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Miami Dolphins: 25 Reasons the Parcells era failed (Part 3)
The list of reasons the Miami Dolphins are embarking on a full scale franchise meltdown continues.
Hopefully you've already seen the picture gallery, which breaks it down visually. If not check it out by clicking here.
Finding 25 mistakes from one regime was a bit of a challenge, and truth is some of it gets watered down at the end considering we're pointing fingers at decisions (like dumping Ted Ginn Jr.) most of the Dolphins fan base cheered on, and rallied for.
But this list of 25 mistakes made by the Trifecta during their four seasons as this franchise's judges, jury and executioners clearly shows why the past four years have been a waste.
Was a franchise quarterback foung? Nope.
Is the offense and defensive line strong and stable? Nope.
Are there offensive playmakers producing highlight reel plays on a regular basis? Nope.
Is the secondaryand linebacker unit strong and secure, and a group that produces turnovers and game-changing plays? Nope.
Truth is the Dolphins are right back to the shabby conditions the franchise was in when Bill Parcells inherited it.
Here's more of an explanation why this franchise needs new management.
11. The money and draft picks spent for Pro Bowl receiver Brandon Marshall.This regime had one firm rule coming in. Don't give up big money and draft picks for a player. But they did exactly that to secure Marshall. The receiver, whom they gave two second-round picks to acquire from Denver and paid $47.5 million to, has been somewhat productive (120 catches and four touchdowns in 20 games). But Marshall hasn't lived up to the team's expectations, and could be a salary cap casualty this offseason.
12. Trading for Reggie Bush with the intentions of making him an every down back.The Dolphins have struggling all season to find the proper way to utilize Bush's unique skills. Statistically speaking, according to ProFootballFocus, Bush is one of the least efficient tailbacks in the NFL.
13. Franchising Paul Soliai, making him the highest paid player in Dolphins history at $12.4 million, and failing to sign him to a long-term deal? Soliai has been solid as a part-time player on the Dolphins' 3-4 defensive front, but he barely plays. It's also likely that he's bolting after this season if he doesn't get tagged again.
14. Fielding a pedestrian return game since trading away Ted Ginn Jr. Ginn was a disappointing WR, but he is a proven return specialist. The Dolphins traded him to San Francisco for the fifth-round pick that turned into CB Nolan Carroll. Ginn's caught 18 passes for the 49ers, but has scored three times on kickoff or punt returns in 19 games.
15. Unloading starting center Samson Satele prematurely, trading him away for a sixth-round pick that turned into OT Andrew Gardner. Satele's started 34 of the 38 games he's played for the Oakland Raiders, and is viewed as a promising NFL center. Anyone seen Joe Berger lately?
16. Cutting former starting linebacker Matt Roth for no clear reason set the position back.Roth was quickly picked up by Cleveland and has remained productive in the NFL. That ego drive personnel move cost the team a talented player, and possibly a compensatory draft pick. The Dolphins used a second-round pick to select Koa Misi, filling the void Roth's departure created.
17. Drafting Phillip Merling when the opportunity to pick any receiver in the '08 draft, and that includes Desean Jackson, was available. With the first pick in the second-round (No. 32) the Dolphins selected an injured, overweight DE who has started five games and has contributed 3.5 sacks in four seasons. Merling has been inactive half the season.
18. Failure to create cohesion on the coaching staff. Tony Sparano has fired or pushed out every major coach – offensive and defensive coordinators, special teams coordinator – in his first three years.
19. Not hiring an experienced QB coach to replace David Lee. Former receiver coach Karl Dorrell was promoted to the position in a critical make or break season for Chad Henne. Even though Dorrell was head coach at UCLA he'd never coached the position before.
20. Ireland not only embarrassed himself, but the franchise with the Dez Bryant fiasco. Ireland asking the Dallas receiver if his mom was a prostitute during a predraft interview was a clear lapse of judgment and decorum.
21. Occasional poor evaluation of talent.Keeping third-round pick Patrick Turner over Anthony Armstrong, a former practice squad member, is the most glaring. Armstrong spent the '10 season with the Redskins becoming as one of the NFL's biggest deep threat weapons. Turner, who was cut a year after being drafted, remains a Jets journeyman.
22. Publicly pursing Jim Harbaugh neutered Sparano's ability to put together a quality coaching staff. That's how the Dolphins ended up with Brian Daboll, who as Cleveland's playcaller produced a worse offense than Dan Henning, his predecessor.
23. Passing on Pro Bowl quarterback Michael Vick when he was released from jail in '09. The Dolphins needed a Wildcat trigger man, but allowed Vick to sign with Philadelphia, where he established himself as a franchise QB in '10. Clearly Pat White's talent was standing in the way.
24. Constantly churning the roster, which fosters fear inside locker room and chips away at the team approach. Erik Walden made a mistake on special teams in a '10 loss to the Jets and got whacked the next week, which is common. He finished that season as a starter for the Packers, helping Green Bay win the Super Bowl.
25. Bill Parcells' treatment of Jason Taylor was disrespectful. Their battle of egos led to Taylor being traded to Washington, re-signed for one season. He was then banished again, thrown into the arms of the Jets. With Parcells gone Ireland and Sparano welcomed the Ring of Honor candidate back for one more tour of duty.
So, what have we learned from this exercise, and examination of the Trifecta's era, which might be continued if General Manager Jeff Ireland keeps his job.


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Krissa wrote: "I am turning 27 this March and I am celebrating with a Day at the Races at the Santa Anita Park! I am obsessed with all things 1950s!
What vintage looking dresses and hats would you recommend for me that won't break my budget! Ya know, so I'll still have money left over to bet on the horses!"
Hello and early happy b-day! I know you love the 1950s, but I hope you don't mind if a few of these are maybe a little 1940s and maybe a little 1960s. Personally, I'm voting for the Monique dress, but I hope one of these (plus a hat!) fits your bill.
1 - Dorothy Perkins Black spot brushed dress ($49)
2 - Forever 21 Grosgrain Ribbon Cloche ($11)
3 - Steffy's Pros and Cons Dress ($73)
4 - Swept Up Cloche ($38)
5 - Dorothy Perkins Ivory and black bird print circle dress ($69)
6 - Heartbreaker Monique Dress ($90)
7 - Heartbreaker Beverly Dress ($104)
8 - The Rain in Spain Dress ($68)
9 - Callanan Maven - Braided Wide Brim ($48)
10 - Swan Hat Women's Textured Charcoal Packable atin Cloche Hat ($60)
11 - Forever 21 Striped Floppy Hat ($13)
12 - Dorothy Perkins Navy Peter Pan collar dress ($69)
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Mitchy here: I'd be happy to never put on another pair of pants. What this means for you is that I love all kinds of dress shopping - especially cute patterned dresses and party dresses. I also love colorful apparel and jewelry as well as vintage-styled home decor. Other things I don't usually put on resumes: expert cat wrangler, road tripper, and connoisseur of bad movies.
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Give Prince Harry "A Break," Says Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch has expressed support and sympathy for Prince Harry, who was photographed partying completely naked last weekend.
The media mogul tweeted, "Prince Harry. Give him a break. He may be on the public payroll one way or another, but the public loves him, even to enjoy Las Vegas."
Murdoch later tweeted, "Only lesson for Prince Harry: avoid playmates with cameras!"
On Friday, Murdoch's tabloid The Sun was the first British paper to publish the nude pics of the royal having a good time with an unidentified woman in his Vegas hotel suite.
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Biodiesel prices, markets & analysis
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ICIS' Global Biodiesel price report contains news and analysis of market movements around the world. Our price assessments focus on European spot, South America, North America domestic and Asia spot.
The commentary highlights the influencing factors driving prices, and includes feedstock prices and graphs to reflect changing prices in this weekly report. Whether you are directly buying or selling on the biodiesel or related markets, this informative report will help you to make confident business decisions.
Our editor gives their expert view
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In the US biodiesel is an emerging market. It was reduced to about 10% of its production capacity, as the Federal tax credit disappeared and has now reappeared.
With the reappearance of that, biodiesel is beginning to find its footing in the US market.
The material is highly dependent on the crude oil markets, it's traded at a premium to heating oil, the spread on heating oil sets the prices for biodiesel that is, being looked at for basis on trading on spot market. There are no contracts in the US biodiesel markets at this time.
The market is also dependent on the crude-glycerine co-product and that material is also watched very closely for its availability for sales.
Most of the biodiesel in the US right now is traded at a premium, a spread to heating oil. The heating oil market, that has been the most successful area for domestic biodiesel sales as a blendstock it's still finding its feet. It's coming back into viability on the back of a reinstatement of the Federal tax credit $1/gal blender credit.
It'll offer the players in the market more opportunity to find domestic sales for the product.
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Demand for biodiesel is expected to firm in the second quarter of 2016 across Europe, the US and Asia.
In Europe, buying interest in the biodiesel market is expected to improve amid the switch to summer specification fuels. Summer grades of biodiesel such as palm methyl ester (PME) or fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) 0 tend to be comparatively cheaper than rapeseed methyl ester (RME), and buyers are expected to blend more as a result.
In the US, the highly politicised biodiesel industry also looks positive amid higher federally mandated blend volumes and approval of the $1/gal biodiesel and renewable diesel blenders tax credit. The latter will remain in effect through to the year-end. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also released its final rule for renewable volume obligations (RVO) under the renewable fuel standard and the figures for biomass-based diesel were higher than the proposed level released earlier in the year.
In Southeast Asia, regional biofuel usage policies will also continue to support demand for PME. Indonesia moved to B20 from early 2016, requiring a 20% blend in gasoline. Thailand and Malaysia also have plans to raise usage to B10 in due course.
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Biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from renewable resources. The most commonly used feedstocks are rapeseed, soy and palm oil. Corn and tallow are also used. Rapeseed methyl ester (RME) is mainly produced in Europe; soy methyl ester (SME) comes mainly from the Americas; and palm methyl ester (PME) from Asia, in particular Malaysia and Indonesia.
Biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification to make the methyl ester with glycerine and is produced as a by-product.
Biodiesel can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines and most oil-fired boilers. It is suitable for most applications where regular diesel is currently used. It can also be used in most modern diesel engines without modification, including those in passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, light trucks, buses, ships, trains, off-road heavy equipment and mining equipment, as well as for home heating fuel, power generation and in two-stroke engines (as a mixing agent).


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I am trying to set up my computer so that the escape key performs the caps lock function and caps lock performs the escape key function. I have a small script to swap my escape and caps lock using xmodmap. In my .bash_profile, which is in my home directory, I put this line:
xmodmap ~/.capsswap
which to my knowledge, should run .capsswap, which I have in my home directory as well, when I log in.
the contents of .capsswap are
1 ! Swap caps and Escape
3 remove Lock = Caps_Lock
4 keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
5 keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
6 add Lock = Caps_Lock
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
Basically this isn't working as nothing happens on when I log in. I'm pretty new to using bash and xmodmap in general, and I could be totally wrong with what I am doing, so if anyone knows how to fix this problem, or can suggest a better way to swap the escape and caps lock, please let me know.


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Another week begins as we inch closer and closer to spring. And because of the calendar, The State Room - which largely avoids booking many shows in the summer - is going full tilt throughout March. They're running three shows across three nights to start the week. While they also would seem to be somewhat intriguing, Tuesday might be the most interesting of the three gigs when the Portland Cello Project hits town.
Monday night features Blues Traveler's harmonica monster in a relatively rare small-club setting with his new project, John Popper and the Duskray Troubadours. Although this is a new project and the band is touring behind its brand-new debut, any show featuring Popper is a guarantee to contain scorching harp playing and good vibes. Tickets are still on sale for this, which starts at 8 p.m.
Tuesday offers a wide range of options. Over at Club Sound - the smaller part of In The Venue - '80s industrial rockers Lords of Acid will hold court. This is a triple-bill and starts at 6:30 p.m. Angelspit and Radical G open up. Tickets remain on sale for the all-ages show and start at $17.50.
Also The Urban Lounge features New Mexico indie-rockers A Hawk and A Hacksaw on Tuesday, which were last in SLC a few years back opening for Andrew Bird. Music starts a little after 10 p.m.
The Complex hosts Jamaican reggae with singer Barrington Levy. This sounds like a good chance to hear some live reggae from a guy who's been around. Levy started making records in the '70s. This may be a better option than you suspect.
As mentioned above, The Portland Cello Project featuring Laura Gibson is at TSR on Tuesday night. This group works to take classical sounds to different venues and covers a huge range of songs, including everything from R. Kelly to Led Zeppelin to Bach. This one seems too different to let slide by without checking into. Here they are jamming out a Britney Spears' number, "Toxic."
Wednesday night at the Urban Lounge offers a real treat when Seattle indie-folksters The Grand Hallway, return to Salt Lake City. This group was last in town during December 2009 and stunned a State Room crowd with their amazing harmonies and strong original songbook. Yes, a triple-bill at the Urban promises a late night for working stiffs, but if anyone's worth it, it's these guys. Ohio indie-rockers The Lighthouse and The Whaler will play second and the local duo of David Williams and Jay Henderson open.
Check this out from their fine 2009 album, "Promenade." This is called "Blessed Be, Honeybee."
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Superpowers! The word alone conjures up images of heroes stopping trains with their fists or shooting lasers from their eyes. But most desirable powers we can imagine don't require a costume, just a camera.
In this week's podcast, Jack O'Brien, Michael Swaim and Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) talk about the greatest unacknowledged superpowers in film. Hollywood is filled with characters that can montage their way into expertise, never be seen in anything less than perfect lighting and even end an argument just by dropping a sick burn.
Every movie protagonist has a list of powers that could make Spiderman weep. You can hear them all now if you throw on your headphones and click play above, go here to subscribe on iTunes or download it here.


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CHMP Backs Dalbavancin (Xydalba) for Acute Skin Infections »
"The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended approval of dalbavancin 500 mg (Xydalba, Durata Therapeutics) for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in ad"...
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Jublia Side Effects Center
Medical Editor: John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP
Jublia (efinaconazole) topical solution is an azole antifungal used for the topical treatment of fungal infection of the nail bed (onychomycosis) of the toenail(s) due to Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Common side effects of Jublia include ingrown toenail, inflammation, pain, or blisters at the application site.
Apply a once-daily dose of Jublia to affected toenails for 48 weeks, using the integrated flow-through brush applicator. Jublia may interact with other drugs. Tell your doctor all medications and supplements you use. During pregnancy, Jublia should be used only if prescribed. It is unknown if this drug passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breastfeeding.
Our Jublia (efinaconazole) topical solution Side Effects Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information on the potential side effects when taking this medication.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Clinical Trials Experience
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.
In two clinical trials, 1227 subjects were treated with JUBLIA, 1161 for at least 24 weeks and 780 for 48 weeks. Adverse reactions reported within 48 weeks of treatment and in at least 1% of subjects treated with JUBLIA and those reported in subjects treated with the vehicle are presented in Table 1.
Table 1: Adverse Reactions Reported by at Least 1% of
Subjects Treated for up to 48 Weeks
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|Ingrown toenail
|28 (2.3%)
|3 (0.7%)
|Application site dermatitis
|27 (2.2%)
|1 (0.2%)
|Application site vesicles
|20 (1.6%)
|0 (0.0%)
|Application site pain
|13 (1.1%)
|1 (0.2%)
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ORONO, Maine -- Defensive end Trevor Bates (Westbrook, Maine), kicker Sean Decloux (Ottawa, Ontario) and linebacker Christophe Mulumba Tshimanga (Laval, Quebec) have all garnered spots on the Beyond Sports Network Colonial Athletic Association Preseason All-Conference team.
Bates earened All-CAA third team recognition following the 2013 season as he made 54 tackles (29 unassisted) with 9.0 for loss to go along with 4.0 sacks, two forced fumbles, one pass breakup and one blocked kick.
Decloux was the CAA first team kicker as he set a new school-record with 16 made field goals in 2013. Decloux matched the University of Maine record with 45 made PATs as he went 16-for-21 on field goal attempts, hitting a career-long 42-yard field goal on two occassions.
Mulumba Tshimanga had one of the best defensive rookie seasons in UMaine school history as he was named both the CAA and ECAC Defensive Rookie of the Year. An All-CAA first team selection, Mulumba Tshimanga paced Maine with 118 tackles, fifth most in the league. Named to the FCS All-New England first team, Mulumba Tshimanga also recorded a pair of interceptions to go along with 4.0 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, and a fumble recovery in the 2013 campaign.
The Beyond Sports Network Preseason All-Conference team selections were made by the BSN staff based on returning performers from the 2013 CAA All Conference Football Team, game evaluations, and overall statistics.
Click HERE for a complete listing of the Beyond Sports Network 2014 Preseason CAA team
The 2013 Colonial Association Champions will begin defense of their title August 30 in a home game against Norfolk State. Black Bear season tickets are on sale now at 581-BEAR or via GoBlackBearsTickets.com


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According to the Canadian Press on Friday, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Kevin Martin has decided to retire from the sport of curling. Martin skipped Canada to a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
A native of Killam, Alberta, Martin, who has been nicknamed "The Old Bear", and "Kmart", won the 2008 World Men's Curling Championship in Grand Forks, North Dakota and four Brier titles (1991, 1997, 2008 and 2009) as Canadian champion. He also won 17 grand slam curling events on the World Curling Tour and a silver medal at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
However it will be his fine performance at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver that will be remembered most. Martin's team of third John Morris, second Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert, were a perfect 9-0 in the round robin portion of the event, before defeating Sweden 6-3 in the semifinal and Norway 6-3 in the gold medal game.
Martin's team is the only men's curling team in the history of the Olympic Winter Games to go through the entire tournament undefeated. At the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Jennifer Jones's curling team out of Winnipeg also went through the tournament undefeated, becoming the first women's team to have a perfect record.
Martin has indicated he will stay involved in curling and be a spokesman for the World Curling Tour. In fact, he has not officially retired yet because he is playing this weekend at the Players' Championship in Summerside, Prince Edward Island to close out his curling season. On Saturday, Martin advanced to the final after a 6-4 quarterfinal win over John Epping of Toronto and then a 6-5 semifinal win over Mike McEwen of Winnipeg.
On Sunday, Martin plays 2014 Olympic gold medalist Brad Jacobs of Sault. Ste. Marie, Ontario in the championship game. It will be his last match of his career.


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Roman, Dionysus with Pan, 50–150 AD, marble, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund.
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Journey through the ancient cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, and the Middle East on this guided tour that highlights key works in the MFAH antiquities collection.
► Admission is free when you purchase lunch from the day's on-site food truck or from the MFAH location of Cafe Express, so make Lunch + Look part of your routine! General admission is always free for MFAH Members.


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Product: STAR Reading Renaissance Place
Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Last Updated: 6/7/2014
STAR Reading Renaissance Place Updates
1) Renaissance Place 4.1 is compatible with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. During a new install, SQL Express will be installed if neither SQL Server 2000 nor SQL Server 2005 are present. If you are already using the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) and would like to upgrade to Express Edition, contact Renaissance Learning Technical Support.
2) School Interoperability Framework (SIF) 2.0 certified.
Renaissance Place
1) Import/Export functionality has been enhanced to allow you to select your matching criteria prior to the import, ensuring only appropriate students are automatically merged. Clicking the "Merge Candidates" button will show students that were not an exact match but have some matching information.
2) Enhancements to student merge for students with data for Accelerated Reader, English in a Flash, and MathFacts in a Flash.
3) Students and their records can be permanently deleted from the Renaissance Place database. This is helpful to remove students who have graduated or are no longer enrolled in your district. In previous versions of Renaissance Place, students with records could only be inactivated and their data remained in the database.
Note: Before selecting the option to "Permanently remove students and their records" from the Edit Multiple Students page, be sure future access to their data is not required, as this feature will remove the students' personal information as well as any application data from the database.
1) Renaissance Place Consolidated Reports will show all students enrolled in an active application class on all reports regardless of whether a student has data. For example, if you select to run a STAR Reading report listed by class it will only list STAR Reading classes, not other application classes, and show all students within those classes with or without data.
2) To help you determine the state of a student's data, we have implemented consistent rules across reports. If there could not possibly be any data, that column will be blank. If the student/group has no data at the time the report was run, but they are enrolled in the class, the report will show a single dash "-". If there has been activity, but nothing passed, the score will be zero "0". Students with a blank or "-" will not be counted in totals, averages or means, but students with "0" will.
3) This release includes the updated STAR norms first made available in Fall 2008 as part of Renaissance Place 4.0 Cumulative Patch 2. Norms are used to calculate percentile rank, grade equivalent, and normal curve equivalent (NCE) scores.
4) An estimated oral reading fluency (Est. ORF) score category has been added to the Diagnostic, Summary, Growth, and Test Record reports. Please note that Estimated Oral Reading Fluency is only reported on STAR Reading tests taken in grades 1-4. This change was also included as part of Renaissance Place 4.0 Cumulative Patch 2.
5) Alternate Score and Alternate ZPD have been renamed to ATOS 2000 and ZPD 2000.
6) The
STAR Performance report was added for STAR
7) Student
and Group Performance reports were added in the STAR
Application/User Interface
1) Teachers and administrators have the ability to manage the Monitor Password Preference. If the administrator chooses "All School Classes" from the dropdown menu and changes the password, it will override all teacher defined passwords. Teachers do not have the ability to change monitor passwords for other classes.
2) Because alternate scores have been renamed, the preferences page has been updated. The Alt. Score option has been changed to ATOS 2000 and the Alt. ZPD has been changed to ZPD 2000. This preference allows users to rename these titles.
3) A new resource called RTI cut scores was added. This provides guidelines to help teachers identify which students may need intervention.
1) Support for Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0. During the upgrade to Renaissance Place 4.0, release 0803, the web site used by Renaissance Place will be updated to use .NET 2.0.
2) Improved Active Directory Authentication
Renaissance Place
1) School Year is updated for all schools when set by a district user.
2) Assign Products link has been added to the View Courses page to assign products to multiple classes simultaneously.
3) Provide Student Login Assistance option added to Set Security Options for Students and Parents page to allow users to hide the "Find User Name" link on the student login page.
1) Progress Monitoring report has been added using a graphic display of a class or student's reading progress compared to Literacy Skills levels or Risk Categories.
2) An estimated oral reading fluency (Est. ORF) score category has been added to the Diagnostic, Summary, Growth, and Test Record reports. It is currently blank, since we are still gathering data. As soon as the data is available (anticipated Fall, 2008), Est. ORF data will automatically be included in reports.
Resolves a problem where some students are missing from the
Application/User Interface
Performance enhancements when STAR
Student Application
1) Items deemed inappropriate have been removed from STAR Reading tests.
2) A resume feature has been added to the program, so if students stop taking a test because they lose connection to the server (Session Expired) or close the browser window, they will be allowed to log back in immediately and resume the test at the point they left off. The monitor password must be entered in order for a student to resume a test, regardless of whether the monitor password option is enabled.
Support for SQL Server 2005, except Express Edition.
Renaissance Place
1) Support for Macintosh OS X workstations running on an Intel-based processor.
2) Support for Active Directory authentication of Renaissance Place users.
3) Enhancements to the Client Application Installers page, including better detection of required components. The AccelScan client is now listed under the Scoring Software section, along with the Renaissance Responder software.
Renaissance Place Reports
1) Removal of the Read Now Status report, to coincide with removal of the Read Now tab from the Renaissance Place home page.
2) Removal of the Implementation Index scores from the Implementation Progress and Implementation Status reports.
Application/User Interface
1) To make report customization faster, clicking on a report now takes you directly to the Customize page.
2) The Diagnostic Report now allows you to include the student ID number on the report. This gives you another option for reports: generation by student ID.
3) When
students are in the process of taking a STAR
4) Numerous enhancements to software functionality.
Renaissance Place
1) Renaissance Place can be used with Mozilla's Firefox browser (Macintosh and Windows platforms only), in addition to Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Safari.
2) The home page task menu has been simplified to make it easier to find what you need.
new and improved
4) Select multiple students to edit characteristics, grade, password information, or school enrollments.
5) New courses can be assigned to multiple schools simultaneously.
6) Report performance improvements make school-wide and district-wide reports run much faster.
7) The parent report can be printed in Spanish, as well as English.
8) There is now a Pretest Instructions link on the Home page above Reports for convenient access to the Pretest Instructions .pdf.
9) Tier 3 scores can be imported into Renaissance Place and the scores can be included on Customizable Status, Ranking, and Progress reports.
10) Renaissance Place allows you to export data in a text file format to be used in other applications.
11) Use Renaissance Update to download Renaissance Place software updates.
12) Renaissance Data Translator now allows you to match your Renaissance foundation imports with your SIS records by Student ID, assuring more accurate and complete matching.
13) SIF Agent has been updated to comply with the SIF 1.5r1 specifications and now includes two new StaffAssignment and Authentication objects.
Student Application
The student application is now browser-based. The new student application test environment is as close to the desktop application environment in appearance, timing, and behavior as possible. When the previous version of the program is launched, the user will be automatically redirected to log in to Renaissance Place.
As with the other Renaissance Place browser-based student applications, students will log in with a username and password, rather than selecting their names from a list. However, login has been simplified for students that may have forgotten their user names by a "Find User Name" link.
Students that are enrolled in more than one STAR
The installer automatically detects the IP address assigned to the selected web site in the install wizard.
Renaissance Place Reports
Addition of a new School-to-Home report. This report will help keep parents informed of student progress at school and provide teachers with a report that reflects the key scores from the Renaissance Learning programs they are using in their classroom. This report will show information on a single student, with the wording and terminology designed for a parent or guardian. It will report current information for any Renaissance Learning programs selected by the user.
Application/User Interface
1) Resolves an issue where Macintosh clients are not able to connect to the Renaissance Place server through certain proxy servers.
2) Resolves an issue where Macintosh clients do not automatically update after installing the next release of Renaissance Place on the server, when the web site is set up to use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
3) Resolves an issue where unnecessary communication between the client computer and the server in between the practice and test may prevent the student from continuing on to the test. This may be an issue in certain high use environments.
4) Minor changes were made to the class and student selection lists in the STAR Reading Student program for Windows.
The server application requires Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 (1.1.4322). This version of the .NET Framework will be installed during server software installation, if it's not already present on the Renaissance Learning web server.
Application/User Interface
1) Users must choose to log in to Renaissance Place as a Student, Teacher/Administrator, or Parent, and each user type will see a slightly different login screen. Students can search for their user names if necessary, although this version of the student program is not browser-based.
2) The consolidation log has been improved to itemize consolidation information by product.
3) The product registration page combines the main registration functions. This page has been updated to display information and usage on all products registered, and allows the user to sort registration by school or product.
4) Enhancements to the report generation process improve performance with large databases.
5) Improvements were made to increase performance during the student import process.
6) The STAR Reading Student application has been updated to improve performance during multi-user testing. The student application will automatically update to the new version the next time users access STAR Reading Student on their workstations.
7) A new Renaissance Place Software Manual contains information about management tasks such as adding classes and students. A revised STAR Reading Software Manual contains information about STAR Reading reports and STAR Reading preferences. The STAR Reading Software Manual, Technical Manual, Pretest Instructions, and Quick Reference Cards, and the Renaissance Place Software Manual, are available as .pdf files on the Download Manuals page.
Report Changes
Renaissance Place Reports
*Assessment Proficiency - Shows student achievement in one subject based on a proficiency level that is set by the user. Students are grouped as "Proficient or Above", or "Below Proficient".
Customizable Progress - Compares student achievement on one or two assessments administered at different times.
Customizable Ranking - Ranks student achievement in ascending or descending order for up to three products, subjects, score categories, and reporting periods. Includes an option to show students with scores above, below, or between certain values. Also includes lowest to highest and highest to lowest sorting options.
Customizable Status - Shows student achievement for up to five products, subjects, score categories, and reporting periods.
*Implementation Progress - Compares student achievement on up to seven reporting periods for Accelerated Math or Accelerated Reader.
*Implementation Status - Shows students' comprehension of Accelerated Math objectives or Accelerated Reader results of reading practice for one reporting period.
*ReadNow Status - Includes student achievement in the Read Now intervention program (Accelerated Reader, STAR Reading, and Fluent Reader) to help educators determine how to move forward with student instruction.
STAR Summary - Summarizes student results on a STAR Math,
*Indicates new report to Renaissance Place version 2.0.
NOTE: The Progress, Ranking, and Status
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STAR Reading Reports
Diagnostic - The verbiage within the report was updated to make it consistent with Reading Renaissance practices and recommendations.
Student Capacity - This report is no longer available due to the new capacity metering system.
1) STAR Reading Renaissance Place version 3.1 now includes the new Renaissance Place management and reporting system.
a) The terms "Client/Server" and "Online Management" were changed to "Renaissance Place" in all menus, links, and references.
b) New reporting capabilities – Renaissance Place enables you to sort and organize your data the way you want it in three new Renaissance Place reports: Status Report, Progress Report, and Ranking Report. You can also aggregate all your data school- and/or district-wide, and disaggregate it by any student characteristic.
c) New reporting periods capability – You now have the ability to easily define any reporting period and bring in the matching STAR and StandardsMaster results for your Renaissance Place reports.
d) New consolidation schedule – You can now set up a schedule for automatic consolidation of your STAR and StandardsMaster data, so your data is available when you need it.
2) ZPD ranges and reading practice time recommendations were updated to align with the new Reading Goal Setting Chart.
3) The STAR Reading Report Options page was enhanced for several reports, to allow selection of students by teacher.
4) Improvements were made to the Diagnostic, Student Detail, and Summary Reports.
5) The Registration page was enhanced to allow teachers to search for students by class and list their students at the selected school who are registered for testing.
6) The Student program was updated to address an issue on Macintosh OS X workstations, where tests were not getting written to the database. Please refer to article #3792208 for more information.
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The Associated Press (AP) reports that video journalist Simone Camilli and translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash were killed this morning when an ordinance exploded in Gaza in the town of Beit Labiya. Hatem Moussa, an AP photographer was "badly injured" in the blast. AP spokesperson Paul Colford says, "Hatem is being treated for his injuries."
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Though it is a mere 25,000 light-years from Earth, the center of our own galaxy has long been one of the universe's most mysterious places. It's so full of dust and gas that visual telescopes, even those that can gather light from the most distant reaches of space, haven't been able to see inside.
"It's invisible
to most astronomers because only one photon in a trillion can break
through," said Mark Morris, a professor of astronomy at UCLA who has spent
much of the last two decades probing the Milky Way's center with
telescopes that do not detect visible light but pick up electromagnetic
radiation emitted in radio, infrared and X-ray wavelengths.
Those images have offered
tantalizing but vague hints. When X-ray telescopes first peered at the
center of the Milky Way about 20 years ago, they found the area gave off a
massive X-ray glow. Recent evidence has pointed to a super-massive black
hole in the galaxy's center. X-rays, a highly energetic form of light, are
emitted from some of nature's most violent creations: supernova blasts and
black holes. But astronomers didn't know exactly what fearsome objects, if
any, emitted the X-rays. The first pictures in the 1980s, from an X-ray
telescope called Einstein, were low resolution and too fuzzy. They showed
only a diffuse glow of X-rays over a large area. Because X-rays are also
created at extremely high temperatures, many astronomers suggested the
center of the galaxy was filled with a huge, searing ball of
Now, a modern X-ray telescope 100 times more sensitive than
its predecessor has given the first clear glimpse of the Milky Way's
"We thought the image would be fantastic, but it's better
than we thought," said Q. Daniel Wang, the assistant professor of
astronomy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who led the team
mapping the galactic center.
The image shows that the X-rays don't
come from hot gas but from about 1,000 points of light, a vast collection
of what appear to be glittering star remnants, plus black holes. (Black
holes give off X-rays when they swallow big chunks of matter or other
"Our galaxy is like a big city," said Wang. "The center of
the galaxy is downtown, where the action is."
The finding from
NASA's $1.5-billion Chandra X-ray telescope provides more evidence of how
advances in technology in recent years are resolving decades-old mysteries
about the skies.
The results "finally settle important aspects of
the 20-year-old debate surrounding the origin of X-ray emission" from the
galaxy's center, said Andreas Eckart, an astronomer at the University of
Cologne who studies the galactic center and helped confirm the existence
of the massive black hole located there.
The new image was unveiled
Wednesday at a national meeting of the American Astronomical Society in
Washington. It is also being published in today's issue of the journal
Calling the images "really fabulous," Morris said the
findings resolved problems he and other astronomers have long had in
explaining how enough super-hot gas to generate all the X-rays could be
continually created in the Milky Way.
"This relieves the pressure
on us to evoke outrageous events and circumstances," including nonstop
supernova explosions or gas traps created by magnetic fields, he
The X-rays appear to come from a bright but more mundane
collection of objects: hundreds of small, collapsed stellar remnants like
white dwarf and neutron stars and also the black holes created when bigger
stars collapse.
The new map suggests that the center of the galaxy,
unlike the quiet suburb where Earth resides, is a violent place where
stars are forming, dying and exploding at furious rates and being buffeted
by supernova shock waves.
"It's a nice place to visit with a
telescope, but I wouldn't want to live there," said Cordelia Lang, a
University of Massachusetts astronomer and coauthor of the new
The climate, though, is more benign than previously thought.
The hypothesis of a ball of hot gas would have required temperatures of
hundreds of millions of degrees. Instead, said Eric Gotthelf, a coauthor
of the study from Columbia University, "it's only a relatively mild 10
million degrees."
Studying our own galaxy is likely to help
astronomers understand the workings of all galaxies, how they formed and
why super-massive black holes seem to reside at the centers of many of
Our own largest black hole gives off a relatively weak X-ray
signal, although a team including UCLA's Morris did capture a "burp" last
year, a dramatic X-ray flare after the hole swallowed some
The study was not able to explain the diffuse X-ray glow
that remains or some small dust grains of iron that were
Eckart and Morris said the diffuse X-rays and the iron
may have been emitted by the black hole in a tremendous flash of energy as
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Last month AMD unleashed what went on to become the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card by a convincing margin, the Radeon HD 5870. This was followed shortly by a slightly watered-down version known as the Radeon HD 5850. The latter has proved to be very competitive, playing second only to its bigger brother and at just $260, it stands without a doubt as the best value high performance offering available at the moment. Continuing with the successful rollout of its Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD is now moving to attack the sub-$200 market, and hopes to keep the momentum going with the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. Codenamed Juniper XT and Juniper LE, respectively, the first is said to cost just $160, while the lower-end 5750 will cost between $110 and $130 depending on memory configuration.
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According to Yahoo News on Wednesday, director of "Guardians of the Galaxy" and future director of "Guardians of the Galaxy 2's" James Gunn joined cosplay and comic book fans alike in a flash mob-like ensemble of "grooting" on the steps of the 2014 Dragon Con convention steps. Gunn also singled out a young sapling of a full-sized potted tree of Groot and grooted with her as well.
It seems that the grooting dance craze is trending these days. This was all thanks to director Gunn himself as he was the one responsible for the motion capture movements of the young sapling Groot at the end of the movie.
Another interesting tidbit of information in regards to the Stan Lee cameo appearance was also revealed. Gunn clarified the reasoning behind Lee being cut from a certain scene from the film. Apparently, the venue had the Collector's many display cases and as the Guardians members entered the location, it was Groot that was supposed to encounter Lee in his own display case appearing to be flipping off Groot.
The scene wasn't cut because it was Disney's call to do so. In fact, Gunn stated that the deleted portion wasn't even seen by Disney. In actuality, it was a couple of staff people at Marvel Studios that thought the joke was just too broad to gain an understanding from the audience. Gunn also said he plans on keeping away from Earth based characters and focus completely on cosmic beings.
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John Evans sent me a message on twitter this morning that reminded me of his twitter birthday. Of course, being the curious type, I went to check my own.
Ends up my five year twitter birthday is coming up in only a few days.
I remember not really getting it when I first heard about twitter. I didn't sign up at the beginning. Then, a little later, Darren Kuropatwa was doing a few inservices with librarians and had them signing up so I thought I better jump in.
Ends up it was a good idea.
I occasionally have a love – hate relationship with the service, but overall, it has absolutely widened my network, changed the people I communicate with, and has been the best place for connecting with new people that I have found online. I've found hundreds of new resources to use in my classroom and hundreds of professional resources that have helped me to see literacy, learning, technology and knowledge in new ways. I've been challenged, offended and had my share of good laughs from things I've found on twitter.
Being there for 5 years (which is about 163 in internet years), I've also seen the service evolve from a novelty/interesting place of connection, through to becoming an essential source of news and communication. I remember when hashtags and RT's first came around. I remember hearing of the tragically downed Air France flight 447 that was flying from Rio to Paris and the death of Michael Jackson first on twitter. I followed the uprisings in Iran, Egypt and Syria closely on twitter. A service that is evolving and continues to change through the people who use it and the lexicons they can dream up.
Overall, I think twitter is a service that needs time to percolate before it becomes any use to a person. You need to build a network and actually talk to people. You need to wade through the garbage that is posted there and doesn't interest you. You need to be patient and find the people who are right for you and your interests. It will give you very little in a day or a week, but over a month or two, the conversations you have, the people you connect with, and the resources you'll find will leave you wondering how you ever did without it.


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Nov. 16, 2012
HONOLULU (AP) - Stanford snapped defending national champion Baylor's 42-game winning streak Friday, winning 71-69 when player of the year Brittney Griner missed a short turnaround at the buzzer.
"It's been a long time since that bunch lost. I hope they feel like anybody or any competitor feels after a game that you lose," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. "I hope they don't forget it and it bothers them."
Griner scored 18 of her 22 points in the second half, helping the Lady Bears rally from a 14-point deficit in the first half. It was the Lady Bears' first defeat since losing to Texas A&M in the regional finals of the 2011 NCAA tournament. Baylor went 40-0 last year with no team coming within five points of the Lady Bears.
Stanford also ended Connecticut's NCAA record 90-game run in 2010.
Chiney Ogwumike scored 18 points to lead the fourth-ranked Cardinal (3-0), who lost to Baylor by 12 points at the NCAA Final Four in April. Her reverse layup gave Stanford a four-point lead with 22 seconds left, after Joslyn Tinkle broke the tie with a layup with just under 1 minute to go.
Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said the Cardinal came in knowing they needed to limit Griner and play better than they did in the NCAA semifinal.
"Our game plan was never let Brittney Griner be 1-on-1," she said. "We were doubling her as hard as we could."
Baylor played the last 35 minutes without preseason All-America guard Odyssey Sims, who strained her hamstring early in the first half.
"You lose your All-American point guard that early in the game, it kind of takes you out of flow of things," Mulkey said.
Destiny Williams made her first 3-pointer of her career to pull Baylor (2-1) within one late in the game. Toni Kokenis made one of two free throws. Baylor got the rebound and advanced the ball to halfcourt before calling timeout to set up the final play.
Griner caught the ball in the low block and with three players draped on her, the 6-foot-8 star's shot fell harmlessly off the rim setting off a wild celebration by the Cardinal at midcourt.
"We knew where the ball was going - it's a matter if we're able to make the play. It's hard to make a play on Griner," Ogwumike said. "You knew it was going to Griner and she was going to turn around and shoot."
Baylor was the heavy favorite to repeat as champion with their entire starting lineup back from last season. The Lady Bears cruised to an easy 89-51 victory over No. 6 Kentucky on Tuesday before heading to Hawaii for the three-game Rainbow Wahine tournament.
Mulkey said that Baylor wasn't used to playing close games during its streak.
"We didn't respond very well, we got back in the game but we didn't execute some things and we didn't do some things defensively," Mulkey said.
While the Lady Bears returned mostly intact this year, Stanford lost All-American center Nnemkadi Ogwumike to graduation after last season.
Without Sims, the Lady Bears trailed by 14 points before rallying to 31-29 at the break. Stanford focused on Griner on defense and took advantages of missteps by Baylor on the other end to get second chances and open looks.
Griner was dominant in the second half, scoring 10 of Baylor's first 12 points and just under half its points for the final half. The Lady Bears gave up on shooting 3-pointers, allowing Griner to carry them. The attempted only three after ending the first half 1 for 11.
Baylor took a 55-54 lead with 7:11 left in the game on a layup from Williams. It was the Lady Bears first lead since early in the first half. They extended it to four points before Stanford rallied behind Kokenis, who made two free throws and a jumper to tie it at 60.
The game was back and forth until the final minute when Tinkle and Chiney Ogwumike gave Stanford the lead for good.
Ogwumike was one of four Stanford players to score in double digits. Taylor Greenfield had 16 points, Kokenis had 15 and Tinkle had 11.


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This video shows a few extra tweaks I want to implement for the next update. Previously, the console could be used to mute NPCs, but now they'll be given a vanilla voice type and turned into clutter. All scenes involving the NPCs will also be turned off as well.
10 thoughts on "Trailers and Teasers – Rewriting, Recasting, and Re-muting"
Your voice sound fine. You actually remind me of a Youtube LPer, Cryaotic.
just downloaded this again after coming back from a Skyrim break and i have to say this is one of my favourite mods the amount of work that has gone into this is outstanding Thank you and everyone involved for bringing Skyrim to Life well i am going off to play Skyrim and see what has changed since last time.
Oh and yeah don't worry about your voice everyone hates hearing there own voice lol
your voice is fine and the kajjit is really good, but i like said fironet voice is horrible lol
hmmm yeah this is actually great, can you also add like the option to make them disappear and not just turn into clutter?
wait no i have a better idea, that command should also disable text dialogues, because text dialogues without voice is immersion breaking.
The clutter option is to maintain immersion (other NPCs may refer to them).
There is already a disable mechanism. If you weren't aware, opening the console, clicking on an NPC and typing "disable" will disable them.
i mean an option that disable say every NPCs that refer to a particular NPCs, every quest related to the NPCs and disable text dialogues for maximum immersion and consistency.
you should add an exe file that allows you to disable any npcs before installing the mod.
How about you play the game as if you would act in real life; if you don't like someone's voice, just don't talk to them. Though that's not really how things work in the real world, but it's a heck of a lot more immersive than using a console or whatever..
also, have you thought about adding high-level quests? i am pretty sure everyone is like lvl 99 by now.


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It'll be bowling as usual at Brunswick Corp.'s bowling centers.
That was the message delivered Wednesday by Bowlmor AMF Chief Executive, Chairman and President Tom Shannon in an interview with examiner.com.
Last week, Lake Forest, Ill.-based Brunswick announced that it was selling its 85 bowling centers in the U.S and Canada to Bowlmor AMF for $270 million. Brunswick said it was an attractive, unsolicited offer.
Only a year ago, Bowlmor – with its six upscale bowling centers – captivated the bowling industry when it announced that it was buying Virginia-based AMF Bowling Worldwide, Inc. AMF had filed for Chapter 11 in November, 2012 – the second time that it had declared bankruptcy in 10 years.
"We don't have any changes planned," said Shannon about taking over the Brunswick properties. "We're not changing the hours of operation or prices. Many people were concerned we'd do what we did with AMF and that's not the case.
"AMF needed a turnaround. They had a lot of difficulties over the years. Brunswick's just the opposite. It's a stable, well-run company. We're going to preserve it just like it is."
Shannon said his company plowed $35 million back into AMF's bowling centers the past fiscal year to improve the product and has plans to invest another $45 million in the coming year.
Shannon, who a few weeks ago visited AMF Woodlake Lanes in Woodland Hills and bowled a 197, said Brunswick's name will be retained at its bowling houses and that Brunswick's bowling centers are profitable.
"One reason we're buying it is that the bowling's quite nice there," he said. "They have really outperformed their industry in terms of revenue. It's a quality product. People don't go to shabby places. People go only to nice places."
Shannon expects that the takeover of Brunswick's bowling centers will be completed by Labor Day.
On another topic, Shannon said that Bowlmor AMF is "completely committed" to league bowling.
"I think people have a misperception that they think we're anti-league," he said. "That's not the case at all. We've made changes to AMF to make it viable and make it survive and it impacted the customer.
"For people to be worried about us taking Brunswick and making a Bowlmor model, nothing could be further from the truth."