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Rating The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp Collaborations
by Matt Sills
This weekend's release of "Dark Shadows" marks the eighth collaboration between director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. I've decided to take a look at their previous seven films together, and count them down from the worst to the best:
7. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY – It seemed like a match made in heaven: Tim Burton and this warped twisted tale of 4 horrible children, one gracious and deserving boy, a house of horrors candy factory and the mad man that runs it. Casting Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka just added the cherry on top of what should have been a Burton masterpiece. Oh how wrong it went. This is Burton at his laziest, with dull production design, usually a highlight of Burton films, and horrible music that seems to be left over from other, better films. He does very little to separate himself from the original film, even having the Oompa Loompas sing after each child is dispatched. The additions he did make to the story don't add anything at all, as Wonka's back story can't do anything to make me more sympathetic to the character, especially when Depp's performance is as creepy as it is. Depp's Wonka is a shut in who alternates between the bi-polar personality of a snarky teenager and a pedophile. It was a rare misstep from an actor who usually makes the right choice, even if it's a weird one. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is not only the worst movie on this list, but Burton's worst film, and yes, I'm saying it's worse than his remake of "Planet of the Apes".
6. ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Another film that should have been right up Burton's alley, but one that is botched up by an over reliance on visuals and not enough on story. Here, the ripping off of his own visual style is even more blatant. Look at that twisted tree Alice falls into the hole below. It looks exactly like the tree from Sleepy Hollow. Stayne's outfit looks like it was stolen from Edward Scissorhands. While some of this film is pretty stunning to look at, it's a lot of been there/done that, so really, you need a story that's going to carry you through, and "Alice" just isn't that story. Again, Burton and the writers try to add something to make the movie their own. Here, it's Alice's journey not only through Wonderland, but from a girl to a woman who can slay the Jabberwocky and stand up for herself. If that story had been carried throughout the entire film, it might have worked better, but Burton can't figure out how to mix this coherent story with Lewis Carroll's surreal original. Depp, for his part, does an excellent job as the Mad Hatter, bringing heart and humor to a movie that sorely lacks it when he's not onscreen. It was tough picking between this and "Charlie" for their worse collaboration, but this gets the edge for not leaving me with a scuzzy feeling when I was done watching it.
5. CORPSE BRIDE – Burton had done animation before, as the creator of "The Nightmare Before Christmas", but this was his first time directing an animated film. It's a bit of a trifle, coming in at only 75 minutes or so, yet still feeling a bit padded. There's also an over reliance on Danny Elfman's songs and score, which are starting to blend into each other from film to film. Overall, this story of a man who accidentally marries a dead woman is just OK. The animation, however, is absolutely gorgeous, and makes it worth the time you'll spend watching the movie. Depp provides the voice of the groom, Victor Van Dort, and does a fine job. It's a pretty insignificant film in Burton and Depp's respective catalogs, but at least it's a mildly diverting one.
4. SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET – Burton takes on the classic Stephen Sondheim musical, and does a surprisingly excellent, and faithful, job of bringing it to the screen. Later era Burton has a tendency of being a lot of flash and style with very little story (see the bottom two films on this list). With "Sweeney Todd", Burton leaves the story intact. He doesn't try to add anything, but uses his talents as a director well versed in horror and the macabre to bring this bloody story to life. It's proof that he's a much better director and designer than storyteller. This all could have gone horribly wrong with the casting Johnny Depp as Todd. Who knew if Depp could actually sing these songs? But he can. He's not the greatest singer in the world, but he sings like he acts: he inhabits the character and makes Todd's singing voice an extension of the pain and madness the demon barber feels. It was a surprisingly powerful performance that garnered Depp an Oscar nomination.
3. SLEEPY HOLLOW – My vote for the most underrated Tim Burton movie, "Sleepy Hollow" is what happens when Burton goes for horror, and he succeeds brilliantly. This is his homage to the Hammer horror films, and while there are comedic elements, this one is pretty much played straight. While it has a lot of Burton's design elements, the design is less about making it stand out in the audience's mind than letting the design work for the overall story. Burton is also blessed with one of Depp's best performances as Ichabod Crane, the New York police constable sent to the small Hudson River town to investigate some mysterious murders. Crane is having his beliefs tested, learning that these murders are being committed by supernatural forces. Depp is incredibly adept taking Crane from someone who believes that science can explain everything to someone who believes the impossible is possible. He plays the horror just as well as he plays the little comedic moments. It's a shame more people didn't take to this film when it was initially released. Luckily, it's found a second life on DVD, and deservedly so.
2. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS – If there is something you can call the quintessential Tim Burton movie, this is it. Its genesis came from Burton himself, and the alienation he felt growing up in an LA suburb. He co-wrote the story, and had complete creative control of the production. The film mixes all of Burton's influences, whether they be Gothic horror he watched as a child or the banality of living in a planned community. This personal feeling also leads to a soul that is missing from many of Burton's films. There is more emotion in this film, whether it be the humor or the overwhelming sadness that permeates most of the movie, than in Burton's entire catalog. But it's not just Burton who is at the top of his game. Depp's Edward says very little, but he doesn't have to. His face says everything, portraying Edward's love of Kim, or his sadness at the death of The Inventor, without ever having to say a word. It's a beautiful, sad modern fairy tale that many have tried to duplicate, but have failed at.
1. ED WOOD – This may be the least "Tim Burton" film on the list, yet its by far the best. The film is a love letter to the cult director, known for his horrible yet beloved "Glen or Glenda" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space", whose influence on Burton is apparent. Let's face it, "Mars Attacks!" was a Wood movie with a much bigger budget. This is stripped down Tim Burton. No flash, no "hey, look at this!" design. He relies on a great script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and the wonderful performances he gets from his actors. While Martin Landau's Oscar winning role as Bela Lugosi gets most of the attention, its Depp who really anchors the film. His performance here is the exact opposite of his portrayal of Willy Wonka. You should want to spend time with Wonka at his factory, but he's alternately mean and freaky. His Ed Wood on the other hand, could have been a strange, untalented man with bizarre fetish issues. Instead, he makes him a man with a dream who just happens to be a little different, and as an audience, we hope he actually succeeds at making the movies he wants to make, even though we know he won't. It's a wonderful little film, and not only the best on the list, but one of my favorites of all time.


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - In a microcosm of their season, the Washington Huskies overcame a slow start with a sizzling finish.
The 14th-ranked Huskies trailed for 39 minutes to Arizona, but pulled out a 70-67 victory for their eighth straight win.
Washington (24-5, 13-5) wrapped up second place in the Pac-10.
"I am so proud of our guys to win a game like this," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said after his team rallied from a 12-point deficit in the final 14 minutes. "To continue to just chip away, chip away and not lose your composure, that's what you love to see. We are a team. That's the only way you win games like this."
The Huskies appeared to be in trouble when they dropped three straight games in late January and early February. But they woke up after the third defeat, at Washington State Feb. 4, and haven't lost since.
Senior Brandon Roy scored 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Huskies, who won despite 20 points by Arizona's Marcus Williams, a Seattle product. The loss stung the Wildcats (18-11, 11-7), who are trying to extend their string of 21 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, the nation's longest active streak.
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This book contains a collection of original research articles on lexicography written by prominent international scholars within the field. It aims at describing the state-of-the-art in lexicography at the beginning of the 21st century and at making proposals for future theoretical and practical work in the field.
Theoretical lexicography currently has two competing theories: a contemplative theory focusing on the description of existing dictionaries on the basis of linguistic principles, and a function-based, transformative theory focusing on the dictionary and the user in order to develop new principles for dictionary research and dictionary making. Research in lexicography has now reached a crossroads and it is time to take stock of the present situation and try to identify the theories and principles that will set the agenda and point the direction for future lexicographic research and the production of printed and electronic dictionaries.
Contents: Henning Bergenholtz/Sandro Nielsen/Sven Tarp: Introduction – Sven Tarp: Beyond Lexicography: New Visions and Challenges in the Information Age – Yukio Tono: Pocket Electronic Dictionaries in Japan: User Perspectives – Serge Verlinde/Jean Binon: Pedagogical Lexicography Revisited – Gerard Meijssen: The Philosophy behind OmegaWiki and the Visions for the Future – Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera: The Function Theory of Lexicography and Electronic Dictionaries: WIKTIONARY as a Prototype of Collective Free Multiple-Language Internet Dictionary – Joseph Dung: Online Dictionaries in a Web 2.0 Environment – Jón Hilmar Jónsson: Lemmatisation of Multi-word Lexical Units: Motivation and Benefits – Zhang Yihua: A Bilingual Dictionary Generation System Based on the Microstructure of a Lexicographical Database – Philippe Humblé: Dictionaries on the Periphery. The Case of Brazil – Robert Lew: Towards Variable Function-Dependent Sense Ordering in Future Dictionaries – Rufus H. Gouws: Dictionaries as Innovative Tools in a New Perspective on Standardisation – Patrick Leroyer: Lexicography Hits the Road: New Information Tools for Tourists – Raja Saravanan: Structural Format for a Dialect Dictionary Showing Lexical Variation with Special Reference to Microstructure and Macrostructure – Julia Pajzs: On the Possibility of Creating Multifunctional Lexicographical Databases – Birger Andersen/Sandro Nielsen: Ten Key Issues in Lexicography for the Future.
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The Editors: Henning Bergenholtz is Professor of Lexicography at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus in Denmark, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Lexicography and Head of Research Group Lexicography. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 papers and books on general and specialised lexicography, for instance the Manual of Specialised Lexicography and more than 30 printed and electronic dictionaries.
Sandro Nielsen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Lexicography at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications on lexicography. He is the author of The Bilingual LSP Dictionary – Principles and Practice for Legal Language, a printed and an electronic law dictionary, and co-author of six printed and electronic accounting dictionaries, as well as a major contributor to the Manual of Specialised Lexicography.
Sven Tarp is Professor of Lexicography at the Centre for Lexicography at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications on lexicography. He is the author of Lexicography in the borderland between knowledge and non-knowledge: General lexicographical theory with particular focus on learner's lexicography and co-author of several printed dictionaries as well as co-editor of the Manual of Specialised Lexicography.
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Ofelia Acevedo who lost her husband, Oswaldo Paya, six months ago.
January 22 2013
English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
It's rumored that his interrogators, in imitation of King Juan Carlos facing some babbling idiocy from Chavez, have forced him to remain silent and not make a fuss: "Angel, why don't you shut up already?!"
We will see each other on the 12th in the cafe at the Spanish embassy in Havana
Before Carromero and After Carromero
Anything he says will be used against him. His biography itself accuses him: speeder with dozens of fines, entangled in matters of finance, twitterer in favor of the cuts of the Spanish government while dancing drunkenly in Seville.
Angel Carromero, in addition to being a member of a party considered fascist in Cuba (in imitation of Comandante Hugo Chavez), had his 15 minutes of infamy this first Friday of October, when he was condemned in a brief trial (according to the dictates of our Foreign Minister), where no Cuban demands anything at all from this Iberian.
It doesn't stop drizzling in Havana lately. After the flood of more than a hundred thousand hours with Fidel, the Socialist State is mired in its transition to a Chinese-esque capitalism light, where the only thing that won't fit well are the rights of the Cuban people, on the Island as well as in the Exile. And Angel Carromero will be a key piece in this unlikely vaudeville against all and for the evil of all. Although the coquettish prisoner from Spain's People's Party doesn't imagine it on his Cuban Communist scaffold.
Only a foreign "enemy" fully immersed in "subversive activity" within the Island could be a pretext for the violent death of Oswaldo Paya Sardinas. A death announced for years by paramilitaries, even in front of his own family (and foreigners, to openly disseminate the terror of such an exemplary punishment). Well then, promise kept. There are things that the Castro regime doesn't play with. Things about which the Castro regime never lied. Those who lack the revolutionary genes to assimilate this sinister sincerity, we don't want them, we don't need them…
That fateful Sunday of July 22, hours after the impact and the text message in Swedish heatedly typed after the harassment, in a hospital in the provinces and without evidence of urgent intensive care, another pillar of the Christian Liberation Movement also died, Harold Cepero Escalante, who survived the crash conscious but it didn't occur to anyone to take a declaration from him (or to allow his family to see him before he died).
Much less do we know the testimony of the ambulance attendants, forensic doctors, and the security personnel who, within minutes, seized this stretch of highway and the city of Bayamo (who alerted them that the ID card of the dead-on-impact read: Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, putative president of post-Castro Cuba?). Only some half-literate peasants declared with precision on Cuban TV that the death car was traveling at a rate of speed of more than 60 mph: "a tin can…"
That dawn, as Oswaldo Paya Sardinas left home without saying goodbye to his wife Ofelia Acevedo Maura, the apocryphal Twitterer @Yoahandry8787 had already revealed in real time his trip to the interior of the country, misrepresenting that it was an excursion to the beach in Varadero. Indeed, nearly a decade before, in the official book "The Dissidents," we could enjoy some photos violating the privacy of the vacationing Paya-Acevedo family.
There, a teenager of 14 appears to look into an empty future while her father dives and disappears under the grayness of the sea. It was Rosa Maria. It is Rosa Maria, suddenly become, today, the new leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (MLC), the principal moral voice of recrimination against all the violence of the State that corralled her citizen father from the time she was born. Rosa Maria Paya Acevedo, accused before she opened her mouth of meeting false foreign tourists at the edge of the sea for a handful of euros, to fund the youth wing of the MLC.
Not one of the loved ones of Oswaldo Paya Sardinas or Harold Cepero Escalante is accusing the exterminating angel of the New Generations of the People's Party. The State enterprise that owns the Hyundai Accent with license plate T311402 has not publicly demanded compensation for a single screw of its vehicle. Nor has any rice or forest cooperative spoken out in defense of the crops mowed down by the scars of the homicidal tree. It is a case, then, where legally no one is affected, except governmental innocence.
After the videoclip presented to the press, where a young Spanish politician asks the world not to politicize his case (filmed by the political police, but that's a circumstantial detail), we already know Angel Carromero's worst enemy will not be the Cuban State, but the drugged panic of Angel Carromero himself.
At the right hand of his steering wheel, like a perverse character of Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, a Social Democratic Swede snored through the nightmare under the midday sun on a pavement under repairs and a slamming on of the brakes at top speed. According to his testimony and with "European soil under his feet," and despite his dreamlike innocence, Jens Aron Modig was also taken prisoner and held incommunicado in a windowless room, where his interrogators offended him with impunity, until they coerced him to testify against himself on camera.
From Kafka we know that justice in totalitarian systems is never interested in the Truth, this bourgeois prejudice of the Gospels. Much less in Life, this bizarre statistic. Angel Carromero, the talking cadaver, like the American Alan Gross, and countless Cubans who have been through the experience, declared like a ventriloquist that he still holds out a certain hope that he will come out safely. It's called self-preservation and is a symptom of the mediocrity with which the old Europe of the 21st Century throws a tantrum.
In extreme situations, democracy is only for oneself. Western Christianity, then, has no neighbors. Angel Carromero wants to be Angel Carromero, even though he's sunk in a concentration camp or humiliated in the cemetery where two human beings were plunged and disappeared under the grayness of the Sea.
The drizzle will not stop these days in Havana, before Castro and after Carromero. When this Friday the 5th what we all know and don't know how to pronounce is finally verified, a new Cuban era in the history of the Revolution will commence. We will all be more alone, more desolate, more exposed to the paparazzi lenses that pornographically exposed his family and later expired Oswaldo Paya Sardinas.
As in the foundational good times of a cynical more than civic war, we will go quietly to survive under the obscene downpour. The free exile will be a million euros farther away than now. The pro-human rights solidarity activists will prefer to operate in any other corner of the world. The Chinese scribbles and the squeal of this collectivist language will make a little more sense to our individualistic sensibilities. The unethical etymology of the word "disappeared" will suffer a terrible updating. In a small air-conditioned room in eastern Cuba, the year zero of the Carromero cosmology is about to begin. Praise be.
Translated from the original in Diario de Cuba
October 4 2012
It has been ten days since the event which took the life of my husband, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, National Coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement, and the life of the young man Harold Cepero Escalante, a member of the same movement.
The event has been covered by Cuba's National Television, which is unusual since fatal traffic accidents occur daily in Cuba and never receive this level of media coverage.
I will not get into details regarding the technical analysis presented by the official version of the event; I am not an expert, although one does not need to be an expert to question their version. I want to clarify that I learned about how the event occurred through the television since only a brief verbal version was given to me by Major Sanchez when I received my husband's body. I told him that I did not believe what he was saying and that I needed to talk to the surviving witnesses. I was not informed by the authorities about the death of my husband. Yesterday, July 31th at 8:45pm, 10 days after the death of Oswaldo and Harold, I was visited by two officers from the Center for Criminal Investigations and Operations carrying a subpoena that required my presence today at 11:00am, with the purpose to "clarify issues of civil liability and responsibility regarding the accident."
As Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas' wife and on behalf of my family living inside and outside Cuba I declare:
1. We do not accept the explanation of the events as presented in national television because:It has been presented by the same governmental organization that under the Security of the State has sent agents threatening to kill Oswaldo multiple times over the years; they have discredited, defamed, spied, and insulted us through media campaigns inside and outside Cuba; the same individuals who have placed microphones on our bed, in our phones; the same individuals who, knowing that Oswaldo's mother had cancer, proceeded to cowardly visit and intimidate her, who did not allow her children living outside Cuba to visit her; the same individuals who forbade my oldest son, a 24-year-old student, from visiting his aunt in Spain during his vacations last year, who do not allow any of our family members to leave or enter Cuba.
They are the same individuals who intimidate our neighbors, my husband's co-workers, my brothers and sisters from the Christian community, and even people that we hire to make repairs in our house; they go to the institutions where my sons and daughter study or work and alert their peers to avoid relating to them; they are the same individuals who break into hospitals and intimidate doctors every time my children have any type of health problems; the same individuals who have attacked my house with mobs brought from other places and who have painted my house facade with offensive signs, who have stained my door with red paint simulating blood, who have filled the walls of the neighborhood with threatening signs and phrases packed with hate.
They are the same individuals who on several occasions have loosened the screws on the wheels of our car knowing that we were traveling with family and friends. Last June 2nd, Oswaldo and I were traveling in our car (a 1964 VW station wagon) towards my mother's house in La Lisa. Driving through La Calzada del Cerro and having just driven across the intersection with Rancho Boyeros Avenue, we were hit by an old American car in the right rear wheel of our vehicle with such a force that it made our car rock. My husband could not control it and after sliding on the two left wheels, already on the opposite lane the car flipped, we were trapped inside and covered with broken windshield glass. Oswaldo was hurt in his left elbow and I was unhurt.
These are the same individuals who have threatened to kill members of the Movement and their families, who have imprisoned Yosvany Melchior, a young man, son of Rosa Maria Rodriguez, a member of the Movement. He is serving twelve years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Their goal is to make people abandon the Christian Liberation Movement.
…I do not believe the official version because:
2. My husband, Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas was notable for his limitless sense of responsibility towards all people, especially those who associated with him. He would never have allowed the driver of the car to speed. His friends and those who know him know that I speak the truth when I say this. He knew his life was at risk every day in Cuba.
3. Because I received the news of the alleged accident from Madrid at 3:18pm on Sunday July 22 and was told "four people were traveling but only three are in the hospital, there is no available information regarding the forth one. Two friends, one of them is unconscious. They were hit and pushed away from the road. Do you know who the other two were? One of them has disappeared."
4. Because I was not allowed to meet with the Swedish man and have not yet been allowed to visit the Spaniard, survivors of the event.
Because of these records and information that have reached us about what happened in the newspaper Granma, my family calls on international institutions for help demanding an independent investigation of the facts.
I'm very proud to have shared 26 years of my life with an extraordinary man, I am proud of the family we have founded. He had the sorrow of not being able to devote to his family all the time he wished, but his passion to serve always led him to work for the common good with all his intelligence and intellectual ability.
He constantly fought and searched for ways for the people to ascend to their rights, he said: "Neither the state nor the market can dominate society, or be above the people's decisions, freedom and dignity."
Now we must try to direct our life without the physical presence of Oswaldo, it will be very hard, but those of us who live by faith know that he will continue to protect us, and will always be in our midst.
Thank you for listening.
Havana, August 1, 2012
Translated by Cleonte


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Creator: Lansford, Carl Edwin
Description: This research sought to determine what relationship exists between time-on-task in computer-aided instruction (CAI) using Destinations courseware and progress in reading ability of developmental reading students as indicated by the reading portion of the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) test. Time-on-task is the time during which a student actively works on Destinations activities, as recorded by the software management system. TASP, an exam required of all students in Texas public colleges, assesses reading, math, and writing skills. The population was made up of 482 students who took the TASP exam before and after CAI and who used Destinations CAI for remediation of reading skills. Null hypotheses were explored using Pearson correlation and linear multiple regression. The findings for the null hypotheses were the following: Ho1 - Correlation and linear regression correlation showed that time-on-task in Destinations CAI had no significant effect on the TASP scores of the population studied. Ho2 - Correlation and linear regression correlation showed that females made significantly better gains on the TASP test from CAI than males. Ho3 - Correlation and linear regression correlation showed that low-achiever students made no better gains on the TASP test from time-on-task in CAI than high-achiever students. Difference between the ...
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Prediction of Community College Students' Success in Developmental Math with Traditional Classroom, Computer-Based On-Campus and Computer-Based at a Distance Instruction Using Locus of Control, Math Anxiety and Learning Style
Date: May 2000
Creator: Blackner, Deborah Martin
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between individual student differences and academic success in three pedagogical methods (traditional classroom, computer-aided instruction (CAI) in an on-campus setting, and CAI in a distance education setting) for developmental mathematics classes at the community college level. Locus of control, math anxiety and learning style were the individual differences examined. Final grade, final exam score and persistence were the indicators of success. The literature review focused on developmental mathematics, pedagogical techniques and variables contributing to academic performance. Two parallel research populations consisted of 135 Beginning Algebra students and 113 Intermediate Algebra students. The Rotter I-E Locus of Control Scale, the Abbreviated Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale, the 4MAT Learning Type Measure, and an instrument to gather demographic data were used. It was the conclusion of this study that the instructional methods were not equal with respect to achievement. In Beginning Algebra, the CAI students received significantly higher final grades than did the traditionally taught students. In Intermediate Algebra traditional students scored significantly higher on the final exam than did the CBI students. There were more students persisting than expected in traditionally taught Beginning Algebra and no significant difference in attrition in Intermediate ...
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Effects of a Simulation Game on Trainees' Knowledge and Attitudes About Age-related Changes in Learning and Work Behaviors of Older Workers
Date: May 2000
Creator: Dunn, Suzanne
Description: This investigation was conducted in response to the need for effective diversity awareness programs to help employers create intergenerational-friendly work environments. An experimental pre- and post-test control group randomized block design was employed to answer two research questions about the effects of a simulation game on knowledge and attitudes about age-related changes in learning and work behaviors of older workers. Participants were assessed immediately prior to and following the treatment, followed by a third assessment 60 days later. Necessary measures were taken to control for threats to the study's internal validity. An applicant pool comprised of human resource management and development practitioners and senior undergraduate students enrolled in human resource management courses yielded a sample of 65 participants. Chapter one introduces the study. Chapter two provides a review and summary of relevant literature on ageism in the workplace, training older workers, and simulation games. Chapter three describes the procedures and methods used to answer the research questions. Chapter four presents the results of all analytic procedures related to the investigation. Chapter five provides the conclusions and recommendations based on the findings of this investigation. In this investigation, the treatment group did not score significantly higher on their knowledge of age-related ...
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Emotional/Behavioral Disturbance and Speech/Language Disorders: Prevalence of the Dual Diagnoses in a School-Age Population
Date: May 2000
Creator: Silver, Kathi Olinsky
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of the comorbidity of emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) and speech/language disorders among those students identified as under The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act criteria as emotionally disturbed and speech impaired. The literature reviewed included clinical and school settings that examined a cooccurrence of language disorders in the EBD population. Other research reported a lack of routine involvement of speech/language therapists in the assessment of the EBD population. Implications from clinical studies suggested a need for greater attention to language disorders in a multi- and interdisciplinary assessment. This study investigated the prevalence of the dual occurrence of EBD and speech/language disorders in Grades 2 through 6 in Texas schools in light of the known research. Relationships in ethnicity and socioeconomic status were examined using chi-square test of independence. Aggregate data were obtained from the database of the Texas Pupil Information Management System and from survey questionnaire responses provided by speech therapists in selected districts. The literature review focused on the impact of language in the development of appropriate personal interactions and communication skills, especially those relevant to pragmatic language factors and the implications of language competency in successful personal living and career ...
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An Online Academic Support Model for Students Enrolled in Internet-Based Classes
Date: May 2000
Creator: Rockefeller, Debra J.
Description: This doctoral dissertation describes a research study that examined the effectiveness of an experimental Supplemental Instruction (SI) program that utilized computer-mediated communication (CMC) rather than traditional SI review sessions. During the Spring 1999 semester, six sections of an introductory computer course were offered via the Internet by a suburban community college district in Texas. Using Campbell and Stanley's Nonequivalent Control Group model, the online SI program was randomly assigned to four of the course sections with the two remaining sections serving as the control group. The students hired to lead the online review sessions participated in the traditional SI training programs at their colleges, and received training conducted by the researcher related to their roles as online discussion moderators. Following recommendations from Congos and Schoeps, the internal validity of the groups was confirmed by conducting independent t-tests comparing the students' cumulative credit hours, grade point averages, college entrance test scores, and first exam scores. The study's four null hypotheses were tested using multiple linear regression equations with alpha levels set at .01. Results indicated that the SI participants earned better course grades even though they had acquired fewer academic credits and had, on average, scored lower on their first course ...
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An Examination of Factors Related to the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Levels of Adjudicated Youth
Date: August 2000
Creator: Broom, Ellen Wildemann
Description: With the advent of increased juvenile delinquency in our nation, the need for prevention and rehabilitation is paramount. Juvenile delinquent acts are becoming more serious and violent with offenders perpetrating at younger ages. Analysis suggests an increase in juvenile crime in the near future (Stone, 2000). Pinpointing the cause of delinquency is an arduous task because of the many contributing factors (e.g., impulsivity, aggression, low intellect, poor family attachment, drug, and alcohol abuse). By changing the emotional deficits found in beginning delinquency, the likelihood of developing delinquent behavior may be impeded. Research indicates that adolescents who commit crimes are lacking in empathy (e.g., Aleksic, 1975; Cohen & Strayer, 1996; Ellis, 1982; Gibbs, 1987; Marcus & Gray, 1998), thus, promoting empathy may be an avenue for prevention and rehabilitation. This study examined the levels of empathy of adjudicated youth in four juvenile correctional facilities in Texas. Using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), empathy levels of 170 youth were examined. Youth in the study demonstrated low levels of empathy. The study found that empathy levels of adjudicated youth were differentiated by incarcerating facility, IQ, type of offense, disability status, and phase level of a re-socialization training program. Age was not found to ...
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Comparison of Computer Testing versus Traditional Paper and Pencil Testing
Date: August 2000
Creator: Millsap, Claudette M.
Description: This study evaluated 227 students attending 12 classes of the Apprentice Medical Services Specialist Resident Course. Six classes containing a total of 109 students took the Block One Tests in the traditional paper and pencil form. Another six classes containing a total of 118 students took the same Block One Tests on computers. A confidence level of .99 and level of significance of .01 was established. An independent samples t-test was conducted on the sample. Additionally, a one-way analysis of variance was performed between the classes administered the Block One Tests on computers. Several other frequencies and comparisons of Block One Test scores and other variables were accomplished. The variables examined included test versions, shifts, student age, student source, and education levels. The study found no significant difference between test administration modes. This study concluded that computer-administering tests identical to those typically administered in the traditional paper and pencil manner had no significant effect on achievement. It is important to note, however, that the conclusion may only be valid if the computer-administered test contains exactly the same test items, in the same order and format, with the same layout, structure, and choices as the traditional paper and pencil test. In ...
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Students' Criteria for Course Selection: Towards a Metadata Standard for Distributed Higher Education
Date: August 2000
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Description: By 2007, one half of higher education students are expected to enroll in distributed learning courses. Higher education institutions need to attract students searching the Internet for courses and need to provide students with enough information to select courses. Internet resource discovery tools are readily available, however, users have difficulty selecting relevant resources. In part this is due to the lack of a standard for representation of Internet resources. An emerging solution is metadata. In the educational domain, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) has specified a Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard. This exploratory study (a) determined criteria students think are important for selecting higher education courses, (b) discovered relationships between these criteria and students' demographic characteristics, educational status, and Internet experience, and (c) evaluated these criteria vis-à-vis the IEEE LTSC LOM standard. Web-based questionnaires (N=209) measured (a) the criteria students think are important in the selection of higher education courses and (b) three factors that might influence students' selections. Respondents were principally female (66%), employed full time (57%), and located in the U.S. (89%). The chi square goodness-of-fit test determined 40 criteria students think are important and exploratory factor analysis determined five common factors among the top 21 ...
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An inquiry into the factors influencing the development of the field of Behavior Disorders: A qualitative approach
Date: August 2000
Creator: Menendez, Anthony L.
Description: This dissertation has explored the origins of the field of Behavioral Disorders via a qualitative approach. In order to collect data, interviews were conducted with respondents who were selected via purposeful sampling. All respondents have had a significant impact on the field of special education as evidenced by scholarship and leadership throughout their careers. Data analysis of the interview transcriptions was accomplished through the utilization of computer software. The data indicated six areas/topics that were seen among respondents as being significant to the development of the field of Behavioral Disorders.
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Psychometric Development of the Adaptive Leadership Competency Profile
Date: December 2000
Creator: Sherron, Charles T.
Description: This study documented the psychometric development of the Adaptive Leadership Competency Profile (ALCP). The ALCP was derived from a qualitative database from the National Science Foundation project (NSF 9422368) and the academic body of literature. Test items were operationalized, and subject matter experts validated 11 macro-leadership competencies and 65 items. Rasch rating scale measurement models were applied to answer the following questions: (a) How well do the respective items of the ALCP fit the Rasch rating scale measurement model for the 11 scales of the ACLP? (b) How well do the person's abilities fit the Rasch rating scale measurement model, using the 11 scales of the ALCP? (c) What are the item separation and reliability coefficients for the 11 ALCP scales? (d) What are the person separation and reliability coefficients for the 11 ALCP scales? This study also sought to discern whether the ALCP could predict leader effectiveness as measured by the likelihood ratio index and frequency of correct predictions indices. The WINSTEPS and LIMDEP programs were used to obtain Rasch calibrations and probit estimates, respectively. The ALCP profiles the frequency and intensity of leadership behavior. Composite measures were calculated and used to predict leadership effectiveness. Results from this study ...
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Meet Cami, a premature baby who spent her first few months in our NICU. Callista Dammann, a Nationwide Children's Hospital employee, and her husband, share their daughter's story in this video.
By analyzing genomic information in deeply phenotyped patients, we believe we can change the way the world thinks about state-of-the-art clinical care for children, and achieve the best possible outcomes.
- Dr. John Barnard, President, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
I believe we are all united for the same reason – to make sure our patients and families get the best care. No position is too small to make a difference. Everyone has an important role in delivering best outcomes for our patients. If I can help keep a break room clean so that the nurses can eat breakfast at a clean table before they start their shift, I'm happy to do that because it makes a difference in their day and helps them take care of our patients.
- Valerie Hall, Relief Housekeeper, Environmental Services
I call it the sweet spot. Where you can do the least amount of treatment, get the best outcome, it will cost less, and the kids will be happier.
- Dr. Sue Hammond, Chief, Pathology and Lab Medicine, and Medical Staff Vice President
We always push to do better and better, but I think we've earned our reputation as a national leader with our cleft lip and cleft palate program. Ultimately, our goal is to achieve the best outcomes and quality of life for our patients.
- Dr. Richard Kirschner, Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Our duty is to never be satisfied. Our duty is to keep getting better. We provide neonatal care as well as or better than anyone in the country, but we still have a ways to go. If we have great outcomes with 23 or 24 weekers this year, then next year we need to do great with 22 weekers. And 21 weekers the year after that. Until we're saving every baby.
- Dr. Ed Shepherd, Section Chief, Neonatology
Here, people do what's right. What's right for the child, and that goes from stimulating the most innovative and exciting research to taking care of the little details that make hospitalization easier for the child.
- Dr. Carlo DiLorenzo, Division Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology
Best outcome in the gift shop would be great customer service. Our mission is to be the happiest place in the hospital – away from the medical side of what we do here at NCH. We want to give our parents, families and staff a place to shop and if need be a place to just talk. Everything matters and every staff member is motivated by that statement – each interaction is an opportunity to make the gift shop the happiest place on campus.
- Cathy Ray, Manager, Gift Shop
We don't want families to have to worry about the financial piece. What they need to worry about is the health of their child. If we can do something to make it better, we'll do it. We'll do anything and everything that it takes.
- Molly Wiegerig, Manager, Patient Accounts
While I'm not involved in direct patient care, I see patients come and go. I like to say I put a smile on the face of the hospital. Patients tell me it makes them feel better.
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The Woodlands is not an incorporated city so it cannot pass laws or ordinances of its own. Fortunately, Montgomery County has passed an ordinance that requires animals to be vaccinated, leashed and controlled, etc. The ordinance is enforced through the Montgomery County Health Department, Animal Control Division. Their phone number is 281 364-4200.
If a dog or cat is running loose or becoming a nuisance in the neighborhood, Animal Control will provide you with specific information regarding their services. The Woodlands Development Standards (or Deed Restrictions) address certain aspects of pet ownership as well. Contact the Residential Design Review Committees for a Standards booklet at 281 210-3973.


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I've updated the 2012 Watchlist since the Gio Gonzalez trade, and upon learning that Taylor Jordan has undergone TJ surgery, paring the list down to 65 players. As mentioned previously, and in the comments, I didn't add on players. That makes sense for a Top 50 list, but there's not a set number here we're shooting for.
I also decided to treat the traded away players just as I did last offseason: a slash-through line. I like to think of the watchlist as a snapshot in time — here are the guys that are on our radar, if you will.
I didn't add any of the Rule 5ers or the throw-in from the Gonzalez trade, as all three I believe to be inventory more than end-cap. To placate the Purke Posse©, I've moved him into the starter column and moved Joel Barrientos in the to LH reliever column.
Otherwise, I'll be updating the player reports as best as I can until the books come in from BA and Sickels (technically, an e-mail), commenting on the players I've seen, creating an amalgam from external sources whenever I can, or simply some notes on the ones that fall into neither category (typically the DSLers).
My apologies in advance for any "Report Not Yet Written," which is a placeholder for any player that I haven't seen extensively and will need the aforementioned books to write a decent summary.
12 Responses to "2012 Watchlist Updated"
A lot of confidence in Marerro? That he'll be recovered for the 2012 season? Kind of like a Taylor Jordan call perhaps? Have to wonder about Sammy Solis, no word yet on the results of his visit to Dr. Lewis Yocum and probably won't be any until after the New Year. But given the Nat's luck …
Looks like Anthony Rendon is destined for Woodbridge, or that's what Byron Kerr's sources tell him. Rendon plus some pretty decent prospects from Hagerstown should make things interesting in Potomac even with the flooding. Oh, and I guess that would be a first? A top prospect NOT skipping Potomac but starting there? … 😉
Potomac may be a real power house if Rendon and any of the others don't get bumped to Harrisburg too soon.
When do the summer rosters get posted? Also, how extensive is the minor league spring training coverage? Can we find stats of the players?


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"This blog used to read, 'I haven't sold out yet but I'm willing to negotiate'...now it should be...'My asking price was too low'"
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Last Week's Workouts
Monday: 12 mile run (slow).
Tuesday: Back/Legs lift. Bike 1 hour time trial. 10 min. w/u. 10 min. c/d.
Wednesday: Swim 300y w/u. 10x200y. 100y kick. 3x200y. 100y kick. 2x200y. 100 kick. 400 c/d.
Thursday: Arms lift. 1.25 mile run w/u. Yasso 800's. See previous post. 1 mile c/d.
Friday: Swim 300y w/u. 3x - 1x25y. 1x50y. 1x75y. 1x100y. 1x125y. 1x150y. Then descend. w/ 100 kick in between each. Last set 100 ladder. 100 kick. 300 c/d.
Saturday: Legs/ Shoulders Chest lift. 10 mile run.
Sunday: Swim. Was too crowded at Wilson pool. Probably did 3k total. Pretty easy.
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I've heard you tend to kick people out of your lane using sheer force of will. Is this true?
- January 23, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Wow, thank goodness for Sundays is all I can say. I guess notching it down a bit is commonplace for most of us folks.
- January 23, 2012 at 4:15 PM
You really change things up a lot. What day's training is your favorite for how you feel afterwards? Do you use any energy drinks or protein supplements?
- January 24, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- ConArtist said...
(sigh). the rumors are true. My body is so large that it actually takes up the entire lane. that's what I tell them anyway.
LSD on Sundays! Although soon enough it may be brick Sundays!
Good to change it up. Good for the body to keep it guessing what's coming. I'm not sure which day is my favorite for afterward. If I do 10+ miles easy, sometimes my legs are tired. But days I do bike speed/legs lift can induce the same. Every day is good that you sweat. But one of the best is the reward of the jetpool at Wilson after a good, hard swim. No energy drinks or protein, nope.
- January 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Good idea to avoid the over-hyped energy foods that are really no better than h20 and fig bars. This is an industry that cannot prove results yet is marketed as though gospel. Long term distance athletes know when they are being bullshited, but beginning athletes actually believe the marketing lies.
Only hard effforts and weight control bring results. The rest is gobblygook "science".
- January 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM


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TC TO JEAN CARLYLE AITKEN; 10 November 1854; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18541110-TC-JCA-01; CL 29: 196-198
Chelsea, 10 Novr, 1854—
My dear Sister,
I was very glad of your little Note from Glasgow the other morning; which I suppose you had to write with the wrong finger,—the more is the pity! That is really a bad job, and all the worse as it still bothers you, with pain in addition to inability. The pain, no doubt, will go off; and I always try to flatter myself somehow the power will come back,—tho' John tells me he fears, not, the sinew being gone. It appears there has been a great deal of whitlow this year, more of such diseases in the hand than were ever known before: so said a London Doctor, attending one of Jane's ladyfriends who was suffering in that way; "he had never known nearly so many cases as this year." A young working man, in the next street here, has lost part of his hand (half of the thumb, I think); still goes with a sling; and was quite astonished by some strange malady he got of that kind.— I beg you keep a good lookout, and don't use the hand ill, lest it again grow worse upon you.
Perhaps John did come to you in Glasgow? He spoke of doing so, last letter; but I have heard nothing of later date than yours. I happened (by rare accident) to be writing to D. Hope, and mentioned that perhaps you would call. But probably you did not;—probably he could have done little at any rate, tho' very willing he would have been, good man. On the whole, if I could hear that you had got Jim fairly shifted into a better shop, it would give me real pleasure: I do not like to think of the poor lad puddling about in that barren Jew establishment. Tell me how the matter now stands: if you did fairly try for a new place, and how you sped?1
I am trying desperately to get some progress made in my work here; but with lamentable want of success hitherto. Nothing but despair urges me on; I am like a poor old garron yoked in a big waggon; I do straighten the chains; but as to any turning of the wheels—alas, alas! I have got a dirty cold too; am sad as death, for most part, and hold away from company of my fellow creatures: one good is possible for me, to get a little work still done, with or without wages. As our brave Father used to say, "I'll gar myself do it,"—I must!
The day before yesterday I went to Windsor; for the sake of innumerable Portraits, Engravings, Miniatures &c which I had got access to there. It is some 20 and odd miles off: one of the beautifullest Palaces,—for situation &c much the beautifullest I ever saw. Built on a sheer steep Hill (high for these parts, and beautifully clothed); commanding an immense plain, the richest in the Island; with Oak forests, with the River, with &c &c to all lengths. I regarded little or nothing of that; but proceeded straight to my Print rooms, where a Mr Glover the "Librarian" of the place, was extremely kind to me, and I saw really a great many things that may be useful in my operations; and had four diligent and goodish hours out of a day. I mean to go back when the weather is brighter (for Pictures and old eyes), and when "the Court" is not there. Towards 4 o'clock, while I was busy with a [h]undred Prints of Frederick, there came a soft step to the door; I did not look up till Glover said; "Prince Albert!"—and there in truth was the handsome young gentleman, very jolly and handsome in his loose greyish clothes, standing in the door, not advancing till I bowed. His figure and general face were well known to me, well-built figure of near my own height, florid blond face (with fair hair); but the eyes were much better than I had fancied; a pair of strong steady eyes, with a good healthy briskness in them. He was civility itself, and in a fine simple fashion: a sensible man withal. We talked first of Fredk's Portraits; then went, by a step or two, into the Saxon genealogy line, into the Wartburg, Coburg, Luther, Frederick the Wise (that is the Prince who caught up Luther, put him safe into the Wartburg; he is Ancestor of Albert); we had there abundant scope of talk, and went on very well, the Prince shewing me a Portrait he had copied of "Fredk the Wise" (not ill done), telling of a Luther Autograph he had (from Coburg, and a joke appended to the getting of it there),—when a domestic glided in upon us, murmured something, of which I heard, "gone out to the Terrace!" (Qu[ee]n out, wants you,—he had been in Town all morning)—whereupon, in a minute or two, our Dialogue winding itself up in some tolerable way, Pce Albert (prince of Courtesy) bowed himself out, back foremost and with some indistinct mention of "Your works," which did not much affect me; and so ended our interview. I had had an indistinct questionable anticipation of some such thing all day; but thot too I was safe, having met his Carriage on the railway as I came. However, it was managed as you hear; and I was not ill pleased with it, nor had any reason—well pleased to have it over as you may fancy. Not a word more, dear Jean.
Your affectionate Brother
T. Carlyle


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Shipp Notes: Will provide speed off the bench, primarily as a pinch runner.
2014: Appeared in three games ... took an at-bat against Northwestern (2/8) ... stole a base and scored a run as a pinch runner against Colorado State (2/9).
Shipp's 2014 Game-By-Game Stats
High School/Travel Ball: Deseret News Second-Team All-State selection in 2012 and honorable mention selection in 2011 ... three-time first-team all-region pick ... helped team place third in state in 2012 ... led team in steals in each of first three seasons ... stole five bases against Dixie High School in 2011 ... led Pegasus Club team in runs, steals and on-base percentage each of last two seasons ... member of fifth-place team at 2009 Little League World Series ... on team that won 2012 Adidas Futures title ... honor roll student ... also a member of student council, spirit clubs, science groups as well as National Honor Society and Key Club.
Personal: Daughter of Jesse and Sommer Shipp ... born Sept. 29, 1994 ... major is undeclared.


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The loss of a City representative to the Hope Tourism Commission will not prevent the panel from meeting prior to the opening of the new Amtrak schedule for passenger service here on April 4. According to Hope Tourism Commission Secretary Paul Henley, former Hope City Director David Johnson's position on the tourism board will be filled when another member is appointed to that position. "The board members of the Tourism Commission are appointed by the mayor and are approved by the City Board," Henley said. "Mayor (Dennis) Ramsey and (Vice Mayor) Steve Montgomery, who are on the board right now, are both Board members. Whoever is selected as a new member of the city board could be on the tourism board or an existing member of the Board could be selected." Johnson's retirement from the Hope City Board of Directors last week will not affect the tourism panel's preparations prior to the beginning of Amtrak service at the Hope Visitor Information Center and Depot, he said. Dedication ceremonies for the passenger platform are set for May 18. "We were scheduled to have a meeting last week, but there was not a quorum going to be present," Henley said. "We have checked with members this week, but we cannot establish a quorum this week either. We have a quorum without Johnson, because it only takes four members to meet a quorum, but everyone is busy with work and their businesses, so we will try again at the end of this week."
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