with his granite base, weighs in at almost 1,000 pounds.
Over the years, McCleskey and Scott have earned recognition as two of America's most respected wildlife sculptors. Just a few examples of their work include a life-size African lion pride for the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans; monumental great blue herons that are signatures for a Greg Norman's golf course in Florida; and a sculpture of a young girl and boy reading in front of the library in Bay City, Mich. McCleskey's favorite recent work is a pair of Red Tail Hawks commissioned by Foley and Associates in North Carolina.
"Doing this sculpture of a Boston Terrier was a nice challenge for us," says McCleskey. "It did not take us very long to understand that we had to convey something much more than a model of a dog just standing there—Terriers are small, but they are full of intelligence and energy. What we were looking for was a dog with a confident and self-assured attitude, but not one that was fierce or threatening. An obvious winner, if you will."
McCleskey said that he and Scott measure their success largely by looking at the eyes and the facial expressions of their animals, which are always important benchmarks for any works of art. "Betsy is really good at creating the eyes," says McCleskey. "Our Terrier is watching something very interesting at a distance, and you want to turn and see what he is looking at. His facial features are unique and reveal him as poised and ready to spring into action."
Carl McCleskey and Betsy Scott share a studio in the wilderness of Northwest Georgia, near Summerville. You may reach them at 706-862-2184, or go to their Web site at www.wildlifebronze-inc.com.
View the Spartanburg Herald-Journal slideshow of the installation of The Wofford Terrier.
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