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Established in 2001, the Birmingham Historical Museum and Park provides a place for Birmingham residents to…More congregate and learn about their community. Comprised of the historic Allen House, the John West Hunter House, and the John West Hunter Historic Park, the park is located on the outskirts of town, where Southfield meets Maple Road.
Home to Birmingham's first settlers, the John West Hunter House is named after its first resident and was built in 1822. It is the oldest building in Birmingham, and one of the oldest structures in the state. The interior is a reproduction of the original 1822 interior, and is accessed via a museum guide.
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With the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, students face strict rules and consequences on campus. Disciplinary actions range from mandatory, zero-tolerance issues to discretionary Code of Conduct violations. In this two part column, we will look...
At first glance, a teacher sending a student to the office, issuing a referral or the decision to suspend a child may seem outside the concern of law enforcement and juvenile justice. On the contrary, research is finding what happens inside our schools, particularly public schools, heavily impacts our juvenile justice system. The amount of students being assigned disciplinary actions is astounding and the link between these actions and a student being retained, dropping out and ending up a part of the juvenile system and eventually the adult justice system makes the issue of how, when and why school administrators are punishing our children an issue that affects juvenile justice professionals across the country.
In July 2011, the Council of State Governments Justice Center in partnership with the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University published the findings of a wide-scale longitudinal study looking at how school discipline relates to student success and juvenile justice involvement. "Breaking Schools' Rules" used bivariate and multivariate analyses to control for a variety of factors of Texas' seventh through twelfth-grade public school children. The findings supported the link between what is happening in our schools and a child becoming part of the juvenile system.
In the 1980s and 1990s, policy makers began a new focus on how to make schools safer. During a time, shrouded in get tough policy, legislative and justice discussions weighed heavily with terms such as hardened juveniles, zero tolerance and code of conduct. Although as a community, we are all tasked with promoting safety and discipline within our schools many of the policies adopted during this time have had unintended and negative consequences. Prior to looking at the findings of the study and how these apply to juvenile justice, a discussion of the different types of disciplinary action within schools must occur.
School Code of Conduct vs. State Law
When discussing school disciplinary action a distinction must be made between rules that violate state law and have mandated sanctions, i.e. original zero tolerance rules and behaviors regulated by individual school districts via a Code of Conduct.
Breaking certain rules clearly violate school safety. Rules such as bringing weapons on campus or committing assault on another student or staff violate state law and require a mandatory punishment. Many of the zero-tolerance rules, in the beginning, were dictated by state law. In the same realm are the alcohol and substance rules and discipline born of the War on Drugs.
On the other hand, individual schools are governed by rules dictated by school officials. These rules make up the Student Code of Conduct. Parents and students often sign these handbooks at the beginning of the school year attesting to the fact they understand the rules and the consequences. The rules, as well as, the discipline associated with Codes of Conduct are mostly discretionary. For example, Danbury (CT) Middle School Conduct Code for Students includes rules such as, No foul language, obscene gestures, racial, ethnic, religious slurs and disrespectful language or actions, No sales of candy, etc, No toys, No coats, No backtalk and No loud talking in the cafeteria. A consequence of breaking any of these rules includes suspension.
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We already know about Mitt Romney's infamous 47 percent "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
We already know about the Occupy movement's arch-enemy, the 1 percent of Americans who control the majority of the nation's wealth.
But Anniston's 44 percent? What's that?
According to a recent poll, it's the percentage of residents who believe Anniston's city schools don't prepare graduates for success after graduation. (Of the rest, 36 percent said grads are prepared and 20 percent said neither or failed to answer.)
The 44 percent are on to something, too, and it's more than uninformed perception. Recent statistics tell us about one-third of the district's students don't earn a high school diploma on time. The district's middle school was recently labeled as "failing" by the state.
Perhaps an appropriate question might be: What should city schools do to prepare 100 percent of its students for a prosperous and fulfilling future?
By the way, our numbers come from a survey The Star paid Jacksonville State University's Center for Economic Development to conduct this summer.
The background data look like this:
• 11,008 questionnaires mailed to Anniston residences.
• 581 responses returned.
• A margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Division was one of the big takeaways when The Star published the results in late September. Only a few of the 16 school-related questions were met with 50 percent or higher responses.
A slight majority — 52 percent — said the school system doesn't have enough funding to do its job.
The response with the biggest margin dealt with Anniston schools forming partnerships with institutions of higher education. The 77 percent who approved of this notion were likely pleased at the recent announcement that Jacksonville State is working to formalize an arrangement that would put JSU student-teachers in Anniston classrooms.
On another front, kudos to Anniston Mayor Vaughn Stewart for playing matchmaker between Gadsden State Community College and city schools. That, too, seems precisely what the vast majority of survey respondents say they seek — a way to form partnerships that benefit everyone.
Another idea with broad agreement (64 percent) is the creation of an independent advocate for city schools. The possibilities are bright here. Imagine a person who can (a.) generate big ideas to fix our public schools, (b.) call in financial support from nonprofits dedicated to improving systems like the one in Anniston and (c.) independently and objectively say what is and what is not working in the schools.
Call it a "critical friend." Call it a "one-man (or one-woman) think-tank." Call it a "bridge to connect a city that's too often divided."
Our schools' advocate would know how to apply praise and pressure in proper proportions.
Will such an advocate step on some toes in the process, particularly among the school system's elected officials and bureaucrats? Quite likely. Too often it seems toe-protection and turf-protection is driving the school system's agenda.
We'll really know it's working when the 44 percent are shown that Anniston city schools are producing graduates ready to take on the world.
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Clay County has a dozen functioning swinging bridges, and local activists want to capitalize on their unique character to draw tourists into the area. Representatives from Stay In Clay and the World Animal Foundation met with the Clay County Fiscal Court on Thursday, January 9 to discuss establishing tourism in the county through the promotion of its swinging bridges.
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Former Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Richard Dwight Farmer, Jr., was sentenced on Tuesday to 27 months in federal prison and one year supervised release for misappropriating public resources during his tenure in office.
Manchester Memorial Hospital has a new skin. The outer walls of the hospital have been redone to match the surface of the building addition that was completed in the spring.
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Don't do sitting what you can do standing or walking.
When trying to break up sedentary time, author Joan Vernikos advises focusing on frequency. "Standing up often is what seems to matter," she says. "Every time you stand up, the body initiates a shift in fluids, volume, and hormones, and causes muscles to contract. And almost every nerve in the body is stimulated."
In addition to a range of physical perks, activity breaks also boost brain power and confidence. "The overarching finding is that with just a little bit of effort, we can avert some of the problems that come with sitting and also have some immediate positive benefits," says UCLA's Toni Yancey, who wrote Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time.
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|#871 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/06/2013 23:38:10
I'm seriously glad you liked it. It's my fifth best game of this year and I feel guilty putting it above Far Cry 3. But like a year later it's the game of think of. It stands out more in my memory than other games that were probably objectively better. Everything about it is so unique. The crazy presentation, the level progression, the absurd story.
My favorite part was the battle on the moon. What was yours?
|#872 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/07/2013 13:40:34
I'm tackling my backlog before I buy any new games (http://backloggery.com/youngblood). My main games on the chopping block at the moment are Ghost Recon Shadow Wars, Darkness II, and Final Fantasy V.
|#873 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/07/2013 17:14:39
Finally! Someone else who uses backloggery! I bet I could convince Neph to use it if I told him it has trophy stat tracking on it (it does)
|#874 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/07/2013 19:35:42
I've got a back log as well. Here's my list of games I need to beat, and most haven't even been started up yet.
Rayman Origins, Darksiders, Playstation Move Heroes, Aragorn's Quest, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Dragon Quest VI, Twisted Metal, Dead Island. I'm sure I could come up with more. Ni No Kuni's coming out, so it'll just get worse.
|#875 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/08/2013 20:00:41
I got Persona 4 for Christmas finally from the girlfriend. She couldn't find it before Christmas but found it today. This game better be sliced bread people as much as you praise it.
|#876 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/08/2013 21:43:26
If you want a good JRPG, you really can't ask for anything better than this. It's probably the best one in the last decade.
|#877 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/08/2013 23:25:17
Iv'e got WAY too many games in my backlog. It's embarassing. Also, I'm planning on starting the DS version of Ni No Kuni to practice my Japanese/get my vocab going.
|#878 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/09/2013 06:46:19
I've heard a lot of people say it takes about 5 hours to start getting good, so hopefully that doesn't hurt my impressions of the game. Haven't done anything really for the first 30-40 minutes besides listening to people talk.
Ni No Kuni has a DS game? Is it out in the states, or did it come out after the PS3 version?
|#879 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/09/2013 07:45:59
I'm pretty sure the DS version is only going to Japan. As for Persona 4, I was hooked by the unusual story from the beginning but it definitely gets much better... Especially Chie's voice.
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|#880 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/09/2013 14:43:26
Good thing I'm in Japan =D I'll tell ya how it is!
Finished Mark of the Ninja, good game, not a ton of replay value but still very good. Going to start Spec Ops the line. Had to reinstall steam though due to weirdness and now all my games got wiped. All my saves should...hopefully still exist but not a huge loss as I didn't have many things installed anyway.
|#881 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/10/2013 05:47:55
I decided to get back on Steam, but I couldn't remember my password. Did the thing where they were supposed to send me the password to my email but they never did. I did it like 4 times. Oh well, never liked gaming on computers any ways.
|#882 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/10/2013 18:55:50
Okay Twolf. I signed up for backloggery but it makes no sense. What the heck is it supposed to do?
|#883 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/10/2013 20:25:44
I've played 2 hours of Persona 4 with very little of gameplay. Good thing these characters are so Japanese that it is amusing and fun to get into. I still would like to battle some though.
|#884 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/10/2013 21:52:12
Stick with it. You will soon find that the battles are the least interesting part of the game.
|#885 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/10/2013 22:35:01
My enjoyment of that game increased exponentially when I turned off the voice acting. I'm one of those weird types that if a story is supposed to take place in a specific locale it's hard for me to get into it if the language is wrong. (unless that's very obvious from the beginning like Paths of Glory or something)
...that is all for random gripes by me. It's a game that take a LONG time to open up to you fully but stick with it, it does improve.
|#886 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/10/2013 22:36:52
WELL NEPH, it keeps track of your game collection and various stats on them. So you put in your entire collection, mark which games you've beaten, which are unbeaten/unplayed, how many trophies you've achieved (if you're into that kidn of thing...weirdo) and it just keeps all that information in one convenient place. Also for those of us who have lots of consoles we can remember which console we own which games for, and when you are thinking of something to play you can look at it to figure out which games you still need to beat. In addition, if you make progress notes, you can remember where you were in a game if you put it down for a long time or if you're working on a replay.
It's addictive, like the crack rock. Here's mine for instance
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|#887 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 05:09:16
The voice acting in Persona 4 is so awesome and hilarious. I weep for you, Timberwolf.
|#888 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 08:35:10
Yeah Timberwolf... what the fuck? The Persona 4 voice acting is just the best. I would say one of my knocks against the game is there is not enough voice acting--especially the social link stuff. And the English the translation is real tongue and cheek to the fact that its a bunch of Japanese kids speaking English. Plus, you were still reading the dialogue in English on the bottom... so how did hearing them say it ruin it? And I'm assuming you played the PS2 version that actually had the good Chie voice actor!
And Persona 4 doesn't really take all that long to open up. Once you get a full party of 4, it's as open as it gets. Plus the Vita version is so streamlined, it fires on all cylinders a couple of hours in.
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|#889 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 10:59:51
Fact: Teddie and Kanji would be a lot less funny if you could not hear them.
|#890 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 18:32:00
It's just that I'm about 2 and a half hours into the game, and I've probably only spent 10-15 minutes running and getting into two fights. All that other time has been spent hitting the x button. It isn't bad, I just wish I could partake in a battle or two.
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|#891 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 19:14:48
Trust me, once it opens up, you'll be begging to go back to the story bits during battles once it opens up. Developing bonds with characters is just so damn addicting.
|#892 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 19:35:39
Why would I input in my collection when gamercards and psprofiles does it for me and gives me wonderful stats and graphs and leaderboards?
|#893 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/11/2013 20:18:00
@Spacekmonkey Once the game opens up, you can basically switch between dungeon crawling and social linking whenever you want, so you'll surely be fighting a lot more battles. The balance worked out quite well for me
|#894 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/12/2013 18:09:46
I'd love to be playing it, but the last couple days I picked up a shitty head cold and I've got too much medicine head going on to be able to play an RPG. Without a doubt in my mind, I know that I would fall asleep while playing it. I hate being sick and having to work with the public while being sick.
|#895 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/14/2013 04:22:16
Here's the thing guys...I acknowledge it's not BAD voice acting. It's just a personal pet peeve thing. That is all.
|#896 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/14/2013 06:01:58
I like Chie the most. She's so loud and obnoxious.
|#897 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/14/2013 22:39:42
I have been playing pretty much nothing. I very randomly got the hankering for some old TR and downloaded TR2 on PSN. I have played a bit. Aged, but some good design in there still.
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|#898 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/14/2013 22:53:12
Playing Mass Effect 3 right now. Having the DLC in it actually adds a lot to the story, especially Leviathan even though I prefer the Omega DLC. The Extended Cut also adds a few new cutscenes during key moments. Just something extra that makes the story bits feel a little more involved.
Also, Engineer is such an underrated class. Turret + Drone = Win.
|#899 Subject: Now Playing Posted: 01/15/2013 01:51:23
I plan on doing my playthrough of the ending when (hopefully) all the DLC comes in a pack. Then I can do it all at once.
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|#900 Subject: Re:Now Playing Posted: 01/15/2013 03:10:50
Engineer is my favorite class you don't even need guns its so awesome.
Anyways I've been playing Chrono Cross on my Vita, and its pretty damn good there. So much easier to overlook the 10 year old visuals on a handheld. At Fort Dragonia now.


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I WAS in Madrid recently to witness the return of the Spanish football side, following their success at Euro 2012. Madrid's main square, the Rondald Square, was packed with thousands of screaming, delirious fans welcoming home their heroes. The surrounding area was lined with restaurants and bars, full of people enjoying the party atmosphere.
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This advice holds true for any kind of outdoor activity in the winter: it's better to start warm than try to warm up after getting cold. Pack the vehicle with all the necessary supplies beforehand. Making several trips to and from the vehicle in the elements immediately prior to heading for the surveillance site will only make you miserably cold.
Knowing how to dress is the most important part of staying warm. Multiple layers are always a good idea. Thermal underwear or even panty hose are favored by those who work outdoors for a living, so they will certainly be a good choice when working means sitting in a car all day. Similarly, keeping the head and hands covered as much as possible will reduce heat loss. One-piece hunting or skiing outfits are also good at preserving body heat. Just be sure that the colors or patterns are not too loud.
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Packing an old-school Psychatog deck, Pro Tour veteran Antoine Ruel fought his way through the 340-player field to become champion of Pro Tour-Los Angeles 2005.
Ruel eschewed the new Extended format's popular Dredge/Life from the Loam addition to the classic 'Tog build and it proved to be a smart decision. He started his run through the Top 8 by defeating Tsuyoshi Fujita and his Boros Deck Wins 3-1 and never looked back.
Facing current Player of the Year leader Kenji Tsumura in the semifinals, Ruel's classic 'Tog waded through Tsumura's Dredgatog build in rapid fashion. The player whom Antoine's brother Olivier claimed was the best in the world could do little to stop Antoine's march to the finals, falling 3-0.
After waiting nearly an hour as Billy Moreno came back to defeat Chris McDaniel in the other semifinal, Ruel got his crack at the Texan's Blue-green 'Tog Madness deck under the finals spotlights. Ruel never let up, cracking early with Psychatog throwdown thanks to a well-timed Wonder. After a touch-and-go Game 2 win, Ruel used his other game-breaking creature -- Meloku the Clouded Mirror -- to secure the victory and take home the title.
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Slithery, scaly, and downright terrifying is how many people view snakes. Even in Britain, which has only one species of poisonous snake, people are often afraid. Some experts have suggested the snake's public relations problem is based on the fact humans have a hard-wired fear of snakes and other threatening creatures like spiders. Now this argument has found fresh support from a series of experiments showing that, like adults, pre-school age children have a superior ability for detecting snakes compared with innocuous creatures.
Dozens of children aged between three and five years were presented with 3 x 3 grids on a computer screen. Their task was to touch the one square containing a snake as fast as possible while ignoring the squares which all contained either flowers, caterpillars or frogs, depending on the particular experiment. For a comparison condition, the children had to touch the one square containing either flowers, a caterpillar or frog (again, it depended on the experiment), while ignoring all the other squares which contained snakes.
Throughout, the children were significantly faster when the task was to spot a snake from among distractors than when the task was to spot flowers, frogs or caterpillars. Crucially, in many cases the children's parents said their offspring had never experienced snakes and were unaware of the dangerous reputation they have -yet the kids still showed this selective advantage for spotting snakes.
The researchers Vanessa LoBue and Judy DeLoache said their findings were consistent with the idea that humans have a fear module in the brain which is selectively sensitive to evolutionarily relevant threat stimuli. "The evolutionary claim," they said "is that [in the past] individuals who more rapidly detected the stimulus attributes signifying the presence of a poisonous snake or spider would have been more likely to escape the danger and hence to survive and reproduce."
LoBue, V., DeLoache, J.S. (2008). Detecting the Snake in the Grass: Attention to Fear-Relevant Stimuli by Adults and Young Children. Psychological Science, 19(3), 284-289. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02081.x
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Interestingly, monkeys don't appear to have an innate fear of snakes. If raised without exposure to snakes, they do not exhibit a fear response to them. However, if they then observe another monkey show a fear response to a snake, they will afterwards also fear snakes.ReplyDelete
That said, they don't learn fear responses to things like apples, even if they see other monkeys who are afraid of apples. Like so many things, this appears to be part learned, part innate.
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Curation: The end of content aggregation as we know it
When it comes to the problems plaguing digital publishers, a museum is the last place one would think to look for solutions.
However, there is a growing movement asserting that journalists and museum curators have more in common than meets the eye. After all, museum curators, like journalists, are often tasked with condensing complicated subjects into easily digestible and enjoyable exhibits.
"Curation in modern museums is really geared toward the audience," says Mindy McAdams, an online journalism professor at the University of Florida. "It allows the visitor to select what they are interested in. In a museum we have a lot of freedom with how we view the display – it's up to us and our interest level."
As Google and others have pioneered broad-based aggregation of content – taking a big bite out of media site traffic in the process – we're now seeing some movement toward services for publishers that help web users wade through all the sources of information to find what's most relevant to them.
McAdams is one of the voices calling for the end of aggregation as we know it. Content curation presents an opportunity for media sites to win some of the audience they have ceded to content aggregators.
In an age where anyone can be a publisher, it is now up to the editor to curate the best of the massive amounts of content now available in a way that is easily digestible. The role of the journalist is much like a museum curator whittling down, say, 19th century Neo-Classicism, into a single, walkable hallway.
"Aggregation is just bringing stuff together, just collecting stuff and laying it out there. We used to do that more in the old days," says McAdams.
Sitting firmly at the crossroads of this discussion is outside.in, a company whose unofficial motto is "aggregate, curate and network." The hyperlocal service compiles over 30,000 news feeds and adds geotags to them, allowing clients to enter in a location and get the news that is happening around them.
"We believe the ideal way to provide locally aggregated data is not just through a fire hose of content," says Camilla Cho, vice president of business development at the company.
outside.in is one of the next generation content services that doesn't create content. As is the case with Google News, Twitter and Facebook, outside.in presents publishers with every piece of content it aggregates. The difference: outside.in offers curation tools to help publishers make sense of that data and present it in a more relevant context. The company allows local publications to pick the ZIP codes it wants to receive (or exclude) feeds from and allows publishers to filter based on a variety of variables.
"Aggregation is not as valuable to [the reader] unless you can provide curation on top of aggregation," says Cho.
Presenting endless volumes of content is no longer the defining characteristic of a good digital publisher. Instead, the core competency must shift to presenting the most relevant information.
A restaurant reviewer may have been made obsolete by a service like Yelp. But take that same reviewer and ask her to compile a list of the best restaurants in the city and the reviewer will be more likely to place each restaurant in context with the next than the average Yelp user (which, may explain why the average Yelp review is four stars).
Curation around the web
"For most local issues," says McAdams, "you have these ongoing stories and in our old sense of newspapers, you always had this sense that everything starts over every morning."
But now, thanks to the staying power of the online medium, publishers can organize their stories along with third-party sources of information into a larger picture, allowing their audience to make sense of complicated issues like healthcare.
"You build stories in a curated way so that people that already know the past can just slide in," says McAdams. And people that don't know the past can "catch up" using archival information.
The reuse of existing content to support new editorial is what McAdams thinks can justify the practice to those with an eye on the budget. While curation is more labor-intensive at first, packaging articles in context with previous content can increase page views on material that would have previously been relegated to your site's archives.
"Now, you don't have to go to the library or the researcher to dig out the hundred articles from the past ten years," says McAdams. "If you have been connecting the dots all along, it wouldn't be that much work to write a new story."
And, because most people enter a news site through its article pages, a properly curated article can lead visitors to continue clicking around your site. Search engine users often have little allegiance to specific brands but are much more likely to be interested in the topic they searched in Google.
Sites like the BBC often pepper article pages with selected links so users can continue exploring the topic they reached via search engine.
"Every page should be your homepage," says McAdams.


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Osborn Named to Crusader Baseball Staff
Monday, July 28, 2008
Valparaiso University head coach Tracy Woodson announced that Eric Osborn has joined the Crusader baseball staff as an assistant coach.
Osborn was an assistant at Indiana Tech for the 2008 season, where he handled infield duties as well as base running and bunting for the Warriors. He also was the team's first base coach and aided in recruiting as well as served as the program's camp coordinator.
Osborn spent the fall of 2007 as an undergraduate assistant at Purdue University, his alma mater, assisting with day-to-day operations of the baseball program. With the Boilermakers, he worked with the infielders, base runners, and hitters.
A four-year starter at second base for Purdue during his playing days, Osborn was twice named an Academic All Big-Ten selection.
"We're excited to have someone that is ready to come in here and help us take our program to where we want it to be," said Woodson. "He is excited about joining our staff and we think he is ready for the challenge."
Osborn graduated from Purdue in 2007 with a degree in management.
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The New York Times examines a recent study that found "some of the most powerful evidence so far about the factors that seem to drive people's chances of rising beyond the station of their birth, including education, family structure and the economic layout of metropolitan areas."
The Times reported, "Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota."
Outside of large metro areas, the map has patches of deep red across the Southeast, indicating the region has less social mobility than the rest of the United States. It confirms that the American Dream of parents creating a better live for their children is unequally applied in the nation.
Andrew Sullivan notes some interesting observations from the data.


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The North Beach Branch Library was originally located at the site of the Chinatown Branch. That branch was renamed in 1958 and a new North Beach Branch was erected at 2000 Mason Street next to Joe DiMaggio Playground. It was completed on December 16, 1958, and opened to the public on February 5, 1959. Designed by architects Appleton & Wolford at a total cost of $220, 627, the branch was the 26th branch established by the San Francisco Public Library.
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-Group Echoes Public Cry for Personal Finance Course for All MD Students -
WHO: Comptroller Peter Franchot
Members of the House and Senate
Tammy Darvish, Vice President DARCARS Automotive Group
Kevin Murley, teacher, Montgomery Blair High School
Students, Montgomery Blair High School
Geoff Oxnam, Vice President for Operations, Easton Utilities
WHAT: Building on his successful petition drive, Comptroller Franchot will join legislators, members of the business community, educators, students and consumer advocates to rally for passage of financial literacy legislation recently introduced. More than 10,000 people signed a petition calling for comprehensive personal finance education in all Maryland high schools.
Senate Bill 307, sponsored by Senator Katherine Klausmeier, is slated for a hearing on February 15 and would require all Maryland students to take a course in financial literacy before graduation. Similar legislation has also been introduced in the House of Delegates by Delegate Jay Walker. Six Maryland counties already have personal finance requirements for high school students.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 15 at noon
WHERE: Comptroller's Assembly Room
Louis Goldstein Treasury Building
80 Calvert Street, Annapolis, MD 21401
CONTACT: Christine Feldmann, 410-260-6346 (office), 443-336-0215 (cell)


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Wal-Mart officials say the second myth is no myth — they'll break ground when the time's right. That's kind of like the husband who tells his wife he'll get around to cutting the grass when he has time.
Believe it if you wish.
In the meantime, we wonder if Wal-Mart will let Oxford use the Sam's Club land for a while. Maybe put a few ball fields on it, since the others aren't ready.


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Judging from the 200 pages of documents the Portland Press Herald obtained concerning Gov. LePage's unspecified role in unemployment benefit proceedings ("Documents: Hearing officer felt pressured by LePage," April 18), any allegations against the governor appear to be "just the tip of the ice cube."
Portland Press Herald coverage of concerns over Gov. LePage's role in state unemployment appeals hearings is part of a pattern that shows the newspaper's "palpable and unseemly" disdain for the governor, a reader says.
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It's too bad the fragile feelings of hearing officers Wayne Reed and Linda Rogers-Tomer have been hurt.
Beginning with the 2010 gubernatorial campaign -- when Bill Nemitz falsely suggested that LePage would advocate the teaching of creationism in public schools if elected ("Communique to a candidate: Mr. LePage, people are listening," July 30, 2010) -- the Portland Press Herald has been on a relentless crusade to nail LePage.
Although Nemitz seems to have been relegated to writing sob stories, good/bad cops Steve Mistler and Michael Shepherd alternate the beat.
Viewed from a distance, your contempt for Gov. LePage is palpable and unseemly; it does nothing to advance the interests of responsible government, Mainers or your newspaper.
Get a life.
Walter J. Eno
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King, Collins thanked for putting Mainers' health first
During the recent Senate budget debate and deliberations, several amendments were proposed that were a blatant attack on the health of the American people, the climate and on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 and other air pollution from the nation's power plants.
Congress shouldn't use the budget to cut important public health protections against air pollution, and Maine Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins both deserve our thanks for opposing these amendments.
Sen. King's votes were clearly in line with his stated concerns about climate change and support for the Clean Air Act.
I thank him for voting against approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline ahead of completion of environmental impact review. This pipeline would provide no lasting benefits to the U.S. and only lead to higher amounts of global warming pollution.
Sen. Collins deserves special recognition because she put Maine's interests ahead of party politics by voting against this attack on the Clean Air Act. She was the only Republican to cross party lines and support these common-sense clean air rules.
Unfortunately, Sen. Collins sided with the oil industry in voting for a nonbinding Senate resolution in support of the Keystone tar sands oil pipeline. I was disappointed to learn about her vote.
We need members of Congress to step up and champion clean air standards instead of looking for ways to undermine these vital clean air protections.
Congress should protect the health and well-being of the people they represent, not the economic bottom line of big polluters. I thank Sens. King and Collins for putting the health of Maine people first.
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Maine lawmakers might learn a lesson from Mexico
I lived in Mexico City for more than 30 years. As a journalist, I was interested in governmental legislation. Unions were a major force. Everyone was organized, right down to shoeshine boys.
In 1970, Mexico got its own printing presses and started printing money. By 1976, inflation was out of hand and a devaluation was needed.
A few days prior, a number of sweet deals ensued. A governmental agency could borrow pesos from the treasury, convert 12.50 pesos each to a dollar on Friday and on Tuesday, with a 100 percent devaluation, reconvert the dollars to pesos, pay the government back and pocket the rest.
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Sweet Genius
Posted Sep 14, 2011 @ 6:03 PM
Here's the site. Premieres Thursday, September 22nd, at 10PM.
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That's precisely what attracted me to the show!
He reminds me of the villians from the D list movies from the 50's.
Posted Sep 15, 2011 @ 6:21 PM
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Posted Sep 17, 2011 @ 4:57 PM
Again I find myself searching for a 'like' button RE: one of your posts.
EVERYthing you mention ran thru my mind.
Initially I was apprehensive as they give RB-I a cartoony villian persona in the pre-views.
After seeing RB-I on TC:JD sans villian edit of the previews, I too am intrigued by the pastry-chef-version-of-Chopped vibe I'm sensing.
Edited by AladdinSane, Sep 17, 2011 @ 5:00 PM.
Posted Sep 22, 2011 @ 10:24 PM
I liked all the chefs on this premier episode. I knew the drag queen pie baker was in over his head, and the other three were very well matched. Though the winning chef certainly seemed more creative with her final dessert, but it didn't look terribly appetizing. Three types of "sand" (all dry) with a mousse on the side that Chef Ron didn't mention at all, just seemed like a bit of a tasting plate, not exactly something one would crave. I liked the other chef's mousse, etc., though it did seem possibly too traditional and safe.
I'll be tuning in again. I think the show could use a host, and Ron Ben-Israel should be in the background, lurking as a semi-scary presence until the end, where he smiles benignly (and a little scarily) at the winner.
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I'm meh towards the sci-fi/science vibe I sensed, but the actual challenge I saw was legit.
First impression of RB-I: his mannerisms reminded me of how Jeff Bridges played 'Starman' (I reserve the right to change my mind-what I saw had...a lot going on. Perhaps too much ,as I found my mind wandering trying to figure out WTH was going on RE the female-computer-voiceover and set decor in general).
The pie enthusiast/drag queen/BenStarr mash-up chef bugged.
Xfinity says FN is showing a total of 3 new eps in this 1st week, along w/several re-runs so I'll catch up.
I'm not sure why FN had to cartoon RB-I up; he was entertaining in what I saw of him on the Wonka TC:JD challenge.
At least he didn't play an asshole (sorry Johnny) so that right there buys this show some time with me as they find their footing.
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Posted Sep 23, 2011 @ 1:41 AM
Alina looked to be a smirker when others were being criticized and I hate that. I thought she took the sand inspiration wayyy too literally and I would have sent her dish back without even tasting it.
The show feels like it should be on the Sci Fi channel. I noticed his eyes too - very pretty lashes. Ha. I'd like to see a new host with RBI as a 'normal' judge and at least 1 other and get rid of the conveyor belt (it reminds me of the Lucy chocolate factory episode).
This show is a little strange, the computer voice, that thing he smacks for the ingredients, Ron Ben-Isreal's strange, slow, word by word diction, & is he wearing eye makeup? I think they need more judges or something. Having RBI being the only person isn't really working.
The drag queen pie maker was very annoying. After the 50th 'I don't know what I'm going to do' I wanted to tie him to the conveyor belt and hit reverse.
Posted Sep 23, 2011 @ 10:27 AM
The drag queen pie maker was very annoying. After the 50th 'I don't know what I'm going to do' I wanted to tie him to the conveyor belt and hit reverse.
Come hell or high water, he was going to make a pie, no matter what. You just can't go on a show like this and expect to do that. Perhaps if he had appeared as Aunt Bertha, he would have had more luck.
I wasn't pleased that weepy Alina won, as I thought the other chef displayed more talent over all. She took the theme of sand quite literally, and it wasn't something I'd want to eat. But I'm not a "Sweet Genius".
The computer voice bugs. It reminds me of Plankton and his computer wife, Karen, on Spongebob, except Karen has far more personality. That can go and possibly a live host take its place, as others have mentioned. I did like the fact that the chefs were given info about the theme and the mystery ingredients by the robotic voice.
I remember reading somewhere that Chopped's original concept was quite campy, but they ended up retooling it before airing. It could be that Bob Tuschface and Susie Medusa will get rid of the camp on this show and bring on the sob stories. Personally I can live with the camp, if RBI gets a live host instead of a robot and/or another judge, better than I can sob stories and culinary felonies.
Posted Sep 23, 2011 @ 4:16 PM
OK, so for darkness I thought a chocolate box with a lid. Darkness isn't evil to me; it's mystery. For the Faberge egg, I'd have tried to "jewel" each cell of the waffle; probably cut it thin, formed it so it would keep a shape. For sand, I was disappointed they went with beach themes. I thought of creme brulee, or something sugared and brulee'd. Glass comes from sand.
Posted Sep 23, 2011 @ 5:12 PM
The pie enthusiast/drag queen/BenStarr mash-up chef bugged.
All I could think was that he wants to be the Dame Edna of pie-baking. You're no Pie Man, buddy, nor are you Dame Edna. And he needs to stop taking my grandmother's nickname in vain...
The other Chef Michael...is he really a baseball fan? Because if it's the bottom of the ninth and the bases are loaded and you have a 3-2 count, striking out & hitting a home run aren't your only options. You could be hit by a pitch & drive in a run. You could risk keeping the bat on your shoulder & take ball four and drive in that run... For his dish, I think he did better than a strike out, but not a grand slam, maybe a solid double. He'd have driven in runs. In that WS scenario, then, his team was down a couple of runs and all he did was tie the game again. For someone else to hit out of the park.
I feared Alina's sand was just way too literal, but using the bone saved her concept. Michael did more different things with chocolate, perhaps showed more skill, but she was more creative. Well played. That, and the tears at making the final two - telling the sole judge he's your hero is rarely a bad strategy...
This was fun - I liked the campy tiered cake button thing and the computer voice didn't bother me too much. I'll record & watch again.
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Posted Sep 23, 2011 @ 11:00 PM
Over the top, needs some other judges for conversation, and the contestants need to shut up, but I liked it.
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The challenges are real, the difficulties are real.
Someone watches Judge Judy.... ;)
I thought of this show as an amalgam of Chopped, Iron Chef and Mystery Science Theatre 3000. All in all, a sort of funny gemish that I'll keep watching.
Posted Sep 25, 2011 @ 8:20 PM
("You...are the weakest link!")
Posted Sep 25, 2011 @ 11:57 PM
I like the show, though. The "teacher" contestant tonight COMPLETELY lost his accent after he was eliminated. What is up with that??
Posted Sep 26, 2011 @ 12:19 AM
Yes! (Too bad he doesn't look like Scott Bakula...)
I keep waiting for the voiceover woman to finish one of her sentences with, "and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home
She also sounds like the "Minute to Win It" voiceover.
Posted Sep 26, 2011 @ 6:14 AM
Honestly I've watched the show twice. I wanted to kill this ridiculous contrived judge the first time around. But I felt better about it the second time. I'll give it a couple chances.
And the promos..well there is a fine line between kitchy food show host and serial killer and they may have crossed it.
Posted Sep 26, 2011 @ 8:31 AM
I enjoyed this show...and I don't know why. I'll definitely tune in for the next episode. I think RBI is having fun playing a role after seeing him on TC:JD and looking at his work, but his critiques make sense and are mercifully brief
I totally agree!
I had a feeling the show was going to be a bit strange. The running joke between me and my daughter, before the show even premiered, has been "I'm a -insert whatever silliness-, ARE YOU?" with a flourish of the hand. I think the weird factor is on purpose, kind of like a modern day, bald Willy Wonka and I enjoy the robot compurter voice/explaining the item. We cracked up when "sand" was described, LOL.
I like RBI's critiques and the way he allows the chefs to explain and defend their dishes, even if the explanations tend to be lame.
If they decide to have a co-host they need someone who's a bit of a mad scientist like RBI, but I think he's fine solo.
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Should You Fear Heating Prices This Winter?
NEW YORK ( MainStreet) As winter approaches, most consumers can expect to pay more to heat their homes.
Homes that use natural gas, propane and electricity as a source of heat should expect higher prices, said the Energy Information Administration. Still, home heating oil prices are expected to be cheaper than last winter.
Temperatures for this winter are close to what occurred last year, but the Northeast is projected to be about 3% colder while the West will be 3% warmer, the EIA said. The projected changes in residential expenditures from winter of 2012 are 13% higher for homes that heat primarily with natural gas, 9% higher for propane, 2% higher for electricity and 2% lower for heating oil.
One positive note for consumers is that natural gas prices are falling because of "continued efficiency gains through pad drilling," said Campbell Faulkner, quantitative analyst for OTC Global Holdings.
"Each marginal well drilled in the North American shale adds more gas while being cheaper to complete and more efficient to operate," he said. "This should continue to put pressure on gas especially as switching between coal and gas only allows gas to rise so far before the thermal spread of coal and its efficiency forces gas consumption to fall."
Gas prices through the end of 2013 will likely continue on its "sideways trend bearing any structural shifts in the power markets that are unforeseen," Faulkner said. He estimates that natural gas prices will range between $2.90 to $4.70 for 2014.
Whether natural gas prices have hit the bottom remains to be seen, said Peter Jucha, vice president of Clearview Energy, which serves customers in 13 states.
The mid Atlantic, Midwest and Texas markets are likely to see natural gas prices stabilize, he said.
The increases in gas reserves have contributed to the drop in prices and the increase in price stability, Jucha said. The discovery and the economic benefit of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling of natural gas trapped in underground shale rock has led to shale gas fields being developed successfully in the U.S.
Natural gas prices could increase if colder temperatures persist throughout the winter months, increasing demand, said Chris Faulkner, CEO of Breitling Energy Companies, a Dallas oil and gas exploration and production company.
"In the near term I am still pretty bearish on natural gas prices," he said. "We may see a little tailwind in prices due to temporary supply disruptions, including flooding in Colorado and from the various outages we had at gas processing plants around the country. I think we should all realize $4.00 has become expensive gas in this market. On the bright side, we may see demand grow in the latter part of 2014."


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Right-hander Yu Darvish will start Opening Day for the Texas Rangers against the Philadelphia Phillies, manager Ron Washington said Saturday.
Washington made that proclamation, as long as Darvish is healthy, after a fan asked about it at Rangers Fan Fest at Rangers Ballpark on Saturday morning.
"I think it's obvious," Washington said, via ESPN.com. "It's Darvish."
Darvish received an injection to relieve inflammation in his lower back after the season was over, but the club has received good reports and the 27-year-old is working out as normal this offseason in Japan, according to ESPN.
Darvish was 13-9 with a 2.83 ERA in 209 2/3 innings last season, and he led the league in fewest hits allowed per nine innings (6.22) and strikeouts (277).
Darvish was the runner-up in the AL Cy Young Award balloting last year.


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I made some joke about the sophisticated equipment it took to fix these fancy new fridges. "A Coke bottle," I said.
"That's not a Coke bottle," he replied.
He was right. It didn't say "Coke" on the label. "But this is the South. All the sodas are called 'Coke,' aren't they?" I asked.
"Yes, but that's not a Coke bottle. That's a Dr Pepper bottle," he said.
"Trust me," I replied. "I'm a Texan. I know the difference between a Coke and a Dr Pepper."
"I know you're a Texan." He grinned at me. "I read the paper."
I forget sometimes that I live my family's life in public.
This can be a good thing. I have friends I've never met. Y'all send me the sweetest, funniest emails. After I wrote about my 50th birthday, one of you dropped off a birthday card for me at the office.
But this can be a bad thing, too. The first time I got recognized was at the grocery store. I was humbled and flattered to think that I had a fan. And then I was filled with dread when I realized I could no longer run to the store in my pajama bottoms.
Last weekend, I started to worry the whole thing had gone too far after my husband went over the handlebars of his bike. He was participating in a charity ride for Alex Trippe, a little boy in Glencoe who has been diagnosed with brain cancer. My husband was about 30 miles into the ride when the front wheel of his bike sheared off, and he pitched onto the pavement at 20 mph.
As his cycling buddies saw him off in the ambulance, one of them said, "Oh, this is going to wind up in your wife's column."
I was horrified. My husband had just had an accident. He could have been seriously injured. I would never joke about that. Would I?
It turned out that my husband was extremely lucky. No concussion. Nothing broken. Only needed a few stitches.
And, well, people were counting on me to write about it.
I was quite proud of myself in the aftermath of the wreck; I reacted like a cyclist's wife. When my husband called me from the ambulance, after determining that he was in no immediate danger, my second question was, "Do I need to go get the bike before I meet you in the ER?"
When I told my daughter about the wreck, her second question was, "Which bike was it?"
The bikes are members of the family, you see. They even live in the house with us, on a bike rack in the den.
Photos of my husband's wrecked bike were making the rounds on Twitter while he was still in the ER.
The owner of Mellow Mushroom has asked if he can put my husband's trashed front wheel on the wall of the restaurant.
My husband, who is no fool, has taken the opportunity to convince me that he really needs to upgrade to a more expensive bike.
He picked out one with a titanium frame, which won't break as easily. Plus, he pointed out, the silver finish will go much more nicely with the furniture in the den.