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The versatility and economy of pole barns aren't limited to farm sheds. This pole building serves as a contractor's garage and warehouse.
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It's a sure sign the football season is fast approaching when the media guide becomes available. You can peruse the online version — all 200-plus pages — right here.
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There is nothing that sucks your breath from your lungs quicker than lifting the sole to find rivers of water where you usually see a barren bilge. Before you leave the dock, ensure your bilge pumps are properly sized. Unfortunately, quite a few builders install inadequately sized pumps. Install an electric bilge pump that can keep up with the inflow of water if the largest inlet fails to be safe. For many yachts, this would be the raw-water intake. I'm also a fan of yachts with raw-water sea chests and common drains that tie incoming and outgoing water into a common source, reducing the number of penetrations in the hull. Also, be sure to have properly sized built-in manual pumps on board that can continue to operate if you lose power. Install engine intakes with a bilge suction bypass, which are easy to operate. The principle is simple: If a large amount of water is coming in, a valve is turned (some systems require a plug to be removed), and the running engines suck water from the bilge, not the sea.
Setting The Anchor
Know how to drop and secure the hook for typical cruising endeavors. Ensure your boat is properly equipped with the correct anchor. Also make sure you're set properly before you turn off the engines. I was once off Sicily and we jumped in to cool off, then noticed the boat was drifting. We had to swim like hell to get out of the captain's way so he could start the engines. Next steps: Click here for a complete anchoring guide.
Current and Tide Basics
On some boats, an adverse current will not prohibit the ability to get underway. However, it may be nice to place a few knots of current behind you.
Make tide and current awareness part of your predeparture checklist. Ensure you know the time, strength, and direction of tidal currents. Most new electronic software has a very easy to use tide function. I also keep a tide table at my house to reference before I leave for the boat. Next steps: For those who have dived into the world of smartphone apps, try the Tides or Marine Tides apps.
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Rethinking draft "steals"
Normally, I view Sports Illustrated columnist Perloff as a minor irritation, often choosing to write something contradictory just to stir the pot. In spite of that, he said something in his current column that I totally agree with myself: "Most draft graders have their formula all wrong. Experts reward teams that got recognizable players from big programs who went lower than projected in all the mock drafts. Teams were lauded for picking up Notre Dame's Clausen, Texas' McCoy and Sergio Kindle, Alabama's Terrence Cody, USC's Everson Griffen, Tennessee's Dan Williams, Maryland's Bruce Campbell, etc. Aren't these players less likely to be steals because teams have had so many opportunities to scout them?" He's got a good point, actually. When a prospect falls from his projected slot in a draft, is it because the player is genuinely good but simply passed over for bad reasons? Or is it because everyone else was accurate and you, Mr. Favorite Franchise's Drafting Executive, are the one somehow not seeing the problem? For once, Perloff's got a good point: Managing to find a player projected for the first round but falling out of it may not necessarily be a "steal". It may be that your team is simply blind to a very real issue. So automatically grading a draft choice as a "steal" is presuming that the press pundits have got it more right than the franchise. That's possible, but not guaranteed Hence, the problem of calling someone a great pick just because he sunk in the draft.


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Out of 25 invited participants, six of Hawaii's best bartenders made it to the finals of the 2013 Bacardi Oakheart Iron Bartender competition on April 2 at The Republik. Christian Self (39 Hotel), Justin Park (Manifest), Alicia Yamachika (Nobu, Uncle Bo's and Pint & Jigger), Dave Newman (Pint & Jigger), Roxanne Siebert (V Lounge and The Safehouse) and Mo Sanford (The Safehouse) successfully qualified to compete in the finals. They competed in four rounds: Original cocktail; speed and accuracy (competitors had to accurately pour three different measured shots and a 5 oz wine glass and make a long island ice tea, vodka cranberry and 2 kamikaze shots as quickly as possible); personality and a mystery ingredients box (shiso leaf, lime, Monster energy drink, dragon's eye fruit, raw egg, molasses and Peeps). Justin Park from the Manifest won the overall competition, winning a trip for two to Las Vegas.
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Woman accused of assaulting toddlerFebruary 13,2013Woman denies assault on child
NORTH BENNINGTON A woman who is staying at the Bennington Coalition for the Homeless shelter at 6 Bank St. was charged with two misdemeanors on Tuesday after police said they believed she had assaulted an 18-month-old child.
Adrienne Bowen, 22, pleaded innocent in Bennington criminal court to misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and cruelty to a child younger than 10.
In an affidavit, Detective Anthony Silvestro, of the Bennington Police Department, said he had begun to investigate Bowen because of a report made to the Vermont Department of Children and Families by an unnamed employee of the shelter.
On Monday, Silvestro and an investigator with the Department of Children and Families met with a person living in the shelter who was also not named in the affidavit. The resident claimed Bowen had picked up a child, who was born in August 2011, by the hand.
The resident said the child was held high enough to be swinging in the air and said Bowen twisted the childs arm and dropped her on the floor where she hit her head. The resident said Bowen kicked the childs foot before walking away.
On other occasions, the resident told investigators, Bowen dragged the child up some stairs by her arm.
Silvestro said Bowen told him that she gets stressed out very easily. She denied dropping and kicking the child but admitted to picking the child up by her arm.
She also told investigators she didnt want to have the child taken away from her.
Bowen was released without bail but ordered to observe a curfew and obey a safety plan created by the Department of Children and Families. She was also ordered not to use corporal punishment on the child.
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Climb the relatively low angle face with edges, flakes, and occasional pockets, past a small, left-facing corner and over a small overlap to steeper terrain. Climb into a corner where the first crux is encountered. Slither your way up the corner to easier climbing and the final crux pulling the overhang with a hard-to-find sequence that once you find it gives you an "ah-ha" moment. Finish with a few moves of easy terrain to the anchor.
Small Fry is on the right side of what is often referred to as the Potato Wall, due to the route names given. Small Fry is 25 feet right of the 5.7, Do the Mashed Potato. Look for the glue-in bolts.
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THE next meeting of Chipping Campden Debating Society takes place on Saturday and promises to be a lively affair, with different members of an extended farming family clashing over whether genetically modified crops should be grown in the UK.
Proposing the motion that, "The use of GM crops is essential to meet the needs of an increasing world population" will be Liz Hodges, wife of Campden farmer and agricultural contractor David Hodges.
Opposing the motion will be Richard Young, a farmer from Broadway, cousin of David and godfather of David and Liz's son William.
Liz and Richard have locked horns before on this issue and both still hold strongly opposing views.
Margaret Clayton, secretary of the debating society said: "This is a very important issue which will affect us all in the coming years and I urge everyone with an interest to come along and take part in the debate."
Mrs Hodges will argue that GM crops are essential to meet the challenge of feeding a growing world population.
Mr Young will argue that far from increasing food production and helping the starving millions, GM crops pose unacceptable risks.
The debate takes place in Chipping Campden Church Rooms, starting at 8pm.
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University of Maine President Paul W. Ferguson has named Jeffrey E. Hecker as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost effective Sept. 1. Hecker is currently the dean of UMaine's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He replaces Provost Susan Hunter, who was named vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Maine System.
President Ferguson commented that, "As we embarked upon the internal search to fill the impending provost vacancy, Jeff Hecker emerged as the definitive and consensus choice among the Cabinet, Provost's Council, the Search Advisory Committee, and the majority of UMaine constituents who submitted nominations. Based upon his decades of dedicated and productive service on the UMaine faculty and as dean, Jeff will bring a remarkable blend of wisdom, experience and campus insights to his new role as provost. I am so pleased he will be joining the Cabinet, and I look forward to a very productive and enjoyable partnership."
"The University of Maine has been my professional home for the past 27 years and I am honored to have the opportunity to serve as provost of this great institution," Hecker said. "I look forward to working closely with President Ferguson to realize the Blue Sky vision. This is an exciting period in the life of the university and I am thrilled to join the dynamic leadership team the president has assembled."
Hecker received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UMaine in 1986 after earning the B.S. degree (Phi Beta Kappa) in liberal arts and sciences (psychology) from the University of Illinois. He joined the UMaine faculty in 1986 as director of the Psychological Services Center, the training clinic for UMaine's doctoral program in clinical psychology.
Hecker is a clinical researcher whose work focuses on understanding and treating anxiety, and more recently on risk assessment for people who have committed sexual offenses, including adolescents. He is the author of two books and scores of journal articles and presentations. A licensed clinical psychologist, Hecker has extensive experience in providing research and clinical consultation to the Maine Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services; and as a mental health consultant for the Penobscot Job Corps Center and Penquis CAP Head Start, both in Bangor.
He advanced through the academic ranks to professor of psychology, chairing the Department of Psychology from 2002–07. In 2007, he was named interim dean and, a year later, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Hecker has been honored during his distinguished service to the university, community and profession, with recognition including the 2006 University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Award for service and outreach, and the 1994 Maine Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Academic Contributions to Psychology.
President Ferguson has appointed Hecker to a two-year term. As the president presented to the UMaine Community in the call for nominations, this fixed-length provost appointment ensures continuity and efficiency in UMaine academic affairs operations. At the end of two years, a national search will be conducted, for which Hecker would be eligible to apply.
With the confirmation of his appointment, Hecker will begin to work with President Ferguson to fill several key administrative positions before the start of the fall 2013 semester. These three positions, all the result of retirements or reassignments, include the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, vice president for research, and associate provost and dean of undergraduate studies.


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it's no big secret that somewhere in darkthrone's career they started putting out some pretty redundant albums, but this is at least a fun sort of redundant that suggests a sincere love for thrash metal and d-beat/crusk punk. it's notable for being the only recent darkthrone album to be derivative of the band's influences in attempt to create something new without the slightest sense of of irony, rather than simply cannibalizing the past for the sake of it and adding joke lyrics. a bit monochromatic and certainly not a sjakk matt, but i like it; just listen to their essential releases first for context.
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Darkthrone's new album, 'Sardonic Wrath' is an explosive work of regression embedded with the original, solid black metal vitality that this legendary band is renowned for. "This album is inspired by the same things as the previous albums" explains Noctumo Culto. "I've always wanted to create those killers riffs and that is what makes me do this after all these years," continues Fenriz. "I have no control over what became of black metal after '92 / '93 so Darkthrone gives me the opportunity to create my own ugliness. I let everyone dress up whilst I dress down, basically."
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ok first off, the "Fred Dursts Biggest fan" guy shouldnt even deserve to listeon to music. To say that these guys pose to be METAL (not medal u dumbass)is crazy. This band was around long before Limp Bizkit and they are two totally differnet types of music. the things that guy types are so stupid "they should write songs about being mad at parents and lookin cool" that i actually think it was a joke. i hope to a mercyful god that he was joking, becuase if there is a mercyful god and he wasnt joking, he will smite this retarted dumbass now…(no offense to actually retarted people)
i just had to get that out. anyway, on to this latest Opus from black metal heros Darkthrone. this album is pretty great. the vocals stay true to the old school ways and i really love this band. anyway, later, DEATH TO PEACE
Pretty routine stuff now for Darkthrone. It's not bad, but far from good. Has some nice riffs, and fenriz is always good with his drumming.
Not as powerful a listen as their earlier albums. If you can find this used for $8 or below, i'd say go for it.
This album is actually quite good!! No it's no Transilvanian Hunger (my favourite BM album of all time), but we don't get another one of those, ever. This album is raw, black and atmospheric. Just the way we like it! Amazing how a band can achieve so much with so little. It's so stripped down, and has a really good old-school feeling to it. 1st generation black metal and hardcore punk, but with atmosphere. They don't need the boring electronic intro though. This is the first "modern" (post 96) Darkthrone album that I really get into, and I am pleasantly surprised. I'm gonna buy it! Maybe even the t-shirt too! Darkthrone is by far the best black metal band ever. Yes their classic period is behind us, but if they keep on making records like this one, I'll stick around! If you like quality old-school black metal with a retro-feel, buy this baby.
If you expect surprises with Darkthrone you are are mistaken.It's black metal no more no less. That is not to mean that it is one dimensional or boring.Nor is it trying desperately to fit any of the cliques that have appeared in black metal (progressive, pompous, "necro",etc).Darkthrone show that it is possible to take influence from any kind of music and still make quality music without sounding like those influences.
Perhaps the reviewer who gave this three stars expects too much from Darkthrone as we all do from the true quality bands. I always feel disappointed by new Slayer or Morbid Angel albums simply because they have produced such monumental music before-their average is another band's best album ever.And Fenriz's lyrics are brilliant-dark, metal but not overdramatic or dumb.Just quality.


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Dear Paul,
In last month's Global Outlook, you said we would see a "rollercoaster stock market" through the fall of this year. So far, your predictions look right. Are we anywhere near the bottom of this correction? Are there any other places to invest while the U.S. stock market completes its correction?
It is important to always distinguish the stock market from the underlying U.S. economy. The underlying economy has not changed. It is still growing at a mediocre annual growth rate of about 3%.
While unemployment remains stagnant and housing continues to be a problem, other parts of the economy are continuing to recover. Consumers are starting to spend again and industrial productivity is at a record high. Profits are expected to be very positive and beat expectations next quarter.
The problem has been that the U.S. stock market went almost straight up from March of 2009 until April of this year, while the underlying U.S. economy was roughly flat, just growing about 3%.
In short, the U.S. stock market was completely out-of-sync with the underlying U.S. economy.
Here is where the S&P 500 Index closed on Thursday, June 24, 2010. I am reprinting this chart with the permission of Doug Short at dshort.com.
This chart starts in October 2007 when the last bull market peaked. The S&P 500 Index is now down about 10% below its April 2010 high. The chart also shows that the stock market would have to go up +31.4% in order to reach the breakeven point of the last bull market high reached on October 9, 2007.
How Far Does The Stock Market Have To Drop To Be "In Sync" With The Economy?
Yale University Professor Robert Shiller has created a method of determining whether the U.S. stock market is over- or under-valued by using long-term corporate Price Earnings ratios. It has a great past record of market predictions. The current reading of his Shiller P/E Ratio Valuation is that the U.S. stock market is currently over-valued by about 20%.
Below is a 70-year chart of the Dow Jones Index used with permission from Chris Kimble. This graph shows that the long-term Dow Jones Index has been out-of-sync with the underlying economy and its own long-term average trend since the Tech Bubble in the late 1990's.
According to this analysis the U.S. stock market as measured by the Dow Jones Index is overvalued by 31% as of June 24, 2010.
On the next page there is another chart from Citi economist, Steven Wieting. This chart shows that the S&P 500 Index is clearly disconnected from current U.S. Industrial Production.
The laws of statistics state that whenever two trends diverge they must always "regress to the mean" of their underlying fundamentals—which is the basic U.S. economy.
The bottom line is that no matter how an analyst looks at the current stock market vs. the underlying economy, the S&P 500 Index is still at least 20% overvalued.
I still believe that over the next few months through October, we will see continued turmoil and real volatility in the stock market as both the stock market and economy try to find some equilibrium.
Until a "stop-loss target" is triggered, Foxhall will primarily manage risk in our client's portfolios by increasing cash and U.S. treasury bonds while volatility in the market remains high.
The good news is, I continue to believe that once we go through the summer and early fall, we will see a sustainable bull market sometime after October. But however it plays out, Foxhall's disciplined approach to managing investment risk and portfolio volatility is firmly in place and provides thoughtful investors with effective global investment exposure.
Are There Any Better Places In The World To Invest Right Now?
Not yet—but maybe soon!
A growing number of analysts now believe that the stock market declines in China, Asia and many emerging markets are finally bottoming out.
Since the Chinese Shanghai Stock Market Index hit its peak in October of 2009, that market has dropped by over -26%. It may continue to drop in the near future, but most analysts believe that this stock market is getting close to the Chinese economy's underlying fundamentals.
Has The Chinese Bubble Burst?
China has had the enviable problem of trying to slow down the explosive growth in its economy—especially its property markets.
The Chinese Government has moved aggressively to slow down lending and investment in what looked like a "bubble" in residential and commercial real estate.
Most analysts think the government is doing everything mostly right.
Their problem is not nearly as bad as it was here in the United States or Europe. First, Chinese banks have lifted buyer's down payments from 20% to 30% on their primary residence and from 40% to50% down-payments for second home buyers. Chinese investors are also limited to 3 investment properties and in Beijing, investors are forbidden to buy a third home, even with their own money.
The average Chinese mortgage is less than 50% and the average Chinese spends less that 30% of their income on mortgage repayments.
This is more of a "price bubble" than a "credit crisis" like it became in the U.S. Chinese home buyers did not get 125% sub-prime mortgages, like we gave away in the U.S. It is also less likely they will "walk away" from a mortgage when they have invested a 30% to 50% down-payment.
There is also no chance of bank failures, since most mortgage lending banks are government owned. So even if the government has to take over some mortgages, they have more than a trillion U.S. dollars in surplus reserves that could be used for those purchases. China will not have to "print money" in order to bail out their banks.
The Chinese government is also planning to impose property taxes for the first time to discourage investment speculation.
China's Housing Prices Have Dropped Substantially
A combination of all of these new government policies has caused property prices in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen to drop up to -28% over the past few months. Real estate excitement and speculation has been most frenetic in these three coastal cities, even though these cities only represent 8% of all Chinese residential construction. Other real estate in China has, for the most part, had very little movement.
China also benefits from the fact that household debt is rising, but is still minuscule when compared with the United States. Also Chinese incomes continue to outpace the overall rise in housing prices.
Another factor is that the ratio of housing loans to GDP is only 15.3% in China vs. 79% in the U.S. last year.
Many pessimists compare China to Japan in the 1990's, when Japan suffered a real estate meltdown that has created stagnant growth ever since.
But China and Japan are very different. Japan overbuilt its residential real estate during a period when their population was dropping and, at the time, almost every Japanese citizen already had a home.
This is the same mistake we made here in the U.S. During our real estate bubble we massively overbuilt houses when most people already lived in an adequate home. In Japan and in the U.S. we both created more supply than there was demand.
In China, they have the opposite problem, one of the reasons housing prices were going up so fast is that China cannot build houses fast enough. Right now, China's homeowners remain stuck in cramped, shoddy flats they received a decade ago by the government. Many Chinese still live in dormitories provided by their employers.
China now has over 215 million middle class urban households, but only 48 million homes have been built and sold. There is still enormous pent-up demand for housing in China.
China has gone through investment bubbles before—building too many steel mills, and too many office buildings—only to see the nation's breakneck growth soak up the excess capacity. With over 1.2 billion people still clawing to advance beyond peasant status, the government seems to be controlling this new bubble and analysts still expect growth over the next year to exceed 10%.
Other Asian stock markets, like India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan also seemed to have bottomed out and are now starting to recover. Over the next few months, I believe These may be the stock markets that will start the new global bull break out.
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Sorry...that probably seems like a dumb question to many of you out there. I have only taken an intro design course and a typography course and neither one addressed keyline. I searched google but couldn't find any description. I ask b/c there is a job that I wish to apply for and I meet all of the requirements except for "keyline (traditional)...and since I don't even know what it is, I wanted to figure out how that might affect my chances of actually getting an interview for the job. If anyone knows of any information source on the web, that would be great...or if you know of a printed book that contains detailed information, I would like to know. Thanks in advance.
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People who produce artwork for print invarably work in 'keyline' mode.
Keyline is generally colour-separated artwork done by traditional paste-up methods and involves drawing accurate keylines for shapes with a Rapidograph (drawing pen) maybe in conjunction with bromides or computer generated typesettings.
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URBANA — Free dental exams, cleanings and fluoride treatments will be available for kids from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 20 at Lincoln Square, Urbana.
The free dental services are being provided as part of Give Kids a Smile Day, sponsored by the Illini District Dental Society.
DANVILLE — The good news: Fewer Vermilion County high school students are drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and marijuana, attempting suicide, and using unhealthy methods to lose weight.
CHAMPAIGN — Students at Barkstall Elementary are about to learn a lot about fitness.
The school is starting a schoolwide initiative to encourage physical activity called "Fitness is Fun." It's registered with Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, and students and teachers will log their physical activity every week.
CHAMPAIGN — Contributions to the United Way of Champaign County are running behind, with less than three months left to meet the agency's $3.3 million goal.
As of Tuesday, the United Way had raised a bit over $3.03 million, about 9 percent behind where fundraising was at this time last year, says United Way President and CEO Sue Grey.
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Stomach woes were rampant this past winter. Were you one of the unlucky ones to experience a 24-hour bug or the "stomach flu?" If so, I'm willing to bet you'd do anything to avoid repeating it.
URBANA — The average daily census at the Champaign County Nursing Home dropped to its lowest level in more than three years last month, but the facility's manager said he did not believe it was because of reports of an increase in deaths there over the winter.
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THE group which aims to create a novelty shopping area in Colchester is considering becoming a charity in order to access hundreds of thousands of pounds of grant funding.
Colchester's town centre businesses and retailers have backed plans to create a signposted route from Priory Street to Balkerne Lane, taking in the Roman wall.
The project would include the small shops in Short Wyre Street, Sir Isaac's Walk, Trinity Street and Church Street.
Ron Levy, secretary of Colchester Business Association, which is backing the scheme, said: "By being a charity or a company, it makes funding more available.
"We saw it with the £500,000 being allocated for the old police station, which I hope will not act against us when we start to apply.
"At this point, funding is the most important thing. We have the support, no question."
The group plans to apply for money from organisations such as English Heritage.
Originally put forward by Colchester Council, it is understood traders are keen to take the lead in the project.
At a meeting yesterday, four people volunteered to join a project steering group. Mr Levy hopes to have ten in total.
A second meeting, to fill the remaining vacancies, has been set up on March 7, in Lion Walk Church, at 6pm.
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A 53-year-old Chattaroy man was booked into Spokane County Jail on Thursday after he was found with a missing teenage girl in Cusick.
Carrie Lane had been reported missing for a week. She contacted her family on Thursday to say she was with Steven Tofte, who is Lane's uncle by marriage.
U.S. Marshals, Pend Oreille and Stevens County Sheriff's deputies and Spokane Police officers found the pair in a parking lot in the Colville National Forest.
Tofte told a Spokane television station that he had no sexual contact with Lane and that he spent the week trying to talk her into returning home.
Tofte, who was recently released from prison after serving an 8-year sentence, was taken into custody without incident. He was charged with second-degree kidnapping and a felon in possession of a firearm after police officers found a shotgun in his car. He also faces a burglary charge stemming from the theft of camping gear from an Eloika Lake home last week.


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Is Jack Connors the Last King of Boston?
The other strange thing about the article was its placement. One of the most powerful men in town chairing arguably the most influential board in the state had failed to report his interest in a $450 million sale — and the story runs inside the paper? "I heard thirdhand that Jack felt that he had won on that one, that he had worked us over," says another person assigned to the series. "I didn't think that was the case."
Connors himself won't comment on the piece. About his alleged conflict of interest, he says he disclosed everything he needed to disclose to the Partners board. Globe editor Marty Baron won't comment on the story, either. But another person at the paper that was close to the Partners series says, "It was such a terrible spring last year…. We were in a crisis. We weren't going to beat the hell out of someone who might save us."
"JUST SO YOU KNOW, this entire morning will be scripted," Connors says, half smiling. We're standing outside St. Mary's Chapel at BC on a dewy Tuesday morning in June. We've just left Mass — Connors goes about five times a week — and he wants to show me what he does these days, now that he's made two fortunes and doesn't see the point in a proper Jack Attack. We get in his black Lexus and head to Dorchester.
A few years ago, he got a call from Boston Mayor Tom Menino. The mayor described how inner-city 11- to 14-year-olds "were too old to be young and too young to be old," and therefore at risk of violence. To keep these kids out of trouble, Connors and Menino built a summer camp on Long Island, off Quincy. Fifty percent of the kids had never swum in the ocean before, even though they lived three miles from it. Camp Harbor View just completed its fourth season. Enrollment has increased every year. Full-time staffers check up on the kids throughout the year. Some former campers are now counselors-in-training. It's all thanks to Connors, who has raised $25 million thus far. The camp has exceeded even the mayor's ambitions. As Menino would later say, "When Jack does anything, he does it all the way."
This morning's trip is to Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy. The car ride, these post–Hill Holliday years — they're really about Connors's legacy. When Connors discusses that topic, which isn't often, he's cryptic. He's savvy enough to know that saying "my legacy" is counter-productive to the very pursuits you secretly want the legacy to comprise; it also makes you sound like an ass. When he talks about it at all, he sounds like a politician. He says he doesn't care what people think of Hill Holliday. He wants to be remembered for coming here — to Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, the places where "there's nobody else standing in line to help" — and giving away his money.


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Eric Martin Minchak, accused of using a knife in the death of a woman at a Roseville gas station in 2006, has been placed under the conservatorship of Placer County and sent to Napa State Hospital for continued mental health care.
Minchak, 31, of Pennsylvania has spent the last three years in Atascadero State Hospital after a judge ruled that he was mentally incompetent to stand trial on charges of robbery and the first-degree murder of the victim.
Prosecutor David Broady of the Placer County District Attorney's Office said that defendants who are declared mentally incompetent to stand trial can be held for a maximum of three years in a state hospital.
"At the end of those three years, the person would either have to be released or held civilly under a conservatorship, which means that the government steps in on the person's behalf to provide for his care," Broady said.
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Broady said the latest action presents "a very difficult aspect" for the members of the slain victim.
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TAMPA, Florida – McNeese scored 40 unanswered points, including 31 in the third quarter alone, as the Cowboys rolled off one of the biggest wins in school history by way of a 53-21 victory over South Florida at Raymond James Stadium Saturday night, the school's first-ever win over an automatic qualifying Bowl Championship Subdivision (BCS) team.
The 53 points was the most scored by a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team over a BCS squad in college football history while the 32-point margin of victory is the largest by an FCS over a BCS team in history, bettering a 25-point win by Furman over North Carolina in 1999.
"I didn't see this coming because they (USF) have good players," said head coach Matt Viator. "We got a couple of breaks in the first half and made the most of them. But I was really proud with the way our kids played in the second half. We actually gained points in the second half from the first half. And that's a testament to our kids coming out with good focus in the second half and good conditioning.
"This is a bigtime win against a Big East (AAC) team in a terrific venue. This is a big win for us."
USF, a member of the newly formed American Athletic Conference, scored the game's first points on its first play from scrimmage when Marcus Shaw scampered 80 yards to make it 7-0 with 12:47 to play in the first quarter.
McNeese got on the board after a bad snap on a Bulls' punt attempt sailed over punter Matti Ciabatti's head and through the back of the endzone to make it 7-2 at the 7:55 mark of the quarter.
From that point, McNeese made the most of its opportunities with 31 second quarter points, started by a 7-yard run by Kelvin Bennett to put the Cowboys up 9-7. Dylan Long scored his first career touchdown just 24 seconds later after linebacker Bo Brown forced and recovered a Bulls fumble.
New tight end Nic Jacobs caught a 22-yard touchdown pass with 6:47 to play and Jean Breaux nailed a 47-yard field goal 3-and-a-half minutes later to put the Cowboys up 26-7 with 3:13 to play. But it was the play by cornerback Guy Morgan that seemed to seal the game.
With USF driving late in the second quarter, Morgan stepped in front of a Matt Floyd pass and ran 76 yards for the touchdown to make it 33-7 McNeese with 12 seconds remaining in the half.
"I thought that was huge, no doubt about it," said Viator of Morgan's interception. "That was obviously a huge play in the game. Ryan Bronson picks off the ball to start off the second half, which was a huge play."
Long scored his second touchdown of the game after a 1-yard plunge following Bronson's pick to make it 40-7 but the Bulls quickly scored after Bobby Eveld connected with Stephen Bravo-Brown for 59 yards to cut the lead to 40-14 with 11:23 to play in the third quarter.
Ryan Rome followed with a 32-yard field goal to up the score to 43-14 with 4:23 to play then the Bulls cut it to 43-21 after a 7-yard Andre Davis touchdown reception from Eveld with 13:57 to go in the game.
"I felt like the momentum was getting away from us. We had been running the screen and I thought we had them set up on the double move to Nic Jacobs. I felt like the momentum was getting away and we called it and hit it," said Viator. "I didn't know it was going 70-80 yards but I thought that was a big play too."
That play was a 78-yard pass to Jacobs to sped down the middle of the field and fought his way into the endzone for the score and a 50-21 lead.
Rome finished the scoring with a 24-yard field goal to make it 53-21 with 5:37 to play.
McNeese outgained USF in offensive yards by a 424-342 margin. Stroud completed 12 of 21 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns with one interception.
Marcus Wiltz led the rushing attack with 79 yards on 13 carries while Long added 56 yards on 13 carries and two scores.
Jacobs led four players who caught passes with five catches for 122 yards and two touchdowns. Ernest Celestie added four grabs.
McNeese will open its home schedule on Saturday when it hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 7:30 in Cowboy Stadium in a game that will be televised on Comcast SportsNet Houston.
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His teammate, cornerback Tavarus McFadden, nicknamed him Joystick because the moves Isaiah makes on the football field belong in a video game.
All of 5-8 and 170 pounds according to his coach, American Heritages Isaiah McKenzie may not have the ideal size every major college football program is looking for in a receiver, cornerback or return man (the University of Miami has yet to offer him a scholarship).
But theres no denying hes special. After all, how many high school seniors have made ESPNs Top 10 plays list twice in the same season?
Isaiah is one of those players you can try and game plan for, but you cant really defend, said blue-chip running back Sony Michel, a University of Georgia commitment who has watched his teammate return five kicks for touchdowns while also rushing for 246 yards and six scores and leading the Patriots in receiving (37 catches, 806 yards, six TDs).
First off, hes as strong as I dont know what (275-pound bench, 425-pound squat), said McFadden, who lines up next to McKenzie on kickoff returns. Hes so quick (4.42-speed in the 40) and he has a good low center of gravity so he doesnt go down easy. Whenever Isaiah gets the ball in his hands you know something amazing is about to happen.
Friday afternoon, the Patriots (13-1) will take on Green Cove Springs Clay (9-4) in the Class 5A state title game in the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. McKenzie, an Under Armour All-American committed to Notre Dame since mid-October, hopes to add to an already amazing highlight reel while leading Heritage to its first state title.
Win or lose, though, how McKenzie has managed to survive a rough upbringing in Carol City and get this far is a far more impressive story his coach says. Forget football; hes survived Afghanistan, Heritage coach Mike Rumph said.
Raised by his grandmother since he was 5, McKenzie said he never met his father. And his mother, who has been in out of rehab he said, has not been a big presence in his life, either.
I grew up in a two-bedroom apartment right across the street from Carol City High School, and where I was, there was always a lot of stuff going on, McKenzie said. My grandma kept me and my [younger] brother Denzel inside the house when she felt it wasnt safe and we shouldnt go outside.
What would go on outside and sometimes inside his grandmothers apartment are what scare and motivate McKenzie today to escape South Florida.
Ive seen three people get shot and killed right in front of me, McKenzie said. I would be sitting on the porch, hear a shooting right down the hall and Id turn around and its right there.
McKenzie said he was 10 years old the first time he saw someone get shot. It all happened the same morning he and his brother witnessed their mother get beaten and thrown off the second floor of their apartment building by her abusive boyfriend.
Football made it easier, McKenzie said of dealing with his environment. I had something to do during the week, something to do on Fridays and Saturdays to keep me out of the neighborhood.
McKenzie said Heritage offensive coordinator Mario Perez came to him four years ago after spotting him in a little league game at Scott Lake Park and asked him if he would be interested in attending Heritage on scholarship. The offer, McKenzie said, has saved his life.
Isaiah has an incredible heart and hes a bundle of energy, said Perez, who has helped serve as a father figure to McKenzie. Everything he does in his life is fast. You saw it from the beginning he just needed an opportunity.
From Day One we knew what a tough situation he was in. I put him underneath my wing and told him If you can take care of the schoolwork and the football, well take care of the rest for you.
McKenzie, who thought up until last year he was too small to play college football, has 35 scholarship offers now. The next step is qualifying for college. McKenzie said he has a 2.7 GPA and recently took the SAT last weekend with the hope of scoring an 850 (what he needs to qualify at Notre Dame). If he doesnt get the test score he needs, McKenzie said he can take the test one more time.
I do worry about my grandma and my brother if I leave, McKenzie said. Shes sick now, and my brother is only 15. Where would he go if something happens to her?
Those are the problems McKenzie said weigh most on his mind these days, not graduation, not Fridays state title game. But he said he has faith things will work out in the end.
As long as shes still living and I can speak to her, Im fine, McKenzie said of his grandmother. Ive made it this far. I cant stop now.


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Terry Francona was to meet with the Boston Red Sox Friday morning, and beginning Thursday night, word started to spread that Francona wouldn't be back as the team's manager in 2012. Some parties suggested that it was Francona who wanted out, while other parties suggested that it was Red Sox ownership that wanted a change, but all parties seemed to agree that, after the meeting, Francona and the Red Sox would part ways.
Well, Friday morning, Francona and the Red Sox met. And? And, no decision has been made. Mike Silverman:
FWIW, a Red Sox source in the loop said before the Francona-Henry meeting that it was "premature'' to say Tito not coming back. Stay tuned.
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Terry Francona's meeting with the Red Sox has ended and, contrary to earlier indications, no decision apparently was made on his status as Red Sox manager.
Multiple sources indicated prior to the meeting that the sides had made a mutual decision to part ways. But now, indications are any decision won't be made for at least a day or two.
So much for that - kind of. As of this writing, Francona is still to be considered the manager of the Red Sox. But as McAdam says, the two could split soon.
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Unwanted firearms find safe hands here in Lincoln. It's the first event of its kind in the capital city.
The Lincoln Police Department held their first ever gun amnesty day Saturday. Its a way for people to turn in their unwanted or unused firearms---no questions asked.
"We're getting a lot of guns off the street today," Officer Melissa Ripley said.
"It gives people a safe place to turn in their guns where they know they're not going to end up in the wrong hands."
It's the first time an event like this has taken place in Lincoln. Ripley says the whole process is actually pretty simple.
"You drive up, you drop it off and you're out of here. We're not asking any questions, not requiring any identification to be presented, basically we'll take anything you got."
When they say they'll take anything, they mean it. Along with firearms, people could also drop off any unwanted or unused ammunition.
When it comes to the guns, the team logs the serial numbers and if any property is stolen, it gets returned to the owner. Ripley says anything left over goes to the Nebraska State Patrol's crime lab for ballistic testing. Finally, they're destroyed.
But keep in mind, at no time is your name ever associated with anything you drop off.
"That's the biggest part of this project, is to keep it anonymous so the public knows they can trust us," Ripley said.
The event brought in 40 firearms and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Ripley says they're hoping to hold another gun amnesty day this coming fall.
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Was the IIHF's four-game suspension of Canadian Griffin Reinhart for a slash to the head justified, as it may keep him out of next year's tournament altogether.
This was the expected gold medal medal game, both Canadians and Russians are disappointed to be here, but both want to save face.
It wasn't the result we expected, but the better team won.
After giving them the toughest match they've played so far, the Americans are back to test Canada again.
Canada and Sweden are on the sidelines, waiting for opponents.
On the second half of a back-to-back, Canada played their best game of the tournament.
We all thought it would come down to this after seeing the group and the schedule, and so it does.
It was worth waking up after just one hour of sleep for a hell of a game this morning.
Canada has scored 15 goals in two games against Slovakia and Germany, but the USA presents a different challenge.
It was a rough start for Canada, but they managed to get the win anyway.
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AKWESASNE — Results from a June 1 election that again named Chief Randy Hart and Sub-Chief Shelley Jacobs to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council were thrown out this week.
A special election will be held July 13 to fill the two positions.
The election was held less than three weeks ago, and unofficial results showed Hart received 436 write-in votes for chief compared to 376 votes for Beverly Cook, 109 for Gary Cole and 47 for Gerald Laughing.
Jacobs received 434 votes that day for sub-chief, compared to 297 votes for Debra Martin, 174 for Andrew Cook and 47 for Jolene Jackson.
An unnamed community member filed an appeal of those results on June 7, providing members of the tribe's Election Board with "evidence that the integrity of the June 1 election … was jeopardized," according to a news release from the Tribal Council.
"Therefore, the June 1 tribal election for the positions of chief and sub-chief is null and void."
A special election will be held July 13, leaving the names chosen at the May 4 caucus as the slate of candidates.
No new caucus will be held, and anyone who wants to be removed from the next ballot must contact the Election Board by June 24.
Absentee ballots will be available from now until July 10 at the Tribal Clerk's Office.
The Election Board will conduct in-home voting for elders and others unable to vote in person from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 10.
Early walk-in voting at the Community Building will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 11 and 12.
The special election will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 13, in the main lobby of the Community Building.
Other positions decided in the June 1 election — chief judge of the Tribal County, two Traffic Court judges and votes on two referendums — were not included in the voided results.
Peter J. Herne was elected chief judge with 531 votes to 417 for Danielle Lazore-Thompson; and Steven Cook and Lois Terrance were elected as Traffic Court judges with votes of 875 and 855, respectively.
A referendum on adoption of a tribal procedural act was approved by a vote of 648 to 274.
A proposal to support creation of a community recreation center was OK'd 763 to 197.
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A recent assessment of existing CHP in Connecticut finds a total of 479.2 MW of capacity at 78 sites. There are 15 sites in the industrial sector with a total of 337.6 MW (70%). The commercial sector accounts for 30% of the existing CHP capacity with 141.4 MW operating at 62 sites.
Connecticut is home to at least 3 sites utilizing CHP in the public housing sector. This information is highlighted in presentation materials prepared by U.S. Housing and Urban Development (US HUD) titled CHP for Housing and Community Development and authored by Bob Groberg, Director of Energy Division (CPD).
These sites are located in the following communities:
A March 2004 study of DG Market Potential In Connecticut was prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University: Distributed Generation Market Potential:2004 Update/ Connecticut and Southwest Connecticut.
According to the study findings over a 10 year period, an additional 123 MW could be sited in Connecticut, assuming no change in current market conditions or technologies, to as much as 646 MW increase under optimistic assumptions about technological progress and significantly favorable changes in the regulatory and operating market conditions facing CHP project development.
The market penetration results were conducted under 4 sets of scenarios:
The accelerated case puts in place technology cost decreases of 2% per year over the 10 year study period, more favorable standby charges, a 10% capital cost reduction achieved by an investment tax credit (ITC) or some other incentive mechanism, a demand response payment and more favorable market response.
The Advanced Technology case incorporated a much more favorable set of assumptions about technology improvements over time, leading to increased performance and lower initial and operating costs.


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Yannis Korkolis, Assistant Professor
Prof. Korkolis joined the department in Fall 2009. He is trained as a mechanical engineer with emphasis on mechanical constructions and on manufacturing, while his graduate studies are in solid mechanics. He also has 2 years of industrial experience. His research aims at interfacing mechanics of materials, constitutive modeling and failure, using numerical methods and experimental techniques. It is motivated by – but not limited to – actual manufacturing problems, such as those encountered in sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming. He has worked on constitutive modeling of advanced aluminum alloys, formability and failure prediction, modeling of machining operations, tube hydroforming and microforming processes.
Prof. Korkolis is the recipient of a 2012 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). His research is further supported by grants from NSF, Office of Naval Research, Dept. of Commerce and Ford Motor Company.
Prof. Korkolis has taught ME 542 - Mechanical Dissection and Design Analysis, ME 643 – Machine Design, ME 795/895 - Materials Processing in Manufacturing, ME 777/877 - Computer-Aided Engineering, ME 927 - Theory of Plasticity and ME 795/995 - Experimental Mechanics while at UNH.
For more details, please take a look at Prof. Korkolis' C.V
Research Areas
Prof. Korkolis' areas of reasearch are the following:
- Plasticity and constitutive modeling of materials.
- Ductile fracture and formability. Instabilities and wrinkling.
- Forming of light-weight materials (e.g., high rate forming processes, sheet metal forming, tube hydroforming).
His present research efforts are summarized below:
Y.P. Korkolis, N. Deng and T. Kuwabara, "On the non-linear unloading behavior of a biaxially loaded dual-phase steel sheet" (in preparation)
N. Deng, T. Kuwabara and Y.P. Korkolis, "Cruciform specimen design and verification for constitutive identification of anisotropic sheet metals", (in preparation)
C.P. Dick and Y.P. Korkolis, "Mechanics and full-field deformation study of the ring hoop tension test", (submitted)
J.H. Kim, Y.P. Korkolis and M.G.Lee, "Recent developments in hydroforming technology" (submitted)
N.H. Moser, T.S. Gross and Y.P. Korkolis, "Martensite formation in conventional and isothermal tension of 304 austenitic stainless steel measured by x-ray diffraction", (submitted)
J.F. Wilson, B.L. Kinsey and Y.P. Korkolis, "Development of a biaxial loading frame for sheet metal", Journal of Manufacturing Processes–SME (in press) link
N. Deng and Y.P. Korkolis, "Numerical study of the lateral crushing and reinflation of stainless steel and aluminum tubes", Journal of Manufacturing Processes – SME, 15 (2013), 242-255 link
G.W. Cullen and Y.P. Korkolis, "Ductility of 304 stainless steel under pulsed uniaxial loading", International Journal of Solids and Structures, 50 (2013), 1621-1633 link
L. Wang, Y.P. Korkolis and B.L. Kinsey, "Investigation of strain gradients and magnitudes during microbending", Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering-ASME, 134 (2012), 041011-1/-9 link
Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, "Hydroforming of anisotropic aluminum tubes. Part II: analysis", International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 53 (2011), 83-90 link
Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, "Hydroforming of anisotropic aluminum tubes. Part I: experiments", International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 53 (2011), 75-82 link
T. Giagmouris, S. Kyriakides, Y.P. Korkolis and L.-H. Lee, "On the localization and failure in aluminum shells due to crushing-induced bending and tension", International Journal of Solids and Structures, 47 (2010), 2680-2692 link
Y.P. Korkolis, S. Kyriakides, T. Giagmouris and L.-H. Lee, "Constitutive modeling and rupture predictions of Al-6061-T6 tubes under biaxial loading paths", Journal of Applied Mechanics-ASME, 77 (2010), 064501-1/-5 link
Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, "Path-dependent failure of inflated aluminum tubes", International Journal of Plasticity, 25/11 (2009) 2059-2080 link
Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, "Inflation and burst of anisotropic aluminum tubes, part II: an advanced yield function including deformation-induced anisotropy", International Journal of Plasticity, 24/9 (2008) 1625-1637 link
Y.P. Korkolis and S. Kyriakides, "Inflation and burst of anisotropic aluminum tubes for hydroforming applications", International Journal of Plasticity, 24/3 (2008) 509-543 link
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I tried out the KnoxRX discount drug card we talked about earlier here and here. It works as advertised and I don't see a down side. Everbody should get one of these.
Having no prescription benefit with my insurance, I previously paid the full "list" price. Here are my savings on three prescriptions from today:
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|Prescription #3
I'm unable to do an exact comparison of my previous cost, because a) one of these is a one time prescription, b) I had my doctor change one to a different drug that has a generic, and c) these were for only 30 day fills, and before I got 90 day fills.
(The pharmacy said after the fact that their standard procedure is to put in 30 day fills to get the insurance/program discount, but they didn't try 90 days to see if the discount would apply so I'll ask them to do that next time.)
Regardless, I'm pretty happy with an overall 64% savings on this order, and over $50/month savings for the two prescriptions I take regularly ($75/month with the savings from switching to a generic for one of them).
You can sign up for the KnoxRX discount card here.
If you are outside the East Tennessee area, you can get a membership card with the same discount benefits here.
The difference is that with the KnoxRX card, the Knox County government gets a percentage of the claim filing fee as revenue earmarked for local non-profits, and the local company that administers it makes a few bucks. Otherwise, they are supposed to be the same.
(How and why we have a health care system where people can get paid to charge providers a fee for charging you a lower price just for typing your e-mail address into a website is a mystery someone else will have to explain. AWA tried here, but I still don't get it. It's crazy.)
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COLLIER COUNTY: Firefighters responded to a house fire on 17th Avenue Southwest in Golden Gate Estates just before 1 p.m. Friday.
Firefighters say the fire started in the detached garage and spread to the outside of the house.
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Dr. Kay Sandberg has a box of Kleenex on her desk. Not for her—for the students who don't pass her course in organic chemistry.
"The hardest part of my job, the part I hate," says Sandberg, who has taught chemistry and organic chemistry at NC State since 1998, "is when a student has come to every class, done every assignment, but they've failed the final and it's obvious that they don't have the knowledge to pass the course. It breaks my heart, but I can't pass them."
Sandberg was recently named one of the country's top 10 "Tough Love" professors by MyEdu, a website that compiled data from 800,000 student ratings at the nation's 777 largest colleges and universities. To make the list, a professor had to be well-regarded by students, but the class average couldn't be above a C.
During the spring semester Sandberg taught four sections of organic chemistry to 450 students. Although some earned A's and B's, most students received a C or lower. Nevertheless, her student reviews were positive, citing Sandberg's willingness to help and acknowledging that even if you don't pass, you're going to learn.
"This class can be a dream wrecker," she wryly concedes, "because it's a prerequisite for medical school, vet school—all of the professional health schools. And organic chemistry is one of those subjects that some students can't get through, and I sympathize with them."
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Sandberg's sympathy is born of experience. She entered college with the dream of being a piano major, but at the end of her freshman year was told that she lacked the raw talent and dexterity necessary for success.
"It was something that no matter how much I wanted it, no matter how hard I worked, I just could not do it. In my community, I was the best one there. But when I got here, where the real talent was, I saw I wasn't even close to the best, and they were honest enough to let me know I couldn't do it."
Sandberg eventually turned to math and science, applying her talent for live performance in the classroom. After teaching in Wake County Public Schools for seven years and at a private school for three, she returned to NC State for her Ph.D. Her experience has informed her teaching style.
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Sandberg incorporates interactivity in all of her courses, whether traditional large lecture style, or the smaller inquiry-based courses that are modeled on Dr. Robert Beichner's SCALE-UP approach to instruction. But whatever the style or class size, she holds each student to the same academic standard.
"I'm clear about my expectations up front, and I explain that memorization alone won't get them through this course. I lay it all out for them the first day—that's the tough part of the equation. And I teach my heart out every day—that's the love part. But in the end I have standards I have to uphold; after all, these are the people who may be operating on me someday!"
Back to the Kleenex on the desk: Sandberg admits that sometimes she wants to cry along with her students. "It's hard, finding out that you can't do something," she says, "but I'm proof that it's not the end of the world."


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Four and five year olds learned these life saving skills Tuesday at the Everett-Milton Y.
The YMCA in Thomasville is offering these free and reduced swim lessons to over 300 preschoolers in the community.
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Congratulations to the Quarry Lane High School Robotics Team...Now Regional Champs
Original post made by Congrats on Dec 3, 2011
For those who would like more information about the national robotics competition, here is a link.
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The founder of this national robotics program is Dean Kamen, the inventor of the amazing Segway.
on Dec 4, 2011 at 7:44 am
Does anyone know whether Amador or Foothill have robotics teams?
There is over $50 million in scholarship monies for the above robotics program!
on Dec 4, 2011 at 9:37 am
Jill, There is more than one organization for these competitions. I looked at both high schools' web sites and found that Foothill has participated in Vex. Couldn't find anything for Amador. They could still both be competing. Here is another one I'm aware of: Web Link These programs are expensive and require an extraordinary amount of time from students and staff and parents, but very rewarding. Some of these high schools are competing very well against universities.
on Dec 4, 2011 at 10:00 am
Thank you for this information, but the link you provided is of the same organization as the one provided by the original poster. There may be different competitions but I don't see where Amador or Foothill are participating. I may not be looking in the right place, tho.