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"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens,that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty,and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government."—Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
At some low point in my tenure on the board of education in my small school district, a friend advised, "Don't worry. You are like gravity. They always know that you are there."
Though I aspired to being more than a reminder of some facts of life as member of a board of education, gravity was at least a starting point. And I appreciated my friend's larger message: that much good can come from keeping institutions honest. In fact, as I reflect on the last five years of public service, I'm thinking that keeping governments honest may be the single most important duty of every citizen.
And in honor of the holiday, I offer five lessons learned, which to my mind seem close to self-evident truths, about school governance:
My claim to fame at board meetings was asking questions. What does this project cost? When would it be finished? By whom? What happens if it doesn't get done? Does the program improve student achievement? How? "What is this, a Congressional hearing?" one colleague once complained. Watching boards in action...
Just in case I buried the lead in my last post, I would love to hear from fellow reform-minded members of boards of education.
Send your essays (or questions) to me, email@example.com@edexcellence.net. Your story should be between 250 and 800 words, though, as mentioned, a good haiku or other creative verse will be considered. We will publish as many as we can and, at the end of the summer, Fordham staff will choose the seven best. The seven, in honor of the number of board members on my board of ed, will then convene, by email, and suggest what governance policies are most necessary to improve our public education system.
Tell your friends!
There's nothing worse for a rogue member of the school board than sitting on a stage with graduating high school seniors, looking into an auditorium packed with adoring friends and relatives. The speeches gush with encomiums for the school that you (i.e. me) have been criticizing for years. "Don't listen to the negative," the congressman tells the class. "Unity," gushes the valedictorian, recounting all the things he has learned from "the great teachers" he has had. The salutatorian cries. Applause.
I have been trying to "fix" my little district (2,300 students fifteen years ago, less than 1,900 today) ever since my son entered first grade (he is now finishing his third year in college). I ran for the board, won, quit, helped start a charter school (which crashed on the shoals of racial politics), started an email listserv dedicated to watching the district, and ran again for the board, winning another five-year stint—and a warning from my wife: Don't quit again. I didn't.
Three nights ago I attended my final meeting as a member of the board, after five years and some several thousand meetings. I had outlasted two superintendents and a good half-dozen board members. But despite being the senior person on the board, I leave sitting in the same seat, literally, as when I began—the very last place in the always-awkward line-up of tables and chairs stretching across whatever room we were in; seven board members, the superintendent, the assistant superintendent, the business manager, the student representative. In...
After reading about the eleventh-hour teacher evaluation deal brokered by Governor Andrew Cuomo (see the New York Times report here) in my local newspaper (which I'm not divulging, to protect the innocent), I turned the page and was drawn to a regular section of the paper called "Restaurant Inspections." Like its cousin, "Police Blotter," this is where the dirt is, so to speak. And I read about many of our local restaurants, in detail that I'm sure did not make the owners very happy. Here's one with five violations:
I wondered, What if these restaurant inspection results were sent only to the restaurant's patrons? Why do they have to be published in the paper for all to see?
That is essentially what the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) convinced the state legislature to do for its public schools last week: Only the parents of students in a teacher's classroom shall know if the teacher is serving up unrefrigerated content.
Catching up on some reading, I discovered some stories that may be old news to some of you, but merit a second look:
I would like to skip this one, so named for the test question used by a big testing company, Pearson, and subsequently used by a number of states, including New York, for its 8th-grade English language arts exams, that asked kids to analyze a story adapted from one written by popular children's book author Daniel Pinkwater about a "race" between a hare and a pineapple. Leave it to the intrepid Leonie Haimson, the anti-testing and class size matters pit bull, to uncover this dastardly deed, issue a scathing condemnation that "The ONLY right answer is Pearson; for getting paid $32 million from NY State for these recycled, annoying and pointless exams," and force the NYS education commissioner to discount the answers on the pineapple test question. The horror of it. Wrote Ms. Haimson a few weeks later, in the New York Times: "…few people who heard about a test question involving a talking pineapple could help but question the judgment of those who would include this material on a standardized test used to determine the future of children and schools." There is but one reply to Ms....
This is my first post in two months and I must thank the contributors to TBQ (The BIG Question) for keeping the governance issues on the front burner in my absence (more on what I was doing "on sabbatical" in subsequent Board's Eye View posts). We had a wonderful group of contributors, from arch reformer Jay Greene to arch establishmentarian Anne Bryant. Michelle Rhee wrote, as did John Chubb, Harold Kwalwasser, David Harris, John Kirtley, Tim Kremer, Darrell Allison, Mark Anderson, and Robyne Camp. It's an impressive group of people who think hard about the mechanisms of education governance.
Camp, who just lost a tight re-election race for the board in her small Westchester County, NY, district, offers a fascinating perspective on school reform, suggesting that reform may be harder for the rich. "Education reform here in the leafy suburbs," she concludes, "will have to trickle up from New York City's poorest schools."
Tim Kremer, who directs the New York State School Boards Association, is a steady advocate of local control, suggesting that "many boards have a healthy dose of skepticism about grand, top-down initiatives such as Race to the Top, Common Core Standards and the new Annual Professional Performance Review or APPR." But he offers a...
Guest blogger Robyne Camp served three years on her board of education in Irvington, New York, losing a tight race for re-election in May. Her first career was in financial services, specializing in complex lending to insurance companies. Her second career began in her 40s, after she was widowed, when she became a lawyer. She has worked as a pro-bono assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, representing abused and neglected children in appeals cases and prosecuting domestic violence crimes.
Three years ago, in a landslide election six months after the crash, I won a seat on my local school board in Westchester County. This May I lost my bid for re-election in a hotly contested five-person race for two open seats. I learned some lessons.
When I ran, I was a reform candidate in an affluent district where reform candidates rarely run (and don't win if they do), but the village was then in turmoil, and the rules had been suspended. I was swept into office and assumed responsibility (along with four colleagues) for oversight of a district whose salient demographics can be registered in a glance:
Projected enrollment school year 2012-13: 1740
Projected per pupil spending 2012-13: $29,400
Reduced-Price Lunch: 2 percent
Limited English Proficient: 2 percent
Black/Hispanic: 6 percent
Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander: 9 percent
White: 83 percent
Small, affluent, majority...
Guest blogger Timothy G. Kremer is the executive director of the New York State School Boards Association.
Mark Twain once famously remarked "I'm all for progress, it's change that I can't stand." Of course, Twain fully understood progress does not happen without changes to the status quo.
What constitutes progress for a school board? Hiring a great new superintendent and forging a harmonious partnership? Often, school board progress is defined in the form of a strategic plan that the entire staff and community rally around. Both are reasons to be proud because they can lead to great accomplishments.
Ultimately, though, progress has to be measured in terms of student achievement gains. Unlike Mark Twain, school board members must welcome all rational forms of change that serve the goal of raising student achievement.
School boards have generally been supportive of the New York State Regents Reform Agenda, although it is fair to say that that many boards have a healthy dose of skepticism about grand, top-down initiatives such as Race to the Top, Common Core Standards and the new Annual Professional Performance Review or APPR.
Isn't it interesting that after all these years, New York and seven other states recently were granted a waiver from the punitive, one-size-fits-all requirements of No Child Left Behind that have proven to be, in the words of...
Guest blogger Darrell Allison is president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, which supports greater educational choice for all parents and students across the state. For more information, please go to www.pefnc.org.
As president of a statewide organization devoted to ensuring that ALL children—regardless of income or zip code—have access to a quality education, I hear plenty of opposing talking points…that we need to spend more on public education, that education reform measures will lead to the death of public schools, that public tax dollars are being used for private gain.
When I hear this type of rhetoric I think of how North Carolina has spent over $35 billion on education over the last five years, yet only 50 percent of poor elementary and middle school students passed state tests—compared to nearly 80 percent of their wealthier peers.
In spite of tremendous spending, our poorest kids are still missing the mark. And this is totally unacceptable.
I'm all for "public education," but I believe "public education" should consist of a system based more on the quality of schooling a child receives and less on the particular educational model. In an op-ed that was published across North Carolina earlier this year, I wrote that each of our state's educational models, including our traditional public schools, help to support...
Guest blogger Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, a bipartisan grassroots movement working to improve the nation's schools. She previously served as chancellor of Washington D.C. schools and before that founded The New Teacher Project, which helps districts recruit effective teachers to challenging schools. Michelle began her career as a classroom teacher in Baltimore.
As I spend time visiting and studying school systems across the country, I see many bright spots. But I also see far too many places where children are being educationally shortchanged. That's reflected in the still-enormous gaps between what poor and minority students know and can do academically and the performance of their wealthier, white peers. And it's also reflected in the growing gap between American students and their peers overseas.
So how did we get here and what do we need to do to give our kids—all our kids—the twenty-first century education they deserve?
I can't point to any one policy that is responsible for holding our kids back. But I can assure you that there is an overall approach to education policymaking that is hurting children. And that is this: Too often decisions are made and policies are set based on the interests of adults in the system rather than student needs.
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4 years & up. Who knew learning could be so much fun! Children will have a blast exploring shapes and putting them together to make a duck, a cow or maybe a bus. Children may think they're simply playing, but they're actually learning about shapes, patterns, symmetry, problem solving, following directions, and more!

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If that gets rolled out quick enough I don't have to give nvidia my money for that much power with the laptop I'm thinking of getting!
Hurry intel! Your drivers are absolutely amazing, but I need more than the X3100...
Phoronix: Intel GMA 4-Series Support On Linux
Committed this afternoon to the xf86-video-intel driver development branch at FreeDesktop.org is support for Intel's GMA 4-Series Chipsets. The 4-Series IGPs (namely the Intel X4500) are brand new and is designed to be three times faster than the current Intel GMA X3100...
If that gets rolled out quick enough I don't have to give nvidia my money for that much power with the laptop I'm thinking of getting!
Hurry intel! Your drivers are absolutely amazing, but I need more than the X3100...
With all the work there is being done on 3D these days, it is hard to keep track of what hardware is 3D accelerated out-of-the-box when you install a new version of your favorite distribution.
Would it be possible to develop a small Gnome/KDE applet that tells the user if you have 3D acceleration?
And if, where should I submit such an idea?
It'll seem a bit weird, if your distribution needs to tell you, that you're capable of using accelerated 3D, as if it was a miracle.
A better option would be to include a simple "glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"" and display "Direct Rendering: Yes|No" in the system monitor of GNOME/KDE.
What does '3 times faster' than the Intel X3100 chips mean? What level would that be?
I'm asking because I'm wondering if I should hold off buying a laptop and wait for this new generation Montevina and the Intel X4500 graphics. I have just discovered that Nvidia has a major heating problem with their chips (namely, 8400M and 8600M) which is offered in Dell XPS and many HP systems. Those are two laptop companies I was looking into and if the Nvidia video chips in there are problems, I need to look at either Intel X3100 or video chips with ATI in them.
Should I wait? How much will the new generation of laptops cost? If I wait a month, will there be a new type of thin/light laptop similar to the Dell XPS M1330 but with the Centrino 2 Montevina cpu and X4500 graphics?
If it's feasible for you, I'd definitely recommend going with intel or amd for your next gpu, due to the whole FOSS drivers/specs thing for one, and yes-- I have had problems with my geforce 8400m gs. I applied a bios update, and it's been stable since, but I haven't stress tested it yet-- I should do that soon. Good old nexuiz
Also, If I recall correctly, the X4500 is /already/ brilliantly supported under Ubuntu Intrepid and such.
I hope centrino 2 isn't expensive just because it's new, I'd certainly go with it-- intel is amazing with all their drivers, none of this broadcom wireless or creative sound garbage.
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Experimental vaccines that specifically boost T helper cells lead to immunopathology and death in mice.
In Chapter 1, "Yin and Yang," author Roberta B. Ness explores the dynamic tension between innovation and risk aversion in science past and present.
Adipocytes under the skin help fight infections by producing an antimicrobial agent.
In the evolutionary arms race between pathogens and hosts, genetic elements known as transposons are regularly recruited as assault weapons for cellular defense.
Does Altruism Exist?, Ancestors in Our Genome, Fred Sanger—Double Nobel Laureate, and Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons
Is the fear of funding and doing fundamental, risky research killing our ability to make breakthroughs?
Social adversity shapes humans' immune systems—and probably their susceptibility to disease—by altering the expression of large groups of genes.
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Grab your iPod nano and go — no accessories required. Or grab your iPod touch or iPhone 3GS or later, a pair of Nike+ shoes, and the Nike + iPod Sensor. Put the sensor in your Nike+ shoe — there's a pocket for it under the insole. iPod touch and iPhone 3GS or later have built-in support for Nike + iPod, so no receiver is necessary.
Check out the menu and choose how you want to run. You can use custom workout shortcuts to start your favorite workouts quickly. Try the open-ended workout or select one with time, distance, or calorie goals. Then pick your favorite playlist, shuffle songs, or choose Nike-created Sport Music. You can even program a Power Song to play when you need instant motivation.
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(left to right) Michael Fassbender stars as Magneto, Rose Byrne plays Dr. Moira MacTaggert, January Jones plays The White Queen Emma Frost, Jason Flemyng plays Azazel, Nicholas Hoult plays Beast, Lucas Till plays Havok, Zoe Kravitz plays Angel Salvadore, Jennifer Lawrence plays Mystique, James McAvoy stars as Professor Charles Xavier.
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However good it may or may not be, I'll never be able to get over how terrible X-Men 3 is, it ruins everything!
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so who are the other 2 between beast and mystique? im assuming the girl is angel. and the guy is???
4 years agoby @james-dodgshunFlag
So tiny!
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Um. It isn't all that bad. The costumes look very much like the original costumes the older xmen wore. Keep in mind the time period this movie takes place in. Now chill and wait for the trailer.
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Is it wrong that the only person i see is Emma Frost ? lol
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"Lars Knoll is planning to move Qt3D and QtLocation from being essential modules to just being add-ons."
This is sad
Nokia, you bunch of muppets!
If you take a look at the screenshots of both, you'll see they aren't the same at all. Qwt = scientific, ugly, mostly dots, lines, charting = pretty charts, pies, effects.
Completely different looks and target market.
As for the foul, this is indicative of an "open core" future. While it may not be bad _yet_, what it's pointing to is.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. People generally do work and expect to get paid for it.
I know that when I go to work, I'm not working for free. You?
So if a portion of Qt doesn't bring in the bucks, then it makes logical sense that it wouldn't be a top priority, or outright cut.(which is the case here) I'm all in favor of these removed Qt libraries integrated directly into KDE, or as Lars suggested. At least they won't be totally killed off, if there's functionality that's necessary.
Nobody has unlimited resources. Nobody. So priority has to come into play.
I wouldn't be quick to go with that one. I'd imagine that the majority of KDE devs who were there during the rollout of KDE4 remember the fiasco that ensued.(which was partially due to impatient distros, but it was what it was) I don't think KDE5 will be a repeat of this. Not when you have so many people currently up in arms over GNOME3. I can only imagine the memories that brings up for various developers in the KDE camp.And KDE is a nice puppet who follows Qt. So you will se (an attempt) to port to Qt5 even before Qt5 is ready and KDE is ready. Sad but true.
You're right. If Qt goes open core then it will truly be sad. Right now it's just a few premande widgets (which if you put in the effort, can recreate yourself) but it could be something much more later on. They haven't touched the API yet, and it is not so bad as other companies sell premade widgets as well as classes ( http://www.kdab.com/kdab-products/kd-tools/ ). I doubt Digia will make Qt open core as they should be aware of the uproar. I think even many of the major companies invested in Qt will be very upset aswell. I don't even think they will be doing that many more premade widgets either.
This is not about parts of Qt not bringing in money though. It's just Nokia's downward spiral, the entire company isn't bringing in the bucks.So if a portion of Qt doesn't bring in the bucks, then it makes logical sense that it wouldn't be a top priority, or outright cut.(which is the case here) I'm all in favor of these removed Qt libraries integrated directly into KDE, or as Lars suggested. At least they won't be totally killed off, if there's functionality that's necessary.
They want QML as the focus, it's getting most of the attention.Isn't QML more advanced than Javascript? Perhaps it could even be said that it's(QML) a mix between the two?(the two, C++ and Javascript)
On Nokia's website there's quite a lot written with regards to interaction between C++ and QML.
Below is what they want from developers when they write a new Qt 5.0 application (not porting existing ones, new apps from scratch in 5.x).
1) do all the UI in QML, logic in C++
2) or do it all in QML
However QML only uses non native widgets. It doesn't use the native ones of the platform until at least Qt 5.1
See: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/10/...s-for-desktop/
Also QML was really intended for mobile.
Yeah right. A white knight will appear and save Qt and the lords virgin daughter.
It is quite easy to avoid this happening. Just keep making yearly bugfix releases to Qt and deliver all new features in commercial addons. And to keep it proper, make partners do it. Just like Digia is doing these days. Nokia has all they need to avoid this. KDE ev.s agreement with this commercial and evil entity is not worth more than the used to sig the Munich agreement.
Can you make one post without FUD? Just one?
They haven't touched the API.
They haven't added any classes.
It's just a few widgets to help you make pretty looking charts. The most of the same functionality is in Qwt, except Qwt is lacking in the looks department and is LGPL only. With these commercial widgets Digia's customers don't have to be obligated to the LGPL and get support (the purpose of commerical verison in the first place). There are a few things not in Qwt like Pie charts, because well this is targeted at business.
Guess what, Digia isn't alone ICS and KDAB also sell pre made widgets. Hell, ICS even has charting widgets like Digia: http://www.ics.com/products/qt/kdchart/
If they ever touched the API and fragment Qt I'll eat my hat. Digia isn't stupid, they run a business. They know it wall _harm_ their business to fragment and open core Qt, it will piss off every single Qt developer.
Besides, what does Qt need saving from, right now it is certainly not Digia. It needs saving from Nokia because they no longer care/want Qt. Let me explain what a company does when they no longer want/need an asset. Do they kill it off? No because companies like money and they would make $0 off killing it, and would only do that if there is no buyer. They sell it.
Also Qt is backed with many massive corporations invested in it, Nokia couldn't kill it no matter how bad they wanted to. You know when companies as big as Google, Samsung, HP, Seimens, Philips, Panasonic, Volvo, ect. are invested in Qt, they have legal clauses and other measures to ensure Qt is still around.
All the facts seem to point to a sale of Qt, there is nothing to worry about.
We only have to really worry if a horrible company is announced as the buyer.
So please stop spreading FUD. End your trolling. You are obivously a Gnome fanboy looking at the last thread: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...3-6#post278982
Whenever someone says things that prove your points wrong, you pretend nothing happend and ignore whatever was said. Your probably going to ignore half the stuff in this post too.


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so it isn't just me ...
Well i hope they stabilize it soon ...
but i am also sick and tired of the word soon; I know it isn't easy. I am a developer so i can respect that. but still ... I feel like i might have waited long enough.
Phoronix: ATI's New Drivers: Did The Paradise Come?
It's been nearly seven months since I wrote my first article about ATI drivers and how they literally crippled my computer and my daily life. Last month, ATI had finally released their latest drivers which contains the new OpenGL component and AIGLX support. Was this release worth the amount of hype and did it solve everyone's problems? For me, simply, no. After seven months of waiting, updating, and struggling, things are not good for me, in every possible feature of the ATI Linux driver I use.
so it isn't just me ...
Well i hope they stabilize it soon ...
but i am also sick and tired of the word soon; I know it isn't easy. I am a developer so i can respect that. but still ... I feel like i might have waited long enough.
Maybe it is time to stop waiting for better drivers and start waiting for 3d specifications even though that would mean waiting one more year until stable 3d driver that would work out of box in all distributions.
well i can agree with everything except powerusage for my hd 2900 XT, it doesnt seem to run at 100% all the time, but this is not the case on the x850 XT PE for sure, it goes on 100% all the time.
but i dunno hows the 2900 XT goes, if its on 100% or not .
performance is godlike though, my aiglx issues are small, but still annoying, my videoplayback issue is a very annoying issue, but they have certanly done something, and the 8.43.xxx may bring some hope.
I hope you're right, 8.43 should be mostly a big bugfix release. Or at least we hope so. About your 100% load thing, I think you're right, because with my x1600XT, if I touch the heatsink while running Linux it feels hotter than normal. But I tried it in Windows for a test and it was nearly ice cold. The card is a pretty good overclocker too. It can go from 590/690 to 700/760 or in other words, 700/1520.
Granted, I can bring it a little higher but I don't like pushing it to the absolute limits. It still doesn't get as hot in Windows as it does in Linux. I wish the x1600XT had a temperature sensor on it and wish they had a temperature reader in the CCC for Linux.
Two Words describe this situation with the new codebase drivers...
Same here. Runs hot under Linux and video playback sucks. 3D runs well enough, but who cares if I can't watch video.
I'm using my old Nvidia 6200 in Linux. I throw in the 2600HD when I boot into Windows to play games, which isn't too often.
The memory leaks are amazing. I just valgrinded glxgears
and there are bunch of them in fglrx_dri.so
Don't ATI developers use basic tools?
uhhhh....no. :] quite the opposite :]ATI's New Drivers: Did The Paradise Come?


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The jobs numbers are out and the work force is shrinking again. Why are people quitting their searches and what do they do once they've stopped? We hear from a discouraged worker.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the economy added 88,000 jobs last month, below analyst expectations. The unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent.
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Even as the U.S. economy is adding jobs, nearly five million people have been out of work for at least six months, and figures show their wait to return to the workforce is growing.
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What I am love about Mao this season is she looks healthy and seems always happy to be on ice.
Just look at 0:57 in this vid clip how thin and fragile she appeared at last season's 4CC...
I am glad she plans to go for harder/aggressive jump layout here. Trial and error. A win or lose, falls or no falls, you can't get anything unless you go for it at all, you know. Mao may crash and burn at the end of the day. But still not the end of the world. Gooo Mao!
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hope Mao will prove alot of people wrong, Go Mao
Just a theoratical question regarding the jump layout: If Mao plans to do 8 triples but for example misses the 3a and instead doubles it in her performance, she would have to leave out another planned triple, right?
No, Zayak rule means she can't repeat a triple/quad jump more than once(and one of them must be in combination) and she can repeat a maximum of 2 triple/quad jumps. Plus, at least one axel jump is mandatory in the Lp.(and maximum two 2A). If she had planned a 3A and two 2A in her programs than yes, doubling the 3A would have her doing three 2A which is against the rules that's not Mao's case.
According to fsu, Mao's layout is 3Lo, 3A, 3F-3Lo, 3Lz, 2A-3T, 3S, 3F-2Lo-2Lo. This is absolutely crazy and she probably will have some problems with the jumps but the prospect of landing them at some point is exciting! It's good she kept her 3Loop as an opening jump. This should quiet some critics IMO. She really tries to regain her old form. I'm not sure she's gonna make it but trying it proves once again she has the heart of a champion.


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Wainwright has been the go-to guy in the Cardinals' rotation for years, of course, although manager Mike Matheny rates him more dominant than ever before. Wainwright has an ongoing streak of 17 shutout innings and has gone at least seven innings in each of his first seven starts -- including Tuesday in New York, when a hyperextended knee stopped his outing after 79 pitches.
Wainwright concurs with Matheny's assessment.
"I'm more of a complete pitcher than I've ever been," Wainwright said. "Just using all my pitches, pitching to both sides of the plate, pitching up and pitching down."
Volquez's current stature as the Pirates' most reliable, most consistent starter, on the other hand, is a major surprise. He has overcome the inconsistencies that saddled him with a 5.71 ERA last season and had him lead the National League with 105 walks in 2012.
Tony Sanchez, who has already caught a couple of Volquez's outings, could again be behind the plate on Sunday. Sanchez, recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis on Saturday, has become the Bucs' primary catcher with Russell Martin going on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring.
Sanchez has a seven-game hitting streak, having hit safely in each game he has played this season. He made his big league debut in a supporting role last season, but the 2009 No. 1 Draft choice now is in a higher-profile situation.
"Things happen for a reason, and he's excited by this opportunity," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of Sanchez, meant to spend the season in Triple-A so he can play regularly in preparation for moving in as the team's No. 1 catcher in 2015. "Right now, the best opportunity for him to play and develop is right here. This is a good sharpening opportunity for him."
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The Bucs are well armed to handle the loss of closer Jason Grilli, who went on the DL Saturday (retroactive to April 21) with a left oblique strain. Mark Melancon has considerable closing experience, including 16 of 21 saves last season while Grilli was out with a forearm issue, and other strong arms to inherit his setup duties.
"I believe we're in real good shape," Hurdle said, running down his new bullpen sequence. "We got [left-hander Tony] Watson, who can pitch the eighth inning against anybody. [Bryan] Morris has the stuff to do it. [Justin] Wilson can give us a hand there as well. We got [Jeanmar] Gomez and [Stolmy] Pimentel for length, and Jared Hughes as the wild card, with his sinker."
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Benched on Saturday as Matheny opted for a right-handed-heavy lineup against Pirates lefty Francisco Liriano, second baseman Kolten Wong is expected back in the lineup for the Cardinals' series finale on Sunday.
Wong snapped an 0-for-10 rut with a two-hit game on Thursday, though he finished with only four hits in 28 at-bats on the team's recent road trip. Hitting coach John Mabry is working with Wong to make sure he keeps his stroke short and minimizes the movement in his swing. Getting those elements right are key for Wong as he seeks to regain his timing.
"Exactly like we were talking about some of the other guys, he hasn't had a whole lot of struggle throughout his career," Matheny said of Wong, a career .301 hitter in the Minors. "When it's on this platform, it's not the same. You have to figure out how to get through it, and sometimes the only way to figure out how to get through it is to wade through it. And he is just kind of wading his way right now. He's got everything he needs. It's just a matter of him proving it to himself and righting the ship."
Wong did not face Volquez when he pitched against the Cardinals earlier this month.
Worth noting
• Jose Tabata enjoyed his fourth career three-hit game on Saturday at Busch Stadium, where he is a career .345 (40-for-116) lifetime hitter.
• Catcher Yadier Molina will be looking to start a new hitting streak on Sunday after having his career-long 15-game hitting streak snapped with an 0-for-4 game on Saturday. It was tied for the longest active hitting streak in the Majors along with Colorado's Nolan Arenado.
• Pittsburgh leadoff hitter Starling Marte has at least one strikeout in 20 of his 24 games, and leads the Majors with an overall total of 36 whiffs.
• The Cardinals are still seeking to snap out of a homerless drought that now extends 10 games and 354 at-bats. The club's last home run came off the bat of Allen Craig in the team's April 16 game in Milwaukee. The Cardinals have hit an NL-low 12 home runs this season.
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Review: Plantation Nicaragua (1998) Rum
Posted by Arctic Wolf on August 18, 2011
The Plantation Nicaragua (1998) Rum is a column distilled rum which has been aged in used bourbon casks. The rum was transported from Nicaragua to France, and then it was aged for a short time in used Cognac casks to enhance the rum before it was bottled as part of Cognac Ferrand's growing line-up of Plantation Rum. Cognac Ferrand has long had a special relationship with a variety of Caribbean rum producers which is based upon the rum producer's need for quality oak casks to age their rum. Based upon this relationship, Cognac Ferrand is able to acquire certain old and unique batches of rum from various Caribbean sources, which they bring back to France and finish in their own warehouses and of course their own Cognac Casks.
I was given eight sample bottles, each 200 ml in size, which represent a good portion of the Plantation Rum line-up. The Plantation Nicaragua is the fourth of these sample bottles which I have chosen to review here on my blog.
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How do Student Ambassador programs prepare me for the next level of education?
Do I need to be nominated to become a Student Ambassador?
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What sets a People to People Ambassador Programs journey apart from other student trips?
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Student Ambassadors learn about other cultures, engage in fun activities, and meet local citizens. Student Ambassadors come from diverse backgrounds, but share common traits:
All Student Ambassador programs provide a unique opportunity for educational growth, which can help give you an edge in the classroom. In addition, academic credit and service-learning hours are available (depending on the program and age requirements).
High school students: Your involvement as a Student Ambassador can provide you with a competitive edge on your college and scholarship applications. Student Ambassador alumni have found that their experiences with People to People Ambassador Programs helped them answer many interview questions and, in some cases, provided the theme for admissions and scholarship essays.
Junior high/middle school students: Starting off on the right foot in high school is critical to your success. Your experience as a Student Ambassador will prepare you to be more confident, responsible, and assertive. The alumni students and parents you meet at the information meetings will share how their participation in a People to People Student Ambassador program prepared them for the years to follow.
Elementary school: For many students, the transition from grade school to junior high or middle school can be a challenging time. By participating in a People to People Student Ambassador program, students will gain valuable skills to help them succeed in the transition, including social interaction and time-management skills, self-confidence, respect for others, and how to make smart choices.
No, you do not need to be nominated to become a Student Ambassador.
In order to become a Student Ambassador, you must apply. All students who apply must do the following:
People to People Ambassador Programs has a clear mission: to provide students with unparalleled access to people and places beyond compare, preparing them for success in a globalized world by making friends locally and globally. Student Ambassador programs visit schools, experience homestays, absorb world culture through firsthand exploration, meet with government experts, and enjoy unique insider access to significant people and places. Student Ambassadors prepare for this experience well in advance and are asked to keep a daily journal and participate fully in all activities for academic credit. Students build their leadership skills while working as a team with other students and making friends in a well-supervised environment of cultural exploration. Comparing cultures and ways of life helps students gain global awareness—the very mission of People to People Ambassador Programs.
All Student Ambassador programs start long before you board the plane. After you complete the selection process, orientation meetings will prepare you for what you'll see and do throughout travel. Orientation Meetings can be offered both in-person and online and are the perfect opportunity for leaders to educate their students on:
During this time, the students will also complete specific assignments designed to increase the learning opportunities. The Student Ambassador program experience begins months before a student ever gets on a plane. This is an educational journey that begins the moment you apply.
People to People Student Ambassador programs vary in location, length, focus, and activity level. Each program has unique activities and cultural experiences in the countries we explore. But no matter which program students choose, our programs offer premium travel experiences:
Every Student Ambassador program is carefully designed with our students and our mission in mind. Student Ambassadors often have school visits or one-on-one experiences with local families overseas. Our extensive travel experience allows students behind-the-scenes access in many of the countries we visit, and the wide variety of cultural interactions opens an entirely new world for our Ambassadors. Many of our students return with a new perspective on the world and their role as a global citizen.
Our Student Ambassadors see the world differently. They see people and places on television or in a textbook and can say they have been there. But more importantly, they value understanding other people and other cultures. Often, this global perspective creates interest in new career paths or identifies new subjects for study in school. Additionally, by representing their family and their country to others, Student Ambassadors recognize the power an individual has to effect positive change.
To date, Student Ambassadors have clocked more than 100,000 service hours for communities around the world. Some of our international projects include:
Students who travel on our programs can qualify for several forms of academic credit (depending on program and grade). Students in grades 9–12 are automatically enrolled in the tuition-paid course "Ambassadorial Studies" offered through the Washington School of World Studies and earn the equivalent of 1 high school semester elective credit. In addition, students in grades 7–8 may enroll for one credit and students in grades 9–12 for up to 12 credits through Eastern Washington University.
Most Student Ambassador programs range from $3,999–$7,999. Each program we offer is a unique educational and cultural experience. Therefore, the tuition for each program varies depending on the program's location, length, and itinerary. The tuition for our programs are all-inclusive and cover pre-program education and preparation, program activities, accommodations, *transportation, supervision, program apparel, academic credit, three meals per day, and group insurance.
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