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2011 National League Trade Deadline Discussion
Now that the 2011 All-Star Game is in the books, it's time to start thinking about baseball's second season. No, not the pennant race. There's another very important time in the baseball year, one that can at the same time make or break teams with championship aspirations while setting organizations up for dynastic runs in future years. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Trading Season.
The importance of July moves cannot be overstated. Last year, the Rangers shipped a haul to the Mariners to land Cliff Lee, who struck out 21 Tampa Bay Rays in two Divisional Round wins before shutting out the Yankees in the ALCS (another 13 Ks in that start) and taking the Rangers to the brink of their first championship. It was the second straight championship run for Lee, who was also acquired by the Phillies in 2009 and brought them to the World Series.
While several teams are looking for a Lee-like push to the next level, others want to trade established stars for prospects that could potentially be part of the team's next title run. That's what the Indians were thinking nine years ago when they traded Bartolo Colon to land Lee, as well as Grady Sizemore and Brandon Phillips.
More recently, the Astros sent signature player Lance Berkman to the Yankees at last year's trading deadline. They were able to land their current closer, Mark Melancon, in the trade. Perhaps the best pitcher dealt last July will end up being Tyler Skaggs, a key reason the Diamondbacks were willing to deal ace Dan Haren to the Angels.
Which players could make for October heroes this year and franchise players down the road? Let's preview the National League in what's likely to be a flurry of activity right now. The American League rundown will come in a second article.
Philadelphia (3.5 games ahead): The Phillies are in the market for bullpen help, though getting Brad Lidge back without trading anything should provide the team a big boost. The team could also use a righty outfielder to pick up some of the slack of lefties Raul Ibanez and Domonic Brown. They could go after Ryan Ludwick or Josh Willingham. Teams will likely try to kick the tires on prospect pitcher Jarred Cosart and hitter Jonathan Singleton.
Atlanta (3.5 games behind): Injuries have stretched the Braves thin in the outfield, and although they have limited payroll flexibility, they could find enough room to add a guy like Willingham. Brandon Beachy comes up as a potential piece that could be moving in a deal, but I would expect they want a better player for Beachy, who should be a quality rotation guy for years. Teams trading hitters with expiring deals could go after Sally Leaguer Carlos Perez, who's sporting an ERA over 5.00 right now.
New York (11 games back): The Mets didn't want to sell out on 2011 if they had a shot at contention — as I was writing that sentence, news broke that the Brewers acquired Rodriguez from the Mets for a couple PTBNLs. The team should also make a concerted effort to shed Carlos Beltran, picking up enough of his contract to get a quality prospect in return. Beltran could be a great add for the Rangers, allowing Josh Hamilton to slide to left field. The Giants are known to have interest. I don't anticipate Jose Reyes going anywhere (even when healthy), as the team will likely make every effort to lock him up long-term or get draft pick compensation if they can't.
Washington (11.5 games back): It's doubtful the Nationals can add any key prospects with any of their expiring guys, unless a team falls in love with Livan Hernandez (they won't). Laynce Nix should bring them back a decent minor leaguer. Ivan Rodriguez could latch on with a team desperate at the position.
Florida (14 games back): If the Marlins want to shed a little salary, they could potentially make Ricky Nolasco available. While he would likely take at least one can't miss prospect close to the majors to deal, he could be a worthwhile gamble for teams intrigued by his great peripherals despite mediocre ratios. Would the Cardinals trade a guy like Carlos Martinez for a couple years of Nolasco? Could he land someone like Martin Perez from Texas?
Milwaukee (tied for first): The Brew Crew fired the first big shot of the July season by acquiring Rodriguez, who should move into a setup role for the team (at least until John Axford suffers a meltdown or two). Expect the Brewers to look for a utility bat as well — maybe Omar Infante's versatility (if not his numbers) could intrigue them.
St. Louis (tied for first): While the Cardinals are obviously set up to be buyers at the deadline, speculation has come about that they could be open to moving young centerfielder Colby Rasmus. They'll definitely be looking for bullpen help, and if the Padres could somehow turn one or two of their relievers and a middling prospect into Rasmus, they'd feel like they hit the jackpot.
Pittsburgh (one game back): The Pirates surprisingly find themselves in the thick of a pennant race (at least for now), but don't expect them to deviate from their long-term plan and start selling potential franchise pieces for an ill-fated playoff run. If they do, they have plenty of offensive holes to fill. If I were in the management's shoes, I'd be looking to sell high on Paul Maholm, who's shaved over two full points off his ERA this year. If some team comes calling on Jeff Karstens, I would certainly listen as well.
Cincinnati (four games back): The Reds may be thinking about trading Yonder Alonso as a package for some pitching help — they reportedly have their eyes on Ubaldo Jimenez. One of the catching tandem of Devin Mesoraco or Yasmani Grandal could also be on the table. At that price, the Rockies would certainly have to listen. If the team decides to sell, Ramon Hernandez could net them a decent haul, and Francisco Cordero could pick up a solid prospect.
Chicago (12 games back): Another promising season appears down the tubes for the Cubs, who could make Carlos Pena's trip in the Windy City a short one. The Giants and Rangers could certainly use an upgrade at the position, and the Cubs would likely be willing to eat salary to get a nice prospect in return. Kerry Wood should be on the move, especially with several contenders in need of bullpen help. Aramis Ramirez could bring back a very nice haul if the team makes him available. Reed Johnson is a cheap fourth outfielder for a potential contender.
Houston (19 games back): The Astros aren't likely to make many moves with a pending change in ownership. Brett Myers and Jeff Keppinger could find themselves the target of multiple teams. If anyone is crazy enough to take some of the rest of Carlos Lee's deal off Houston's hands, they'd rejoice.
San Francisco (three games ahead): The Giants need some kind of spark on offense, as they rank 13th in the National League in scoring, ahead of only San Diego. They could really use help at every offensive position. Carlos Beltran would be a major add, as would Aramis Ramirez. Even lesser names like Ramon Hernandez or Wilson Betemit could help. The Giants could consider making Brandon Belt or other top prospects available in an effort to win now.
Arizona (three games back): The Diamondbacks will be on the lookout for bullpen help, and with a little bit of payroll flexibility (they're almost $20 million under last year's payroll), they could be serious contenders for anyone on the market. Don't expect them to deal top pitching prospects Tyler Skaggs or Jarrod Parker, even with the haul they got in the first round of this year's draft. However, Paul Goldschmidt's emergence could make them consider dealing a first basemen for a reliever. The Rays would certainly jump at the chance to solidify the first base position by dangling Kyle Farnsworth if they feel a Wild Card run is out of grasp.
Colorado (8.5 games back): The Rockies are likely on the outside looking in this year, unless they make a nice July run before the deadline (not out of the question). It would take a serious platter of blue-chippers to consider moving Ubaldo Jimenez, under team control for two more option years. Only Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki are safe from a potential Colorado fire sale. Ty Wigginton's power and versatility would definitely help a contender like the Brewers.
Los Angeles (11 games back): Like the Rockies, the Dodgers had high aspirations for this year, with a solid offensive lineup and a great rotation looking to lead them to the playoffs. At 10 games under .500, they're all but out of it. They did, however, kick off trading season with their acquisition of Juan Rivera, who is likely nothing but a bench bat at this point. With their ownership problems, it isn't likely they'll be too much more involved in the feeding frenzy. However, Hiroki Kuroda would likely be plenty attractive to teams as one of the top starter's on the market. Aaron Miles has been a killer in spot-duty, so he could grab the Dodgers a middling prospect.
San Diego (12 games back): We save the best (bullpen) for last. Heath Bell is the jewel of the trading deadline right now. While casual baseball fans likely fell in love with Bell during the All-Star festivities thanks to his hi-jinx, playoff contenders have been falling over each other trying to add Bell to their bullpens. Ryan Ludwick is also getting some interest as an affordable outfield bat, while the Padres could also conceivably trade elite setup man Mike Adams for a very good prospect or two. The Padres restocked their farm system over the winter by dealing Adrian Gonzalez — look for them to be major players in July as well.
R.J. White is the head writer at the Fantasy Baseball Cafe and Fantasy Football Cafe has also written for FanHouse. You can follow R.J. on Twitter here.


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4GB database with two "big" tables: 1.5 million records, table with almost 1 million records, and each month, import about 300,000 records, also delete some old records. database goes up to 5 or 6 GB and the transaction log goes up to 7 or 8 GB. If dbcc shrink file is used, then data file and log file size goes down to 4 GB and 3 GB, respectively. Should dbcc shrink file be used regularly?
By using the "simple" recovery model, or doing a log backup periodically, you can keep the log size capped at some manageable levels, such as 6GB. Then I would not even attempt to shrink the log because it would just grow back to the max size needed for the insert job. It is not good from a performance point of view to grow file on demand and it will cause more disk fragmentation.On the other hand, it sounds like you might benefit slightly by having 2 filegroups dedicated for the two big tables. Space utilization should improve if big tables have their own dedicated files. It will also make dbcc shrinkfile faster if you ever need to do that. Again, as long as you can manage the database file size and utilization at certain level, I would not do shrinkfile either.


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Communicating Christianity to the Ashanti Tribe: A Study in Cross-Cultural Communication
Date: December 1972
Creator: Davenport, Donald Dewayne
Description: The problem with which this study is concerned is that of identifying the significant variables involved in cross-cultural communication and applying these concepts in communicating the Christian faith to Ashanti tribe members of central Ghana in West Africa.
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Description: According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
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Traditional Medicine: a Blessing or Bane? The Case of Ghana
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Creator: Sakyi-Addo, Isaac
Description: The study examines the socio-demographic characteristics of Traditional Medical Practitioners in Ghana. Their attitudes towards collaboration with biomedical practitioners, their associations, and regulation is also discussed. Data for the study was obtained from a Survey of Traditional Medical Practitioners in Ghana.
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we currently use an in house developed login script system. There is a pretty admin GUI tool that exports config files, and a dll called from a vbs login script that processes the config files.
The current system is now getting a bit clunky, it was written in vb 6, runs a bit slow and lacks some functionality the helpdesk would like, so we have been tasked with re-writing it.
I was wondering if anyone else ran any similar in house login applications, had any good ideas about the best way to run them, if there are any apps out there now that do the job etc
UPDATE We are trying to do the normal login script functions, map drives, merge reg keys, copy files etc. We are large organization and a single script would be to large to handle all the different roles we have (they are all different between sites/depts etc).
We need a single point to manage it all from, what we have now does work but needs updating


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So I got caught driving under suspension twice all because of the unpaid fine is there any way to get it back I'm currently serving a 2 year suspension can I shorten it to a year anything
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You should have your entire driving record reviewed by an attorney who has expertise in the area of license restoration. The attorney may be able to file an appeal to open the Two suspension cases and attempt to have one or both of them changed to a non suspension case. A lot of work is involved but it is possible to get it done.
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Slowdown Generates Static for XM, Sirius
While XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. SIRI 0.69 % await final regulatory approval of their proposed merger, the already difficult task of persuading consumers to pay for premium radio service could be growing tougher.
When the merger was announced 15 months ago, some analysts were predicting higher growth rates for both companies. Since then, the companies have been in a holding pattern. The Justice Department signed off on the deal in March, but the Federal Communications Commission has yet to rule.
During the long waiting period, things have changed for the worse. The nation's only two satellite services are growing slower than previously while the broader economy is in a slowdown. Fewer people have been buying new cars, which is where the companies derive the bulk of new subscribers. And as higher fuel and food costs take their toll, analysts worry consumers will quickly ditch discretionary services such as satellite radio.
Aside from the merger itself, "the biggest worry would be whether the increase in gas prices and the weakening consumer start to show up in churn rates," says Kit Spring, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, referring to the number of consumers who cancel the service. So far, he says, consumers appear to be holding on, but he is keeping a close eye on the situation given the current economy.
One area falling far short of projections is the number of consumers buying satellite radio in stores, rather than acquiring it factory-installed as part of a new car purchase. In recent years, most analysts predicted retail sales would rise every year. In fact, they declined 35% last year.
And compared with other emerging entertainment media, satellite radio doesn't seem to be catching on as fast with the American public.
Last year, 21 million Apple iPods were sold in the U.S., according to Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray. About 54 million Americans listen to Internet radio every week, according to Sean Ross, vice president for music and programming at Edison Media Research. By comparison, Washington-based XM Satellite Radio and New York-based Sirius together added 3.7 million net new subscribers last year. By the end of March this year, their subscriber levels reached a combined 17.9 million.
The companies say that compared to other subscription services, they are growing at a rapid rate, outpacing the growth of satellite television and wireless phone service when those technologies were launched.
The two satellite companies are also hitting speed bumps on the financing side. Both companies have big convertible bonds they have to re-up next year -- $400 million for XM and $300 million for Sirius. When the merger goes through, Mr. Spring says, some of XM's existing debt could become subject to a change in control requirements that call for higher interest rates. While each has more than $200 million in cash, they have less than this time last year. In late May, XM said that starting this month it will have to tap a $150 million credit facility it has never used before at General Motors Corp. GM 1.77 %
Sirius and XM play down any difficulties. "We believe the market was a little slower in growth than the times when people had a little more disposable income, and we are affected like anybody else," says Nate Davis, XM's chief executive officer. "But it doesn't really slow us down like it does other industries." That's because the companies are relatively young and making strides with auto makers.
XM says its radios are available in about 40% of the vehicles made by the car makers it works with, notably GM. Sirius, whose partners include Ford Motor Co. F -0.39 % , says by the end of the year its radios will be in more than 50% of vehicles of the car makers it works with. Both companies say that growing percentages of car buyers who initially receive satellite radio for several months with their new car are converting to fee-paying subscribers after the promotional period runs out.
XM in particular has cleared a number of hurdles, such as lawsuits brought by record labels over devices that allowed subscribers to record satellite radio broadcasts and store individual songs on their radios for playback anytime. Now, XM has settled with three of the four major labels. It has also ditched an expensive marketing arrangement with Starbucks Corp. that included promotions such as XM being played in Starbucks stores.
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What's the best OpenLDAP VMWare appliance (VM) that you USED?
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Linux is the easiest way, and as long as it comes to Linux it does not really matter as OpenLDAP is installed more or less the same way on all the distributions.
When it comes to administration, get the Apache Directory Studio plugin for Eclipse (http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html)
If you want a preinstalled appliance, have you tried searching the VMware Appliance catalog? There are descriptions and ratings for some of them.
If you are building your own, I'd suggest you go with Debian or CentOS (or Ubuntu or Fedora if you want more up to date software), depending on which one you are more comfortable with, as those are big distributions and give you easy security updates.


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I'm trying to create a design portfolio website for myself, and wanted to use custom posts for "projects". The problem is that home page always returns the same posts no matter what the page is.
My setup is like this:
- Home
- Static "front page" named "My Home" that uses front-page.php as template
- Projects
- Static page named "Projects" and uses projects.php as template
- Blog
- Static page named Blog set up as "Posts page" and uses index.php as template.
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In the front-page.php I added the following code featured on the site:
$type = array('post', 'mr_project') ;
'post_type' => $type,
'post_status' => 'publish',
'paged' => $paged,
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'caller_get_posts'=> 1
$temp = $wp_query; // assign orginal query to temp variable for later use
$wp_query = null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
And the loop is pretty much unmodified.
Similar code works for Projects and Blog page. Those pages use loop-projects.php and loop-blog.php.
I've basicly went through all posts here, and tried using navigation plugins, but the effect is same.


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Just reading this morning how the IRS "mistakenly" erased a number of emails showing that they were targeting the Tea Party.
Do you remember a time when we were actually held accountable for our actions?
The "Rolling Stone" rape accuser, the woman who lied for what, exactly – attention? As well as the reporter who broke her story – what's happened to either of them? Nothing.
NBC's Brian Williams, shown to have lied numerous times to viewers about stories he was covering. What happened to him? No firing, just a shuffling to another job somewhere else within the company (MSNBC).
We have Hillary and Benghazi – lies and yet zero accountability there, and then we have her email server – lies and yet zero accountability there. We have lies and no accountability with the Clinton Foundation, and Hillary's lies about either a) not being in bed with and a Wall Street "fat cat" herself, or b) pretending that she's somehow a "defender" of the middle class.
Then we have Obama, lies about him going to have the most transparent government in history. Lies about the trade deal, lies about the nuke deal, no accountability there, either. And how about ISIS? Lies about this government's intentions, lies about having a strategy, lies about what people knew and when they knew them.
On the Republican side we have lies and no accountability about fracking and the Clean Air & Water Act. We have lies and no accountability regarding 9/11 and the relationship between the Bush and Saudi governments, and no accountability sought for the millions that came in from the ISI or who was trading airline stocks short the morning of.
We have Republican candidates on the campaign trail lying that they can or will repeal Obamacare.
We have Miss Teen Americas are up there saying, "yes I publicly drank and did drugs underage, but let me get away with all that because I'm really a nice person."
We have A "Community Organization" (ACORN) telling a pimp and a hooker how to lie and rip off the government only after letting their director embezzle millions from the company and get off scott-free. All lies and no accountability there.
And how about the big banks who ran our economy into the ground? All bonuses paid. No new legislations that have either meant or have done anything. Barely any firings, no one went to jail. Lies about what happened and by whom, zero accountability anywhere at either the government or private sector level.
And the #Occupy clowns that followed these assholes? Vandalizing, looting, even raping – with barely even a charge.
Later we'd have similar idiots in the form of rioters and looters in Baltimore who were not only left to vandalize and burn a city down causing hundreds of thousands if not millions in damage, but are left without any punishment for doing so, either. Their Mayor? Not my fault, not my problem.
And last but not least, we have a con-artist woman wishing and pretending to be African-American reaping the benefits of her position at NAACP, and a slew of idiot "Fair Share" Liberals defending her rather than calling her out for the liar that she is. It's "Not my fault, not my problem" apparently with her, too.
When I was young, if I lied or tried to duck accountability for something – even the smallest of things – I got my ass-whipped the moment it appeared that I was even trying to do either. Punishment was swift and fair. Perhaps as a result, being honest and being accountable not only was the better way to go in terms of less punishment, it actually felt better, too as it was better overall.
As a grown-up, I'm accountable to my clients, my employees, and my colleagues who I'm thankful to say still value such words as honesty and integrity amongst ourselves.
It shudders me to think about the world that exists outside our doors, however, along with the people we're electing and those who our kids are idolizing.


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Is there a limit to the number of email logins I can put in the Friends Only permitted list? Could it handle thousands? If so, would it bog down the login time?
Thanks, great little plugin!
I haven't tested the software with very large numbers of addresses, but I don't think there should be a problem with thousands.
If you do test it out, please let me know how you go though.
I run the plugin on a site with 124 lines of addresses. Initial server response from the site was gradually getting slower and slower and recently reached the pain threshhold. By initial response, I mean waiting for the F.O. login screen when not logged in as an administrator, waiting for a site page or waiting for a WP dashboard page when already logged in as an administrator. After this initial wait, subsequent pages would load promptly.
Disabling Friends Only would remove the initial delay.
I subsequently found that initial response time greatly improved when I changed the server's PHP mode from 5.2.x FastCGI to 5.3.x FastCGI.
In response to my own earlier forum post (unanswered, now closed to further comments), I recently figured out that Friends Only is compatible with the caching plugin W3 Total Cache (current version 0.9.2.8).
Despite all this, initial response time still seems to bog down at times. Obviously, it could be my server at fault...
I haven't heard of issues like this one before. I suspect there might be some strange interaction with another plugin.
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Hartford — The state Board of Education extended the term of New London's special master, Steven Adamowski, for another year Wednesday, following a report by Adamowski that showed a district that is improving but is still in need of supervision.
"We're pleased with the progress in New London,'' education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said after the unanimous approval by the board at its meeting in Hartford.
In a report to the state board, Adamowski recommended that the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education assist the New London school board in searching for a new superintendent; that New London select a superintendent from among qualified candidates recommended by Pryor's office; and that it offer a three-year contract. The new superintendent's contract would be considered for renewal based on the results of evaluations of student achievement.
In April, the New London board voted to not renew the contract of Superintendent Nicholas A. Fischer, whose last day on the job will be June 30, 2014.
"There are those in New London who expected me to recommend replacing the New London school board with a state-appointed board,'' Adamowski said. "But this is a district that has much greater capacity, if we can bring the political situation under control so decisions can be made."
The state board accepted Adamowski's report but did not take action on any of his recommendations.
Adamowski said that if a performance-based evaluation for the superintendent had been in place, Fischer would not have been let go. He recommended help with the search because the board "is not well positioned to attract a strong, experienced superintendent, or handle a search process effectively."
Fischer, who attended the meeting in Hartford, said afterward that he believed the district had accomplished a lot under Adamowski's guidance, but he cautioned the New London board to think carefully about changing leadership.
"Although we have made great progress and we now have a set of recommendations based off Dr. Adamowski's first year in New London, my continuing concern is that when you change leadership in the district, you put it on hold for another two years," he said in a statement released after the meeting.
"I'd like to note that we've made great progress over the last four years, and this is especially true given the commissioner's recent comments that we were among three districts in the state that showed significant improvements in student achievement," he said. "New London High School has been recognized as one of the top performing high schools (under state involvement) in the state, and because we have improved overall, we lost $458,000 in ECS money used to fund our efforts throughout the district."
Adamowski was sent to the city by the state last August at the request of Fischer and a former school board chairman who said the board was politically dysfunctional and unable to make decisions.
Adamowski said board meetings have "improved significantly in terms of order, professionalism and civility." Board members have gone to training and new members elected in November also will undergo training.
In his report Wednesday on the status of the 3,100-student New London school system, Adamowski said the city of 6.5 square miles, where half the land is tax exempt, cannot support the schools. The entire school board is up for re-election every two years, which puts inexperienced board members in place. Also, the city has flat-funded the school district for five years in a row.
Although the district has lost 98 teachers over the past five years, mostly due to budget cuts, he said, there is still a "cadre of dedicated teachers at each school.'' The issue of "significant" staff turnover has yet to be addressed, he said.
"It is my belief that this issue of dysfunctional governance is rooted in lack of resources and the inability of the city to support the school district," he said. "One of you encouraged me to look at a regional solution. That was sage advice. I came to that conclusion within two or three months."
Earlier this year, the school board adopted a strategic operating plan that would turn the city into a regional magnet school district. Eventually, 25 percent of New London students would attend schools outside the district, and 25 percent of the student population in New London would comprise students from outside the district.
The state would provide an additional $3,000 a year per New London student when all schools are magnet schools. Adamowski said Nathan Hale School, which focuses on arts education, would be eligible for the additional funds this coming year. The district also is working with the Garde Arts Center, LEARN and the other schools to create three kindergarten through 12th-grade schools that will focus on arts, languages and math and science.
Adamowski will now be a state employee, earning about $162,000 a year. He also was reappointed Wednesday to continue working with the Windham school system. He had been an employee of the State Education Resource Center, also known as SERC, earning about $225,000 a year.
"I wanted to do this for one more year,'' Adamowski said after his reappointment. "The SERC salary was not realistic."
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AbstractDESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): BTG1 is a transcription regulatory protein that interacts with different transcription factors and nuclear receptors. BTG1 acts as a tumor suppressor and as a mediator of myogenic and erythroid differentiation. BTG1 tra nscription is positively regulated by FOXO3a, a member of FOXO family of transcription factors that have been associated with longevity and tumor suppression. Compounds that stimulate BTG1 transcription may have potential applications in aging, cancer and musculoskeletal diseases. Some BTG1-inducing compounds, however, also have an undesirable effect, as they induce cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 (CDKN1A), which in its turn activates a group of genes implicated in cancer and age-related diseases. Cel l-based screening assays for compounds that activate either BTG1 promoter or a p21-responsive promoter have been developed for identifying inducers of BTG1 transcription that do not activate p21-inducible transcription. The goal of the proposed Phase 1 STT R program is to identify compounds that induce BTG1 transcription without significant toxicity to normal cells and without inducing p21-responsive disease-associated genes. The specific aims of this proposal are as follows. (1) Using a collection of ~1,000 diverse compounds with growth-inhibitory activity, selected in a preliminary screen from gt100,000 drug-like small molecules and known drugs, screen for compounds that stimulate BTG1 promoter activity. (2) Test BTG1 inducers identified in Aim 1 for their ability to induce BTG1 promoter in different cell lines and to activate transcription from a p21-responsive promoter. Identify compounds that induce BTG1 promoter in different cell types with little or no concurrent induction of p21-responsive transcriptio n. (3) Test BTG1 inducers identified in Aim 2 for their ability to induce cell growth arrest and cell death in different types of normal and tumor cells, as well as in p53 wild-type and p53-null cells. Identify BTG1 inducers that show tumor-selective growt h inhibition, or induce little or no cytoxicity in normal cells. (4). Test BTG1 inducers selected in Aim 3 for their effects on FOXO3a-dependent transcription, FOXO3a protein expression, nuclear translocation and phosphorylation by Akt. Identify BTG1 induc ers that activate FOXO3a as potential candidates for target-based lead optimization. In studies envisioned under the future Phase 2, BTG1-inducing agents that do not activate p21-responsive transcription will be investigated for their spectrum of activity in aging, cancer and muscular dystrophy. In addition, structure-activity relationship analysis will be carried out for the most selective and efficacious compounds, and the results of this analysis will be used to drive the process of chemical optimization of BTG1 inducers as potential drug leads.
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Oregon Harvest Mashed Potatoes
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 15 mins
Got this from a friend who lives in Oregon & tries to eat a lot of homemade, local foods. She said this was her mom's standby recipe--and her mom's mom's too.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 medium potatoes, peeled & sliced 1/2-inch thick
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3⁄4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons onion flakes
- salt & pepper
- Put potatoes in a large pot & cover with water. Boil for 10-12 minutes until a knife goes through the thickest ones easily.
- Drain all of water.
- Add butter, salt, pepper & onion flakes.
- Squish with a potate ricer/masher until creamy.
- Add sour cream and squish some more. Then add milk. (Saving the liquids 'til last helps keep the lumps away.).
- Put in a casserole dish with extra pats of butter and cover in a 200 degree oven until ready to serve.


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The Law of Conservation of Mass: The mass of a closed system will stay constant over time, regardless of the processes occurring inside the system. Mass cannot be made or destroyed but, it can be rearranged and changed into different types of particles. For example, when water is created from hydrogen and oxygen, atoms of each element are not lost or created; just rearranged.
The Law of Constant Composition: A compound always has the same proportion of elements by mass. In H2O, every compound has 2g of hydrogen and 16g of oxygen.
|Space filling model of a water molecule
The Law of Multiple Proportions: If two elements combine to form more than one compound, then the masses of the elements that combine are given in a small whole number ratio. The mass ratio of glucose is 6:12:6 or 1:2:1, which is equal to the ratio of the number of atoms in the compound.
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Darrell Harper
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Darrell Harper, 1959
|Date of birth
|June 18, 1938
|Date of death
|January 19, 2008(aged 69)
|Place of death
|Commerce Township, Michigan
|Career information
|Halfback/Place kicker
|6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
|194 lb (88 kg)
|High school
|Royal Oak High School, Royal Oak, Michigan
|Career history
|As player
|Buffalo Bills
Darrell L. Harper (June 18, 1938 – January 19, 2008) was an American football player. He played at the halfback position for the University of Michigan from 1957 to 1959 and for the Buffalo Bills in the 1960 AFL season. On September 11, 1960, Harper scored the first official points in the history of the Bills. He also holds the mark for the Bills' first kickoff, first field goal and first extra point kick.
University of Michigan[edit]
Harper attended high school in Royal Oak, Michigan, before enrolling at the University of Michigan in 1956. He played football for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1957 to 1959.[1][2][3]
As a junior, Harper appeared in 7 of 9 games for the 1958 Michigan Wolverines football team,[4] three of them as the starting left halfback.[2] He was Michigan's leading rusher in 1958, totaling 309 rushing yards, 137 receiving yards, 131 passing yards, 60 kickoff return yards and 33 punt return yards.[4] Playing against Minnesota in October 1958, Harper ran 58 yards for the game-winning touchdown on the first play of the second half.[5] Harper also handled punting duties for Michigan; he had a 61-yard punt against Michigan State in October 1958.[6]
As a senior, Harper started all nine games at the left halfback position for the 1959 Michigan Wolverines football team.[3] In the third quarter of the October 1959 game against Minnesota, Harper caught a punt at Michigan's 17-yard line and returned it 83 yards for the game's first points.[7] The return set the Michigan record for the longest punt return, a record which stood until 1972 when David Brown returned a punt 88 yards.[4] During the 1959 season, Harper rushed for 224 yards and also contributed 101 yards on punt returns and 62 yards on kickoff returns.[4]
Buffalo Bills[edit]
Harper was selected by the Detroit Lions in the 15th round (171st overall pick) of the 1960 NFL Draft.[8] He signed instead with the Buffalo Bills in the newly formed American Football League. Harper played as a halfback and place kicker for the 1960 Buffalo Bills and led the AFL with 10 extra points.[8] At 2:08 p.m. on Sunday, September 11, 1960, Harper made the opening kickoff in the first regular-season game in the history of the Buffalo Bills.[9][10] He also scored "the first official points" in Bills' history (and the first points in the game) on a field goal from the 35-yard line.[11][12][13] After taking a 3-0 lead on Harper's field goal, Buffalo did not score again and lost by a score of 27-3 to the New York Titans.[10][14]
In the Bill's second game (and home opener) on September 18, 1960, Harper successfully converted the Bills' first extra point kick after Wray Carlton ran for the team's first touchdown.[11]
Playing against the Los Angeles Chargers on October 2, 1960, Harper kicked the second field goal in team history.[15]
Later years and death[edit]
After finishing his career as a football player, Harper worked as a teacher and high school football coach for many years in Highland Township, Michigan. He also coached at Walled Lake Central High School.[16] Harper died in January 2008 at age 69. He died of complications of multiple myeloma at Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township, Michigan.[16][17]
- ^ "1957 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.
- ^ a b "1958 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.
- ^ a b "1959 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.
- ^ a b c d "Michigan Football Statistic Archive Query Page". University of Michigan.
- ^ "Michigan Trims Minnesota, 20-19". Independent Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California (UPI story). October 26, 1958.("Michigan went to the air Saturday to set up a pair of touchdowns and Darrell Harper reeled off a 58-yard scoring run on the first play of the second half to give the Wolverines a tight 20-19 victory over winless Minnesota and possession of the Little Brown Jug for another year.")
- ^ Wilfrid Smith (October 5, 1958). "Michigan, Spartans Ties". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. A1.
- ^ "MICHIGAN BEATS MINNESOTA, 14-6; Harper and Julian Score on Long Runs in Third Period in Little Brown Jug Game". The New York Times. 1959-20-25. Check date values in:
- ^ a b "Darrell Harper". profootballreference.com.
- ^ William J. Ryczek (2009). Crash of the Titans: The Early Years of the New York Jets and the AFL. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7864-4126-6.
- ^ a b "1960 Buffalo Bills". pro-football-reference.com.
- ^ a b Jeffrey J. Miller (2007). Rockin' the Rockpile: The Buffalo Bills of the American Football League. ECW Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-55022-797-0.
- ^ "Buffalo Bills Records". NFL Team History.com.
- ^ Harper's field goal did not mark the first points scored in AFL history. That mark was set in a night game played between the Dallas Texans and Los Angeles Chargers on September 10, 1960.
- ^ "Chargers, Oilers And Titans Capture Openers In New AFL". Hamilton, Ohio, Journal - The Daily News. September 12, 1960.
- ^ Miller et al., Rockin' the Rockpile, p. 98
- ^ a b "Darrell Harper, Highland Township:'Coach Harp' taught generations of youths". The Detroit News. January 22, 2008.
- ^ "Social Security Death Index (SSDI)". Roots Web.


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Barbara Walters to end her Oscar Night show
Barbara Walters announced on Monday (Feb. 15) that this will be the last year for her annual Oscar Night edition of "The Barbara Walters Special."
That doesn't necessarily sound like a big deal until you realize that "The Barbara Walters Special" has aired on Oscar Night for the past 29 years and that Walters' interviews during that time have included Catherine Zeta Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tom Cruise, Ben Stiller, John Travolta, Mike Meyers, Michael Douglas, George Clooney, Mariah Carey, Faith Hill, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Oprah Winfrey, Shirley MacLaine, Sophia Loren, Anthony Hopkins and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Walters made the announcement on "The View" and explained, "ABC has asked me to keep doing these specials as they have been so successful -- and I'm thrilled we have such great stars and have such a wonderful show for this last one -- but to be honest, I feel like I've 'been there, done that.'"
The Oscar Night Specials launched in 1981, when her guests included Brooke Shields, Loretta Lynn, Linda Gray, Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach.
"When we first started this special, I don't think any of us knew exactly how much of an Oscar Night staple it would become," Walters says.
For her final Oscar-themed "Barbara Walters Special," Walters will interview nominees Sandra Bullock and Mo'Nique, as well as presenting a retrospective of favorite interviews from past specials.
The decision to end the Oscar specials won't impact Walters' "The 10 Most Fascinating People" annual special, nor her daily gig on "The View."
Walters' final Oscar special will air on Sunday, March 7, immediately before ABC's Academy Awards telecast on the East Coast and immediately afterwards on the West Coast.


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The 4x100m relay silver medallist partied with pals at the DSTRKT Night Club in Soho until 4am
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did it at the world championships and for me, it's a wonderful feeling.
It was a great championship. I am happy"
The 21-year-old centre took his career tally to 54 tries in just 48 games with a quickfire double
Leeds captain hails the team's fitness and organisation after World Club Challenge victory over Manly
Steve McNamara has an exciting crop of young stars to consider for international duty
Since England's Four Nations squad was announced I've been asked whether I regret my comments made after the Grand Final about Leeds rival, Ryan Bailey.
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TRY HERO Joel Tomkins sprang to kid brother Sam's defence as the Wigan full-back faces a probe into an alleged v-sign.
BRIAN McDERMOTT hailed Kevin Sinfield after his goal-kicking skipper became Super League's highest-ever points scorer.
COACH Brian McDermott has launched passionate defence of controversial Leeds prop Ryan Bailey.
LUKE O'DONNELL'S infamous short-temper finally snapped as the Giants went back to the top of Super League.
SHAUN McRAE'S future at Salford is in doubt after it emerged he will miss the next month on sick leave.
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Lee Radford should be cleared tonight to play in the biggest Humberside derby since the 1980 Challenge Cup final.
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Educational assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community (class, workshop, or other organized group of learners), the institution, or the educational system as a whole. According to the Academic Exchange Quarterly: "Studies of a theoretical or empirical nature (including case studies, portfolio studies, exploratory, or experimental work) addressing the assessment of learner aptitude and preparation, motivation and learning styles, learning outcomes in achievement and satisfaction in different educational contexts are all welcome, as are studies addressing issues of measurable standards and benchmarks"[1].
Assessment is a process by which information is obtained relative to some known objective or goal. Assessment is a broad term that includes testing. A test is a special form of assessment. Tests are assessments made under contrived circumstances especially so that they may be administered. In other words, all tests are assessments, but not all assessments are tests. We test at the end of a lesson or unit. We assess progress at the end of a school year through testing, and we assess verbal and quantitative skills through such instruments as the SAT and GRE. Whether implicit or explicit, assessment is most usefully connected to some goal or objective for which the assessment is designed. A test or assessment yields information relative to an objective or goal. In that sense, we test or assess to determine whether or not an objective or goal has been obtained. Assessment of skill attainment is rather straightforward. Either the skill exists at some acceptable level or it doesn't. Skills are readily demonstrable. Assessment of understanding is much more difficult and complex. Skills can be practiced; understandings cannot. We can assess a person's knowledge in a variety of ways, but there is always a leap, an inference that we make about what a person does in relation to what it signifies about what he knows. In the section on this site on behavioral verbs, to assess means To stipulate the conditions by which the behavior specified in an objective may be ascertained. Such stipulations are usually in the form of written descriptions.
Evaluation:Evaluation is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the terms. Inherent in the idea of evaluation is "value." When we evaluate, what we are doing is engaging in some process that is designed to provide information that will help us make a judgment about a given situation. Generally, any evaluation process requires information about the situation in question. A situation is an umbrella term that takes into account such ideas as objectives, goals, standards, procedures, and so on. When we evaluate, we are saying that the process will yield information regarding the worthiness, appropriateness, goodness, validity, legality, etc., of something for which a reliable measurement or assessment has been made. For example, I often ask my students if they wanted to determine the temperature of the classroom they would need to get a thermometer and take several readings at different spots, and perhaps average the readings. That is simple measuring. The average temperature tells us nothing about whether or not it is appropriate for learning. In order to do that, students would have to be polled in some reliable and valid way. That polling process is what evaluation is all about. A classroom average temperature of 75 degrees is simply information. It is the context of the temperature for a particular purpose that provides the criteria for evaluation. A temperature of 75 degrees may not be very good for some students, while for others, it is ideal for learning. We evaluate every day. Teachers, in particular, are constantly evaluating students, and such evaluations are usually done in the context of comparisons between what was intended (learning, progress, behavior) and what was obtained. When used in a learning objective, the definition provided on the ADPRIMA site for the behavioral verb evaluate is: To classify objects, situations, people, conditions, etc., according to defined criteria of quality. Indication of quality must be given in the defined criteria of each class category. Evaluation differs from general classification only in this respect.
The definition of evaluation is often problematic and it can be argued that evaluation does not need a definition. Practical problems are not due to a lack of a definition but rather are a result of attempting to define evaluation.
Test:A test or an examination (or "exam") is an assessment intended to measure a test-taker's knowledge, skill, aptitude, or classification in many other topics (e.g., beliefs). In practice, a test may be administered orally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that requires a test taker to physically perform a set of skills. The basic component of a test is an item, which is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "question." Nevertheless, not every item is phrased as a question given that an item may be phrased as a true/false statement or as a task that must be performed (in a performance test). In many formal standardized tests, a test item is often retrievable from an item bank.
A test may vary in rigor and requirement. For example, in a closed book test, a test taker is often required to rely upon memory to respond to specific items whereas in an open book test, a test taker may use one or more supplementary tools such as a reference book or calculator when responding to an item. A test may be administered formally or informally. An example of an informal test would be a reading test administered by a parent to a child. An example of a formal test would be a final examination administered by a teacher in a classroom or an I.Q. test administered by a psychologist in a clinic. Formal testing often results in a grade or a test score.[1[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_%28student_assessment%29#cite_note-0|]]] A test score may be interpreted with regards to a norm or criterion, or occasionally both. The norm may be established independently, or by statistical analysis of a large number of participants.
A formal test that is standardized is one that is administered and scored in a consistent manner to ensure legal defensibility.[2 A standardized test with important consequences for the individual test taker is referred to as a high stakes test. Standardized tests are often used in education, professional certification, counseling, psychology (e.g., MMPI), the military, and many other fields.
Measurement:Measurement refers to the process by which the attributes or dimensions of some physical object are determined. One exception seems to be in the use of the word measure in determining the IQ of a person. The phrase, "this test measures IQ" is commonly used. Measuring such things as attitudes or preferences also applies. However, when we measure, we generally use some standard instrument to determine how big, tall, heavy, voluminous, hot, cold, fast, or straight something actually is. Standard instruments refer to instruments such as rulers, scales, thermometers, pressure gauges, etc. We measure to obtain information about what is. Such information may or may not be useful, depending on the accuracy of the instruments we use, and our skill at using them. There are few such instruments in the social sciences that approach the validity and reliability of say a 12" ruler. We measure how big a classroom is in terms of square feet, we measure the temperature of the room by using a thermometer, and we use Ohm meters to determine the voltage, amperage, and resistance in a circuit. In all of these examples, we are not assessing anything; we are simply collecting information relative to some established rule or standard. Assessment is therefore quite different from measurement, and has uses that suggest very different purposes. When used in a learning objective, the definition provided on the ADPRIMA for the behavioral verb measure is: To apply a standard scale or measuring device to an object, series of objects, events, or conditions, according to practices accepted by those who are skilled in the use of the device or scale.
To sum up, we measure distance, we assess learning, and we evaluate results in terms of some set of criteria. These three terms are certainly connected, but it is useful to think of them as separate but connected ideas and processes.
Here is a great link that offer different ideas about these three terms, with well-written explanations. Unfortunately, most information on the Internet concerning this topic amounts to little more than advertisements for services.


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Cheers, after all, are the soundtrack to the life of Michael Jordan, who dominated pro basketball for much of the '90s and, at 38, is chasing glory once more. On Oct. 30 fans were on their feet as Jordan, last hailed 2½ years ago after sinking a dramatic jump shot to win his sixth world championship with the Chicago Bulls, strode onto the court as a starting guard for the lowly Washington Wizards. Forced by league rules to sell his stake in the team before he could play, the ex-boss looked a little rusty in scoring 19 points—and hoisting a rare air ball—in a 93-91 loss to the New York Knicks. "I felt good," Jordan said after the game, appearing not at all dismayed. "This is the beginning of a long season, is how I look at it."
The big question surrounding his comeback: How good will he be over the course of that season? Sure, there will be nights when he shows flashes of magic and wills the Wizards to victory. But what about the other nights, when he faces players young enough to have owned his poster in grade school? "He may not be the same physically as he was at 33," says Arnie Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and a pal who joined Jordan in pickup games this summer. "But playing with him is like painting with Picasso. On the court, he has the heart of a killer."
But what about the knees? Nagging tendinitis plus a cracked rib slowed Jordan during his summer workouts, and clearly he cannot dunk and dazzle like he used to. "I hope he plays great, but I think eventually this is doomed to end unhappily," predicts Mike Lupica, sports columnist for the New York Daily News. "He has been passed by."
Which may explain why the ultracompetitive Jordan opted to suit up again. He first quit the game in 1993 after the death of his father, James, in a roadside robbery convinced him to pursue his dream of playing professional baseball. He struck out 114 times in 436 at-bats for the minor league Birmingham Barons and hustled back to the NBA in 1996. Three titles later he retired in 1999 to spend more time at his gated Highland Park, 111., mansion with wife Juanita, 42, and their children Jeffrey, 12, Marcus, 10, and Jasmine, 8.
The former Bull was also bullish about his future as a businessman. Lavishly paid for endorsing Nike, MCI, Gatorade and other companies, "He wanted to become a young mogul who cuts the checks rather than cashes them," says Sam Walker, a reporter who covered Jordan's business exploits for Esquire. Jordan did well in the food biz (he owns five restaurants in three cities) but two Internet ventures—including MVP.com, a sporting-goods firm launched in 2000—both crashed.
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I'll show you the significance of the nexus 9 using the 4:3 screen aspect ratio and pushing the ecosystem to adopt it. Its the smartest move google has made since they went with a vertical user experience and phone UI on the Nexus 7 instead of landscape. It changed people's behavior and perception. The definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. 16:9 Tablets dont have any advantage outside of watching movies. The cons is that they are awkward to hold vertical and stretches everything out in landscape mode. I can tell already that The apps got better in the process because you are not viewing them in 16:9 landscape mode. Maybe thats one of the reason that developers didnt feel the need to create responsive apps for android because the experience wasnt ideal when viewing it in landscape mode.
They are pros and cons when you use a 4:3 screen but the pros far outweighs the cons. The biggest upgrade out the gate are the apps themselves. They look much better in the 4:3 aspect ratio. They dont look as stretched as before. You can compare the twitter app or the movie preview screen on the nexus 10 and Nexus 9. The layout format is better. The 4:3 screen ratio is bad for movies but great for everything else. The Nexus 9 is a big move which won't be understood for a while. we know android is adopting Multi windows of some sort its coming so lets keep that in mind. Lets bring the overview area formerly known as the recent apps area into the equation. Its a multi tasking area where you can access your chrome tabs. You are going to be in the browser most of the time on the device. The 4:3 screen makes the multi window feature that google is working on more useful on a wider screen. 4:3 Nexus is the guide of the ecosystem. This is was a small but major move IMO. Tablets apps on android just got much better with one simple move.


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WESTMINSTER — A North Walpole, N.H. woman was charged in a series of burglaries, and a warrant for another arrest has been requested by Vermont State Police.
Betty Bashaw, 47, allegedly helped Jacob Mcallister, 21, of Westminster break into Kenneth Beebe Plumbing and Heating in Westminster between Jan. 27 and Jan. 31.
Bashaw faces a single burglary charge for the break-ins, police said.
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