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Mark Takai(Credit: AP)
Democratic Rep. Mark Takai of Honolulu, a war veteran and longtime legislator known for his bright nature and deep commitment to service, died on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 49. Takai is shown in a photo taken on Nov. 4, 2014.
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Bill Cardille(Credit: AP)
Bill Cardille, a Pittsburgh TV personality nicknamed "Chilly Billy" who hosted late-night "Chiller Theater" as well as "Studio Wrestling," died of cancer on July 21, 2016. He was 87. Cardille is seen in a photo taken in the 1970s.
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Robert Morgan(Credit: AP / Henry Burroughs)
Shown in a January 1975 photo, Robert Morgan, a former U.S. senator who also served in the North Carolina Legislature and as state attorney general, died July 16, 2106. He was 90.
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Garry Marshall(Credit: Getty Images North America / Alberto E. Rodriguez)
Director, writer and producer Garry Marshall, known for creating "Happy Days" and directing many hits including "Pretty Woman," died on July 19, 2016. He was 81 years old. Here, Marshall accepts the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement onstage at the 2014 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony at J.W. Marriott at L.A. Live on Feb. 1, 2014.
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Marion Campbell(Credit: AP / Art Wilkinson)
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Marion Campbell gestures as he describes a play to a Eagles' Brenard Wilson on July 17, 1984, during the first day of two-a-day drills at the team's training camp at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa. Campbell, who played on Philadelphia's last NFL championship team in 1960, died July 13, 2016. He was 87.
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Alan Vega(Credit: Getty Images / Frank Perry )
Singer and punk-rock pioneer Alan Vega performs in the western French city of Nantes as part of during a festival on March 5, 2004. Vega died in his sleep July 16, 2016. He was 78.
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Wendell Anderson(Credit: AP / Glen Stubbe)
Shown in an April 9, 2015 photo, former Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson died July 17, 2016. He was 83.
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Carolyn See(Credit: LA Times via Getty Images / Lawrence K. Ho)
Carolyn See, a memoirist and novelist whose writings captured the untamed world of California, where she spent her life and her accumulated wisdom on moxie in the face of adversity, died July 13, 2016. She was 82.
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Bonnie Brown(Credit: AP / Mark Humphrey)
Shown in a March 25, 2015 photo, Bonnie Brown, one of three siblings whose smooth harmonies as the Browns influenced generations of singers from the Beatles to Lady Antebellum, died July 16, 2016 of complications from lung cancer. She was 77.
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Hector Babenco(Credit: Getty Images / Tiziana Fabi)
Shown in an Aug. 30, 2014 photo, Hector Babenco, the Argentine-born Brazilian director nominated for an Oscar for his 1985 film, "Kiss of the Spider Woman," died July 13, 2016 of a heart attack. He was 70.
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Bernardo Provenzano(Credit: Getty Images )
Bernardo Provenzano, who reputedly led the Mafia's powerful Corleone clan, died July 13, 2016, a decade after his capture in Sicily following decades of hiding in the countryside. He was 83.
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Bud Spencer(Credit: AP)
Italian actor Giuseppe Pedersoli, seen on Nov. 12, 2005, better known as Bud Spencer, a burly comic actor dubbed the "good giant" for punching out bad guys on the screen, often in a long series of spaghetti westerns, died June 27, 2016. He was 86.
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John Brademas(Credit: AP / Dennis Cook)
Former Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), left, and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, talk with ex-Indiana Rep. John Brademas on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 10, 2007. Brademas, a longtime Indiana congressman and former president of New York University, died July 11, 2016. He was 89.
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Mary Feik(Credit: Mickey Welsh)
Mary Feik, an aircraft engineer and pilot, colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, aircraft mechanic, and restorer of historic and classical airplanes, died June 10, 2016 of complications from cancer. She was 92.
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Sydney H. Schanberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and former New York Newsday columnist, died July 9, 2016. He was 82. In this 1973 photo, Schanberg crosses the Mekong River from Vietnam to Cambodia.
Irving Gottesman(Credit: Lisa Miller)
Irving Gottesman, a psychologist whose groundbreaking studies of twins in the 1960s helped reveal a genetic link to schizophrenia, a finding that upended the prevailing but deeply flawed view of the disorder as a consequence of bad parenting, died June 29, 2016. He was 85.
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Goldie Michelson
Goldie Michelson, seen in 2008, believed to be the oldest American person, died July 8, 2016. She was a month short of her 114th birthday.
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John McMartin(Credit: AP / Cabrera)
Angela Lansbury and John McMartin toast backstage at their opening performance of "A Little Family Business" at the Martin Beck Theatre in Manhattan on Dec. 16, 1982. McMartin, the silver-haired, Tony Award-nominated actor whose Broadway career spanned decades, died of cancer July 6, 2016. He was 86.
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Abdul Sattar Edhi(Credit: AP)
Pakistan's renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi, seen on March 16, 2002, who devoted his life to the poor and the destitute, died July 8, 2016 after a prolonged illness. He was 88.
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Robert Saxe(Credit: Jonathan Young)
Robert Saxe, who founded Woodbury-based Research Frontiers Inc., died June 29, 2016 of natural causes. He was 81.
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Noel Neill(Credit: AP / Stephen Lance Dennee)
Actress Noel Neill before a book signing of her book "Truth, Justice, and the American Way, The Life and Times of Noel Neill The Original Lois Lane" during "Lunch with Lois" at Farley's Cafeteria during the annual Superman Celebration, in Metropolis, Ill., on June 13, 2003. The actress who was the first to play Superman's love interest, Lois Lane, on screen died July 3, 2016. She was 95.
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Abner Mikva(Credit: AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
President Barack Obama awards former Illinois Rep. Abner Mikva on Nov. 24, 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Mikva, a liberal stalwart who served in all three branches of the federal government, mentored a young Obama and famously learned firsthand the brazen nature of Chicago's political machine, died July 4, 2016 of bladder cancer. He was 90.
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Abbas Kiarostami(Credit: AP)
Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, seen on Aug. 28, 2008, whose 1997 film "Taste of Cherry" won the Palme d'Or, died July 4, 2016, in Paris, where he had gone for cancer treatment. He was 76.
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Zurlon Tipton(Credit: AP / John Minchillo)
Former Colts running back Zurlon Tipton died June 28, 2016 after accidentally shooting himself at a car dealership. He was 26.
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Michael Cimino(Credit: EPA / Guillaume Horcajuelo )
Film director Michael Cimino arrives at the opening ceremony of the Lumiere 2014 Grand Lyon Film Festival in Lyon, France, on Oct. 13, 2014. Cimino died Saturday, July 2, 2016 at the age of 77.
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Elie Wiesel(Credit: AP / Bebeto Matthews)
Elie Wiesel, seen on Sept. 12, 2012, was the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes. It launched Wiesel's long career as one of the world's foremost witnesses and humanitarians. Wiesel died July 2, 2016. He was 87.
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Jack Taylor(Credit: Enterprise Holdings Inc. / AP)
Jack Taylor, who started a leasing company with seven cars and built it into Enterprise Rent-A-Car, died July 2, 2016. He was 94.
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Caroline Aherne(Credit: AP / Michael Crabtree)
Caroline Aherne, seen on Sept. 21, 199, was a sharp-witted writer and star of the bittersweet working-class comedy "The Royle Family." Aherne died July 2, 2016 from cancer at the age of 52.
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Lee Wesley Gibson(Credit: TNS / Los Angeles Times / Mel Melcon)
Lee Wesley Gibson, seen on July 2, 2010, believed to have been the oldest living Pullman porter, died as he lived -- calm, quiet and in control -- sitting in a chair at home July 2, 2016 with family members at his side. He was 106.
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Rob Wasserman(Credit: AP)
Bass player Rob Wasserman performs with the late singer Lou Reed, left, during taping in Manhattan for an ABC television AIDS Special, "In a New Light." on March 27, 1994. Wasserman, a highly respected musician and composer who performed and recorded with Reed, Neil Young, Brian Wilson and many others, died June 29, 2016. He was 64.
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Alvin Toffler(Credit: AP / Paul Sakuma)
Alvin Toffler, a guru of the post-industrial age whose million-selling "Future Shock" and other books anticipated the disruptions and transformations brought about by the rise of digital technology, died on June 27, 2016. He was 87. Toffler is shown in a photo taken on July 20, 1998.
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Scotty Moore(Credit: AP)
Elvis Presley performs on tour in the summer of 1957, with Scotty Moore on guitar, left, and Bill Black on bass, right. Moore, the pioneering rock guitarist who played on "Hound Dog" and other early Presley hits, died on June 28, 2016. He was 84.
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Wayne Jackson(Credit: EPA / Paul Buck)
Trumpet player Wayne Jackson, who played standout horn lines on rock 'n' roll, soul, R&B and pop mainstays along with Memphis Horns partner and tenor saxophonist Andrew Love, died of congestive heart failure on June 21, 2016. He was 74. Jackson is shown in a photo taken on Feb. 12, 2012.
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Mack Rice(Credit: Getty Images / Paul Natkin)
Mack Rice, the composer of the '60s hit "Mustang Sally" and co-writer of the Staple Singers' landmark "Respect Yourself," died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on June 27, 2016. He was 82.
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Barbara Hazelwood(Credit: Hazelwood family)
Barbara Hazelwood, who worked for the New York City Housing Authority for 35 years, died on June 23, 2016 after battling cancer. She was 79.
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Pat Summitt(Credit: AP / Wade Payne)
Former Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, the winningest coach, among men and women, in Division I college basketball history, died June 28, 2016 as a result of dementia. She was 64. She retired about the time this picture was taken on Jan. 28, 2013 because of early-onset Alzheimer's dementia.
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Goetz George(Credit: EPA/ Martin Athenstaedt)
German actor Goetz George, much beloved for his role as hard-nosed but good-hearted inspector in the country's iconic "Tatort" TV crime series, died after a short illness June 19, 2016. He was 77. The photo is from March 19, 1981.
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Austin Clarke(Credit: AP / Kevin Frayer)
Austin Clarke, seen on Nov. 5, 2002, was an award-winning Barbadian-born author who wrote about the immigrant experience and being black in Canada. Clarke died June 26, 2016. He was 81.
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Michael Herr(Credit: Getty Images)
Michael Herr, seen in 1997, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel "Dispatches" and through such films as "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket," died June 23, 2016 after a long illness. He was 76.
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Bill Cunningham(Credit: AP / Charles Sykes)
Bill Cunningham, seen on Oct. 13, 2012, was a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York. Cunningham died June 25, 2016. He was 87.
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Bernie Worrell(Credit: AP)
Bernie Worrell, seen on March 18, 2002, whose keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire, died of lung cancer June 24, 2016. He was 72.
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Ralph Stanley(Credit: Getty Images / Karl Walter)
Ralph Stanley, seen on April 28, 2012, was a pioneer of the high lonesome style of American Bluegrass music. Stanley died June 23, 2016 as a result of complications from skin cancer. He was 89.
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Goro Hasegawa(Credit: AP)
Goro Hasegawa, seen on Nov. 28, 2007, was a Japanese man credited with creating the Othello board game. Hasegawa died after a long illness June 20, 2016. He was 83.
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Enrique L. Rios(Credit: Facebook)
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25, of Brooklyn, was among those fatally shot at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016.
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Frida Burling(Credit: Getty Images / The Washington Post)
Frida Burling, seen on Nov. 19, 2008, was a Washington, D.C., volunteer for 80 years. Burling, whose beneficiaries ranged from the Junior League and Planned Parenthood to a Georgetown market clerk who delivered her groceries for 50 years, died May 26, 2016. She was 100.
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Sir Charles Thompson(Credit: Getty Images / Barry Philp)
Jazz pianist Sir Charles Thompson, who helped compose the much-recorded bebop anthem "Robbins' Nest," died June 16, 2016. He was 98.
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Victor Stanculescu(Credit: Wikipedia)
Victor Stanculescu, the retired Romanian general who organized the summary trial of communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, died June 19, 2016. He was 88.
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Anton Yelchin(Credit: AP)
Anton Yelchin, seen on Sept. 3, 2014, was a charismatic and rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new "Star Trek" films. Yelchin died in an accident involving his Jeep early Sunday morning, June 19, 2016. He was 27.
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Earl H. Potter III(Credit: AP / Neil Anderson)
Earl H. Potter III, the president of Minnesota's St. Cloud State University, died in a highway crash June 13, 2016. He was 69.
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Paul Cox(Credit: AP / Bikas Das)
Award-winning Australian filmmaker Paul Cox, seen on Nov. 10, 2014, died June 13, 2016. He was 76.
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Tunisians protest in solidarity with 13-year-old who was burned to death in honor killing
A Tunisian man has been accused of burning his 13-year-old daughter on 28 May in the Tunis suburb of Cite Ibn Khaldoun because she was walking home from school with a male class mate. The young girl named Aya succumbed to the fourth-degree burn wounds on 7 June after a nine-days-fight in hospital.
The incident has been framed an "honor killing" - a crime committed when a family member is considered to have brought shame on the family - and Aya's father has been arrested. Unlike in many other countries across the region these crimes are "almost unheard of" in Tunisia, reports Tunisia Live.
A Facebook page, "I Too Was Abused" has been created in solidarity with Aya's cause and against gender based violence and the Twitter hashtag #moi_aussi_j_ai_été_violentée ("I too was abused") encourages women to raise their voice against all forms of violence.
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How does it work out that his father is Lawyer Ron? Having raced in the 2013 Kentucky Derby means he was foaled in 2010. Lawyer Ron was euthanized in July 2009. So how can Itsmyluckyday be Lawyer Ron's son?
What's his running style? Is a pace setter/presser, close stalker or closer?
Any news on Uncle Vinny? I don't see him as a probable on any of the major stakes races or have seen him race yet in 2016.
East Bracket: 1-Secretariat vs. 8-Pleasantly Perfect OR Silver Charm (Race in)
4-Dr Fager vs. 5-Zenyatta
3-Native Dancer vs. 6-Skip Away
2-Seattle Slew vs. 7-Easy Goer
West Bracket: 1-Citation vs. 8-Smarty Jones
4-Seabiscuit vs. 5-Damascus
3-Cigar vs. 6-Sunday Silence
2-American Pharoah vs. 7-Bold Ruler
North Bracket: 1-Man O' War vs. 8-Stymie
4-Buckpasser vs. 5-Colin
3-Forego vs. 6-Tom Fool
2-Kelso vs. 7-Real Quiet
South Bracket: 1-Count Fleet vs. 8-Holy Bull
4-War Admiral vs. 5-Whirlaway
3-Spectacular Bid vs. 6-Curlin
2-Affirmed vs. 7-Ruffian
8 horses in each of the 4 brackets
So, who wins it all?
What's going on with him? Is he racing in the Breeders Cup because I haven't heard about him since he ran second in both the big sprint races at Saratoga.
If Beholder beats American Pharoah you can stanp her as the greatest female race horse of all time. I know she doesn't have the winning percentage of Zenyatta or Ruffian but she is very stellar and beating a TC Winner would be a huge accomplishment for a female.
I thought he just won at Saratoga at 45-1. Wrong horse?
I guess they might have performed emergency surgery on her and saved her (to let you in on it, she buckled down after her race at saratoga on 8/6 and slammed into the rail, severely ripping her skin, and she had to be taken off by equine ambulance)
I was wondering, Who would win in a race between Om, Upset and Onion?
If Daredevil does not run in the Kentucky Derby, Todd Pletcher will have trained 3 straight Champagne Stakes winners, all missing the Kentucky Derby. And the win in that race could seem deceiving because Upstart, the runner-up, is headed for Louisville, after a decent 3 year old season.
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Sheriff endorses deputy to replace him
Published: Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 12:34 a.m.
Henderson County Sheriff George Erwin has endorsed deputy Rick Davis in a three-way Republican race for his position, citing the captain's extensive training and years in the military.
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Sheriff George Erwin will retire June 1 and has recommended chief deputy, Cmdr. Eddie Watkins, to finish the remaining six months this term.
Watkins said he will not seek election for the next full term, which begins in December.
Three contenders have formed campaign committees. A fourth, Vicci Bane, recently closed hers.
Heres who they are and their status as candidates:
Tim Griffin
Age: 41
Job: lieutenant with Hendersonville Police Department
Background: 21 years with city police, elementary and middle school DARE teacher, school resource officer, known for his Special Olympics fund-raising by camping on a billboard, 25 years with Blue Ridge and Valley Hill Fire departments.
Michael Brown
Age: 36
Job: state probation officer
Background: 10 years as probation officer, ran in 2002 Republican primary against Erwin, getting 41 percent of the vote.
Rick Davis
Age: 40
Job: captain in sheriffs department
Background: worked in the Charlotte Police Department, then the sheriffs department for 16 years, 24 years active and reserve duty with the Army and Air Force reserve.
Erwin, who will retire June 1, said he is not making the endorsement in his official capacity as the county's top law enforcement officer, but rather as a private citizen.
"I truly believe in each person's right to make their own decision, and I would not, in any way, want to have undue influence on the men and women who serve with me in the Sheriff's Office. But I will make my personal choice, and that of my wife, Kathy, known, and explain the reasons for this choice," he said in a written statement.
Hendersonville Police Chief Donnie Parks declined to endorse Lt. Tim Griffin, who is also running, saying he supported his long-term employee, but feels it's inappropriate for him to make a public political statement. Unlike the sheriff who is elected, the chief's position is appointed.
Griffin and the other candidate Michael Brown said it was no surprise Erwin is supporting his deputy. The move would have no effect on their campaigns, they said.
Davis said he was flattered by the sheriff's endorsement but wanted voters to judge him on his own credentials.
Erwin cited Davis' training, including anticipated associates degrees in criminal justice, certification in corrections and graduation from the FBI Academy, which only a handful of officers from the mountains have done.
He also pointed to his current work supervising 44 people in the department and his two overseas tours with the military, one in Saudi Arabia for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
"In Rick, I see a man who is a proactive, action-oriented visionary," he said. "Well-rounded and well-grounded, Rick Davis is a man who is prepared for service as sheriff."
Unlike the bitter 2002 race, this year's contest has been marked so far by civility, with candidates going out of their way not to step on toes.
"Certainly the sheriff has a right to endorse any candidate," said Brown, a probation officer who ran against Erwin four years ago.
Griffin, a veteran police lieutenant, said he wanted "no negative spin on this."
"I have no problem with (Erwin) supporting him. He is a Henderson County citizen, and he can support whoever he likes as a voter," he said.
Erwin also took pains to avoid negative tones, saying the endorsement was "in no way intended to diminish the other candidates."
Earlier this month, the sheriff offered a different tone, saying Griffin and Davis would provide "a quality campaign," but not mentioning Brown or former deputy Vicci Bane, who has since closed her campaign committee. Candidates who want to raise money are required by law to form committees.
Confusion existed over if and when Erwin would make a public endorsement.
Jan. 11, when he announced his retirement, Erwin said he would take such an action as a civilian, not as sheriff. Considering the timing of his June 1 retirement and the May 2 primary, such an endorsement appeared to come too late. But this week, Erwin said he was misunderstood. He would make an endorsement, but would do it outside his office, from his home. The Thursday statement came as an e-mail from his personal account.
Though less public, Davis' opponents have received support from other top law enforcement officials.
In 2002, Brown was widely identified with former Sheriff Ab Jackson, who died this month. Brown said Jackson urged him to run this year.
Parks said he supports his officer, but believes city policy and common sense should keep him from making an endorsement. He attended Griffin's Jan. 28 campaign kickoff, but said he was only there to visit one of his officers.
Hendersonville City Manager Chris Carter said city policy only prevents employees from engaging in political activity during work time and it should not stop an endorsement from the chief. But Parks said he did not believe he could separate his civilian and official roles.
"The community ought to know the city Police Department is going to be free of politics," he said.
On Thursday, Griffin pointed to his own experience in fire and rescue, community involvement and his work "in every division you can work in at the police department." That includes 12 years as commander of the Special Weapons and Tactics Team or SWAT.
"My whole career has been built around working here in the community. You have to intertwine that with police work, so people know you and what you are like," he said.
Brown has noted his political experience, including a good first-time showing when he garnered more than 40 percent of the primary vote against the two-term sheriff.
Thursday, he talked about his time working as a state officer and highlighted his education. Brown, the only candidate with a diploma from a four-year university, has a bachelors degree from Western Carolina University.
"I bring a degree in criminal justice to the table, as well as work experience in law enforcement," he said.
Davis, meanwhile, said he was flattered by support from Erwin, who "has given the county such a solid foundation of law enforcement."
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Despite decades of scientific work on the Florida panther, accurate population estimates have been difficult to come by due to the big cat's low numbers, elusiveness and secretive nature. Nevertheless, USGS scientists in collaboration with North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method to accurately estimate population size and density for this mysterious felid, the last remaining puma subspecies in eastern North America and one of the most endangered felids world-wide. Other endangered felids include: jaguars, tigers, leopards, etc.
Drs. J. Andrew Royle, Richard Chandler, and Allan F. O'Connell of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center were the principal investigators on a research team that used camera trap data to develop a revolutionary spatial capture-recapture model that not only generates statistically reliable density estimates, but does so even when individual animals are not identifiable, as was the case for the Florida panther. This work is easily applicable to other species that lack distinguishing marks and can be replicated for studying other threatened or endangered species, especially large carnivores that exist at low densities and are difficult to sample. In addition, these models can be applied to a variety of non-invasive sampling techniques, such as remote photography that limit the risk of death or injury to both animal and handlers. The spatial capture-recapture model requires that only a small number of individuals within the local panther population be "marked" or "collared" (i.e., identified).
In this particular study, the capture-recapture model was used to assist Florida's wildlife managers to collect an estimate of population size and density for a portion of the panther's range in southwest Florida, where the Army Corps of Engineers is rehabilitating the natural habitat that is immediately adjacent to the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, one of the last remaining strongholds of this endangered felid.
Brief Background of the Florida Panther
The Florida panther is a member of the cat family (felidae) and is recognized as a subspecies of puma. Males can reach up to seven feet in length and 160 pounds, whereas the females are generally smaller: 6 feet and 110 pounds. Their large size can be attributed to their predatory diets consisting of white-tailed deer, as well as feral hogs, rabbits, raccoons, armadillos, birds, and occasionally alligators. Though not as big as the males, female panthers often live up to twice as long in the wild (10-12 years). Male panthers have a tendency to kill one another in the wild because their current habitats are smaller than their home range of 200 square miles, whereas females tend to have smaller ranges of 75 square miles. The leading cause of death for the panther is road kill. Given the declining population of males and the 92-96-day gestation period (pregnancy), reproducing only 1-4 kittens per litter is not enough offspring to sustain the declining population, especially with the high kitten mortality rate.
The Florida panther has been considered endangered since 1967, and qualifies for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973. Since its listing, the species has remained endangered, and in the early 1990s the population reached a low between 20-30 individuals. Before this new tracking model, it was difficult to determine the appropriate conservation efforts needed to save the species because the population number was unknown.
Not only is the Florida panther the inspiration behind one of the state's two National Hockey League franchises, but along with their other cat brethren, have been inhabitants and walking the planet for nearly 30 million years.
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Advances in non-invasive sampling techniques, along with enhanced modeling, can improve the understanding of animal populations and how they exist in the natural world. Accurate population numbers as well as ensuring safe research practices can help preserve the existence of the Florida panther and other endangered species throughout the world.
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In addition to USGS, North Carolina State University, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida all played key roles in this study.
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|U.S. Justice Dept. accuses Apple and big publishers in e-Book Price-fixing Scheme
The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit on 11 April 2012 against Apple Inc. and five of the nation's "Big Six" publishers. It alleges they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-Books. The U.S. Justice Department also filed terms of a proposed settlement in the suit with Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Apple, Penguin and Macmillan have not accepted these settlement terms. The DOJ will continue to litigate its antitrust suit against them.
"For the growing number of Americans who want to take advantage of this new technology, the Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that e-books are as affordable as possible," Attorney General Eric Holder told a press conference on 11 April 2012. "As part of this commitment, the Department has reached a settlement with three of the nation's largest book publishers – and will continue to litigate against Apple, and two additional leading publishers – for conspiring to increase the prices that consumers pay for e-books."
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• Terminate its current contracts with Apple within seven days of the court's acceptance of the settlement;
• Terminate any other contracts with e-Book retailers that restrict the retailer's ability to set final prices for books or contain a "most favored nation" provision prohibiting price competition, as soon as possible;
• Renegotiate contracts with Apple and other retailers, with a two-year prohibition on any contract that prevents retailers from discounting retail prices
• Notify the Department of Justice before entering into any joint ventures between it and another publisher related to e-Books;
• Designate an antitrust compliance officer and provide the DOJ with a copy of its agreements with any e-Book retailers quarterly for five years.
Furthermore, any future agreements between the settling publishers and e-book retailers will have to observe serious restrictions, at least for a time. For two years, e-Bookstores must be permitted to discount retail prices of books at their own discretion. Read the full article on Wired dot com
— Apple CEO Tim Cook enforcing Slave Labor in China for Apple on 29 March 2012 —
The scale is really staggering. Apple's devices are built in plants owned by Foxconn. It is typical to see 20,000, 25,000, 30,000 workers slaving away in enormous rooms. These people work silently on giant production lines where high-volume output is demanded. There is no talking allowed, no interaction with others, and no laughing is allowed. These things slow down the line. AND NO Waving Back to Apple CEO Tim Cook is allowed!!!
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
An explosion on 20 May 2011 at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China, killed four people and injured 18. It built iPads. The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening. An eruption of fire and noise twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.
When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of iPad cases a day.
Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt. As the injured were rushed into ambulances, one in particular stood out. His features had been smeared by the blast, scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose.
In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.
However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems.
Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. Under-age workers have helped build Apple's products, and the company's suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors.
More troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers' disregard for workers' health. Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. Within seven months last year, two explosions at iPad factories, including in Chengdu, killed four people and injured 77. Before those blasts, Apple had been alerted to hazardous conditions inside the Chengdu plant, according to a Chinese group that published that warning.
"If Apple was warned, and didn't act, that's reprehensible," said Nicholas Ashford, a former chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, a group that advises the United States Labor Department. "But what's morally repugnant in one country is accepted business practices in another, and companies take advantage of that."
There have been a series of suicides at Foxconn where, month after month, workers would go up to the roofs of the buildings and throw themselves off the buildings. The fact that people were choosing to kill themselves in an incredibly public manner is really relevant. It demonstrates the pressures of Apple's production lines. It's a very intense environment. Two years ago Apple required Foxconn to install anti-suicide safety nets around all their buildings where iPads and iPhones are made. These Apple-worker suicides have continued.
Apple is not the only electronics company doing business within a troubling supply system. Bleak working conditions have been documented at factories manufacturing products for Dell, Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M., Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba and others.


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New Oak Park hat shop wants to cast its spell on the hatless
Resurrecting the magic of hats at HooDoo Headwear
George Dunlop is not just out to sell fine hats in his new store, HooDoo Headwear; he wants to give customers the same magical, almost life-changing experience he had when he was introduced to fashionable hats about five years ago.
"We're opening the store to introduce and resurrect the magic of wearing a hat," Dunlop said. "We've called the business HooDoo Headwear because hoodoo is a kind of magic and wearing a hat casts a spell on you."
Dunlop, who has been involved with fashion and design his entire adult life, plans to open the store, 111 N. Marion St. in Oak Park, with his wife this week. The grand opening party will be held in mid-August. The store will offer traditional and designer hats in both men and women's styles, ranging in price from $35 to $350, he said.
Dunlop plans to offer various headwear styles, including fedoras, porkpies and designer couture hats, primarily of American make, but also products from designers in places like Italy and London.
"We've got a collection of hats here unlike anyone else in the city," he said. "These are designers who are exclusive to HooDoo Headwear that other people don't have for 100 or 200 miles."
Dunlop said he hopes to help customers understand and embrace the variety, along with the good feeling someone gets wearing a hat that fits. The right hat serves as an extension of someone's individual style, he said, and if chosen well, provides a confidence boost. He plans to let customers explore the store to find the perfect hat that can give them the type of transformation he felt when he first started wearing hats.
"There are a thousand different kinds of hats for a thousand different kinds of people," Dunlop said. "You've got to find the hat that matches your personality and your individual look and the event you are trying to wear it to."
He is available to help customers narrow their choices, but he isn't in business to sell people anything that's not right for them.
"I encourage people to just express themselves and find that little something different that nobody else has," said Dunlop, adding that his ultimate goal for the store is to bring "new fun and excitement" to the older tradition of fashion in headwear while carving out his own spot in Oak Park.
"We want to establish a presence in the neighborhood, get to know everybody and maybe see if we can make a couple of bucks in the process," he said.
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Posted: July 11th, 2013 1:02 AM
Brave move! I'm not sure how they're going to be able to keep up with monthly rent just be selling hats... I'm sure the hipsters and metro-sexual males about town will all into this, but are there enough of them to help sustain this store over the long term? I maybe wrong, but the fedora seems like a flavor of the month type thing... but maybe there is this die hard male contingent of Oak Park that just has to wear fedoras.
Bridgett from Oak Park
Posted: July 11th, 2013 12:50 AM
My husband doesn't wear these kind of hats. His birthday is Monday and after reading this story, he proclaimed that what he wants for his birthday is a hat from HOODOO. :-)
Speedway from Oak Park, Illinois
Posted: July 10th, 2013 8:21 PM
I love to see men in hats not ball caps. A well dressed man deserves a hat.
David Hammond from Oak Park, Illinois Facebook Verified
Posted: July 10th, 2013 7:07 PM
Almost as happy to see a new hat store opening in Oak Park as I would be to see a new restaurant opening in Oak Park.
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Since we migrated domains we're having problems with mapping a drive using a WebDAV connection in our login script. It's a simple
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I am currently working on an image processing demonstration in java (Applet).
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The algorithm I run creates an NxD float array where: N is the number of pixel in the image and D is the coordinates of each pixel plus the colorspace components of each pixel (usually 1 for grayscale or 3 for RGB). For each iteration of the algorithm it creates one of these NxD float arrays and stores it for later use in a vector, so that the user of the applet may look at the individual steps.
My client wants the program to be able to load a 500x500 RGB image and run as the upper bound. There are about 12 to 20 iterations per run so that means I need to be able to store a 12x500x500x5 float in some fashion.
Is there a way to process all of this data and, if possible, how?
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Hey! My name is Patrick, and in May I will complete my MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School. I also earned my Bachelors in Biology and Mathematics from John Hopkins University.
I have always relished a chance to get people interested in science and math in general - while a lot of the stuff you learn about in school seems trite and boring, it is the obscure material on the fringes of scientific knowledge that is the most tantalizing. In this light, I am eager to serve as your tutor, in order to help you gain mastery over the dry, basic material so that you can understand (and enjoy!) its more advanced applications.
I have always performed well in class myself. I leave EVMS with exceptional licensing exam scores and transcript, including Honors in multiple highly specialized rotations. I graduated from Hopkins just shy of departmental honors, and on the old-format MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) I scored at the 95th percentile. Back in high school, I also scored a 1570 (770V, 800M) on the "old" SAT. Most importantly, as of March 2016 I have accumulated over 300 hours of tutoring experience in math, science, and test preparation, with an astoundingly high feedback score. I credit my success to a fundamentals-first strategy to learning, and teach this approach to my students with excellent results.
My objective, as suggested above, is to get you squared away on the basics, and to do so by emphasizing a more robust understanding of WHY the math or science is what it is, instead of just rote memorization of facts and theories from textbooks. Even the best teacher is limited by subtle differences in perspective and communication. Therefore, I stimulate the student's own curiosity and logical reasoning, and allow them to make connections themselves. Speaking from my own journey, the fruits of such organic discovery last longer than the lessons of even the most gifted lecturer. Furthermore, I encourage independence in study - the best tutors make themselves unnecessary, and I accordingly work at getting my students self-sufficient whenever possible. I am happy to work with you for the duration of your class, or test preparation, but I am thrilled when a student instead tells me at some point they are confident enough to go the rest of the way alone - and indeed, many do (and as you can see from my feedback, it's not out of frustration!) Instead of charging an obscene amount of money and keeping you on the hook as long as possible, I make the lessons about YOU and YOUR needs, or those of your child. Ultimately, I am both eager to and capable of helping you reach your own academic goals! Hey! My name is Patrick, and in May I will complete my MD from Eastern Virginia Medical School. I also earned my Bachelors in Biology and Mathematics from John Hopkins University.
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Patrick helped us when we were in a bind because our son was really struggling with his chemistry class. Our son went into these sessions failing chem, and by fourth quarter he'd brought his grade up to an A with Patrick's commendable tutoring skills. Our son was highly impressed with Patrick's knowledge and ability to make him really understand the material, and we are so grateful that Patrick was able to turn things around for him! Highly recommend!!
Patrick is an exceptionally talented and caring tutor. He has helped my son get far better math grades than I expected given his lack of interest in the subject and unwillingness to study on his own. Patrick has been very flexible with scheduling. He has gone above and beyond in making sure that he was fully prepared to teach the wide-ranging subject areas covered in my son's college math course. My son appreciated Patrick's personable demeanor and patience during his sessions. I would not hesitate to use Patrick again and to recommend him as a tutor.
Patrick has tutored a family member since January of this year, and he has provided us with continuous, high quality tutoring several times a week during this period. He is very flexible in his availability and provides us with less or more time as needed. He is very likeable and is always cheerful upon arrival; he is always ready to start teaching immediately. He is very dependable and has excellent social skills. He clearly has prepared his lessons ahead of time and has a lesson plan which he ties to the class syllabus. He has prepared homework to leave for execution and has even e-mailed additional homework sheets on material that he has just covered to reinforce the concepts presented. He also prepares summary notecards upon request, ahead of time as well as during the tutoring session. His math skills and teaching ability are excellent, and he does a great job of tailoring his tutoring to the needs of the student. I am sure that he would be an excellent tutor in other subjects as well, as math is not his primary educational interest. He is very concise and direct in his teaching style; he really knows his material. He truly is an outstanding teacher and tutor. I highly recommend him as a tutor to others and would use him again in a heartbeat if needed.
Patrick is a very conscientious, professional individual who gives 100 percent to each tutoring session. He is also very knowledgeable about the two subjects (AP Biology & Pre-Calculus) he is tutoring my son in. His personality, approach and teaching technique has allowed him to connect quickly with my son and make the material easier to understand.
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I majored in mathematics at Hopkins, and the subject has never failed to make sense to me. While I have never taken the ACT, I would approach tutoring in the subject the same way I approach SAT math, or any subject in general. We start with the basic framework of understanding, and build on it with practice, practice, practice. If that sounds fair to you, send me a message!
In grade school, I was a straight-A math student. I earned an 800 on both the Math section of the old SAT exam as well as the SAT II. I went on to major at Johns Hopkins University in mathematics (as well as biology), and maintained excellent grades in math courses.
In terms of tutoring, I have received extremely high feedback from math students, including several middle-schoolers and younger, and who almost all showed drastic improvement over the course of sessions.
In high school, I found that algebra 2 was the level where math instruction became higher paced and more intense, where the burden was suddenly much more squarely on the students' shoulders to keep up or fall behind. Regrettably, this leads to a buildup of hostility towards the subject, which is especially unfortunate when it is in algebra 2 and trigonometry that you acquire a substantial range of skills to tackle math problems in everyday life.
Therefore, my intent with students is to emphasize the intuition in the process. Algebra 2 builds on the same concepts and techniques that students are already familiar with - with a friendly, helping hand, they will be surprised by how readily things fall back into place, despite the increased tempo. I have helped students at this level before with excellent results, and I am confident in your ability (or that of your child) to experience the same success!
In my medical masters program at Georgetown and of course in my medical studies at EVMS, I have spent ample time studying the structure of the human body. While there is the inevitably of rote memorization of minutiae, I was initially surprised by how on the largest scale, every region of the body is guided by the same anatomical principles that evolved to give us our best shot at survival. In the end, however, I learned to expect these repeated concepts, and I was able to do better and better with less and less studying as a result. I completed the course at EVMS with a "High Pass", and am more than happy to pass along the education (and clinical applications of such) to you!
Medical school emphasizes a holistic approach to the human body wherever possible, and despite the fascinating array of specializations different tissues employ to meet their different functions, the same basic biochemical framework is present in most cells. I was struck by the choreography of the various reactions and compounds involved in metabolism, and found that the majority of the information made intuitive sense, considering the long-term goal of the cell to survive with minimal support from the rest of the body.
When studying biochemistry, it is ALWAYS essential to keep in mind what purpose each enzyme has for the cell, and how each piece of the cellular puzzle fills its niche exactly. Clinical biochemistry can be a game of memorization if you don't take the time to truly understand what's going on under the hood, but with my help, you will see how simple things can be to grasp, using only common sense. I honored in biochemistry at EVMS, and want to help you attain the same mastery!
-B.A. in Biology/Math
-Masters in Physiology
-Medical student (High Pass and Honors in nearly every core class)
-Received a writing score of "S" on the MCAT (out of J-T - second highest score possible)
Similar to algebra 2 (see my description there for more detail), calculus is another major step in math instruction that equips the student with tools to solve everyday problems with math - in this case, problems of optimization and rates of change in particular. With my guidance, you can see the value of the techniques taught, and will develop an appreciation for their use that could last for years to come, even if calculus is the last math course you ever take (as it is for many students).
An essential part of multiple branches of medicine involves the details of cellular metabolism. This, in turn, is an intricate web of reactions and enzymes which exploit chemical properties of molecules and solvents. In order to honor my medical biochemistry course, and achieve a high score on the MCAT to even get into medical school, it was essential for me to understand essential chemical concepts such as equilibrium and reaction kinetics, acid-base and redox chemistry, and covalent bonding. While the math can be challenging if you try to just memorize problem-solving procedures, the steps make perfect sense if you take a little bit of time to understand why you do things, and do them in the order you do. And with me, that's exactly what we'll do!
As a Mathematics major from Johns Hopkins University, I was required to do coursework involving differential equations. Not only have I done multiple courses involving ordinary differential equations, I have also taken a class in partial differential equations, which is a more advanced topic and requires extension of the more basic techniques. I got a B+ in the latter course, and a B+/A- average across all my math subjects. Differential equations are relevant to many critical topics in chemistry and physics, and with my services, you will be prepared for such coursework.
As an older cousin to multiple children, ranging in age from four to eleven years old, I have extensive experience in both caring for and educating elementary school students. My aunts and uncles have not only left my cousins in my sole custody for days at a time on occasion, but I am also frequently tapped as an informal tutor for them in their current coursework. In fact, just this past April, while I was visiting one side of the family in New Jersey, I spent over a week with two of my cousins in a very fast-paced elementary school. While I was there, their grades improved from solid B averages to nearly straight A's, according to their mother. In fact, I am especially close with my cousins in all regards - they love it when I have a chance to visit, and frequently not only tell me stories about their lives, but also rely on me for advice when they do not feel comfortable going to their parents (please be assured, I never help them keep secrets from their parents, and they know it - it's all a matter of who they feel most comfortable having a direct conversation with).
Not only am I qualified in simply passing along what your child needs to know to succeed in school, but I will also work at establishing myself as entirely trustworthy to both you and your child. In this way, we can have a healthy parent-child-tutor relationship which will prove essential to your child showing the fastest development. Please feel free to request WyzAnt for a background check, for which I have already given prior consent. In addition, I can provide contact information for my relatives on request. I promise I will earn your confidence. Thank you for your time, and I hope to work with you in helping your child to excel!
I have seen fantastic results tutoring students as young as the age of 9, and as a family-centric man with lots of younger cousins, I have plenty of practical experience with younger kids as well! Math is frustrating to most students because it is so demanding, but I think a major remedy is to incorporate the sense of reward one gets when solving everyday problems into the education itself. I delighted the aforementioned 9-year-old with a demonstration of just HOW many seemingly huge gallons of water fit in a bathtub, and inspired him to experiment on his own with the math we studied.
We never lose that youthful fascination with the surprising, and I think it's a shame to not take advantage of it, even with a subject as "dry" as math. There's always a sense of adventure in learning something new - let me show your kid it exists with boring old math too!
As I mention in my "Elementary Math" blurb, I have worked with lots of kids, including as their tutor. A natural topic with kids is school, and science is by far the most common subject selected as their favorite. It makes perfect sense too - from video games to animals to outer space, so many common fascinations in children emphasize contrast and extremes from everyday life. How weird is it that fish live their entire LIVES without breathing a gulp of air, or that we ourselves explore the alien landscape of the moon so very far from everything we know and love.
Kids LOVE hearing about these initially remarkable things, and are really only limited by how often they are exposed to something new. If I'm working with your son or daughter, we'll focus on the most important stuff - the stuff they will get tested on - but I won't hesitate to connect things in textbooks to things they see and wonder about in the world around them. I will never forget my then 10-year-old cousin's reaction when she realized while studying with me that the hair on our heads is an adaptation to heat loss in such a vital body part. Moments like that are worth more than gold to a teacher, and are even more rewarding to the student who experiences them. Science absolutely should be the most exciting and rewarding part of elementary education, and I love to bring out the magic in it!
As not only a Biology major, but also as an aspiring doctor, I had to master genetic analysis over the course of my undergraduate education. In the summer before my senior year at Hopkins, I took a genetics course (no less rigorous than it would have been during a formal school semester), and aced it. An understanding of genetics is essential to understanding both short- and long-term evolution of lineages and populations, and I can help you acquire the essential principles, as well as learn how to apply them in tackling more difficult problems.
Geometry is a tough beast for many, possibly most, high schoolers. Geometry units in elementary math are frequently the most fun for kids - it's all about shapes and formulas, reducing the burden of problem-solving. High school geometry, however, is quite the opposite. The formulas still make an appearance, but they are eclipsed by the saturation of deductive reasoning in the course. Geometry is used by schooling to give students an introductory course in logical reasoning - when viewed in those lens, it suddenly makes far more sense why so many struggle with the subject.
I have possibly worked with more students in geometry than in any other subject. My emphasis in lessons is to focus on reasoning abilities - to walk students through a few "proofs" while explaining every last step in my thought process, and emphasizing the general strategies employed in a wide array of geometry problems. In addition, I emphasize heavy practice - there are a multitude of niche formulae students are expected to know by heart at the end of each unit, and the best help you can give your brain to do this is to practice, practice, practice.
In March of 2010, I took the MCAT, after an intensive nine-month program of entirely independent self-study in which I taught myself the material in first-year Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and O. Chemistry courses, using my old textbooks and notes. Using this program, I improved my score from a 28 (roughly 50th percentile) to a 35 (95th percentile). I was inspired to this course of action by my realization that the MCAT's true objective is to assess scientific competence, and not necessarily prior experience, in order to allow people from "nontraditional" academic backgrounds a chance to someday practice medicine in the United States. Using my own success story as a background, I can assist you in understanding the crucial concepts in these foundational sciences, in order to allow you to test competitively when you are prepared. My strong advice, regardless of whether or not you seek my services, is to set aside at least six months for dedicated MCAT study, which must also include multiple practice examinations. With my help, however, you will get the richest possible preparation for the examination.
Unfortunately, past experience has proven to me that MCAT tutoring is much more intensive than tutoring for other subjects. Therefore, I have to charge between $50-$75 an hour for this subject, with the exact rate dependent mainly on the intensity of help required. We will start at $55, and go from there. Rest assured, however, that you are still getting a better deal than you would from the impersonal and exorbitant prep classes like those offered by Kaplan and their ilk.
Ah, physiology. The bread and butter of biology - the foundation on which we live our incredible lives. Over the course of the past year in medical school, I have basked in the simply marvelous tricks our bodies use to survive - to make the word "survive" even meaningful. From the symphony of hormones cascading in our blood, ebbing and flowing with the hours of the day as they fine-tune our systems to the slightest changes in conditions; to the heart, and its complex orchestration of electrical current and muscle dynamics that make it able to operate INDEPENDENT OF THE BRAIN; I can hardly believe I still have three more years of medical education left to travel, and can hardly wait to see what other mysteries lie over the horizon.
In the meantime, however, I want to take you on a tour of God's/evolution's finest masterpiece, and show you how the body manages to keep itself going day after day - a feat that seems even more unbelievable when each detail you learn reminds you of yet another challenge our bodies are forced to overcome, that we always seem to overlook. From a chemical perspective, it's almost surreal to digest just how unlikely our survival would seem to be, and yet contrast that with the reality of us living comfortably for decades, with little conscious inkling of just how many balls the body is juggling to keep itself going. It's an epic tale, and one well worth enjoying.
In grade school, I was a straight-A math student. I earned an 800 on both the Math section of the old SAT exam as well as the SAT II. I went on to major at Johns Hopkins University in mathematics (as well as biology), and maintained excellent grades in math courses.
In terms of tutoring, I have received extremely high feedback from math students, including several middle-schoolers and younger, and who almost all showed drastic improvement over the course of sessions. Much of my math tutoring experience has been directed towards test preparation, giving me the background necessary to help you prepare for this critical test!
Highly-rated tutor in math/science; Honors-level medical graduate