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Gartner Hype Cycle – New Technologies – Fad or the real thing?
This week, I had the pleasure to attend the GestureSEN PLC – (more info here) where discussions were based upon how we use video evidence in purposeful way to aid our reflections of progress made by students operating at the P-levels. My write up from the day will come soon but it was during Andrew Walker's (@andtomac) excellent presentation that the Gartner Hype Cycle was presented.
The Gartner Hype Cycle provides a graphical representation of the maturity and adoption of new technologies and is presented below:
The graph shows the cycle that all technology goes through from the moment the idea is conceived to mainstream adoption. This was the first time I had seen this graph and as someone who is interested in the use of technology in education, this got me thinking about the education technology we use in the classroom and where different technologies would sit on the graph. Would we say tablet computers are moving towards the Plauteau of Productivity? Virtual reality in education is certainly an area which I believe has reach the Peak of Inflated Expectations and is possibly about to hit the trough. Some technologies will never get pass the Trough of Disillusionment and will disappear into obscurity. .
For SEN, where would Eyegaze technology sit? Leap-motion? KInect? Switches?
Everyone will have their own opinions on where technologies would sit on the graph depending on their experiences. Being presented with this graph has allowed me to reflect on the implementation of technology in the class and the importance to evaluate the technology thoroughly to ensure impact on teaching and learning.
For more information on the Gartner Hype Cycle – click on the link -http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp
Innovative Learning using Technology in a Sensory Way
Recently I was asked to run an INSET workshop on the use of technology to promote engagement and create opportunities for learners with complex learning difficulties and disabilities (CLDD). The focus of the presentation was to look how technology can enable students to have a positive impact on their learning, the reasons for using technology, tools that are available and assessment systems that could be used.
Big thanks to Ian Bean(@SENICT) and Anthony Rhys (@trinityfieldsit) as they have some great resources that are shared freely and have added links to their sites below – these were really appreciated by those who attended. Also the link to the Youtube video in the Prezi is from Anthony's school Trinity Fields who are a real leader in using gesture based technology with their students and this impact has led them to be awarded the 3rd Millennium Award from Naace – certainly a school that we use as a benchmark for what we do.
Below is the link to the Prezi and links to the documents that I shared with colleagues:
Switch Progression Roadmap – via Ian Bean's site
Link to PDF on using a Timer to limit students time on iPads via Ian Bean
IpadSEN – Wiki run by Anthony Rhys
SEN Computing – exploring how to teach the new curriculum to SEN
A couple of weeks ago, I was privileged to be ask to present at the SEN Computing day run and organise by Catherine Elliott(@catherinelliott) who is part of the Sheffield ILS eLearning team. So after making the long journey up North, I arrived at the venue and was taken aback with the excellent organisation and thoughts that had gone into the day (on arrival there were tables full of resources) and was looking forward to learning more about how to adapt the computing curriculum for SEN.
Over the last year, we have started to add elements of programming/coding to our curriculum. This has led to us discovering and adapting different resources to enable our students to be able to access and succeed with these elements of the new curriculum. I have written previously about some of the challenges that present themselves for students with SEN and my presentation revolved around this but also emphasised the importance of the Computing curriculum and the focus on moving students away from being consumers of ICT to creators of content. I then touch on the different elements of the KS1/2 curriculum and gave some ideas of what resources could be used to teach our students. What I wanted to emphasise further, is that it is important to remember that the computer science element of the new curriculum is only part of it and the currant elements of ICT, digital literacy and e-safety are still parts of it and are very important skills for our learners. Have attached the slides to my presentation below.
After my presentation, we moved onto looking more closely at how the basic programming/computational thinking could be taught to P6-NC2 students. We also touch on how the PoS can be taught through other areas of the curriculum and it was great to highlight the cross currciucular links. Some of the highlights included-
Really simple idea – use of switches to enable users learn the different arrow symbols for Logo and also enable to direct others to program control toys.
Sequencing parts of a story – not only literacy links but teaches students the importance of putting things in the right order for the story to make sense. This is a important element of coding and programming and gives them an idea that computers will follow instructions logically, so important that this makes sense.
Debugging link to life skills – creating an algorithm for getting dressed – important to put pants on before trousers (unless you are superman!!)
Sorting objects – what are the criteria and the use of a bubble sort activity to give students the understanding of how a computer would sort objects out by comparing items one at a time. Use of different weights of bottles and a balance scale to determine the lightest/heaviest.
Use of real life objects to help them come up with a sequence of instructions to solve a problem – lots of examples here marble run, train track etc. however the one I really like was the water drainage track and students would have to select what height each of the track should be to allow the water to flow down successfully. They could then write the instruction down for someone else to follow.
After lunch, we then started to look at the elements of the KS2 PoS and what resources could be used to enable our students to have access and be successful. This was a very practical session and we looked at tools that lots of practitioners have written about and are using like Logo, Scratch and Kodu.
Scratch is great program for teaching students how to design,write and debug programs and I have used this successfully with students at my school. Some students do struggle with their reading and distinguishing between the different blocks due to their low levels of literacy. To help with this I have used laminated version of the blocks for them to use to make up their codes on whiteboard first through discussion and then can use these as prompts when entering code onto the computer. On the day they also had versions of blocks with symbols on the back to aid students in recognising what each of the blocks do.
We also touched on Kodu as well and how this resource can be used to meet the KS2 PoS. For me Kodu is the most useful tool for many of our students especially as it uses pictorial symbols when writing blocks of code so that students can quickly make simple lines of instructions to control the on-screen characters. Also in addition the use of the Xbox controller to make their inputs is great because it provides a familiar mode of input for many students and the engagement created by the use of to is an additional bonus.
Unfortunately I had to leave after this session though Catherine has written some extensive blog posts on what covered throughout the day and these can be accessed here.
I was really pleased to have been part of the day and it was very informative and great to make connections with other schools. As part of the conclusions of the day, it was felt that there should be an online community of Special Needs Schools to work together to share and collaborate on resources to be used for teaching the new Computing Curriculum. The wiki-space has been set up here – www.sencomputing.wikispaces.com If you want to become a member contact Catherine, via the email address on the site.
Westminster Education Forum – Preparing for the Computing Curriculum
I was invited up to London to present about the challenges that are raised for students with SEN with the introduction of the new computing curriculum. I felt honoured that I was asked to do this, as I feel there are lots of great SEN practioners out there doing some great stuff in thier classrooms and schools and to be asked to represent the SEN field made me feel very humble. I also felt that it was at least nice to recognise SEN in this forum though still believe that when it comes to SEN we are very much an afterthought. (Nothing new there!)
Anyway the day was great and it nice to here from very inspring professionals like Simon Humphreys who coordinates Computing at School and Claire Lotriet (@OhLottie) who both gave excellent presentations about the content of he new computing curriculum. Across the day, it was said lots and lots of time that the new commuting curriculum is not all about coding and that in encompasses digital literacy/e-safety and ICT as well and that the focus should not be all about computer science.
I talked about the challenges that students with SEND face and how we could overcome them. I also talked the about how it was important for the content providers to consider adding the ability to change fonts, think about different modes of access etc to enable our learners to be successful in demonstrating their knowledge and not be blocked by these barriers. I also touch on the importance of teaching computational thinking away from computers and link it to other areas of the curriculum. Have attached a copy of my slides here.
What was nice about the day was the opportunity to speak to other practitioners from special schools who had come (I did wonder if I was the only one in the room) and make links with them. I feel that as a special needs community we need to work together to produce resources and collaborate on what works well for our students. In the end of the day it will be what we do in the classroom that's makes the difference and if we wait around for Government and other people to produce content to match mainstream it could be a long wait.
I have mentioned in another blog post about a wikispace set up specifically with the aim of sharing and collaborating on SEN and Computing the link is here. Sign up and help us make this resource even better, it would be great to work with other special schools and share what I know is fantastic work being done by schools.
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As a school we have a long history of avoiding educational bandwagons and faddish approaches to improving outcomes. Our view of what are priority changes to our practice is driven by highly detailed reflections on the progress that our pupils make, built directly into our School Development Plan. As such we have a very clear vision regarding to what we need to do to be better and this is focussed firmly on the children.
To support this we ensure that our School Development Plan is very clear and only includes things which are intended to improve the impact of the school on the children and the wider community. It doesn't include any tasks which occur on a regular basis, these are separated out into an Annual Task Schedule. As such our School Development Plan is a visual map, on a single sheet of A3 paper, of where we are heading…
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In the public square, our country speaks of freedom to the point where it is hackneyed. But the "freedom" touted on the television, taught in our public schools, claimed by all manner of activists, and heard in every political stump speech is a far cry from Servais Pinckaer's "freedom for excellence" or Blessed John Paul II's "authentic freedom" or "perfect freedom."
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Keywords: freedom, Veritatis splendor, authentic freedom, freedom for excellence, freedom of indifference, Andrew M. Greenwell
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - What is freedom? Careful how you answer the question, because the first step makes all the difference in the world, and a large number of Americans have taken a false first step.
The medieval theologian Peter Lombard defined "free choice" (liberum arbitrium) as "that faculty of reason and will by which we either choose the good with the assistance of grace, or choose evil without such assistance." (Sent. b.2, dist. 24, c. 3)
But there is an ambiguity in the definition which gives rise to a question. Depending upon your answer, you are going to go one way or another entirely different way. One way leads to authentic freedom, the other way to a false freedom, a slavery.
You might call this question the question of original responsibility.
The question is this: Does free choice precede reason and will, or does free choice proceed from reason and will?
Put another way: Does free choice command reason and will, or is free choice subject to reason and will?
The reason why this can be called the question of original responsibility comes from the word "responsible."
The word "responsible" comes from Latin verb respondere, "to respond." The word respondere is formed from the prefix re- which means "back" or "again" and spondere which means "to pledge," "to promise," "to hold oneself accountable," even "to betroth" or marry.
To be responsible, then, means we have to answer back to someone because of something we have been given, in this case, freedom.
The reason why freedom involves a question of original responsibility is because free choice always involves a fundamental question: Is my free choice answerable to anyone, e.g., God, or to anything, e.g., human nature, reason? Or, rather, is it answerable to nothing but myself?
That's the watershed question.
If your response to the question of original responsibility is that you are answerable to someone or something, then you believe that free choice follows reason and will, and, if you are believer, God's revealed commandments.
If your response to the question of original responsibility is that you are not answerable to someone or something but only yourself, then you believe that free choice commands reason and will. This means there will ultimately be no morality other than your whimsy.
In discussing this issue, the moral theologian Fr. Servais Pinckaers, O.P., speaks about two kinds of freedom which follow from how we answer this fundamental question. He calls these two freedoms the "freedom for excellence" and the "freedom of indifference."
If you believe that free choice follows reason and will, then you believe in the "freedom for excellence."
If you believe that reason and will follow free choice, then you believe in the "freedom of indifference."
(Personally, I do not like the term "freedom of indifference," because the "freedom of indifference" is not really authentic freedom. It is more like enslavement. The philosopher Hume (who went down this "freedom of indifference" path to his probable damnation, but Deus solum iudicat), famously (and more accurately) said that, in his view, "reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of passions." I see this Humean "freedom of indifference" path not as offering any "freedom," but rather a slavery that is the natural punishment for rebellion. St. Paul calls it living under the "wrath of God," the org� theou, or ira Dei. (Rom. 1:18)).
"Freedom for excellence" is the only real route to freedom. This, of course, is the freedom that is the subject of the great encyclical of Blessed John Paul II, Veritatis splendor (in which, by the way, the word freedom is used 192 times and the word free 27 times).
Authentic freedom requires us to be answerable to the gift of freedom, and to the giver of that gift. That means that free choice must be exercised in a way that respects our nature, our reason, and ultimately God, the author of nature and our reason.
As Pope John Paul II noted in his encyclical Veritatis splendor, what Pinckaers calls "freedom for excellence" and the Pope calls "authentic freedom" requires certain things from us.
First, it requires obedience to God's commandments. Obedience to the commandments is the "first necessary step on the journey toward freedom." But as Pope John Paul II makes clear, "this is only the beginning of freedom, not perfect freedom." (Veritatis splendor, No. 13).
What else, in addition to keeping the commandments, is required for perfect freedom?
According to Blessed John Paul II, to achieve perfect freedom, human freedom must mature. He recognized that even if we keep the commandments we are, as St. Augustine put it, still "in part freedom, in part slavery," ex parte libertas, ex parte servitus.
Perfect freedom demands that this half-free-half-slave condition be overcome by training in selflessness to the point where we are able to exercise "self-giving." "Perfection demands that maturity in self-giving to which human freedom is called." (Veritatis splendor, No. 17). We have to be able to love God and love neighbor, and this requires moral training and moral effort.
How do we mature our freedom so that it may be perfect?
The growth toward perfect freedom requires the recognition that the moral life is connected to truth, and so involves the exercise of reason. In particular it requires the exercise of conscience and the proper formation of conscience. (In this regard, conscience has to listen to, and abide by, the teachings of the Church's Magisterium regarding the natural moral law and the divine law.)
It requires training and growth in the virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
It requires listening to one's human nature, its well-ordered inclinations, including the "theology of the body," but only when concupiscence is stilled. Perfection is not gained by following the demands of a body that thirsts for a disordered passion. "The person, by the light of reason and the support of virtue, discovers in the body the anticipatory signs, the expression and the promise of the gift of self, in conformity with the wise plan of the Creator," as John Paul II put it. (Veritatis splendor, No. 48).
Perfect freedom is not something, however, we can achieve on our own. We are not a bunch of Pelagians running around trying to save ourselves. Even if we wanted to save ourselves and perfect ourselves, we can't.
To achieve perfect freedom requires the gift of God's grace. (Veritatis splendor, No. 17) It is "grace, which enables us to possess the full freedom of the children of God, and thus to live our moral life in a way worthy of our sublime vocation as 'sons in the Son.'" (Veritatis splendor, No. 18).
Perfect freedom is in fact the calling of the Christian. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." (Gal. 5:1, 13). There is therefore an "inseparable connection between the Lord's grace and human freedom." (Veritatis splendor, No. 24)
It is grace that allows the Christian to obey "the new law of the Holy Spirit," and thereby grow "in the freedom to which he or she is called by the service of truth, charity, and justice." (Veritatis splendor, No. 107).
It is also grace that obtains for us forgiveness when we fail in our pursuit for the "freedom for excellence." "[I]f redeemed man still sins, . . . though he has fallen into sin, [he] can always obtain pardon and enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit." (Veritatis splendor, No. 103)
In the public square, our country speaks of freedom to the point where it is hackneyed. But the "freedom" touted on the television, taught in our public schools, claimed by all manner of activists, and heard in every political stump speech is a far cry from Servais Pinckaer's "freedom for excellence" or from Blessed John Paul II's "authentic freedom" or "perfect freedom."
Where are the cries of a responsible use of freedom? Where are the suggestions that we may be answerable to God for the use of our freedom? Where is the insistence that we must abide by the commandments? Where is the realization that we must inculcate and grow in virtue? Where is the awareness that we must properly form our conscience? Where is the knowledge that we need God's grace to be free?
As a nation, it seems that we need to re-think freedom.
Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The House passed a transparency bill unanimously April 25 that would also reduce spending on conferences, a reaction to overspending on a General Services Administration conference.
Under the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 2146), agencies would have to cut their conference spending budgets by 20 percent compared to 2010's amounts. And an agency could only spend as much as $500,000 in a single conference.
The DATA Act, which also would create more exacting rules for reporting spending data online, digs deep into agencies' spending too.
It would require a quarterly summary posted on the agency's website of each conference supported or attended by its employees in the preceding 3 months.
Officials would have to share the date of the conference, its total cost of attendance and support for the conference, and its primary sponsor. Officials would need to name the location of an event and a justification for its location, including how it saved money to go there, as well as the itemized costs for scouting and selecting the location.
Officials would have to report on the number and a listing by title of agency and private-sector employees that the agency paid to attend. They would need to show how holding a conference benefited the agency rather than conducting a teleconference.
Lawmakers added the language in the DATA Act after the GSA inspector general released a report in April that said GSA officials spent $822,000 in 2010 on the Western Regions Conference in Las Vegas. The conference was for 300 GSA employees.
"It's clear from our investigation into GSA's lavish conference spending that accountability and increased transparency is needed," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Because of the IG report, several senior GSA officials, including its administrator Martha Johnson, resigned or were fired. Others were put on administrative leave. The next week, Johnson and other officials were called to testify at four congressional committees over three days.
Days afterward, several members of the House and Senate introduced bills to reign in spending on these types of events.
Senators also agreed April 24 to include language in the 21st Century Postal Service Act (S. 1789) that would limit agencies' spending on conferences. The amendment includes much of the same language as the DATA Act.
"We have seen scandal after scandal because Congress has failed to do oversight. The purpose of oversight is to prevent scandals, not respond to scandals," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who proposed the amendment.
Despite the conference spending, the DATA Act largely focuses on putting grant and contract dollar amounts on a single web portal. The bill would incorporate elements of the Office of Management and Budget's USASpending.gov website and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's spending tracking website Recovery.gov into a new online database. It would also set standards for reporting spending data—including grants, contracts, loans and internal expenses—by agencies and recipients. It capitalizes on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
"Under the administration's implementation and the RAT Board's oversight, the Recovery Act has had historically low levels of waste, fraud, and abuse," said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Dallas County has high expectations this upcoming seasonPublished 8:01pm Tuesday, July 2, 2013
By Daniel Evans
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Last year, Dallas County's season ended on a Dora buzzer beater in the Class 4A Central Regional.
The No. 1 ranked Hornets led the game by as many as 13 points and led by seven with under five minutes to play before watching Dora storm back for a miracle win.
This summer, Dallas County is hoping hard will put the Hornets back in position to make a run at the 4A state title.
"I have high expecations every year, in particular this year. We have a lot of kids, " Dallas County head coach William Moore said. "Our juniors have been on the varsity for three years and our seniors have been on the varsity for four, so my expectation level is very high for us this year."
This summer, Dallas County has taken part in two playdates and another scheduled playdate was cancelled.
"We played two playdates and it went very well. We only lost two games this summer," Moore said. "We lost those two because we only had six players at one playdate but we went ahead and played it anyways because I had kids that were doing camps and summer—out of state AAU and all that—but I have been pleased with our work this summer with our team."
Moore said that it has been a struggle with getting players to practice this summer, because of AAU tournaments.
"Barring injury, we should have quite a bit of experience coming back. We need a little more dedication from the kids as far as getting to practice on a consistent basis," Moore said. "With basketball, with AAU and all, chances are with us that we rarely ever have our complete team at practice because kids have AAU practice and AAU games and tournaments and stuff. That sort of us has dicated some of what we can do with our schedule."
However, Moore likes that his players participate in AAU basketball and believes it may end up paying off come high school basketball season.
"I understand that it's the summer," Moore said. "I would rather a kid play at a AAU game than to be at our practice. That has kind of been our philosophy with that because they need the game experience."
Moore believes that having many players on his team playing AAU basketball this summer will end up paying off when the season gets underway.
"I think that is going to help pay dividends for us when the season starts," Moore said of his players that are using the summer as an opportunity to play in AAU basketball tournaments.
One of the players that has been hard to spot at a Dallas County practice this summer is 6-8 forward William Lee, who is No. 65 in ESPN's recruiting rankings for the class of 2014.
Lee is being recruited hard by schools all over the country and has spent his offseason going to various camps all around the country
Lee averaged a triple double last season. He scored around 19 points per game and averaged over 10 blocks and 10 rebounds per contest.
He was named the Class 4A Player of the Year and was picked to play in the AHSAA All-star game scheduled for July 17 in Montgomery at Alabama State University's Dunn-Oliver Acadome.
Dallas County is looking for two additional playdates to get into before the summer is over.
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Six-year veteran comes to terms on a four-year deal. Joe Fortenbaugh
Struggles in the secondary that led to the league's 21st-ranked passing defense in 2012 had the Colts entering the free agent period looking to make some upgrades. Wednesday night, Indianapolis continued that process by locking down a brand new safety.
Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reports that the Colts and free agent safety LaRon Landry have come to terms on a four-year contract worth $6 million per year with $14 million guaranteed. Indianapolis becomes the third team Landry will play for in as many years.
A 220-pound bruiser out of LSU, Landry recorded four interceptions in 64 games with the Redskins before signing with the New York Jets last season, where the 28-year-old amassed 100 tackles and two picks in 16 games.
The hefty payday adds to an already impressive display of spending by the cash-heavy Colts, who had shelled out $34 million to offensive tackle Gosder Cherilus, $15 million to cornerback Greg Toler, $16 million to linebacker Erik Walden and $14 million to guard Donald Thomas, prior to acquiring Landry.
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Bristol Palin's new reality show on Lifetime, entitled Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp (get it!?!), premieres next month. And what a show it should be.
In addition to her home life, the show contains plenty of footage from her life as a quasi-celebrity after her appearance on Dancing With the Stars.
Perhaps most notably, her infamous altercation with a boisterous man at Saddle Ranch in Hollywood when she went out mechanical bull riding.
Bristol received flack for asking if he was gay after he called her mom a "whore" and the "f*cking devil" and asked if she "rides Levi like that."
When she's not getting heckled and responding with unnecessary gay remarks, the daughter of Sarah Palin spends the bulk of her time as a mom.
The show centers around Bristol settling into life in L.A. with her three-year-old son Tripp. Her sister Willow comes along to help look after the boy.
The outspoken "celibacy activist" (a choice line from Lifetime's bio of her) says that she wants to clear up a lot of the misconceptions about her.
Also subject of the reality show is her on-again, off-again boyfriend Gino Paoletti, who she's been seeing intermittently for the past few years.
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@Kelly Joanne Obviously my friend, Stefan isn't buy your crap! Ya blew it! I don't either. Your "blessing" everyone is something you've done in past commentary under different names. We both get it about you. Verbally how much you mean it is falling on deaf ears. You lose!
To Stefan ---I'm definitely no conservative. You just made a completely wrong grammatical error is all by writing that. I'm definitely Kelly Joanne Cannon, total Liberal, now, always, and forever, as sure as I know I'm really sitting here in this chair in my home office. Anywhere on the Internet, I've for sure written that about me, too. God bless you, hey, I really do truly mean that with all my heart, and soul. No joke, or condescension intended at all in the least. No. Not one bit.
I got to hand it to you-Eyes! I saw it earlier myself. FYI-I've never seen a conservative that enthused about gay rights! Ahhhhhh.. Spot on- is it? Ha! More like-WE HAVE CAUGHT ON! Besides- she hurt my Feelings- anything but those " Tender" Feelings!
@Kelly Joanne Well, now ya did it! I figured out who you were. I love the way you cover up your hard-core liberal stances with God blessin' every critter and creature in sight. You always do that under your many usernames and just before you're going off a thread for good (we hope). It's so predictable. The reference to gay issues is always a giveaway. You are a liberal alright. At least you admitted it this time. Until we meet again on another site thread.
I'm touched- as far as world peace- I spect it's coming just any day now.
You all have truly helped me prove my valid point regarding my recent comments on here. I'm still not at all angry, though. Not in the least. I'm a very honest person, and I don't ever admit to what I don't really feel. May God truly bless you all, Sarah Palin, Willow Palin, and Bristol Palin, now, always, and forever, daily, with many many many very great happiness blessings, and much great health. Boy, I mean that with all my heart, too.--------A liberal always, in hope of eventual world peace, and a full lover, and accepter of gay marriage, now, always, and forever, very sincerely, Kelly Joanne Cannon
All weak minded Liberals get their feels Hurt when the truth comes out. Liberals use words like- Harrassment- Racism- Rude- Offended etc. Go sit in a corner and suck your thumb you dip shits.
@Kelly Joanne Say what you like--but someone doesn't go on and on as you have and not have some deep-seated anger. You can SAY you're not angry, but that doesn't prove a thing! Me? I've merely been stating my opinion on your lengthy ramble. You sound like the type of person who just projects on another what you can't face about yourself. No anger here. If anything your comments have amused me. But don't take that as a compliment!
@eyes like lightening---I haven't been angry at all, in the least, while replying to this article. I've been calm, cool as a cucumber is all, and still feeling that way, now. I know when I'm angry. Other people know it, too, and again, I know for a fact that I have definitely not been angry, here. Not a bit. You're the one who's been angry.
@Kelly Joanne---You never made any credible points in the first place. Instead, it was a rambling rant about liberalism. That's it. I know you'd like to think you imparted deep, meaningful arguments to support your liberal views, but it never got off the ground. It amounts to just a lot of hot air! All you've done is take up an inordinate amount of commentary space to ramble about your pet peeves. You could have reduced your comments to one box of words and left it at that. I didn't HELP you do anything. Nope, you stuck your foot in your own mouth with no help from anyone, especially me. You're just an angry liberal who can't stand it that you're unable to shove your ideology successfully down other people's throats. Tough.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Chris Denorfia hit a go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning to lift the San Diego Padres to a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Oakland Athletics have recalled left-hander Tommy Milone from Class A Stockton and righty Evan Scribner from Triple-A Sacramento.
OAKLAND (AP) - Unlike early September last year, the Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers are neck and neck chasing the AL West title.
ALAMEDA (AP) - The Oakland Raiders are gradually solidifying their starting lineup for the season opener. They aren't quite ready to announce their starting quarterback.
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Barry Zito was on the road and once again, it wasn't very kind to him. Regardless where Zito pitches these days, the results are usually the same: another loss.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers have signed wide receiver Chris Harper to a three-year contract.
NEW YORK (AP) - Bob and Mike Bryan pulled off another escape in their quest for the calendar Grand Slam.
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OAKLAND (AP) - More luggage than usual piled up outside the Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday as the playoff-hopeful Athletics prepared for an uncertain road trip with no set return date.
Nothing is worse than being hit by a slew of injuries in a Sunday game. Except, of course, having to then play on Thursday. Just ask the Washington Redskins.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - Jim Harbaugh has made a coaching career out of bucking convention.
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The retailer currently has the LG 55-inch 55LK520 1080p LCD HDTV listed for just $999. This is $500 off the list price of this TV, and it also includes free shipping.
In exchange for the discount, you will have to sacrifice a few things. First of all, this HDTV does not support 3D. Second, it has no web features. That said, the web thing is easy enough to remedy with a $50 Roku box. You should certainly have the money to spare!
What you do get is a 55-inch HDTV with a full 1080p HD image. That's the real perk here. Other features include TruMotion 120Hz technology for a smooth picture, easy self-calibration, and the Intelligent Sensor to tweak the image based on your room's conditions. The 55LK520 is also a nice hub for all of your other audio and video components, with three HDMI inputs and one USB port.
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Why not just have your game "pause" automatically if you are disconnected while in a solo game? (Multiplayer games could not / would not do this, so you'll have to rely on your buddies :P )
Think about it, if you get DCd the Blizz servers should be able to tell fairly quickly. You are then "paused" (as if you had hit escape) until you reconnect. When you reconnect (no matter what) you are placed RIGHT BACK WHERE YOU LEFT OFF, with no changes at all. This way you can't get out of a sticky situation just by yanking your ethernet cable. If you're going to die, you're going to die, but this way I think is a fair way to handle some DC deaths that are not always the players fault! (Blizz servers have and will crash! We should not suffer because of this!)\
So, anyway, there's my idea!
Ready, set, discuss!
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If and when you get disconnected from Blizzard servers, your game should "pause" until play is resumed on that character.
Edit 2 - Oh, and while we're at it, you should prevent players from selling any gear that was on the character or on that characters bag while in this paused state... that way no one is saving their precious HC gear from the grips of perma death.
Edited by Dysprosium#1727 on 4/24/2013 1:58 PM PDT
It could potentially work, but there's a few details you're missing for it to be viable.
1) This would only be for solo games. People in public games wouldn't want their game frozen for any length of time, hence why there is no pause option once a game is public.
2) Since it does take up resources to keep a game paused, there would still be a time limit to reconnect (5 to 15 mins), to prevent having multitudes of "paused" games in a saved state.
3) It still wouldn't work on most server crashes unless they make a complex system where they have separate servers to save games on, which financially isn't really worth it.
4) This suggestion has already been brought up and Blizzard is aware of it.
Overall, it would only be a partial fix since the biggest problem is the time it takes the server to recognize that the client is dc'ed (which from reports here can take up to a minute), which still leaves plenty of time for a player to die before the game becomes paused. There's also client lock ups where the connection is still intact but is unresponsive on your end (this solution wouldn't really help that problem).
They just need to bring down the disconnect from 10 seconds. Ten seconds is far too long considering what desecrate or an arcane laser can do to you in that time period. 5 seconds seems like a nicer number and it may not eliminate the HC DC deaths, but it would minimize it.
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This suggestion has been brought up many times before, mine included. Why can't Blizzard actually work on issues in the game instead of changing numbers around. The game should also pause in multiplayer games in a similar fashion to Starcraft 2, but perhaps allow them at least 2 minutes to get back on.
The disconnect timer is more around 30 seconds to 60 seconds. This is because the Blizzard servers only start the 10 second disconnect timer after the connection is timed out or closed. It's a design oversight, and if we had disconnect detection like in Starcraft 2, this would reduce the disconnect timer down to its intended design of 10 seconds.
I had no idea it was that long. That's alarming to say the least.
It could potentially work, but there's a few details you're missing for it to be viable.
1. I did address this in my post. I said Multiplayer would have to rely on their buddies to save them as you can't pause an MP game.
2. I agree! Good point.
3. I don't necessarily agree with this, Blizz would be the only ones to see if this is viable (technically and finacially)
4. Oh, has a blue ever commented on it?
As for the issue of not knowing when the player disconnected, just choose a threshold of "last packet received" to something like 1000ms (this is definitely up for debate)... so you may not know you're paused (or dead) but blizz will automatically snap-shot your game after 1000ms+ of packet loss.
Edited by Dysprosium#1727 on 4/24/2013 3:43 PM PDT
They just need to bring down the disconnect from 10 seconds. Ten seconds is far too long considering what desecrate or an arcane laser can do to you in that time period. 5 seconds seems like a nicer number and it may not eliminate the HC DC deaths, but it would minimize it.
like it, but is too open for abuse? Idk, I'll have to think on it.
Edited by Dysprosium#1727 on 4/24/2013 3:46 PM PDT
Nor did I.... It's amazing how much the D3 dev team over looked, especially given the time they had to work on this game!
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PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth softball team didn't have any problems hitting the ball in the conference opener last night; it was when the hits came that caused the problems.
The Lady Pilgrim offense couldn't find a timely hit as it left eight runners on base — five in scoring position — in a 7-2 loss to visiting Elkhart Memorial.
"We aren't explosive so when we get the chances we need to take advantage," said Plymouth skipper Ed Kelso when asked about his teams missed opportunities to score. "We are going to work on that in practice a little bit in tomorrow's practice. We aren't as aggressive as I'd like to see on the bases so we are going to work on that as well."
The Chargers didn't seem to have the same problems.
Elkhart Memorial's Lauren Strausborger started the scoring for the Chargers in fine fashion.Â
She smashed a line drive to the right-center gap and circled the bases for an inside-the-park home run. The Chargers picked up three more runs in the second to break out to a 4-0 lead. A lead-off triple by Alix Taber and an RBI single by Ali Lavagnilio scored the first run of the inning. A walk and a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt by the ninth batter in the line-up, Kara Summers, put runners at second and third for the Chargers. Both runs scored on a double to right field by Paula Strausborger in the next at-bat.
Elkhart Memorial added to the lead with two more runs in the fourth inning.Â
A walk to the first batter in the inning and back-to-back errors by Plymouth infielders loaded the bases for the Chargers. Plymouth starting pitcher Marissa Sullivan walked the lead-off hitter forcing in the first run of the inning. The second run crossed the plate after Emilee Keilman made a play on a softly hit ball that landed in front of the plate, but she wasn't able to make a tag on the runner before she scored.
Britney Horvath relieved Sullivan of her pitching duties in the sixth inning and allowed the last Charger run on a walk and a pair of wild pitches.
"Marissa's ankle was bothering her a little bit and we thought that would be a good place to get her some rest and get ready for our game on Wednesday," Kelso said of the pitching change. "Britney came in and threw well. Gave up one run but settled down and threw strikes."
Plymouth had its opportunities to score but just couldn't push runs across the plate.Â
April Hampton led off the second inning with a single to right field and advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Sarah Iwinski. A ground-out to second base by Horvath allowed Hampton to move to third base, but she was stranded there after Summer McClellan popped out in foul territory to end the inning.
Plymouth stranded two more runners in the third inning and one in the fourth before finally getting on the board in the sixth inning.
Sullivan reached on a fielding error by the Charger first baseman and advanced to second base on the play. She scored on a triple to left-center by Morgan O'Neal. Hampton singled to left field, her second hit of the game, to score O'Neal. Iwinski followed that up with a single of her own, putting runners at first and third with no outs. Elkhart Memorial starting pitcher Lavagnilia was able to get the next three Lady Pilgrims out to end the threat.
Plymouth was led offensive by Sullivan, Iwinski and Hampton with two hits each.
With the loss, Plymouth drops to 3-5 on the season and 0-1 in the Northern Lakes Conference.Â
Today is a much needed day off for the Lady Pilgrims after playing five games last week and looking ahead to five more games remaining in this week. Plymouth will host Concord on Wednesday and then travel to Rochester and Warsaw on Thursday and Friday respectively. The Lady Pilgrims round out the week in a round robin doubleheader at Pioneer where they will play the host Panthers in one game and Whiting in another.
• ELKHART MEMORIAL 7, PLYMOUTH 2
At Plymouth
Memorial: 130 201 0 — 7 5 2
Plymouth: 000 002 0 — 2 8 3
Marissa Sullivan (L), Britney Horvath (6) and Emilee Keilman; Ali Lavagnilio (W) and Nikki Ambrose
2B: Paula Strausborger (EM), Lavagnilio (EM)
3B: Morgan O'Neal (P), Lavagnilio (EM)
HR: Lauren Strausborger (EM)
Records: Plymouth 3-5 (0-1 NLC), Elkhart Memorial 2-6 (1-0 NLC)


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'Tis the season for asking for things that are unrealistic and I figured I should climb aboard that ship, but before I go any further, Ryan and I would like to sincerely wish you all a happy holiday season. This site has grown rapidly over its short, five-month life span and we truly enjoy writing it. Along those same lines, we really enjoy the interaction with readers and the comments have grown steadily during the last few months. Always feel free to drop us a line, whether you agree or disagree with our thinking. The conversation and dialogue that usually ensues is what inspires us to write. Thanks again and feel free to share our site with friends and family this holiday season when talking about the Diamondbacks.
Ok, so back to asking for things that are unrealistic. No, I don't want a pony for Christmas (do little kids still ask Santa for ponies?), I simply want a Diamondbacks team that is free of slumps and injuries.
If there's a story line that spans the entire 162-game season for the team in 2013, that story line likely involves underperformance by key players. Miguel Montero had a down year. Martin Prado had an abysmal first half. Gerardo Parra had an abysmal second half. Jason Kubel was so bad he got DFA'd, sold for nothing, then was never heard of again. Cody Ross was a bright spot once he got healthy. Then he dislocated his hip (I still cringe when thinking bout it). Ian Kennedy went from Opening Day starter to traded for a LOOGY and a relief prospect. Brandon McCarthy couldn't find success and had his worst season in several years while Trevor Cahill was wildly inconsistent. Heath Bell wore out his welcome before the All Star Break and our closer-in-waiting, David Hernandez, was sent to AAA to work out his bugs. In the meantime, JJ Putz went down with an elbow injury that may or may not strike again and is pretty worrisome considering he's going to be 38 next year.
And when it was all said and done, the team still won 81 games.
I know, an 81-81 season is not what we were hoping for, but given the list of deterrents above, it sure as hell could have been worse. With all the slumps and injuries piled upon themselves, it's actually a bit of a miracle that the team did finish with fewer wins than 81. Which begs the questions: if these guys just played to their averages, how many wins would they have had?
I can't really say, but I'm guessing it's a larger number than 81. I suppose I could run each players' projections before the season and compare them to their actual season performance, add up the additional WAR and make an educated guess, but it doesn't really matter at this point. That's just sour grapes. The point is, they clearly underachieved (again) and just average levels of output from the under-performers would likely have made a big difference. Maybe they would've gotten into the playoffs, maybe not, but it would've been close and surely more exciting than watching them fall further and further behind over the final six weeks of the season.
So what do I want for Christmas? I just want a healthy team free of career-worst slumps. The rest can be played out on the diamond and the chips can fall where they may. Of course this is unrealistic because slumps always happen, as do injuries. But if I'm making a Christmas wish, this is it. I'll let you know in September if Santa comes through in the bottom of the ninth.
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Photos from the 2010 British Fashion Awards in London
Red Carpet Action from the 2010 British Fashion Awards
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Red Carpet Action from the 2010 British Fashion Awards
This evening, the British Fashion Awards took place at the Savoy in London. The typically glitzy event attracted a host of stylish stars including Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell, Lara Stone and Alexa Chung. Phoebe Philo took home the biggest accolade for her work at Celine as Designer of the Year and Alexa was also awarded as a British Style Icon. You can check out a full list of winners here. Click through to see photos from the red carpet.
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