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Paul L. Harris
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education
Paul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition, emotion, and imagination. His most recent book, Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others, will be published by Harvard University Press in May 2012. This book discusses how far children rely on their own firsthand observation or alternatively trust what other people tell them especially when they confront a domain of knowledge in which firsthand observation is difficult. For example, many aspects of history, science, and religion concern events that children cannot easily observe for themselves. How far do children believe what they are told about these domains? When and how do they become aware of the conflicting claims made by science as compared with religion?
- Ph.D., Oxford University
- Harris, P.L. (2007). Hard work for the imagination. In A. Gönçü & S. Haskins (Eds.). Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural and Functional Perspectives. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (2007)
- Harris, P.L. (2007). Trust. Developmental Science, 10, 135-138. (2007)
- Pasquini, E.S., Corriveau, K., Koenig, M., & Harris, P.L. (2007). Preschoolers monitor the relative accuracy of informants. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1216-12. (2007)
- Pons, F., de Rosnay, M. Doudin, P-A., Harris, P.L. & De Stasio, S. (2007). Comprensione sociale ed emotiva nei bambini. In M. Pinelli & C. Trubini (Eds.). Metcognizione, Emozioni e Teoria della Mente. Parma, Italy: Uni.Nova. (2007)
- Harris, P. L. & Astuti, R. (2006). Learning that there is life after death. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 475-476. (2006)
- Harris, P. L. & Duke, Suzanne (2006). Understanding the flow of thoughts and feelings. In M. Schleifer, C. Martiny (Eds.). Talking to children about responsibility and control of emotions. Calgary, AB, Canada: Detselig Enterprises, pp. 95-117. (2006)
- Harris, P.L. & Koenig, M. (2006). Trust in testimony: How children learn about science and religion. Child Development, 77, 505-524. (2006)
- Harris, P.L. (2006). Commentary: Use your words. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24, 253-261. (2006)
- Harris, P.L. (2006). Its probably good to talk. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 158-164. (2006)
- Harris, P.L. (2006). Social cognition. In W. Damon, R. Lerner, D. Kuhn & R. Siegler (Eds.). Handbook of Child Psychology, Volume 2: Cognition, Perception and Language, 6th edition, pp. 811-858. New York: John Wiley. (2006)
- Harris, P.L., Pasquini, E.S., Duke, S., Asscher, J.J. & Pons, F. (2006). Germs and angels: The role of testimony in young childrens ontology. Developmental Science, 9, 76-96. (2006)
- Pons, F. de Rosnay, M., Doudin, P-A, Harris, P.L. & Cuisinier, F. (2006). Emotion understanding as a reflective emotional competence: Between experiences and symbols. In F. Pons, M-F. Daniel, L. Lafortune, P-A. Doudin & O. Albanese (2006). Toward Emotional Competences. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. (2006)
- Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Harris, P.L., & de Rosnay, M. (2006). Helping children to improve their emotion comprehension. In F. Pons, D. Hancock, L. Lafortune & P.-A. Doudin (Eds.), Emotions in learning. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. (2006)
- Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2006). Betydningen af barnets sprog og familiens samtaleaktiviteter for barnets Theory of Mind. In C. Jantzen & T. Thellefsen (Eds.) . Videnskabelig BegrebsdannelseU. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. (2006)
- Richert, R. A., & Harris, P. L. (2006). The ghost in my body: Childrens developing concept of the soul. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 409-427. (2006)
- Corriveau, K., Pasquini, E.S., & Harris, P.L. (2005). If its in your mind, its in your knowledge: Childrens developing anatomy of identity. Cognitive Development, 20, 321-340. (2005)
- Dias, M., Roazzi, A. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Reasoning from unfamiliar premises: A study with unschooled adults. Psychological Science, 16, 550-554. (2005)
- Dias, M.G., Roazzi, A., OBrien, P. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Logical reasoning and fantasy contexts: Eliminating differences between children with and without experience in school. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 39, 13-22. (2005)
- Giménez-Dasí, M, Guerrero, S. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Intimations of immortality and omniscience in early childhood. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2, 285-297. (2005)
- Harris, P.L. & Giménez, M. (2005). Childrens acceptance of conflicting testimony: The case of death. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, 143-164. (2005)
- Harris, P.L. & Want, S. (2005). On learning what not to do: The emergence of selective imitation in tool use by young children. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 2, pp. 149-162. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (2005)
- Harris, P.L. (2005). Conversation, pretence, and theory of mind. In J.W. Astington and J. Baird (Eds.). Why language matters for theory of mind. New York: Oxford University Press. (2005)
- Harris, P.L. (2005). Grasping action. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 2, pp 173-178. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (2005)
- Harris, P.L., de Rosnay, M. & Pons, F. (2005). Language and childrens understanding of mental states. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 69-73. (2005)
- Houston-Price, C., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Word learning wizardry at 1;6. Journal of Child Language, 32, 175-189 (2005)
- Koenig, M. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Preschoolers mistrust ignorant and inaccurate speakers. Child Development, 76, 1261-1277. (2005)
- Koenig, M. & Harris, P.L. (2005). The role of social cognition in early trust. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 457-459. (2005)
- Pons, F. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Longitudinal change and longitudinal stability of individual differences in children's emotion understanding. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 1158-1174. (2005)
- Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Harris, P.L., & de Rosnay (2005). La compréhension des émotions (Understanding emotions). In L. Lafortune, M.-F. Daniel, P.-A. Doudin, F. Pons & O. Albanese (Eds.), Pédagogie et psychologie des émotions, pp. 183-206. Sainte-Foy: Presses de lUniversité du Québec. (2005)
- Clément, F., Koenig, M., & Harris, P.L. (2004). The ontogenesis of trust in testimony. Mind and Language, 19, 360-379. (2004)
- De Rosnay, M., Pons, F., Harris, P.L., & Morrell, J.M.B. (2004). A lag between understanding false belief and emotion attribution in young children: relationships with linguistic ability and mothers mental state language. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 197-218. (2004)
- Harris, P.L. (2004). Pretending to be someone else. In L.A. Leavitt & D.M.B. Hall (Eds.), Social and moral development: Emerging evidence on the toddler years, pp. 185-199. Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute. (2004)
- Koenig, M., Clément, F. & Harris, P.L. (2004). Trust in Testimony: Children's use of true and false statements. Psychological Science, 10, 694-698. (2004)
- Meints, K., Plunkett, K., Harris, P.L. & Dimmock, D. (2004). The cow on the high street: effects of background context on early naming. Cognitive Development, 19, 275-290. (2004)
- Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., & Harris, P.L. (2004). La compréhension des émotions: développement, différences individuelles, causes et interventions (Understanding emotion: development, individual differences, causes and interventions). In L. Lafortune, P.-A. Doudin, F. Pons & D. R. Hancock (Eds.), Les émotions à lécole (pp. 6-31). Sainte-Foy: Presses de lUniversité du Québec. (2004)
- Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Martin, D., Lafortune, L., & Harris, P.L. (2004). Psychogenèse de la conscience et pensée réflexive. In R. Pallascio, M.-F. Daniel & L. Lafortune (Eds.), Pensée et réflexivité, pp. 13-36. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec. (2004)
- Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2004). Emotion comprehension between 3 and 11 years: Developmental periods and hierarchical organization. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1, 127-152. (2004)
- Tenenbaum, H. R., Visscher,P., Pons,F. & Harris, P.L. (2004). Emotional understanding in Quechua children from an agro-pastoralist village. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 28, 471-478. (2004)
- Harris, P.L. & Pons, F. (2003). Perspectives actuelles sur le développement de la compréhension des émotions chez lenfant. (Contemporary perspectives on the development of childrens understanding of emotion). In J-M Colletta & A. Tcherkassof (Eds.) Les émotions: Cognition, Langage et développement, pp. 209-228. Sprimont: Pierre Mardaga. (2003)
- Harris, P.L. (2003). Les dieux, les ancêtres et les enfants (Gods, ancestors and children). Terrain, 40, 81-98. (2003)
- Pons, F., Lawson, J. Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2003). Individual differences in childrens emotion understanding: Effects of age and language. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 44, 347-353. (2003)
- De Rosnay, M. & Harris, P.L. (2002). Individual differences in childrens understanding of emotion: The role of attachment. Attachment and Human Development, 4, 39-54. (2002)
- Giménez, M. & Harris, P.L. (2002). Understanding constraints on inheritance: Evidence for biological thinking in early childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 307-324. (2002)
- Harris, P.L. (2002). Checking our sources: the origins of trust in testimony. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33, 315-333. (2002)
- Harris, P.L. (2002). Penser à ce qui aurait pu se produire. (Thinking about what could have happened). Enfance, 54, 223-239. (2002)
- Harris, P.L. (2002). What do children learn from testimony? In P. Carruthers, S. P. Stich & M. Siegal (Eds.). The cognitive basis of science, (pp. 316-334). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2002)
- Meints, K, Plunkett, K., Harris, P.L. & Dimmock, D. (2002). What is on and under for 15-, 18- and 24-month-olds? Typicality effects in early comprehension of spatial prepositions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 113-130. (2002)
- Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Harris, P.L., & de Rosnay, M. (2002). Métaémotion et intégration scolaire. In L. Lafortune & P. Mongeau (Eds.), L'affectivité dans l'apprentissage (pp. 7-28). Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec. (2002)
- Pons, F., Harris, P.L., & Doudin, P-A. (2002). Teaching emotion understanding. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 17, 293-304. (2002)
- Want, S.C. & Harris, P.L. (2002). Compounding some problems and dissolving others. Developmental Science, 5, 39-41. (2002)
- Want, S.C. & Harris, P.L. (2002). How do children ape? Applying concepts from the study of non-human primates to the developmental study of imitation in children. Developmental Science, 5, 1-13. (2002)
- Figueras-Costa, B. & Harris, P.L. (2001). Theory of mind in deaf children: A non-verbal test of false belief understanding. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 6:2, 92-102. (2001)
- Harris, P.L. (2001). The veridicality assumption. Mind and Language, 16, 247-262. (2001)
- Harris, P.L. (2001). Thinking about the unknown. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 494-498. (2001)
- Harris, P.L., Núñez, M. & Brett, C. (2001). Lets swap: Early understanding of social exchange by British and Nepali children. Memory and Cognition, 29, 757-764. (2001)
- Pons, F. & Harris, P.L. (2001). Piagets conception of the development of consciousness: An examination of two hypotheses. Human Development, 44, 220-227. (2001)
- Want, S. C. & Harris, P.L. (2001). Learning from other peoples mistakes: Causal understanding in learning to use a tool. Child Development, 72, 431-443. (2001)
- Harris, P. L. (2000). On not falling down to earth: Childrens metaphysical questions. In R. Rosengren, C. Johnson & P.L. Harris (Eds.). Imagining the impossible: Magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children. New York: Cambridge University Press. (2000)
- Harris, P.L. & Leevers, H. (2000). Pretending, imagery and self-awareness in autism. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg & D. Cohen (Eds.). Understanding other minds: Perspectives from autism and cognitive neuroscience (2nd edition), pp.182-202. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2000)
- Harris, P.L. (2000). The work of the imagination. Oxford: Blackwell (2000)
- Harris, P.L. (2000). Understanding emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.). Handbook of emotions (2nd edition). New York: Guildford Press. (2000)
- Harris, P.L., & Leevers, H.J. (2000). Reasoning from false premises. In P. Mitchell & K. Riggs (Eds.), Childrens reasoning and the mind (pp. 67-86). Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press. (2000)
- Leevers, H. & Harris, P.L. (2000). Counterfactual syllogistic reasoning in normal 4-year-olds, children with learning disabilities, and children with autism. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 76, 64-87. (2000)
- Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2000). La compréhension des émotions chez lenfant. Psychoscope, 9, 30-32. (2000)
- Rall, J. & Harris, P.L. (2000). In Cinderellas slippers? Story comprehension from the protagonists point-of-view. Developmental Psychology, 36, 202-208. (2000)
- Rosengren, K, Johnson, C. & Harris, P.L. (2000). (Eds.). Imagining the impossible: Magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children. New York: Cambridge University Press (2000)
- Harris, P.L. (1999). Acquiring the art of conversation: Childrens developing conception of their conversation partner. In M. Bennett (Ed.) Developmental Psychology: Achievements and prospects. London: Psychology Press. (1999)
- Harris, P.L. (1999). Individual differences in understanding emotion: the role of attachment status and psychological discourse. Attachment and Human Development, 1, 307-324. (1999)
- Kavanaugh, R.D. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Pretense and counterfactual thought in young children. In L. Balter & C.S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child psychology: A handbook of contemporary issues (pp. 158-176). Philadelphia: Psychology Press. (1999)
- Leevers, H. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Persisting effects of instruction on young childrens syllogistic reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 5, 145-173. (1999)
- Mareschal, D., Harris, P.L. & Plunkett, K. (1999). A computational and neuropsychological account of object-oriented behaviours in infancy. Developmental Science, 2, 306-317. (1999)
- Meerum Terwogt, M., Rieffe, C. Tuijn, A.H., Harris, P.L. & Mant, I. (1999). Childrens spontaneous correction of false beliefs in a conversation partner. International Journal of Behavioural Development, 23, 113-124. (1999)
- Meints, K., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (1999). When does an ostrich become a bird? The role of typicality in early word comprehension. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1072-1078. (1999)
- Polak, A. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Deception by young children following noncompliance. Developmental Psychology, 35, 561-568. (1999)
- Schafer, G., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Whats in a name? Lexical knowledge drives infants visual preferences in the absence of referential input. Developmental Science, 2, 187-194. (1999)
- Harris, P.L. (1998). Feeling happy, feeling sad: How young children talk about and hide emotion. Karger Gazette, No. 62, 1-3 (1998)
- Harris, P.L. (1998). Fictional absorption: emotional responses to make-believe. In S. Bråten (Ed.) Intersubjective communication and emotion in early ontogeny, pp. 336-353. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1998)
- Harris, P.L. (1998). Mimesis, imagination and role-play. In C. Renfrew and C. Scarre (Eds.) Cognition and material culture: The archaeology of symbolic storage. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. (1998)
- Leevers, H. & Harris, P.L. (1998). Drawing impossible entities: A measure of the imagination in children with autism, children with learning difficulties, and normal four-year-old children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 399-410. (1998)
- Núñez, M. & Harris, P.L. (1998). Psychological and deontic concepts: Separate domains or intimate connection? Mind and Language, 13, 153-170. (1998)
- American Psychological Association: Mentor Award in Developmental Psychology (2015)
- American Psychological Association: Eleanor Maccoby Book Award. (2014)
- Cognitive Development Society Book award (2013)
- Morningstar Teaching Award, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2010)
- William Thierry Preyer Award: European Society for Developmental Psychology (2009)
- Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Gugenheim Memorial Foundation (2005)
- Emeritus Fellow, St John's College (Oxford) (2001)
- Research Readership, British Academy (2000)
- Elected Fellow, British Academy (1998)
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1992)
- British Academy (1998-present)
- Elected as foreign member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2006-present)
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Planck-Institut fur evolutionare Anthropologie (Leipzig) (2001-2006)
- Editorial Board, Child Development (2000-2001)
- Editorial Board, Human Development (1995-2001)
- Editor, British Journal of Developmental Psychology (1994-1997)
sponsored projects
- DIP: Collaborative Research: Social Robots as Mechanisms for Language Instruction, Interaction, and Evaluation in Pre-School Children, National Science Foundation, (2011-2016)
This is a collaborative proposal involving three PIs: Paul Harris (Professor of Education, HGSE), Cythia Breazal (Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences MIT) and David DeSteno (Associate Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University). Recent developments in robotics at MIT (and elsewhere) make it possible to present young children with robots that respond in a quasi-human, contingent fashion to them. To the extent that young children willingly engage with such robots, treating them as responsive interlocutors and informants, it is feasible to ask whether children will be willing to learn from them. The current proposal is deigned to answer this basic question. The work will involve three Phases. In Phase 1, iterative changes to the robot's non-verbal repertoire will be made so as to identify those characteristics that make the robbot attractive and worthy of sustained interaction by young children. In Phase 2, we will ask how well the winning robot in Phase 1 compares with a human speaker as a source for the rapid learning of new vocabulary. In Phase 3, we will extend this comparison by asking whether the winning robot is as effective as a human speaker in signaling the meaning of new vocabulary items via (i) non-verbal indices of attention to a given object and (ii) non-verbal indices of goal satisfaction. In Phase 4, we will ask whether the results obtained in Phase 3 can be replicated when the robot operator uses web-based connections, to communicate through a robot that interacts with the child when they both are in an environment (e.g. the childs home or another preschool) that is remote from the operator. Finally, in Phase 5, we will examine the impact of variations in the robots verbal repertoire that are likely to make it more or less trusted as an informant by children from particular language backgrounds. The role of Paul Harris will be to help to design, analyze and write-up the experiments connected with each phase of the project. Children aged 3-4 years will be included in each phase.
- Creating Communities of Learners for Informal Cognitive Science Education, National Science Foundation, (2011-2016)
The principal investigator, Paul Harris, will be supervising the participation of an HGSE doctoral student in the project Creating Communities of Learners for Informal Cognitive Science Education. Hitherto, several of my doctoral students have been given permission to recruit and test children at the Museum of Science. The Museum has hosted students from several institutions in this fashion. They now seek funding from NSF to support a stable cohort of such students whose duties will involve the training of a new generation of graduate researchers to work in the museum; the presentation of information on ongoing research to museum educators and interested parents; the tracking of participation by children and families in such research initiatives. The PIs role will be to identify a suitable graduate student from among my doctoral advisees for this role and to serve a continuing role as advisor to that student, especially in connection with research projects conducted at the museum. Dr. Harris will serve on an as needed basis and will not need compensation for his work.
- Ritual, community and conflict, United Kingdom ESRC , (2011-2016)
Paul Harris will collaborate with two other co-investigators, Professor Harvey Whitehouse, an anthropologist at Oxford University and Professor Cristine Legare a developmental psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin to investigate childrens understanding of, and participation in, ritualistic behavior. Following up recent findings on the development of imitation in early childhood, we will examine the cues that children use to selectively imitate (i.e. copy or mimic the entire act) versus emulate (i.e. reproduce the effect or perceived intention) ritualized action sequences. We will also examine the underlying cognitive prerequisites and learning processes that can lead children to regard a ritual as mandatory and unchangeable. Paul Harris will contribute in three ways to the project. First, as a developmental psychologist with a long experience of experimental work, he will collaborate in the design of experiments with young children that aim to analyze how they interpret and reproduce ritualized behaviors both those that they are already familiar with as well as novel rituals. Second, he will collaborate in the analysis and publication of those experiments in scholarly journals. Third, in the final period of the project, he will serve as a co-author (with Professors Whitehouse and Legare) of a book that reviews the key empirical findings from the project and assesses their implications. The book will be aimed at an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, psychologists and political scientists. For more information please see the Ritual, Community and Conflict Project - Project Overview. PROJECT WEBSITE
curriculum vitae (PDF)
news stories
The 2012 Founder's Lecture on Imagination and Testimony: Trusting What Youre Told at St. Johns College, Oxford
Mindshapes: Bringing Learning to Life through Apps and Play, describes how Professor Paul Harris advises the interactive learning company Mindshapes on incorporating educational principles into the development of websites and apps for young children
Professor Paul Harris Wins Preyer Award
Harris Elected to the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Building and Understanding the Emotional World of Children, an interview with Paul Harris about his research dealing with ways in which children use their imagination
Who Needs Imagination? - An interview with Paul Harris about the use of imagination in everyday life.


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MARYLAND HEIGHTS – The hugs, kisses, tears, and high-fives were overflowing Thursday night at Pattonville High School, as the Pirate community hosted "Senior Night" in honor of the graduating class of the girls basketball, drill team, and cheerleading squads.
A packed house of Pattonville friends and family proved once again that nobody knows how to throw a "Senior Night" party like the Pirates.
And that was before the game even started.
Once the action actually began on the court, things only got better for Pattonville, which claimed its first Suburban North Conference girls basketball championship since 2003, with a 42-34 win over five-time defending league champ Hazelwood Central.
"It was a big win for us," Pattonville head coach Craig Gregory said. "(Hazelwood Central) has owned the conference. They've won it every year, and somebody told me they've won 37 straight games in the conference. And for us to finally beat them and win the league is just huge."
Thursday's victory also gave Gregory his first league championship as head coach of the Pirates since taking over four years ago when his current group of seniors Sam Callahan, Kristen Hanna, Christian Johnson, Mikala McGhee, and Kailey Utley were freshmen.
"It's kind of fitting I think that we did this together," Gregory said. "We all sort of started together. And our first game together was in the old Suburban North Conference tournament, and we played Hazelwood Central. And I just think it's kind of neat that we had to go through them in our last game to win (our first) championship."
Three-sport Pattonville standouts McGhee and Utley, who along with being fantastic basketball players have been top soccer and softball players as well, were key figures in the Pirates pulling out Thursday's victory.
McGhee, who'll play basketball at Missouri State University next fall, led all scorers with 15 points, including a brilliant 10-for-11 effort from the free throw line, which helped Pattonville establish control of the game, even though it was clear Hazelwood Central's strategy was to foul McGhee rather than let her shoot her usual high percentage from the field.
And Utley, the Pirates speedy point guard, who recently accepted a full scholarship to play soccer at West Virginia University, made two key steals and converted them into layups late in the fourth quarter to help hold off the Hawks.
"They both really stepped up for us again tonight," Gregory said. "Mikala was unbelievable from the line tonight. And 'Kay-Kay', that's Kailey's nickname, made two unbelievable plays at the end to help us keep the lead when Central was trying to come back."
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The Hawks had a chance to tie the game, after scoring a bucket, then forcing a Pattonville turnover with the Pirates ahead 35-32.
But Central missed on a three-point attempt, which led to an Utley one-woman fastbreak score that gave the Pirates the breathing room needed to close out the win.
The victory lifted Pattonville's overall record to 21-3, and was the team's 16th win in its last 17 games, as the Pirates get ready for the MSHSAA District playoffs, which will begin around the state on Monday.
Pattonville will be competing in Missouri Class 5 District 4 at Parkway Central High, where the Pirates have been named the No. 2 seed in a grouping that includes 16-8 Hazelwood West, 16-8 Parkway North, and 21-6 two-time defending state champ Incarnate Word.
The Pirates have a first-round bye, and will play their first district game at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 23, in the district semifinals against either Parkway North or Ritenour.
Should Pattonville win that game, it would advance to the district championship game the following night, Friday, February 24, at Parkway Central at 5:30 p.m.
Hazelwood Central, which heads to the playoffs with a 14-9 mark, is the top seed in Missouri Class 5 District 8 at McCluer High.
The Hawks also received a first-round bye, and will begin district play on Tuesday, February 21, against either Normandy or archrival Hazelwood East.
The District 8 championship game is set for Saturday, September 25, at McCluer at 2 p.m.


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Bella's Eyes Are Red In New Images From 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2'
April 26th, 2012 1:30pm EDT
The epic love story between Bella Swan (Kristen Steward) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) concludes in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," the final installment of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling series.
Summit Entertainment just released two new images from the highly anticipated film, which doesn't hit theaters until Nov. 16. One photo shows a red eyed Bella cozying up to her husband. The other shows Jacob (Taylor Lautner) with an intense look on his face.
In a teaser trailer released last month Bella says in a voiceover, "After 18 years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found I could shine." Anyone have goosebumps?
Kristen and her real-life boyfriend Robert recently headed to Vancouver, Canada, to do some techinical reshoots for the film.
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Whether you want to make a special meal for your family for supper or if you are in charge of feeding a table of 4 at your ladies luncheon this will be a meal worthy of praise.
You can prepare the baskets and filling ahead and put it all together at serving time.
2-2 ½ lb whole chicken (if you are short on time use good canned chicken)
1 T salt
1 carrot, chopped
1 stalk celery, cut in half
½ onion
Pinch of Thyme
1 bay leaf
3 springs parsley
¼ c mayo
1 T white wine vinegar
2 T minced chives
1 tsp curry powder
½ c minced apples I like to use more apples than the recipe calls for (I use green apples and leave the peel on for color)
¼ c halved grapes I like to use a mixture of green and purple or red grapes (it makes it look so nice)
½ tsp salt
1/8 tsp white pepper
Crepe baskets
Lettuce leaves
Hard boiled eggs, quartered
Sliced tomatoes
Sliced almonds
1. Put the chicken in a large pot and cover with water
2. Add salt, celery, onion, thyme, bay leaf and parsley
3. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes, or until chicken is tender
4. Remove chicken and cool
When the chicken is cook enough to handle, take off the skin and remove the meat from the bone.
1. Dice the chicken and add the mayonnaise, vinegar, chives, curry powder, apples , grapes, salt and white pepper
2. Blend together and chill
Crepe Baskets
Make the crepes according to any standard recipe.
To make baskets, one at a time, fit each crepe inside a large ladle-
1. Dip ladle into hot oil in a deep fat fryer
2. Fry them until lightly browned and crisp
3. Oil should be hot, but not smoking, so that the crepes will nicely brown but not burn
4. Set to drain on a paper towel
To serve, prepare a bed of lettuce on each of 4 plates:
1. Mound the salad mixture gently in the crepe baskets and place them on the lettuce leaves
2. Garnish each plate with sliced hard boiled eggs, sliced tomatoes and olives
3. Top with the sliced almonds
This is such a great chicken salad recipe if you dont have time to make the crepe baskets you can serve it just as a salad on a bed of lettuce. It is also great served on sliced croissants.


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That means you are another year older. And so are your parents, your grandparents and other older relatives.
Whether you see your family often or just a few times a year, you may be noticing that they aren't quite how they used to be in some ways.
It's not a pleasant holiday subject, but with all the stuff going on over the next week, it's a good time to observe your parents or other relatives for signs of Alzheimer's Disease.
The Alzheimer's Association Cleveland Area Chapter offers a list of ten warning signs of Alzheimer's. With the list, they also give examples of what is just normal aging. Check the attached PDF for the list and more information.
Some of the warning signs include decreased or poor judgment, personality and mood changes, and having trouble doing familiar things like cooking recipes they regularly make or paying bills on time.
If you have questions or concerns, or aren't sure how to handle the next steps, call the Alzheimer's Association's 24/7 hotline at 1-800-272-3900. The Alzheimer's Association Cleveland Area Chapter has offices in and Avon.
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
Joplin's police chief was given the go-ahead on Monday by the Joplin City Council to pursue discussions about merging Joplin and Jasper County 911 dispatching services.
Chief Lane Roberts told the City Council that he is proposing the merger because he believes that consolidating dispatching services would save the taxpayers money, make it safer for emergency services workers and residents and result in better service.
He said a number of incidents, as well as coordinating response to the Joplin tornado in 2011, illustrated the need for a streamlined dispatching service where all of the agencies that serve the county and cities could communicate. Currently, the agencies have different radio systems that do not permit them to talk to each other, Additionally, there is no backup system to provide dispatch services if the 911 center sustained some kind of outage. That backup could be provided by retaining Joplin's dispatching system, the chief said.
Roberts said one incident that best illustrates the shortcomings of the current dispatch system happened at a standoff where an armed man had barricaded himself in a house. Because the city and county have different radio systems that do not communicate with each other, two Joplin police officers and two Jasper County deputies responded to the call, but none knew the others were there when the man stepped out of the house and shot himself.
Under his proposal, the 911 system would contract with Joplin for dispatching. The dispatching would take place at the 911 center near Carthage with Joplin's kept as a redundant system. The service would retain it's current management by two administrators. A proposed seven-member executive committee comprised of police chiefs, the sheriff and two at-large members would set policy and procedure. A contract between the entities would spell out duties and authority.
In response to council questions, Roberts said it would take eight to 12 months to set up the agreements and accomplish a merger if the other entities approve of the proposal. He did not believe there would be much, if any, cost to the city and the current number of jobs in the city's dispatch ranks would likely be retained, though he said he would not promise that there would be no change in the number employed.


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We began designing scheduling and service dispatch
software for some specific industries over
twenty seven years ago, when our founder was
working as an independent consultant, designing
customized software for a variety of businesses.
One of our first applications back then was for
a video store. We also created software to track
options allocations for senior executives of a
large public company, and also designed a program
that tracked sales, and changes of sales at 70
rehabilitation centers scattered throughout the
country. We also designed many other specialized
applications, including several for various Wall
St. companies.
One project involved designing software for a
window cleaning company in Long Island, New York.
The owner had been using a custom package, but
wanted to move forward to having better software.
After designing that program, we found that no
one else was creating software for cleaning, janitorial
and window cleaning businesses. So we began marketing
the program to cleaning businesses nationwide.
Since that time, we have re-engineered the software
several times, each time adding new features in
response to the demands of users. Not that our
original program doesn't work well! It was a DOS-based
program, written in Clipper, and was used at one
time by over 500 companies in the U.S., U.K.,
Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
We are sometimes still surprised to hear from
some of our original users, who are still happily
using their old DOS programs -- they continue
to run just like the Energizer bunny, whirring
away and providing all the management tasks these
businesses need. I have sometimes questioned these
users, asking them why they don't upgrade to the
new Windows-based version (we are currently on
the 10th version for Windows) and they assure
me they love their old DOS program. So, I say,
if that's what they like, then good for them!
(Interestingly, one of our clients for the Cleaning
Manager (our first version of
our service dispatch software) loved the software
so much that he began selling it on our behalf.
He then decided at some point that it was such
a great idea, that he had someone write a program
for him, which he now markets. We welcome all
competition, because it helps make users and potential
users more aware of the benefits of using such
software. When we first began marketing our software
solutions, in the early days of the PC, many business
owners shied away from software and computers,
finding them either "too scary", or
not wanting to get involved in technology. With
the benefit of the 20-20 vision of history, we
now see that any business must use software
intelligently to function well, save costs, and
position themselves to grow at a reasonable pace.)
Now we have service management software for a
wide variety of industries — including HVAC,
window and carpet cleaners, maid services (residential
cleaning software), commercial cleaning, pet walking,
home health care, computer maintenance, TV and
radio repair, septic tank cleaners and more. In
fact, any service business that needs to maintain
comprehensive information regarding their leads
and contacts; comprehensive employee information;
job schedules; payroll and accounts receivable
information can use our software. We get new inquiries
every day, from people wanting a user-friendly
but feature-rich program to manage their business.
If it's an industry we have never served before,
we learn about any special needs required of the
new industry, and work with clients in the new
field to understand their needs. If it involves
employee scheduling or job scheduling in general,
then we have a solution available.
We have our own philosophy that informs our work
with clients and our organizational structure.
We call this the Value of Values approach. The
entire philosophy, and our motivations for developing
and using it cannot be described in detail here.
If you're interested in this approach, one starting
point would be to read the article on the Value
of values, written by our founder, Murray Gordon.
This paper was originally presented at the Symposium
for the ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic
Study of Organizations) in Boston, Mass in June
2002. Essentially, this paper outlines a philosophical
approach inspired by the philosopher Emanuel Levinas,
which is also known as "Ethics as First Philosophy".
We have expanded Levinas' approach into the world
of business. We believe in a general honoring
of the other. This involves an attempt to honor
the other -- the other as client as well as the
other as co-worker, because it is these "others"
who provide the value of any business venture.
A business may need to have certain assets and
equipment, and employees may need to have certain
training and qualifications, but what makes one
business shine, and excel in providing the service
it is offering to its clients is the extent to
which it seeks to understand its clients, and
provide them with what they need, at a reasonable
rate because my fellow workers and myself need
to have the basics we need for living and the
adequate resources we need to maintain and sustain
a business operation in order to continue providing
the excellent services we aim to provide.
Nowadays, we have specialized versions of our
service management software, The
Scheduling Manager, for a wide
variety of industries. We believe our service
dispatch software is the finest management software
you can acquire for your service business.
Murray Gordon,
M.Sc., M.A., M.A.H.P. delivered a paper at
a conference sponsored by the International Society
for the Psychoanalytical Study of Organizations
in Amsterdam, Holland on June 23rd 2006. The subject
of the paper is "Co-opetition— the
Boundary Between Competition and Cooperation".
In this paper, Murray examines the advantages
and limits of cooperation amongst and within organizations,
and the advantages and disadvantages, the appropriateness
or not of competition. This ground-breaking paper
shows how successful business use the dynamic
forces of cooperation and competition effectively
to attain and keep a leading position in their
particular chosen field.
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Finding Your Phone, the Linux Way
Listing 1. lost.sh
#!/bin/sh # A script to help you find your phone. # by Daniel Bartholomew, May 2010 # # This script is licensed under the terms of the # GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. # See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> for details. # Some variables you need to set: amilost="http://example.net/my-n900-is-lost.txt" # CHANGE THIS! username="username" # the username at your ssh host sshhost="hostname" backupnumber="3215551212" # backup phone that can receive SMS messages # A timestamp variable you can alter if you want to: timestamp=$(/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S-%Z) # With the vars out of the way, we can begin: # The first step is to check for the file on the webserver. # If it exists, we collect data and send it, # if not, we print a message and exit. if wget --output-document=/tmp/${timestamp}.txt \ ${amilost} 2>/dev/null; then # If we're here, the file exists and the phone is lost. # Get the current IP address and send it using the # sendsms.py script: /sbin/ifconfig -a \ | awk '/inet addr/ { print $2 }' \ | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' \ > /tmp/${timestamp}.ip # sendsms.py from: # http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=558430&postcount=57 /home/user/sendsms.py ${backupnumber} \ "$(/bin/cat /tmp/${timestamp}.ip)" # take a picture with the front-facing camera /usr/bin/gst-launch v4l2src \ device=/dev/video1 \ num-buffers=1 ! \ ffmpegcolorspace ! \ jpegenc ! \ filesink location=/tmp/${timestamp}.jpg # get the location and send it # gps.py from: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47301 /usr/bin/python2.5 /home/user/gps.py 2>&1 > /tmp/${timestamp}.gps /home/user/sendsms.py ${backupnumber} \ "$(/bin/cat /tmp/${timestamp}.gps)" # More things can be done. # See http://wiki.maemo.org/Phone_control for # ideas. Experiment and have fun! # (But don't blame me if you accidentally brick your phone.) # We've gathered the data we want, now copy everything to the sshhost # server # (need to have ssh-keys set up for this to work). /usr/bin/scp -i /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa /tmp/${timestamp}.* \ ${username}@${sshhost}: # What if I want to run more commands than are listed above, # such as making the phone vibrate or having it call me? # The file I downloaded from the server can contain special # commands. If the file is empty, nothing will happen. # This probably is not the most secure thing to do, but if the # phone really has been stolen, this will allow you to pull # data off of it and/or brick the phone on purpose. Be careful! # Only uncomment the following line if you know what you are doing # and are comfortable with the consequences. I am not responsible # if you break your phone. #/bin/sh /tmp/${timestamp}.txt else # if the file on the server doesn't exist the phone is not lost: echo "I am not lost." fi # That's it! We're done. exit 0
I decided it would make the most sense to watch for three different actions:
The phone changing networks.
The keyboard being opened or closed.
Low power.
If the network changes, that probably means the phone is on the move (maybe I left it in a car). If the keyboard is opened or closed, someone is using or looking at the phone. Finally, if the phone is just sitting there, eventually the batteries will drain away (and I'd like to find the phone before all power is gone).
The three lines in dbus-scripts-settings that watch for those actions are the following:
/home/user/lost.sh * * com.nokia.icd * * * CONNECTED /home/user/lost.sh * * org.freedesktop.Hal.Device \ Condition ButtonPressed cover /home/user/lost.sh * * com.nokia.bme.signal battery_low
The lost.sh script is called each time one of those events occurs. The dbus-scripts Wiki page (wiki.maemo.org/DbusScripts) has more information on formatting the configuration lines.
See the lost.sh script (Listing 1) for details of what it does. One thing I found in testing is that some of the commands I can run on the command line do not work at all when called from a script by the dbus-scripts dæmon. These include the mplayer command and setting the phone to nonsilent mode. Thankfully, other commands work fine when called from the script.
The final piece of the puzzle was getting the N900 to send at least some of the data it gathered to another phone via SMS. I found a good Python script for sending SMS messages at talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=558430&postcount=57.
With the SMS script in place and called by the lost.sh script, all I have to do is create the special file on my Web server, and suddenly my N900 starts sending my designated backup phone (my wife's cell phone) SMS messages whenever one of the events I configured happens.
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By Tim Graham
The Buffalo Bills' injury report is notable for names that don't appear on it.
Only three players didn't practice today, and all of them could play Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers:
- Wide receiver Marquise Goodwin (hamstring)
- Wide receiver Robert Woods (ankle)
- Defensive tackle Kyle Williams (Achilles)
Everybody else was a full participant. Nobody was listed as limited.
That means quarterback EJ Manuel, running backs C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson, receiver Stevie Johnson and defensive end Mario Williams are healthy.
Manuel has missed the past four games with a knee injury. Spiller (ankle), Jackson (knee), Johnson (hip) and Mario Williams (hip) all were listed on last week's injury report.
Today was the first time Spiller hadn't been on the injury report since before the Week Four game against the Baltimore Ravens.
"That's exciting," Marrone said. "The more we can get his hands on the ball, there's an opportunity for him to make a big play. That's something we're always striving to do."
Kyle Williams regularly sits out Wednesday's practice to cool his heels.
Goodwin and Woods are recovering from injuries suffered in Sunday's loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Their availability is less certain.
Marrone said "I don't feel as good about Robert Woods being able to play," but said Goodwin is expected to practice some Thursday.
Woods is a versatile receiver who can play inside and outside. If Woods doesn't dress, then Chris Hogan would pick up some inside duties, and Marcus Easley could help on the outside.
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---- — Some answered,but questions remain
Thank you for answering some of our questions in the newsletter sent out this past week.
The membership needs to know that PWRTC was intent on a new building before the school became available. Land was purchased just outside Buffalo in 2008 or 2009. Studies were done, architect plans done and redone, and PWRTC was actually "picking out furniture" when the school became a possibility.
In the article, this statement was made: "The Board proceeded to approve the acquisition and refurbishment of the existing, landmark Buffalo structure, which ultimately cost $2,839,000 in labor, supplies and equipment." What were the costs for: the land, planning, architects fees, any funds spent for the first building that was going to be built; the land, planning, architect fees, and anything else not covered in that statement?
And contrary to the newsletter, not all operations are consolidated in the Buffalo building. Offices and equipment used to be in Star City with a building in Buffalo for telephone equipment. Now offices and equipment are in Buffalo with a building in Star City for telephone equipment. What has changed to make it worth the money spent?
The decisions to purchase land and build a new building were made in 2008, 2009 or possibly earlier. When was the grant written to take fiber to the hospitals? 2009? What came first? The decision to build or the grant to lay the fiber?
Other terms were used in the article. "Economically reasonable" is relative. How economically reasonable is it if the rural membership actually suffers due to lack of services? And "community-beneficial?" To Buffalo or White County, yes. To Star City or Pulaski County, no. A wash, at best.
The last paragraph: "The Board of Directors and PWRTC employees are stewards of the property that belongs to you, our members. As one of our cooperative principles, we take this stewardship role seriously and we are diligent in regards to fiscal responsibility." If you take your role seriously, please answer these questions.
1. Will you remove the archaic and self-serving passage in the bylaws that allows any board member to choose for him or herself to run again, not allowing the nominating committee to take a pass on directors that are not serving the membership?
2. Will you consider an advisory board that is separate and apart from the Board of Directors, give them a meaningful role, and allow them a chance to speak at the Annual Meeting?
3. Will you share the marketing studies that showed how PWRTC could make a meaningful dent in the competition in the Winamac and Monticello communities, when those communities already have options to purchase bundles that include telephone, internet, cable television and unlimited long distance?
4. Will you share how the decisions were made that keep the rural MEMBERS of PWRTC on DSL, which is quickly becoming too narrow for home-based businesses and entertainment?
And the biggest question that remains unanswered: Once we have all of the costs on the table, and all of the reasons for proceeding with a new building, please compare that to what the cost would have been to take fiber to those rural members who are going to be stuck with 20th century technology.
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How'd everyone survive those crazy storms yesterday?!7/29
Huge Congrats from Manny to Jessica from Windham for winning our first ever Moosetastic Kayak Giveaway! http://t.co/5IXsJIACfu7/24
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Manny wants to send out a HUGE CONGRATS to Jessica from Windham, ME for winning our first ever Moosetastic Kayak... http://t.co/YiaXIr5ERg7/23
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Eleven wolves taken during opening weekend of deer season
At least eleven wolves were killed over the opening weekend of the Wisconsin gun deer season, bringing the 2012 wolf harvest to 89 and prompting state wildlife officials to consider closures of additional wolf management zones.
The kill total represents 77% of the wolf harvest quota for non-tribal hunters and trappers.
Kurt Thiede, Administrator of the Department of Natural Resources' Land Division, said agency managers would meet Monday to discuss closures of Zones 1 (91% of quota) and 5 (83%).
The DNR closed wolf management zones 2 and 4 last week as they neared harvest quotas.
In the first year of its state-managed wolf hunting and trapping season, the DNR wants to demonstrate it has control over harvest of the species and does not want to exceed established quotas.
As expected, the wolf kill increased Saturday and Sunday, the first days of the Wisconsin gun deer hunting season.
The 11 wolves registered over the weekend are the most in any two-day period of the season.
Ten of the 11 were taken by hunters using firearms, said Thiede. The other was taken by a trapper using a foot-hold trap.
The DNR set a statewide harvest quota of 201 wolves, including 85 for American Indian tribes in the ceded territory.
The balance of the quota for non-tribal hunters was divided into six management zones.
The season opened Oct. 15 and is scheduled to run through Feb. 28 or until harvest quotas are met.
At the rate wolf kills are being recorded, the season will likely end in the coming weeks.
As of last week, two-thirds of the wolves have been taken by trappers using foot-hold traps; the others were killed by hunters using firearms. The wolves were harvested in 23 counties.
The agency reported 875 wolf hunting and trapping licenses had been sold as of Monday, including six to nonresidents. The state authorized the sale of 1,160 licenses.
Zones 1, 3, 5 and 6 were listed as open by the DNR on Monday. But the agency may issue closures in the near future.
The DNR will announce closures by news releases, notification at dnr.wi.gov, and on the wolf call-in number (855) 299-9653. Hunters and trappers are responsible to check for and know about zone closures. DNR encourages hunters and trappers to check the website or the call-in number daily.
Here's a list of the zones, the wolf non-tribal harvest quota and number of wolves registered as of Monday morning:
Zone 1, 32 harvest quota, 29 wolves registered
Zone 2, 20, 18 Closed
Zone 3, 18, 8
Zone 4, 5, 4 Closed
Zone 5, 23,19
Zone 6, 18, 11
You can find more information on the zones on the DNR's wolf hunting and trapping page.
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Lets hope they open these zones back up that have wolves left available on the quota, after deer season. Though I doubt they will.
Nineteen Northern Co boards have passed resolutions against the wolf and any changes to the Wisconsin Wolf management plan. This hunt does not get the wolf population headed in the right direstion towards that plan! Follow the darn plan!Hide replies
Nineteen Northern Co boards.......blah blah blah...... boy- I'm gettin sleepy
Since they know the Tribe isn't going to use their tags the smart thing to do would be to allocate them towards the stated quota, doesn't make much sense to arrive at a numbered goal only to let tags go unused, may as well just upped the quota in the first place and stop playing games...Hide replies
Doesn't work that way wolf herd......You have to abide by the "rights" that the tribes have in your State.....They are not bloodthirsty degenerates like the poachers in Northern Wisconsin.......Poachers you ask? Just ask the Vee family......They could teach a seminar on how not to treat wild animals......It's a Northern Wisconsin thing......Stay tuned for details
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FORT MEADE, Md. — A U.S. Army private charged with sending mountains of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks has offered to plead guilty to reduced charges in a move that military justice experts on Thursday called surprising and potentially pointless.
The unilateral offer, if accepted by the military judge, would still leave the government free to prosecute Pfc. Bradley Manning on the original 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. That means even with the plea offer, he could still face life in prison.
Prosecutors could choose not to put Manning on trial for those more serious charges, but "I find it hard to imagine that happening in this case," said Eugene Fidell, a former Coast Guard judge advocate who teaches military law at Yale. "The government has had a very long time to conduct extensive investigations and presumably has its evidence ready to roll."
The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, didn't say when she would rule on the offer that defense attorney David Coombs revealed Wednesday during a pretrial hearing. Manning would acknowledge he sent WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war reports and State Department diplomatic cables, but wouldn't plead guilty to aiding the enemy or to violations of federal espionage and computer laws.
It is the first indication that the 24-year-old intelligence analyst will publicly acknowledge he leaked the records. The government regards the leak as a national security breach. But anti-secrecy advocates, including Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, say Manning is a hero. He has been in custody since his arrest in Iraq in May 2010. He is currently in pretrial confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Coombs also said Wednesday that Manning has chosen to be tried by a military judge, not a jury. His six-week trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 4.
The plea offer, if accepted, could shorten the trial if the government wouldn't have to spend time proving Manning actually leaked the documents, said Washington attorney Michael Navarre, a Navy judge advocate and adviser to the National Institute of Military Justice, a nonprofit, public-education group.
Navarre said a guilty plea could also lead the judge or sentencing jury to view Manning in a favorable light.
"One of the goals of accepting responsibility is to curry favor," Navarre said.
The hearing continued Thursday on a defense request to have the case dismissed because Manning has not been given a speedy trial. It's been two years and five months since Manning's arrest. His arraignment came 635 days later, far in excess of the 120-day rule. Coombs contends military commanders rubber-stamped all prosecution requests for delays and improperly excluded other periods from the speedy-trial clock.
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Superintendent of Schools Dr. Elizabeth E. Feser pronounced herself thrilled as the approved the school's budget as recommended in an evening when the BOF proposed a combined city and budget of $186,381,969. The sum represents a rate of increase of 1.55 percent over this year's budget, with a proposed mill rate of 25.68.
"It's a very good thing," said Feser after the school budget — which, as proposed, amounts to $86,882,363 — passed through the BOF unscathed. "I'm thrilled for the school system."
, whose proposed budget the BOF cut by a sum that amounted to just under $500,000, termed this year's budget "very conservative."
From the BOF, the budget as proposed now moves to the Board of Aldermen.
According to Director of Finance Peter A. Erodici Jr., department expenditures remained flat, with the small rate of increase in the overall budget the result of health care costs and some contractual wage obligations.
Erodici noted that a refunding of general obligation bonds saved $913,000 in interest. Of that, he said, $500,000 went into this year's budget for schools, sewer and public improvement.
Now in his first full budget cycle, Erodici said the budget process to date gave him a sense of accomplishment.
Overall, the mood at the Board of Finance meeting after the combined budget was proposed by a unanimous vote was celebratory.
Board of Finance member Joseph Agro Jr. termed the approach to this year's budget "seamless."
"The process has moved forward," he said.
He said that this has been a different kind of year for all of involved in the budget process than it has been for the last three. He said that endorsing the school budget as presented lent an expression of optimism to this year's budgetary process, as the economy, while still difficult for some, may have begun to turn the corner.


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How focusing on Requirements gathering, estimation, and delivery (RED) can keep your project in the green.
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It has been said that in a waterfall project you aim a rifle at the target, shoot, and then hope you hit the target. With agile methods, on the other hand, you aim the rifle toward the perceived center of the target, shoot, and then steer the bullet towards the actual center of the target. If the customer is not involved in steering the bullet, you will almost certainly miss the target. The question is, how do we ensure that the customer steers the bullet? This article offers several approaches for obtaining the customer commitment necessary for project success.
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What do you do when your team needs a committed product owner and no one is available? You don't have the resources to hire from outside and the internal candidates are either not perfectly suited to the position or cannot commit their time. Find out how one team solved this by selecting a committed product owner and then adding to his knowledge base with a committee and user proxies, creating a sort of three-headed product owner.
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Do theories of group dynamics offer insight into why some Scrum teams succeed while others seem only to struggle? Jörgen Fors thinks so. Find out why he believes learning more about FIRO and RAT could help your team.
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Theories are illuminating and helpful, but nothing can replace real-world experience. Each month, we'll post a real-life, ongoing case study for your consideration. The author will monitor comments and may even try the remedies that you, the Scrum community, suggest. The results of these trials will be posted as a comment to the case study. This case study is open for discussion. Join in.
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The first in a five-part series, this article details the advantages of converting an exisiting project to agile, as opposed to only applying agile to new projects. The next article in the series will look at how you make that switch.
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Only in Petaluma: A year in wacky news stories
Published: Monday, December 31, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 12:00 p.m.
From a man found hanging from a cross to a woman who was apparently resurrected from the dead, 2012 produced more than its share of wild and weird Petaluma stories.
As Petaluma Police Officer Dustin Rodriguez said as he helped bring Eli Lucas down from a cross he had planted on the corner of D Street and Petaluma Boulevard, "This is a little much for Petaluma."
Maybe, but it did happen as did a bank reporting a very much live customer dead, pigeon's launching a saturation bombing attack in a downtown Petaluma garage and a would-be martial artist who injured himself while roundhouse kicking a window.
2012 was a very good year for quirky news in our community.
Cross hanging: No one could quite figure out what point part-time actor and filmmaker Eli Lucas was trying to make when friends tied him to a cross and planted him in Walnut Park in early March.
"I died so that you would hate gays, hate women, hate blacks, hate your neighbors, hate your children. I died so that you would live in hate," he shouted from his perch.
When police arrived to abate the public nuisance, Lucas politely climbed down, lugged his cross to a waiting SUV and rode away comfortably into Petaluma history.
Dead woman lives: In February, Petaluman Patricia Goddard Sirna was shocked to discover that Bank of America had declared her dead.
The news came as a surprise not only to Goddard Sirna, but to her friends, who invited her to a mourning party featuring wilted flowers and a cake smeared with black icing.
The bank's error had a serious side. Being "deceased" ruined her credit rating and, despite cooperation from the bank, it took several weeks to get her finances straightened out.
Bless this burning house: In March, a Petaluma woman attempted to "bless" her house with a burning container of rum and bath salts.
The blessing apparently worked because the only damage to the home was a charred bathroom door when flames from the container set a towel on fire.
Firefighters deemed the fire accidental.
Window wins: In April, a 21-year-old Petaluma man lost a mixed martial arts match with a window on Kentucky Street.
Police said the man, identified at Brent Clewis, kicked at the window of the Sleep City Mattress Center.
The window broke, but Clewis severed his Achilles tendon and suffered an arterial bleed that required 30 staples at Petaluma Valley Hospital where he was treated.
The window was awarded a TKO.
Pigeon poop: In March, city officials admitted they had no easy answers on how to evict a flock of trespassing pigeons who homesteaded in the city's Keller Street Garage.
The interlopers threatened vehicles and drivers alike with a deluge of waste that disgusted and discouraged downtown shoppers.
"The garage is fantastic for my business and all the businesses around here, but everyone complains about the pigeons,"said Lou Rosenberger, owner of the downtown Far West Trading company. "The pigeons and their mess are dreadful and it is crazy that nobody can do anything about it."
While the city and downtown merchants squabbled over who should be responsible for dealing with the problem, the pigeons cooed contentedly and pooped away.
Homeless goats: In August, the area's home foreclosure problem took a new and disturbing turn when 99 goats and three llamas were evicted from their home in an upscale Penngrove neighborhood.
The owners of Goat Rescue of Sonoma County, Ken Zamvil and Nancy Brotman, faced additional problems for allegedly failing to keep their animals properly corralled and for keeping twice as many animals on the 41⁄2-acre property as allowed by zoning.
A goat spokesperson reportedly responded to the eviction with a short, "Baaa-humbug."
Soccer dad: A 41-year-old Petaluma man said he was only trying to get his children to their soccer match on time after being arrested for allegedly driving 104 miles per hour on Route 116 near Pine View Way.
Police said it took almost three miles to catch up to the vehicle driven by Juan Carlos Gallegos containing his two 9-year-old children.
The driver was not given a red card, but was arrested for reckless driving and child endangerment.
Pilot grounded: In January, a Penngrove man was arrested after a CHP air patrol crew spotted the plane he was piloting skimming as low as 50 feet off the ground and within 100 feet of traffic on Highway 37.
Officers did not immediately pull over the plane flown by Michael B. Ferrero, 62, but followed him to the Petaluma Airport where he was arrested for drunken flying. The pilot denied flying impaired, saying he didn't begin drinking until after he had landed.
He later pleaded no contest to flying under the influence and was placed on electronic home confinement for 39 days and required to perform 26 days of community service.
He also agreed not to taxi or fly his airplane for 90 days and was ordered not to transport alcohol in his plane.
Federal Aviation Administration officials had earlier asked him to surrender his pilot's license, learning the hard way that it is not all right to buzz a highway while buzzed.
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2006 Season Highlights: Named Easton-Bell Sports Third-Team All-American. Program's first CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-American Earned First-Team NFCA All-Southeast Region honors. Picked up her second First-Team All-ACC honor in a row and her third overall All-ACC accolade. Named CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-District 3 for the third time in her career. Set an FSU and ACC record with 252 at-bats. Led the ACC with 94 hits, the third-highest single-season total in school history. Completed a 28-game hitting streak which is a school & ACC record as well as the 11th-longest in NCAA history. Streak ended in the second game of a doubleheader against Georgia Southern (2/14). Sixth in ACC history with 271 career hits, 8th with 69 steals. Named ACC Player of the Week on May 8. Seminole Classic MVP, also Early Bird All-Tournament team. Third in the ACC with a career-best .373 batting average while ranking among league leaders in six offensive categories. Ranked fourth in school history for hits (271) and at-bats (795), 6th in steals (69), 7th for walks (74), 8th in runs (147) and games (264), 9th for average (.341) and 10th in triples (15). Had a hit in her final collegiate at-bat with a single versus Arizona State (5/27).
2006 Game Highlights: Team leader with 29 multi-hit games. Had three multi-RBI games. Started all 74 games in left field Went 3-for-4 with two runs scored against Iowa State (2/17) in the Seminole Classic. Picked up two or more hits eight times during a nine-game hitting streak. Tied a career-high with four hits against Florida A&M (3/29). Scored two runs and added an RBI. Hit her first home run in two years with an inside-the-park home run in game one versus UConn (3/7). Led off game two with a solo home run to right field. Eight-game hitting streak during the final week of the regular season included six multi-hit games with four three-hit performances. Went 2-for-4 with two runs scored against No. 9 Michigan (3/18) at the Judi Garman Classic. Had three hits and scored twice in game one versus No. 24 Florida (4/5). Scored the game-winning run seven times, drove in the game-winner in four games.
2006 NCAA Tournament Highlights: Started all 20 games of her career with a lifetime .349 batting average. Posted a .333 during the Athens Regional, including hits in each of the first three games. Had a pair of hits against Coastal Carolina and the first game with Georgia.
2005 Season Highlights: First-Team All-ACC. ESPN The Magazine Second-Team Academic All-American. Top 10 in the ACC in five offensive categories, including third in hitting (.359). Ended the year with a 24-game hitting streak. Streak started with a single against Virginia Tech (4/3). Team leader in 10 offensive categories. Earned her third spot on the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2005 NCAA Tournament Highlights: Tops on the team with a .545 average during the four games of the Auburn Regional. Picked up a hit in four games and scored in three.
2005 Game Highlights: Started the year with a five game hitting streak that included two triples and a pair of multi-hit games. Tied a career high as she stole two bases against Maine (3/2). Matched her best day with four hits against Radford (3/12). Was 0-for-19 in the seven games before the hitting streak began at Virginia Tech. Saw her average rise 57 points during the hitting streak from .302 to .359.
2004 Season Highlights: Named All-ACC and NFCA All-Region Second Team. Selected to the 2004 NCAA Region 4 All-Tournament team. Named ACC Player of the Week (3/8/04). 2004 NFCA Leadoff Classic, Seminole Challenge, and FSU Invitational All-Tournament. Among ACC leaders in triples (2nd), steals (2nd), batting average (5th), on-base percentage (6th), hits (9th) and runs (9th). Member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2004 WCWS Highlights: Started in all three games and made eight plate appearances. Drew a walk and scored a run versus Cal (5/27).
2004 NCAA Regional Highlights: Florida State's second-leading hitter with a .412 average. Had two hits and two RBI as the Seminoles defeated Oregon 2-0 to clinch the regional title.
2004 Game Highlights: Stole a career-high two bases vs. Louisville (2/7) at the Seminole Classic. Began the NFCA Classic with two hits, including her first career home run, and three runs scored vs. Army (2/27). Against Penn State (3/5) she went 2-for-2 while setting career highs with her first triple and four RBIs. Started a 12-game hitting streak with a single against St. John's (3/6) and ended with a 0-for-3 against Arizona State (3/18). Fell a homer short of hitting for the cycle, but did drive in four runs against Maryland (4/18).
2003 Season Highlights: Only rookie in the FSU line-up, starting all 53 games. Led all freshmen in 11 offensive categories. Third on the team in steals, fifth in walks and tied for first in fielding percentage. Posted a .571 average in the ACC Tournament. Member of the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2003 NCAA Tournament Highlights: Started both games of the Gainesville regional. Went 2-for-3 in the opener against UT-Arlington.
2003 Game Highlights: Started career with a bang, going 2-for-4 with two runs scored, one RBI and a stolen base versus Georgia Southern (2/1). Had the first game-winning RBI of her career in the second contest versus SE Louisiana (2/8). Best game of the year came against Furman (4/12) as she set new career highs with three runs scored and three hits while also stealing a base.
High School: Two-time (2000, 2002) NFCA All-American. Three-year All-State selection. Two-time First Team All-Area selection by the Dallas Morning News and Four-Time Metrocrest News First Team. Member of 2001 Texas State 5A Champions who finished ranked third in the final NFCA/USA Today poll. NFCA Academic All-American in 2001 and 2002 and Academic All-State in 2001 and 2002.
Travel Ball: Member of the Katy Cruisers who won the 18U Gold National Championship in 2000 and 2001.
Personal: Born Dec. 24, 1983. Graduated with a degree in exercise science on April 29. Daughter of Boyd and Carla Jacob.