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heres the test: http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8305/46745116xr3.png
i'm having lots of trouble with the math for problems like these.
the confusion is right when we multiply by the reciprocal of the original equation.
what happens to the n!/|x|^n ? how does that cancel everything to make it the original problem without any n exponets.
can someone show what is going on for this step, its not exactly the calculus i'm asking about, its just the math in this step.

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Born on January 6, 1928
From Saint-Raphaël, Var, France
Capucine as "Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein"
Famous pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde) is unhappily married to Countess Marie D'Agoult (Genevieve Page) and considers quitting performing in order to devote his life to God. However, he then meets Princess Carolyne (Capucine), the wife of Prince Nicholas (Ivan Desny) of Russia, and instantly falls in love with her. Liszt follows the princess on her tour around Europe and eventually leaves his wife, hoping to marry Carolyne. However, Nicolas is not ready to give her up.
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RUSH: Okay, we have some "malcontents" on the phone, Snerdley tells me. You described them as "malcontents." All right, well, we're gonna start with one. Walter in Edgewater, New Jersey. Great to have you, sir. You're malcontent number one on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Yeah, just a quick question: If President Obama if doin' such a bad job, then why are a lot of Republican candidates droppin' out or don't want to run against him? Don't they care about the country?
RUSH: Uh, the two don't necessarily go together: Obama doing a bad job and people dropping out of the Republican race. There are plenty of people still in the Republican race. The two things don't have anything to do with one another.
CALLER: Yeah, but I... (garbled)
RUSH: I'll tell you why, because no matter who drops out of the Republican race, there's still people in it, and no matter who drops out of the Republican Party, Obama is still doing a lousy job.
CALLER: Well, I don't... Well, that depends on who you ask. I think he's doing a fabulous job, and the -- and it's gonna be -- it's gonna be very, very, very hard to beat him. Why --
RUSH: Walter? Walter, I'm genuinely curious now. Tell me what you think constitutes a great job Obama is doing. What is it that he's doing that's great, fabulous? What do you like?
CALLER: That he's not doing a bad job. I've never seen a president yet -- yet -- do a good job at being president of the United States.
RUSH: Well, that's helpful.
CALLER: So I just gauge it as they're not doing a bad job.
RUSH: Interesting. All right, so you've never seen a president do a good job --
CALLER: No.
RUSH: -- but Obama's not doing a bad job?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: That's why --
CALLER: And -- and -- he's black. The reason why, really -- the reason why --
RUSH: He's fabulous because he's not doing a bad job?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Yeah. Okay. Well, that's helpful. That's really... Yeah.
CALLER: Bush... President Bush wasn't -- he wasn't a bad president, but --
RUSH: Certainly is helpful. Explains a lot of things. Is that the way you vote: There's no president that's ever done a good job, so you're looking for somebody who you don't think will do a bad job?
CALLER: Exactly, and -- and -- and President Obama has something else on the other candidates that were running when he won, for me -- and the fact that he was black, uh, helped a lot.
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. Gee. Yeah, I knew that. I didn't want to say that, but I knew that. That's probably it. Well, what is it (sigh) that, as a black, Walter, what is it that you like? All the unemployment, black unemployment's like up in the forties, that what you like? You like the collapse of...?
CALLER: That don't concern me 'cause I work. I got a job so I'm not concerned about people that don't have a job.
RUSH: Okay, so I don't care about them. All right, fine. You don't care about anybody else.
CALLER: No.
RUSH: What about the collapse of the housing market that's been brought about? That's something else you like as an Obama supporter?
CALLER: I have a house, and it's paid for, and it's not affecting me, so I have no concern over that as well.
RUSH: Cool. All right, so you couldn't give a rat's rear end about anybody else. What about the high gasoline prices that Obama's brought about, the high price of food? I guess you make enough money that the price of gas and food doesn't matter to you, so that's also part of Obama's success story?
CALLER: Yes, and -- and -- and I'll tell you one thing else. When President Bush was president and the gas prices was $5 -- I remember that like it was yesterday -- it didn't affect me, so I wasn't mad at him for that because I figured it wasn't his fault. When President Bush was president and the gas prices was $4 and $5, I didn't blame that on him.
RUSH: This is why, ladies and gentlemen, if you're new to the program, so many of us are just literally scared to death for the future of the country. We've just... At this point I, your host, have determined that we're dealing with something here that's not salvageable. The value here is entertainment, pure and simple. But in terms of substance here, I think we've about wrung this for as much as it's worth. I want to thank out there, Walter. I was gonna ask him if he gets a discount on gas prices. Get his agent! You know, they say we stage phone calls here and we hire actors. (chuckles) Get this guy a bonus and make sure we get his agent's phone number.
RUSH: Gene in Tucson. Thanks for calling, sir. You are on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush!
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, my thought: I had a comment on your malcontent number one, and it just enhances what I already thought about liberals. There's only two reasons for being a liberal, that I have seen. One is you're so selfish that you've already made yours and you don't want anybody to make theirs -- and, two, they want something from somebody else (i.e, leech off the government), so I think that call was a great, great example of the first one.
RUSH: Wasn't just the fact that he was so selfish -- he already had his, he didn't want anybody else to make theirs -- he didn't care if anybody else made theirs.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: He didn't care if there was suffering anywhere else. So he didn't give a rat's rear end about anything, and therefore being immune to suffering or unhappiness, why blame anybody for it if you don't care about it?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: All he knows is that while Obama's running the show he's doing pretty well. Now, you gotta forgive me but I wasn't interested enough to ask him how it is that none of this stuff affects him. Some of you people might have wanted to know. I wasn't interested, because I don't believe what he said. I don't believe that he was telling us the truth. I don't believe the price of gas doesn't matter to him; I don't believe the price of housing doesn't matter. I didn't believe any of that. But even if he was being truthful about it, I didn't even want to go to how he made that happen. 'Cause I wasn't prepared to believe that, either.


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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
|Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Naylor in the chair where she writes the first two drafts of every book by hand
|Phyllis Reynolds
January 4, 1933
Anderson, Indiana,US
|Rex Naylor
|Jeffery Naylor
Michael Naylor
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade.[1]
Early life[edit]
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in the U.S.A. She grew up during the Great Depression with her older sister Norma and younger brother John. She has said that she never felt poor, as her parents had a book collection and read stories aloud to her and her siblings until adolescence.[2] Her favorite book as a child was Huckleberry Finn. She began writing her own stories when she was in elementary school. When she was 16 years old, a Sunday school teacher asked her to write a story for the church magazine. She wrote a baseball story named "Mike's Hero" and was paid $4.67 for it.[3] She continued writing, even sending her stories to magazines such as Highlights, Seventeen, and Jack and Jill, receiving two years of rejection letters.[4] Naylor graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1951 and from Joliet Junior College in 1953. When Naylor was 18 years old, she married her first husband and they soon moved to Chicago where she worked as a clinical secretary in a university hospital. Years later her husband began showing signs of severe mental illness, requiring her to seek out treatment for him all over the country. To support them, Naylor wrote and worked a series of jobs including assistant executive secretary, an elementary school teacher and eventually got a job as an editorial assistant for a magazine. He was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and with no hope of recovery, they divorced.[2]
Settling in Maryland, Naylor decided to attend American University, graduating in 1963 with a BA degree.[5] In 1960, Naylor married Rex Naylor, a speech pathologist whom she met at church. Naylor planned to work towards a master's degree in clinical psychology but decided to become a full-time author. Her first children's book was called The Galloping Goat and Other Stories and was published in 1965.[6] Since then, Naylor has written an average of two books a year, many receiving special recognition by the American Library Association and the International Reading Association, and have also been selections for the Junior Literary Guild.[2] In 1985 she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for her 1984 novel Night Cry.
In 1991, Naylor published the children's book Shiloh about a young boy and an abused dog set in West Virginia. The book won the Newbery Medal in 1992, putting Naylor in the national spotlight. The book went on to win the Sequoyah Children's Book Award, the Mark Twain Readers Award, and the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1994, and was also selected as an American Library Association Notable Children's Book.[7] In 1999, Shiloh was selected as a recommended novel for children ages nine to twelve in the Read Across America initiative. A few years later, Naylor went on to write two sequels to the book: Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, published in 1996 and 1997, respectively.[8] In 2000, the Shiloh trilogy placed at number seven on the National Education Association's Children's Top 100 book list. In an interview, Naylor said she was delighted that children had given her work such a high ranking.[9][nb 1] Today, Shiloh is taught in many American elementary school courses.[10]
In 1985, Naylor wrote The Agony of Alice, about a sixth grade motherless girl looking for a role model while fumbling through life. Naylor soon began receiving letters and demands for more "Alice", which led her to write a sequel, and then eventually create the Alice series, in which Alice grows older in each book (Naylor would eventually write three prequels of a younger Alice). The series chronicles several months of Alice's life from ages 12–18, with the final book showing highlights of her life from 18–60. The Alice books have been lauded for realistically portraying the life of a regular girl and covering topics such as sex, which resulted in the books being one of the most frequently challenged and banned in libraries.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Naylor was married to Rex Naylor for 52 years until his death in 2012.[11] They have two sons, Jeffrey and Michael, and four grandchildren: Sophia (who is herself a writer, comedian, and playwright),[12] Tressa, Garrett and Beckett. So far, she has written over 130 books, and about 2000 articles. Naylor says that she will write "as long as she can hold a pencil."[6]
Naylor is also a founder of the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, which annually rewards an author of children's or young-adult fiction of literary merit to complete a manuscript.
- ^ The six literary works ranked before Shiloh were the Goosebumps series, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, the Arthur series and Charlotte's Web.[9]
- ^ a b Frequently challenged books of the 21st century
- ^ a b c Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Biography
- ^ Walker, Danna Sue. "Author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor receives 2010 Anne V. Zarrow Award"[dead link]. Tulsa World. September 20, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ Phyllis Reynolds (P. R. Tedesco) Naylor (1933–) – Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Writings, Adaptations, Sidelights, Autobiography Feature
- ^ "Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Papers". de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. University of Southern Mississippi. August 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ a b Iowa Department for the Blind. "Book Discussion Guide: Shiloh". Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ Worthington & Somers 2000, p. 6
- ^ Bainbridge & Pantaleo 1999, p. 91
- ^ a b Alleman, Annie (March 17, 2000). "Kids' Top 100 Former Jolietan's 'Shiloh' Trilogy Ranked No. 7 by Youthful Readers". The Herald-News. Joliet, Illinois. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
- ^ Elliott 2004, p. 128
- ^ Rex V. Naylor, speech pathologist
- ^ "Sophia Naylor's Website". 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- ^ A Shiloh Christmas
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
- Official website
- The Official Alice Blog by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor at Library of Congress Authorities, with 189 catalog records


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- Pillar 1: Improve student achievement by providing high quality instruction aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards.
- Pillar 2: Restore dignity and respect to the craft of teaching and school leadership.
- Pillar 3: Engages parents and families in every aspect of school life.
- Pillar 4: Create new collaborative and innovative models.
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The City University of New York is the nation's largest urban public university. CUNY is comprised of twenty-four institutions: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law at Queens College, the CUNY School of Professional Studies, and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. The University serves more than 269,000 degree-credit students and 247,000 adult, continuing and professional education students.
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In a development that may bring some cheer and help the government in stemming the rupee slide, Fitch Ratings, on Wednesday, revised India's sovereign credit outlook to 'stable' from 'negative' and affirmed the 'BBB-' rating assigned earlier.
Taking note of the government earnest efforts to contain the fiscal deficit, Fitch, in a statement, said: "The revision of the outlook to stable reflects the measures taken by the government to contain the budget deficit, including the commitments made in the 2013-14 budget, as well as some, albeit limited, progress in addressing some of the structural impediments to investment and economic growth."
In its statement, Fitch noted it expected the Indian economy to recover after real GDP grew just 5 per cent in 2012-13 as compared to 6.2 per cent in the previous fiscal. "India's economic recovery, however, is likely to remain slow until a healthier investment climate is created, which helps lift potential growth again. As a result, Fitch is forecasting only a modest recovery with real GDP expected to expand 5.7 per cent and 6.5 per cent in 2013-14 and 2014-15, respectively," it said.
Significantly, it was Fitch, along with Standard and Poor's (S&P), that had earlier threatened to downgrade India's rating to 'junk' grade in case the authorities failed to contain the deficits and take steps to spur growth. In that context, the revision in outlook could not have come at a better time as the authorities are now seriously engaged in devising ways and means of stemming the depreciation of the rupee against the dollar.
Inherent strength
In this regard, what may turn out to be a huge positive is the fact that Fitch has pointed to India's inherent economic strength despite deterioration in the current account deficit (CAD), which in part has been due to an increase in gold imports. "Fitch considers India's overall external position to be a relative rating strength. Foreign debt is moderate and RBI's international reserves, which stood at $288 billion at the end of May, provide a cushion to absorb adverse external shocks," it said.
India's investment-grade ratings, it said, are also underpinned by high domestic savings rates that limit the reliance on foreign savings for private investment and fiscal funding, as well as by a relative long maturity of government debt issued in its own currency. Pointing to the other factors for outlook revision affirmation of investment-grade ratings, Fitch said the Indian authorities were successful in containing the upward pressure on the Central government budget deficit in the face of a weaker-than-expected economy. It expected the government to broadly meet its 2013-14 budget deficit target of 4.8 per cent of GDP (including privatisation receipts) and to gradually reduce the high level of public debt over the medium-term.
It also noted that the government has begun to address structural factors that have weakened the investment climate and growth prospects, notably regulatory uncertainty, delays in approvals of investment projects and supply bottlenecks in the power and mining sectors.
Inflation pressures have begun to show more pronounced signs of easing in response to weaker economic conditions and the tightening of monetary conditions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) during the course of 2011-12. The recent weakness of the exchange rate may, however, complicate policy management and limit the scope for further cuts in RBI policy rates, it said.
The revision reflects the measures taken by the government to contain budget deficit
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The Kona Sutra is a high-powered road bike featuring a steel frame designed for the strength and resilience required for lengthy riding on rough roads. Sitting underneath the Haole, the Kona Sutra rids itself of its superior countpart's internal headrest, while at the same time expanding from previous-year models via new chainstay mounted disc brakes for easier fender fit and more fender options, and lighter disc-specific stays and fenders. Like its peer, the Sutra is outfitted with a sloping top tube that allows for more room for correct positioning and free body movement; and a compact rear triangle that helps maintain the right balance between stability and power transfer.


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Jake Gyllenhaal Recalls Missing Out On 'Mighty Ducks' Role
Jake Gyllenhaal was devasted after his parent wouldn't allow him to star in 1992 ice hockey movie "The Mighty Ducks." They wouldn't allow him to make a film while he was studying.
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The actor currently stars in "Prisoners" alongside Hugh Jackman about a man whose daughter is kidnapped and takes matters into his own hands after police fumble the investigation.
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Poplopedia: 'Covert Affairs' Is Another Hit For USA
The first scene opens with Annie Walker – a C.I.A. newbie that is hooked up to a polygraph machine and is being grilled by an examiner who asks her questions about her career, her relationships and her sex life.
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The show is titled "Covert Affairs" and it is USA's newest addition to their drama series roster. It's got everything from mystery and humor to car chases and fight scenes.
A screening for the series was held at the posh Soho House in New York City – the perfect setting for the viewing of a show that is sure to attract loyal viewers who took kindly to series such as "Alias" which starred Jennifer Garner.
So the story goes as follows. Annie Walker is plucked from training and tossed into one of the agency's undercover investigations. Though the trainee is bright and one of the best of her class, she's got beauty and she's got the body which makes her perfect to go on her first assignment as a prostitute, or shall we say a call girl as she hates being called the aforementioned.
The fact that she speaks six languages and handles a car like a NASCAR shining star is just the topping on the cake. Not only does she have to deal with her icy superior Joan Campbell (played by Kari Matchett)–who is having marital problems with her C.I.A. husband Arthur (Peter Gallagher)– Annie has to balance the load of leading a double life keeping her involvement with the C.I.A. a mystery from her family, especially her sister.
All isn't too overwhelming with the help of her welcoming committee: a blind techie (played by Christopher Gorham, "Ugly Betty") and an eye-catching agent that might just end up a love interest of Annie's.
Though the role and the character seemed like it was fine-tuned with Perabo in mind, the actress admitted that she went for the role instead of sitting and waiting for it to come to her.
"I went to the role. I was doing a Broadway play in New York and I was reading scripts," the actress revealed to Starpulse.com. "When this came up and I read it, I went after it."
Dodging bullets at the beginning of the episode and later blocking punches that were thrown by an assailant took hard work, but Piper was prepared for the action in "Covert Affairs."
The actress said that she started training for about six weeks in New York when she landed the role of Annie Walker. She later took her training to Toronto, Canada where she trained for another four to six weeks, but this time with actual fight and martial arts teachers.
The first episode of course ends with a cliff-hanger. You see, at the beginning of the series, viewers witness Annie and her lover wrapped in one another's raptures. He abruptly leaves in the night leaving a note that announces his departure. It seems the agency that has snagged Annie is also looking for him. Are they using Annie Walker as bait?
You can get a look at what "Covert Affairs" has to offer when it premieres tomorrow Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 10pm E/T on USA.
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Priscille LeBlanc was appointed Vice President, Corporate Communications in November, 2007. In this role, she is responsible for Air Canada's overall corporate communications, including the strategic development and implementation of media relations, employee communications and community investment programs. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Air Canada Foundation.
Prior to this appointment, Priscille held senior managerial positions in the airline's Corporate Communications branch, where she was responsible for developing and implementing various media and employee communications plans on a number of high profile issues.
Priscille joined Air Canada in 1997. She previously held a number of senior positions in the aviation industry overseeing communications, inter-governmental and community relations, regulatory affairs, marketing communications, public relations and customer service.
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Location(s): Columbus County, North Carolina
Office(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office
Columbus County is proposing to use Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for completion of Phase II of the Landfill Gas project. Phase II, utilization of collected landfill gas, will include - purchase and installation of a 250 kilowatt generator, installation of an onsite greenhouse and planning for Phase III, a bio-fuels incubator in conjunction with a Southeastern Community College program. Columbus County is requesting $544,500 to fund the implementation of Phase II.


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FRESNO, Calif. – A California man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 10 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, on child pornography charges. The sentence is the result of an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Central California Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
John Anthony Baca, 44, of Bakersfield, Calif., pleaded guilty Nov. 14, 2011, to receiving and distributing more than 600 sexually explicit videos and still images of prepubescent minors.
"All children have an absolute right to grow up free from the fear of being sexually exploited," said Michael Toms, resident agent in charge of HSI Bakersfield. "While this sentence cannot repair the permanent damage done to the children depicted in these images, it should serve as a warning to those who engage in this behavior: HSI and our partners will be relentless in our pursuit of online predators."
HSI's ongoing efforts to target suspects involved in child exploitation offenses are part of Operation Predator, a nationwide HSI initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders and child sex traffickers. HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or by completing its online tip form. Both are staffed around the clock by investigators.
Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, at 1-800-843-5678 or http://www.cybertipline.com.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian W. Enos prosecuted this case on behalf of the U.S. government.


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What seems to be a simple task in Linux turns out to be almost impossible in Mac. One of my favorite feature in Ubuntu is the ability to keep some of my application windows 'always on top' so that I can refer to them easily. When I switched to Mac, it turns out that this feature is not available at all. Considering how user-friendly Mac Leopard is, I am quite disappointed that this feature is not available by default. Luckily, Afloat from Infinite Labs manage to the tackle the problem.
Afloat is a donation-ware that allows you to set your application windows 'always on top' and keep afloat on top of all others. In addition, there are some sweet surprises, such as making your window transparent or turn the window into a translucent overlay so you can access to several windows in one glance. (It reminds me of the transparent feature in Linux Compiz)
The latest version of Afloat uses PlugSuit as its application manager. It is also compatible with SIMBL, an InputManager for managing application plugins.
Installing Afloat
Download Afloat here.
Double click to open the installer
Install the app
Now open your applications (such as Safari, iChat, iWork etc). Go to Window->Keep Afloat. Your current application window will now be always on top of other window.
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Discussion in 'Patriots Draft Talk' started by everlong, Mar 5, 2013.
Checking out potential UDFAs.
Haven't heard of the first one.
More on Charles Johnson:
Grand Valley State's Charles Johnson sprints up draft boards - NFL.com
Also interesting:
Washington State QB Jeff Tuel earns extended looks - NFL.com
Looks like the Patriots are digging deep too.
"Tuel had a great pro day, and I suspect that he will have a strong showing when he has a workout with the New England Patriots on March 22. Tuel will be joined by receiver Marquess Wilson at that workout, which will be held at the University of Idaho."
Unfortunately can't link it but it's the Washington State Pro Day at NFL.com's Pro Day Blog.
The other day and elsewhere, Dabruinz speculated that the Pats could be signing 10-20 UDFA's this year. It's interesting that they appear to be looking at a lot of UDFA types. Is this recruitment that they're doing?
BTW, I didn't see it mentioned, but Marquess Wilson was told by WSU officials that he won't be allowed to participate at their Pro-Day.
Marquess Wilson not welcome at Washington State pro day workout | ProFootballTalk
(paraphrased) Tuel and Wilson were originally supposed to work out at Eastern Washington's Pro-Day, but an NCAA rule forbids larger schools from working out at smaller schools.
I think Tuel was doing it to help out Wilson since Tuel was his QB until Wilson quite the team.
Not sure I would call it recruitment. I would call it job interviews. No sense in signing the kids to contracts if you know ahead of time they aren't going to work out. It's part of the culling process, in my honest opinion.
You're right of course and I'm unclear on how UDFA's are signed but the fact that it happens so quickly after the draft has finished suggests that there are agreements reached in principle pre-draft.
I did read somewhere that as emphasis moves towards the FO and coaches in the evaluation process, scouts become much more involved in recruiting (and culling) UDFA's.
Well with the new TC roster size of 90 players and the Pats only having 5 draft picks so far and 55 guys signed to the Roster before FA then that leaves 30 guys for UDFA's.
Minus any FA's they sign so your looking at probably 25 at a minimum.
"My name is Zaviar. Its like 'caviar', except with a Z"
The Pats signed 15 Veteran free agents last year. Just keep that in mind..
Edit: Has Patriots written all over him.
That is a fast 3-cone. All time record is 6.42.
Same time as Edelperson.
Pro-Day Workouts: Week of March 11th
We should pay attention to Dante pro day visits. So...
Schrader is interesting at 6-7, 310 lbs and has pretty good movement skills. Yet another RT prospect we're looking at.
I think a more accurate version is that no OL gets drafted early without the Scar seal of approval.
After all, they did everything possible to keep Scar's visit to Nate Solder under the radar (in fact, Solder was scheduled to visit Foxboro, but they cancelled the visit).
Gardner is an OTG favourite.
This is the full list to date that I've been able to cobble together. If anyone has any updates or corrections, please say so. For what it's worth, because it's not always clear on twitter, I've made no distinction between types of Private Workouts:
Draft Contacts
COM - Combine Interview
PW -Workout
PD - Noted Pro day interest
COA -Position coach attended pro-day.
Jeff Tuel, Washington St. - PW
Marcus Lattimore, S Carolina -COM
Derrick Washington, Tuskegee -PD
Kendial Lawrence, Missouri - PD
Miguel Maysonet, Stony Brook - PW
Washaun Ealey, Jacksonville State - PW
Quinton Patton, LA Tech - COM
Robert Woods, USC - COM
DeAndre Hopkins, Clemson - COM
Cordarelle Patterson, Tennessee - COM
Charles Johnson, Grand Valley State - PW
Marquess Wilson, Washington St. - PW
Tavon Austin, W Virginia, PW
Courtney Gardner, Sierra - PW
Travis Kelce, Cincinnati - COM
Luke Marquardt, Azusa Pacific - COM
Brennan Williams - N Carolina - COM
David Bakhtiari, Colorado - COM
Justin Pugh, Syracuse - COM
Ricky Wagner - COM
Ryan Schraeder, Valdosta St. - COA
Corey Lemonier, Auburn - COM
David Bass, Missouri Western - PW
Jared Smith, New Hampshire - COM
William Campbell, Michigan - PW
Zaviar Gooden, Missouri - PW
Jordan Poyer, Oregon State - COM
Mark Watley, Arizona - PD
Kayvon Webster, USF - PW
Jordan Kovacs, Michigan - PW
Carson Tinker, Alabama, LS - COM
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How I felt about Scandal by Carolyn Jewel in 140 characters:
@cjewel I just finished Scandal & it was completely wonderful. Thx for the past hours spent happily reading. Luv the "I hate you" love scene
I finished the book just before midnight with a happy glow. My favorite scene was in fact the scene after they got married. She was telling him how much she hated him, despised him, and deplored him with every breath as he brought her to orgasm. What makes it so hot is that we know as the reader the heroine really does love the hero, even if she's unwilling to face it just yet. It's toe-curling yumminess.
When it came to Scandal, I savored it. At first because it took me a bit to get into the story, which is entirely my fault and not the fault of Jewel's writing. I've been a bit scatterbrained and have read several books all in a short period of time. It was good to slow down, read slower, linger longer on passages.
The way Jewel weaves the story is different than most historicals in that fact that it feels truer to life in several aspects with its depictions of personal tragedies and interwoven story of two people engaged elsewhere slowly coming together. The story takes place in the present and in the past, where the characters are now and where they were. I was expecting this divergence in the timeline and still it tripped me up once or twice. If I'm correct in my calculations Sophie is about twenty-five and Banallt is thirty-four or thirty-five in the present timeline. Or perhaps that was in the past timeline? In any case they're a bit older than the usual romance couple.
Sophie Evans is a tragic character. She made the worst choice possible in her youth and eloped with a scoundrel. Tommy had her convinced he loved her for herself when in truth Tommy loved only himself and the money his new wife brought to his pockets. Her marriage caused a rift between her family and herself that wasn't mended until after her husband's and her parent's deaths.
The Earl of Banallt, whose first name I am currently unable to locate in the book, was exactly like Tommy if not worse when he first encountered Mrs. Evans. Her plain features and intelligent blue-green eyes arrested him and featured in his dreams. He too was married and unfaithful to his wife. With the deaths of loved ones Banallt grew up, but not before making an utter mess of things with Sophie.
They meet again, a few years after Tommy's death and Banallt is quite determined to prove himself to Sophie. He wants her, desires her, loves her but Sophie is equally determined not to let another man hold power over her heart. She is good at denial and self-denial. The book nearly ends with Sophie refusing to give ground and admit her feelings, but happily she does and the result is spectacular if a bit hushed.
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Bioxodes SA has completed a EUR 2.6 million (USD 3.5 million) first seed funding round with a consortium of business angels and Belgian investment funds.
EUR 1.6 million is from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Walloon Region in Belgium via the Retech program for Research and Technology. It will be used to bring the company's lead product Ir-CPI into pre-clinical development over the next 18 months.
Bioxodes, led by its founding CEO and chief scientific officer, Professor Edmond Godfroid, is exploiting the results of work conducted by his former team at the Ectoparasite Molecular Biology Unit at the University of Brussels (ULB), which focused on establishing the molecular basis of host-parasite relationships.
Prior to the financing, Bioxodes had completed discussions with the ULB for the transfer of full ownership of patents relevant to Ir-CPI.
Ir-CPI is an antithrombotic derived from tick's saliva, with the unprecedented property of inhibiting clotting at doses which do not cause bleeding. Thanks to a novel mechanism, Ir-CPI is potentially the world's first injectable antithrombotic for use in all patient groups without causing high levels of bleeding.
There is also potential to eliminate reversal or 'washing out' at the end of critical procedures. The market for an injectable form of such a molecule for use in hospitals is estimated to exceed USD 1 billion annually. According to Visiongain, the world antithrombotic drug market will reach revenue of USD 24.3 billion in 2015.
Ticks rank second only to mosquitoes as global vectors of disease. Research conducted in Prof. Godfroid's laboratory has established the molecular basis of the parasitic relationship that a tick establishes with its vertebrate host.
The particular tick studied is known as Ixodes ricinus, familiar to some as the carrier of Lyme disease. Ixodes ricinus is considered capable of infesting most terrestrial vertebrates in Europe.
Following a bite the tick feeds on the blood of its host. A particular characteristic of this feeding is its extended duration of up to two weeks. This long feeding involves no pain, blood clotting or inflammation. Scientists believe that such effects result from the presence of active principles in the saliva of the tick.
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dawn of the knitted dead
My absolute favourite film of all time is Romero's 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead. I must have seen it at least 50 times, and I own 4 copies, as well as the soundtrack, the script, the novel, the board game, the comics and the t-shirt (really).
I bore people with endless facts while they are trying to watch it. I point out mistakes and continuity errors and cuts and say things like "Oooh, this is a good bit" and "Look! Look! There's George Romero" and "Look! There's George Romero's wife!" and I tell them about the time I shook Ken Foree's giant hand at a nerd convention.
Hell, I should probably marry this movie. I love everything about it - the characters, the library music/Italian prog rock soundtrack, the setting, the story and (of course!) the zombies. I love it because underneath all that cheesy comic-book action, gore and slapstick humour lies an insightful and thought provoking subtext of class war, conformity and consumerism.
Zombies, eh? They're us, and we're them. When the worst comes to the worst what we should really fear is ourselves, and each other. I think that's what Jerry Springer was really trying to say.
All of which serves as a very lengthy introduction to my latest completed project. A knitted homage to Dawn of the Dead.
Whew! And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to resume my much-neglected life.


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Without more information on K and L, and whether a and b are retricted to be positive, there is no way to answer this. For example, if then this is decreasing for any a+ b< 0, increasing for any a+ b> 0. But for , it is just the reverse.
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CASL's Community Outreach Program is committed to help and support the community that has been our home for nearly 40 years. Part of CASL's mission is to be a community partner in improving the quality of life in Wake County. One way CASL fulfills this mission is through the Community Outreach Program. Through this program, CASL offers a variety of opportunities for underserved populations to play the game of soccer in a safe, structured environment and to experience the physical and mental health benefits that participating in youth sport can provide. CASL will serve approximately 500 youth in the Community Outreach Program each season through these initiatives.
Volunteer with CASL's Community Outreach Program. Email Martin Rodriguez-Arispe to sign-up. You can earn your school community service requirement hours or give back individually or as a team.
CASL Para(lympics) is a new youth program being developed for youth athletes ages 5-18 with cerebral palsy, brain injury, stroke and/or amputations. This part of our programming will provide an opportunity for these athletes to gain more physical activity, recreation, and sports participation thought soccer. The goal of CASL PARA is to become a pipeline to the US Paralympic Soccer team. More information will be posted as this program develops.
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Developing for mobile is, at best, inconsistent.
The complexity of thousands of unique hardware and OS combinations means that developers have to take hardware limitations like screen size into consideration, as well as software limitations such as obscure or dated browsers. This means that right now somewhere, someone, is looking at a newly published, "mobile-optimized" site for a forward-thinking company and can't figure out why the webpage looks like a high school student project.
You can imagine how frustrating this is. Just as the IE6 nightmare is coming to a close, a new dark age is emerging, one where standard best practices for mobile are not fully supported and developers are, once again, forced to choose between quality and reach.
Right now, Apps and device-targeted sites work best on the right side of the triangle (they look awesome and work). Mobile sites can usually hit the bottom of the triangle (they hit a pretty wide range, and work, but don't look awesome). However, the left side of the triangle doesn't exist, because a good-looking mobile site that doesn't work is probably worthless.
How bad are things? My most recent attempt to QA a mobile site required me to download/install/join:
- iPhone SDK
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
- Windows Mobile 6 SDK
- Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK
- Windows Mobile 6.5.3 SDK
- Palm Developers Network
- Android SDK
- BlackBerry emulators
And I'm probably leaving out some platforms.
Waiting for Guffman?
So what can we do while waiting on standards to emerge?
- Most importantly, make it clear that not all devices (especially older ones) will display the site in the same way. They might not even work at all! Setting proper expectations will help later on.
- Get your hands on as many different phones as you can. Borrow your Project Manager's BlackBerry, your CEO's Android, and your grandmother's 4G iPhone.
- Limit the complexity of the site if it's expected to work on a wide range of devices.
- Stick to strict conventions in HTML, JS, and CSS. Also, remember to future proof.
- Progressive enhancement is your friend. Fighting with a fancy-yet-frivolous feature on the Windows Mobile 6 browser? Kill it for them, and reward the "good" browsers with your awesome CSS3 transitions.
- Pray for standards. We don't want this to last another 10 years.
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Personnel from the 27th Security Forces Squadron make their way to a night of reconnaissanc training during last week's training exervcise that simulated the conditions in a deployed location. (Courtesy photo)
By Sharna Johnson: CNJ staff writer
While Clovis residents went about their daily lives last week, the men and women of Cannon Air Force Base were involved in a three-day war. Alarms sounded, gas masks were donned and wounded were shuttled to hospital tents — all in the name of practice.
For three days, airmen worked round-the-clock in 12-hour shifts simulating conditions faced in a deployed location. Cannon engaged in what is called a Phase II exercise, according to Sgt. Craig Seals, base spokesperson.
Seals said the goal is to give personnel an opportunity to apply their specific skills in a real-world scenario, preparing them for what they would face when deployed to combat areas.
Seals said the exercise was conducted satisfactorily and met with Air Force mandates.
Base-wide, participants ranging from food service staff, medical and administrative personnel, bomb loaders, security police and command members all implemented their specific abilities to the exercise, honing their skills through practical application.
Situations simulated included rocket and mortar attacks, improvised explosive devices, and chemical or biological weapon attacks from the enemy.
"The purpose of (the) exercise is for the wing to demonstrate its ability to conduct sustained operations under simulated hostile conditions. (During the exercise,) the base is assumed to be located in Iraq," said Lt. Col. Beachel Curtis, the 27th Fighter Wing's plans and inspections chief.
Another common exercise conducted at Cannon is for the process of deploying troops and equipment to be simulated, Seals explained, referred to as a Phase I exercise.
With a focus on mission readiness, Cannon personnel are always working to keep their skills ready for the obligations they may be asked to fill worldwide, Curtis said. Airmen are involved in multiple types of training exercises year-round, at Cannon and abroad, to prepare them for the realities of doing their jobs in a combat situation, he said.
"Even when we are not actively engaged in an exercise, we are performing readiness training by flying sorties and performing our other daily duties," Curtis said. "Readiness is one of our top priorities — we constantly have personnel from the 27th Fighter Wing deployed to real-world locations around the globe."


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Last night's Penns Manor School Board meeting was all about the cafeteria workers.
Around 80 people showed up last night to support the Penns Manor cafeteria workers, who fear losing their jobs to a subcontract with a private firm, should the school board choose to do so.
The board has not signed any agreements with a food management company. Board President Robert Packer said that Metz Culinary Management did offer a bid to the district. He also said during the meeting that the cafeteria operates at a $100,000 loss. Packer spoke after the meeting about the possibility of subcontracting the work away to a company.
Negotiations between the district and the Penns Manor Education Support Professionals are scheduled over the next few months.
Superintendent T.J. Kakabar said that a meeting between the district and Columbia Gas is scheduled for next Wednesday to discuss the possibility of a gas pipeline to the district buildings. The current proposal suggests it will cost about $320,000 and it will pay for itself in two and a half years.
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The Perfection of Imperfection
"Fate! There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it's up to you to make it happen."
Lack of Offense Isn't Hurting the Red Sox…
Yesterday, I received an email from the Red Sox Insider blog that I'm subscribed to, and it had some interesting statistics:
so that the Red Sox can see if he is just going through a funk, or if his career is actually coming to an end. He obviously wants what is best for the team, which is why he mused that the team might be better off without him.
A National League Team in the American League East
Amidst all of the stress that I'm dealing with right now, I figure writing about baseball is the best way to relieve it. Most of you who read my blog seem to be a bit older than me, so let me ask you something: Was May of your junior year the worst time of your life? Or is that just me?
There and Back Again
After all the fun that I had during Spring Training talking to some of the best Red Sox prospects, how could I not keep up with them during their respective seasons? From Single-A to Triple-A, I've been keeping up with these guys. The Lowell Spinners (Single-A) do not start their season until June, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of them are still in Florida at the minor league complex (I might just have to go back).
the Red Sox, and the White Sox have all had back to back walk off wins. While the first of the Red Sox's walk off win was definitely cause of celebration, it was not the cure. Think about who had all of the RBIs: Jeremy Hermida, Josh Reddick, and Darnell McDonald. Either a bench player, or minor league call ups. We still weren't getting production from the everyday lineup.That has started to change as of late; the Red Sox are starting to be more productive with runners in scoring position.
Skeptics and True Believers
Skepticism and analysis surround every team as the second week of the season comes to an end. I guess I'm here to join the party–mainly for analysis, not for skepticism. It's easy to analyze halfway through the season, but only two weeks into the season seems a little rash, doesn't it? Is it appropriate to analyze, criticize, and skepticize (yes, made up word) already? I don't know the answer, but I think it's appropriate to offer some analysis because the Red Sox have made some easily preventable mistakes that have led to run scoring. And even though it's early on, there are some serious, and unfortunately controversial issues that need to be addressed. It may be the beginning of the season, but every game counts. These games count as much as they do in September. Each game is of vital importance as each team tries to avoid the obstacles on the road to the postseason. I don't agree with those who say, "It's the beginning of the season, they're just adjusting." That's what Spring Training is for. Ideally, teams should work out their kinks during Spring Training. Inevitably, obstacles will arise during the regular season, so I'm here to try and work those out.
There's Something About Opening Day…
in on the same day (or night, for baseball). Coincidence? I think not. I collected Easter eggs (see above), I went to church on Sunday, but I think it was a different church than many of you may have attended. As Annie Savoy (Bull Durham) would say, I went to the church of baseball. "The only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball."
The Pursuit of Happiness
I didn't think Spring Training could get any more intimate than City of Palms Park. Autographs are more of a commodity than they are during the regular season, and no matter where you sit (from my experience, at least), you've got a pretty nice view. I thought that way until I decided to take a left on Edison Avenue rather than a right, and I was headed down to the Players' Development Complex.
2010 Projects & Contract Extensions
Well, a week of spring training has gone by without my physical presence at a Grapefruit League game (now spiritually, that's another story). Luckily, hope is not lost; in fact,hope is never lost in spring training because of Alexander Pope's immortal words: "hope springs eternal". Everyone thinks they have a shot of making the playoffs, and everyone does. You never know what could happen throughout the course of the season. The most unlikely of heroes could emerge and carry his team to the playoffs. Spring Training is where it all begins.
ction last year as a September call-up. He also had a bit of a rude awakening (and I say rude because he was thrown into the bullpen–a totally different mentality–after being raised as a starter). Now, he's trying to regain his confidence. He will be the first guy to be called up when the Red Sox need an emergency starter or another arm in the bullpen.
Seatless Spring Training Crusade: Orioles vs Red Sox 3/20/10
Driving two-and-a-half hours to a game that I did not have tickets for was actually familiar territory. Last year, during Spring Training, my mother and I drove up to Jupiter, FL to catch a Red Sox vs Marlins Spring Training game. I bargained for the tickets myself, and I probably paid twice the actual price. You can read about that day here.
Spring Training Odyssey: Pirates vs Red Sox 3/13/10
You guys will be proud of me (or maybe disappointed): I did not trespass onto "private" property, nor did I climb fences nor did I open doors that said "authorized personnel only". That's not to say the day wasn't filled with adventures, stories, and a farmer's tan. My agenda was much more similar to what you're used to: autograph hunting. For those of you who are new to this blog, I am not one of those autograph sellers; I am merely a collector. For me, there is a story behind every autograph, and a story behind the baseball that the autograph is on.


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