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"Read 180" and "System 44" "Outstanding Educators" Help Struggling Students Succeed
New York, NY — May 10, 2012 — Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced the winners of the 2012 READ 180® and System 44® Outstanding Educator Awards. The 6th annual "Outstanding Educator" award is presented to four teachers who have helped struggling students turn their lives around and change the trajectory of their progress in school by learning to read in READ 180 or System 44 classrooms. This year's winners have gone above and beyond to ensure struggling students become life long readers and succeed across all subject areas.
"At Scholastic we believe strongly in the important role that teachers play in the life of a child, and we see how hard they work to improve student achievement and meet high expectations," said Margery Mayer, President, Scholastic Education, a division of Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL). "This year's Outstanding Educators are an excellent example of how teachers are the catalyst to student success -- especially for kids who have fallen behind and face the daunting challenge of striving to succeed without adequate reading skills."
The Outstanding Educator Award winners were chosen by a Scholastic selection committee that reviews hundreds of nominations. Each nomination includes documentation of reading growth as well as statements about the educator by a nominating colleague, and a student, detailing the impact the educator has had on his or her life.
READ 180 is a comprehensive system of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development that helps schools raise reading achievement for struggling readers in grades 4–12 and prepare them for college and career. System 44 is a breakthrough foundational reading and phonics intervention technology program for the most challenged students in grades 3–12+.
The 2012 READ 180 Outstanding Educators are:
High School
Janelle MacLean –Alonso High School, Tampa FL
It's telling that, even after Janelle MacLean's READ 180 students completed the program and moved on to regular language arts classes, they came back wanting more of the program. Many of the students in her ninth-grade class last year entered reading two to four years below grade level. Within a year, many of them made multiple years worth of gains in their reading ability. But when some of her former students told her they wished they could be in her class again, Ms. MacLean created "Club 180," an after school program for tenth graders who still wanted to be part of the READ 180 environment. Of the 48 past READ 180 students she invited, 40 formerly reluctant readers returned! The students who voluntarily joined the READ 180 extension class, continued to improve their reading skills under Ms. MacLean's guidance and support. The tenth grade students, many of whom entered ninth grade never having read a book, now mentor current READ 180 students.
"If it wasn't for Ms. MacLean then I still wouldn't know what I wanted to do in life," one of her former ninth grade students wrote. "She has motivated me to graduate from high school, go to college, and start a life people have dreamed of."
Middle School
Karen Settles – Oscar Smith Middle School, Chesapeake, VA
With five years experience teaching READ 180, Ms. Settles' passion is helping struggling, students to catch up. A mentor for her colleagues, she is motivated to help every student who walks through her classroom door. She has set the bar high for her fellow teachers. In all, an incredible 80 percent of her students gained at least one year's growth in reading by March, helping them catch up with their peers. In addition to READ 180, Ms. Settles sponsors a mentoring program for girls called DIVAS (Determined Involved Volunteering Aspiring Students). Through DIVAS, she counsels eighth grade girls on issues such as manners, fitness, overall wellness, study skills, bullying, and how to deal with negative influences in their lives.
"I am privileged to work daily with students who are delayed and failed readers, have learning disabilities, are labeled Special Ed, are English Language Learners, or who may not have passed the Virginia Standards of Learning assessments," she said. "To some this may be a challenge, but with the assistance of the READ 180 program, it is a dream career."
Elementary School
Maria Richard – North Street Elementary School, New Iberia, LA
During her 13 years teaching, Ms. Richard has taught students with a wide range of disabilities, including teaching students with autism for the last two years. Within just a few weeks with her fourth through sixth grade students this year, they had improved in their grades and attendance – and just as importantly for these vulnerable children, had greater confidence and self-esteem. This is all part of her "plan to change the world," she says. "My students now have a chance to overcome their adversities and rise above to bigger and brighter futures."
First introduced to the READ 180 program in 2002 as a high school teacher, Ms. Richard knew the impact READ 180 could have on at-risk students and, in fact, one of her students, Jose Garcia, was honored as a READ 180 All-Star in 2004. Legally blind, Jose had never been enrolled in school in his native Mexico and arrived in the U.S. at age 10 far behind his peers. With the help of Ms. Richard's instruction and the READ 180 program, Jose ended the school year with a full two years growth in reading level. Jose's success and that of her other high school students caused Ms. Richards to campaign to get READ 180 for the elementary students she teaches now.
"READ 180 has changed the lives of every student that has walked through my door. It has given them the ability to achieve, and participate in their other classes with their peers without embarrassment," she wrote.
The 2012 System 44 Outstanding Educator is:
Amy Morinville – Floyd Light Middle School, Portland OR
Amy Morinville is relentless in her determination to see that her struggling students succeed. A System 44 teacher for three years at a school populated by many students from low-income families, Ms. Morinville holds one-on-one feedback sessions with each student to talk about his or her progress and encourages her students to celebrate even small gains in their reading abilities. In her class, students get a sense of accomplishment and control over their learning. At the end of each semester, she holds a Celebration Night, where students come with their families to be recognized for their accomplishments. She serves dinner and gives awards for growth in Lexile-levels, number of books read, and for students who have "graduated" out of System 44. For students who have experienced mostly failure in the past, seeing evidence of their success motivates them to work even harder toward their goals. Many of her students improved multiple grade levels in their reading skills, accelerating so fast that they were able to move out of System 44 and into the school's READ 180 program.
"Apathy, lack of confidence, and a pattern of failure are some of the issues my students face. Nearly all the students find success in System 44 because of high expectations for academics and behavior," Ms. Morinville said. "Turning a life around is a long process, and a task I'm happy to be involved in."
Learn more about READ 180 and System 44.
For more information about Scholastic, visit our media room at http://mediaroom.scholastic.com.
Alexandra Wladich
Scholastic Inc.
Nadia Almahdi
Scholastic Inc.


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You might be hearing about the "Fiscal Cliff." And you might be hearing about a "Grand Bargain." You certainly have heard about "Simpson Bowles." You will be hearing more and more about these strangely-named things because the usual suspects are cranking up the usual propaganda machine again, getting the usual DC elite ready to play out another of the usual take-from-the-people-to-give-to-the-rich games right after the election. This time it's a push for austerity.
Why Deficits?
I always start any discussion of deficits and debt by reminding people that the country had a big budget surplus before Bush cut taxes for the rich, and doubled the military budget.
Deficit history: Reagan dramatically cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations. He doubled the military budget. Huge deficit resulted and the country began accumulating massive debt. They called it "strategic deficits," a plan to "starve the beast" by bankrupting the country and forcing cuts to government, to the things government does for We, the People, and the ways government protects us from exploitation by the wealthy and powerful.
After 12 years of Reaganomics people were fed up, and elected Clinton. Clinton raised taxes on the rich. Those increases combined with the stock market bubble created a surplus and we were paying off the debt, and then something changed. 'W' Bush again cut taxes for the wealthy and again doubled the military budget and now the deficits are enormous. So here we are.
But fixing what caused the deficits is not on the table. It never is, because that doesn't fit the plan.
Fiscal Cliff
They say the country faces a "Fiscal Cliff" at the end of the year. After the election the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire. And – this is a bit complicated – something called "sequestration" also kicks in. This is a series of budget cuts that happen because of the "debt ceiling" deal, when Republicans held the debt ceiling hostage and threatened to put the country into default, demanding that we immediately take trillions out of the economy. The sequestration deal was a compromise that was intended to force the Congress to agree to a bipartisan solution, which failed.
The sequestration includes military cuts, which our billionaire-backed DC elite believe would ruin the economy when combined with expiration of the Bush tax cuts — because in their minds tax cuts do not cause deficits and unlike other government spending military spending creates jobs. So to avoid the "Fiscal Cliff" after the election Congress is supposed to meet to keep the military budget intact, keep taxes on the rich from rising and cut the things our government does for We, the People.
Why After The Election?
That pesky democracy thing keeps on getting in the way of Wall Street's plans for our economy. But after the election comes what's called a "lame duck" session of the Congress. The legislators who have been chosen by the people aren't in office yet, the ones who have been defeated are still there and the ones who were re-elected know that anything they do will be long forgotten by the next election. Democracy and the will of the people will not be a factor. Every poll says the public wants immediate action on jobs and no cuts in the things government does for We, the People.
If Obama is re-elected the post-election debate will be between the Obama deficit plan, a "Grand Bargain" based on the "Simpson-Bowles" plan vs the Ryan plan — the budget the House Republicans passed that privatizes Medicare and reduces spending on most things government does for our people. If Romney is elected all bets are off.
Simpson-Bowles is a budget plan put together by a Republican Senator and a Director of the Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley. After the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ("Deficit Commission") failed to make recommendations, the two came up with a plan that cuts Social Security, cuts a number of other things government does for our people, cuts a bit from military and cuts tax rates on the rich and corporations, calling it "reform." (The plan also eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction, for example.)
Important point: At least Simpson-Bowles is not a "cuts cause growth" plan. It is sold as a deficit plan, even though it cuts taxes at the top and for big corporations. It clearly asks that any cuts not take place until the economy has improved because cuts slow growth.
Grand Bargain
The "Grand Bargain" is the idea that Democrats and Republicans can reach a compromise involving Republicans "allowing" tax "reform" that eliminates some tax deductions like the home mortgage interest deduction and reducing tax rates on the wealthy and corporations, in "exchange" for cuts in things government does for us, including Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. (These cuts do not eliminate the need, they just shift the cost away from the government onto the larger economy.) (If this sounds like a "bargain" that entirely benefits the wealthy and large corporations, that's just how Washington works these days.) ("Reform" always means cutting out things government does for We, the People and reducing taxes on the wealthy.)
Austerity is the word used to describe attempts to lower budget deficits by cutting government spending on the things that government does for its citizens.
The theory is that cutting way back on government will cause the economy to grow because government is "in the way" and helping citizens "takes money out of the economy." Also, when government provides fewer safety-net services unemployed people are forced to take any work they can get, which drives wages down and increases corporate profits. Government cutbacks also mean they can't enforce regulations, which unleashes businesses to pollute, commit fraud, cut safety procedures and other things government polices that restrict corporate profits.
But austerity literally "takes money out of the economy." Public-employee wages and pensions are cut. Government services and safety net programs are cut. Public assets are sold off for immediate cash (reducing the government's income in later years). So the demand side of the economy is reduced as people are not able to spend.
The Results Of Austerity
In practice the theory that removing government makes the economy grow has not worked out. Several European countries have been severely cutting budgets, and the result has been that the economies in the "austerity" countries have suffered. These economies appear to have fallen into a downward cycle where the "reforms" reduce demand, growth stalls, this reduces tax revenue, which means the deficit-cutting is not effective. (And meanwhile the economies are ruined and people are in misery.)
The austerity cycle happening in Europe works something like this:
Bankers demand "austerity" which drives up unemployment, cuts demand and slows economic growth. The reduction in economic growth causes tax revenue to shrink and increases use of whatever "safety net" programs remain, thereby increasing budget shortfalls.
So bankers demand more "austerity" which drives up unemployment, cuts demand and slows economic growth. The reduction in economic growth causes tax revenue to shrink and increases use of whatever "safety net" programs remain, thereby increasing budget shortfalls. .
So bankers demand more "austerity" which drives up unemployment, cuts demand and slows economic growth. The reduction in economic growth causes tax revenue to shrink and increases use of whatever "safety net" programs remain, thereby increasing budget shortfalls.
So bankers demand more "austerity" … well you might be starting to get the picture.
Recession Resulting From Austerity
These are the GDP growth rates in European "austerity" countries:
Spain expects -1.7% from 0.4% 2011
Greece -10% to 11%
Portugal -1.2%
Italy -0.7%
Ireland -1.1%

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NBBJ has released renderings of a revised plan for Amazon's new three-block headquarters in Seattle. The proposal would replace a previously approved six-story office building with a three-unit "biodome": spheres that will hold large, mature trees and other plants in open, high-bay space. Retail stores are programmed for the ground floor of the spheres, which will comprise about 65,000 sf of space for work, dining, meetings, and recreation. Varied botanical zones will be created, based on diverse climate patterns.
The five-acre complex will also contain three 38-story office towers, providing some 3.3 million sf of space. Smaller, mixed-use buildings are also planned for the development, with facilities linked by pathways and green space.
The proposal is just the latest in a series of large-scale headquarters developments in the works or recently completed for the world's high-tech firms, including Apple, Google, Samsung, and Facebook. The renderings below, provided by NBBJ, give a feel for the proposal: a plum project for a city that already has what's touted as the world's greenest office building.


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[2b2k] Linking is a public good
Mathew Ingram at GigaOm has posted the Twitter stream that followed upon his tweet criticizing the Wall Street Journal for running an article based on a post by TechCrunch's MC Siegler, who responded in an angry post.
Mathew's point is that linking is a good journalistic practice, even if author of the the second article independently confirmed the information in the first, as happened in this case. Mathew thinks it's a matter of trust, and if the repeater gets caught at it, it would indeed erode trust. Of course, they probably won't, and even if you did read the WSJ article after reading the TechCrunch post, you'd probably assume that the news was coming from a common source.
I think there's another reason why reports ought to link to their, um, inspirations: Links are a public good. They create a web that is increasingly rich, useful, diverse, and trustworthy. We should all feel an obligation to be caretakers of and contributors to this new linked public.
And there's a further reason. In addition to building this new infrastructure of curiosity, linking is a small act of generosity that sends people away from your site to some other that you think shows the world in a way worth considering. Linking is a public service that reminds us how deeply we are social and public creatures.
Which I think helps explains why newspapers often are not generous with their links. A paper like the WSJ believes its value — as well as its self-esteem — comes from being the place you go for news. It covers the stories worth covering, and the stories tell you what you need to know. It is thus a stopping point in the ecology of information. And that's the oeprational definition of authority: The last place you visit when you're looking for an answer. If you are satisfied with the answer, you stop your pursuit of it. Take the links out and you think you look like more of an authority. To this mindset, links are sign of weakness.
This made more sense when knowledge was paper-based, because in practical terms that's pretty much how it worked: You got your news rolled up and thrown onto your porch once a day, and if you wanted more information about an article in it, you were pretty much SOL. Paper masked just how indebted the media were to one another. The media have always been an ecology of knowledge, but paper enabled them to pretend otherwise, and to base much of their economic value on that pretense.
Until newspapers are as heavily linked as GigaOm, TechCrunch, and Wikipedia, until newspapers revel in pointing away from themselves, they are depending on a value that was always unreal and now is unsustainable.
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The Jasper County Sheriff's Office is offering a reward of $25,000 to anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death of John David Huberty.
Huberty was found murdered July 24, 2011, in his home at 150 Night Hawk Lane in the Levy area of Hardeeville.
A graduate of Hilton Head High School, he was a filmmaker, artist and designer.
Friends were asked to make a welfare check on Huberty when his family had not heard from him in several days. When the friends entered the house, they found Huberty and called emergency medical services, Jasper County Coroner Marty Sauls III said at the time. The sheriff's office and coroner's office were also contacted.
According to Sauls, Huberty had been dead for several days and an autopsy performed at the Medical University of South Carolina found a gunshot wound to the back of his head.
An initial reward of $5,000 was offered shortly after Huberty's body was found and was raised to $10,000 in late October.
Anyone with information about Huberty's death is asked to call SLED at 843-782-3822 or the Jasper County Sheriff's Office at 843-726-7777.
This investigation is being conducted by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division at the request of the Jasper County Sheriff's Office.


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Simulation of Flux Density in a Hybrid Coil SMES using COMSOL MultiphysicsS. Roy[1], G. Konar[1]
[1]Power Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Energy storage is an essential component for hybrid power system using non-conventional energy resources. Batteries, compressed air energy storage, pumped hydro plants etc. have been developed for storage. However, these have demerits like losses involved in energy conversion and time delay. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) can be a good alternative as it stores electrical energy in the form of magnetic energy involving no loss during supplying the same. Solenoidal or toroidal low temperature superconducting coils (LTS) are in use for SMES [1]. First and second generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) coils are in operation either independently or with LTS coils in hybrid mode [2,3]. Such a hybrid coil made of BSCCO – 2212 (inner coil) and Nb-Ti (outer coil) was designed [3]. Thermal runaway and excitation tests of the prototype made of the same coil were performed [4,5]. In this work, the 3-dimensional magnetic field distribution of this hybrid coil is simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics. 3D Magnetic Fields section of the AC/DC module is considered for geometry (Figure 1). Preset Studies>Stationary option is selected for DC operation. The coil current densities are Jh,0 = 26.575 A/mm2 (HTS) and Jl,0 = 69.633 A/mm2 (LTS) as declared in Global Definitions> Parameters section. 3D model is built using the Work Plane and Revolve options. Magnetic Insulation is applied at different boundaries. The magnetic vector potential A is initialized to null component-values. The External Current Densities 1 and 2 are declared in the general Cartesian coordinates for both the outer and inner coils. Predefined Coarse meshing of Free Tetrahedral type is selected with Custom Maximum Element Size. The entire model with mesh is built using Build All option and the results are studied using 3D Plot Group>Volume Plot and Slice Plot. Figures 2 and 3 show the magnetic flux density distribution in the LTS and HTS coils of the hybrid coil SMES. The simulations clearly depict the high concentration of the field in the regions near the windings of coaxial solenoids. The peak field is nearly 7.4075T. The experimental value obtained was about 8T [3]. This closely agrees with the simulated value. In this simulation we neglected the slight pitch of the solenoidal coils. Hence, there may be some deviations from the actual field flux density distribution and this is reflected in the results. Figure 4 shows that the field density falls to a low value outside the solenoid (desirable for an SMES) with a sudden descent due to the presence of air gap in between the inner and outer coils.


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Prisons, America's 'new asylums'
A new report by the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit dedicated to the treatment of the mentally ill, found that the number of individuals with serious mental illness in prisons and jails now exceeds the number in state psychiatric hospitals by a factor of ten.
In 2012, there were more than 356,000 inmates with severe mental illness in prisons and jails nationwide. There were only 35,000 mentally ill individuals in state psychiatric hospitals.


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Asparagus fern can take the heat, cold
This time of year, we are all looking for some greenery to add to our vases for a little cheer in the house. Why go buy greenery when you probably have some in your own yard. How about using the classic greenery of asparagus fern?
The asparagus fern is the voluminous greenery we've all seen gracing large urns and pots in the South. If you don't want to bring in the whole garden pot, just clip some because this fern will reward a good haircut with even more abundant growth.
This hardy plant is good for contained areas where the sun beats down all day. It will also tolerate semi-shade. You can even grow it indoors if you choose.
The asparagus fern is from the family Liliacaea (lil-ee-AY-see-ee) and isn't even really a fern at all. It is a member of the huge lily family and masquerading as a fern. You may know the asparagus fern by other names such as springerei asparagus, ornamental asparagus or ground asparagus. Close cousins are the foxtail fern (similar but with a "fluffy tail" look at the end of fronds) and the emerald fern (again similar, but with needle-like stems in dense clusters).
The asparagus fern is native to South Africa. Some gardeners in Florida think of the plant as very hard to control and treat it like a weed. Most Southeast Texas gardeners call it a year-round "trooper." We usually don't have problems with this Liliacaea being invasive.
The evergreen perennial has 2 to 6 foot long arching, green stems that look like feathery leaves. It can get 2 to 3 feet tall and wide. In summer it has small white flowers that are followed by colored berry clusters in the early fall.
The asparagus fern and its close relatives are good plants to try this time of year because they tolerate most all extremes of temperature. If we ever have a hard freeze, it could die down to the ground and spring back up with warmer temperatures.
They prefer full sun to partial shade. Yellowing braches (chlorosis) tell you that the plant is getting too much shade. Dropping leaves tell you that you are over-overwatering. If you want to bring them in and put them in a vase with other flowers, remember to remove foliage that will be under water.
In your yard this week, try to spend at least 15 minutes cleaning out just one area for that wonderful weather we have just around the corner. You'll be glad you did.
Joette is an avid gardener and prides herself on staying up-to-date on the latest gardening activities and tips. To share your gardening news with Joette, call (409) 832-1400 or fax her at (409) 832-6222. Her e-mail is joreger [at] msn [dot] com.


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George Gershwin – Tin Pan Alley to Broadway
Gershwin's journey from New York's Jewish Lower East Side to the glamour of Broadway
George Gershwin (1898-1937) is a composer who remains unsurpassed in his ability to transcend the bridges between popular, jazz and classical music.
In just 20 years he became one of the most famous musicians in America and audiences worldwide were shocked by his sudden death at the age 38.
George Gershwin, along with his brother Ira, started out as a lowly song plugger in New York's infamous Tin Pan Alley and within a matter of a few years was having works performed on Broadway.
In the first programme of this week's Composer of the Week Donald MacLeod tells the story of Gershwin's rise to success and presents some of the earliest published works.
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I have written many columns during my years at the LaFollette Press.
Some have practically written themselves. Others have been a struggle to get anything on paper.
This is one of those columns.
It is hard to write about someone who you admire and love like a sister. The difficulty is not in knowing they will read your words. The problem comes in finding the right words to describe their selflessness and dedication to a cause.
This will be my final column for Another View.
It's a bittersweet moment. I'm not sad, and this isn't a loss. I feel as though I've had a good five year run and have enjoyed going into your homes, places of work, and wherever you might've been to wind down.
You might be asking, "J.E., why are you leaving?"
The answer's quite simple.
The old saying that you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone is one that we all know too well. So often in our lives we think of this famous saying and feel its bitter bite.
Bittersweet too are our memories of the rapidly vanishing East Tennessee way of life we once enjoyed. Soon the witnesses to the pre-mall, pre-asphalt, pre-cell phone, pre-central heat and air, pre-Internet days will be gone forever. Already gone are many of the unique things that made East Tennessee life one of pleasure and contentment.
Tensions are high as the election nears.
In a week the county could have all new leaders or have the same ones in for another term.
As journalists, my coworkers and I have stayed far away from the campaign rumors. Without factual information we dispel the rumors as just that.
I am ready to gladly join those who have grown weary of the multitude of campaign signs we are seeing.
While I wholeheartedly support the candidates' First Amendment right to have the signs and say whatever they want on them-I have grown tired of that right being misused.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech not the freedom to put a campaign sign every 50 feet. As the election has inched closer, the public outcry about the number of signs has gotten louder. I don't understand how some candidates can say they have yet to hear a complaint.
Many years ago, in the time when farmers worked their fields with oxen, and a John Deere tractor in every barn was a thing of fantasy, Pearl S. Buck published The Good Earth, her masterpiece about rural life in China. In The Good Earth, the manuscript that propelled Buck to fame and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938, she told the story of Wang Lung, a poor farmer who overcame drought and countless other maladies to become one of the greatest landowners in China. As a farmer, Wang accumulated land for cultivation and personal wealth.
In the most recent editions of the Press political profiles of candidates in the upcoming election have been published. The hope was to assist voters in making informed choices at the polls.
A vote should stand for something. It should not be cast for a candidate because you went to school with someone or their signs are plastered throughout the county. A vote is an indication that you are confident in a person's ability to not only lead but to make educated decisions that will benefit the majority of the population.
This One's for You
This essay, I forewarn you, represents political incorrectness at its height. In fact, before I continue I need to issue a disclaimer: I in no way condone the irresponsible use of alcohol.
But I have a confession to make- I love beer.
Everyday is something new and exciting when you have a child. I only wish the time would stop flying by.
My first child seems like a miracle in the way he has blossomed from an awkward newborn to a beautiful boy.
In recent weeks the Press has gotten a fair amount of criticism for our coverage of candidates seeking office in the county.
As a response to some of the hecklers, let me start by pointing out that there are more than 100 candidates on the Aug. 5 ballot. So in reality writing an exhaustive account of each politico's credentials is not feasible for the 2.5 people that make up our news team.
He is the picture
Are we abiding in Christ and looking for His return? This in on my mind so much lately. We need to keep it in our spirit and certainly share with others.
There was a time, not very long ago we never dreamed Christian people would be under attack in America.
Who ever dreamed a federal judge would try to make a rule that a National Day of Prayer would be unconstitutional?
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A Friday night meet and greet at the Davis Chapel Community Center saw possibly more candidates attending the event than constituents. With over 100 people vying for an office that was really an easy task to accomplish once you think about it.
Most of the politicians seemed genuinely invested in this community. They also appeared to want it to become more solvent, educated area. Among the issues put on the table were narcotics. Many of the candidates chose to address this as a societal issue as well as a personal one.
Have you noticed in the LaFollette Press how they list the area churches? I was so impressed, there are 127 listed. Think of all the people's lives that could be touched for Christ. We who are so thankful, who have accepted Christ should constantly be praying for others. When we find the opportunity to plant a seed, the Holy Spirit continues to touch their heart.
I have learned in the past year of motherhood that you cannot plan for everything, but you can take joy in the way things turn out.
And things turned out to bring me back to LaFollette with my growing family. I had planned a different route, but I am so happy to be back in my home and writing for the LaFollette Press again.
This could have been a difficult transition if not for the warm welcome from the community. Many friends and avid Press readers have greeted me with open arms. It makes me feel like this path was the right one at the right time.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Melanie Baskind scored and added two assists to lead Harvard to a 3-1 victory over Yale in an Ivy League women's soccer game on a sunny but windy afternoon at Ohiri Field. Maggie Westfal had the goal for the Bulldogs.
"Harvard was clearly the better team today," said Yale head coach Rudy Meredith. "They outplayed us in every aspect of the game."
The Crimson (4-3-3, 1-1 Ivy) had the wind at its back in the first half and used it to its advantage, outshooting the Bulldogs 10-3. Still, Harvard needed a little bit of a lucky break to grab the lead. Katherine Sheeleigh took a feed from Baskind, dribbled down the near side and sent what appeared to be a cross toward the box. Instead, it deflected off a Yale defender and into the net at 33:16.
"The wind was a bit of a factor," Meredith said. "It kept us on our heels. We were trying our best to go in tied at the half."
Even after Harvard scored, it appeared the game might be tied at the intermission for a brief second, but a Becky Brown goal was nullified by an offside call.
The Bulldogs (5-5-1, 0-2) picked up their intensity in the second half, but the Crimson used an excellent counterattack to take a 2-0 lead at 55:19 when Baskind's shot from the right side of the box found the back of the net. The goal came only a few moments after Yale defender Hannah Smith made a sliding save to stop what appeared to be a sure Harvard goal.
The Crimson sealed the victory at 66:48 when Christina Hagner scored off a corner kick.
Yale was awarded a penalty kick at 84:55. Harvard goalkeeper Lauren Mann made a diving save on Westfal's shot, but the rebound came right back to Westfal, and she banged it home for her team-leading seventh goal of the season.
The Crimson outshot the Bulldogs 21-13 in the game and had a 9-4 edge in corner kicks.
Ayana Sumiyasu made eight saves in goal for Yale, while Mann finished with three stops for Harvard.
The Bulldogs, who have scored only one goal in their first two Ivy games, are at Dartmouth next Saturday at 7 p.m.
"We didn't think [scoring] would be a problem," Meredith said, "but we'll focus on it in practice between now and next week."
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 may not be one of the most affordable tablets around, but you get what you pay for in the best way possible. The 8.4-inch slate offers a comfortable design, a bounty of software features, solid hardware with smooth performance, and one of the most pixel-dense screens to date.
In addition to Samsung's new Magazine UX, the tablet introduces a new standard with its 2,560x1,600-pixel-resolution screen. The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is the smallest tablet to rock that high a resolution, a title once held by the slightly larger Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, and the 8.4-incher now boasts the highest pixels per inch of any tablet.
The possible deal-breaker for many could be its $399.99 starting price, but considering it's almost the same price as the popular Apple iPad Mini with Retina Display, maybe a similar niche for a high-end Android experience on a small tablet will develop.
If you want a small but affordable tablet, options abound, like the Nexus 7 and Dell Venue 8, but those bargain buys can't hold a candle to everything the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 offers. If price isn't a concern and you want more than a basic slate, the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is a great option that offers a premium tablet experience with smooth and speedy performance in a sleek package.
The 8-inch tablet rocks the same faux-leather back, fake stitching, and silver spine that other Samsung tablets have been donning for awhile. Personally, I'm not crazy about the look, but the texture is comfortable. The white-and-silver design is fashionably sleek and the rounded back gives the illusion that the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is thinner than it is.
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The compact tablet is lightweight, yet it feels solid. The smooth, rounded corners of the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 allow the slate to comfortably melt into your palms when you're holding it for long periods of time, like through an episode (or three) of "House of Cards." It easily fits in one hand -- even with my small hands I didn't have to stretch my fingers uncomfortably -- and, at 0.7 pound, it doesn't weigh down your wrist.
The front facade of the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is designed with a dominant portrait orientation, with the bottom bezel housing the home button, as well as two capacitive buttons. The top bezel houses a 2-megapixel camera and an ambient light sensor that was a little too dim for my preference.
Above the top bezel, on the wraparound metallic spine, sits the 3.5mm headphone jack. Not too far away, on the rear side, sits the back 8-megapixel camera with an LED flash right below it. The power button and volume rocker reside on the right edge, with the infrared port in the middle, for optimal remote usage. The bottom edge houses the two speakers with a Micro-USB port in between them, and the left edge is home to the microSD card slot.
A tragic downside to the tablet's design is the placement of the capacitive buttons on the bottom bezel. When using the tablet in landscape orientation, the capacitive buttons -- whether in your right or left hand -- can accidentally be triggered by the simple grazing of a finger. This is especially frustrating if you're in the middle of a movie (or a "House of Cards" binge).
Software features
Samsung's latest version of TouchWiz offers many of the same options as before, but the new Magazine UX adds a fresh Flipboard functionality. Instead of putting widgets on the same screen as normal app icons (which you can still do), the Magazine UX pages are completely composed of tile-like widgets. You can choose between news, social, and app widgets and the customization options are simple, but a bit time-consuming to set up. I found some of the news widget categories to be less interesting than others, with as few as one update per day, and the social widgets were too small and showed limited information, making it a constrained way to consume your social media.
Though the integration with Flipboard is nice, you're often just led into the app itself from the Magazine UX page. It's like a glorified shortcut made beautiful, only to take advantage of the pixel-dense screen. But I digress, because I eventually came around to liking it, since the Magazine UX added more photography, as well as colorful imagery, to the day-to-day tablet experience. However, it was a little buggy at times -- I was frequently asked to make my "first magazine" after trying to save articles, even though I already had many magazines set up, and swiping between pages sometimes lagged.
I like the new Windows 8-reminiscent experience of the Magazine UX pages, but also appreciate the regular ol' TouchWiz features just as much (I'm talking to you, WatchOn remote). If you're not a fan of the Magazine UX, you can minimize its presence on your tablet, but Samsung offers no way to opt out of it. For a different perspective on Samsung's Magazine UX, check out Eric Franklin's review of the Samsung Galaxy Note Tab Pro 12.2.


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Singer Sean Kingston is facing a $5 million (£3.3 million) lawsuit from a woman who alleges he raped her in a hotel room.
Kingston was cleared of any wrongdoing following a complaint from the woman in 2010 after cops who investigated ruled she was not a credible witness and there was doubt over her version of events.
But the 22 year old has now launched legal proceedings against the star, a bodyguard, and another member of his team, alleging they were all involved in the incident, according to Tmz.com.
The woman and a female friend told cops in July, 2010 they were attacked by the Beautiful Girls hitmaker after going to a party in his suite at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Seattle, Washington.
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5371 International Petroleum Transactions - WRIGHT- 16292
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Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
International Law
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Course Outline: International Petroleum Transactions provides an overview of the laws, contracts, and legal issues that arise between host governments and oil companies that seek to invest in and develop oil and gas owned by the host governments. The course includes: an overview of National Oil Companies (the largest reserve owners today), ascertaining title to the minerals, especially in federalist countries or countries with indigenous tribes; resolving boundary disputes between nations; a comparison of the most commonly used granting contracts (licenses, production-sharing contracts and service contracts); issues arising under the international Joint Operating Agreement; sustainable development in resource development, including social impact assessment, human rights issues and litigation, and liability for transboundary pollution and oil spills; anti-corruption laws and codes; international arbitration; and other issues as time permits. The course also provides a good background to the future of the western majors in the global context of international energy. The class will have several guest lecturers who are leading practitioners in specialized areas of international petroleum transactions, such as arbitration and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus updated 8/17/17
Course Notes:
Prerequisites: It is interesting to contrast international contracts with the private oil and gas lease system studied in Oil and Gas Law (which is largely Texas oil and gas law, including Texas regulation of oil and gas). But Oil and Gas Law is not a prerequisite and the system of private ownership is quite different from the international world.
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 12/12 2 -5PM 211 TU2
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Satisfies Skills Course Requirement: No
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type:
Bar Course: No
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International Petroleum Transactions
Author:Ernest E. Smith
Publication Date:01/28/2010
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Three photographs from the portfolio Woman and Drawing indicatively show the French artist Anette Messager's preoccupation with the position of women in society during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing the digestive system on her naked body, by her refined moves and the "strategic" position of her hands, she contributes to the "impression of seriousness and the trueness of the work".
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This page provides best estimates, at the time of the Call for Proposals, of instrument availability and target (RA, dec) restrictions for 2010B.
Instrument Changes
As there are more instruments than the number of available ports on each
telescope, instrument swaps will be required. Therefore not all instruments will be available for the entire semester.
When possible instrument swaps will be scheduled to
minimize impact on the queue and instrument swaps will be driven
by demand. Hence the final schedule will not be
made until after the semester programs are known. It
may be the case that certain targets or entire programs will not be
feasible once the final schedule is determined, at ITAC or thereafter.
If an instrument is requested for less than 6% of the Bands 1+2 time, the Observatory
reserves the right to limit the RA range available to programs, or to not schedule the instrument.
During classical runs, no instrument changes on the Instrument Support Structure are permitted.
In 2010B instrument access to ports is especially complex at both telescopes, due to planned engineering, instrument upgrades and commissioning.
Although this Call does not restrict RA availability for any of the instruments, it is expected that access will need to be restricted once the engineering schedule is known and the demand is determined at the International Time Allocation Committee meeting.
Gemini North Instrument Availability and Target Accessibility
All instruments are restricted for sky visibility as described in the Table and Figure below. Observations requiring the Laser Guide Star (LGS) system are further restricted by the limitation that the LGS must be used at or above 40 degrees elevation. How this translates into RA and dec restrictions is indicated in the Table. In addition in 2010B, GMOS-North is expected to be unavailable for a four week period for the detector upgrade. Michelle will most likely only be available for two short periods during the semester, depending on demand.
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Figure 1: Schematic representation of target accessibility at Gemini North during semester 2010B. Green regions offer unrestricted access, red regions are inaccessible. Hatched areas indicate the more restricted LGS regions. The yellow region is possible, but restricted. See text, and values in the Table above.
Gemini South Instrument Availability and Target Accessibility
All instruments are restricted for sky visibility as described in the Table and Figure below. In addition in 2010B, Phoenix and T-ReCS may be unavailable late in the semester (not before November 2010) due to MCAO commissioning. The telescope will be shut down for 24 nights for mirror coating, probably during September to October 2010.
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Figure 2: Schematic representation of target accessibility at Gemini South during semester 2010B. Green regions offer unrestricted access, red regions are inaccessible. The yellow region is possible, but restricted. See text, and values in the Table above.


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Well, that's it: Obama just won Ohio, and therefore a second term as President of the United States.
Four years ago, I celebrated President Barack Obama's (Sorry; had to spell out his full title ONE MORE TIME) first victory in North Carolina, where I had been canvassing for a week with some friends from college. We were all staying with an extremely generous family who threw us a massive dance party on Election Night. We cheered and drank and danced and laughed off the hours and hours of work we'd put in to help make the state go Blue, throwing up a life-sized poster cutout of Obama in the air as we chanted his name. I knew the night would be one I'd remember forever.
Tonight feels different: I'm not dancing in the streets or in a swing state, not wildly, blindly hopeful about what the next four years will bring. But make no mistake: I am hopeful. I'm so excited that we're sticking with a president who believes that rape is rape, who mandates that employers cover contraceptive care, who supports legislation that prevents the federal government from denying same-sex couples equal protections. I'm beyond excited about Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, and Claire McCaskill's victories. I'm so thrilled that idiotic rape comments cost the Senate two seats. (Bye, Akin! Bye, Murdock! Fuck you both, forever — it's legitimately what God intended!)
If us ladies voted with our hormones, then our hormones KILLED IT. This is our election. Here's to another four years.
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President Barack Obama's second Oval Office address to the nation wasn't bad, but it wasn't the game-changer to his declining approval ratings which despondent Democrats were hoping for.
The speech was a valiant attempt to connect Iraq with unemployment (guns with butter), but it came off to many as meandering and confused. The reason is one that has plagued the Obama presidency from the day it started talking about post-partisanship. It is not so much that the zero-sum relationship between guns and butter was too subtle a link to explore on television, but that the president was cagey about frontally stating it.
His opening line encapsulates his equivocation: "Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home." This sentence is only more obfuscating that it is confusing.
It was only at the start of the last third of his speech (paragraph 22 of 30) when he finally got down to explaining the pivot ambiguously suggested in his opening thesis statement, saying, "We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits."
Yes, guns and butter are a zero-sum priority game. This is not about the president's ability or inability to multi-task foreign and domestic policy milieus. The point (had it been explicitly made) is that if we spend money on guns, then the revenue collected from our taxes cannot be spent elsewhere to boost the domestic economy. This is the point Obama was trying to make, but he was so cagey about making it that one wonders why he even tried.
Whether or not Obama is correct that the money spent in Iraq may have been better spent elsewhere is besides the point. Obama believed it enough to gingerly suggest it in his opening line, but was embarrassed enough for believing it that he hid his belief that the money spent on guns would have been better invested in domestic infrastructure by borrowing the foreign-policy language of "rebuild(ing) our nation here at home" to cover up the point that he maybe wanted to make. (That was argument by exemplification.) The president ended up confusing his friends and foes alike because he used an Oval Office speech to work out his internal demons.
Everyone knows that "stimulus spending" is no longer a popular word, but Obama was probably naive if he actually thought that he could make an idea popular again by calling it something else. A rose by any other name …
The more encompassing explanation would be that Obama was trying to exercise what I would call a Legion Theory of Representation. He represents many points of views, for he is many. Deep down he is a liberal and a half, but he feels compelled to give the other side a fairing. But this causes him so much internal ideological dissonance that he ends up stabbing himself in the foot with words that meander toward nothing because his words are no longer used to communicate but to postpone communication.
Conservative commentators were the first – and rightly so – to have called the President out on his tortured reasoning. If all he could summon in terms of an olive branch to President Bush was his overture, "no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security," it is very clear that his right hand is not at all happy with what his left hand is doing. The president's intuition and his conscience are not in consonance with each other, and he should find some way to reconcile the two.
The curious thing is that most leaders who fail to rise to the occasion fail because they haven't found their voice. Obama has a voice, but he has chosen not to use it but sort of to use it, in schizophrenic spurts. If a nation at war with itself cannot stand, a president at war with himself cannot lead.
Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com. Read Lim's previous OUPblogs here.


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When Amazon.com introduced its first Kindle e-reader, it was far from elegant. The original Kindle was bulky, with a shape like a paperback book with its cover folded back on itself. Its e-Ink display grainy and slow to refresh. It was also fairly expensive.
Over time, Amazon has refined its e-Ink Kindles. They've gotten smaller, lighter, with better displays and lower price tags. But the Kindle has always felt to me as though it was an incomplete product. Something was missing.
It turns out, that something was light. The e-Ink display, like paper, is illuminated by the light around you. That makes it more comfortable to read than a backlit LCD or LED tablet, except in situations where there isn't much light.
Tuesday Monday, Amazon will ship the Kindle Paperwhite, a new e-Ink Kindle that has its own light source. Like the Barnes & Noble Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight, it has a soft, white light that spreads across the screen. This makes the display look even more like real paper.
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The screen is divided into three tapping zones. Most of the area – probably about 70 percent of it – allows for a forward page turn. Tap on a narrow strip along the left edge to page back. And a wider strip across the top brings up a toolbar that lets you jump to the home screen, to the table of contents, brightness adjustments, fonts, settings menus and more. The tap-zone layout is a good idea, but it take some getting used to. Early on, I kept trying to bring up the toolbar or page back, only to move forward to the next page.
The only button on the Paperwhite is a single one on the bottom edge, used to put the device to sleep or, with a long press, turn it off. Everything else is done via the touchscreen.
The Paperwhite is extremely lightweight and easy to hold, at 7.5 ounces. It's very comfortable for bedtime reading, with a rubberized back that keeps it from slipping out of your hands. By default, the display is in portrait mode, but you can switch to landscape. However, this isn't done merely by turning the Paperwhite on its side – it has no accelerometer, like a tablet or smartphone. Instead, you must use a menu selection to switch between the orientations.
The quality of the display is excellent. Amazon has increased the pixel density and contrast, and I suspect this would be an excellent reading experience even if it didn't include its own light. But having a smooth, soft light makes a big difference in readability, even in a brightly lit room. The light spreads from the bottom, and is distributed evenly, for the most part – there are some slightly brighter spots near the bottom edge, but they're ignorable.
Combine the lit display with a good selection of fonts and the ability to control the size of margins and line spacing, and the Paperwhite provides the best reading experience in an e-Ink reader so far.
One thing to note: You can't turn off the Paperwhite's light. It's on all the time, though you can dim it. But Amazon claims an 8-week battery life even with the light on. While I haven't had my review unit long enough to test that, it does seem to have excellent staying power.
Amazon has added some nice extras to the Kindle. There's X-ray, which provides more details about specific topics, or shows you the links between characters in fiction. However, this doesn't work with most books – publishers must enable the feature. Over time, you'll see X-ray in more titles.
The Paperwhite also times how quickly you turn pages, and then tries to predict how long it will take you to finish a chapter. The more you read, the more accurate it gets, and the feature basically does away with flipping ahead to see how much is left in a chapter before you can call it a night and go to bed.
The Paperwhite is available for $119 in a Wi-Fi-only version that comes with ads. The ads appear on the lock screen, as well as on the bottom of the home screen. They do not appear inside books. If you'd rather not see the ads at all, there's a $139 version without them.
Another model connects to either Wi-Fi or a 3G cellular broadband network, and it sells for $179 with ads, $199 without.
Update: I should mention one surprising thing about the Paperwhite – it does not come with its own charger.
The e-reader does include a cable that connects to a USB port, or it will work with most USB-based chargers. This doesn't strike me as a big deal because of the ubiquity of USB connections, but still – Amazon's clearly cutting costs here. If you must have a separate AC adapter/charger for your Paperwhite, they're available for next to nothing on, um, Amazon.


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1. Australia lost to Zimbabwe in their opening match in the 2007 edition of T20 World Cup
2. Only one match was abandoned in the 2007 World Cup – the group match between India and Scotland in Durban
3. Adam Gilchrist had the most number of dismissals by a wicket-keeper in 2007 T20 World Cup – 9 dismissals
4. Sri Lanka has a dubious record of winning by the biggest margin in terms of runs and losing by the biggest margin in terms of wickets – won against Kenya by 172 runs and lost to Australia by 10 wickets
5. The first hat-trick of World Cup was taken by Brett lee against Bangladesh
6. Highest successful run chase in the world cup T20 was by South Africa against West Indies – chased the target of 205 runs
7. Yuvraj Singh became the first player in T20 to hit six 6s in an over. This was against England in T20 world cup 2007 and the unfortunate bowler was Stuart Broad
8. The highest team total in world cup T20 is 260/6 by Sri Lanka against Kenya
9. Yuvraj Singh has scored the fastest fifty (in 12 balls) in T20 world cup. This was against England
10. Mathew Hayden of Australia is the highest run-getter in T20 world cup series (265 runs)
11. Kenyan team was all out for 73 runs against New Zealand – Lowest total in a T20 world cup match
12. India's highest score in a T20 world cup match is against England – 218/4
13. West Indies conceded the most number of extra runs (28 extras) in their T20 World Cup 2007 match against South Africa at Johannesburg
14. Chris Gayle, West Indies (117 runs) is the only person to score a century in a T20 World Cup match. This was against South Africa
15. Craig McMillan of New Zealand scored the maximum number of sixes (13 sixes) in 2007 T20 cup
16. Yuvraj Singh was a close second with 12 sixes
17. Chris Gayle hit 10 sixes – the maximum in a T20 world cup innings – against South Africa
18. Gayle has scored the highest number of runs from fours and sixes in an innings – 88 runs (7 fours and 10 sixes) against South Africa
19. Umar Gul of Pakistan took the most number of wickets (13 wickets at an avg of 11.92) in the series
20. Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka conceded 64 runs in 4 overs against Pakistan at Johannesburg – the most number of runs conceded in an innings
21. Gayle and Smith scored 145 runs in partnership for the 1st wicket against South Africa – the highest partnership for any wicket
22. Ab de Villiers (South Africa) and Younis Khan (Pakistan) took the most number of catches in the series (6 catches each)
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Google announced a redesign of its Maps site and apps at its I/O conference back in May, but so far it's only been spotted on the Web-based version of the service. But starting today, a new version of Maps for smartphones and tablets begins rolling out on Android, with an iOS update coming soon, according to Google's Official Blog.
But as we all know, Google giveth and Google taketh away. The arrival of new Maps apps means the death of another Google offering – its Latitude location-sharing service is being retired.
Besides a cleaner design already familiar to users of Google's iOS Maps app, the Android version gets some new features, including:
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• Enhanced navigation shows you where there's trouble on the road. Tap an incident notification to see the details. Maps will also reroute you to avoid the bottleneck. This is a feature I've been wanting to see for a long time. (Now, if it would just warn you about those annoying speed traps … )
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With the new app, Google's doing away with Latitude in the Android app, a feature that let you see where your friends are. (It's similar to Find My Friends on iOS.) Instead, you'll have to turn to Google+ for a similar feature:
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The most immediately obvious changes come in the interface: the tabs now appear at the top of the window, very like Chrome, and the menu bar is replaced by a single Firefox button. It's all very clean and clear, with the maximum possible amount of space being given to whatever web page you're viewing.
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It won't be much fun to sit in a cold apartment, hunting for a neighbor's unsecured Internet connection, because you forgot to budget for utilities.
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During winter months, or if you don't use air conditioning, expect to pay $30-$50 a month for electricity. A lot of your bill will simply depend on how much you're home, how much you watch television (tube TVs are big electricity drains), how efficient your refrigerator is and how careful you are about turning off lights.
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If you are in a multi-unit building with radiators, there will almost certainly be no extra charge for heat. The landlord will pay the building's heating bill in total and build that cost into the rent. However, if you and some friends team up and rent a house, you'll be on the hook for keeping an oil burner going for heat and hot water, which could cost more than $300 a month. If you have gas or forced-air heating expect to pay at least $100 a month in the deep winter, though the cost can vary. One good way to find out what to expect is simply to ask the landlord or a previous tenant.
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This is an optional expense. With the new high-definition televisions, and their digital antennae, it's easy to get great reception on network TV, and then you can use online streaming services for the rest of your needs. This will cost you about $20 a month, if you subscribe to two services.
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May 24, 2011
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Three members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team were honored by the Little East Conference on the final week of awards for the 2011 spring season.
Senior Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) was named LEC Men's Track Athlete of the Week, freshman Jessica Masse (Somerville, MA/Somerville HS) was named LEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week, and freshman Joe Texeira (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS) was named LEC Men's Rookie Field Athlete of the Week. All three were honored for their performances at last weekend's Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships at Moravian College.
At 1500 meters, Nygaard finished fifth overall in 3:54.11. He narrowly missed the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying mark while posting the fastest 1500 time of his career, and the second best ever at UMass Dartmouth.
"Eric Nygaard capped an outstanding career with his personal best time of 3:54.11," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "We are very pleased to have had the privilege of working with Eric and are so glad that he was able to end his college career with a three second personal record. Eric left a lasting impression on the UMass Dartmouth track and field program."
In the shot put, Masse finished in second place, breaking the outdoor school record with a mark of 41 feet, six inches. Masse, who was in fourth place after her first three throws in the trials, had her best throw on her second of three attempts in the finals, lifting her into second place.
"Jessica Masse unloaded her all-time best outdoor throw to finish second at the ECACs, and punctuate what has been an outstanding freshman season for her," said Gardiner. "Jessica has continued to improve throughout the spring season and this performance at the ECACs is a great way for her to conclude her first collegiate season. We are looking forward to what she accomplishes in the future at UMass Dartmouth."
In the men's javelin, Texeira finished ninth overall at 182 feet, six inches. "Joe Texeira completed his freshman year with an impressive performance at the ECACs by making the final and finishing ninth overall," said Gardiner. "He has established himself as one of the premier freshman javelin throwers in Division III. He is a very passionate and competitive athlete, and we are excited to have him in our program."


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