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Green comes through, leads Altoona to title game
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Guilfoyle shuts out Ferndale
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Williamsburg's Wheland leads team to semifinals
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Trojans oust Blue Devils
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Green Hornets blanked
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Third inning sinks Panthers
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Curtis, Mounties cruise to win
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Pitching helps Central advance
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Fuller, Panthers hold off Heights
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Ormsby's bat keys Juniata Valley win
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Luensmann, Creppage lead B-A by Warriors
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Blue Pirates shut out Northern Cambria
May 16, 2012 NORTHERN CAMBRIA — Two pitches into Tuesday evening's District 6 Class A baseball playoff game at the Northern Cambria North Athletic Complex, Williamsburg had runners on first and third. more »»
Fluke lifts Panthers to ICC crown
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Mountain Lions roll past Beavers
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D6 baseball pairings released
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and make skin lose the merit ability that restrains the bacteria , thus to human body health giving rise to badly influences ; Fibre content does not agree with to close the standard generally to be the chemical fibre lower with price pretending to be cotton fiber or other natural fiber , and has so reduced the taking capability that shirt and T pity the sleeveless jacket , and has done harm to the economic interest of consumer . To the unsuited check products found in this monitoring ? The province industry and commerce bureau has instructed the concerned place industry and commerce department according to law to investigate and prosecute . The banner : Mechanical industry first half of the year profit increase by the four one-tenth contents of Anhui : Since the this year , the Anhui province machine building is adjusted the product structure further , and the save energy done a good job of is fallen to consume subtracting to arrange , and has realized the not only good but also quick development .
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Full trade 746.54 hundred million yuan of the industry gross output value accomplishing is more than Quan Sheng's industry and increases 23 one percentage points 1~6's moon than the last corresponding period increases 44%, Accomplishing 726.4 hundred million Yuan sale output value sells 69000 million yuan of income , and increases respectively 42.29% and 37.4%, Rises in price at the raw material in the first half of the year and the cost is paid under the circumstances about groing in number , and still realizes 3200 million yuan of profit , and increases by 40% . It is powerful that the emphatic product increases the power , and each branch industry universally increases . Engineering machinery quick increases , and electricians electrical equipment , machine tool tool and Shi Hua universal machine tool , agricultural machinery , for civil use machinery and mechanical foundation part etc all have the increase .
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The one batch of people seeks enterprise and joint venture and suddenly comes to the fore as new force , and becomes the fresh and combat-worthy troops that Quan Sheng's machine building is new in various kind of system of ownership enterprise The mechanical and electrical product export constantly increases . The full trade was accomplished 76.32 hundred million yuan of delivery value export in the first half of the year , and increased by 93.33% than the last corresponding period . Exporting product structure and market distributes also constantly optimization , and high additional value and the high efficiency benefit product export grows in number . 6.8 ten thousand of export of in the whole car of automobile Quan Sheng's occupied 1/3, in whole nation in the first half of the year The forklift export makes profit in foreign currency 65880 thousand dollars Excavator and APT and instrument appearance etc all become the owner of export and beat the product .
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The banner : The 12 constellations bold and unconstrained residences of star are than putting together ( four ) content : The land that huge crab seat bold and unconstrained residence star father's last year 3 months of Zhou Xingchi with 3.2 hundred million Hong Konies dollar mark to Hong Kong general Le Dao 10 " day " than high , and the super bold and unconstrained residence of summit of a mountain area is developed in ling electricity thing industry cooperation jointly , and had better the seat be taken the place in the bold and unconstrained residence area of this summit of a mountain by the bold and unconstrained residence of star father , and can overlook the beautiful scenery of Hong Kong Victoria port , the scene of day respectively has the different amorous feelings with the night scene , and still has one kind of earth to the greatest extent imposing manner under the foot The constellation explanatory notes : The huge crab seat is economized in a lot of place metropolises ,
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and only house is they the biggest seek , and gives person from family smooth and steady their a the happiest affair of environment stone , and the person who itself is in charge of Tian Zhai more is logical as for them so buying the bold and unconstrained residence exactly huge crab seat The banner : Spinning and weaving circle in central Europe signs four cooperative memorandum contents : China textile industry association president of an association Du Yuzhou has held the talks Beijing and Germany , France , Switzerland , Austria and Spain etc " spinning and weaving alliance in central Europe " delegation members the other day , and both sides' intellectual property protections , environment policy and medical treatment hygiene , industry with trade policy content have been in progress exchanging consulting . The talks finishs offspring , Du Yuzhou has signed respectively << the middle law intellectual property understand the memorandum >> with the guild of countries such as France ,
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Switzerland and Germany etc and << China textile industry association and cooperative memorandum of Switzerland spinning and weaving association >> and << in auspicious understands the memorandum about the intellectual property protections >> and << China textile industry association and German spinning and weaving clothing industry federation about environment policy and the medical treatment cooperation memorandum of domain >> . As for the problem of intellectual property protections , each spinning and weaving associations and federation of country such as China textile industry association and virtue , Austria , idea , law and Switzerland etc leader unanimously thinks , and the lieutenant generals of several years from now on of intellectual property protections are more important , if each country economy will keep flourishing , the application of knowledge capital and the value also urgently need increase , innovation development and intellectual property is the coming trade competition energetically basically guarrantees .
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According to the China textile industry association vice president of an association of president of an association Gao Yong's introduction , that China has constructed builds relatively the perfect intellectual property law systems , and China protects the create achievements of textile industry and the relative leigitimate rights and interests of manufacturer by way of the patent law and copyright law and trademark law etc . In addition , China also constantly enlarges investigating and prosecuting and hits the dynamics to the production and sale to counterfeit the goods . Du Yuzhou shows , and the China textile industry association positive activity to participate in the nation protection intellectual property from beginning to end goes on to develop training in the member enterprise is with the vast middle and small enterprise to move about , all tries the law office in self various kind of exhibition meeting of organisation or participation organisation , and the controversial issue of concerned intellectual property of handle or reconciles . At the same time ,
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has still been founded in the special enterprise society duty popularization office in the China textile industry association , and is responsible for specially carrying out the society duty and training to various minute association and the spinning and weaving clothing enterprise of association subordinate . At the same time , the China textile industry association strengthens and the colleague association of abroad cooperates , and has understood the memorandum with the trade organisation of nations such as Germany , Austria and Italy etc has signed the intellectual property The banner : The leisure in Wenzhou City obeys " individualization " gets into trouble on all sides the content : Recently , the various leisure obeys that the brand introduces spring and autumn season in 2008 product in succession , and convenes the order-placing meeting . Goes through after the individualization trial ,
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everybody seemingly and begins to the popular recurrence . No matter the eager trial individualization was once " everyone has self a stage " and " I will I " , or " what is worn is " is followed seeing on the slogan , Wenzhou City several greatly leisure obeys the brand in the past several years , is all attempting to seek individuality of self , and provides the product of individualization to consumer . " everybody too sought the individualization the past , to such an extent as to giving up foundation of self less than . " Diveing into very big energy aspect certain famous leisure of Wenzhou City obeys brand person in charge to speak , and though the enterprise is in order to achieve the purpose of individualization , designing and marketing etc , the awkward is , finding that the genuine consumption colony not is they imagine later like that . The action earliest is , and the tap enterprise is obeyed in China leisure , and they even to the extent that introduce specially a women's clothing top grade brand , but the new brand was followed keeping silent and lie low on the market 2 years after .
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Because to think the product individualization , the cost can be raised , and the selling price is corresponding to be raised afterwards , and accept in the market . In 2005 , this brand was tried having paid the great price for the individualization , " beats the range rolling over , and has promptly held up the situation very greatly . " Agency a trade is spoken . The recurrence is popular gradually " from our brand fixed position location and the consumption colony that is directed against sees , and we are masses consumer goods plates . " Acknowledges beautiful virtue brand cause expression of part one person in charge's , in the past two years , acknowledges that the beautiful virtue put forward once " resembling to lie fallow " generally the thought in addition , but sees from the market promotion , too not successful . See returns from the product order-placing meetings in 2008 convened just now to the correct track . Personage inside circle thinks ,
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How to Dispel Your Illusions
Kahneman is a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize for economics. His great achievement was to turn psychology into a quantitative science. He made our mental processes subject to precise measurement and exact calculation, by studying in detail how we deal with dollars and cents. By making psychology quantitative, he incidentally achieved a powerful new understanding of economics. A large part of his book is devoted to stories illustrating the various illusions to which supposedly rational people succumb. Each story describes an experiment, examining the behavior of students or citizens who are confronted with choices under controlled conditions. The subjects make decisions that can be precisely measured and recorded. The majority of the decisions are numerical, concerned with payments of money or calculations of probability. The stories demonstrate how far our behavior differs from the behavior of the mythical "rational actor" who obeys the rules of classical economics.
A typical example of a Kahneman experiment is the coffee mug experiment, designed to measure a form of bias that he calls the "endowment effect." The endowment effect is our tendency to value an object more highly when we own it than when someone else owns it. Coffee mugs are intended to be useful as well as elegant, so that people who own them become personally attached to them. A simple version of the experiment has two groups of people, sellers and buyers, picked at random from a population of students. Each seller is given a mug and invited to sell it to a buyer. The buyers are given nothing and are invited to use their own money to buy a mug from a seller. The average prices offered in a typical experiment were: sellers $7.12, buyers $2.87. Because the price gap was so large, few mugs were actually sold.
The experiment convincingly demolished the central dogma of classical economics. The central dogma says that in a free market, buyers and sellers will agree on a price that both sides regard as fair. The dogma is true for professional traders trading stocks in a stock market. It is untrue for nonprofessional buyers and sellers because of the endowment effect. Trading that should be profitable to both sides does not occur, because most people do not think like traders.
Our failure to think like traders has important practical consequences, for good and for evil. The main consequence of the endowment effect is to give stability to our lives and institutions. Stability is good when a society is peaceful and prosperous. Stability is evil when a society is poor and oppressed. The endowment effect works for good in the German city of Munich. I once rented a home there for a year, a few miles from the city center. Across the street from our home was a real farm with potato fields and pigs and sheep. The local children, including ours, went out to the fields after dark, made little fires in the ground, and roasted potatoes. In a free-market economy, the farm would have been sold to a developer and converted into a housing development. The farmer and the developer would both have made a handsome profit. But in Munich, people were not thinking like traders. There was no free market in land. The city valued the farm as public open space, allowing city dwellers to walk over grass all the way to the city center, and allowing our children to roast potatoes at night. The endowment effect allowed the farm to survive.
In poor agrarian societies, such as Ireland in the nineteenth century or much of Africa today, the endowment effect works for evil because it perpetuates poverty. For the Irish landowner and the African village chief, possessions bring status and political power. They do not think like traders, because status and political power are more valuable than money. They will not trade their superior status for money, even when they are heavily in debt. The endowment effect keeps the peasants poor, and drives those of them who think like traders to emigrate.
At the end of his book, Kahneman asks the question: What practical benefit can we derive from an understanding of our irrational mental processes? We know that our judgments are heavily biased by inherited illusions, which helped us to survive in a snake-infested jungle but have nothing to do with logic. We also know that, even when we become aware of the bias and the illusions, the illusions do not disappear. What use is it to know that we are deluded, if the knowledge does not dispel the delusions?
Kahneman answers this question by saying that he hopes to change our behavior by changing our vocabulary. If the names that he invented for various common biases and illusions, "illusion of validity," "availability bias," "endowment effect," and others that I have no space to describe in this review, become part of our everyday vocabulary, then he hopes to see the illusions lose their power to deceive us. If we use these names every day to criticize our friends' mistaken judgments and to confess our own, then perhaps we will learn to overcome our illusions. Perhaps our children and grandchildren will grow up using the new vocabulary and will automatically correct their congenital biases when making judgments. If this miracle happens, then future generations will owe a big debt to Kahneman for giving them a clearer vision.
One thing that is notably absent from Kahneman's book is the name of Sigmund Freud. In thirty-two pages of endnotes there is not a single reference to his writings. This omission is certainly no accident. Freud was a dominating figure in the field of psychology for the first half of the twentieth century, and a fallen tyrant for the second half of the century. In the article on Freud in Wikipedia, we find quotes from the Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter Medawar—psychoanalysis is the "most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century"—and from Frederick Crews:
Step by step, we are learning that Freud has been the most overrated figure in the entire history of science and medicine—one who wrought immense harm through the propagation of false etiologies, mistaken diagnoses, and fruitless lines of enquiry.
In these quotes, emotions are running high. Freud is now hated as passionately as he was once loved. Kahneman evidently shares the prevalent repudiation of Freud and of his legacy of writings.
Freud wrote two books, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life in 1901 and The Ego and the Id in 1923, which come close to preempting two of the main themes of Kahneman's book. The psychopathology book describes the many mistakes of judgment and of action that arise from emotional bias operating below the level of consciousness. These "Freudian slips" are examples of availability bias, caused by memories associated with strong emotions. The Ego and the Id decribes two levels of the mind that are similar to the System Two and System One of Kahneman, the Ego being usually conscious and rational, the Id usually unconscious and irrational.
There are huge differences between Freud and Kahneman, as one would expect for thinkers separated by a century. The deepest difference is that Freud is literary while Kahneman is scientific. The great contribution of Kahneman was to make psychology an experimental science, with experimental results that could be repeated and verified. Freud, in my view, made psychology a branch of literature, with stories and myths that appeal to the heart rather than to the mind. The central dogma of Freudian psychology was the Oedipus complex, a story borrowed from Greek mythology and enacted in the tragedies of Sophocles. Freud claimed that he had identified from his clinical practice the emotions children feel toward their parents that he called the Oedipus complex. His critics have rejected that claim. So Freud became to his admirers a prophet of spiritual and psychological wisdom, and to his detractors a quack doctor pretending to cure imaginary diseases. Kahneman took psychology in a diametrically opposite direction, not pretending to cure ailments but only trying to dispel illusions.
It is understandable that Kahneman has no use for Freud, but it is still regrettable. The insights of Kahneman and Freud are complementary rather than contradictory. Anyone who strives for a complete understanding of human nature has much to learn from both of them. The scope of Kahneman's psychology is necessarily limited by his method. His method is to study mental processes that can be observed and measured under rigorously controlled experimental conditions. Following this method, he revolutionized psychology. He discovered mental processes that can be described precisely and demonstrated reliably. He discarded the poetic fantasies of Freud.
But together with the poetic fantasies, he discarded much else that was valuable. Since strong emotions and obsessions cannot be experimentally controlled, Kahneman's method did not allow him to study them. The part of the human personality that Kahneman's method can handle is the nonviolent part, concerned with everyday decisions, artificial parlor games, and gambling for small stakes. The violent and passionate manifestations of human nature, concerned with matters of life and death and love and hate and pain and sex, cannot be experimentally controlled and are beyond Kahneman's reach. Violence and passion are the territory of Freud. Freud can penetrate deeper than Kahneman because literature digs deeper than science into human nature and human destiny.
William James is another great psychologist whose name is not mentioned in Kahneman's book. James was a contemporary of Freud and published his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, in 1902. Religion is another large area of human behavior that Kahneman chooses to ignore. Like the Oedipus complex, religion does not lend itself to experimental study. Instead of doing experiments, James listens to people describing their experiences. He studies the minds of his witnesses from the inside rather than from the outside. He finds the religious temperament divided into two types that he calls once-born and twice-born, anticipating Kahneman's division of our minds into System One and System Two. Since James turns to literature rather than to science for his evidence, the two chief witnesses that he examines are Walt Whitman for the once-born and Leo Tolstoy for the twice-born.
Freud and James were artists and not scientists. It is normal for artists who achieve great acclaim during their lifetimes to go into eclipse and become unfashionable after their deaths. Fifty or a hundred years later, they may enjoy a revival of their reputations, and they may then be admitted to the ranks of permanent greatness. Admirers of Freud and James may hope that the time may come when they will stand together with Kahneman as three great explorers of the human psyche, Freud and James as explorers of our deeper emotions, Kahneman as the explorer of our more humdrum cognitive processes. But that time has not yet come. Meanwhile, we must be grateful to Kahneman for giving us in this book a joyful understanding of the practical side of our personalities.
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By Jaimy Ford
I enjoy NBC's show Parks and Recreation. It's a funny, light-hearted, feel good program. Some of the most chuckle-inducing moments, for me anyway, are the overuse and misuse of the word literally by character Chris Traeger. You can see a sneak peak here:
While Traeger's usage is extreme, the word is often misused in spoken and written communication—and overlooked by even astute editors. Statements like "She was literally bubbling over with excitement" or "He literally ran circles around the other sales reps" are common in today's vernacular. I'd be lying if I claimed to have never used the word myself ("This cold is literally killing me!") In all those cases, literally is being used in a figurative, or metaphorical and not literal, statement.
While I can find humor in the misuse of the word, I do think it is important to understand how to use it correctly.
Literally means "actually in the strictest sense without exaggeration or inaccuracy." If the subject matter of your statement doesn't meet that criterion, don't use the word. It's as simple as that. To reference an example from above, the use of literally would only be acceptable if a top sales rep physically got up and ran actual circles around his fellow sales reps.
In most cases, you can omit the word altogether and that immediately will tighten and clarify your message.
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Nanotechnology is generally pursued by scientists and those involved with high-tech gadgetry, weapons, and medical devices, but that doesn't mean it can't be applied in other fields. Recently NYC-based Decker Yeadon became the first architecture firm to synthesize a thin sheet of carbon nanotube buckypaper, and they plan on utilizing the super-strong and lightweight material in future building projects. The miraculous material is 10 times lighter and 500 times stronger than steel, it can conduct both heat and electricity, and it can filter particles.
Buckypaper has amazing potential in the world of design and construction. It is composed of tube-shaped carbon molecules and is currently sought after in many different fields, although it is currently only used in limited applications due to its high cost. Researchers are working on ways to decrease production costs while expanding upon its potential.
Decker Yeadon is the first architecture firm to synthseize buckypaper in the form of a thin sheet. To create the material they chemically dispersed the nanotubes and then poured them into a vacuum filtration unit, where they collect on a membrane surface. The material has incredible potential as a building material – in this case, Decker Yeadon hopes to use the material as a thin, flexible electrode surface for an "artificial muscle" developed for architecture. The firm is developing its first prototype this year and hopes to demonstrate the new technology soon.
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The Grant Writing Process
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- Program Highlights Participants will have the opportunity to: · Learn techniques to research foundations, corporations, and other funding sources · Review an outline of a grant proposal · Learn about establishing an agency dialogue with funders · Understand the four most important components of a proposal Presenter Herbert G. Callison, M.A., is the Executive Director of Mainstream, Inc. Mr. Callison has over 30 years of grant writing experience with nonprofit organizations. Mr. Callison's special emphasis is on foundation and corporate proposals. Other InformationRegistration fee includes program materials and refreshment breaks.Cancellations received by Tuesday, November 13, 2012, prior to5:00 p.m. are refundable, less a $10 per person processing fee, or the registration fee may be applied to another Non Profit Association workshop held within one year of this event. After Tuesday, November 13, 2012, refunds will not be made and the registration fee cannot be applied to another workshop. A substitution of participant(s)attending this workshop can be made at any time. Please note that responsibility for full payment remains if you have not cancelled by Tuesday, November 13, 2012, and have not paid.
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An oceanfront home located in the heart of the Laguna Beach Village has received a substantial price reduction, according to the Multiple Listing Service.
Originally listed for $8.75 million in July 2011, the home's price is now $7.995 million - that's a $755,000 price reduction overall.
The 2008-constructed home is located at 765 Gaviota Drive and boasts a Craftsman style. Features include 5 bedrooms, 5 full bathrooms and 2 half bathrooms, 4,200 square feet of living space on a 11,800-square-foot lot, an underground parking garage with a 5+ car capacity, ocean views, an elevator servicing all floors and more.
For a property to accommodate plenty of square footage, ample parking, newer construction and an oceanfront location all within walking distance to restaurants, shops and more in Laguna is no easy task. Often in this beach city buyers are forced to settle for either a smaller home or an older home to have this kind of access to the downtown area's amenities, all while battling for parking.
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Crack My Heart Wide Open
Surviving suicide is like balancing on the edge of a blade. Either way the knife flashes, you're going to get cut....more
Surviving suicide is like balancing on the edge of a blade. Either way the knife flashes, you're going to get cut....more
I had no idea who Saddam Hussein was—or what band had just made that big, big noise—but I was sure of one thing: I was pissed off....more
The day my father died was the day I started falling in love....more
My mother died suddenly at a dining room table, in the middle of a wonderful meal, surrounded by a large, extended family that loved her. One minute she was completely immersed in the world—talking, laughing, eating—and the next minute she was gone....more
In Japanese martial arts, the uke is the 'receiver' of the technique, the one who attempts to attack their sparring partner, the tori. The tori defends against the attack of the uke, who usually winds up on the floor after getting flipped, swept, thrown, punched, or kicked....more
Sari Botton and Rebecca Walker talk about the challenges of writing about parents, becoming estranged from them, and then moving together past estrangement, to eventually heal the rift....more
Everything I have, aside from what I'm wearing, is in a light brown vinyl purse with two outside pockets. I hold the purse close at all times, and I sleep with it under my head like a rigid, desperate pillow....more
My daughter likes to bang her head off the floor. It makes a point—an especially guilt-tinged one, given that we had to get rid of our carpets due to a mold infestation, so now there's no cushion between baby cranium and wood....more
If Charlie had finally lost his focus after all these years, well, no wonder. I'd have lost it after about fifteen minutes wrestling with CF. We had to help him find his resolve again and get back his health, not stand there crying....more
The one with people feet, I thought, had once been human, but had changed. He grew wild. Everyone grew wild at times…...more
This is the part of the birth story when the woman is supposed to tap into the primal strength of her ancestors, a pool with a hundred thousand years of depth…...more
"This is eulogy material," my father says as he explains this logic. He preps me, teaches me what to say, how to stand. "Remember how he used to draw symbols on his socks," he begins…...more
I'm a student, I say. My teacher has told me to go to a cemetery and find a stone, any stone, that speaks to me. I chose Kenda's because hers gave more information, more anything, than any other stone I saw in the one cemetery I visited....more
Talking to your kid can be as nerve-wracking as going in for a big job interview. And it's also like interviewing a temperamental actor or rock star—you're afraid if you ask the wrong thing, they'll tear off their lapel mic and say, "This interview is over!"...more
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I could be worse. That's one of my father's favorite sayings....more
Even before a lending library copy of The Adderall Diaries arrived in my mailbox some time in the summer of 2009, I knew I'd be hooked. A colleague had recommended it, saying it was a gripping memoir that interwove threads of an edgy personal narrative and a murder trial....more
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The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.Charles Dickens
The day I became a poet was a sunny day of no particular ominousness. I was walking across the football field, not because I was sports-minded or had plans to smoke a cigarette behind the field house the only other reason for going there but because this was my normal way home from school. I was scuttling along in my usual furtive way, suspecting no ill, when a large invisible thumb descended from the sky and pressed down on the top of my head. A poem formed. It was quite a gloomy poem: the poems of the young usually are. It was a gift, this poem a gift from an anonymous donor, and, as such, both exciting and sinister at the same time. I suspect this is the way all poets begin writing poetry, only they don't want to admit it, so they make up more rational explanations. But this is the true explanation, and I defy anyone to disprove it.Margaret Eleanor Atwood
And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money.Erica Jong
You picked me up from school You attended all my sporting functions You bought me a car Gave me use of a credit card But how can I feel pain, How can I feel pain, How can I feel pain When you're being so supportive?Bill Bailey
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.Isaac Asimov
It is true that for us art is not an end in itself, we have lost too many of our illusions for that. Art is for us an occasion for social criticism, and for real understanding of the age we live in...Dada was not a school of artists, but an alarm signal against declining values, routine and speculations, a desperate appeal, on behalf of all forms of art, for a creative basis on which to build a new and universal consciousness of art.Hugo Ball
Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.Douglas Bader
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.Francis Bacon
The health care bill is reparations. It's the beginning of reparations. He's going to give if you want to go into medical school, the medical schools will get more federal dollars if they have proven that they are putting minorities ahead.Glenn Beck
I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.Dave Barry
Nature herself supplies us with an ascending scale or Alphabet of angles for half a degree up to 60 degrees, Specimens of which are placed in every Elementary School throughout the land. Owing to occasional retrogressions, to still more frequent moral and intellectual stagnation, and to the extraordinary fecundity of the Criminal and Vagabond Classes, there is always a vast superfluity of individuals of the half degree and single degree class, and a fair abundance of Specimens up to 10 degrees. These are absolutely destitute of civic rights; and a great number of them, not having even intelligence enough for the purposes of warfare, are devoted by the States to the service of education. Fettered immovably so as to remove all possibility of danger, they are placed in the class rooms of our Infant Schools, and there they are utilized by the Board of Education for the purpose of imparting to the offspring of the Middle Classes that tact and intelligence of which these wretched creatures themselves are utterly devoid.Edwin Abbott
I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.Albright, Madeleine
For the women who mourn their dead in the secret night, For the children taught to keep quiet, the old children, The children spat-on at school. For the wrecked laboratory, The gutted house, the dunged picture, the pissed-in well The naked corpse of Knowledge flung in the square And no man lifting a hand and no man speaking.Stephen Vincent Bent
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. ... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldnt do if your life depended on it.Robert Charles Benchley
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.Saul Bellow
He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.Silvio Berlusconi
Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.Alan Bennett
The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. "...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup."Lewis Niles Black
I quit school and its not because Im lazy. Im just not the social type and campus life is crazy.Drake
The men of the Enlightenment proper were the first whose teachings were addressed not only, or primarily, to other philosophers or potential philosophers of the same rank, and who were concerned not only with those who understand but also with changing the opinions of mankind at large. Enlightenment was the first philosophically inspired movement, a theoretical school that is a political force at the same time.Allan David Bloom
In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.Taylor Swift
It's because I could never feel the kind of rejection in the music industry that I felt in middle school.Taylor Swift
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $224,540.00 to Dr.Razvan Bunescu as the principal investigator in the project "Building a Large Multilingual Semantic Network for Text Processing Applications". This project is devoted to building a large multilingual semantic network through the application of novel techniques for semantic analysis specifically targeted at the Wikipedia corpus. The driving hypothesis of the project is that the structure of Wikipedia can be effectively used to create a highly structured graph of world knowledge in which nodes correspond to entities and concepts described in Wikipedia, while edges capture ontological relations such as hypernymy and meronymy. Special emphasis is given to exploiting the multilingual information available in Wikipedia in order to improve the performance of each semantic analysis tool. Significant research effort is therefore aimed at developing tools for word sense disambiguation, reference resolution and the extraction of ontological relations that use multilingual reinforcement and the consistent structure and focused content of Wikipedia to solve these tasks accurately. An additional research challenge is the effective integration of inherently noisy evidence from multiple Wikipedia articles in order to increase the reliability of the overall knowledge encoded in the global Wikipedia graph. Computing probabilistic confidence values for every piece of structural information added to the network is an important step in this integration, and it is also meant to provide increased utility for downstream applications. The proposed highly structured semantic network complements existing semantic resources and is expected to have a broad impact on a wide range of natural language processing applications in need of large scale world knowledge.
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Spirit shines through for Dave Shaw's improving Rocester
Posted: January 31, 2014|
ROCESTER manager Dave Shaw credits an excellent dressing room – and an increasingly potent strike force – with his side's upsurge in form.
In just six games in charge Shaw has already equalled the number of wins recorded under Mark Kavanagh's disappointing reign.
Shaw masterminded his side's second victory in Saturday's 4-2 success at struggling Heather St John's.
"I always look at the stats and what has gone on in the past as something to measure myself by," said the Rocester boss.
"If we score two on Saturday we will have equalled the number scored prior to my arrival – in less than half the games."
Dan Brown has played a major role up front, with six goals in as many games following his brace at the weekend.
Shaw said: "You take his goals off and that's a potential draw on Saturday – and a defeat in other games won.
"When you've that threat up front it gives confidence to those behind, who know you've always got a chance."
Shaw will be hoping his star striker keeps his shooting boots on for tomorrow's clash with sixth-placed Coleshill at Hillsfield, kick-off 3pm.
He said: "It's a game we can get something out of. Hopefully they have a little bit of a hangover after being knocked out of the FA Vase.
"But I don't think there's a lot of difference between most of the sides in this league."
The Romans will take their burgeoning team spirit and increased belief into the game.
"The atmosphere is a lot better," said Shaw. "The lads all stand behind one another.
"The team spirit is there. The lads are enjoying it. It's really good at the minute.
"All the lads that have come in have really gelled. We are having a good laugh as well and that makes such a difference.
"I think you need to have that at this level. You can take things too seriously, but then you can also not take things seriously enough."
Shaw is also not afraid to show the different sides to his managerial character.
He said: "They know I'm approachable. But when they need a rollicking they'll get one."


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Steve Spirk
- Head Coach, Women's Soccer
Steve Spirk has established himself as one of the top coaches in collegiate soccer. Under his guidance, the Quakers made their sixth straight appearance in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament in 2011.
Winning is the standard, not the exception, in Spirk's life in soccer — both as a player and coach. As a prep star at Northmont High School in Dayton, he was a three-time All-Ohio selection. He continued his playing career at Wilmington College, where he was a four-time NAIA All-American. From 1977 to 1980, Spirk racked up numbers that have stood the test of time. His name is still atop virtually every WC statistical category, including career goals (74), career assists (43), career points (191), single-season points (57 and 54) and season goals (22 twice).
No player had a bigger role in the genesis of Wilmington College soccer than Spirk. His Wilmington squads of the late '70s compiled a 53-15-3 (.768) record as the WC men's team grew to national prominence.
In 1996, Spirk's accomplishments were acknowledged by his induction into the NAIA Hall of Fame. By that time, Spirk also was making a name for himself in the coaching ranks.
Spirk took over a Wilmington team in 1992 that had suffered through back-to-back losing seasons. In 1993, Wilmington finished 17-3-0 and the 1994 team went 19-3-0 and made the school's first-ever appearance in the NCAA National Tournament.
And the winning has continued. In 20 seasons on the Wilmington sideline, Spirk has put together a 248-116-30 record, qualified for six NCAA tournaments and advanced to the Sweet 16 three times. Getting back to the NCAA remains atop the Quakers' set of goals.
"I love this game. I knew early I was going to remain involved with soccer," Spirk said. "Being part of the game is important to me, and I have learned over time that every year is a fresh start. You don't dwell on past years — you build on them. I think we have a lot to build on from last season. We made it back to the OAC Tournament, and we have a young team. The future looks good for us."
A 1992 Wilmington College Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, Spirk has earned the respect of his coaching peers, both regionally and across the nation. He was the Association of Mideast Colleges Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1994, the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1999 and the OAC Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2003. He was named the Mideast Region Coach of the Year and finalist for National Coach of the Year in 1994 and 1996.
Spirk's teams are as good in the classroom as they are on the field. His teams have earned the Women's Collegiate Team Academic Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America 16 of the past 18 years. The Lady Quakers are epitome of student-athletes.
"When we recruit good athletes, we're looking for the top students who also excel on the soccer field," Spirk said. "It's very rare that we get a player who doesn't have the same kind of success academically as they do on the soccer pitch. It's really something that we expect to achieve every year."
Spirk also is WC's director of athletic development. He and his wife Kathi live in Wilmington. They have three sons, Jacob, Ben and Sam.


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5K and 10K Race and Fun for the Whole Family
The Batavia Mothers' Club Foundation will host its 15th Annual Fox Trot 5K and 10K race on Saturday, April 11th, 2015 at the Batavia Riverwalk (Island Avenue & Houston Street in downtown Batavia). The 10K route was a success last year, so we are doing it again!
Both races feature courses along the Fox River in downtown Batavia. Participants can register online prior to the event or at the event on race day. The start time for both the 5K and 10K IS 8 a.m. There are awards for the winners of both races in all age groups following the race.
The Fox Trot also features a non-competitive Kids' Fun Run. There are two races designed especially for children. Preschoolers and children through first grade are encouraged to try the Junior Jog (approximately ¼ mile.) Second graders through fifth graders are encouraged to try the Youth Mile event. The kids' events begin at approximately 8:45 a.m.
Pre-registration for all events is encouraged. The pre-registration cost for the 5K is $25 per runner and the preregistration cost for the 10K is $35 per runner. There is no charge for either Kids' Fun Run, but a donation of $10 per child is suggested. Funds raised through this event will support Batavia schools and other educational opportunities for local families. The first 350 registered participants are guaranteed a t-shirt and goodie bag. You may register online at www.signmeup.com/98137. In-person registration will also be accepted on race day from 6:30a- 7:40a at the event.


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Graziani v. County of Erie, et al
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DECISION AND ORDER; DENYING Plaintiff's 74 Motion to Re-Open Discovery; GRANTING Plaintiff's 74 Motion for an Extension of Time to Respond to Defendants' 68 Motion for Summary Judgment; SETTING Plaintiff's response deadline at 10/1/2010; SETTING Defendants' reply deadline at 10/20/2010; CAUTIONING Plaintiff that his failure to file a response may result in Defendants' motion being granted as unopposed. Signed by William M. Skretny, Chief Judge U.S.D.C. on 9/10/10. (MEAL)
Graziani v. County of Erie, et al Doc. 79 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT W ESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK THOMAS GRAZIANI, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF ERIE, et al., Defendants. DECISION AND ORDER 03-CV-437S(F) 1. Plaintiff commenced this action on June 6, 2003, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging his constitutional rights were violated when his employment was terminated. Thereafter, seven scheduling orders were issued over the course of approximately six and one-half years. On June 30, 2010, after the close of discovery, Defendants filed a Motion for Summary Judgment. Three days after Plaintiff's response to the motion was due, he penned a letter to the Court, which has been filed as a motion, requesting that the Court re-open discovery and grant him additional time to respond to the summary judgment motion. Plaintiff's letter motion is now fully briefed. 2. In his motion, Plaintiff states that he "did NOT conduct any discovery" in this case and that "[t]his was purposeful for a variety of reasons." (Docket No. 74 at 3.) He now contends that the State Department of Corrections and the United States Justice Department have made findings that "tend to directly support [his] allegations." (Id.) Plaintiff seeks to conduct discovery in written form "based upon new information not 1 Dockets.Justia.com available to [him] earlier." (Id. at 4.) Defendants assume, and this Court agrees, that Plaintiff likely is referring to a "Findings Letter" issued by the United States Department of Justice more than one year ago, and a lawsuit related to the Findings, United States v. Erie County, New York, et al., 09-CV-849, filed September 30, 2009. 3. Motions for summary judgment are governed by Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 56(d) (formerly Rule 56(f)), provides as follows: If a [plaintiff] shows by affidavit or declaration that, for specified reasons, it cannot present facts essential to justify its opposition [to the motion], the court may: (1) defer considering the motion or deny it; (2) allow time to obtain affidavits or declarations or to take discovery; (3) issue any other appropriate order. Plaintiff has not met either requirement for relief under Rule 56(d); he has not filed an affidavit or declaration, and has not provided any specifics as to: (1) the discovery he would seek, (2) how that discovery is reasonably expected to create a genuine issue of fact, (3) what efforts he has made to obtain the discovery, and (4) why he was unsuccessful in those efforts. Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. v. Dept. of Navy, 891 F.2d 414, 422 (2d Cir. 1989); see also, Hutt v. Hofmann, 08-CV-202, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 91609, at *16-17 (D. Vt. July 29, 2010) (citations omitted). 4. A district court must ensure that "the discovery sought [is] material to the opposition of the summary judgment motion." Sage Realty Corp. v. Ins. Co. of N. America, 34 F.3d 124, 128 (2d Cir. 1994) (citation omitted). Here, Plaintiff has failed to show that any potential discovery "brought about" by the State Department of Corrections and the United States would reveal evidence that is material to his 2 termination or Defendants' summary judgment motion. Moreover, Plaintiff admits he made a strategic decision not to conduct any discovery in this case, including during the past year, when he had the opportunity to pursue the findings that purportedly "tend to directly support [his] allegations" through April 30, 2010, under the scheduling order then in place. Even were the Court to overlook Plaintiff's failure to submit an affidavit or declaration, Plaintiff's letter does not meet any of the four requirements set forth in Hudson River Sloop. And by his own admission, Plaintiff cannot meet the third and fourth requirements under any circumstances. Accordingly, Plaintiff's motion is denied to the extent he seeks to re-open discovery. 5. Plaintiff also moves for an extension of time to respond to Defendants' motion. This Court is disturbed by Plaintiff's disingenuous suggestion that he did not receive a copy of Defendants' motion until July 24, 2010. Plaintiff's own documentation clearly confirms that the summary judgment motion was properly served at Plaintiff's residence on July 1, 2010. Although he is proceeding pro se in this case, it bears noting that Plaintiff is a licensed attorney. 6. W hile I do not intend to suggest that Plaintiff has shown good cause for his belated request for an extension of time, the Court is inclined to grant some leeway in consideration of his pro se status and professed legal inexperience. 7. Accordingly, Plaintiff's Motion (Docket No. 74) is DENIED to the extent it seeks to Re-Open Discovery, and GRANTED to the extent it seeks an Extension of Time to Respond to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. Plaintiff's response is due no later than October 1, 2010. Defendants' reply is due no later October 20, 2010. 3 Plaintiff is cautioned that his failure to file a response to Defendants' motion may result in that motion being granted as unopposed. SO ORDERED. Dated: September 10, 2010 Buffalo, New York /s/William M. Skretny WILLIAM M. SKRETNY Chief Judge United States District Court 4


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What was taken from police files in David Koschman case
By TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporters March 25, 2013 1:26AM
These are the records that were taken from the Chicago Police Department's file on David Koschman's death and later returned, after the police closed the case without charges.
◆The "investigative file inventory" — a one-page record that lists the documents in the file.
◆A two-page "chronological table of contents."
◆A detective's "general progress report" that contained a handwritten note that read: "V DAILEY SISTER SON" — an apparent reference to Koschman's alleged assailant, Richard J. "R.J." Vanecko, a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley.
◆A "general progress report" from Detective Ronald Yawger that said Vanecko "becomes very aggressive" just before Koschman was hit. The statement is scratched out. This report says Koschman told Vanecko and others who were with him, "Yeah, you better back down."
◆A photo of a police lineup that included Vanecko.
◆"A photocopy of the front of the file turned over by former Det. Yawger, which is miscellaneous names and phone numbers, as well as miscellaneous information."
◆Color photos from the Cook County morgue.


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Teen Central is an anonymous help line to help teens and parents with teen problems.
ToneTeen.com was created to educate kids and teens about health and fitness. It provides free access to articles and tools to help promote a healthy and active lifestyle.
Foster Care Alumni Chapter of America - Ohio Chapter is a national organization which was established with the support of the Casey Family Programs to connect alumni and transform the child welfare system.
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Emily Post has been noted for discussing ettiqutte for years. She has many good comments just for teens for learning the appropriate do's and don't for things from cell phones to social media pages.


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