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iPod touch and iPhone are perfect for learning no matter where you are. Don't let their small size fool you. These devices put thousands of apps and countless possibilities in your pocket.
Thousands of apps for learning.
With so many educational apps available, students can carry an entire library of reference materials, interactive lessons, even games that make learning fun — anywhere. Apps are transforming the way teachers teach and students learn. And there are apps for every subject — and every stage of learning.
Educational apps.
The App Store on iPhone and iPod touch has more than 20,000 educational apps for all kinds of learners, teaching them everything from science to sign language. Students can download the iBooks app to fill their iPhone or iPod touch library with books from the iBookstore. Or find apps for defining words, practicing French vocabulary — even locating the lumbar spine.
Learn more about apps for education
Built-in apps.
There are loads of apps built into iPhone and iPod touch that are both useful and fun. Use Messages to send text messages to your friends, family or fellow students. Or make a video call with a tap using FaceTime.1 Collaborate on projects with other schools or even hold a virtual field trip.
iWork for iPhone and iPod touch.
Create presentations with custom graphic styles, elegantly designed themes and stunning animations and effects with Keynote. Pages has everything students need to put their words into beautiful documents, including Apple-designed templates and easy-to-use formatting tools. And Numbers includes over 250 easy-to-use functions, an intelligent keyboard, flexible tables and eye-catching charts, so compelling spreadsheets can be created in just a few taps.2
GarageBand and iMovie for iPhone and iPod touch.
GarageBand lets students play a collection of highly expressive Touch Instruments and Smart Instruments that sound just like their real counterparts — but let them do things they never could on a real instrument. They can record, mix and share songs, too. iMovie helps students turn HD video shot on iPhone or iPod touch into a masterpiece. Since inspiration can be fleeting, there's no reason to wait until they're back at a computer to start editing — they can get down to the business of mobile moviemaking right away.3
iTunes U for iPhone and iPod touch.
With iTunes U, you can put all the assignments and materials from your course right in your students' pockets. iTunes U is now available no matter where you teach — at a college, university or K-12 school.
Learn more about iTunes U
Create and distribute your own courses.
Your iTunes U courses can include all the items you would use in a traditional course: a syllabus, handouts, quizzes and so on. And they can include your own video and audio lectures, as well as interactive elements such as content and links from the Internet, iBookstore, App Store and iTunes Store. You can create iTunes U courses via an easy-to-use, browser-based tool from Apple, then use the same tool to distribute your courses directly to your students.
Teach with iTunes U.
Your students will experience your course using the free iTunes U app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It's a simple yet powerful app that puts all the materials for the course right at their fingertips. They can listen to lectures, read books, watch videos and stay on top of assignments. And when you post an update or send a message to your class, students receive a push notification with the new information.
iPod touch and iPhone for all.
Built-in accessibility features make it easy for students with disabilities to experience all that iPod touch and iPhone have to offer. They come standard with features that accommodate people with physical impairments, visual and hearing challenges, and different learning styles.
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International Schools for Young Astronomers (ISYAs)
Educational activities are one of the essential tasks of the Union. The International Schools for Young Astronomers is a project within IAU Commission 46, Astronomy Education and Development.
The ISYA programme is generously supported by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (NASL).
ISYA seeks the participation of young astronomers mainly, but not exclusively, from astronomically developing countries. ISYA also seeks to broaden the participants' perspective on astronomy by lectures from an international faculty on selected topics of astronomy, seminars, practical exercises and observations, and exchange of experiences. Read more about ISYAs on the links provided below.

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A year ago, Tyler Siskey was between jobs at Arkansas State and Ole Miss. A year later, he has people wondering how Ole Miss could be on the verge of a top 10 recruiting class.
Well, let's ask the Rebels' coordinator of recruiting development, an Anniston native who will officially complete his first year on the job Feb. 14. Get ready, because here comes his sales pitch.
"I've said this from day one. The University of Mississippi sells itself, hands down," the 35-yearold former Donoho School standout said. "You add hard work to that, and you make a successful plan, period.
"It's a great university with great leadership, and I think it sells itself."
Maybe so, but it's not often one hears "Ole Miss" and "possible top-10 class" in the same sentence. The Rebels have raised some recruiting buzz under second-year head coach Hugh Freeze and his staff, with Siskey playing a key role.
As of this writing, recruiting site 247sports has Ole Miss's list of 22 commitments ranked 11th nationally. Rivals.com has Ole Miss tied with Auburn for 11th, and Scout.com has Ole Miss at 13th.
Today is National Signing Day Eve, and five-star wide receiver Laquon Treadwell leads a class that includes eight four-star prospects, according to Rivals.
The Rebels have also gotten in the game for defensive end Robert Nkemdice, the nation's top overall prospect, and five-star offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil, the No. 14 overall prospect.
This follows a season that saw Ole Miss break through on the field, as well, going 7-6 and beating Pittsburgh 38-17 in the BBVA Compass Bowl in Freeze's first season. The Rebels had gone 6-17 over 2010 and 2011, resulting in the firing of former head coach Houston Nutt.
Freeze came to Ole Miss from Arkansas State and brought several of his former assistants, including Siskey.
Siskey coached wide receivers at A-State and was part of a skeleton staff that stayed in Jonesboro through the Red Wolves' 38-20 loss to Northern Illinois on the GoDaddy.com Bowl. He called the offensive plays in that game.
About a month later, Ole Miss announced his hiring in a behind-the-scenes role with recruiting.
Getting back to on-field coaching "is always in the back of my mind," Siskey said. He pursued Jacksonville State's head coaching vacancy but said "that stuff will take care of itself, sooner or later."
It will, especially if Siskey keeps doing his current job so well. He's essentially the strategist behind Ole Miss' recruiting efforts, a tall task for one of only two SEC West Division programs to never play in the league's title game.
Those two teams include new West member Texas A&M, which played its first SEC season in 2012. Until then, Ole Miss was the only West team not to play in Atlanta on that first Saturday in December.
To compete in the West, Ole Miss has to knock heads with teams that have won five of the past six national championships. That includes Nick Saban-led Alabama, which has won three of the past four.
Alabama and LSU typically also top the charts in recruiting, as well, and have top-five classes for 2013.
As Ole Miss tries to compete, Siskey plays a key role, evaluating film of recruits from all over the country year-round and assessing the ones that come to campus for camps and visits. That's when NCAA rules allow him to talk to them.
"There are no off days. There are no off months," he said. "It's like a doctor being on call all the time."
A year ago, Siskey said Ole Miss hoped to recruit nationally. The Rebels' current class of 2013 commitments includes southern prospects from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, but Ole Miss plucked Treadwell out of Illinois.
Rivals rates Treadwell as the nation's top receiver prospect.
Ole Miss also has a public commitment from Indiana four-star Elijah Daniel, though he visited Auburn this past weekend. Rivals rates him the No. 8 defensive end prospect.
"It's just trying to find the right guys to fit our scheme and fit us with their personality and character-wise," Siskey said. "We're going to try to identify guys that fit us the best, regardless of where they are, and try not to use that as a limitation.
"We're going to try to work as hard as we can to get those guys to come with us."
Success so far, and not a bad year's work for a guy whose biggest claim to fame was having been Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron's offensive coordinator at St. Paul's Episcopal High School in Mobile. Now, he's the behind-the-scenes guy coordinating Ole Miss's eye-catching recruiting breakthroughs.
The job sounds harder than it is.
"I don't feel it's stressful, because I love what I do," he said. "I really don't feel like I have a job. Don't tell nobody, but I'd probably do it for free."


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Tequila Sunrise
How a New Upscale Day Dawned for Mexico's Ancient Firewater
Jonathan Kandell
From the Print Edition:
Chuck Norris, Jul/Aug 98
It's Saturday night at Isadora, a restaurant with a pedigreed clientele in Mexico City's tony Polanco district. In the ground-floor cigar parlor, every banker and entrepreneur seems to be holding a Partagas or Montecristo in one hand, and a snifter of what looks like Cognac in the other. "That's Tequila--Reserva de la Familia," the maître d', Rigoberto Buenrostro, says. "The José Cuervo people insist that we serve it in Cognac glasses." At 80 pesos ($10) a shot, he adds, which is steep for Mexico.
Don Rigoberto notices my eyebrows lifting. "Amazing, huh?" he says. "I also used to think Tequila was for construction laborers." Then, three or four years ago, Isadora's affluent clients began ordering top-of-the-line Cuervo, Sauza and Herradura. Now, Tequila outsells Scotch here and at many other upscale restaurants in the Mexican capital. "See those drinks," says Don Rigoberto, pointing to a row of six thin elongated crystal shot glasses lined up at the bar ready to be taken to a dining table upstairs. "Tequila--all of them."
When I was growing up in Mexico during the 1950s, the preferred drink of sophisticated society was the highball, a tall glass of whiskey with soda of some sort. There were exceptions, like the Guadalajara crowd, who had the temerity to dress up as charros--dandified Mexican cowboys with broad-brimmed sombreros, dark bolero jackets and tight trousers spangled with silver buttons--and drink Tequila.
On trips to Guadalajara with my father, an American ex-pat businessman based in Mexico City, we would occasionally dine with these would-be charros at homes and restaurants, where they would prep themselves for a meal with a few Tequilas, expertly licking grains of salt off their fists, tossing back a shot of the fiery alcohol, sucking on a lime and finishing the ritual with a gulp of spicy tomato juice called sangrita. But Guadalajara society notwithstanding, Tequila back then was low-class quaff. Cheap and powerfully inebriating, it was the drink of the poor--or of the politicians and mariachi balladeers who considered them their constituency.
Only one other alcohol was lower on the social ladder--mescal. It was distilled from different species of agave plants (maguey) than Tequila, and was usually sold with a drowned agave worm (actually, a caterpillar) at the bottom of the bottle. But nowadays, even mescal--minus the caterpillar--is being marketed in Mexico, the United States and elsewhere as a pricey digestif. (See sidebar on page 285.)
Perhaps the biggest surprise of all is to encounter the man generally credited with persuading imbibers to shell out $40, $80, $100, even several hundred dollars for a single bottle of Tequila. His name is Martin Grassl, a tall, mop-haired, baby-faced 30-year-old Austrian, who seems more likely to be carded in a bar than credited with giving new direction to a national drink.
Grassl arrived in Mexico in 1990 with a new MBA and a mandate from his employer, an Austrian trading company, to find a Tequila classy enough to sell in Japan. After thorough research, Grassl decided none existed. Instead, he proposed to develop a new brand--"a kind of Tequila eau-de-vie," he called it--for his employers. When they showed no interest, he resigned and embarked on that quixotic quest on his own.
His father, a dentist back in Austria, who was disappointed his son hadn't become a doctor or lawyer, didn't see much merit in Grassl's business plan. Fortunately, his aunt, who owns a small eau-de-vie distillery, decided to back him with a $100,000 loan. "That money saved me," says Grassl.
With the loan, he rented a small Tequila distillery near Guadalajara for a few weeks, and contracted local artisans to fashion a sleek bottle that he had designed with a glass cactus stuck inside on its bottom. In 1991, he produced his first batch of Tequila and called it Porfidio. The name seems a misspelling of "Porfirio," as in Porfirio Díaz, the dictator who presided over turn-of-the-century high society and was overthrown at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Entrenched Tequila producers snickered that it was impossible to take seriously a foreigner who couldn't even get his brand name right and didn't realize that agave wasn't a cactus.
Grassl, who displays a wry sense of humor, offers his own explanations for the apparent miscues that he says were calculated to draw attention and commentary. Higher-priced Tequilas carry a label with a brief personal historical note signed by the brand's owner. Grassl assumed the pompous pen name of "Ponciano Porfidio"--a dig at the pretentiousness of his competitors and himself. As for the cactus in Porfidio's bottles, "Well, everybody knows the cactus is practically the national symbol of Mexico," says Grassl. "You just look at the bottle and you know where it comes from."
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News MARLBORO COLLEGE HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM NAMED VERMONT PROGRAM OF THE YEAR BY NASPA
Marlboro, VT - (November 9, 2009) - The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) awarded Vermont Program of the Year honors to Marlboro College for a new program focused on issues of health and wellness.
Marlboro College's Student Life Department conceived of WHIP (Wellness and Health Informed Peers) in the spring of 2009 to enable students to become more engaged in health and wellness topics on campus. Every Friday, a representative from an area institution, such as Planned Parenthood, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the Brattleboro Retreat and the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, were invited to visit campus and conduct a two hour workshop.
WHIP initially attracted around six percent of Marlboro College's student population, said dean of students Ken Schneck. None of those students were seniors, however, and when the program resumed in the fall their enthusiasm helped increase student participation level to 11 percent.
"During the application week this fall, the previous WHIPsters were everywhere talking up the program to all of their peers," said Schneck. "Should only a fraction of those students choose to engage their peers in a dialogue on health and wellness issues, we still had 11 percent of our student population attend 18 hours of health education."
Schneck added that WHIP participants took an active role in restructuring orientation talks about sexual health and drug and alcohol use, resulting in programs that were better received by incoming students.
"I was able to call up several guest speakers from WHIP to talk about health and wellness issues with the freshman class," said senior Olivia Sanders. "The speakers, having already met with WHIP members, were more than happy to come and continue a conversation with a new population of students, some of whom applied to be in the new class of WHIPsters right after the presentation."
Re Gorham, Marlboro College's director of health services, identified an ancillary benefit of the program as an opportunity to increase "town-and-gown" relationships with the area, which can be a challenge for a campus in a remote location. "The presenters are experts in their areas and provide the students with excellent contacts from community organizations that both support and are supported by our small, rural college health center," said Gorham.
NASPA is the foremost professional association for student affairs administrators, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students, with over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses, and representing 29 countries. Each year, NASPA Awards recognize the contributions of members who are transforming higher education through outstanding programs, innovative services, and effective administration.
In 2008, NASPA awarded Marlboro College's "Bridges" orientation program for first year students as Program of the Year for both the state of Vermont and Region I, which encompasses more than 130 institutions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as parts of Europe and Canada.
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For more than 60 years, Marlboro College has offered undergraduate education in the liberal arts. Its 330 undergraduate students enjoy an 8:1 student-faculty ratio, a voice in governing the community and individualized courses of study on a 300-acre campus in the hills of southern Vermont. Marlboro College has also offered graduate degrees and certificate programs for working adults at the Marlboro College Graduate School, located in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, since 1997.


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NORTH EAST, Md. (May 18, 2012) – SUNDAY, Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown will deliver the commencement address before an audience of over 1,000 at the 43rd annual Cecil College Graduation Ceremony. The College has invited 220 candidates and expects to award 217 associate degrees and 46 certificates (some students may receive more than one degree or certificate). Many of the graduates will either remain in the community as part of its workforce or transfer to four-year institutions to pursue bachelor's degrees.
Lt. Governor Brown leads the O'Malley-Brown Administration's portfolio on higher education and has worked with Governor Martin O'Malley to help more Marylanders access affordable higher education opportunities, including making record investments in our community colleges by increasing funding by nearly 31 percent since 2007.
WHAT: Lt. Governor Brown to Give Cecil College Commencement Address
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Senate Security Clone Trooper exclusive figure
If you're in San Diego this weekend for Comic-Con, make sure to stop by the StarWarsShop booth where exclusives and swag galore await! There's the exclusive Senate Security Clone Trooper action figure along with several others being revealed at Comic-Con this weekend.
Swag found at the StarWarsShop/Zazzle booths
And, of course, there's the swag. Visitors to the StarWarsShop and Zazzle booths have already taken home five wonderful new Clone Wars exclusive prints, a plastic clone mask, and six different exclusive campaign buttons featuring various Clone Wars and Star Wars characters. These are the must-have freebies for Comic-Con — make sure to stop by and pick some up!
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by Kevin Sinnott
As part of my self-improvement goal to become a kinder gentler person, I'll resist the urge to ask, "What were they smoking?" Like a lot of baby boomers, I have a nostalgic appreciation for Consumer Reports. They represent the hard-line leftist/socialist bent of many workers in post-World War II. They stand for uniformity, the illusion of tight product tolerances. The skinflint in me wants to believe I can sneak by using no-brand paints, cheap tires and generic orange juice.
The problem I have with them is not philosophic. I truly want to find ways to live the good life on the cheap. Problem is, so often I've gotten Consumer Reports (from the library of course, if not a free read at Borders) and been disheartened by the results using their best buy ratings as a guide.
Years ago, I chastised them for ignoring standards of any kind, and only using their "test panel". I'm guessing it was a bunch of prune-faced cheapskates who simply wanted to pretend to like products that were inexpensive. My Italian mother-in-law who always complains about the food in restaurants is the model of the sort of person I mean. She's bound and determined to dislike anything that costs more than she can cook if for. It's an affirmation of her staying home and cooking every meal herself. In her case, it's partly justified because she can cook on par with most restaurants. She just doesn't get that part of the enjoyment of a restaurant meal is sampling someone else's artistry.
Consumer Reports doesn't give you truly good alternatives, in my opinion. They just give you less costly ones, ones chosen by people, who, again in my opinion, don't have any better idea than a random consumer about what's really good versus what's not. They might argue this is one of their strengths, but to just sample a cross section of consumer reviews, Amazon or epinions.com has it covered. I expect a magazine that charges to test using objective criteria and to publish both the criteria and results. The title of the magazine is "Consumer Reports" and I assume this means a report to consumers, not by consumers. This is a major problem with their methodology. I recall a quote from someone who said "the trouble with staying free of industry influence is you end with a bunch of peers who don't know anything".
I'm not challenging Consumer Reports' freedom of industry influence, but this does not make them neutral. They seem too eager to become willfully ignorant in the bargain.
Take coffeemakers. The latest Consumer Reports article starts off well enough. They drop a name I agree with…. Technivorm. Technivorm is an industry standard auto drip coffee brewer. They use it as a standard of comparison. I'm not only fine with that, I would agree. But, then, they don't rate it number 1. In fact, they don't even put it in the top ten! Why not?
Consumer Reports gives a nod to the industry standard requirements for a coffeemaker to get the water hot enough, 195˚ to 205˚F, noting that the Technivorm readily achieves this. Again, I concur. Then, they proceed to rate other brewer's as best buys, citing an $80 Kaloric and eight others CR claims "brewed comparably". Then, they recommend a $20 Black and Decker, described "for someone a little less fussy about their coffee" and claim it is "almost as good". Never are any measurements given to back up their claims. My point is, if they publish stopping distances for cars, they should publish contact temperatures for coffee brewers.
Also, where are the other measurements that would allow the reader to judge the ratings to be valid? Nowhere is there any mention of how long any of the top-rated 'almost as good' coffeemakers keep the grounds soaked in hot water. I've tested many brewers that peak at between 195 and 205, but spend the first several minutes of the brew cycle at temperatures well below the ideal range. The Technivorm keeps your grounds in hot water for no more than 6 minutes. That's because, as the coffee industry's standards specify, any longer than six minutes and bitterness becomes progressively pronounced.
There are brewers out there that subject your grounds to hot water for more than twelve minutes. CR doesn't list contact times anywhere.
Another problematic area of many auto drip brewers is that of submersion of the grounds in water. The French press has become the darling of the smart set due to its automatically keeping all the grounds well under water throughout the brewing cycle. Does CR even know this? Do they test for it? Many auto drip makers are prone to leaving dry grounds, so inefficient are they at getting all the grounds wet. This means you wasted money by buying and using grounds in your brewer that never "gave" anything to your cup of coffee. It means your coffee is weaker than it should be, right?
And, who is their test panel? If they don't publish their test criteria, they are basically saying their results are "because we say so". So, who are they? Are these professionals or consumers?
At the moment, these are the questions that come to mind. I have to say, I can't take each unit and offer a ranking different than CR's, without testing and this is my next step. What I can say, is Consumer Reports offered no evidence that they tested these units with any but the most casual attention to the standards for good extraction. It's not brain surgery and their readers deserve more. So far, I would not put Consumer Reports as a best buy when it comes rating which coffeemaker to buy.
This entry was written by:Kevin Sinnott and posted on Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 8:57 am and is filed under Coffee at Home. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Victor, you're simply doing what any machine should do – get the water hot first, put it in contact with the grounds, and then separate the water from the grounds before the coffee gets bitter. Apparently, it's not that easy or they'd all get it right, right?
My coffee making methods are, sad to say, medieval at best. But it works and it is what I have been reduce to. Boil water in tea pot, pour KMO Coffee into a mason jar, pour said water into mason jar, let sit for 5 minutes, pour through small strainer, mmmmmm. I think it is better than any other coffee I make, medieval or not. Now the KMO Coffee is the Kaffe Magnum Opus which is fair trade organic and its the best I've tried yet.
Hopefully, I'll be able to post reviews directly to this blog soon. Meanwhile, there are objective reviews published at http://www.coffeecompanion.com . Sorry for the confusion, Ron. Yes, that's exactly what I mean CR to be, Consumer Reports, not Coffee Review.
I agree. I've never been impressed with the process or results of Consumer Reports' evaluations of coffee or coffee equipment. Also, the "CR" Kevin refers to throughout his post is Consumer Reports, not Coffee Review… thankfully.
So are you really going to test/review some coffee makers on the basis of contact time at the proper temps? That would be a really informative read. I hope to see it here soon.


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Is it that time of the year already? Sure, it's not really "halfway" through the year since the Blue have already played 95 games, but here we are at the All-Star break. This won't be as extensive as last year's season reviews, since there's only three days to do it in, but it still will touch upon everyone who appeared in a game for the Dodgers this year. So today is offense, tomorrow pitching, and the next day will be front office/coaching staff/awards/overall grade. And on Thursday, a big MSTI announcement. How did we do this last year? That's right:
First, some quick ground rules. Completely unscientific and arbitrary, this is how we've seen the results of the season. One important distinction, is that the letter grade is based upon what we reasonably could have expected of the player entering the year, not comparing him to other MLB players at his position. You'll soon see why this is so important.
Less than 10 IP or 100 at-bats gets you an "incomplete". Stats are presented (BA/OBP/SLG).
We'll knock that down to 50 at-bats for the half-season review, but everything else remains the same.
Russell Martin (.294/.394/.436 10hr 45rbi) (A+)
Without question, the best offensive player so far. There were actually some inane stories out there that I won't even subject you to linking to saying that he's been off his game this year, but that's mostly thanks to his very slow start to the season, hitting .197 as late as April 20th. But you know what? Martin's actually having the best offensive year of his career overall. His 118 OPS+ is up 5 from last year, and while his slugging % is down slightly (.029 less than last year), it's more than made up by his exemplary .394 OBP, which is actually better than Alex Rodriguez, Josh Hamilton, and Hanley Ramirez. Plus, he plays third base! What can I say? This guy's the heart and soul of the team. He's the best player, and he never complains. Love this guy. Love him.
Gary Bennett (.190/.261/.381 1hr 4rbi) (incomplete)
What a weird, weird season for the initial 2008 recipient of the Mike Lieberthal Memorial "Guy Who Rots on the Bench Behind Russell Martin" Award. Bennett only really got notice in two of my posts all season, and they couldn't be more divergent – first, he got some recognition for a good game in Milwaukee on May 15, and then just five days later we cheered his being placed on the DL, saying,
"Left foot plantar fasciitis." Let me say, the quotes could not be thicker around that. We've had no word of any injury problems surrounding Bennett, but tons of stories about his throwing problems, and suddenly his foot hurts? Hey, call it a bad foot, the flu, or the heebie-jeebies; whatever it takes to get this guy's head right and get those lollipop throws off the field. Seriously, he even made Rotoworld today, which is rare for a mediocre backup catcher, and at no point is the foot mentioned.
Thanks for showing up, Gary. Lousy hitter who can't throw – fantastic. If you wanted to hit the slots in Vegas the rest of the summer, that'd be A-ok by me.
Danny Ardoin (.211/.250/.263 0hr 2rbi) (incomplete)
Another member of the Loyal Order of Backup Catchers, Ardoin's been.. well, he's an improvement on Bennett, anyway. He's not much of a hitter either, but everything I've read about him says that the pitchers like throwing to him way better than Bennett. As far as I'm concerned, the team is screwed if Martin's hurt anyway, so it doesn't really matter all that much which one backs him up, but I'd really like it if it would be Ardoin rather than Bennett, whenever he's healthy. Amazingly enough, Ardoin's already doubled Mike Lieberthal's RBI total from last season.
First Base
James Loney (.291/.351/.446 7hr 50rbi) (C+)
Loney gets a C+ not because he's been that lousy, but simply because we had such high expectations for him. After last year's offensive explosion in the second half, who among us wasn't drooling at the prospect of him playing 1B for the entire season? But after the first two months, he was only hitting in the .270s with 5 homers. Of course, he dominated in June (.362/.425/.500), only to fall back in July, hitting just .224 so far. He's been.. okay. Not bad, not great. I still think he's got it in him to pick it up.
Second Base
Jeff Kent (.253/.304/.407 9hr 40rbi) (C-)
This, I must say, was a tough one. On one hand, he was really bad for a good portion of the season – I assume you haven't forgotten the whole chase to be the worst cleanup hitter of the last 50 years, but on the other hand, Kent's 40 years old, and how much can you ever depend on a guy that age, anyway? At least he's been able to stay relatively healthy, and his bat has turned it around a bit lately.
On the plus side, no one's accusing Kent of being involved in any clubhouse fiascos so far, so at least he's got that going for him.
Third Base
Blake DeWitt (.263/.330/.372 5hr 34rbi) (A)
Just like Kent, this is a tough grade to assign. I know it seems like a long time ago now, but do you remember how desperate this team was at the hot corner at the end of March? Nomar was hurt, LaRoche was hurt, Abreu was hurt, and the trade options were either unavailable or unappealing. So we turn over the job to the guy who was guaranteed to put up Hu-like offensive numbers. Except that.. he was good. Really good, slugging .517 in May. He was a lock for Rookie of the Year and surprise of the year. Go Blake!
Of course, great story aside, he's cratered since then, with just 4 extra base hits in the last 6 weeks, which is Pierre-like levels of mediocrity. Ah hell, it doesn't matter. He shouldn't be starting every day anymore, but that's a topic we've already covered. He gets an A simply because I shudder to think what would have happened if he hadn't held things down for the first two months.
Andy LaRoche (.192/.294/.341 2hr 3rbi) (incomplete)
Seems like LaRoche is shaping up to be part of the next Dodgers holy war, following in the footsteps of Juan Pierre and Hee-Seop Choi. No, he hasn't done much in the bigs. But the people who want to write him off are insane – he's gotten just 44 at-bats this year. Look, he's got nothing more to prove in the minors (career .895 OPS). The Dodgers need power. Blake DeWitt is slumping badly. So then why can't LaRoche ever start more than two games in a row? Why has he been benched the day after hitting a home run both times? Some things, I'll never understand.
Rafael Furcal (.366/.448/.597 5hr 16rbi) (R)
That's right, I gave Furcal an "R". Why? Because the best way I can sum up his 2008 is "ARRRRRRRGGGHH!!!!" From the best start of his career, to an injury that was to keep him out a few days, to surgery that will end with him missing 4 months. Despite everything that's gone wrong with this season, it's hard to point to anything that was more damaging than this. Furcal's back woes not only cost the team its hottest hitter, but lead to the failings of Hu, the misery of Angel Berroa, and the so-far entertaining Nomar era. Think about it, the Dodgers are one game out. It's not much of a stretch to say that if Furcal had stayed healthy, the Dodgers are in first place, is it?
Angel Berroa (.192/.253/.219 0hr 0rbi) (F)
I have to say, of all the stats I looked up for this article, Berroa surprised me more than anybody. He really has zero RBI? Not even one? Despite starting 21 games? That would be incredible, if it weren't so depressing. Look at it this way, Berroa's had 72 at-bats without an RBI. That's the most in MLB by a large margin, nearly double the 40 at-bats by Washington's Roger Bernadina. Yikes! Actually, now that I think about it, maybe Berroa doesn't deserve an F here. Maybe he should be getting a C. I mean, it's not like we didn't all know he was going to suck from day one. And to the surprise of no one except perhaps Ned Colletti, he has. He's been exactly as bad as we thought, not that it was possible to be any worse, so in that sense he's been the average Angel Berroa.
Nah, forget it. Big. Fat. F.
Chin-Lung Hu (.159/.224/.206 0hr 7rbi) (D)
This really should be an F, because Hu's utter failure to perform once Furcal went down has to rank as one of the bigger disappointments of the season. The only thing bumping him up to a D is the fact that his defense more than lived up to its sparking reputation. But I don't think it was too much to expect that he had a shot to be a decent hitter, since after a breakthrough 2007 where he OPS'd .871 in the minors, he popped 2 dingers in 29 late-season at-bats in the bigs. And then.. fizzle. Now, he's apparently had some vision issues since returning to AAA, so if that's what caused this, I haven't completely given up on him. It's just that if he could have been even a mediocre hitter, we could have kept his slick glove in the lineup and avoided the entire Berroa fiasco.
Nomar Garciaparra (.250/.328/.400 2hr 12rbi) (!!!)
What a year for Nomahhh. Breaks his hand in spring training, comes back to play in all of 8 games (hitting .226) before hurting his calf and missing two more months.. only to return at shortstop. You can't make this stuff up. In fact, I wish I had predicted this in the offseason, just so I could see what kind of responses I'd have gotten saying that I'd completely lost my mind. Remember last year when Nomar couldn't be moved from 1B to 3B to make room for Loney because he was "too fragile"? Well, a year and several injuries later, now he's playing shortstop. Unbelievable. He's hit okay since coming back (.286/.333/.500 in 8 games), but there's just no way this doesn't end with him somehow spontaneously combusting turning a double play, right?
Luis Maza (.228/.282/.278 1hr 4rbi) (C… ish)
Remember, we're doing these grades based not on how they compare to the rest of the league, but based on how a player has performed based on reasonable expectations at the beginning of the season. This is why Hu gets a D, since he was below expectations, and why DeWitt gets an A, since he was so far above. The only time this method runs into a problem is in the case of Luis Maza, because for someone who runs a Dodgers blog and likes to think he knows entirely too much about the Dodger organization.. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had never even heard of this guy coming into the season. So it's hard to say I had any expectations of him. That said, he's been pretty much what you'd think he'd be – a quad-A player who's a mediocre hitter and a decent fielder, albeit with a particularly lousy arm.
Mark Sweeney (.094/.181/.125 0hr 3rbi) (?)
Sweeney gets a question mark for a grade. That's partially because he doesn't even deserve to attain a letter, but mostly to represent the question of, Why is Mark Sweeney on This Team? He serves no function. He's a pinch-hitter who can't hit. He can't hit lefties. He can't hit righties. He can't hit at home. He can't hit on the road. He can't hit during the day. He can't hit at night. We do not like him here or there, we do not like him anywhere. His OPS is negative 18, which I believe means he's lapsed into some sort of an unknown dimension. He's 38 years old, and he's got 6 hits in 72 at-bats! It's the end of the line, and it's just stubbornness on the part of the Dodgers front office that they allow him to keep making outs (he's supposedly coming off the DL on Friday). I would love to know what kind of pictures Sweeney must have of Colletti with a lampshade on his head in order to keep his job.
Time to go, Mark. Time to go.
Terry Tiffee (.250/.400/.250 0hr 0rbi) (incomplete)
Tiffee only went 1-4 in his short time up, but I've been backing him for over two months. Now back at Vegas, he's kept up his amazing season, currently rocking a .396/.434/.598 line. Sure, say it's a fluke, say whatever you like. Maybe you're right. But there is simply no argument you can use to convince me that he shouldn't be taking Mark Sweeney's place. None. Tiffee is more useful than Sweeney in every conceivable way – hitting, fielding, versatility, you name it. (And I did, right here.) I suppose I'm venturing more into Colletti territory than Tiffee, but really, all Tiffee's done is hit all year long. What else does he have to do?
Tony Abreu (n/a) (incomplete)
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Matt Kemp (.278/.331/.437 9hr 49rbi 20sb) (B)
We've exhausted a lot of pixels on Kemp around here lately, so I won't revisit it all again. But suffice it to say, there's been nothing boring about Kemp's season. To wild trade rumors to arguments about what type of player he is and will be, Kemp's been front and center. As you probably know, considering his age and inexperience, I'm pretty satisfied with what he's done, especially his improvement in the outfield. The strikeouts have to be cut, of course, but remember that he's only 23. Guys like Matt Holliday and Ryan Howard hadn't even made their debuts by 23, instead being allowed to develop in the minors. Considering Kemp's already been (roughly) an average MLBer at that age, let's cut the kid a little slack, okay?
Andre Ethier (.286/.350/.464 11hr 41rbi) (A-)
Don't look now, but Ethier is leading the entire team in homers and slugging %. That's pretty impressive for a guy who's been continually jerked around in terms of playing time when both Jones and Pierre were available. He gets a bit of a demerit for that .195 June, but he's come roaring back in July with a 1.061 OPS. So of course, we can look forward to him seeing some bench in two weeks when Pierre returns. Because that's what a team who can't hit should do – bench their biggest power hitter. Amazing.
Juan Pierre (.277/.327/.318 0hr 24rbi 35sb) (D)
This isn't the place to rehash the whole Pierre argument yet again, but it's pretty simple, as far as I'm concerned. He's having the worst season of his career by every single offensive stat (save steals), which is saying a lot when it's the fourth straight season he's declined since his career year of 2004. Regardless of how you feel about him, he's not even living up to his own mediocre standards. That's not good, and I can't imagine it'll be any better if his knee is any less than 100% when he comes back. Yet Joe Torre is infatuated with him, but I guess that's something more to discuss in Torre's review. Of 19 MLB leftfielders with enough at-bats to qualify, Pierre is dead last in OPS, coming in nearly 340 points lower than leader Matt Holliday's. That's not just bad, that's really bad.
By the way, in that "career year", his OPS+ was 107 (it's down to 69 this year). Andre Ethier's this season is 110. Just sayin'.
Andruw Jones (.167/.261/.253 2hr 9rbi) (you don't even deserve a letter, Andruw)
What. A. Disaster. Hey, we're not always right at MSTI either, because we both supported this deal when it was signed. But geez. I can't even get on Colletti for this one, because really, who the hell saw this happening? If you didn't see this link the other day, ESPN.com's Jayson Stark says Jones is on pace for the Worst Offensive Season in Baseball History.
You know what, I can't even talk about him. You don't need stats on this one. You have eyes. You've watched the Dodgers. He's awful, and no one seems to know why. What a mess.
Delwyn Young (.255/.327/.343 1hr 5rbi) (C-)
Have to admit, I'm a little torn on Delwyn. We've been big fans of his for a while, because on a team that's struggling so badly offensively, a guy who's done nothing but kill the ball at every stop would seem like a useful player to have. I mean, it was just last season that he broke a 41-year-old PCL record for doubles. That said, he hasn't really done all that much with the big club this season. Oddly enough, his stats are the exact opposite of what I had thought; I was all set to say "but he doesn't get to play that much with the OF logjam, and its hard for a kid to be a pinch-hitter". Except that as it turns out, he's hitting .342 off the bench vs. only .203 as a starter.
Jason Repko (.000/.000/.000 0hr 0rbi) (incomplete)
Oh, Jason. Poor Jason. Just can't catch a break. You come up and go 0-5 with 4 K's in your first game, and then get all of two more at-bats before getting sent down, probably for good. Damn shame, really.
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ANN LOVELL, SCULPTOR: My day job is working with children. I'm a kindergarten teacher assistant. But I got into this rocking-horse-making business because I had a love of horses. It took me five years to complete that first horse and I gave it to my daughter on her first birthday.
AIRLIE WARD: Zoe is now 10 and still rides her first birthday present.
The first rocking horse is made from kauri, before Ann Lovell moved to Tasmania and discovered the joys of Huon pine.
ANN LOVELL: All the rocking horses are modelled on my original pony. His name was Gypsy. I had him for about 28 years. The difference between my rocking horse and the traditional rocking horse is that I carve the mane, tail, bridle and saddle and even the bit in the mouth and generally the traditional rocking horse has a hair mane and tail and a leather saddle. The reason I did that was because the grain is so beautiful and I wanted to not paint the horse and, secondly, if you come across an old rocking horse it's usually missing parts of the mane, tail, bridle and saddle.
AIRLIE WARD: The off-cuts have lead to another business - carved classic sports cars.
ANN LOVELL: People who can't purchase a little model of their own car will, if it's rare, come to us and we can make exactly what they want. They send us photos and photos of themselves and we can actually put a little caricature of themselves in it.
We sell our cars all over the world and we can't keep up with the demand. I would like eventually stop the day job and concentrate on carving. That is my aim.
AIRLIE WARD: Thanks to the internet, these carved off-cuts have gone all over the world.
ANN LOVELL: We got an email to do a little open-wheeler racing car for the Formula One team Renault for a fellow who's retiring, so we're presently doing a little trophy for him.
AIRLIE WARD: And the sister of Crown Princess Mary of Denmark discovered the perfect christening gift for her godson.
ANN LOVELL: Princess Mary's sister Jane just happened to be shopping in Salamanca and purchased a little Ferrari.
AIRLIE WARD: Pretty good thing to put on the CV though, isn't it?
ANN LOVELL: Oh yes, I was going to say, you can curtsey to me now. By appointment!
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Even though we are busy, I think it's good for BC and I to be involved in research about matters relating to CP when asked to.
I feel a little unfair committing him to being involved in research activities that involve him putting in some effort, but so far, I've found that all those involved in studies have been lovely people and BC has found any tasks he's been required to do really enjoyable.
I wouldn't get involved in any research that was invasive or experimental, but those that are more about gathering data and information that will provide better understanding of CP issues are more than fine with me, as long as it's fine with BC.
I think I mostly like us being involved in these kinds of studies because if there's one thing that I have learnt since we've started our journey, it's that there is a hell of a lot unknown about CP. The more research, the more that will be known for us and for others.
Since BC was a toddler we've been part of a 5 year study looking broadly at his gross motor development. We go in every 6-12 months and BC plays some games and they coax some movements from him in order to measure his abilities. He gets lots of attention and praise. He loves it. Each of the sessions is recorded on video. They've suggested that after our last session (later this year) we might be able to get a copy of the video footage from all the sessions. I hope we can. I'd love to be able to watch how he has progressed over that time. I bet BC would love to watch it too.
Recently, we spent a morning taking part in a study designed to look at the ways cognitive ability is tested in children with CP. There was lots of looking at pictures and choosing involved. Some of it was a bit tricky, but BC really enjoyed that too.
I wanted to be involved in this study, looking at possible genetic causes of CP. However, BC is not the right age, and I later realised that because my husband is not from a Caucasian background, we are ineligible anyway. If you're interested in playing a little role in research, I think they are still looking for help with this study, from Aussie families with and without CP. (Note the very brief youtube cameo from Jimmy Barnes on the website ;-).
Today, I came across this research study from Europe about participation in 'life situations' (weird phrasing) of 8-12 year olds with cerebral palsy. It makes for quite interesting reading.
I was saddened to read about the number of children who regularly experience pain. And also saddened by how many have low participation in a range of activities.
It sounds like Denmark is on the right track.
I wonder how Australia would compare.
I like how the research paper draws on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in its introduction:
"Articles 23-30 of the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, so far ratified by 34 nations, state that children with disabilities should be able to participate on an equal basis with others in family life, health maintenance, education, public life, and recreational, leisure, and sporting activities"
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I have been working at Gentle Dental & Orthodontics full-time for more than a year
Pros – -Pretty good systems in place (at least compared to other dental corporations I've worked in) to help manage day to day activities.
-If full time: malpractice insurance paid for, supplies are supplied as well. Medical and dental benefits are good also, as well as other benefits one can have (it, 401K, or other retirement plans)
-Ethical place to work in (yes, believe it or not, for a dental corporation!). Good perio protocol in place. Dr is free to diagnose however they choose, so did not get too much pressure for trying to "sell" a treatment plan that wasn't of the standard of care.
-company paid CE available, especially when first starting out with the company. Basic practice management and risk management is talked about--these are things you do not get in dental school.
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-When I wanted to leave the company and go venture off on other opportunities, their "pep" talk for convincing me to stay was basically a conversation about how great their benefits were. I was a bit disappointed that they didn't have anything better to say other than the "great" benefits they have.
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Advice to Senior Management – As someone had mentioned before in this same thread, you need to take a harder look at what is truly going on in the offices. The high morale in an office I wanted to feel isn't quite what I felt when I went back to the office after some of the meetings/lectures/seminars I went to.
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He's a complete n00b when it comes to computers an all things technical.
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Not sympathy or disgust or anything like that. Those feelings were felt by many, no doubt, but they were not the primary thought shared by those of the male gender. Those of us who bear the family jewels really, truly wanted to know one thing and one thing only: When are we going to see pictures of the girl?
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Appearance and lust aside, Spitzer needed to do what any guy – especially a married guy, and moreso a married guy in politics – should do in a moment of weakness: imagine getting caught. Spitzer may have thought that because he was paying top dollar to get his jollies that he would avoid the complications of having tales of his escapades leaked. But what he forgot while he was letting his manhood do his thinking for him was that we Americans, as we shake our fists in disapproval while the other hand is reaching for our zipper, love sex scandals. Having never been to a foreign country I shouldn't limit that statement to Americans; I am sure Europeans and Asians love their debauchery just as much.
Having been married to The Wife for almost eight years now, I know that saying a set of vows and exchanging rings does not flip a switch that turns us off to the rest of the world. There are still plenty of other people out there and our natural instincts don't just go away because we say "I do." I'm not letting you ladies off the hook on this one. Your minds can go skinny dipping in the gutter just as fast as a man's, admit it.
The difference between people like Spitzer and, say, me is that I can stop panting long enough to know how miserable my life will be when the truth comes out. Even the most difficult times of a marriage are probably nothing compared to having to face a spouse and friends and family knowing that they know what you did.
That is why last night, when The Wife was away taking care of some matters at her parents' house in Northern California, I sat at home with my libido trying to focus on something else. I could go trolling for companionship — whether paid or voluntary, though if my single life was any indication I would have to pay — and I just might have a good time. Strumming my guitar or watching a movie, though less steamy or titiliating options, will certainly not get me into any trouble. My lower lip will thank me for it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go do an Internet search for "Spitzer" and "sex tape." If any of you find it first, my e-mail address is below.
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Pay now and not only will you lock in this year's dues rate, your membership will be good through the next program year (August 31, 2015). Learn More!
The BBA's Summer Jobs program is setting the pace, 44 firms have secured 61 paid internships for Boston Public High School students. Learn more here.
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If you are a recently admitted lawyer in MA, take a look at the BBA's Practicing with Professionalism Page to register. Don't delay, five dates are already sold out!
On May 12, 1,300 members of the bar will hear from keynote Mayor Martin Walsh and see 60 volunteers honored for their work on the BBA Marathon Assistance Project. Learn More.
The Boston Bar Association has reached a key point in its partnership with the Boston Debate League (BDL), and is now seeking volunteers to serve as mentors. The mentors, who should be lawyers or law firm professional staff, will help support academic debate leagues in Boston Public High Schools (BPS) while expanding the pipeline of racially and ethnically diverse young people who may choose to become lawyers.
The commitment is significant but gratifying: From September through March of the coming school year, volunteer mentors will be assigned to attend a weekly, after school debate practice session lasting between one and two hours. All volunteers must submit to a CORI check and participate in a three hour training seminar to qualify for the program.
Why make the commitment? First, because BDL debate teams need your help. Despite the relatively small size of BPS schools compared to other major metropolitan areas, their debate teams are on average the largest in the country, often with teams in excess of 60 students. Teachers are the primary coaches, but they need your help. Second, consider the following statistics provided from BDL:
This important public service program highlights the BBA's commitment to diversity and inclusion and willingness to invest in Boston's youth.
To volunteer please contact Stephanie Lee at firstname.lastname@example.com or 617-778-1914.
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