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Grrat. In average, we are all great.
Actually, the correlation illustration is somewhat faulty or too benevolent to schemers. In reality there would be a lot of results obtained by measuring the results of subjects who guzzle the stuff and do not have any athletic achievements AND some of the results (if not all, mind you) would have been in the negative territory.
Haha! this is really awesome…
Thats why you might require a person who is not biased and a good analyst/ statistician to confirm that result.
All story telling with the shield of statistics might not be true! Beware of these kind of results..
Statistics are like bikinis. They appear to reveal an awful lot, but the really interesting bits are covered up.
Why not to trust statistics spokepersons! Statistics has no fault
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What about standard deviation? Should that be the best?
I love the "Statistics are like bikinis" ,here is another one about averages: My head is in the oven, my feet are in the freezer, my average temperature is OK, but I am really uncomfortable at both ends.
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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics (attributed to Benjamin Disraeli) and favoured by Samuel Clemens. But then again maths can also prove women= all evil. Anyway how can you trust a subject where a number that cannot exist, exists!!!!
This is not exactly on topic, but what the hell.
I got interested in the origin of the lies, damn lies and statistics remark three or four years ago.
I'm feeling too lazy right now to dig into my poorly organized stash of notes, so the following account is based solely upon recollections extracted from my rapidly deteriorating memory.
The attribution of the lies, damn lies and statistics remark to Disraeli was first made in a letter to the Times. The author of the letter was objecting to statistics cited about some zoo. He disagreed with the position the statistics were supposed to support, so the author tried to dismiss the statistical support with the lies, damn lies and statistics remark. Attributing the remark to a dead, but still revered, Benjamin Disraeli presumably gave the remark more weight than it would otherwise have had.
There was, however, a similar remark made well before the first appearance of the lies, damned lies, and statistics remark that could have been the "seed" from which lies, damned lies, and statistics sprouted.
A British jurist observed that there were liars, damned liars, and expert witnesses. It seems plausible to me that the liars, damned liars, and expert witnesses was the ancestor that begat the lies, damned lies, and statistics remark.
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Rajon Rondo to undergo surgery for torn ACL
Rajon Rondo was having his best season for the struggling Boston Celtics.
He's averaging career highs in points and rebounds. He leads the NBA in assists and triple-doubles by big margins. He was voted the starting point guard for the Eastern Conference in next month's All-Star game.
"He's our guy that's orchestrating everything for us," guard Courtney Lee said. "He's our leader."
Not anymore.
Rondo is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee that requires surgery. So coach Doc Rivers must find a replacement from a group short on point-guard experience amid a widespread feeling that the Celtics' already shaky playoff prospects are over.
He doesn't believe it.
"You can write the obituary," Rivers told reporters after Sunday's 100-98, double-overtime win over the Miami Heat. "I'm not. You can go ahead, but I'm not. We won (Sunday) and so the way I look at it is we're going to stay in there."
Lee could fill in at Rondo's position. Or Jason Terry. Or Leandro Barbosa. Or, less likely, the Celtics could sign a free agent or trade for a point guard. Their first practice without Rondo is Tuesday.
"When something like this happens, someone will find someone that's already in our locker room that's going to play terrific," Rivers said. "And I have no idea who it is."
Sunday's victory moved the Celtics (21-23) ahead of the Philadelphia 76ers by 2½ games for the eighth and final playoff spot in the East. Their first full game since Rondo was ruled out for the season is Wednesday night at home against the Sacramento Kings.
Rivers' players needed a break after their second straight double-overtime game and their third game in four days so he gave them Monday off.
In the first two — losses to the New York Knicks in Boston and the Hawks in Atlanta — Rondo had triple-doubles to bring his season total to five. No other player, not even LeBron James, has more than two. But the Celtics' losing streak reached six games, their longest in six seasons.
On Sunday, Rondo was a late scratch with what the team first said was a hyperextended knee suffered late in the Atlanta game.
But after MRI results were read, the Celtics announced that he had a torn ACL.
Still, they overcame fatigue and Rondo's absence to beat James and the defending NBA champions.
"That wasn't our mindset going out there, showing that we can play the game without him," Lee said. "It was us coming together and fighting till the end. ... It just shows that we are capable of playing without him."
They've done it six times this season and are 3-3. With Rondo, they're 18-20.
But the seven-year veteran is the most important player on a team with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, still outstanding but past their primes.
Rondo draws defenders to him on drives to the basket, then dishes off. He's averaging 11.1 assists per game. Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers is second with 9.7.
Among guards, Rondo's 5.6 rebounds per game lead the NBA and his 48.4 field goal percentage ranks third. And he's averaging 13.7 points.
Rondo "is becoming the heart and soul of this team," Garnett said. "He's coming into his own. He's had some bumps in the road, but we're trying to be supportive for him. It was a blow."
The former first-round draft choice has a reputation for being moody and stubborn. He was the subject of trade talks before the 2010-11 and 2011-12 season, even being mentioned in a possible deal for Paul, who later was traded by the New Orleans Hornets to the Clippers.
Now he's the Celtics' most indispensable player.
Without him. Pierce almost certainly will handle the ball more.
"It just depends on who's pressuring," Rivers said after Sunday's game. "We had the one lineup with (Barbosa and Terry). Neither one of them really want to handle the ball until the ball gets across half court, so we let Jeff (Green) bring it up, or Paul. It's what we are."
Garnett advised Rondo not to rush back before he's ready.
"That's the first thing I told him, 'Do not play Superman,' " Garnett said.
Rivers is hoping Rondo will be ready at the start of next season. He could be, if the recovery of Chicago Bulls point guard and former league MVP Derrick Rose can serve as a guide.
Rose tore the ACL in his left knee last April 28 in the final 90 seconds of the opener of a first-round playoff series against the 76ers. He underwent surgery on May 12. He's been increasing his workload and could be ready to play in the next few weeks. That would be less than 10 months since his injury.
Then there's Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson. He tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee on Dec. 24, 2011 and had surgery six days later. He was back for the Vikings opener on Sept. 9, less than nine months later, and ran for two touchdowns in that game. He led the NFL in rushing with 2,097 yards, just nine short of Eric Dickerson's NFL record.
So Rivers is hopeful.
The NBA season usually starts in late October, giving Rondo about nine months to recover.
"We've got a guy in the NFL that we can look at in Adrian Peterson," Rivers said, "and whatever he did, that's what we want to do. Because that was amazing. And that's what Rondo will do."


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Much wailing and gnashing of teeth on Thursday by certain commenters over my lack of knowledge on Freddy Schulman, the rickety, meshugga gentleman who haunts Yankee games with a frying pan, a teaspoon and odd, colorful signage. For pinstripe fans, it must have seemed as if I were insulting an eccentric old uncle. So consider this my apology to Freddy and all others like him, even though he is obviously several varieties of crazy, and probably has Dee Mirich on speed dial.
Not to be critical, but why do I get the feeling that Freddy's apartment is filled to the ceiling with old newspapers, empty soda cans and bits of shiny metal he found around town, and that he owns every episode of I Love Lucy on videotape? And I'm supposed to allow my kids to "bang his pot" at crotch level?
I guess what bothers me about Freddy, and many "superfans" like him, are all the freaking non sequiturs. He's got a frying pan and a teaspoon, and I'm supposed to hit the frying pan with the spoon ... and that will give the Yankees luck, and New York will win the East? Norse mythology makes more sense.
I much prefer fans such as Bearman, a Chicago regular who wears a Bears jersey and an actual bear's head. At least that follows a logical thread, and doesn't make me suspect him when the pigeons suddenly begin disappearing in his neighborhood. Why can't pro superfans be more like Keggy, the unofficial Dartmouth beer keg who needs no explanation? He simply rules.
But anyway, to avoid further criticism, please list your favorite pro sports eccentric in the comments — with as much background information as you can provide — so that I will never sully his reputation in future posts; I have better things to do than to Google every crackpot with a feather duster taped to his ass who shows up at a major league ballpark. So speak now, or forfeit your right to future criticism.
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Morenci city clerk/administrator Renée Schroeder has often thought about establishing a walking/running trail through Wakefield Park.
Although funding for such a project isn't available now, her dream will at least get off the ground with the funding of an engineering study.
The Charles Fay Foundation approved a $5,000 grant to cover the cost of designing an exercise trail. Pollack Design Associates, a landscape architecture firm from Ann Arbor, was hired for the design work.
If a trail were to be constructed in the future, Schroeder said, city council would likely seek funding from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. A DNR grant would, in turn, require matching funds from the city.
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Cheech Marin might be known for his stoner movies, but he is suddenly piling up priest parts.
He just cannot seem to make up his mind whether he's the spiritual kind ("The Perfect Game") or the killing kind ("The Machete")
"Last night I was at an event where I play a family-orientated priest," Marin told PopcornBiz of 'The Perfect Game.' " Tomorrow it's 'Machete.' I'm all over the place."
Of course he's still doing the stoner stuff, as he was promoting "Cheech and Chong's: Hey Watch This." which comes out on DVD appropriately on April 20. But the priest gig is a fun departure for the comedian/actor.
Marin says he especially likes his part in "Machete" : "I'm the murdering kind of priest, the best kind."
The gore-fest movie was originally a fake trailer in "Grindhouse," but it captured the attention and affection of the movie audience. Director Robert Rodriquez then made a full feature film from it, keeping Marin in the part of a priest very-adept in firearms.
"'Machete' was just a trailer that the fan base demanded be a movie," says Marin. "The trailer was just supposed to be a funny thing, a joke. But we went back and shot the movie."
As for his body count in the movie, Marin has no idea. He shot scenes where he killed "six or seven."
"But I don't know I haven't seen the final film yet."
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Beat the Streak Report: Saturday, Aug. 23
Pick of the day
Carlos Beltran, OF, Mets: 8-for-17 (.471 AVG) career vs. HOU RHP Roy Oswalt
Top 5 current leaders
1. eduneversaydie, 39 games
2. bruinscup72, 32 games
3. jfb17, 31 games
3. pupway10, 31 games
5. halfogre, 30 games
5. kbarnett10, 30 games
BTS season leader: Robert Paradise, 48
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
Second-place competitor bruinscup72 extended his streak to 32 games (Ichiro Suzuki, 1-for-4), while jfb17 (J.J. Hardy, 2-for-5, 2B, HR) and pupway10 (Brian Roberts, 1-for-4) remained tied for third place at 31 games apiece.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
2. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 5.6%, 1-for-4
3. Albert Pujols (STL): 4.6%, 3-for-3
4. Curtis Granderson (DET): 4.3%, 0-for-2
5. J.J. Hardy (MIL): 3.8%, 2-for-5
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Looks like Ichiro and Pedroia are the two hot picks for today. Of those with streaks 20 or more…..
Ichiro was taken by 18 players and Pedroia by 16..
108 can still make the elusive 57 mark
141 can still make it to 56
709 can still make it to 49
TWO people with streaks over 20 FORGOT to pick
Just noticed the pick of the day is carlos Beltran and his average against Roy Oswalt.
ONE SMALL PROBLEM. Oswalt picthed last night and lost to the mets and Santana.
Pedroia ends streak for 16 players above 20,
including the leader at 39
i hope you lose jweisinger
did you have pedroia today?
im kidding
well well, who would have thought that the two most popular picks on Saturday would both go hitless and wipe out about 34 people from having any chance.
so now its down to about 70 people left who can make 57
hung around for one too many lefties against ichiro, oh well give it a shot next year. great contest mlb good luck all obvious pick tomorrow markakis 10-13.
i saw that also and thats a great start against the yankee pitcher, i forgot who it is.


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On International Human Rights Day (10 December), the LGBT Core Group at the United Nations in New York- comprising Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, El Salvador, France, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and the USA, together with the European Union, OHCHR, Human Rights Watch, and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, United for Equality in Sports and Entertainment and Global Action Initiatives - will organize the event "Sport Comes out Against Homophobia".
The annual event, each year honoring a different theme, will highlight the role of prominent sportsmen and women in challenging stigma and promoting respect for the rights of LGBT people. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, athletes including tennis legend Martina Navratilova and NBA basketball star Jason Collins, as well as several human rights activists from South Africa, USA, and Russia will participate, and MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts will act as moderator.
An event on LGBT rights has been organized at the UN Headquarters every December for the past five years. Last year's highly successful event, celebrating the theme of music, included UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, popstar Ricky Martin, and musician Yvonne Chaka Chaka.
This year's Human Rights Day LGBT event will take place three months after the LGBT Ministerial Event of the 68th General Assembly in September which included First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia Ms Vesna Pusić, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay declaring their commitment to advancing the role of LGBT issues in the United Nations.


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A 33-year-old Pratt Island Road resident still is in the hospital following a one-car accident on Nearwater Lane in Darien June 6, police said.
He was behind the wheel of a 2015 Audi A3 when he drove the car off the road, hit an embankment and went airborne, Darien police said. Representatives from Audi and an investigator from the state Department of Motor Vehicles examined the car on Friday after police received a search warrant.
The 2015 Audi A3 has only been on the market since March, and police want to rule out any mechanical issues as the cause of the accident. Police said one of the three control modules, which communicate with each other and store data, was completely destroyed.
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Ron Paul's Golden Portfolio
Ron Paul is well known for his pro-gold policies. He is a little less well known for his golden portfolio. While most Americans have been watching their retirements quickly shrink, Ron Paul is doing OK. He might not be as rich as Mitt Romney, but he could buy Tim Pawlenty.
The question is if this will become an issue for Ron Paul down the road. Unlike half the GOP field this year, Ron Paul had not been considered a threat so no vetting (as the left calls it) or smear (as the right calls it) has taken place yet. Still, could Paul's golden investments and golden ambitions of a gold backed currency be viewed by liberal opponents as a conflict of interest? Already liberal bloggers are pointing out Paul's use of earmarks, so more "vetting" may be on the way.
One question that had me scratching my head is why Paul would advocate fixing the debt ceiling deal by having the Fed write off the QE1 and QE2 loans it had printed and made to the Treasury. Of course, this would make the hundreds of billions involved unrestricted cash and could result in inflation. At the same time he voted (contrary to his son Rand) against Cut, Cap and Balance. Ron Paul's constant votes against any appropriations bill that doesn't adhere strictly to the constitution should be viewed as a principled approach to representing the people who sent him to DC. But it sure hasn't hurt his portfolio either, as imperfect but more conservative bills fall to more liberal compromises that can pass without him and others who vote like him. Paul has bet on instability and it has paid off.
By the way, Paul's holdings don't include major stockpiles of gold, but are actually all in gold mining companies.
Should Bachmann Be Third String?
Meanwhile, on the mainstream side of the GOP Michele Bachmann is suddenly finding herself where Pawlenty was just a couple weeks ago: a solid third place.
This made me think of Tim Tebow who was recently put at the Broncos' third string behind Brady Quinn and Kyle
Orton. I love Tim Tebow. When he gets the ball and runs, or dumps those short touchdown passes over the defensive line's heads, we all go nuts here in Florida. Bronco's preseason makes Floridians happy because we get to see Tebow. He was a local champion who got everyone on fire for him, and when he went pro his Broncos' #15 jersey was the number one seller in the whole NFL.
But Tebow is not a polished player. His faith endears him to Christian NFL fans. The excitement he brought to the Gators with his competitive and unpredictable playing style built him a huge fan base. But his accuracy is off. He is no Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. He might fill the stadium, but he is not the quarterback to bring the Broncos to the Superbowl this year.
So why does he make me think of Michele Bachmann? Bachmann has a huge fan base. She became a national sensation as the darling of the TEA Party. She fills stadiums and is exciting to watch and listen to. But she is unpolished. Her accuracy is off. She's no Mitt Romney or Rick Perry.
So for now, like Tebow, Bachmann is going to remain third string until she can prove she's a starter.
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- 12 tablespoons cold unsalted butter - (1 1/2 sticks) plus
- 1 tablespoon cold unsalted butter
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour plus
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar plus
- more for garnish
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 3/4 teaspoon salt plus a pinch
- 4 eggs lightly beaten
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 2/3 cup fresh lemon juice strained
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 2 tablespoons limoncello (optional) (or other lemon-flavored liqueur)
Servings 1
Step 1
Lightly butter a 9- by 13-inch baking dish with 2 teaspoons of the butter and line with 1 sheet of parchment or waxed paper. Butter the top of this sheet of paper with 1 teaspoon of the remaining butter and then lay a second sheet of parchment or waxed paper crosswise over the first sheet. The parchment should be cut large enough so that the sides are even with the top of the baking dish; this extra paper will function as handles to help you remove the lemon squares from the pan later. Set pan aside.
In a large bowl combine 1 3/4 cups of the flour, 2/3 cup of the confectioners' sugar, the cornstarch, and 3/4 teaspoon of the salt and mix thoroughly. Cut the remaining 12 tablespoons of butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture. Using your hands, 2 forks, or a pastry blender, work the butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Transfer the butter-flour mixture to the prepared baking dish and press into an even 1/4-inch layer along the bottom and partly up the sides of the pan. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
While the crust is chilling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Bake the crust until golden brown, about 20 to 25 minutes.
While the crust is baking, assemble the filling by combining the eggs, granulated sugar, flour, and lemon zest in a medium bowl and whisking until smooth. Stir in lemon juice, milk, limoncello, and remaining pinch of salt and mix well.
When the crust is golden brown, remove it from the oven and reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees. Stir the lemon mixture again, then pour onto the warm crust. Bake until the filling is set, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Grasp the waxed paper that lines the 2 longest sides of the baking dish and remove the bars from the pan by pulling up gently. The entire dessert should easily dislodge and come away from the pan. Transfer to a cutting board and, using a clean knife, cut into squares, wiping knife after each cut. Place a small amount of confectioners' sugar into a small sieve, and sprinkle the bars with the sugar. Serve immediately, or refrigerate, wrapped with plastic wrap, up to 2 days, until ready to serve.
This recipe yields about 24 (1 1/2 to 2-inch) squares.
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Statement of Dennis Van Roekel
September 30, 2009
Submitted to the
Education and Labor Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Chairman Miller and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today about ensuring effective teachers for all children. I commend the committee for convening a hearing on this very important issue.
The vision of the National Education Association (NEA) is "a great public school for every student." Unfortunately, despite the intense commitment of NEA members, too many students in high poverty communities do not enjoy the benefits of a great public school because their schools are often chronically under-funded, under-staffed, and unsupported. This is simply unacceptable.
Each day, countless dedicated, talented teachers and support professionals report to work in these challenging and low-resourced schools, knowing they will face students with a sobering array of social and economic disadvantages, working conditions that impede the highest possible levels of teaching and learning, and a revolving door of administrators and teachers. These heroes and heroines perform amazing tasks, often with the least amount of support and resources.
Nevertheless, we cannot cover up the fact that too often schools with the greatest needs are filled with the most inexperienced and least skilled teachers. As a result, talented teachers in high-needs schools work alongside colleagues who lack training, are unprepared for the challenges they encounter, and who, due to revolving-door staffing patterns, are banished to high-needs schools without any support.
NEA is here today to say "No more." We will not participate in or turn away from this shame. We will be active partners with this Administration and this Congress to assure every student in America does indeed attend a great public school.
Everyone is talking about supporting students in their "race to the top." The key to turning out great students is great teachers. Great teachers, with the right policy supports, are the ideal agents of meaningful and sustainable change in our most challenged schools. NEA believes that solutions are at hand if policymakers, parents, and teachers themselves promote thoughtful and comprehensive strategies to address working conditions, school leadership, and teacher quality.
This month, NEA and the Center for Teaching Quality released Children of Poverty Deserve Great Teachers, a groundbreaking report presenting solid, proven strategies and policy recommendations that can make a difference. It also offers solutions to recruiting, preparing, supporting, and compensating teachers for high-needs schools and highlights NEA's commitments to ensure great teachers are in every classroom.
I would like to take you through some of the highlights of this report as well as the actions NEA and our state affiliates are taking to implement the report recommendations.
The Reality in High-Poverty Schools
From the White House to local communities, our nation is recognizing teacher quality as a key factor for strengthening U.S. public schools for all children. Many influences, including home and community life, play a role in student achievement, but no school-based issue may be as critical and within our power to fix as the inequitable distribution of qualified and effective teachers.
Many highly skilled and dedicated teachers struggle daily to keep the ship of learning afloat in our most challenging schools. Nonetheless, children of poverty and those of color are far less likely to be taught by qualified, effective teachers than are students from more affluent families. This daunting reality hovers like an albatross over those who work daily, against the odds, to improve student achievement in our low-income communities.
The research is sobering:
- High-poverty schools are much more likely to have special education and math teaching vacancies and are forced to staff classrooms with out-of-field and inexperienced teachers, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
- In New York City's high-poverty schools, 20 percent of teachers have less than three years of experience, compared to only 11 percent in more affluent schools, according to a recent study. Furthermore, qualified teachers in high-poverty schools (credentialed, experienced teachers who are teaching in their field and who score well on tests of academic and teaching ability) are more likely to leave teaching than their less qualified peers in those schools.
- Study after study has shown that teachers associated with high "value-added" student achievement gains and teachers who are National Board Certified are relatively unlikely to be teaching economically disadvantaged and minority students.
- Asking high-needs schools to rely on relatively inexperienced, poorly prepared teachers — or better qualified teachers who quickly exit their classrooms — creates a chronic condition that undermines long-term, school-based strategies to improve teaching and learning.
What do Teachers Need to Be Effective?
Teachers cannot do it alone. Every member of the community has a role and is responsible for the conditions of our schools and for providing a safe and secure learning environment for our children. Teachers want to be successful, and we should do what we can so that they are not set up to fail.
It's not about the money. Nobody enters teaching for financial security. They enter the profession because they care passionately about educating children and preparing them to succeed.
NEA has worked with more than 2,000 of the nation's best teachers who told us what will attract and keep our most effective teachers in our most challenging schools:
- Good principals who both know how to lead and support teacher leadership;
- A commitment to creative teaching and inquiry-based learning, not scripted instruction;
- The opportunity to team with a critical mass of highly-skilled teachers who share responsibility for every student's success;
- Improved working conditions; and
- Additional pay to recognize the difficult work in turning around a struggling school.
Working conditions are of paramount concern when it comes to decisions about working in high-needs schools. Teachers, like surgeons, require a well equipped environment in which to do their best work. We cannot expect them to be successful if we do not provide the tools and resources needed to do the job. The data are clear: a child's learning environment is a critical factor in his or her long-term success. We cannot hold teachers accountable for substandard conditions beyond their control and must acknowledge that conditions of teaching and learning are essential to achieving high levels of student learning.
We need to support teachers in their early years and throughout their careers. It is important that we not only recruit new teachers to work in high-needs schools, but that we foster an environment that encourages professional development and continual learning opportunities for teachers within our schools and districts to help meet the needs of students. We also must "grow our own" accomplished teachers and not rely solely on new recruits for our staffing needs.
Too often, school district recruitment and hiring practices rest on outdated mid-20th century organizational assumptions about teaching, learning, gender roles, and the career mobility patterns of young adults. Few systems are developing new teachers from within their own high-needs communities. Additionally, few are partnering with universities and nonprofits to make strategic investments in new teacher residency programs that can both drive improved working conditions and assure a steady supply of well-prepared, "culturally competent" teachers for high-needs schools.
NEA's Strategies and Commitments
NEA's Children in Poverty report describes four strategies that will move us past the usual "either/or" thinking about the future of teaching toward research-driven policies that can transform every high-poverty school in America into a high-performing school, fully staffed by effective teachers.
- Recruit and prepare teachers for work in high-needs schools.
- Take a comprehensive approach to teacher incentives. Lessons from the private sector and voices of teachers indicate that performance pay makes the most difference when it focuses on "building a collaborative workplace culture" to improve practices and outcomes.
- Identify working conditions that serve students. We need to fully identify the school conditions most likely to serve students by attracting, developing, retaining, and inspiring effective and accomplished teachers.
- Define teacher effectiveness broadly, in terms of student learning. We need new evaluation tools and processes to measure how teachers think about their practice, as well as help students learn. For example, in the Performance Assessment for California Teaching (PACT), new teachers are expected to demonstrate their knowledge of content and how to teach it in real life circumstances and context. PACT is now spreading to other states. Seen as a valid measure of individual teacher competence, it is useful for teacher licensure and as a powerful tool for teacher learning and program improvement. Such performance assessments have the potential of focusing teacher evaluation on student learning without the distortions caused by the singular use of standardized test scores.
NEA, as part of an initiative it will launch called The Priority Schools Campaign, has committed significant resources to ensuring a great public school for every student. Those commitments include investing $1 million per year over six years to pursue comprehensive strategies and policies that will increase teacher effectiveness in high-needs schools. NEA takes its union leadership role seriously and is committed to raising the bar and requiring our members to meet a standard of excellence that will help us achieve great public schools for every student by 2020.
Through The Priority Schools Campaign, NEA commits to:
- Address barriers in collective bargaining agreements by requesting that every local NEA affiliate enter into a compact or memorandum of understanding (MOU) with its local school district to waive any contract language that prohibits staffing high-needs schools with great teachers. These compacts should also add commitments that would enhance this goal. Similarly, NEA would promote compacts or MOUs for its non-collective bargaining local affiliates that have high-needs schools in their districts.
Several NEA affiliates have addressed, in collaboration with school districts, collective bargaining barriers to addressing staffing needs in high-needs schools. The MOUs that have resulted from these collaborations are producing positive results.
- Launch a major member outreach effort using its union advocacy and leadership position to encourage the most accomplished teacher-members to start their teaching careers in high-needs schools, remain teaching there, or transfer to high-needs schools.
- Support the establishment of locally based recruitment and support programs that encourage teachers to devote at least five years of service to strengthening teaching in high-needs schools.
- Establish a national recognition program to support and publicize the efforts of teachers, schools, and districts to strengthen quality teaching in high-needs schools.
- Work with the philanthropic community and with local, state, and national policymakers to expand the depth and breadth of NEA's initial investments.
- Support mentoring programs for new teachers in high-needs schools that offer a wide array of support and resources needed to teach effectively in high-needs schools.
- Work in partnership with local and state affiliates to implement programs in high-needs schools to grow teacher quality and effectiveness through National Board Certification.
NEA also continues to support and promote incentives for National Board Certification as an essential tool for improving teacher quality and for staffing high-needs schools.
Where and when possible, NEA will support local and state association development of appropriate incentives through collective bargaining and other state/local policy avenues. We will also support our state and local affiliates who partner in pursuit of innovative incentive and compensation programs (through funding streams such as the TIF grant program).
And NEA will develop resources and strategies to help its affiliates expand the scope of collective bargaining to pursue collaboratively at the bargaining table multiple measures of student learning and teacher quality.
History has shown that a one-size-fits-all regulatory regime for teacher recruitment and preparation is unreasonable. As Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond has noted, staffing and supporting high-needs schools with truly highly qualified and effective teachers will require the equivalent of a Marshall Plan for teaching. It is time to listen to our teacher leaders, learn from them, and go beyond current "either/or" policy thinking in favor of multiple approaches to teaching quality.
Our nation has the capacity to make sure every child in every high-needs school has great teachers. President Obama has called for the nation to "treat teachers like the professionals they are while also holding them more accountable." Doing so means not only looking carefully at the research evidence, but also listening to our most accomplished teachers and acting on their advice. As the President has suggested, they are ready to "lift up their schools." They are ready to maintain the promise of great public schools for our nation. It is time to hear their voices and embrace their ideas for recruiting, preparing, rewarding, and supporting great teachers — the teachers that all students deserve.
I have included with this testimony a complete copy of our Children of Poverty report. Thank you again for the opportunity to contribute to this important discussion.


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When I talk to people about My Empire of Dirt, I tell some outrageous stories from the year I spent turning my back yard in Flatbush, Brooklyn, into a farm that would, with the exception of salt, pepper, and coffee beans, sustain me for at least a month. Some of the tales are — or at least are intended to be — funny, some provocative, some poignant, and some heartbreaking. And when I finally finish talking, the first question is always, "Do you still have the farm?
Hell yes, I reply, and then immediately I equivocate, call it a marriage-preserving compromise.


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In Barton: Shooting strikes the heart of two communities
by Tena Starr
NEWPORT — Carlton Bickford, 76, a retired electrician and well-liked longtime Glover resident, shambled into court in shackles Monday and pled innocent to first-degree murder in the shooting death on Friday of 72-year-old Rachel Coburn of Barton, who Mr. Bickford told police was his "girlfriend."
Mr. Bickford, who has health and hearing problems, could not initially hear the court proceedings, and arrangements were made for a hearing device before the arraignment continued.
He will be held without bail, although public defender Jill Jourdan argued that he has a wife at home, children in the community, no prior criminal record and should be released on strict conditions and a $100,000 bond with $10,000 down.
The evidence of guilt is great, Judge Howard VanBenthuysen said as he ordered Mr. Bickford to return to prison in St. Johnsbury, where he will be held pending resolution of a case that has flatly shocked all those who know the accused and the victim.
What Mr. Bickford told police about what happened on Friday, the day of the shooting, is sometimes confused. More than once he allegedly said he was worried that Ms. Coburn wanted to end their relationship, and if he couldn't have her no one would. He also said he feared Ms. Coburn would turn him in to police for threatening her, or for attempted murder, although he did not explain why she would accuse him of the latter.
He said there had never been violence between the two until that day.
Ms. Coburn, 72, worked in the cafeteria at Lake Region Union High School for about ten years. Before that, she and her late husband, Lewis, owned Barton Cleaners until 2002 when it closed. She's described as a happy, hard-working, young-at-heart person.
"She was a really warm and friendly woman," said Nicole Libby, Lake Region's food service manager. "She always had that smile on her face. She was looking to try to make people happy. She was a very thorough worker, and she had a wonderful, close relationship with a lot of the students. A lot of the kids are really devastated by this. She had a way of connecting with kids.
"Everybody is just floored," Ms. Libby said. "I had a great time working with her. It just isn't real. She was one of those happy people; she just wanted to live life."
Mr. Bickford turned himself in to the Lyndonville Police Department Friday afternoon, allegedly saying he had just killed his girlfriend with a shotgun following an argument. He said he had then tried to kill himself, but only managed to graze his shoulder. He allegedly told police they would find Ms. Coburn's body in her house, along with two bullet holes in the ceiling from his unsuccessful attempt to shoot himself.
Both the accused and the victim have an extensive network of friends and family that is intertwined, and that has contributed to the grief and bafflement that follows the tragedy.
"It's totally unbelievable," said Butch Currier of Glover, who has been friends with Mr. Bickford since the 1960s. "I'm just dumfounded. I don't know why, and everybody else is wracking their brain trying to think of some reason why. I even woke up the next morning and wondered if I'd had a bad dream. I didn't believe it."
Mr. Currier said he has sugared with Mr. Bickford for 20 years. "He did all my boiling for me. We've done a lot together, fished, rabbit hunted, owned property together. I just can't say anything bad about him. He was always funny, always doing something to make you laugh."
The killing was doubly painful for Mr. Currier. Rachel Coburn was his aunt.
"Again, you can't get anybody to say anything bad about Rachel," Mr. Currier said. "She was happy go lucky. She had four kids, loved her kids, her grandkids."
State Police Detective Sergeant David Petersen's affidavit describes a confused and distraught man who had been crying when he showed up at the Lyndonville Police Department Friday afternoon. It also describes an extramarital relationship that started about four years ago when Mr. Bickford was doing some electrical work for Ms. Coburn.
The relationship, which Mr. Bickford said was nonsexual and "the least of what he wanted" when it started, was apparently on the rocks and went very wrong earlier on Friday.
Shortly after Mr. Bickford showed up at the Lyndonville Police Department, Officer Brandon Thrailkill notified State Police. Mr. Bickford allegedly told Detective Petersen that he would find Ms. Coburn's body in her West Street home in the hallway near the cellar stairs.
"…he started to tear up and said it was the dumbest thing he had ever done in his life," the detective's affidavit says.
Mr. Bickford said he'd had an argument Friday morning with Ms. Coburn, with whom he'd had a romantic relationship that his wife and son were aware of. He said the two mostly drank coffee and played cribbage. His wife had talked to Ms. Coburn about the trouble the relationship was causing.
He'd gone to Ms. Coburn's about 8:30 Friday morning with his usual coffee and newspaper. An argument had ensued, but he said he thought he could work things out. A couple of hours later he left, thinking he could "think it over and keep things clear in his mind," court records say.
When police asked if the argument was about ending the relationship, Mr. Bickford was initially vague, saying he did not think so, but perhaps Ms. Coburn had. Later, he indicated that his distress was due, in part, to her wish to stop seeing him, the affidavit says.
He returned later that morning with a 12 gauge double barreled shotgun, which he told police he'd taken from his son's house so his wife would not see him taking a gun from their own house. When police interviewed Mr. Bickford's wife, Mary Jane, she said that the guns at their house were locked up, and she had hidden the key.
Mr. Bickford apparently made no bones about the threat of violence when he returned to Ms. Coburn's house that morning. He said he loaded the gun in the driveway and put it on the stove while the two continued to talk.
"When asked if he made any threats to use the gun, C. Bickford remarked something to the effect of 'I don't know; I probably did to the point of if I couldn't have her nobody's ever,'" Detective Petersen's affidavit says.
Mr. Bickford also told police he believed Ms. Coburn was going to turn him in for attempted murder and suggested he had no alternative but to kill her, Detective Petersen's affidavit says.
In the midst of the couple's second conversation that morning, the phone rang. Mr. Bickford told Ms. Coburn not to answer, but when she made a dash for it, "that's when I shot her," he allegedly told police.
He did not want Ms. Coburn to answer the phone because "she was going to seek help," court records say.
"She tried to get by me once to get out the door and I wouldn't let her and then when the phone rung I just told her don't answer the phone," Mr. Bickford allegedly told police. "Visit with me. And she made one wild dash to go to the phone. I guess that was it."
"No, I didn't intend to kill her," he said, according to the affidavit. "But when she started threatening me with having me arrested and all of that, I don't know, I didn't have much choice."
He told police that when he returned with the gun, "I didn't know just what was going to happen, but I wanted to be in control."
He allegedly told Detective Petersen that he had "nothing to gain from shooting Coburn and should have walked away from the whole setup."
Mr. Bickford said he believed he shot Ms. Coburn in the abdomen and chest area from a distance of ten or 15 feet, and he did not check on her after shooting her because he knew she was dead, Detective Petersen's affidavit says.
A babysitter at a neighbor's house that day told police she heard two loud bangs, but did not see anything or anyone. She said it sounded like someone was moving furniture.
Mr. Bickford told police that, at first, he had no intention of using the shotgun, but said that Ms. Coburn "ran her mouth about me using her the way I had been using her, and she was probably correct." He said he believed Ms. Coburn would find a way to "put him away for threatening her."
"The lady's dead. I shot her and I'm guilty as hell," he told Detective Petersen, according to the affidavit.
In a later interview that evening, Mr. Bickford told police Ms. Coburn had told him he could "get out."
"He further noted, upon returning to Coburn's house he told Coburn if I couldn't have her nobody was going to," Detective Petersen's affidavit says.
"I was 100 percent wrong," he told police.
Mr. Bickford frequently expressed remorse as he talked to police. At one point, he said he would do anything to bring Ms. Coburn back, "but it was too late."
"C. Bickford remarked he had more problems now than he did before," Detective Petersen's affidavit says. It goes on to say that Mr. Bickford said he "wished he could go back and change the past."
After the shooting, Mr. Bickford told police, he drove around Orleans and Caledonia counties for a while then went to the village office in Lyndonville, which he believed was the police station. There he was given directions to the police station, where he turned himself in.
The murder has pretty much consumed the thoughts of many who knew the two.
"When I saw it on Facebook, I thought it was a hoax," said Sue Squires of Glover. "My mouth started getting wide open. I've known Carlton all my life. I don't understand it. He'd help you out in any way he could."
"When you think of Carlton, you think of Carlton as a joker and with a smile on his face," said Sharon Bickford. "It's such a tragedy. You just sit here in a whirlwind trying to make something of it.
"I've known Rachel all my life," Mrs. Bickford said. "She was a nice lady, very friendly, cordial, always had a smile on her face, very personable. She just loved life. For everybody that knew both of them it's an awful shock, for the whole community."
Family and friends are simply trying to process the tragedy, Mrs. Bickford said. "Never in a dog's age, never, that's not him," she said about the charge against Mr. Bickford.
"What to hell happened?" Mr. Currier said. "Chances are I'll never see Carlton again. Without a doubt I won't."
He said he wonders if the multiple medications Mr. Bickford took for a variety of health problems may have affected him.
Conviction on a first-degree murder charge carries a sentence of 35 years to life.
Mr. Bickford was denied the services of a public defender. Judge VanBenthuysen said that because of his assets and income, he would have to retain an attorney himself.
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In the recent Ethics Follies performance, Misbehavin' at the Menger, we spent a lot of time making fun of Bernie Madoff and the SEC for not discovering the massive fraud of Madoff's "Ponzi" scheme. PIctured above, actors portray the Ponzi scheme of the 1920's. In Misbehavin', Ponzi is asked during his trial what he did with all that money. He calmly replies to the judge, "You could say… I Madoff with it."
When interviewed recently, even Bernie himself was surprised no one at the SEC was concerned about the billions of dollars he was stealing over the years. The SEC could have discovered the fake investment company's scheme years ago if they had followed up on the many reports and tips the agency received. Diana Henriques, writer for the New York Times, tells it best in the following story sent to me by actress Anna Gangai (pictured above in the black dress):
by DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Published: October 30, 2009
Nobody was more surprised that the Securities and Exchange Commission did not discover Bernard L. Madoff's enormous Ponzi scheme years ago than Mr. Madoff himself. After all, it would have been pretty simple, he said in a transcript of a jailhouse interview that is part of a trove of official exhibits released on Friday by the S.E.C.'s inspector general, H. David Kotz.
In the interview, Mr. Madoff said that the young investigators who pestered him over incidentals like e-mail messages should have just checked basics like his account with Wall Street's central clearinghouse and his dealings with the firms that were supposedly handling his trades.
"If you're looking at a Ponzi scheme, it's the first thing you do," he said.
Those simple steps, he added, could have revealed years earlier that he was running the largest Ponzi scheme ever, a crime that has now dragged the S.E.C. into the worst scandal in its 75-year history. "It would have been easy for them to see," he added.
The new exhibits consist of 6,157 pages of interviews, letters, e-mail messages, telephone records and other background material gathered during Mr. Kotz's 10-month investigation of how the commission handled, and mishandled, numerous tips and warnings it received about Mr. Madoff over the years. His full report,released last month, found the agency had received six substantive complaints since 1992 — and botched the investigation of every one of them. He found no evidence of any bribery, collusion or deliberate sabotage of those investigations.
In fact, Mr. Madoff said in the jailhouse interview that, on two occasions, he was certain it was only a matter of days or even hours before he would be caught. The first time, in 2004, he assumed the investigators would check his clearinghouse account. He said he was "astonished" that they did not, and theorized that they might have decided against doing so because of his stature in the industry.
"I'm very proud of the role I played in the industry," he said. "Of course I destroyed that now."
In Mr. Madoff's second close call in 2006, investigators actually asked for his clearinghouse account number on a Friday afternoon, but then never followed up. He said he firmly expected the following Monday would bring the curtain down on his crime. Again, nothing happened. He recalled thinking at the time: "After all this, I got away lucky."
His investors did not. According to estimates by a court-appointed trustee who is liquidating his estate, Mr. Madoff's crime cost thousands of victims at least $21 billion in cash losses, part of the $64.8 billion in paper wealth that vanished when his scheme collapsed.
Despite what Mr. Madoff described as the chronic ineptitude of the S.E.C., he said in the interview that he was "worried every time" examiners showed up.
"That was the nightmare I lived with," he said, and he told Mr. Kotz he had wanted it to end. "I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago."
Mr. Madoff was arrested in December and pleaded guilty to fraud in March. He is now serving a 150-year prison term in North Carolina.
But the criminal investigation of the scheme is continuing. In a letter to a federal judge, federal prosecutors said that Mr. Madoff's longtime accountant, David G. Friehling, was expected to plead guilty Tuesday and had agreed to cooperate with investigators.
Mr. Friehling was Mr. Madoff's auditor from 1991 to 2008. Mr. Madoff told clients that Mr. Friehling audited his investment advisory business from a small office with a bare-bones staff in suburban New City, N.Y., an arrangement that made several investors suspicious for years.
The newly public documents do not add fresh charges to the official findings, but they do provide a vivid sense of the tensions, confusion and petty squabbles that derailed a half-dozen failed inquiries. .
Some interviews describe a culture where understaffed investigations languished for months before sputtering out, unresolved. Others evoke an environment that became openly dismissive of anonymous tips, like some of the early Madoff warnings.
In one e-mail message, a senior lawyer in the agency's New York office said he thought "we should get out of the business of burning resources to chase Ponzi schemes."
He later explained in an interview that he thought investigations of Ponzi schemes should be left to other agencies with criminal jurisdiction. Several young staff members said those views had shaped their own misguided decisions in the Madoff inquiries.
Agency staff members repeatedly relied only on Mr. Madoff's own testimony and records — which were lies and fabrications, as it turned out. An examination of customer records after Mr. Madoff's arrest in December showed he made no trades for his customers for decades.
Mr. Madoff said in his interview in June that he thought, after all the examinations and investigations over the years, that "it never entered the S.E.C.'s mind that it was a Ponzi scheme."
The S.E.C. declined to comment on the exhibits.
The paperwork gathered from the agency's files also tell a tale of unseasoned, poorly managed people who were uncertain about what to do and unwilling to ask for help. In numerous instances, employees would share their doubts about Mr. Madoff in notes or e-mail messages, but then never take steps to press for more information.
In a memo from March 2004, several senior S.E.C. staff members reported that "it seems clear" that Mr. Madoff had "absolute discretion" over the accounts of his clients. Nevertheless, they said, "Bernard Madoff himself has categorically denied being an investment adviser."
The investigators later forced Mr. Madoff to register as an investment adviser, but never pursued the fact that they had caught him in a blatant lie. Mr. Madoff's claims of close relationships with regulators was mentioned in several of the interviews with S.E.C. staff and internal agency e-mail messages released by Mr. Kotz.
Mr. Kotz interviewed four former chairmen of the commission: Arthur Levitt, Harvey Pitt, William Donaldson and Christopher Cox. Mr. Madoff's descriptions in his interview of ties to former officials did not always check out, Mr. Kotz reported.
For example, Mr. Madoff claimed he knew Mr. Levitt "very well' and had lunched with him on one occasion. But according to a memo, Mr. Levitt testified that he "did not believe he ever met with Mr. Madoff alone" and that he "did not have a personal friendship with Mr. Madoff," and "had never socialized with him."
Mr. Madoff also stated that the current chairwoman, Mary L. Schapiro, was a "dear friend" of his, and that she "probably thinks 'I wish I never knew this guy.' " But Mr. Kotz released a statement on Friday saying that there was no evidence that Mr. Madoff had a close friendship with Ms. Schapiro.
The exhibits are certain to be carefully scrutinized by lawyers for several Madoff victims who are suing the commission for negligence. Those lawsuits argue that their losses could have been reduced or prevented if the commission had competently investigated the Madoff firm and pursued warnings about his mysteriously consistent profits.
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text: Scouting helps develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills and citizenship skills. While various activities and youth groups teach basic skills and promote teamwork, Scouting goes beyond that and encourages a deeper appreciation for service to others in their community. Scouting promotes activities that lead to personal responsibility and high self-esteem. As a result, when hard decisions have to be made, peer pressure can be resisted and the right choices can be made. Some of Pack 145 activities include field trips, community service projects, camping adventures, arts & crafts, sports, skits, story telling, hiking, fishing, archery and Pinewood Derby races to name just a few. Cub Scouts is open to boys entering kindergarden through fifth grade. All boys are encouraged to bring a buddy.


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I'm not much on grand entrances, but Ed encouraged me to introduce myself on here, so here goes:
I'm a young pastor at a small-town church in Gatesville, TX. I graduated from Truett seminary in 2010. My wife is an elementary school teacher, and we are expecting our first child, Emily Grace, next week. I've enjoyed reading all of your posts. Thanks for letting me share mine! If you'd like to read more, I try to keep a blog updated at http://boastingweakness.blogspot.com/.


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The APE Project is 100 % Open Source and FREE for commercial and non-commercial use, released under the GNU Public Licence version 2. We want to contribute to a better web by sharing our technologies.
APE works with all of the Internet browsers, it is cross-platform and cross-subdomain. It works on mobile devices, smartphones, video game platforms, as long as they include a web browser.
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text: How to transfer/move all your Email from Hotmail (or Yahoo!) to Gmail June 23, '04 Comments [29] Posted in Bugs Sponsored By If you enjoyed this post, or this blog, please make a secure tax-deductable donation to the American Diabetes Association. Please read my personal story about life as a diabetic and donate today. I was lucky today and a friend offered me a Gmail invite (Gmail being Google's 1 gig Free Email BETA if you've been living in a cave without wireless). I don't need a Gmail account but the wife digs web-based email and suffers with a 1 meg Hotmail account. She's constantly deleting emails trying to stay under the limit. (and she's too cheap to pay for more storage :) ) But, how to move all her Hotmail stuff (several hundred emails) over to Gmail? If I can't move them, she'll hardly find the service useful. So... Download Eudora, and install the Sponsored version. Why Eudora and not Outlook or Thunderbird? Because you'll want to REDIRECT the emails that come in from Hotmail, NOT FORWARD THEM. If you just Forward them, they'll all look like they came from you! You want to hang on to the FROM and the TO. Eudora is the easiest and most available email client to do this. (Yes, I was surprised Thunderbird doesn't - it's been a bug for a while) Download Hotmail Popper.UPDATE: If you have Yahoo! then you can use YPOPs which does the same thing! This little gem sits in your tray and creates a localhost POP server that bridges to your Hotmail account. Note: Make sure you check Retrieve messages from folders other than Inbox or you won't get all your Hotmail! Create a REDIRECT Filter that grabs all incoming mail. Make a filter like this. Mine says match all mail the DOESN'T contain this nonsense word (which is all mail) and REDIRECTS it to the wife's gmail.com account. Note: Turn off IMMEDIATE SEND in Eudora, we'll want to QUEUE the mails, as we need to change the outgoing SMTP (can't be Hotmail!) Get the Mail. Now, in Eudora, make and account like this: Important: Make sure you check LEAVE MAIL ON SERVER under "Incoming Mail" so you don't delete all the messages in your Hotmail Account. At this point, you should have downloaded all the email from Hotmail, and all the same messages should be in the Eudora Outbox ready to send. Remember, we have to Redirect the emails, so we'll need access to an SMTP server that supports REDIRECTS. Make sure you have one, or know of one you can use. I have my hanselman.com one, but it's SMTP (outgoing mail) requires Authentication as all good SMTP servers should. Send (Redirect) the Mail to Gmail. Important: First, change login name in the Checking Mail option (see above) to the name required for your Outgoing SMTP server. That's the name that is used when sending! It WILL be different than your Hotmail name. TIP: Have any Gmail Filters that you might wanted applied to incoming messages setup BEFORE you do the big "export/import." Otherwise you'll have to Search and Apply Label later. Now, in the Sending Mail option set your return mail address to your new Gmail.com account. (That way your Redirects will list you as the "On Behalf Of" name) Enter your SMTP Server, and select Immediate Send. Now, from the Eudora File Menu, select "Send Queued Messages" - this will send them with the new SMTP authentication info as REDIRECTS. Enjoy your new, fully populated - from Hotmail - Gmail account! Spread the word! Optionally: Uninstall Eudora, Hotmail Popper, and instruct Eudora to delete the local email store. « Be aware of your DLLs and who's loading ... | Blog Home | A multi-request-safe ViewState Persister... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [29] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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We talk a lot about "greening" your lifestyle by dropping unnecessary habits like bottled water. But, perhaps you're wondering about some other ways to live a more eco-conscious life. Using more efficient air and water filters is just one step in building an eco-friendly home. Erick, a writer for San Diego custom home builders, Murray Lampert construction, shares with us a few more simple, and fairly inexpensive things you can do to reduce your home's carbon footprint:
The Simple Stuff
Recycling – One of the easiest ways to help green your home is to start recycling. It's simple, and most communities today offer recycling services to their residents. All you have to do is set up a recycling system with your family. Label different containers for the various recyclable waste products instead of throwing them all together in the trash. Recycling is also a great way to get children involved in eco-friendly practices and to help them learn about environmental issues and ways to live healthier, more eco-conscious lives. Recycling with your kids gives you a chance to explain to them how decreasing the amount of wastes in landfills helps the planet.
Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs – Another simple way to make your house greener is to save on energy by changing your light bulbs. Replace those old incandescent light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs. They're inexpensive and will make a difference in your monthly energy bill.
New Hot Water Heaters – You can also save power by switching from conventional hot water heaters to solar hot water heaters or on-demand tankless water heaters.
Shower Heads – Conventional shower heads can waste a lot of water. Switching your old shower heads to pressurized and low-flow alternatives can save you gallons of water per day and will make a huge difference in your monthly utility bills. A low flow shower head typically uses about 2.5 gallons per minute or less, as opposed to 6 GPM from old shower heads. Filtering your shower water can also help you maintain a healthier home, as it removes toxic chlorine from your water supply. Most Sprite filtered shower heads are low-flow.
Optimize Water Use – Another good way to save water is to place containers outside to capture rainwater to use for garden irrigation. You can also save your shower's "gray water" and use it to irrigate your garden as well.
Eco-Friendly Landscaping
Landscaping your yard or garden with local, native plants is a great way to make your home more eco-friendly. Because native plants are acclimated to the local ecosystem, they'll grow without much soil amendment. This means less pesticides and artificial fertilizers that harm the environment. Visit your local nursery to learn more about native landscaping options.
Eco-Friendly Home Building
Next time you're planning a home remodeling project, look for remodeling companies that have LEED certification, or some other type of government green building certification. Most eco-friendly builders use natural products that don't contain harmful chemicals. These will not only help the environment, but will make your home safer and healthier for your family.
To learn more about other eco-friendly ways to remodel your home, shop around with various local home builders and remodeling companies for advice, and don't be afraid to ask questions.


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Russia only now enters the most difficult period of crisis, expert says
The most difficult period of the crisis, caused by the coronavirus pandemic, is just beginning in Russia, Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich said on Tuesday, APA reports citing TASS.
According to him, small and medium-sized businesses will have the most difficult time.
He added that the last two or three months, small and medium-sized businesses simply waited and expected the best, now such companies will gradually begin to close, and a series of considerable problems will gradually begin. At the same time, large companies, according to Dvorkovich, will gradually increase production by the end of summer - early fall, but they will still be very far from pre-crisis levels.
"It means that the problems are not decreasing, they will just become a little less noticeable at the moment. However, big problems will accumulate, and, therefore, the crisis will not go away. Unfortunately, in many industries this means that individual players will leave the market, the most successful will further consolidate and survive," Dvorkovich said. According to him, the government is doing a lot to support business, but inevitably there will have to be priorities.
Other news
Lukashenko: "Backbone of these so-called protests are people with the criminal past and currently unemployed people"
Russian COVID-19 vaccine recommended for people from 18 to 60 years old, Health official says
Russian Health Minister: "Within two weeks, the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine will be released"
Nuclear powers should once again declare inadmissibility of nuclear war — Lavrov
Date of UN Security Council's P5 summit yet to be set, preparations underway — Lavrov
Moscow to insist on soonest release of Russian journalists in Belarus, Lavrov says
Russian FM Lavrov and his German counterpart Maas hold press conference in Moscow
Brazil may begin production of Russian COVID-19 vaccine in late 2021
Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez says contracted COVID-19
Oil edges lower after jump on U.S. stocks draw
Congress is quietly blocking arms sales to Turkey
Pompeo says US may Impose sanctions on Belarus as protests in country continue
Saudi Arabian King Salman arrives in NEOM for rest and relaxation: state news agency
Greece records new high in coronavirus cases
Astronomers spot galaxy similar to Milky Way in early universe
Turkey to reopen schools from Sept. 21
Pompeo says he warned Lavrov against offering bounties for U.S. soldiers
Turkey registers 1,212 new cases of COVID-19
Deputy Foreign Minister: "I was not summoned for investigation"
Three people die in Scottish train derailment, carriages piled up
Minister of National Defense of Turkey Hulusi Akar arrives in Azerbaijan
OPEC: Global GDP to contract 4% in 2020
Kazakhstan to resume international flights since Aug 17
Uzbekistan to start lifting lockdown from Saturday
Pompeo: China paranoid about free societies
Jordan to close border with Syria after spike in COVID-19 cases
Azerbaijani President approves amendments to state budget for 2020
Switzerland to allow mass public events from October
Russian ex-PM Medvedev: US trying to use Internet as its fiefdom
OPEC: Global oil demand to drop by 9.1M bpd in 2020
OPEC didn't change forecast for oil production in Azerbaijan during this year
Lukashenko: "Backbone of these so-called protests are people with the criminal past and currently unemployed people"
New Zealand delays dissolving parliament ahead of planned election due to COVID-19 outbreak
Russian COVID-19 vaccine recommended for people from 18 to 60 years old, Health official says
Afghan president recalls ambassador to Russia
Coronavirus tests conducted in Azerbaijan exceed 800.000
Number of confirmed coronavirus cases reaches 33,824 in Azerbaijan, 497 deaths
Videoconference with participation of delegation arrived from China held at Azerbaijan's New Clinic
Azerbaijan documents 202 recoveries, 93 fresh coronavirus cases, 2 deaths in the last 24 hours
Train derails with 'one person dead' and serious injuries reported in Scotland
WHO: Other countries continue to hold clinical tests over candidate vaccines
TABIB: Serology tests in fight against coronavius to be performed in Azerbaijan
Assistant to President: "Armenia's speaking on democracy and human rights is ridiculous"
Composition of Supervisory Board of Azerbaijan Investment Holding approved
Assistant to President: "While getting acquainted with new National Security Strategy of Armenia, it becomes clear that provocation in Tovuz is purposeful"
Hikmat Hajiyev: "Armenia is not interested in negotiations, tries to strengthen the occupation"
Assistant to President: "Metsamor nuclear power plant first of all, is a source of great danger for Armenia itself "
Hikmat Hajiyev: "Many Armenians fearing confrontation with Azerbaijan leave Armenia"
President Ilham Aliyev viewed new TX London taxis delivered to Baku
Hikmat Hajiyev: "As if Armenia is master of CSTO and will give lessons to its other members"
Hikmat Hajiyev: "It turns out that this is not National Security Strategy of Armenia but Pashinyan government, which receives money from Soros Foundation"
Assistant to President: Open hatred against Azerbaijanis indoctrinated in Armenia
Assistant to Azerbaijani President: Armenian Diaspora creates obstacles to the settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict
Hikmet Hajiyev: "Armenia's new National Security Strategy recognizing illegal regime as "free country" is serious damage to negotiations"
Hikmat Hajiyev: "Armenia that is based on mythical history once again demonstrates that it cannot live in peace with its neighbors"
Rouhani: US to become isolated in bid to extend Iran arms embargo
Brussels makes face masks compulsory in all public spaces as COVID-19 cases spike
Azerbaijani-Turkish Exercises continue with the participation of units of the Land Forces - VIDEO
Fire at gas station in Russia's Volgograd leaves 13 people injured - VIDEO
Azerbaijani and Turkish Air Force fighters carried out training flights - VIDEO
"TurAz Qartalı - 2020" Exercises continue with the participation of helicopters - VIDEO
Azerbaijani MP suggests to establish shelters for beggars
Azerbaijan commemorates Khojaly genocide - PHOTOSESSION
14 years pass since establishment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations: They always come to your aid in any difficult moments - PHOTOSESSION - VIDEO
First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva attended opening ceremony of rebuilt Azerbaijan pavilion at Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow - UPDATED
Open Doors Day and the military oath-taking ceremony were held on the occasion of the State Flag Day
Azerbaijan's Task Force adopts another package of measures to ease strict quarantine regime
Indian PM to inaugurate submarine cable connectivity to Andaman & Nicobar Islands 10th August


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The Silver Pigeon III over-under hunting shotgun is the mid-level offering of the Beretta Silver Pigeon line.
It has all the benefits of the Silver Pigeon I plus more extensive game engraving and a stock oval for the owner's initials, while not featuring the gold inlays of the Silver Pigeon V. Weighing only about 7 lbs, it handles wonderfully as a game gun while not being too light for a long session at the clay range. It is available in 12 and 20 gauge, or in 28 gauge with a petite scaled frame.
The Silver Pigeon is built on the legendary 687 action, a long-standing favorite among hunters and competitive shooters. It features two conical locking lugs at mid-action, right between the barrels, giving it great locking strength and durability while keeping the action's profile considerably lower. The advantage is that the eye of the shooter is a lot closer to the plane of his supporting hand, resulting in a considerably better swing and hand-eye coordination.
Available with 26" or 28" barrels, the Silver Pigeon III is a shotgun designed to last several lifetimes in spite of its lightness and fast handling. The chrome-moly cold-hammer forged barrels of the Silver Pigeon III are designed to take the punishment of heavy hunting loads without compromising in shot pattern and durability. Also, the forcing cone is elongated to provide less shot deformation and recoil, while the MobilChoke system is further designed to resist stress and ensure durability.
Something that never fails to impress about the Silver Pigeon III are its premium looks. The game scene on the receiver is rich and full of artistic details, while the trigger guard and top lever are embellished with a tasteful scroll. The select walnut stock features a super-crisp checkering pattern that affords a positive grip while further enhancing the elegance of this shotgun. And the perfect proportions and unmistakable Beretta lines won't fail to turn heads at the range, even from a distance.
Also take a look at the 687 Silver Pigeon V, a field shotgun similar to the Silver Pigeon III, but further embellished with a color-case finished receiver featuring a gold-inlayed game scene.
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For decades, the 687 receiver has been hailed as a paragon of proportion and design. It is engineered to be as strong as a vault thanks to its dual conical locking lugs positioned at mid-height, thereby saving inches and material at the top. A low profile receiver ensures that the barrel axis is as close as possible to the supporting hand. The result: look, point, hit.
The 687 Silver Pigeon III is equipped with a schnabel-style fore-end, giving it that touch of European finesse that will always make it stand out.
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The 687 Silver Pigeon III features a classic and intricate scroll/game scene design, which is inspired by both the English and the European gunmaking schools. It feels rich and crisp both to the eye and the touch, further enhancing the experience-value of this perfectly proportioned gun.
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"Far more than merely a soccer book, The Beckham Experiment brilliantly explores-and exposes-that odd place where sports and celebrity collide. David Beckham's American odyssey is often too bizarre to believe, and Grant Wahl captures it all with uncommon depth, precision and insight. Forget Beckham-Wahl is the Pele of soccer writers. A brilliant book."
—Jeff Pearlman, author of Boys Will Be Boys
"In The Beckham Experiment,Grant Wahl has done a wonderful job of explaining to soccer fans–and, perhaps just as importantly to non-soccer fans–the worldwide phenomenon that is David Beckham. The reporting and the writing are all there and the story is a terrific read, whether one thinks of Beckham as one of the world's great athletes or as Posh Spice's husband."
—John Feinstein, author of Change-Up: Mystery at The World Series
"It's not behind-the-scenes access: It's what you do with it. Grant Wahl knows his soccer, but mostly, he knows a great story, at turns funny, sad, bizarre and, yeah, occasionally a little juicy. If the best thing that came out of Beckham coming to America was this book, I'd say it was a fair trade."
—Will Leitch, author of God Save The Fan, contributing editor New York magazine, founder Deadspin.com
"David Beckham is more than a gifted player. He is a multinational conglomerate. And, in Grant Wahl's extraordinary telling, his sojourn through Los Angeles makes for a gripping tale about the business of sports and the growth pangs of American soccer."
—Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World
"This is a riveting, highly entertaining book about the world's most famous athlete, and his attempt to conquer America with his skill, charm and amazing good looks, none of which have any effect on my wife, at least according to her."
—Dave Barry, Humor writer and winner of 38 World Cups
"Forget the underwear ads. Forget the movie. Want to know about the world's most famous athlete and his impact on the world around him? Let Grant Wahl show you. For more than a decade, observers have banged their heads bloody trying to penetrate the Beckham phenomenon. Now, having barreled through the crack created by Captain Galaxy's fish-out-of-water foray into America, Wahl reveals the strange welter of celebrity, sport and mind-boggling obliviousness lying at its core. Jobs lost, careers ruined, franchises and leagues bowing to the man's every whim: The ripple effects caused by Beckham's arrival in Los Angeles are unlike anything seen in sports in years. Armed with unparalleled access and tapping into the lacerating candor of those closest to the now-sputtering experiment, Wahl raises the bar on what to expect from a sports book. For anyone looking to expose the backstage workings of an American team and league — not to mention the cross-pollination of pop-culture and sports — here's the new model: Write It Like Wahl."
—S.L. Price, author of Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America
"We can quibble about whether or not the actual "Beckham experiment" has been a smashing success, but Grant Wahl's account – as well-written as it is well-reported – is an unqualified triumph. The "Becks" cultists will devour this; but so will those of us who simply like a damn good sports book."
—L. Jon Wertheim, Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played
"I can't believe I enjoyed a book about soccer."
—Rick Reilly, ESPN Columnist
"Grant Wahl crafts a bounty of insider details and vivid character portraits to provide a keyhole's view into the 'Beckham experiment.' He reveals the Beckham beneath the stagecraft and photo shoots as the world's most famous athlete is forced to confront the locker-room class struggles in a cost-conscious league. With great care, Wahl unveils a book ribboned by humorous accounts and moments of disillusionment, conflict and drama, all surfacing when a humble MLS team finds itself taken over by Brand Beckham."
—Selena Roberts, author of A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez
"The Beckham experiment failed miserably, but The Beckham Experiment succeeds as an engaging peek into the weird worlds of Beckhamania and U.S. soccer. Grant Wahl, the country's best writer on the sport, may even convince all those who played soccer as kids to remember why they loved the game."
—Frank Deford, author of The Entitled


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CIN - 000 000 000 - 0 0 1Halladay (9-0-0-1-8, 104) became the fifth pitcher in baseball history to throw two no-hitters in one season -- and the first to have one in the regular season and one in the playoffs. The only baserunner was a two-out walk to Jay Bruce in the fifth inning.
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Don Larsen's perfect game for the Yankees against the Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series was the only post-season no-hitter until today.
Earlier this afternoon, Cliff Lee (7-5-1-0-10, 104) shut down the Rays and the Rangers won 5-1. ... The Yankees beat the Twins 6-4.
And it took only until the bottom of the first inning of the first game of the post-season for the first questionable (or wrong) call from an umpire.


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