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I have ridden a lot of places in a lot of conditions, but nothing compared to the dense fog I hit on the BRP up on Granddad Mountain.
I was with a group of six bikes. The fog was so thick you could not see two feet in front of you. It was all you could do to see the tail light of the person in front of you. Why didn't we stop ? We were so disoriented that we didn't feel safe or see a place we could safely pull over. We were literally going less than 10 MPH. We knew that up ahead was a restaurant and a large parking lot. But, just trying to find the turnoff was brutal.
There were also tunnels that we had to go through. THAT was incredibly disorienting. Going through the tunnel where the fog would abate for a minute and then seeing a wall of white at the far end was bizarre. It was so bad that when the other five bikes found the turnoff (A left turn) for the restaurant, even though I couldn't have been a few feet off the next bike's bumper (I was riding tailgunner), I didn't realize they turned off. I continued for a bit before I realized I was alone.
I made a very scary U turn and found the turnoff. I pulled into the large parking lot (Couldn't see the restaurant from the parking lot because of the fog) and didn't see my riding partners. So, I turned my bike off and listened. I could hear voices so I walked towards them and found them by the sounds they were making. All of them were scared that something bad had happened to me and they didn't even know where or how to look.
That was a few years ago and I haven't seen fog like that again (And I hope I never do). Getting off the mountain that day was an adventure to say the least. Thank God no one got hurt and we all survived. But, it never fails that when we are all together, one of us will bring up the day we road in a cloud !
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WASHINGTON — The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is a Strategic Partner of the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a move that brings together two leading organizations dedicated to making a tangible impact on the world.
"We are thrilled about this new partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative and CGI U, which expands AAUW's campus leadership and provides opportunities for global outreach and collaboration," said AAUW Executive Director Linda D. Hallman, CAE. "We have been helping women blaze new trails for more than a century. Through this partnership we will continue that wonderful tradition in a fresh and exciting way."
"We are excited to welcome AAUW as a sponsor of CGI University this year as we mobilize more than 1,000 young leaders from around the world to create positive change," said Robert S. Harrison, chief executive officer of CGI. "AAUW's experience, knowledge, and leadership in the Women's space will serve to enhance CGI U's ongoing focus on empowering the next generation of girls and women, which we believe is critical to future prosperity for everyone. We look forward to their participation and insight as we help students turn their ideas into action at Washington University in St. Louis in April."
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. Hallman, representing AAUW, attended the recent CGI winter meeting in New York. CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more than 150 heads of state, 20 Nobel Prize winners, and hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations and NGOs, major philanthropists, and members of the media. To date, CGI members have made more than 2,100 commitments, which are already improving the lives of nearly 400 million people in more than 180 countries. When fully funded and implemented, these commitments will be valued at $69.2 billion.
From April 5 to 7, 2013, President Clinton will host the sixth annual meeting of CGI U at Washington University in St. Louis where student leaders, including those from the AAUW community, as well as NGO representatives, topic experts, and celebrities will gather to address global challenges with practical solutions. Each CGI U student must make a Commitment to Action: a specific plan of action that addresses a pressing challenge on campus, in the community, or in a different part of the world. More than $400,000 in funding will be provided to CGI U 2013 student attendees to turn their ideas into action to help confront some of the world's most urgent challenges. To date, CGI U meetings have convened more than 4,500 students from nearly 750 schools, more than 130 countries, and all 50 states.


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Ecologists may be underestimating the impact of logging in old-growth tropical forests by failing to account for subtleties in how different animal groups respond to the intensity of timber extraction, argues a paper published today in the journal Current Biology. The study, led by Zuzana Burivalova of ETH Zurich, is based on a meta-analysis of 48 studies that evaluated the impact of selective logging on mammals, birds, amphibians, and invertebrates in tropical forests. Rhett Butler 15.736084 50.025458 tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/12476 2013-12-03T15:32:00Z 2015-02-11T23:58:43Z Animal Earth: exploring the hidden biodiversity of our planet

Most of the species on Earth we never see. In fact, we have no idea what they look like, much less how spectacular they are. In general, people can identify relatively few of their backyard species, much less those of other continents. This disconnect likely leads to an inability in the general public to relate to biodiversity and, by extension, the loss of it. One of the most remarkable books I have read is a recent release that makes serious strides to repair that disconnect and affirm the human bond with biodiversity. Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures written by Ross Piper, a zoologist with the University of Leeds, opens up the door to discovery. Jeremy Hance tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/10573 2012-12-13T20:56:00Z 2013-04-11T04:50:10Z Rainforests teem with insects, most of which are unknown, finds study Researchers in Panama have published the results of the most comprehensive survey of arthropods in a small area of tropical rainforest. At a high level, the findings surprise no one: the Panamanian rainforest is full of insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Yet the results also show how little is known about this large group of organisms — 60-70 percent of the species are thought to be new to science. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/10548 2012-12-10T16:56:00Z 2012-12-10T17:00:26Z REDD+ should pave way for more research into genetic studies of tropical species Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), the UN program to conserve tropical forests by paying developing nations to keep them standing, should go hand-in-hand with increased genetic studies of imperiled tropical biodiversity, according to a new opinion article in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conversation Science. Jeremy Hance tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/9417 2012-04-19T13:59:00Z 2015-02-05T01:14:46Z Two new frogs discovered in Philippines spur calls for more conservation efforts

Two new frogs have been discovered on the Philippine island of Leyte during a biological survey last year by Fauna and Flora International, which also recorded a wealth of other species. Discovered in November on the island's Nacolod mountain range, the frogs have yet to be named. The Philippines is one of the world's global biodiversity hotspots, yet suffers from widespread deforestation and degradation. Jeremy Hance tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/9045 2012-02-02T20:05:00Z 2015-01-29T00:42:14Z Fungus from the Amazon devours plastic Students from Yale University have made the amazing discovery of a species of fungus that devours one of the world's most durable, and therefore environmentally troublesome, plastics: polyurethane. The new species of fungus, Pestalotiopsis microspora, is even able to consume polyurethane in zero-oxygen (anaerobic) conditions, which would be important in eating plastics in the deep dark layers of landfills where little sunlight, water, or oxygen is found. Jeremy Hance tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/7033 2010-11-10T20:53:00Z 2010-11-15T19:42:26Z African apes threatened by rising temperatures

Most people wish each day had more than 24 hours. But as the planet heats up, that limited number of hours might push endangered African apes even closer to extinction by making their current habitats unsuitable for their lifestyle, according to a controversial study published on 23 July in the Journal of Biogeography. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/2645 2008-01-10T14:30:39Z 2008-12-16T10:13:10Z Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria Soil ingestion helps chimps protect themselves from malaria, reports a new study published in the journal Naturwissenschaften. Apparently geophagy, as the deliberate behvaior is known, increases the potency of ingested plants with anti-malarial properties. Rhett Butler tag:news.mongabay.com,2005:Article/2644 2008-01-10T14:30:00Z 2015-01-06T05:36:35Z America's largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction

The Atlantic forest of Brazil boasts South America's largest primates, the Southern and Northern Muriqui. The muriqui are unique among all primates, because they are not territorial and do not display aggressive behvaior. The IUCN has classified the Southern Muriqui as endangered, while the Nothern Muriqui is critically endangered. Dr. Karen Strier has studied the Northern Muriqui in the field for twenty-five years. A professor of zoology and anthropology at the University of Madison Wisconsin, she is the author of Faces in the Forest: the Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil and a new textbook entitled Primate behvaioral Ecology. Rhett Butler


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Chalk it up to the upcoming Olympics—Gym Class Heroes are banging the drum for sportsmanship, athletic prowess and relentless determination.
And the online premiere of the rap-rock quartet's brand-new video for "The Fighter," the third single off The Papercut Chronicles II, is right here!
MORE: Gym Class Heroes score 2012 Teen Choice Awards nominations
GCH's sweaty homage to toughness—in sports and in life, natch—features OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on the piano and a seriously buff Olympic hopeful from the Bronx who you assume is prepping for the boxing ring.
But despite all the Rockyesque running and fans miming boxing moves as he goes by, John Orozco is a champion gymnast training for his shot at the gold at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
From the home-movie-style shots of Orozco competing as a child, to him meeting with youngsters who want to be just like him when they grow up, "The Fighter" is feel-good all over.
Nothing like a summer anthem to pick you up just when you think you're down for the count, right?
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Terrifying moment Brixton shopkeeper is threatened by gun-toting armed robbers
Video:Police have released CCTV footage of gun-toting raiders rushing into a Brixton convenience store and threatening the shopkeeper.
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No partnership in opera is given equal billing in the way of Gilbert and Sullivan. Parity of words and music is all, lifting the verbally trivial into high comedy, the tuneful into deft musical wit.
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Sir Elton John shocked fans at a sell-out concert as he launched into a foul-mouthed outburst.
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Treacherous cars feature heavily in this multi-layered Finnish thriller. So do drugs, booze, a forged e500 note and revenge.
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Water fights, food fights and inflatables fights: the boys are making the most of Big Brother's "holiday" to run riot, and the girls aren't happy about it
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Some of the sting has gone out of Martin Parr's work. The photographer who is well known for portraying people in a less than sympathetic light has given us an unconventional fashion parade.
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Though quite disparate, the six young photographers in this exhibition could each be said to represent a return to the low-key in photography.
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Amid the increasing number of art awards, the BOC Emerging Artist Award is one of the newest and most generous, with a grant of £20,000 to the winner.
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Imagine how foul the taste of a rare malt whisky would be if half a glass of sweet sherry had been sloshed into it.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A close-knit ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was plunged into a new round of mourning Monday by the death of a baby who was delivered by cesarean section after his parents were killed in a grisly hit-and-run crash a day earlier.
Police hunted for the suspected driver, identified as Julio Acevedo, saying he was barreling down a residential street in a BMW at 60 mph, or twice the speed limit, early Sunday when he collided with a car hired to take the couple to the hospital.
The death of the newborn on Monday piled tragedy upon tragedy and compounded the community's grief.
The baby was buried near the fresh graves of his parents, Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, according to Isaac Abraham, a spokesman for the Hasidic Jewish community. About a thousand community members turned out for the young couple's funeral a day earlier.
"The mood in the neighborhood is very heavy," said Oscar Sabel, a retired printer who lives near the scene of the accident. "We all hoped the baby would survive."
Brooklyn is home to the largest community of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250,000. The couple wed last year in a marriage arranged through a matchmaker and were living in the Williamsburg neighborhood.
They were members of the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose men dress in dark coats and hats, wear long beards like their Eastern European ancestors and have limited dealings with the outside world. Raizy Glauber grew up in a prominent rabbinical family. Her husband was studying at a rabbinical college; his family founded a line of clothing for Orthodox Jews.
Sabel, dressed in the traditional long black coat of the Satmar, said it was a terrible tragedy.
"But it's what God wants," he said. "Maybe the baby's death, and his parents', is not for nothing; God doesn't have to give us answers."
Shortly after midnight Sunday, Raizy Glauber, who was seven months pregnant, wasn't feeling well, so the couple decided to go to the hospital, said Sara Glauber, Nachman Glauber's cousin. They called a livery cab, a hired car that is arranged via telephone, not hailed off the street like a yellow cab.
The livery cab had a stop sign, but it's not clear if the driver stopped. Police said the crash with the BMW reduced the cab to a crumpled heap, and Raizy Glauber was thrown from the wreck. The engine ended up in the back seat, Abraham said.
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- If you are in immediate danger, call 9-1-1 for the police to come to your aid.
- For counseling services, support groups, and advocacy services, please call SafeLink at 1-877-785-2020 or TTY: 1-877-521-2601. SafeLink is a 24-hour, free and multi-lingual hotline in Massachusetts. An advocate can talk with you about your needs and help you identify shelters, programs and other resources. They can connect you to services for both domestic violence and sexual assault.
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So you've got a few supercomputers at your disposal then?
What do you mean rainbow tables don't work? My rainbow tables with all sorts of other nasty shortcuts could bruise down that second password in less than a second. If there are other passwords in the same table its possible to pick up on patterns and exponentially increase the cracking speed.
If you can crack a 20+ character heck, let's go with MD5, hashed password in even an hour, please do record your huge supercomputer farms doing this magical cracking and upload it here so all may see quite how superhuman-like you are.


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I like Ryback and i like the gimmick. *tap tap tap on head*
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I like Ryback and i like the gimmick. *tap tap tap on head*
LOL i wonder if the big heads in the back will blame the miz for randys suspension. i know its a bit of a sarcastic gesture but hey it makes as much sence as blaming miz for the poor survivor series...
It was painful to see what Miz had to do at Over The Limit with Brodus. The Miz is soooo damn smooth on the mic I get goosebumps everytime he cuts a promo... the crowd eats it up nearly as much they...
The only one that currently does it for me is Christians theme. All time fav is Goldberg's in WCW
Oh I hope they have some good cleaners in Chicago coz I bet that crowd is gonna shit all over sheamus BIGTIME!
Loving the Steiner show on Twitter lately, and for the most part I have to agree with him!
God some people get shitty or upset over nothin, mistakes happen chill the mods can move it
He's gonna have a repedative moveset and everything else as its all he can remember after years and years of smoking the greens. I still like RVD tho as i was a huge ECW fan
I love it when someone botches... YOU FUCKED UP!! YOU FUCKED UP!!
damn it, one of my nightmares just happened... no christian at wrestlemania!!
Well if there is lightning then the 'E can save a few dollars on Takers pyro/lightning :)
I think if it was to rain, people would stick it out considering its Wrestlemania and how much they paid for...
screw the cake, i want to have rice bubbles coated in milo!! and for the men of men out there replace the milk with beer!
but back to topic, its wrestlemania so all should be fine, have a feast of hotdogs nachos or whatever and wash it down with any alcoholic beverage you like
and i would rather impale my nutsack on a rusty bed of nails then live in victoria :)
I would rather drink VB than drink the shitty Emu Bitter beer we get here in west australia
yeh nothin wrong with havin a brewski if u want tothat early for us folk that get the PPV telecasts early monday mornin. I dont think i'll drink but i will b having a bong or 2 or 10... its...
Bischoff is a self centred piece of *use ur imagination here* and I think he should show JB more respect than that, he's been in TNA a bloody long time.
bourne would get to the top turnbuckle to do his finisher then be like "oh i forgot what i'm doin up here, mannnnnnn"
or as ive heard a few people suggest, maybe just keep these special events (MITB/HIAC)..etc to one match a year at one of their big 4 PPVS,
i think with WWE PPV gimmicks e.g HIAC, imo for it to truly work i think each match should be HIAC like what TNA does with their steel cage PPV
fuck yeh brock + slayer is a good mix, i'd pick a diff song tho, one thats brutal from the get go... This one would do nicely (dittohead) and the clip would keep all the youngins happy 2!!
Totally agree with ya, excellent with the mic/promos, and when given the chance he is really good in the ring 2. Hope he gets to at least hold the U.S Championship until WM! Man i was so happy when...
Awesum! Santino is now U.S champ! My question is, do you think that Johhny Ace will screw him out of it sumhow considering he is the GM of smackdown this week? Sadly, i think that he will consid what...
Mr Zig Zag ftw!
I would love to be a gimmick of the sterotype ppl here in Australia seem to get.... a cross between crocodile dundee and steve irwin riding a kangaroo down to the ring eating a meat pie and drinking...


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Who is the Rohan Business Group?
Many defense industry professionals are concerned about budget cuts and sequestration. They are worried how these changes will personally impact them in employment, income and career.
Rohan Business Group is a career transition and employment firm. Mike Rohan is a Job Transition Expert for Military personnel and other Defense professionals. He Specializes in a process that includes: Unique Assessment, Career Planning & Job Campaign To Find Employment.
We specialize in helping defense industry professionals that include:
• Military Personnel
• Project Managers
• PMPs (Project Management Professionals)
• Contractors and contract employees
• Business owners and CEOs of suppliers and companies that are part of the defense industry.
The firm specializes in services that include:
• Career Transition Training
• Coaching and Support
What is Our Goal?
To help professionals in the defense industry take charge of their career and employment, use our unique process and guidance for a successful job transition so they will enjoy a stable, fulfilling livelihood, lifestyle and future.
We work best with clients who are ready to:
• spend thoughtful time to do a confidential assessment,
• work to develop their own Personal Plan of Action (PPA) and
• take action on their plan and implement steps to get the results they want now.
What Makes Us Different?
• We've "been there". Yes…we made a successful military-to-civilian employment transition. We learned some valuable lessons about focus, goals and "how to" step.s We know what works now & how to use it to guide our clients who need to find personal clarity and get help to prepare for a successful job search.
• We have hands-on experience. We work with business leaders and managers in achieving their organizational goals–and individual goals, too. Over many years, we developed an efficient, effective four-step process for our clients that works. It guides our clients in their personal understanding, commitment and steps to move forward to reach their goals.
• We believe in the Power of Coaching Clients. We find that clients succeed faster when they have our support and guidance. They become more confident as they discover personal strengths and preferences. Coaching support brings accountability. So clients become committed–and really act on–their self-directed path. Coaching is customized and confidential.
About Mike Rohan
Mike Rohan is a job transition coach and career strategist for defense industry professionals. He is President of Rohan Business Group.
Mike flew combat missions as a U.S. Air Force tactical fighter pilot in Vietnam and Korea. He trained other pilots as a pilot instructor in Texas before making his own military-to-civilian business career.
Mike helps military personnel and other defense industry professionals make a successful transition to new employment . He helps them discover their priorities, their preferences and how they can do the steps they need to do for rewarding employment & income. We know clients will be more confident when they take charge of their job search. They are stronger in communicating their value to hiring managers. And they can see a more stable, fulfilling livelihood, lifestyle in their future.
Mike Rohan is President and founder of Rohan Business Group. He has more than three decades of management, marketing and merchandising experience serving clients in corporations, businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Mike managed staff members, teams, and contractors to plan and produce award-winning communications and marketing programs for Fortune 500 firms including Monsanto and General Electric. He also directed programs and managed contracts to grow branded and unbranded products in industries that include energy, manufacturing and food. Mike led domestic contract management for the American Soybean Association and United Soybean Board Checkoff Program. Mike served the National Corn Growers Association with management roles in Operations, Business Development, ethanol business, corn genome planning and strategic planning.
Mike is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri (Columbia) with a Bachelor of Journalism degree.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Should David Lee be an All-Star? A Word of Caution
As my subway pulled into my stop early this morning, I came upon the sports section of amNewYork, the free daily paper here in the Big Apple. They had a photo spread of their sportswriter's All-Star reserve picks, and right there in the middle was a huge shot of David Lee. I laughed--typical hometown crap.
But I checked the stats tonight. Did you know David Lee is the Knicks' leading scorer, at nearly 16 per game? With a true shooting percentage (nearly 61 percent) that's 11th best in the league and PER of 18.6? Those are pretty good numbers.
The PER is basically the same as it was last year, so we can chalk up the offensive improvement to the fact that Lee is a) playing six more minutes a game; b) playing for Mike D'Antoni and c) taking four more shots per game than last season.
Still, the numbers are solid, and we all know Lee's a great rebounder. You're going to be hearing a lot about David Lee in the next few months. He's slated to make $2.7 million next season before becoming a free agent, meaning his deal expires right when every team wants to have a lot of players with expiring deals. And also right when teams that don't get LeBron/Bosh/Wade/Amare are going to have some money to spend.
One word of caution: A huge percentage of Lee's field goals are assisted on--79 percent of his jumpers and 67 percent of his shots in close, according to 82games. I'm telling you now, you're going to have a hard time finding players with higher assisted-on rates than that. (Overall team rates tend to be between 55 and 60 percent). I checked maybe two dozen players, and I couldn't find anyone with assisted-on rates that high. I checked a sampling of both low post and perimeter-oriented forwards (some names: Aldridge, Jefferson, Duncan, Stoudemire, Garnett, Bosh) and some wings/guards, and I couldn't find anyone. I'm not saying Lee has the highest assisted-on rate in the league (I didn't check everyone; I have a job, you know), but he's up there.
Last season, Lee's assisted-on numbers were more toward the normal range (48 percent on close shots, 67 percent on jumpers. The latter is still high but not unusual).
The broader question I have for basketball fans smarter than me: Does having a high assisted-on rate mean David Lee's offensive stats are misleading? That he's becoming an overrated offensive player? I don't know the answer. I suspect they mean his higher scoring numbers are in large part the product D'Antoni's emphasis on pace and ball movement, and that any team that signs Lee shouldn't expect him to put up 16 per game. Ever. But who knows?
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Welcome Back, TA AKA "Sugar"
I'm sometimes critical of plus/minus, but this is one those games where the plus/minus stats tell the story. The starters were sluggish, and the bench was on fire. You'll hear a lot about Eddie House's monster game (a career best 8-for-9 from deep), but the real story tonight was the return of Tony Allen, the would-be Posey of the '08-'09 version of the Celtics. (It may only be because I watched the Mosley-Margarito fight on HBO last night, but Tony Allen looks like Shane Mosley. Like every other boxer ever, Mosley's nickname is "Sugar," and sugar, as a substance, is tantalizing and yet ultimately bad for you. This is an apt description of TA. In this little slice of the Internets, TA will be known as "Sugar.")
Sugar made all five of his shots from the field, and they were all at the rim. There are two ways to interpret this:
Half-full: Sugar's eFG% on jumpers is 26.9 percent, so he should be taking the ball to the rim.
Half-empty: Sugar will never be an effective offensive player on a consistent basis until he learns how to shoot. And he's kind of a train wreck off the dribble.
I'm a half-empty guy (and, really, who likes half-full sorts of people?), but with Sugar you have to be satisfied with him being healthy, playing solid defense and creating some offense for the second unit. He's not going to learn how to shoot jumpers this year. If he can avoid brain dead turnovers (and he had three tonight in garbage time) and slow down just a bit on offense, he can be a productive bench player. We can't ask anything more of him.
Other notes from an easy win:
• The C's starting lineup reasserted themselves in the third quarter with some help from a lazy-looking Sacto D. In one stretch, the Celtics ran the same play over and over: either Rondo or Ray Allen (usually Rondo) brought the ball up the sideline, threw an entry pass to Garnett in the post and cut hard along the baseline. A simple give-and-go. Rondo got three easy lay-ins on this play in a five-minute span. Overall, the C's starting lineup scored on nine of 11 possessions in one stretch, and only once in there did they need to use anything but a lay-up or a free throw.
• Speaking of easy shots, Rondo went 10-of-15 from the field and took exactly ONE jump shot the entire game, according to his shot chart. (And, yes, he made it, and it was from 21 feet out off a hard dribble/step back move. It was maybe the most confident jump shot Rondo's taken all year. Progress, people). The little guy got to the rim with no resistance.
• One other shot chart note: Glen Davis was 5-for-6 from the field, and only one shot was a jumper--and even that was from just 10 feet out. Great to see Baby becoming an aggressor on offense again instead of settling. Baby, for now, has passed Powe on the depth chart, and I'm not sure I understand why, unless Doc was just that impressed by his performance against Orlando last week. Powe was out there for garbage time with Walker and O'Bryant while Baby got to relax on the bench and forget that KG made him cry in public a month ago.
• The C's defense in the third quarter was sloppy, but it looked to me like they were experimenting a bit in a meaningless game. They had Pierce playing way off John Salmons as Salmons camped out beyond the three-point line. Pierce stayed at the foul line and roved around to try and prevent anyone from penetrating into the lane. It was the most I can remember the C's deviating from their man-to-man, and it didn't really work. The Kings moved the ball around and found cutters in the paint for good looks that drew fouls. Interesting to watch, though. Did anyone else notice this?
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Al Jefferson and the 19/5 Club
I still monitor Al Jefferson like a proud father. I feel bad that Big Al is part of the "for practically nothing" in the sentence that goes "Ainge got KG from the T'Wolves for practically nothing." Al is happily proving that wrong by beasting it every night in Minny for a frisky T'Wolves team.
But Big Al's scoring lines often look like this: 10-for-20, 3-for-5 from the line, 23 points. When I look at Minny box scores, I usually think, "Damn, that's not as many points as I'd like to see from that many field goal attempts."
Right now, Al's taking 19.2 shots per game and 4.9 free throws per game. (Jefferson is tied with four other players at #36 in the league in FTAs/game). I decided to see how many times a player had averaged 19+ FGAs and fewer than 5 FTAs per game and here's what I found: It's happened 59 times, or about once per season, since the introduction of the shot clock in 1954-55, and it's happening less often as the game evolves. It didn't happen once between 1991 and 1998. (Side note: Any theories as to why not?)
It seems like an ignominious stat, a marker of inefficiency, but there are some solid players on this list. Three players lead the way with four 19/5 seasons each: Rick Barry, Fred Carter and Mike Mitchell, a Cav and Spur from the 1980s whom my brain has, sadly, forgotten. Some other high-scoring guards and small forwards, such as Jo Jo White, Gary Payton and Alex English, also make multiple appearances. Even Larry Legend's 1989-90 season is on there.
But Al Jefferson's a big guy, you say, and you wouldn't expect him to be on this list with all these shoot-first guards who didn't spend all their time banging down low. So I switched the height variable to include only guys 6'8'' or taller. Now we're down to just 13 seasons in the shot clock era, including Al's current campaign.
What's interesting about this list is that if you take away the two Bob Lanier seasons, everyone else shot pretty poorly from the field and camped out mostly at 15 feet and beyond. We've got three classic Antoine Walker seasons (including two sub-40 FG% years), depressing late-career seasons from Legend, Chris Webber and Jamal Mashburn, and an uncharacteristic poor shooting season from KG in 1998-99.
Jefferson, in fact, would finish with the second-best FG% among this group. And he's pretty clearly more of a true low post player than the guys listed above; half his shots come from in close, and half are jumpers--a less jumper-heavy ratio than Tim Duncan and Amare Stoudemire, for instance.
I'm not sure if this means anything, since Big Al is 12th in the league in PER and has scored the 8th most total points in the NBA. And, of course, 4.9 FTAs puts Jefferson on the very upper boundary of this club. But for whatever reason, Big Al doesn't draw as many fouls other big men who shoot so much; 82games has his foul-drawing rate at 12.2 percent, compared with 27.2 percent for Dwight Howard and 16.9 percent for Tim Duncan.
I leave it up to Wolves fans who watch this guy play every day to give us an explanation.
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Checking on Kevin and the Baby C's
The Minnesota Timberwolves going 10-2 in January and generally playing well under Kevin McHale has to rank among the most unexpected developments in the league. Over the last couple of nights, I've watched the T'Wolves on League Pass and crunched the numbers in hopes of finding some explanation--like that they've played only horrible teams, or that Sebastian Telfair died or that Al Jefferson started taking 40 shots per game.
As much as it pains me to dampen the enthusiasm at the great Canis Hoopus, the schedule does explain some of it; of the the Baby C's 10 wins in January, only two came against .500 plus teams (@ Suns and vs. New Orleans), and the Hornets were missing David West and Tyson Chandler. But there is reason for optimism. The team is playing better on both ends of the court, and they are getting significantly greater contributions from several key guys.
The biggest changes, by the numbers:
3pA/G 15.0 21.4
So: The Wolves are jacking up more threes, hitting them at a slightly better rate (36 percent versus 33 percent), pounding the boards a bit more, fouling less and significantly limiting their opponents' three-point shooting.
On an individual level, the biggest changes have been in the back court. McHale named Telfair the starting PG and moved Randy Foye to the two spot, from which Foye's been jacking up six threes a game this month--double his per game attempts from deep for the rest of the year overall. He's making 45 percent of them, which is outlandish considering he's a career 37.6 percent shooter from deep.
Telfair, on paper, still looks terrible, with that ghastly sub-40 shooting percentage. But you watch the Wolvies play and you see what Canis is talking about: He's shooting less during this good run (about three shots fewer per 48 this month), dishing more and taking smarter shots. He's taking more threes, and judging from the games I saw, he's trying to shoot them only when he can set his feet and take a nice gander at the rim without a hand in his face. He's still not a starting line-up caliber PG, but, for whatever reason, the Telfair-Foye guard combo is working better than the Foye/Miller/McCants mess that came before it.
The other big improvement has been from rookie Kevin Love. Yes, Big Kev is rebounding like a madman (20 per 48 minutes), but it's at the offensive end that Love is shining. He's already taken the same number of shots through 12 games this month that he took in 16 last month, and he's already made 15 more field goals in January than December. That translates to a 54 percent shooting clip in '09 compared to 38 percent in the last two months of '08. Huge difference. The mid-range jumper suddenly looks true (though he's still only hitting 33 percent on J's for the year) and the finish around the rim is better. Can he keep it up?
Other changes:
• Ryan Gomes, another old Celtic, is firing up about two more shot attempts per game in January while playing four fewer minutes. He's also grabbed 65 boards in 12 games this month compared with 66 in 16 games in February, which means Gomes is crashing like he did when he was the only guy going after it a few years back in Beantown.
• Rodney Carney barely played all season, and now all of a sudden he's Rashard Lewis off the bench, with four attempts from deep per game--about 39 percent of which find the hoop.
You noticed I haven't mentioned the two most well-known guys on the team, Al Jefferson and Mike Miller. Jefferson is doing his 20-10 thing every night (more on that in the next post), and Miller...well, Miller's in what may be the worst shooting slump of his career, which means it's probably good he's shooting just five times per game.
So while Foye may be due for a slump soon, Miller's due to play better. The competition is about to get tougher (Lakers, Houston and Daddy C's in the next 10 games), but the Wolves suddenly don't look like such a lost cause.
Posted by Zach Lowe at 6:28 PM 1 comments
Sunday, January 25, 2009
I Hate to Say I Told You So...
Great quickie post by Celtics Blog showing what Rondo has done on jump shots in the last five games. CB looks at Rondo's hot spots from that span and finds that, guess what, the dude can make jumpers when he shoots them.
Our second post here was called "Hey, Rondo: Shoot!" and it referenced Rondo's hot spot diagrams from last year's playoffs, when he shot 50 percent on long two-point jumpers. The Celtics will be a much, much better team in the short- and long-terms if Rondo takes 15- to 20-foot jumpers regularly and makes a decent percentage of them. It's just unhealthy to have a guy passing up open looks. It makes things harder for everyone.
Also: Red's Army has the video of the Paul Pierce halftime piece ABC ran today. We don't learn all that much new, but it's worth remembering that Paul Pierce, NBA Finals MVP, almost died in September 2000. I know a few Celtics fans who will never forgive PP for the gang sign controversy and the wildly inappropriate Pacers incident in 2005, and I can respect that. But life is about mistakes and redemption, and there's no denying that Pierce has become a different kind of player late in his career--unselfish, hard-working and serious about defense. Maybe it's only because the C's brought in KG and Ray Allen, and Pierce couldn't pout and be lazy without looking bad in comparison. I don't really know what kind of person Paul Pierce is, but I can't remember a late-career transition that made me happier.
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The Formal Introduction of the Voskuhl
Voskuhl (voss-cull) noun--When a big man's combined fouls and turnovers exceed his combined points and rebounds over the course of a game.
Usage Example: With Michael Redd out for the season, the Bucks need Dan Gadzuric to contribute more than his usual Voskuhl.
Word History: The term was coined in a dormitory television lounge at Dartmouth College in March of 1999, when several friends were rooting for UConn to defeat Duke for the NCAA men's basketball championship and bemoaning the limited contributions of UConn starting center Jake Voskuhl. In three of UConn's six tournament games, Voskuhl came very close to achieving a Voskuhl--including a two point, two rebound, three foul effort in UConn's narrow title game win over Duke. The blog Be the Three (written by one of the men present in the dorm room in 1999) mentioned the term in a post earlier this month entitled "Field Trip! Suns @ Raptors, Nash's Game and What's a 'Voskuhl'?"
Voskuhl, selected by the Bulls in the second-round of the 2000 draft, has continued to pile up Voskuhls during his NBA career. Voskuhl has appeared in 427 games and recorded a Voskuhl in 54 of them--a Voskuhl rate of about 12.6 percent. Seven of those Voskuhls have happened this season.
But a look through Voskuhl's Voskuhls shows that there are really two different kinds of Voskuhls--one in which the big man plays just a minute or two and has little time to accumulate any stats (this may be more accurately termed a "Madsen"), and another in which the big man records a Voskuhl despite playing enough minutes to at least pull down some boards.
Two of big Jake's six Voskuhls from the 2002-03 season serve as good examples of the two archetypes. On April 6, 2003, against the Lakers, Voskuhl played three minutes and recorded two fouls, zero points and zero rebounds. A couple of weeks earlier in a loss to Dallas, Voskuhl played nearly half the game (21 minutes) but scored just one point and recorded a paltry three rebounds. He committed five fouls and three turnovers. This may be termed a "True Voskhul."
(One note in that box score: Suns reserve guard Casey Jacobsen nearly recorded a Voskuhl, with two points, one foul and one turnover. The stat is meant for big men, though).
On Dec. 18, 2003, Voskuhl set a personal high for minutes played in a Voskuhl. He started for Phoenix against Portland and played 34 minutes, but recorded zero points and five rebounds before racking up the maximum six fouls. He also committed a turnover.
Voskuhl, however, is not at the top of list of Voskhuls among current players. At least one fellow back-up big, Mark Madsen, has recorded them at a higher rate--84 in 443 games played, for a Voskuhl rate of about 19 percent. Madsen only played a minute or two in many of those games, meaning they do not rise to the level of the True Voskuhl.
Quality big men are not immune to the Voskuhl. Suns star Amare Stoudemire suffered a Voskuhl against Boston earlier this month, when the Celtics held him to three points and one rebound while he committed four turnovers and four fouls. This was the day after Amare declared that he was about to "get my gorilla game on." Greg Oden recorded two Voskuhls in December.
Other frequent Voskuhl-ers include Gadzuric (10 already this season), the Spurs Fabricio Oberto (four this season) and new Bobcats center DeSagana Diop (five last season, four this year).
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Hassan Butt (Urdu: حسن بٹ) (born 1980) is the British Pakistani former spokesman of the radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun who now calls on Muslims to "renounce terror".[1]
Butt has claimed that before renouncing terror he sent arms to the Taliban, organised training for 200 British Muslims to fight in Jihad, collected monies for terrorism, incited others to terrorism, encouraged attacks on political and military targets in the UK and associated with the 7/7 bombers.
On 9 May 2008, British anti-terror police arrested Butt for questioning just as he was about to board a flight to Lahore, Pakistan.[2] He was released after twelve days while the police investigation continues.[3]
Manchester Police subsequently released extracts from their interviews with Butt in which he stated that "I've never met Osama bin Laden. I've never met anyone from Al-Qaeda, or anyone who claimed to be from Al-Qaeda at all in my entire life", and that he had stabbed himself "as part of the whole scam." [4][5]
Personal life, education, and career[edit]
Hassan Butt was born in Luton to Kashmiri parents, who later moved to Manchester. There Butt attended Prestwich High School, where he claims to have been forced out for his 'Islamic activities'. He finished at Abraham Moss High School, then attended Bury College and the University of Wolverhampton, which also expelled him.[6]
At the age of 20 he moved to Pakistan and gained notoriety in 2002 when he claimed that he had recruited 200 British volunteers to fight for the Taliban who would return to the UK and launch terror attacks.[7]
On his return from Pakistan he resurfaced in London and approached the Mirror newspaper with an offer to sell his story for £100,000. Following the attempt to sell his story, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain said: "The very wild claims that Butt has made from Lahore show him for what he is: a clown and someone who wants to make himself important" [8]
Previous views[edit]
In an interview with Prospect magazine Butt said that he would be honoured to be called a terrorist, "I would agree to being called a radical and one day I may even be called a terrorist, if Allah permits me. That is something it would be an honour to be called."[9]
Advocating the superiority of Islam, Butt has said that "Islam is a way of life, a way of life superior to communism and capitalism. Christianity is a mere religion and can't cater for people's way of life, but Islam can. With the fall of the Soviet Union, people started turning to Islam as a way of life, whereas America wanted to spread capitalism across the world. That's why Islam became the enemy."[9]
Arguing for the necessity for Muslims to live under Sharia law, Butt said that, "Every Muslim must work for the Shari'a to be implemented as a political way of life. They can do that physically, by involving themselves in revolutionary coups, or through political means. As long as they don't attack or compromise other Muslims who are doing something different from them, I have no problem with any of these ways of establishing the Shari'a."[9]
Butt has argued that Muslims in Britain should have no allegiance to Britain, saying, "I feel absolutely nothing for this country. I have no problem with the British people...but if someone attacks them, I have no problem with that either."[9]
Current views[edit]
In a 180 degree about turn, Butt now argues that, "The fact is that Muslims in Britain are citizens of this country. We are no longer migrants in a Land of Unbelief. For my generation, we were born here, raised here, schooled here, we work here and we'll stay here. But more than that, on a historically unprecedented scale, Muslims in Britain have been allowed to assert their religious identity through clothing, the construction of mosques, the building of cemeteries and equal rights in law."[1]
Butt now warns that thousands of young Muslims are preparing to unleash fresh "terror atrocities" on Britain's streets. In May 2007, Butt told the News of the World that, "It's sad but we WILL have more atrocities like 7/7 because there are tens of thousands of Muslims who still support violence."[10] Following the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, Butt appeared on Newsnight where he alleged that "most Muslims" believed that terrorist activity attracts divine pleasure and admission to paradise and that "anything that is not an Islamic way of life" is a legitimate target for attack.[11]
Butt now calls on the West to take on radicals and violent extremists, arguing that, "Muslim scholars must go back to the books and come forward with a refashioned set of rules and a revised understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Muslims whose homes and souls are firmly planted in what I'd like to term the Land of Co-existence."[1]
The writer Adrian Morgan has argued that "Hassan Butt is a fantasist, it seems. He certainly has had links with radical Islamists, but his desire to gain attention, to bask in limelight, is not the behaviour of someone who is as involved in terror networks as he has previously boasted."[12]
One of the leading figures in the anti-war movement, the British Muslim activist Anas Altikriti, has strongly criticized Butt, arguing that, "Now that he has changed sides, rather than see the error in the methodology and ideology to which he once subscribed and which he peddled for years, he has adopted the posture of extremist once again - and is hurling abuse once more, albeit from the opposite side." Altikriti concludes that "The call to change the face of Islam, attacking Islamic doctrine through the copy-and-paste methodology that falsely makes the Qur'an seem like a book of evil, is unjust and disingenuous."[13]
There has also been criticism from the Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Inayat Bunglawala, who has argued that Butt is wrong to argue that "we do not need to revisit some of our own murderous actions overseas and examine whether they have contributed to the spread of violent extremism."[14]
The Muslim activist Faisal Haque has asked why Butt has not been arrested and suggested that Butt "may have been working for the security service".[15] Butt has denied these charges saying he would inform the police if he would be aware of an impending terror attack, but that he was not an informer.[1]
In May 2008, Channel 4 News in the UK reported that Greater Manchester Police had released transcripts from their interviews with Hassan Butt. In the extracts he said he had fabricated many of his previous claims, that he had never met Osama bin Laden and that he had stabbed himself in the arm rather than being attacked by extremists as he had previously claimed.[4]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror
- ^ Anti-terror police arrest Muslim author and former al-Qaida recruiter as he boards flight to Pakistan, Daily Mail, 10 May 2008
- ^ Terror suspect Butt released, Channel 4, 10 May 2008
- ^ a b "Hassan Butt freed amid 'scam' claims". Channel 4. 21 May 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20.
- ^ http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/07/08/news0981.htm
- ^ 'Jihad' cry prompts condemnation
- ^ UK 'terror target' claim dismissed
- ^ Briton's boast of recruiting for bin Laden may lead to charges
- ^ a b c d Interview - A British jihadist
- ^ News of the World 20 May 2007
- ^ BBC Newsnight 2 July 2007
- ^ Was CBS Duped by Radical Islamist?
- ^ The New Fundamentalism by Anas al-Tikriti
- ^ The Spread of Terror by Inayat Bunglawala
- ^ If he funded terrorism why has Hassan Butt not been arrested?
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: Hassan Butt
- Hassan Butt Tells Bob Simon Killing In The Name Of Islam Is A "Cancer"
- Was CBS Duped by Radical Islamist?
- Al-Qaida fantasist tells court: I'm a professional liar


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When Calhoun Retires, Who Will Be UConn's Top Dog?
Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun hasn't decided if he will return for his 27th season after securing the school's third national title in early April though it's expected he'll coach at least one more campaign. So, who are the top candidates to take over one of the nation's top jobs when he does leave?
Shaka Smart (VCU head coach)
Smart's inclusion on this list is almost mandatory. He has been named as a candidate for nearly every open job - and for good reason. Smart, 34, is the hottest coach in the country after leading VCU to an improbable berth in the Final Four. He would be a long-term hire for the Huskies, who would love to follow Calhoun with another coach who's in it for the duration. The program is at the level where it is a destination job, not a stepping stone.
One has to wonder, though, how the young Smart would fare - at least in the short run - in a league with established coaches Jim Boeheim, Rick Pitino and Bob Huggins. Smart most likely would be a second or third option for the Huskies unless he can recreate VCU's March magic next season.
Sean Miller (Arizona head coach)
Miller is a Big East guy - he played at Pitt in the late 1980s and early '90s - and those who know the league realize how much that's worth. The Big East offers a unique challenge. Not only is it one of the toughest leagues on the court, a coach must recruit against the legacies of his opponents and their tenured coaches. In addition, Miller was the first permanent Arizona coach after the retirement of Lute Olson. He certainly knows how to take over for a legend.
However, Miller has just inked an extension with Arizona and says he's in it for the "long haul." We've heard that before. The UConn job, coming off a national title, might be too good to pass up with a chance to move back East and more money.
Josh Pastner (Memphis head coach)
Pastner and Calhoun have one thing in common: they both coached Emeka Okafor. But that's where the similarities end. Pastner, now 33, guided Okafor's Houston area AAU team. He also was a walk-on for Arizona's 1997 national title team.
On the other hand, Calhoun's blue collar Boston-area upbringing has been well-documented. He has always used that fighter's attitude in his coaching. Whether it's accurate or not, Pastner instead seems like the boy-wonder. But the kid can coach. Like Miller, he took over for a name-brand, replacing John Calipari, and has had great recruiting success.
If Miller indeed stays at Arizona for the long term, there wouldn't be a better job for Pastner to have than UConn.
Kevin Ollie (Connecticut assistant coach)
Ollie would be a favorite among UConn fans. He played point guard for the Huskies from 1991-95, during which time the program was rising to prominence. A college teammate of Ray Allen and a 13-year NBA veteran, Ollie certainly has some valuable basketball experience. He would also inject some youth into the program while keeping the job in the family.
However, Ollie only has one year under his belt as an assistant. It had been assumed that Ollie is being groomed for the job, but it's clear he needs more time. If Calhoun steps away in a year, how could Ollie possibly be ready?
Tom Moore (Quinnipiac head coach)
Moore's name was dragged through the mud as an assistant for the Huskies, with whom he was involved in the recruitment of Nate Miles. He later was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the stench around it may prohibit him from returning to Storrs. The Miles incident aside - no matter his involvement - Moore built a reputation as a solid recruiter under Calhoun, bringing in some of the country's best talents.
However, he has yet to make the NCAA tournament at Quinnipiac, where he has compiled a 75-51 record with one NIT appearance. Moore would have to start making the Big Dance if he wants any chance at returning to the Husky program.
Ted Woodward (Maine head coach)
Woodward is a longshot candidate. An assistant during Calhoun's early years with the Huskies (1986-89), Woodward is familiar with the program. He helped Calhoun resurrect the Huskies from the abyss, culminating with an NIT championship in 1988. Woodward also knows New England, where he has been the head coach at Maine since 2004. Prior to that, he was an assistant at Maine, Harvard and Central Connecticut since 1989.
However, Woodward had a better shot to coach the Huskies two decades ago - if Calhoun wasn't there, of course - than now. UConn won't dip into the America East for its next head man. Woodward would have to land somewhere else and prove himself there to get a shot at replacing Calhoun.
Best Guess
If Calhoun sticks around three or four more years, you have to like Ollie's chances. It would be a huge hit with former players and alumni. But we don't see Calhoun sticking around that long.
In that case, Jeff Hathaway would be crazy to give away one of the best jobs in the country to someone still learning how to be an assistant. We know Miller said he's staying in Tucson, but he appeared to seriously consider heading to College Park and Connecticut is a much better job. Connecticut will certainly offer Miller at least the $2.6 million they are currently paying Calhoun per year and in the end, we see money winning out as usual.


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The Attitudes of Iowa Public School Board Members, Administrators and Students Toward Student Rights
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Since the decade of the sixties, the constitutional rights of students have become a major concern of school board members, administrators and students. Because of the rulings of the court, existing school policies may not agree with the decisions the courts have made. In addition, many of the people serving as school board members and administrators were educated in schools that promoted an authoritarian-type atmosphere, with little regard for student rights. Therefore, this study was made to determine the present attitudes toward student rights held by school board members, superintendents, secondary school principals and secondary school students in the public schools of the state of Iowa. The problem. The problems investigated in this study were: 1) Are the attitudes of school board members, superintendents, secondary school principals and secondary school students similar in regard to student rights? 2) Is there a relationship between school district size as determined by K-12 enrollment and attitudes of school board members, superintendents, secondary school principals and secondary school students in regard to student rights? Procedure. A survey instrument containing thirty-two statements pertaining to student rights was sent to school board members, superintendents, secondary school principals and secondary school students in randomly selected Iowa public school districts. These statements were individually ranked according to a scale which measured a positive or negative attitude toward student rights. A two-factor analysis of variance was selected as the most appropriate statistical model for the data. Findings. The findings included: 1} Students have a decidedly more positive attitude toward student rights than school board members, superintendents and secondary school principals. 2) Secondary school principals have a more positive attitude toward student rights than school board members or superintendents. 3) Board members and superintendents are similar in their attitudes toward student rights. 4) In Iowa, respondents in the large school districts (1,500 or more students) have a more positive attitude toward student rights than those in the small (less than 750 students) or medium-sized (750-1,499 students) public school districts. 5) In Iowa, respondents in small and medium-sized school districts were similar in their attitudes toward student rights. Conclusions. The following conclusions were made as a result of the study: 1) There is a significant difference in attitudes toward student rights among students, administrators, and board members. However, the differences in attitudes toward student rights between school board members and superintendents is non-significant. 2) Although respondents in small and medium-sized school districts were similar in their attitudes toward student rights, there is a significant difference between respondents in those districts and the large public school districts. Recommendations. The following recommendations were suggested. 1) For school board members and administrators, there should be held periodically a required in-service day concerning school law and discussion of court decisions relevant to public schools. 2) Pertinent courses of study encompassing the constitutional rights of students should be required for all student teachers and potential administrators. 3) A survey instrument by which each school could test for weak or dissonant areas concerning student rights should be developed. 4) School staff-parent-student representative councils for the review of school policies and the establishment of long-range goals should be formed. 5) The development of a uniform student rights code legally acceptable to all concerned parties is recommended. 6) There should be a longitudinal study to see how, if at all, group attitudes change over time and whether such changes result in larger or smaller differences between groups. 7) An identification and study of other groups, such as parents, should be compared with groups like those included in this study. 8) There should be studies designed to determine why the differences exist between groups as were found in this study and to explore the effectiveness of procedures structured to reduce such differences.
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The plans for the regeneration will be on display in a marquee on Elms Field from noon-7pm on Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14.
The exhibition, which gives residents a chance to see how the proposals have evolved since the consultation in July 2011, will then be moved to the council offices at Shute End until the end of the month.
The redevelopment is being carried forward by Wokingham Borough Council working with Wilson Bowden Developments Ltd.
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'Face Off' finalists face the music in live Season 3 finaleAdd to Favorites | Face Off
If any competitive reality series merits a Halloween season finale, it's "Face Off."
The Syfy program is all about horror makeup, so the traditional night for macabre disguises couldn't be better timing for the show's Season 3 winner to be declared. More is involved, since host McKenzie Westmore -- who hails from a legendary family of Hollywood makeup artists -- will preside over the finale live (in the Eastern half of the country; on tape delay elsewhere) for the first time Wednesday, Oct. 31. And in another first, viewers can decide who wins by voting after the previous night's episode.
"Face Off" has redefined the television image of Westmore, previously best-known as heroine Sheridan Crane Lopez-Fitzgerald on the now-defunct NBC daytime serial "Passions." Unlike the first two "Face Off" seasons, she's had a break between the weekly episodes and the finale, which she deems "really interesting. We'll see how things have progressed for the people, and I'm so curious to see who America chooses."
Contestant challenges this season have involved "Star Wars," pirates and characters inspired by unusual cars.
"As with every show on television, you have to find new, inventive ways to keep hooking the viewer back in," the friendly, energetic Westmore tells Zap2it, "ways to go bigger and broader. I think that's what's such a cool thing about what we're doing; it's a way for us to involve the viewer more. Syfy and Mission Control [the studio behind 'Face Off'] are so much about the fans. They're truly listening to what they have to say and think."
Because of that, Westmore is convinced the selection of the Season 3 "Face Off" winner "will go beyond just a popularity contest. I see it on my Twitter feed all the time: The fans of Syfy really do have their own opinions on the artistic value of what they're seeing in the makeup. It's not just, 'Oh, I really like that person.' Granted, they're not seeing in person all the stuff we're seeing, but we're essentially asking America whether it's camera-ready."
The mention of Twitter isn't merely lip service by Westmore, since even the most casual social-media observer can recognize what an active "Face Off" supporter she is.
"I really take pride in doing it all myself and taking that extra step," she says of her very active Tweeting. "I feel so lucky to be a part of this, and it's the fans that keep us going, so it just seems natural to pay it back to them. I love listening to what they have to say, and I also love responding."
That's also due to Westmore's long-vested interest in the subject. Some of her childhood was spent as a test vehicle for "Star Trek" creations by her father, Michael, who won an Oscar for designing Eric Stoltz's extensive makeup for the 1985 movie "Mask." Her dad has been a guest on "Face Off," and this season, such notables as actor Sean Astin, filmmaker Kevin Smith, and producers Brian Grazer ("How the Grinch Stole Christmas") and Gale Anne Hurd ( "The Walking Dead") have participated.
Observing the "Face Off" judging by such experts as Oscar winner Ve Neill ( "Beetlejuice") and Glenn Hetrick ( "Heroes") sometimes is tricky for Westmore.
"The first two seasons, it was difficult for me to just stand there and nod," she confirms. "I am the host, so I have to be impartial, but I've gotten to speak up more and more this season. I can maybe voice a bit more because I'm not judging. I can tell a contestant, 'You might want to think about this,' just to open their eyes. They are stuck in such a bubble, sometimes they need that."
With a Season 2 finale that set a ratings record for unscripted Syfy programming, the success of "Face Off" is clear, its Halloween-night showcase surely being another big testament to that.
A Season 3 renewal was a given, as was the one the show recently received for a Season 4, with filmmakers Bryan Singer ("X-Men") and Jon Landau ("Titanic") set to guest. The "Face Off" producers also earned an order for something of a spinoff, the Syfy set-design contest "Hot Set," which Turner Classic Movies' Ben Mankiewicz now hosts.
Westmore has experienced other bonuses of "Face Off." She hosted last month's horror-oriented Eyegore Awards at Hollywood's Universal Studios ("It really felt like a good test run for the live 'Face Off,'" she notes), and her latest acting roles have been in the suspense-thriller movies "Vile" and "Dose of Reality."
"It's like coming full circle in some ways," Westmore reflects of her "Face Off" job. "Am I doing this as a makeup artist? No. Do I know this world very well? Yes. To be able to carry on the family name and legacy, in a way that makes me happy, is such an honor.
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Green Up Day in Vermont
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This Saturday, May 5th, is Green Up Day around Vermont. Vermont was the first state to allocate a day where the whole state joins together to clean up highways and roadways. The original idea was pitched to Governor Deane C. Davis by Robert Babcock in 1970. Babcock was disgusted at the amount of litter along state roadways that was visible after the winter snow melted away. He thought it would be a great idea for Vermonters to join forces in order to beautify the state. And Green Up Day was born!
This year, Governor Shumlin asked Green Up Vermont to partner with Irene Recovery efforts. As you may or may not know, Vermont actually endured a hurricane in August of 2011. Not only was it shocking to have those high winds and heavy rain in our tiny, landlocked state but it was devastating to many areas. Roads, bridges and houses simply washed away by the rushing flood waters. It was terribly sad but as usual, Vermonters banded together in relief and recovery efforts. Because of the amazing amount of pride that Vermonters possess, the slogan "We Are Vermont Proud" was adopted. I personally think those words are very, very true. And we are so proud that a license plate was created to sell in order to raise funds for recovery efforts. (you can buy one here for only $25!).
So this year Vermonters will gather in an effort to make our state more beautiful than it already is. No more litter on the sides of the roadways or fields full of household debris. We must continue working hard to keep our state green. So visit Green Up Day's official website to learn more information on where and how you can help in your own community. Vermont gives us so much splendor every day, is it really too much to ask that we take just a few hours and help her stay that way?
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Does the idea of parallel universes really describe reality? (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)
In Our Mathematical Universe Max Tegmark tries hard to make the seemingly outlandish theories of multiverses sound almost obvious and unavoidable
SOME years ago, the philosopher David Hull wrote a book entitled Science as a Process, in which he argued that science works through an evolutionary process. Imaginative scientists toss out ideas and hypotheses, creating and maintaining the equivalent of natural variation in biological populations. Then other scientists test those ideas, using evidence and logic to select out and eliminate the ones that don't measure up. Variation and selection, repeated: that's a form of evolution.
But there is a condition. This only works properly with a diversity of personalities and specialisms among scientists. Research would get nowhere if it were driven solely by the dour, hard-boiled sceptics who only believe on the basis of solid evidence. The sceptics feed off the raw creative material of the speculators, who imagine what might be possible and never stop dreaming about "what if". The speculators produce the diversity of ideas on which selection can act, and they require, in turn, the discipline of sceptics to stop them from running away into fantasy.
And yet fantasy is the very word that occurs to many – including some physicists – when they hear some of the ideas popular in cosmology, a discipline which aims to answer the big questions about the origins of the universe.
The fantasy trajectory started off gently enough when physicist Alan Guth proposed that many puzzling features of the observable universe – such as the extremely homogeneous distribution of matter within it – would be explained if the universe had undergone a short, early period of rapid expansion, termed inflation. Extremely rapid, as in expanding in volume by a factor of 1078 in a time of 10-30 seconds.
Since then, other inflationary cosmologists have opened the speculative throttle so fully that physicists now talk routinely of such things as an infinitude of parallel universes, or a "multiverse". In the multiverse, every conceivable world exists, and individuals identical to you and I live out parallel lives in places we cannot have access to.
Is this still science? Or has inflationary cosmology veered towards something akin to religion? Some physicists wonder. The enthusiasts, of course, see it very differently. Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, certainly does. His new book, Our Mathematical Universe, is an impassioned defence of the theory, especially its implications for parallel universes.
The book is an excellent guide to recent developments in quantum cosmology and the ongoing debate over theories of parallel universes. Tegmark tries hard to make the seemingly outlandish sound almost obvious and unavoidable, and offers a taxonomy to help organise a zoo of imagined parallel universes.
As it turns out, the terms parallel universes and multiverse mean many things to different people. But Tegmark's taxonomy of parallel universes are all, he argues, implied by observed evidence and the laws of physics.
His first set, the Level I Multiverse, refers to an idea that many cosmologists already accept. Rapid early inflation would have created what Tegmark describes as "universe-sized parts of space so far away from us that light from them hasn't had time to reach us". These other domains – or "universes" – could well exist, although we currently have no observational evidence for them.
Tegmark's Level II Multiverse refers to a bolder idea, championed by physicist Alexander Vilenkin and others. There may be other domains of space also created by inflation that are too far away to see. These will forever remain out of our reach because continuing inflation drives them from us faster than the speed of light. This idea refers to real, distinct, physical universes that cannot ever be observed.
At this point in the taxonomy, however, Tegmark leaves cosmology behind. In reading, I began to feel that his aim is to see parallel universes in as many places as he can. Enter the Level III Multiverse. This turns out to be a language for talking about the mathematics of quantum theory using the many worlds interpretation of that theory, first proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in the 1950s.
This interpretation describes all physical processes as part of an ongoing, perpetual branching of the universe into many other universes. It is indeed possible to interpret quantum theory this way, but readers should know that many other interpretations, equally in tune with observations, don't invoke the idea of parallel universes at all.
Then there is the Level IV Multiverse. Again, this has nothing to do with cosmology, but is an ambitious thought about mathematics. Tegmark argues that reality isn't simply described by mathematics, as most physicists readily accept, but that it is, in fact, mathematical.
Furthermore, he believes that the mathematics of our universe is just one of an infinity of conceivable mathematical structures. He goes on to wonder: if this mathematical structure is a universe, why not all the others? And so he makes a bold claim – that all other mathematical structures should also exist physically as further parallel universes.
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doesnt sound totally wrong at all, its near perfect.