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Don't forget — as if you could — that 17-0 whoopin' we put on the South Africans in 2006. With all their country's diamonds, those dudes couldn't buy a run against Team USA on an American baseball diamond.
Mercy-ruled 'em, we did, with Ken Griffey Jr.'s two homers and seven RBI and Roger Clemens on the mound for three of the five innings.
Remember, too, how Team USA pounded the Netherlands 9-3 in 2009. OK, so it wasn't Holland as much as players from Curacao, a tiny island ruled by the Dutch and inhabited by 145,000 people. A team with Jeter, Rollins, Wright and Braun prevailed over guys named deJong, de Caster, van Klooster and VandenHurk.
Say you don't remember? Thought not.
Know what's really sad? Those were a couple of the highlights of Team USA's participation in the first two World Baseball Classics.
Despite the guarantee of home-field advantage for every WBC game they played in 2006 and '09, the Americans' overall record is 7-7. Theoretically an assemblage of the best American players playing their own national pastime, Team USA has lost WBC games to teams from the other sides of both borders, Canada and Mexico.
Though loaded with All-Stars, the Americans failed to reach the semifinals of an inaugural tournament won by Japan at Petco Park. Team USA made it to the semis in '09, but got dusted by the Japanese, the only champions the WBC has had.
The host nation sighed. Then shrugged.
Unless the United States wins the third WBC that begins March 2 with Japan vs. Brazil in Fukuoka and Australia vs. Chinese Taipei in Taichung, Taiwan — or at least manages to make the gold-medal game on March 19 at AT&T Park in San Francisco — there's a very real danger that Americans will completely give up what little interest they seem to have for a global event decided on their own soil.
Thus begging the question, why even go on holding it here?
The obvious answer being, this is where Major League Baseball lives, and the WBC is MLB's baby. It's here where most of the top players in the tournament will report back to spring-training camps in Arizona and Florida, here where they'll make their lucrative livings all summer.
Much as MLB hypes the WBC and stands to reap considerable financial benefit from it — its own television network is carrying all the games — this overwhelming lack of buzz in the U.S. is largely the fault of MLB in general. And not just because so many Americans think MLB is the only baseball that matters.
Those are major league clubs diminishing the importance of the WBC by trying to withhold their players, fearful of injuries to pitchers throwing full-bore in March, unswayed by the abbreviated pitch counts dictated by WBC rules. Maybe all you need to know is that Team USA manager Joe Torre — a New York Yankees legend — has met resistance in asking his old club to approve 40-year-old lefty Andy Pettitte's availability for WBC work.
Yu Darvish was a WBC star, the ace of Team Japan in 2009, closer of the semifinal win over the U.S. and winner of the gold-medal game against archrival Korea. Darvish is now a Texas Ranger. Citing the advice of coaches and trainers, he has sent his regrets to the WBC for 2013.
Those are major league players — Josh Hamilton and Mike Trout, to cite a couple Angels — declining to take part with Team USA. R.A. Dickey and his arm-saving, Cy Young-winning knuckleball accepted an invitation, but not on the U.S. staff or not yet committed are fellow starters Justin Verlander, Clayton Kershaw, David Price, Matt Cain and Jered Weaver.


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Volunteer State Community College has a new degree program in Entertainment Media Production that starts this coming spring semester. Entertainment Media Production combines several areas with the same purpose: to get students trained and plugged into the entertainment industry in Tennessee. Tracks include concentrations in audio and music production, music business, multimedia and web design, and video production. The program offers certificates, which are designed to get students into the workplace. Those certificates can then apply towards a new associate of applied science degree.
An advisory board of industry professionals helped to put the program together. Partnerships with entertainment businesses in the area will be an important part of the study for students. The bigger vision behind the new program is to create a college version of Music Row- a set of student teams working together on a music project, forging a creative synergy.
"We're developing a recording label that will combine student work in all parts of the music business from recording, video, legal, promotions, and web design," said Steve Bishir, director of Entertainment Media Industry Programs. "It's a real-world application to combine all of the stuff students have been working on. The students will have a portfolio, and perhaps more importantly the experience of working as a team, so if they do end up working on music row, or elsewhere in the business, they have that experience."
The result is called a capstone experience because it provides a way for students to combine many of the skills they have learned and ideas they have developed during college in one creative package. The product could be an entire artist development campaign for a singer-songwriter with a recording, video, website and promotion.
"The web design people will need video and they'll get that from the video production students," Bishir said. "They'll get a lot of cross-pollination."
Students will be using industry grade equipment in the Vol State recording and television studios. Web designers will use Adobe design software and perhaps more importantly than any one particular brand, they will learn the fundamentals of coding with HTML and CSS, which will help them understand the foundation of all web design software. The faculty members bring years of experience and many industry connections to the program. Bishir is a five-time Grammy Award winner and has worked on more than 120 number one singles in audio production.
Interested people can apply to the college now. Spring classes start January 17. For more information about the program visit www.volstate.edu/entertainment
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I want a list of the Titles and URLs for the search results of a particular query. In my particular situation, there are only about 20 pages of results so it's not that much data.
I have no experience myself. But I have found that someone suggests Seo FireFox Plugin.
For another option you can have a look at www.marketing2oh.com/scrape-serps-for-seo-analysis/. It describes the export with title, url and even description.
I ended up cutting and pasting HTML from the search results and then using jQuery to pull out the titles and URLs.
I don't know about google but I know bing has an option to export any search page as rss. You simply add format=rss to the query string. For instance
This will give 10 result per page so for the second page you add
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You could try using Google AJAX Search API. For example querying the URL http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=Svick will give you results for my username in JSON.
See this blog post for more information.
There's a Firefox plugin available at: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
When you install the plugin (easy), and click on the little SEO logo so that it is in color (not gray), and then do a search in Google, you get a ton of extra data in the results.
Much of the extra information is useful if you are doing search engine optimization. But if you are just looking at how to export the results, there is a tiny 'CSV' link. That will save the results into a CSV format, which you can then open easily with Excel!
You can also try Send to excel option in Internet Explorer.
Lots of answers here, but YQL, although not google out of the box, the following query will help.
The RESTful URL for those results is:
YQL itself can be found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ It's a really useful bit of kit by Yahoo.


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Southern California law enforcement authorities have identified the gunman in an unexplained shooting rampage as a 20-year-old unemployed part-time student.
Tustin police Chief Scott Jordan says Ali Syed lived at the Ladera Ranch residence where the first victim was slain.
Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says that victim is a young woman in her 20s who has not been identified and is not related to the shooter.
The rampage early Tuesday left three victims dead and several wounded. The shooter killed himself.
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Authorities say a shooting spree through Orange County, Calif., left four people dead, including the shooter, and several others injured.
Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said Tuesday the shootings began at 4:45 a.m. when deputies responding to a call found a female shot multiple times in a house in Ladera Ranch.
Three more people were fatally shot in the next 25 minutes after carjackings in Tustin and Santa Ana.
Amormino says the suspect shot himself at an intersection in Tustin.
The motive for the shootings is still unclear and it's also unclear if the victims knew each other or the shooter.
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Since learning (and loving) automated testing I have found myself using the dependency injection pattern in almost every project. Is it always appropriate to use this pattern when working with automated testing? Are there any situations were you should avoid using dependency injection?
Basically, dependency injection makes some (usually but not always valid) assumptions about the nature of your objects. If those are wrong, DI may not be the best solution:
Outside of dependency-injection frameworks, dependency injection (via constructor injection or setter injection) is very nearly a zero-sum game: you decrease the coupling between object A and it's dependency B, but now any object that needs an instance of A must now also construct object B.
You've slightly reduced the coupling between A and B, but reduced A's encapsulation, and increased coupling between A and any class that must construct an instance of A, by coupling them to A's dependencies as well.
So dependency injection (without a framework) is about equally harmful as it is helpful.
The extra cost is often easily justifiable, however: if the client code knows more about how to construct the dependency than the object itself does, then dependency injection really does reduce coupling; for example, a Scanner doesn't know much about how to obtain or construct an input stream to parse input from, or what source the client code wants to parse input from, so constructor injection of an input stream is the obvious solution.
Testing is another justification, in order to be able to use mock dependencies. That should mean adding an extra constructor used for testing only that allows dependencies to be injected: if you instead change your constructors to always require dependencies to be injected, suddenly, you have to know about your dependencies' dependencies' dependencies in order to construct your direct dependencies, and you can't get any work done.
It can be helpful, but you should definitely ask yourself for each dependency, is the testing benefit worth the cost, and am I really going to want to mock this dependency while testing?
When a dependency-injection framework is added, and the construction of dependencies is delegated not to client code but instead to the framework, the cost/benefit analysis changes greatly.
In a dependency-injection framework, the burden of choosing the right dependencies typically returns to the programmer of the dependent class, by giving appropriate annotations to indicate where the dependency should be sourced from. The ability to circumvent those instructions when it's beneficial for testing is just gravy.
I don't see any reason to want to avoid dependency injection if using such a framework.
And don't use Service locator as dependency injection alternative, it's anti-pattern, more info: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/02/03/ServiceLocatorIsAnAntiPattern.aspx
When you don't stand to gain anything by making your project maintainable and testable.
Seriously, I love IoC and DI in general, and I'd say that 98% of the time I will use that pattern without fail. It's especially important in a multi-user environment, where you code can be reused again and again by different team members and different projects, as it separates logic from implementation. Logging is a prime example of this, an ILog interface injected into a class is a thousand times more maintainable than simply plugging in your logging framework-du-jour, as you have no guarantee another project will use the same logging framework (if it uses one at all!).
However, there are times when it is not an applicable pattern. For example, functional entry points that are implemented in a static context by a non-overridable initialiser (WebMethods, I'm looking at you, but your Main() method in your Program class is another example) simply cannot have dependencies injected at initialisation time. I'd also go as far as to say that a prototype, or any throw-away investigative piece of code, is also a bad candidate; the benefits of DI are pretty much mid-to-long-term benefits (testability and maintainability), if you are certain that you will throw away the majority of a piece of code within a week or so I would say you gain nothing by isolating dependencies, just spend the time you'd normally spend testing and isolating dependencies getting the code working.
All in all, it's sensible to take a pragmatic approach to any methodology or pattern, as nothing is applicable 100% of the time.
One thing to note is your comment about automated testing: my definition of this is automated functional tests, for example scripted selenium tests if you are in a web context. These are generally completely black-box tests, with no need to know about the inner workings of the code. If you were referring to Unit- or Integration-tests I'd say that the DI pattern is almost always applicable to any project that heavily relies on that kind of white-box testing, since, for example, it allows you to test things like methods that touch the DB without any need for a DB to be present.
An alternative to Dependancy Injection is using a Service Locator. A Service Locator is easier to understand, debug, and makes constructing an object simpler especially if you aren't using a DI framework. Service Locators are a good pattern for managing external static dependancies, for instance a database that you would otherwise have to pass into every object in your data access layer.
When refactoring legacy code, it is often easier to refactor to a Service Locator than to Dependancy Injection. All you do is replace instantiations with service lookups and then fake out the service in your unit test.
However, there are some downsides to the Service Locator. Knowing the depandancies of a class is more difficult because the dependancies are hidden in the class's implementation, not in constructors or setters. And creating two objects that rely on different implementations of the same service is difficult or impossible.
TLDR: If your class has static dependancies or you are refactoring legacy code, a Service Locator is arguably better than DI.


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Whether it was cockiness or confidence that inspired Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal's lowered hands, Emanuel Newton saw an opening and took it.
"I think it was cockiness more than anything," Newton told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "He was so – I'm not going to say full of himself – buthe in his mind, there was no way I was going to beat him."
This past Thursday, Newton (20-7-1 MMA, 3-1 BFC) delivered the latest of three major upsets in the Bellator Season 8 light-heavyweight tournament when he knocked out Lawal (9-2 MMA, 1-1 BFC) in their semifinal-round bout.
Tournament favorites Lawal, Renato "Babalu" Sobral and Seth Petruzelli all fell short in the tournament, which gave the spotlight to up-and-coming fighters such as Newton, who called it his biggest win to date.
Lawal had just finished throwing a right hand when Newton spun and hit him with a spinning backfist (watch it below). Lawal wound up in Newton's arms as he toppled to the mat, where the referee immediately stopped the bout.
"It's just a part of my arsenal," Newton said. "I throw the spinning backfist from an awkward position, like a retreating move."
Critics say Lawal wasn't defending himself properly throughout the bout and exposed himself to counters by keeping his hands low. Newton said the boxing-influenced style works for the ex-Strikeforce champ, but it was a bad fit for his taekwondo-inflected moves.
"The (Floyd) Mayweather style, I think that he's long, so I feel that it really works for him," he said. "But when we would exchange and he backed up, his hands were down. And I was even thinking, 'Man, I'm either going to throw a spinning backfist or a spinning hook kick, and it's going to land.' It just happened that the spinning backfist came first.
"I just think everyone that has been following Mo said, 'You're going to destroy this guy.' But I think once we got in there and we started mixing it up, I saw him start to get a little hesitant to really come in and throw everything at me."
Newton anticipates a return to the cage in early April, where he'll meet fellow Season 8 finalist Mikhail Zayats.
Newton, 29, said a new striking coach has changed his approach to the game and made him a more dangerous fighter. At the same time, he believes he still has much to learn.
"In my eyes, I'm still a white belt," he said.
For the latest on Bellator 90, including the night's official results, stay tuned to the MMA Events section of the site.
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Add an effect to avatar items, simulair to the potions we have. I catagorize the effects in 3 base stats:
- Intelligence (adds 1~3% to Exp.Points)
- Strength (adds 1~3% more FightMoney)
- Luck (adds 1~3% chance at a TreasureBattle)
So you can dress up your avatar to gain more TB's/Exp/FM for a battle. Ofcourse these bonus stats may not apply to every avatar item in the shop. It can be reserved for the Gran purchased, achievement and event items.
The clover accesory for instance could add +3% luck.
A few underwhelming Characters can be 'level upped' by playing them. After an x-amount of battles they get a Skill/Trait unlocked.
It has to remain small and nothing gamebreaking. It will give a sense of progress and incentive to use these cards.
A Mizalio getting +1RNG Rankup, Renally might turn her Auto into a Start... that sort of stuff.
Yes, loot. The chance of a PointCard, Special Avatar Pet/Assistant/Item, "FM bag", Potion, "Marketplace Ticket", TheaterSlot, etc. dropping after you've defeated an opponent. After the battle you can have a small animation (or image) of a treasure opening and the loot it contained inside.
Add a few NPC's in the arena's like Batora. Think of a BKR NPC popping up, shouting about not wondering off into his forest. Background is a deep forest and the battle ensues.
Hopefully there's still Character dialogues between eachother. The A:H demo shows us some different dialogues in story mode aswell. It could be fun if some characters get their own moments. Like when Silver Sun Verlaat gets to revive a friendly unit for instance.
If you have your own ideas how to add more RPG elements into the game, please share them! Can you come up with more Loot or Avatar effects (like adding a % ontop of your weekly gran?) or you disagree with some ideas, let me know!~


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ESC 562: Teaching Language Arts in Languages Other than English.
3 hours, 3 credits. Limited to master's-level students seeking Initial Certification. Methods, materials, and assessment for developing literacy through language arts and literature in a language other than English at the middle and high school levels. Curriculum development; use of relevant technology and software; current standards; instructional strategies; inclusion of students from diverse language backgrounds and students with disabilities. Includes field experience. PREREQ: ESC 501 or the equivalent course in psychological foundations of education; a 3.0 cumulative Grade Point Average; Departmental permission; and passing score on the New York State LAST examination. PRE- or COREQ: ESC 524.
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PROMISING? Aldar bonds may still offer value after yield plunge
Aldar, which has developed flagship projects for Abu Dhabi such as the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit and the world's first Ferrari theme park, has been hit hard by the property crash in the United Arab Emirates. The yield on 2014 bond is at record low after fresh government aid with some referring to the company as "Mubadala without a rating"January 6, 2012 8:43


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Date - May 17 & 18, 2013 Friday Night Kick-off 5:00 ŌĆō 9pm
Place - Kern County Fairgrounds 1142 So. P Street Bakersfield, CA 93307
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Paying through 10th place!
As you may already know, the 5th Annual Bakersfield's Biggest Baddest BBQ Championship, has once again been selected to be an automatic qualifying event to the 2013 World Food Championships! They are looking forward to the second year of inviting hundreds of competitors out to the entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas, to compete for fame and a piece of the $300,000 prize purse!
We will also do our Kid's Que again this year. So bring the future of BBQ to try their luck!
$10,500 in Cash plus Awards
KCBS 4 meat competition (Chicken, Ribs, Pork, Brisket)
CBBQA ToY (Team of the Year)
Tri tip competition Friday afternoon - $500 winner take all!
Cook team and judges potluck Friday night at 6pm with live entertainment
Manditory Team meeting at 7:00pm
$500 award for the best decorated team site
BBQ Tasting on Saturday for the public from 1 - 4pm (or whenever you would like to start - 50/50 split)
Live entertainment: Mento Buru (Friday Night)
Live entertainment: Foster Campbell and Friends as well as Mystic Red (Saturday)
KidŌĆÖs Zone (Saturday)
VendorŌĆÖs (Friday and Saturday)
Much more to be announced
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Howdy from BŌĆÖTown, Are you ready for some great competition? We are!!! We are looking forward to the 5th year with the best competition teams in the nation.
Location: Kern County Fair Grounds, 1142 S P Street, Bakersfield, CA 93307
Entrance: Belle Terrace Gate ŌĆō approximately 500 feet East of the corner of P Street and Belle Terrace (look for the BBQ flag) at the Northwest corner of the Fair Grounds
Time: Friday after 8:00 am
Exception: 1st 12 teams ŌĆō come in on Thursday night at 5:00 pm ŌĆō requirement (we will have live TV coverage) that you must be cooking something by 5:00 am Friday morning (ouch) PLEASE CONFIRM BY EMAIL
Space: all spaces are 20 x 40 and first come, first to be placed
Exception: teams that have requested 50 amp power
You will receive a welcome bag upon arrival with instructions for the weekend, including 5 wrist bands (must have to re-enter starting Saturday morning) and extras will be $10, a green flag to put out for meat inspection
Please make sure to follow KCBS rules for your site (i.e. meat, ash dump, wash station, fire extinguisher, etc.)
KCBS will bring the 9x9 boxes around to your sites on Friday
Extra parking for both RVŌĆÖs and autos will be in the East parking lot
Tri tip: for the teams that entered the $500 winner take all; we will provide the tri tip to prepare; turn in at 5:00 pm judges tent; we will provide the 9x9 box (use KCBS rules)
Pot luck dinner: 6:00 pm at the judges tent
Mandatory Team meeting: 7:00 pm at the judges tent
Saturday turn in times:
12:00 pm ŌĆō chicken
12:30 pm ŌĆō ribs
1:00 pm ŌĆō pork
1:30 pm Brisket
Best team site will be judged after last turn in
4:00 pm awards
All sites will have 20 amp power (unless you requested 50 amp)
We will have ice available ŌĆō $5
Water available along East fence
Ash dump will be by the entrance gate ŌĆō marked ŌĆ£ash onlyŌĆØ
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Claude answers the payphone in Trenton and finds a man named Marty Chonks on the line. He tells Claude that he needs some help. He tells Claude that his bank manager has been lying to him and taking an extra cut of Marty's profits. Marty wants Claude to take one of the factory's cars and pick him up. Then he wants him to bring him back to the factory to "talk" with him.
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The drama reached fever-pitch in round 12 of the London Candidates Tournament today, as the event neared its final stages. It was a fantastic round where the result of the two crucial games was unclear until the very end.
After yesterday's 11th round Vladimir Kramnik claimed he would be happy to draw his vital game with Lev Aronian today with the black pieces. Yet when he played the bold anti-positional 10...f5 it was clear that he was targeting more than half a point!
Aronian found himself under great pressure and Kramnik grabbed a winning advantage with the beautiful 25...Be4. It seemed to be all over, but somehow Kramnik allowed Aronian back into the game and at the first time control computer analysis had it dead level. However, the position wasn't so easy for tired carbon based life-forms near the end of a tournament after hours of hard-fought play. Aronian was unable to distract Kramnik's bishop with his extra pawns and Kramnik won the game!
Vladimir Kramnik won an amazing game against Aronian
Lev Aronian was outplayed by Kramnik and missed his drawing chance
The other crucial game was Magnus Carlsen's encounter with the unpredictable Vassily Ivanchuk. This time Chucky played a mainline defense, the Sicilian Taimanov, and when Carlsen spent fully 20 minutes thinking about his 13th move Bd4, it was clear something had already gone badly wrong for the tournament leader.
Carlsen has a great record against Ivanchuk and had already managed to save some difficult positions in the tournament, but this time it was too much to ask. Ivanchuk brought home the full point after 7 gruelling hours for a shock win which gives the tournament lead to Kramnik. "I think I played absolutely disgracefully from move one" said an obviously gutted Carlsen at the press conference.
Magnus Carlsen...where did it all go wrong?
The game between Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler was the first to finish, and after a balanced struggle a draw was agreed once the first time control was reached.
Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler drew their game
The game between Teimour Radjabov and Alexander Grischuk was another long struggle. Radjabov held an endgame advantage but was unable to convert a rook plus f and h pawn against rook ending, and the game ended in a draw.
Teimour Radjabov and Alexander Grischuk
Tomorrow is a rest day, so the penultimate round is on Sunday, and the final round Monday. The UK also moves onto BST (British Summer Time), so games will start at 13:00 GMT (14:00 BST).
The standings after 12 rounds
The 2013 Candidates Tournament runs from 14 March - 2 April in London, with the winner earning the right to challenge current world champion Vishy Anand for the title.
The tournament is an 8-player double round-robin event and the venue is The IET at 2 Savoy Place on the banks of the river Thames. The total prize fund is €510,000 (approx 665,000 USD).
All rounds start at 14:00 GMT, and the time control is 2 hours for 40 moves, then an extra hour added for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes more with a 30 second increment to finish.
The official FIDE website coverage is at london2013.fide.com.
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When a survey was made I remember I have chosen Krammik instead of Carlsen. It is because Carlsen is not yet ripe for such tuornament where pressure is so great. But then give Magnus time to mature and I THINK he can give Anand a run for his money
With both Kramnik and Carlsen having 8 1/2 with one round to go the tournament winner will be one of them. What happens if they both win tommorrow? Will there be rapid playoffs at a later date?
"Resurrection" of Carlsen on Easter Sunday!
Great win by Vladimir Kramnik against Levon Aronian.
i think that every one played great . but i want to see kramnik in WC.
Best competition to Anand
Absence of increments is very bad, I haven't seen any serious tournament without one, and this is the candidates. Organisers did a big mistake.
Ivanchuk loses on time again. He is the biggest joke of this tourney. He is setting up the stage for losing to Kramnik in the last round. Svidler is my new idol.
chucky you are the best!
Everybody route for Carlsen, i also route for Carlsen. This tournament shows Carlsen weakness.
1. Carlsen unable to withstand pressure.
2. We saw how Ivanchuk plays when he is not in pressure.(Ivanchuck knows he doesn't have any chance for winning this)
3. There is no chance for him to win a player like Kramnik.(Since Kramnik is so strong for him). The same applies to Kramnik against Carlsen.
4. Carlsen unable to play a lengthy tournament. He needs more experience.
Now my question is how Carlsen win against a player like Anand who have enomorous match experience. Anand can play any kind of positions.
Only with middlegame and Ending expertise he cannot win a player like Anand. Anand knows how to put Psychology pressure, tactical pressure, Opening choice pressure. Which he already shows in previous WC. For Carlsen winning Anand in Rapid or Blitz virtually shut down.
As per me Carlsen needs more experience and maturity to handle a WC pressure.
There is no doubt that Carlsen will be invicible in future if he handles this this things.
Now i admire about Kasparov which he plays a WC match against a legend like Karpov when he his only 22 and become a WC. For me Kasparov is the true legend of Chess.
People can talk about Bobby Fischer, We all know he doesnt defend his title against a young attacking Karpov so we can't say whether he successfully defend his title or not against Karpov. There is no doubt about him he is a great innovator.
WC history shows not even a single attacking player defend WC successfully.
Example: Tal, BobbyFischer, Topalov.
It is not over so GO MAGNUS
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will be the best for Anand!Go
I think playing in 7 World Championship matches, as Botvinnik did, is a much greater achievement than winning the title and then losing the first title defense.
@deank nice graph, but does those graphs considered the players ratings and their next opponents?
Besides very obviuos chess ignorance, yuo've just showed that you're very ignorant of other things, too.
The Patriarch is a religous title in the Christian Orthodox Church (like The Pope in the Catholic Church) and it has nothing to do with comunists (who, btw, tried to diminish the role of religion and church in those societies).
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Results yesterday make for an interesting final two rounds.
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It`s not over yet. Go, Magnus, go!
Everybody is writing about Carlsen and Kramnik...I don't know if you guys are paying attention, but IVANCHUK WON the game vs Carlsen! Great play by IVANCHUK, congratulations Mr. IVANCHUK!
There's no conspiracy. Obviously, Carlsen is just the LeBron James of chess.
Everybody loves Carlsen, but they'll turn on him after this choke job. They'll say he didn't have what it takes, call him a coward, criticize his character, and find every and any reason to disparage him.
He'll be humbled by this experience, regroup, and completely and utterly dominate the world for the next 20+ years, culminating in a 3000 elo rating and an unprecendentedly long reign as world champion.
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Ha! Isn't that backwards? Especially compared to us now, where every child and adolescent, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, receives conprehensive, compassionate, age-appropriate, inclusive and medically accurate sex education both at home and at school.
Juuuuust kidding!! That doesn't happen for most kids. In fact, I'm not totally convinced that the majority of people these days have a much more open-minded understanding of their sexuality than what's outlined in this old-fashioned book. You wouldn't have to look around online for very long, for instance, to find an advice column telling a woman that she should be endeavoring to orgasm at the same time as her partner in order to have a satisfying sex life.
In other words, this book is making the rounds on the internet for being so woefully and hilariously out of date, but my not-so-funny point is that there are still plenty of kids (and adults!) who are terrified and ashamed of their sexuality, and operating under totally incorrect — and sometimes dangerous — myths, like, for instance, that drinking bleach will prevent HIV. So, you know, look at these pages, I guess, and have a good laugh, but let's not get too cocky.


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Oil and water just don't mix
Oil and water just don't mix; opinions on deepwater exploration are just as polar. This unit provides teachers with resources to teach about oil in the marine environment and to bring these issues to the surface.
Lesson 1: Students will use technology to research current affairs on environmental issues pertaining to oil spills. Students will gain a background understanding of the impact of the Deep Water Horizon spill. Students will make judgments about the efficacy of cleanup response.Students will compare and contrast the efficacy of response to various oil spills.Students will discuss the importance of oil to our society. Students will investigate the chemical properties of oil.
Lesson 2:Students will gain an understanding of the environmental impacts of oil to an aquatic community. Students will investigate clean-up methods for oil, highlighting the distinctions between open ocean, deep sea and coastal spills.
Lesson 3:Students will discuss the various methods of cleaning oil. Students will debate the true cost of oil; economically, socially, and environmentally.
Course Level: International Baccalaureate Environmental Systems and Societies (IB ESS) or equavalent upper level Ecology course.
- Students should have prior knowledge of systems, ecosystems, and energy resources.
- Classroom modifications included for 9th Honors Biology Courses
Unit Length: 1 week
Block Scheduling: 3 (each block is written for a 90 min period)
Total Teaching Hours: 4.5
Block 1:
Assignment 2 oil spill cleanup lab
Block 2:
Environmental impact of oil PowerPoint
Block 3:
Debate Rubric - Suggested Grade Conversion
Suggested readings for debate - by interest group
Introduction: (At least two days prior to beginning unit)
Student Objectives: Students will use technology to research current affairs on environmental issues pertaining to oil spills. Students will gain a background understanding of the impact of the Deep Water Horizon spill. Students will make judgments about the efficacy of cleanup response.
· Photocopies of Assignment 1 – Oil Article Introduction
· Some examples of oil cleanup supplies (ie. kitty litter, detergent, etc)
Homework assignment
1. Prior to beginning unit assign weekend research: "Assignment 1 – Oil Article Introduction"
a. Students are to find two articles either online or in newsprint. One should be current, pertaining to the economic and environmental impact of the Deep Water Horizon spill. Encourage students to find an article within 1-2 months of the assignment date to ensure up to date information. Articles from Spring or Summer of 2010 would be too close to the actual spill to have sufficient data. Students should be looking for longer term effects.
b. The second article should be a similar article about a different spill. Encourage students to look for spills other than the Exxon Valdez as most have already studied this. Some others may include the Kuwaiti oil fires, Ixtoc I, or may include an oil topic such as tanker discharge. Students are to write 150-200 words summarizing each article and 150-200 words comparing/analyzing the two spills (total 450-600 words). See attached handout for details and rubric.
Note: This can be modified for a Freshman Pre-IB/Honors level biology class by reducing the required word count from 150-200 to "at least 100" for each article and for the conclusion (total 300 words, about 1 page single spaced). Also, if time appropriate, Pre-IB/Honors level classes should be allotted some research time in class to allow for students who do not have a home computer and cannot drive themselves to a library.
2. Also, students will do an oil clean-up lab. They will be able to investigate and clean their own aquatic oil spills. Tell them to bring in any supplies they think they may like to try as a scoop, filter, dispersant, etc. Show some examples (ie. cat litter).
Block 1:
Essential Question: What are some unique properties of oil?
Student Objectives: Students will compare and contrast the efficacy of response to various oil spills. Students will discuss the importance of oil to our society. Students will investigate the chemical properties of oil.
· Importance of Oil PPT and corresponding videos
· Photocopy "Oil Clean-up" Lab handout and Wrap-Up questions
· Supplies for "Oil Clean-up" Lab. See attached sheet for recommendations. May be modified by teacher or students for availability of supplies.
Warm-up – Think, pair, share (10-12 min)
1. As students enter the room, they should trade writing assignments with a neighbor. Encourage students to edit and mark on one another's writing assignments (in a different color ink). Have students write their name on the bottom of their neighbors' assignment so you know who worked with whom. (3-5 min)
a. Note: In a freshmen level class, some students may not have the assignment. Distribute these students with pairs that have completed the assignment. This will ensure that all students are engaged.
2. After the allotted time, have students discuss their articles with one another. They should compare notes, explain any issues or notation made, and come up with a brief (30 sec) presentation to make to the class highlighting their collective 4 articles. (3 min)
3. Have each group elect one student to present to the class. Whip around or randomly draw names to have each group present their articles. (3-5 min)
Importance of oil – PowerPoint and Videos (25-30 min)
Note: This PowerPoint may be used to Pre-IB/Honors level students. However, the curriculum design is not part of the standard biology course. Some pre-class discussion about energy resources will be necessary. Also, some terms may need defining for younger students. Discussion sections worked in may take more coaching for students with less background knowledge of environmental science. Also, allow for more time for discussion and copying of notes. The recommended time is for an IB level class.
1. Use "Introduction to oil" PowerPoint. Slides discuss what oil is and where we get it from.
2. Slides 3 and 4 contain embedded films from Discovery Education. Click on image to begin movie clip. The first two clips are approximately 1 minute in length each. The third clip is approximately 2.5 minutes in length. If embedded movies do not play upon click, they can be found in the "Block 1" folder. They have been renamed as the appropriate slide number in order to correspond with the PowerPoint.
a. After showing each film, discuss the point of view of the film. It is important for students to understand that many people view oil in a different manner. Ask students to suggest their own views.
b. An IB level student should have an understanding of the necessity of oil to a modern, developed economy. This may be a good time to reiterate some of the differences between most economically developed nations and least economically developed nations. Students should have a basic understanding of some of the differences between non-renewable, renewable, and replenishable resources.
3. Slide 5 provides statistics about oil from the IB Course Companion.
4. Slide 6 continues to describe what peak oil means.
a. Students should be made aware that this is a highly controversial topic. Leonardo Maugeri writes in his 2004 article in Science Magazine that peak oil is a "cry wolf" type of situation. He poses that this is not the first time in history that people have claimed oil was running out. He claims that "oil substitution is a matter of cost and public needs, not of scarcity" (Maugeri). This is rebutted by several scientists, but it is important that students understand the nature of this debate.
b. Slide 7 shows Hubbert's curve from 1956. Though some oil has been found. Discuss the importance of oil and what it would mean to run out.
i. Have students discuss the importance of oils for gas, plastics, etc.
ii. Have students think about different fields (ie. the medical field) and how important plastics are to our nation and world economies.
c. Slide 8 poses two questions: "Can we rely on oil?" and "What are some other effects caused by oil?" Have students propose ideas and write them on the board. Keep this ideas for the next block when students will discuss the environmental impact of oil.
5. Slide 9 begins a brief background of oil exploration. This focuses on offshore, to lead up to discussion of Deep Water Horizon later in the Unit.
a. As this is to be taught as an extension unit, it is assumed that some topics of energy production have already been discussed. This included the issues with digging up the seafloor, as discussed in the food resources unit (trawling), and the renewable energy unit (off shore wind farms).
6. Finally, discuss the properties of oil. IB students have background knowledge of hydrophobic vs. hydrophilic compounds as well as an understanding of polarity.
7. Slide 13 introduces oil spills
8. Show video on slide14 to introduce oil discovery lab.
Properties of oil – discovery lab (45-50 min including setup and clean up)
1. Place supplies in common area.
2. Have students read the assigned task and develop ideas for cleaning the spill (students should work alone or in groups at teacher's discretion). It may be appropriate to have students write a full procedure prior to beginning. This way limited supplies can be conserved.
3. Students should measure total oil on top of the water using a beaker or graduated cylinder prior to beginning. After cleanup method is applied, measure the amount of oil leftover and calculate percent change. Award a prize for best cleanup method.
4. Have students clean up supplies and wipe tables.
Ticket out the door – To be turned in as leaving the room (3 min)
1. Clean up lab station
2. Write on a sheet of paper or post-it:
a. Did your cleanup work?
b. Would it work in open ocean?
c. Is it economically feasible on a grand scale?
· Discovery Lab Wrap-Up Questions (if not completed in class)
· Quiz next class on properties of oil and reading
o Reading – Raven and Berg: p. 165 (Cost-Benefit Analysis of Risks), p.238-246 (Oil and Natural Gas).
o Reading – Rutherford IB Course Companion: p. 199-201 (Energy Resources)
Block 2:
Essential Question: How does oil impact aquatic communities?
Student Objectives: Assess understanding of properties of oil. Students will gain an understanding of the environmental impacts of oil to an aquatic community. Students will investigate clean-up methods for oil, highlighting the distinctions between open ocean, deep sea and coastal spills.
Quiz (one per student)
Laptops for research
Rubric for Cleanup Technique presentations (one per student)
Reading Packets for debate
Warm-Up – (20-30 min)
1. Collect Lab Wrap-Up questions.
2. Take any questions from the reading.
3. Quiz (open note) – The purpose of this quiz is to motivate students to complete the assigned reading. The questions assess a superficial understanding of the topic. This is not designed to assess student comprehension of oil topics, but simply as a means to gauge which students have completed the assigned readings.
Environmental impact of oil (30 min)
1. Use the "Environmental impact of oil" PowerPoint.
2. Slides 2 and 3 are a brief overview of how wildlife is affected. Slide three includes a link to a youtube video of scientists cleaning oil off the feathers of a brown pelican.
3. Slide 4 introduces the composition of oil.
4. Slides 5 -7 discuss the structure and toxicity of Benzene.
a. Slide 5 shows a benzene ring. IB students have taken chemistry and had an introduction to biochemistry. Explain the carbon ring structure.
b. Slide 6 explains how benzene can interact with cells on a molecular level. Students should know the structure of the cell membrane from previous biology courses. Remind students that the phospholipids have both a polar and a non-polar region. Benzene is non-polar and can interfere with the non-polar tails of the phospholipids. This can dissolve cell membranes, destroying the cell.
c. Slide 7 touches on acute and chronic effects of benzene exposure. Most of this data is in reference to human exposure, but it is applicable to marine organisms as well.
5. Slides 8-9 introduce the idea that organisms can be affected even if they are not directly exposed to the oil. As a persistent organic pollutant, oil can bioaccumulate in fat tissues and magnify in the food chain. Explain how indirect exposure can be just as harmful as direct exposure. It is this indirect, persistence of the oil that may have longer, chronic effects on the ecosystems near oil spills.
6. Slide 10 asks the students to think about how oil gets into the environment. Have students discuss with a neighbor. Most will say oil spill and runoff. Other sources that should be mentioned may include: leaks from boats, intentional discharge of ballast, natural deep sea wells. Then discuss why it is so difficult to clean up a marine spill. Each spill is different. Location, currents, sea conditions, weather conditions, depth, type of shoreline, type of oil, etc. all play a role in the cleanup and containment methods. These difficulties link well into the the students' research presentations to be done at the end of class. Discuss how oil may be submerged, dispersed, or in a "slick" on the surface. If the wind whips up surface oil, it may for a thick mousse. All of these varying conditions make the effects of a spill difficult to predict.
7. After a discussion of confounding factors for a large scale spill, discuss Deepwater Horizon. Slides 11 and 12 introduce the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Clicking on the title "Deepwater Horizon" on slide 11 will redirect to youtube. Footage is of the Deepwater Horizon fire. The next slides continue with the issues of containment and cleanup. Explain that depth made it difficult to calculate actual flow rate of the leaking valve, but the numbers continued to change and estimates increased as time went on.
8. Slide 13 discusses some of the response attempts to the spill.
9. Slide 14 includes calculations to put the total spill into perspective for students.
10. Slide 15 has some of the cleanup methods. These should be discussed briefly, but ultimately students will each research and present a different cleanup method. The last bullet includes a link to an entertaining video about a broken tanker off the coast of Austrailia. Click on the purple link to connect to youtube video. After viewing film discuss the figure of the response to Deepwater Horizon.
11. Slide 16 introduces the research project.
Research Cleanup Techniques for presentation next class (30-40 min)
1. Students may work individually or in groups of two depending on how many students are in the class.
2. Students should each pick a different cleanup technique including, but not limited to:
a. Skimmers
b. Pumps
c. Sorbents
d. Dispersants
e. Containment Booms
f. Burning
g. Bacteria
h. The Kevin Costner separator
3. Each group should use a computer to research their technique. Each group is responsible for a 3-7 minute presentation on their cleanup technique (depending on number of groups and allotted time for presentations). See attached rubric for ideas on presentation. Groups should discuss the advantages and disadvantages to the technique as well as any relevant case studies when their technique was actually employed.
a. If multiple groups want the same topic, a "white elephant exchange" may be a good method for distributing topics:
i. Have one group randomly pick a cleanup technique out of a hat.
ii. The second group may either steal that technique or pick a new topic at random.
iii. The third may steal the first or second topic or may select a new one at random. Continue until all groups have a topic.
iv. After all groups have drawn a topic, allow the first group a second drawing, if they are unhappy with whichever technique they end up. The point is that all students end up with a topic that they are interested in, but each group has a different topic so that there are no repeat presentations.
4. Presentations should be mostly completed in class. Students will present during Block 3 so final adjustments can be made for homework.
Ticket out the door:
In preparation for tomorrow's debate, each student should choose if they want to be a scientist, government official, local fisherman, or an oil company representative. It would be best if there were equal numbers of each interest group. Students are to pick up the appropriate packet and begin reading for next class.
· Finish Presentations (if not done in class)
· Read packet for debate
· Prepare for take home exam
Block 3:
Essential Question: What is the true cost of oil? How does it affect different interest groups?
Student Objectives: Students will discuss the various methods of cleaning oil. Students will debate the true cost of oil; economically, socially, and environmentally.
Laptops (at least 4)
Rubric for Cleanup Technique presentations (one per group)
Rubric for Oil Spill Debate
Take home exam (one per student)
Warm-Up – Final touches to presentations (5 min)
Allow students time to prepare their presentations with groups. If resources allow, it may be beneficial to allow each group to load their presentation on a laptop. This way, students can be ready to present when called upon.
Presentations (30-45 min depending on class size)
1. Each group presents cleanup methods in allotted time.
2. Use attached presentation rubric to grade each. Each rubric sheet has two rubrics based on a score out of 25 total points. This may be modified to fit each school's grading policies. It may be appropriate to multiply total awarded points by four to assign a score out of 100%.
3. Have the rest of class take notes. Each student is responsible for understanding cleanup methods.
Case Study reading/debate (app 45 min, can stretch if necessary)
Use attached rubric to grade students. Students are assessed on Knowledge and Understanding of concepts as well as on the Presentation on ideas and integration of supporting examples. Each criterion is assigned a score of 1-5 based on the IB Programme assessment format for humanities. It is suggested that the grade given for the Knowledge component be multiplied by two in order to get a total score out of a maximum of 15 points. When converting to a score out of 100%, it may be inappropriate to assign students a simple percent grade out of the total 15 points. For example, a score of 14/15 shows a higher level of understanding than a 93%. A suggested grade conversion has been provided along with the rubric so that students are awarded more appropriate percentage points based on a 100% grading scale.
1. Tell students that there has been a moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf. There has also been severe limits place on all commercial fishing until further investigation is done as to the effect of the spill on the environment.
2. Have all scientists, oil representatives, local fishermen, and government officials break into interest groups to discuss how the moratorium and catch limits affect them. They may use the packets supplied, text books or laptops. (5-10 min to discuss positions)
a. Note: Remind students to think about their role and decide whether they are for or against the restrictions.
b. Things to think about: How does the moratorium affect the economy? Should it be repealed? Should it be amended? How? What would be in the best interest of each group? For example, the fishermen want clean, healthy fish stocks, but reducing catches reduces individual income. Students should discuss how oil affects each interest group socially, economically, politically, and environmentally.
3. Each group should then decide on a proposal with justification. This should be more in depth than just to repeal the moratorium, they should come up with a relevant suggestion that they think will help their interest group and be ready to defend their position to the other groups. (10-15 min)
4. Have each group present their proposal and write them on the board for discussion. (5 min)
5. Now rearrange groups. Put one scientist, one oil representative, one government official, and one local in each group. Have them discuss each position and make relevant amendments/changes to the proposals. (10 min)
6. Present amendments and have the class vote on each. (10 min)
Post unit – Take home exam:
· Students should complete the take home examination. As the oil unit itself is not long enough to justify a full length examination, included is an example of how oil can be worked into a broader unit on resource management.
· This question and provided mark scheme are both modified from the 2003 IB Environmental Systems Paper 2 examination.
o NOTE: It is assumed that students have already studied systems, ecocentricity vs. technocentricity, and most economically developed vs. least economically developed nations.
o This exam is not appropriate for Pre-IB/Honors level classes.
· Students should be allowed several days to complete a thorough analysis of all questions.
Maugeri, L. Never Cry Wolf: Why the Petroleum Age Is Far from Over. Science (21 May 2004). Vol. 304,No. 5674, pp. 1114-1115
Patton, JS, MW Rigler, PD Boehm, DL Fiest. Ixtoc 1 oil spill: flaking of surface mousse in the Gulf of Mexico. Nature (19 Mar 1981). Vol. 290 pp235-238.
Rutherford, J. Environmental Systems and Societies Course Companion. (2009). IB Diplomma Programme. Oxford University Press.
Raven, PH and LR Berg. Environment: 5th Edition. (2006). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 0-471-70438-5
Note: Other sources are attached to individual documents. Each PowerPoint and word document are cited internally for said document.
Take-home Exam and MARK SCHEME
Oil and water don't mix. Teaching oil and student understanding of environmental impact do mix.


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Claude Monet (1840 – 1925), a founder of Impressionism, was one of the most influential landscape painters in the history of art. Rejecting the traditional approach to depicting the natural world, the French painter's lifelong goal was to portray variations in light and color caused by changes of time, atmosphere and season. His ethereal "Artist's Garden at Giverny, 1900," was his masterful representation of the garden he created at his Giverny home specifically for the purpose of capturing its beauty in his paintings.
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Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), the founder of Impressionism, was one of the most influential landscape painters in the history of art. Born in Paris, Monet was enrolled in the studio of Glenyre, where he met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, who became the core of the Impressionist group. Painting outdoors, he broke the tradition of portraying a subject literally by conveying the fleeting effects of atmosphere, time of day, and season upon color and light. Eliminating black and gray from his palette, he represented natural color like a prism, breaking it down into its individual components, often painting a series of the exact same view under different light and weather conditions. Monet brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression, ultimately becoming a forerunner of 20th century modernism.
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