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This is a discussion on Someone shot me! No, wait...actually, I shot myself. within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; How did he do this? Police say Say Shooting Report was False Police say shooting report was false Submitted by Scott Monroe on Mon, 11/30/2009 ...
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NEWPORT -- A local man and the two people who live with him face charges of filing false reports after the man claimed Sunday to have been injured by a bullet during a drive-by shooting.
In fact, he had accidentally shot himself in the leg, police said.
The man, Scott Bullard, 21, was treated and released from a local hospital for the non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to Newport Lt. Randy Wing.
Newport police received a call at 9:10 p.m. Sunday from the residents of 34 Sand Road, according to Wing, who was the patrol supervisor when the report came in. Sand Road is a dead-end street off Route 2.
Michelle Thompson, 20, had called 911 and told a police dispatcher that a man at the residence had been shot in the leg by unknown persons driving past his residence in a pickup, Wing said. The victim was identified as Bullard. Also living at the residence was Albert Ingerson, 26, who is Thompsons boyfriend, Wing said.
Newport police responded, with Sgt. Sanger Davis leading the investigation. He was assisted by Lt. Wing and officer Chris McCrillis, as well as Maine State Police Brenda Coolen.
Bullard told police that he had just finished smoking a cigarette outside of the residence when he bent over to tie his sneaker and was shot, Wing said. Both Ingerson and Thompson backed up Bullards account of what happened, he said.
Bullard, who had a bullet wound through his left leg, was taken by ambulance to Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield, where he was treated and later released.
Wing said he interviewed Bullard at the hospital.
He maintained his story, but I found some inconsistencies, Wing said. I pressed him and he confessed that it was self-inflicted. I dont understand the reason for the fabricated story. I guess he was embarrassed.
What actually happened, police allege, is that Bullard had tucked a 9-millimeter Jennings pistol which was fully loaded into the waistband of his pants while he was watching television. The handgun discharged and the bullet traveled through the outer fleshy area of Bullards leg, missing major arteries, Wing said.
A matter of inches could have proved to be fatal, Wing said.
Police seized the handgun from the residence and determined that the gun had fired because it had a defective safety for the trigger, Wing said.
As of Monday afternoon, police said they expected to charge Bullard, Thompson and Ingerson with Class D charges of false public alarm or report.
Wing said police were investigating whether the three suspects had prior criminal records. As a result of that research, Ingerson was arrested by police at the residence Monday at 3:30 a.m. on an active warrant, issued by Skowhegan District Court for unpaid fines and fees.
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Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Good thing he was not using a smart carry.
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
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Just inches and we wouldn't have to worry about him reproducing. If you must carry tucked into the front of your pants be sure to scratch alot. Never heard of a Jennings. Might have saw one on display and just didn't pay attention.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around laws. Plato
Only thing I know about Jennings is that one of my friends bought one when he first turned 21, having little money at the time. After about 50 rounds the firing pin shot straight out the back and hit him dead center in the forehead. He learned an important lesson about crap guns that day.
"Stupid is as stupid does"
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all different levels of intelligence in that one, mostly at the lower end of the scale.
"9-millimeter Jennings" With such a high quality pistol no less.... Just goofy!
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
Jennings is a saturday night special brand. There was probably nothing wrong with the pistol the trigger probably just got bumped.
There is something about firing 4,200 thirty millimeter rounds/min that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
The Jennings was one of those cheap and dangerous guns constructed out of pot metal like the Hi-Point guns.
The company has already long been sued out of business but, obviously some of their defective garbage product still has not completely broken apart yet....and survives in the hands (or down the pants) of the ignorant and the uninformed....who would not know a hunk of junk from a rabid skunk....even if it jumped up and bit them on the ass.
And he's once... (Jennings)
twice... (Mexican carry)
three times (false reporting) an idiot.
He was a student at the Plaxico Burress school of CCW
Jennings was the make of firearm that was recently involved in a shooting at a gun range where three people suffered gunshot wounds from what they reported was a Jennings pistol loaded and laying on the range counter when it began firing, spinning and firing until empty without being held. It was reported in the Tampa Tribune, I believe.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
NORWAY, Iowa – Mike Boddicker took a stroll down memory lane during the Kernels Foundation tournament this past weekend when he returned to Iowa with his son, James, and the Mac-N-Seitz Indians for a WWBA event. Every time Boddicker stepped on a field, it brought back memories from more than 30 years ago.
"It's pretty neat," he said Sunday. "We played at the Kernels stadium, and then down at Iowa City at the University of Iowa, and then down at (Cedar Rapids) Jefferson this morning and now out at Norway. My son is playing on the fields that I played on."
Boddicker, 52, was one of the most successful high school pitchers in Iowa when he starred for Norway High School in the 1970s. He still holds state records for most victories (76) and most strikeouts (1,122) during an Iowa prep career and ranks third in lowest ERA (0.64 in 617 innings).
Boddicker has lived in Overland Park, Kan., since he retired from pro baseball in 1993, but he returned to his roots for the Kernels Foundation tournament as an assistant coach for his son's team that hails from the Kansas City area. He's returned to Iowa many times over the years to visit family and friends, but this time he returned as a coach on the field.
Boddicker especially enjoyed stepping on the old Norway field again. He grew up on that field in a real hotbed for baseball, although times have changed since Norway High School closed in 1991 and became part of Benton Community High School.
"All we wanted to do was play baseball when we were little kids," he said, gazing at the field, remembering. "It was tradition. The thing was, you'd win a state tournament, and then everybody in the town would go out and meet the team out on Highway 30, with the fire engine, and there'd be a big parade coming through town. And every kid wanted to do that, you wanted to be that kid that everybody looked up to. And we didn't have any football here. We basically played baseball the year-round, until the snow started flying, and then we'd play basketball."
Even before they were big enough to play on the big baseball diamond in Norway, Boddicker and his buddies played on a smaller, makeshift diamond in the outfield grass of the big field. They weren't supposed to, but they did.
"We used to get chewed out, because we had a little field in left field," he said. "The guy that used to take care of the field by the name of Jeff Pickard, he'd come and run us off. We had holes worn out where the bases were in left field here. We wanted a fence to hit it over, you know?"
Jim Van Scoyoc, the famed Norway High School coach and Boddicker's brother-in-law, remembers those days fondly.
"You can't see it anymore, but home plate was right there," said Van Scoyoc, standing along the left-field fence. "Jeff used to come down here and he'd be screaming mad, telling them to get off the ball diamond. He'd leave, and they'd come back again."
Van Scoyoc, now retired, was Boddicker's high school coach, and they won several state titles together.
"Very intense, very knowledgeable about the game, and he could drive nails when he pitched," said Van Scoyoc, offering a scouting report on Boddicker. "He could throw it right where he wanted to every time. I sat on a 5-gallon bucket in front of that dugout and he did it every damn time. It was fun when he was in the ballgame."
There was more about Boddicker, too.
"Great guy," said Van Scoyoc. "Very team oriented, a lot of leadership qualities. The things you like to have as a coach."
Norway was a small high school, but the Tigers played with the big boys.
"We knew fundamentally we could beat any team in the state. Jim made you believe that, and you worked at it and knew that you could," Boddicker said. "Basically, if you played the game and played it right, you could beat Cedar Rapids and Des Moines and Council Bluffs and Dubuque."
Boddicker used his training in Norway as a springboard for success at the University of Iowa and then the major leagues. He helped the Baltimore Orioles win the 1983 World Series with a clutch Game 2 victory over Philadelphia, striking out Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose and Joe Morgan along the way. He led the American League in victories and ERA in 1984, going 20-11 with a 2.79, and finished his 14-year career with a 134-116 record and 3.80 ERA.
Van Scoyoc relished Boddicker's success in the big leagues, especially that complete-game victory in the World Series.
"A beautiful ballgame," said Van Scoyoc, who was there, "and then when he got done pitching that second ballgame – he struck out Mike Schmidt to end the game, if I remember right – he walked off the mound toward the third-base dugout, and he crossed the third-base line, turned around and looked at us and stuck his thumb up in the air. He stuck both thumbs up in the air, if I remember correctly.
"It was quite an experience," said Van Scoyoc. "It was fun to watch, I'll tell you. It embodied a lot of the things that took place here."
Van Scoyoc preached the basics, including the ability to think your way through a ballgame. He taught his pitchers how to fool batters, to throw something they're not expecting, to change speeds, to keep a hitter off-balance.
"You don't have to be a big guy, you don't have to be a strong guy," said Van Scoyoc, "you just have to do the fundamental things that your position asks you to do and understand the game, and you can be very successful at it."
Boddicker was not a big guy at 5-foot-11 and did not throw particularly hard in the major leagues, but he used his guile, intelligence and "foshball" to good success. He played for Baltimore from 1980 to 1988, then got traded to Boston during the 1988 campaign and helped the Red Sox make the playoffs in 1988 and 1991. He left Boston and joined the Kansas City Royals, where his salary reached $3.1 million in 1991 and '92.
They made a movie about the Norway High School baseball program a few years ago called "The Final Season," an account of Norway's last season in 1991 when the school rallied for an improbable state title against all odds. Boddicker had a hand in that movie and wore a "Final Season" ballcap at the Norway field on Sunday.
"It was a nice family movie," he said. "It's never going to be an Academy Award kind of movie, but it was a very nice, low-budget movie, depicted the situation, the actors did a great job, I thought it was filmed well. We had a good time."
The Norway field is still there, but Norway High School closed its doors in 1990. Things aren't the same in Norway anymore as tradition, and time, have slipped away.
"It's real sad. Very sad," said Boddicker. "Eventually something was going to have to be done, because that school was falling apart up on the hill. But I think the town would have; I think we would have stepped up and done something. I know I sure would have, after I made it. I would have helped out. I don't think they gave anybody in town a chance. The movie we did was pretty much about that."
Boddicker did not return to Norway to rue the past, however. He returned to watch his son play ball, on the same fields he played on more than 30 years ago.
Mac-N-Seitz won its first game at Veterans Memorial Stadium, the home of the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Then they won at the University of Iowa, then won at Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School, then won at Norway. James Boddicker, Mike's son, pitched a strong game in the victory at Jefferson, then James had an RBI single to help Mac-N-Seitz take an early lead in the game at Norway.
Some things don't change.
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Need something to do on a rainy day? How about some papercrafts from Qooplo? Qooplo is the creation of Canada's Anthony Brennan, and while his basic shape might look a little similar to, say, Cubeecraft, the amount of detail he's put into these, plus their whimsical and fun nature, really sets them apart. There's plenty to pick from, featuring comic characters like Captain America and The Thing, a Mega Man and Rush set that was featured in Capcom's Mega Man tribute book, and best of all, papercraft pro wrestlers, many of them from the past like Jake "The Snake" Robers and "Macho Man" Randy Savage. There's a CM Punk one, too, though come Monday he'll be part of the past (sadly), so I guess it fits.
Check out all the papercraft creations on the Qooplo site. Man, I know what I'd be doing this weekend if I wasn't busy. You know, with Comic Con stuffs.


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Discussion in 'Performance & Fuel' started by MTM, Nov 7, 2011.
While high flow cats give me better fuel mileage?
your trucks current cats are just fine, hi flo cats are a joke, modern cats are good for 400hp.
Only reason to get hi flow cats is if you NEED to replace the stock ones or you find a great deal on some aftermarket ones.
X2....Unless you need to replace a bad cat the aftermarket ones are not any better the OEM cats.
Wow i'm very glad that i posted this.....glad i didn't buy cats
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How long have we got before voting closes?
Voting in the 2010 local government elections closes at midday on Saturday, October 9. To ensure your vote is received on time, you should post it before 5pm on Wednesday, October 6.
It's the school holidays and we plan to be away next week, and not return until Thursday, October 7. Can we still vote?
Yes, you can. You can hand-deliver your papers to the electoral office at Level 8, 92 Albert St, Auckland City, to any of the district or city council offices, or to service centres in Helensville, Kumeu/Huapai, Waiheke, Warkworth or Great Barrier Island.
You can also hand-deliver your vote to any of the Auckland public libraries before midday on Saturday, October 9.
I have not received my voting pack. What can I do?
Phone the electoral office on (09) 973-5212 or (0800) 922-822.
When will we start to hear who's won?
Counting will begin immediately after noon on Saturday, October 9, and preliminary results will be announced from early afternoon.
The final results will be declared when special votes have been checked, which will be during the week of October 11-15.
There seem to be an awful lot of names on our voting papers. How many people in all have stood for election?
In all, 545 nominations were received for 170 vacancies - 23 mayoral candidates, 102 council candidates and 420 local board candidates. They are competing for 20 council positions representing 13 wards, and 149 local board members in 21 local board areas. And of course, only one mayor.
These numbers do not include candidates for district health boards and licensing trusts, where they apply.
Vote early or wait till the last minute?
That's your decision, just as long as you do vote. More than 11 per cent of voting documents have been returned, compared with 9.4 per cent at the same stage of the voting period in the 2007 local body elections.


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'Sinful' clergy drive people away from Church, says cardinal
Dolan calls on Catholics to love the Church despite its flaws
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September 9, 2013
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that "sinful" clergy behavior is one of the main reasons people are leaving Roman Catholicism but called on believers to hold on to the Church despite its flaws, during a speaking engagement in Milwaukee, Wis., on Thursday.
"It's not a bad idea to fess up to the sinful side of the church," Dolan said, who is currently the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and served as Milwaukee Archbishop's between 2002 and 2009.
"In her human side, the church can be imperfect, sloppy and corrupt. We admit her flaws, but we love her all the more because she is Christ on the cross."
While he did not address specifics, Dolan noted that one of the biggest problems for the 1.3 billion member Church is dealing with the "sinful" behavior of clergy and other Church members, The Associated Press reported. He admitted that some Catholics have left the church because "they have been shocked, saddened and nauseated" by this "sinful behavior," and said that Catholics should not hide from that.
The NY Archbishop called on fellow believers, however, to defend the faith "from those who would take it from us."
"These liberators might be the late night talk show hosts, classmates of our kids ... or editorial page journalists who misunderstand the beauty of our Catholic faith," Dolan continued, according to the Journal Sentinel. "Are we prepared to engage them ... to live and die for the church? That, my friends, is apologetics. And that, my friends, we need more than ever."
Full Story: Cardinal Dolan Admits 'Sinful' Clergy Pushing People Away From Catholic Church
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Lady Justice statue removed in Bangladesh after Islamist outcry
Removal of statue 'saddening and unacceptable,' says bishop; others criticize government for appeasing hard-liners
Rights group warns against Mindanao martial law abuses
Philipinne military advises civilians in Marawi conflict zones to evacuate as search for militants continues
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Housecall For Health: Peanut Butter Recall Expands [VIDEO]
Some of the country's largest grocery stores are pulling products off the shelves after a company issued a recall of nut products over salmonella fears.
FOX's Colleen Cappon has more in today's edition of "Housecall For Health":
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A major U.S. peanut butter recall is now expanded to other nut products, like almond butter and roasted peanuts. New Mexico manufacturer Sunland issued the recall for Salmonella contamination and illnesses have been reported in 19 states. Two-thirds of those sickened are children. Retailers of the products include Trader Joe's, Target and Whole Foods.
Housecall For Health. I'm Colleen Cappon, FOX News Radio.
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This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War
For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.
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As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
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Abt Associates is seeking a Health Financing Coordinator for the Health Financing and Governance project, a global flagship project of USAID in Haiti focused on health financing, human resources for health, and capacity-building activities. In health financing, for example, activities will focus on the development of a health financing strategy, Health Information Systems, the estimation of National Health Accounts, and improving public financial management (PFM) in the health sector. There will be a heavy focus on capacity building and previous experience in strengthening Ministry of Health in health financing would be preferred.This person will be responsible for leading the technical and coordination efforts of health financing activities in collaboration with the Haiti office staff, stakeholders, and the Abt/Bethesda office. The Health Financing Coordinator will regularly report to the COP with regards to workplan, budget, and USAID protocol.
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Video: Pane of glass hits David Krejci after Bruins win
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As the Bruins were celebrating their 1-0 overtime win over the Capitals, center David Krejci was hit by a pane of glass. No word on whether he was injured. View the CBC video of the scary incident below (occurs at the one minute mark).
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|Weekly NBA Draft Watch: Could Jabari Parker fall into Celtics' lap?
|03.07.14 at 11:21 am ET
Wednesday night represented the lowest point of the Celtics' frustrating season. A 20-point home loss to the Warriors 'and it wasn't even as close as it sounds.
When lottery day arrives, this could be the loss Celtics fans look back on as the straw that broke the camel's back. Losses aside, when you think of this struggling Celtics squad, you still think of a team that plays hard. Wednesday night that thought disappeared.
'I didn't think our energy was an A-plus,' coach Brad Stevens stated postgame, 'let's just put it that way.'
We have seen all season long that no matter what, Stevens' team plays hard ' but not anymore. Lack of effort will make for horrible basketball to watch over the final 21 games, but it will yield a fantastic draft pick at the end of the not-so pretty rainbow.
Boston still holds the fourth-highest lottery odds, sandwiched between the Magic (third) and Lakers (fifth). The Lakers saw the Celtics lay an egg and came out Thursday night determined to one-up them — by suffering the most lopsided loss in franchise history. The Lakers fell to the Clippers, 142-94, and it seemed like Blake Griffin and company finished off every possession with a dunk. I turned it off at 104-56 with three minutes remaining in the third quarter — it got that bad. Orlando, on the other hand, has only one less win than Boston, so the third spot in the lottery is not out of the question.
What would finishing as the third-worst team in the NBA mean? It would give Boston a 96 percent chance at a top-five pick and a 47 percent chance at selecting in the top three. The worst result would be the sixth pick, and that would only have a 4 percent chance of happening.
We have been under the impression that owning a top-three pick is an absolute must in order to obtain one of the top-tier prospects expected to enter the draft. There are very intriguing players to be had throughout the entire lottery, but Joel Embiid, Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker seem to have separated themselves from the pack. However, Chad Ford's most recent mock draft for ESPN insider had a new view of the draft. Embiid and Wiggins hold down the two top picks, but Parker is not in the third spot. Ford has the Magic using their pick on Dante Exum, who is said to be climbing draft boards (by working out in a gym in Australia). This leaves the C's selecting Parker in the No. 4 spot, and making out like bandits.
|Weekly NBA Draft Watch: Tough March schedule should benefit Celtics in lottery
|02.28.14 at 10:44 am ET
Wednesday night provided an interesting perspective for the Celtics on the 2014 NBA draft. Boston returned to the Garden and defeated the Hawks, ending a five-game losing streak — which both hurt and improved their draft picks.
The Celts earned their 20th victory of the season, moving past the Lakers in the standings in the process. Boston holds the fifth-highest lottery odds, but don't forget about the Brooklyn/Atlanta pick that Danny Ainge owns as well. Not only are the Hawks coming off a loss, the Nets got slammed by the Blazers by 44 points Wednesday in Portland. Boston gets whichever pick is less favorable between the two teams, and as of Thursday afternoon, those are the two worst records of playoff teams.
If only one of the two picks end up in the lottery, the higher pick would belong to Atlanta, but if both teams miss the postseason, Boston would be in luck. Although it is highly unlikely, Wednesday night reminded us it is too early to rule out the Celtics owning a second lottery pick.
Although there is some silver lining in beating a team like Atlanta, the real value remains in the Celtics' own first-rounder. One thing we are learning this season is that each loss makes a difference, and Wednesday would have been a good night to lose. Had the C's lost, they not only would have had the fourth-highest lottery odds, they would have been just one win ahead of the Magic.
Orlando was able to collect a victory Wednesday over the 76ers, opening up an opportunity for a new team to get a taste of the bottom three for the first time in weeks. The Lakers appear to have the inside track, but the Celtics have a tough month of March. Boston plays 10 of 15 games against teams above .500, including the Pacers twice and the Heat. That doesn't even include two games against the Nets and a game at New Orleans — the Celtics are 0-13 on the road against the Western Conference this season.
Boston has a golden opportunity to land in the top five of this draft, and the brutal March schedule is the key to getting there. Wednesday just proves how important each night in the NBA will be to lottery odds/draft order as we go down the home stretch. But for now, here is what the draft lottery (plus the next two picks) could look like if it were held today.
1. Bucks: Joel Embiid (Kansas, freshman) — Embiid remains the top prospect based on pure potential. In his three games since returning from injury, Embiid has averaged 14.3 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 3.3 blocks — all while committing significantly less fouls. He is simply too rare of a prospect for Milwaukee to pass up.
2. 76ers: Andrew Wiggins (Kansas, freshman) — Wiggins still has not posted the overall numbers that he was expected to, but he is starting to back up some of the hype. He has become much more consistent of late, scoring 14 or more points in 10 of his last 11 games. Wiggins also finished off Texas Tech with a game-winner, a good sign after his competitive drive has been questioned. Philly is loaded with young talent; even though Wiggins may be a project, he will have time to develop there.
|Weekly NBA Draft Watch: Danny Ainge's inactivity at trade deadline might be costly
|02.22.14 at 10:58 am ET
In somewhat of a surprise, Danny Ainge watched Thursday's trade deadline come and go without shipping any of the current Celtics out of town. Although there were no deals that will take over the headlines, there certainly were moves made that will affect the NBA draft.
Typically, the focus of this post is college basketball's top stars and their draft stock — with the possibility that they may end up in Boston. But with a quiet week for the prospects, this week's focus will be on why Ainge's lack of a move can only hurt Boston's lottery odds.
While the Pacers are getting attention for adding Evan Turner and Lavoy Allen, it should not go unnoticed that the 76ers are subtracting those players from a 15-win team. In addition, Philly sent its starting center, Spencer Hawes, to the Cavaliers. These moves leave the 76ers roster without two of its top four scorers this season.
Although Philly landed a multitude of second-round-picks (crazy stat: the 76ers now have nine second-rounders in this year's draft — 30 percent of the picks in the round), they have essentially guaranteed themselves to finish in the bottom three of the league. Although the Sixers became the biggest 'tankers' of the deadline, other teams made splashes, too.
The 10-win Bucks dumped Gary Neal and Luke Ridnour on the playoff-hopeful Bobcats. The Lakers shipped Steve Blake away to give the Warriors backcourt depth, despite Kobe Bryant tweeting that he's 'not cool' with the move. And the Magic, who couldn't find a trade to make, decided to simply buy out the contract of Glen 'Big Baby' Davis.
So what's the significance of all these seemingly insignificant moves? All of those teams that rid themselves of contributors sit below the Celtics in the standings.
Although Ainge was active earlier in the season, it appears he now has limited Boston's odds at an elite draft pick simply by doing nothing. The idea of tanking rests solely on the GM's ability to take key pieces away from the team; coaches and players are going to give it their all every night.
On the positive side of the spectrum, all the teams above the Celtics in the standings, aside from the Jazz, feel they have what it takes to make a playoff push. This still means in all likelihood that Boston can finish with the seventh-highest lottery odds at worst. But at the same time it makes it very difficult to see the Celtics landing inside the top five picks without a little help from the ping pong balls.
|Weekly NBA draft prospect watch: Marcus Smart's stock likely dropping
|02.13.14 at 4:12 pm ET
The Celtics head into the All-Star break with a record of 19-35. With this season's diluted NBA product, that gives them the sixth-worst record in the league.
Even the smallest of streaks makes a difference when it comes to the number of ping pong balls owned come lottery time. Boston got hot and won 4-of-5 games starting on Super Bowl Sunday, a streak that took them from the third-highest odds of winning the lottery to the eighth. The C's fell to the Spurs on Wednesday night, though, which, combined with unlikely recent wins by the Jazz and Cavaliers, has them sitting in the sixth spot.
The Celtics are on pace for about 28 wins by season's end, but with the trade deadline around the corner, and the tanking only expected to become more obvious, no predictions are safe. The C's could find themselves selecting anywhere in the lottery, which makes for excitement but also causes uncertainty.
Here's a look at what some of the top draft prospects have done in the past week, plus a brief look at some players on the rise.
Marcus Smart, Oklahoma State, sophomore ' As everyone knows by now, Smart only hurt his draft status in the past week. On Saturday night at Texas Tech Smart had a decent game, but his name was in the headlines for another reason.
With 6.2 seconds left, and the Cowboys on their way to a fourth consecutive loss, Smart's frustration boiled over in the worst way. Falling into the crowd going for a block, Smart was helped up, but he did not head to the court as expected. Instead he went deeper into the crowd and argued with a fan who had been heckling him. Smart then shoved the fan, which isn't tolerated in any sports forum.
Both the fan and Smart have since apologized for their actions, but that was not enough to save Smart from a suspension. Smart missed his team's blowout loss to Texas on Tuesday, and will miss the next two games to round out a three-game ban. His return, oddly enough, will come against Texas Tech, but this time on Oklahoma State's home floor.
"Marcus made a big mistake [Saturday] night, he knows that," Cowboys coach Travis Ford said Sunday. "We talked about it extensively. He knows we don't condone things of that matter. He has owned up to it.'
Added Ford: 'Marcus is a young man that has been in the public eye for quite a bit. And I think we'd all agree for the highest percentage of the time, he's conducted himself as a tremendous young man. But he made a mistake that he's going to pay for."
Smart probably will end up paying a steeper price than his three-game suspension once the draft rolls around.
|As Celtics head toward lottery, here's a look at top prospects in NBA draft
|02.06.14 at 10:07 am ET
The Celtics are coming off of their worst month in team history — a record of 2-15 in January.
Wrap your mind around that: the worst month in Celtics history. The 2006-07 team that lost 18 straight never dropped more than 14 games in a month. Even M.L. Carr's 1996-97 tank-squad that won a total of 15 games never topped 14 losses in a single month.
So what does this mean? It means the Celtics are going to lose a ton of games this season, even with Rajon Rondo.
The trade deadline is looming, and Danny Ainge already has showed that he is not afraid to make moves for the future — trading Courtney Lee and Jordan Crawford for expiring contracts and draft picks is evidence. And it's safe to expect similar moves between now and Feb. 20.
It's also safe to expect Ainge to hold a high draft pick come June. Boston currently has the sixth-worst record in the NBA and has reached as low as third (the C's were fourth worst entering Wednesday). Recent wins over bottom-feeders Orlando and Philadelphia have the Celts sitting a bit higher in the standings. Losing another game or two would allow them to get in that bottom three, which yields a 96 percent chance at a top-five pick. The timing couldn't be better, as the class of 2014 is loaded with prospects that project to be NBA stars.
Given the Celtics' current position, selecting somewhere in the top five seems reasonable. So let's look at the top five prospects in the draft and how they would work in Boston.
Joel Embiid, Kansas, freshman — Embiid has scouts drooling over his NBA potential. He has grown from a mid-to-late lottery pick to a probable first overall pick in just about half a season.
Embiid is a 7-footer with a 7-foot-5 wingspan. And oh, yeah, he's only been playing basketball for about three years. Originally from Cameroon, Embiid still is learning the game at Kansas under Bill Self. The conventional wisdom was that he would take more time to develop, but Embiid has been masterful on the defensive end and is far less raw on offense than we were led to believe. "He's skilled, he's tough, he's learning quickly, he's all of 7 feet and he battles," ESPN college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman said in a Thursday interview with Mut & Merloni. "And he's getting better."
Embiid has posted season averages of 10.9 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.6 blocks and 1.3 assists in only 22.7 minutes per contest. He has done all this while shooting 61.6 percent from the field and making plays that have (rightfully) drawn comparisons to Hakeem Olajuwon. The lone flaw in his game? Embiid fouls far too often. His 3.5 fouls per game are much too high, especially considering his minutes.
|Sonny Parker: Jabari 'not entertaining' NBA future until after Duke season
|01.21.14 at 2:08 pm ET
Despite a recent report on NBA.com suggesting Duke freshman phenom Jabari Parker plans to remain in college after this season, the father of the projected top pick in this June's NBA draft remains adamant that a decision has not been made — and the subject will not even be broached until after the season.
"My wife, my son and I haven't talked about it," Jabari's father, Sonny Parker, who played for the Warriors from 1976-82, told WEEI.com. "We honestly don't know. After the season, we'll talk about it. That's what I told Coach K [Mike Krzyzewski] when he was recruiting Jabari, and that's what I tell him now.
"We just want Jabari to enjoy the season. People can speculate all they want, but it's not a discussion. Right now, he's dealing with being a student-athlete at Duke. He's not entertaining that."
All of which makes the Bulls.com report a bit confounding for the Parker camp:
"The growing view among NBA executives seems to be Jabari Parker will not leave Duke this year. Chicagoan Jahlil Okafor, a Parker friend and big man, is going to Duke next season. Parker is a bright young man with a strong family and the feeling is he understands both the importance of education and feels he owes Duke and the chance to have a great Duke team, which more than likely is the next two seasons. Plus, Parker has seen what staying in school has done for other greats compared with the tough starts for even stars like Kobe Bryant."
While it's true the Blue Devils, who have been forced to play Parker out of position at the 4 and 5 this season, will welcome a remarkable Class of 2014 — including the nation's top center and point guard recruits in Okafor and Tyus Jones, respectively (as well as Justise Winslow, the apparent small forward heir to Parker) — the question remains: How could NBA executives know Jabari's future when he apparently hasn't even made up his mind?
"We're not thinking about that right now, and we don't want him thinking about it," added Sonny Parker. "He doesn't want it to be a distraction for his teammates. I don't know where they're getting their information, because we really don't know what he's going to do. He just wants to have fun, concentrate on this season and enjoy school."
A remarkably humble elite basketball recruit who led Chicago's Simeon Career Academy (Derrick Rose's alma mater) to a record four straight Illinois Class 4A state titles, Parker has always placed equal values on education, his Mormon faith and a love for basketball, so this speculation was inevitable. After maintaining a 3.71 GPA at the prep level, Parker earned all A's and B's in his first semester at Duke, according to his father.
During the recruiting process, his family even suggested the 6-foot-8, 235-pound wing could remain in college all four years, but Krzyzewski told The Dan Patrick Show last month that he expects Parker to enter the 2014 draft.
"Everybody's got him one-and-done," said Sonny Parker, who knows many mock drafts have his son listed as high as the No. 1 overall choice. "We know the projections. We know what people are saying. Right now, he just wants to win a championship. Everybody's saying he's coming out, but he'll let us know. That will come from him."
Meanwhile, Parker is averaging 19.1 points (48.6 FG%, 40.9 3P%, 74.5 FT%), 7.3 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1.1 blocks and 0.9 steals in 29.1 minutes per game for the Blue Devils (14-4). After his scoring average dipped to 10.8 points on just 32.2 percent shooting over a five-game stretch that included losses to Notre Dame and Clemson earlier this month, Parker bounced back with 23 points on 14 shots against N.C. State over the weekend.
"All these people are saying he hit a wall," Sonny Parker said. "He's not hitting a wall."
|Irish Coffee: A look at Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, Julius Randle and the 18 prospects Danny Ainge scouted in Chicago
|11.13.13 at 12:07 pm ET
When word got out that Danny Ainge attended Tuesday night's Champions Classic in Chicago — an event that featured the likely top three players in the 2014 NBA draft and four of college basketball's best five teams — the Celtics president's presence brought out the Riggin' for Wiggins folks in full force.
While Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker and Julius Randle didn't disappoint, combining for 76 points (65 TS%) and 30 rebounds, the reality is those two games (Kansas 94, Duke 83; Michigan State 78, Kentucky 74) featured as many as 18 picks in June's draft. Ainge would be a fool not to show up. Here are the stat lines he saw from those 18 players in order of performance — complete with each prospect's mixtape and a link to his DraftExpress profile.
18. Tarik Black SR PF Kansas (6 MIN): 0 PTS, 1 REB, 3 PF
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Juni 1998
BeschreibungFantasy fiction trilogy which includes "The Eye In The Pyramid, The Golden Apple" and "Leviathan". "The ultimate conspiracy book.. hilariously raunchy... the biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since "Dune"" "The Village Voice".
PortraitRobert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings. Robert Anton Wilson was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an episkopos, pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings, interviews, and strolls. Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything"
Untertitel: Illustrations. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsdatum: Juni 1998
Seitenanzahl: 805 Seiten
Format: kartoniert


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Posted on January 26, 2013
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Access to Grades
Grades are accessed by students through their my.PugetSound.edu portal. Grades are similarly provided by portal to instructors, department chairs, and academic advisors.
Mid-Term Grading System
Midterm grades are reported in the fall and spring semesters to students and their academic advisor. Midterm grades provide an evaluation of academic progress but are no guarantee of either passing or failing grades at the end of the term. Midterm grades are not recorded on the transcript and do not affect the grade point average. The midterm grades are:
S: Satisfactory
U: Unsatisfactory
F: Fail
W: Withdrawal (Student has officially withdrawn from course)
WF: Withdrawal Failing
AU: Audit (Student has official registration for audit)
System of Permanent Grades
Permanent grades used are:
Letter Grade
Quality Points Per Unit
0 (Pass - not computed in GPA;
0.00 (Fail computed in GPA)
0 (Withdrawal - not computed in GPA)
0.00 (Withdrawal Failing - computed in GPA)
0 (Audit - not computed in GPA)
The Dean's List designation is awarded each fall or spring semester to those full-time, undergraduate
students in a first baccalaureate degree program who meet the following criteria for a given semester:
There are two temporary grades, Incomplete(I) and In-progress(IP). These grades will be changed by the
instructor of record to the appropriate permanent grade within the time periods specified by faculty policy.
No grade points are assigned to an Incomplete or In-progress grade until it is converted to a
permanent grade. For courses initially graded Incomplete, a reference to the Incomplete remains on the
transcript with the permanent grade.
Grades to Parents and Guardians
In compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, students' grades are not automatically
provided to parents. A student who wishes parents to receive grades may complete a Request for Parent
Grade Report form in the Office of the Registrar. When this form is completed, parents will receive grade
reports automatically until the request is revoked in writing by the student.
The pass/fail grading option is designed to encourage a student to explore courses in academic areas outside the major or minor. The breadth of a liberal education may be thereby enhanced. Students who wish to exercise the pass/fail grading option must do so at the Office of the Registrar on or before the last day to add a class.
A student may take, on a pass/fail basis, a total of four academic courses (with a limit of one per term) and up to 2.00 activity units in the minimum of 32.00 units required for graduation. Any credit-bearing mandatory pass/fail academic course will count as one of the four courses allowed toward graduation. Almost all activity courses are mandatory pass/fail. A maximum of one academic course may be taken pass/fail per term in addition to any mandatory pass/fail course. The pass/fail grade option is only available to juniors or seniors and no pass/fail courses shall be taken in the department of major or minor. A student planning to go to graduate or professional school is advised not to use the pass/fail grading option in academic courses.
Pass/fail registrations are not reported to the instructor. Those students registered for pass/fail receive a P if the instructor submits a grade of C- or higher and receive an F if the instructor submits a grade of D+ or lower.
An instructor may prohibit the pass/fail grading option or may limit the number of students who select the pass/fail grading option. This authority does not apply to instructors of courses with mandatory pass/fail grading.
Courses taken pass/fail will not fulfill university Core Requirements, will not be applied to the Foreign Language Graduation Requirement, and will not be applied to the Upper-Division Graduation Requirement.
All courses counting toward the academic major or minor must be taken for a letter grade unless they are mandatory pass/fail. Graduate students may not select pass/fail grading for any courses applied to the graduate degree.
If a student's grade is "pass," credit will be given for the course and included in total units of credit, but will not be included in the calculation of the grade point average. If a student's grade is "fail," it will be included in the calculation of the grade point average
The audit allows the student to register for a course without grade or credit.
Full-time students, alumni with a Puget Sound degree, law school alumni who graduated in August 1994 or earlier, and members of the University of Puget Sound Women's League may audit without tuition charge one class per term with a maximum of two classes per academic year, including Summer Session. Students who do not fit the categories listed above may audit regularly scheduled classes at one-half the regular tuition fee. Audit registration opens on the first day of class and all auditors register on a space available basis and only with the instructor's permission.
The courses listed below may not be audited. Auditors must pay all applicable class instruction fees. Reduced tuition rates are not available to students who successfully petition to change their registration from credit to audit. Continuing Education courses may not be audited without tuition charge.Students wishing to audit may submit their request on an add form anytime during the add period at the Office of the Registrar. Because auditors are allowed only on a space-available basis, audit registrations are not confirmed until the day after the end of the add period. Students registered as auditors may participate in a class within the conditions specified by the instructor. However, the instructor has the authority to withdraw an auditor for non-attendance or when participation or the lack thereof detracts from the progress of other students taking the course and, in the judgment of the instructor, the posting of an audit on the permanent academic record is not warranted. When this happens, the course will not appear on the record. If a student withdraws from a course being audited, the course will not appear on the record.
Students on study abroad may audit a course only if they are full-time students carrying at least 3.00 units of credit.
These Courses May Not Be Audited:
First-Year Seminars
Independent Study, Directed Research, or Junior/Senior Research courses
Senior Thesis or graduate/undergraduate project courses
Laboratory, Fieldwork, or Clinic courses
Internship, Co-operative Education, or Practicum courses
Applied Music courses
Any course numbered 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 695, 696, 697, 698, or 699
Withdrawal Grades
Withdrawal without record on the academic transcript is permissible through the first 10 days of the fall and spring semesters when a student withdraws or is withdrawn by an instructor. Following this period, a Withdrawal grade of W may be assigned through the tenth week of classes when a student completes withdrawal procedures through the Registrar's Office. If, following the first two weeks, a student is withdrawn without completing withdrawal procedures, or if a student withdraws after the time allowed for a W grade, a Withdrawal Failing (WF) is automatically assigned.
During the Withdrawal Failing period following class week 11, a student may petition the Academic Standards Committee requesting withdrawal with a W grade. To support such a petition, the student must 1) have completed withdrawal procedures, 2) outline in a statement to the Committee the exceptional circumstances prompting withdrawal, and 3) provide supporting documentation of exceptional circumstances from a health care provider, counselor, Puget Sound advisor, or other university advocate. Additionally, the student may submit a statement from the course instructor regarding the student's progress in the class and, in the absence of such a statement, the Registrar's Office may solicit comments or recommendations from the instructor.
The last day of class, as listed in the academic calendar, is the last day a student may withdraw from a class. Once Reading Period begins, a student is no longer able to withdraw.
Withdrawal from a course past the date for withdrawal without record counts as a "course attempt."
This means if a student registers again for a course that had been assigned a W or WF grade, the student is repeating that course under the terms of the policy titled "Re-registration for the Same Course." During the summer session, the withdrawal process described for the fall and spring semesters applies during the following weeks: first week, drop without record; second, third, and fourth weeks, automatic W grade; fifth week and later, WF is the default grade and the Academic Standards Committee may assign a W grade in response to a student's petition.
A student who remains registered in a class but has a poor record of attendance may be subject to the registration and withdrawal policies that allow an instructor or the Registrar to drop that student. (See the sections titled "Registration and Attendance/Participation," "Non-Attendance," and "Withdrawal from a
Course/From the University.") Students who receive withdrawal grades for all courses in a given semester must petition the Academic Standards Committee for re-enrollment in the University.
Medical withdrawal may be an appropriate response to a medical or psychological condition that prevents a
student from completing the semester's work.
The Academic Standards Committee may approve a medical withdrawal petition when the following
steps are taken:
A student may return from a medical withdrawal with the permission of the Academic Standards Committee. Permission may be granted with an approved re-enrollment petition to the Committee that includes the student's personal statement, a health care provider's statement, and any other statement or documentation required by the Committee. Health care providers may also stipulate conditions under which re-enrollment will be permitted; the student must meet such conditions and any continuing conditions set by a health care provider.
Medical withdrawal petition forms, health care provider forms, and medical withdrawal re-enrollment
forms may be obtained from the Office of the Registrar.
Emergency Administrative Withdrawal Policy
Emergency administrative withdrawal may be an appropriate response to a sudden and catastrophic incident in a student's life that prevents a student from completing the semester's work. These rare cases would include family or personal emergencies of a traumatic nature that would severely impede a student's ability to remain enrolled (e.g. family death, home destruction by natural disaster or fire). The emergency administrative withdrawal policy is not intended to apply in situations of chronic or on-going medical, emotional, or psychological distress nor in cases covered by the medical withdrawal or incomplete grade policies.
The Academic Standards Committee may approve an emergency administrative withdrawal petition
when the following steps are taken:
A student may return from an Emergency Administrative Withdrawal with the permission of the
Academic Standards Committee. Permission may be granted with an approved re-enrollment petition to the Committee that includes the student's personal statement, an endorsing statement from the Assistant
Dean of Students, and any other statement required by the Committee.
Incomplete Grades
An Incomplete grade (I) indicates that, although the work accomplished in a course is of passing quality,
some limited portion of the coursework remains unfinished because of illness or other exceptional
circumstance. It is the student's responsibility to request an Incomplete from the instructor prior to the
last class session or the final examination period and to explain the exceptional circumstance. If the
instructor decides that the request is not consistent with faculty grading policy or that the circumstance
does not warrant an extension of time, the instructor will assign the appropriate final grade rather than an
Incomplete. When an Incomplete is awarded, the instructor is encouraged to use the Incomplete Grade
Notice to the Registrar of Remaining Work form available in the Office of the Registrar. The form identifies
the balance of work remaining and the date the work is due to the instructor (the due date may not be later
than the end of the second week of the next regular semester with the grade due to the Registrar by the end of the third week).
In order to receive credit for a course in which a student has received an Incomplete, it is the student's
responsibility to complete the work by the end of the second week of the next regular semester or by an earlier deadline set by the instructor, to submit the work to the instructor (or, if the instructor is on leave, to the chair of the department or to the Dean of the University), and to request a final grade. It is the responsibility of the instructor to grade the work and to submit a final grade no later than the end of the third week of the next regular semester.
The instructor must not accept work after the second week of the next regular semester unless an extension has been approved. The faculty member must provide the Registrar with official notification of the completion of the course by means of a Final Grade Submission form. If a grade is not submitted by the second week of the next regular semester, and if an extension is not requested by the instructor, then the Registrar records a grade of F on the permanent academic record.
When an Incomplete is assigned in the last term of study prior to graduation, the degree will not be awarded until the next regular degree granting date after submission of a satisfactory grade by the instructor.
An Incomplete may not be changed to W, WF, or AU. The Incomplete should not be assigned initially when the W or WF would be the correct grade. The Incomplete also is not to be used to collect fees or equipment for which the student is obligated.
An Incomplete grade may not be completed by attending the course when it is offered at a later date.
An extension of time may be requested of the faculty member by the student. If the instructor agrees with
the request, the instructor must submit a Grade Extension Request form to the Registrar. Extensions are
granted only when unforeseen circumstances occurred which precluded completion of work during the
period of time covered by the Incomplete. Verification of those circumstances must be provided to the
instructor and to the Registrar. An extension may not be granted when the circumstances are within the
purview of the student to control, e.g., did not know the due date, was not present on campus, took a trip
to another geographic area, or had a heavy academic or work schedule.
The Registrar (as the Dean of the University's designee) makes the decision to grant or deny an
extension request and determines the duration of the extension and the date the grade is to be reported by
the faculty member.
An In-progress grade (IP) may be used for specific courses which are approved by the Curriculum
Committee to extend over two or more terms.
In order to receive credit for the course, the student must complete the work within the time specified
for the course. The instructor is expected to assign a permanent grade at the end of the course. If work is
not complete at the end of the course, an Incomplete grade may be assigned at the instructor's discretion and within the provisions of the Incomplete Grade policy. The unit value of a course with an IP grade is not counted among the completed units until the permanent grade is assigned.
An IP grade may be converted to W or WF through the period of the original contract constituting the
duration of the course but not after an Incomplete has been assigned.
Change of a Permanent Grade
Once recorded in the registrar's records, a grade may be changed in one of only two ways:
Faculty may not change permanent grades (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, F, P, W, WF, AU) once recorded in the Registrar's records unless a documented error was made in assigning the original grade. The error must be reported to the Registrar by mid-term of the next regular term after it was assigned and must be thoroughly documented by the faculty member. If documentation is not supplied, the grade cannot be changed. After permanent grades have been assigned, an instructor may not accept late work in order to reassess or change the final grade. This means that work completed after the term is over may not be used to change a permanent grade.
Disputed Grades
The normal presumption in the administration of grades at the University of Puget Sound is that the instructor alone is qualified to evaluate the academic work of students in his or her courses and to assign grades to that work. For this reason, questions regarding an instructor's assessment of the quality of academic work are not normally subject to review. However, when a student believes that a particular grade was assigned in a manner that was arbitrary or unjust, or that crucial evidence was not taken into account, the student shall follow the procedures outlined below.
It is the responsibility of the student to initiate the grade dispute process and, if the dispute cannot be resolved between the instructor and the student, to request a hearing board to adjudicate the dispute. A student's intention to dispute a grade through a hearing board must be brought in writing to the Dean of the University no later than the end of the fifth week of the semester following the term in which the disputed grade was given. Normally, the hearing board is to be convened by the end of the semester following the term in which the grade was given. Any change to this policy must be requested by the student no later than the end of the fifth week of the semester following the term in which the disputed grade was given and approved by the Dean of the University.
Establishing a Claim for a Disputed Grade Grievance and Organization of the Board
Assignment of Grades by a Person other than the Instructor
When a situation occurs in which a grade needs to be assigned and the instructor is no longer able to act or is not available, the following procedure shall be followed. This problem might occur in case of a faculty member's death, termination, resignation, or with supplementary faculty. The procedure may be applied for assigning grades at the end of a term, in the case of a missing grade, upon completion of an Incomplete, or in response to a grade complaint.


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*Please Note, i am currently in the process of changing the website, so some things might not work properly, please contact me if you find anything*
DRM is used in a number of media, but is most commonly found in video and music files. There are many who argue that DRM is a misnomer, since it deals with use issues rather than the rights of the consumer. They therefore reinterpret DRM to stand for Digital Restrictions Management. – wisegeek.
The problem with DRM is it doesnt allow for Fair Use, if you buy something, you should be allowed to use it as your needs require, so here is a guide on how to remove DRM from .wmv files, in order that you can use it in accordance with Fair Use policies. For this to work you MUST have already aquired the licence for the media, this isnt a guide on how to crack DRM, only on how to remove it from files you have licences for.
1) An up to date version of Windows Media Player will NOT work for this, my suggestion is to use VMWare, create a new XP Pro SP2 Virtual Machine with the default WMP9, otherwise you will need to rollback to at the latest 10.00.00.3646, however 9 is probably easier.
2) You need 2 files drmdbg.exe (or drmdbg[1].exe) and drm2wmv_e.exe which can be found here, save them both to the desktop (this is the easiest way to do this).
3) Run drmdbg.exe, when WMP opens drag the DRMed file into it (or click File/Open and browse for the file). After a few seconds a popup box will appear with some information about the file, click Ok. (This will create a folder drm2 on the desktop, dont worry about this)
4) Drag the DRMed file onto drm2wmv_e.exe, when this has finished you will have a new file, same name as the original but with a [NoDRM] prefix… thats it, your done
Ok, things dont always run smooth, i've come across some weird problems while trying this out on other systems, so heres something to try if all else fails, go to c:\documents and settings\all users\drm <– delete it, run the protected file, this should recreate the drm folder when the license is downloaded, then go to http://services.wmdrm.windowsmedia.com/indivSite and click upgrade, this fixed my problems on a couple of things, see how you get on
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July 30, 2009, 12:12 am /
I tried to remove the DRM on a video file I own. No luck. I tried to unload the DRM folder in D & S & I can't get rid of Cache & drmstore.hds. They are hidden & I can't unhide them. Pls Help.
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man, thanks for not only doing the write-up, but also hosting drmdbg.exe and drm2wmv_e.exe Thanks for saving my sanity.
October 29, 2008, 6:17 am /
This is a fantastic mod. It strips the DRM clean, IMO the best fair use DRM remover there is.
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Thank you, this was a great program. I bought a couple of WMV-HD movies but instead of using my PC I wished to use my media player (Popcorn) which of course was impossible… I´ve tried several more or less difficult programs with no sucess when I stumbled over this. This was so easy that I was doubtful it would work, but it did. The only thing I did was to upgrade the license stuff that you mentionend.
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Removing copy protection on Windows Media Audio files (removing DRM on WMA's)…
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Tested on: Windows XP, Windows Media Player 9 with security component upgrade
Geekiness: 3 / 5
I recently bought an audiobook online which…


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Re: st: xtmepoisson and xtmelogit error messages
Maarten buis <email@example.com>
Re: st: xtmepoisson and xtmelogit error messages
Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:27:24 +0000 (GMT)
--- Margit Averdijk <email@example.com> wrote:
> I am estimating a growth curve model based on unbalanced panel-data
> with 6 waves of data. The dependent variable is victimization, and
> age is the sole predictor variable. There are 17 different age
> cohorts and models are estimated for each age cohort separately.
> Some information about the data: the victimization variable counts
> the number of victimization events and is highly skewed with about
> 96-98% being zero, 1-3% being one, and less than 1% being 2 till 9.
> Every cohort contains around 1000 persons. I would like the model to
> contain a random intercept and random slope.
Controling for each seems definately necesary. Though that does depend
a bit on the range of age you are studying: if the range is 30-47, than
it might not even be necesary, if it is 16-90 than age is definately
going to have a non-linear effect. However, breaking the data up in 17
chuncks is probably too wasteful. Given the large number of zeros you
have precious little data. One possible solution is not to break up
your data but control for age using a cubic spline, as you probably
want the effect of age to remain non-linear (going from 30 to 50 will
probably have less effect than going from 50 to 70).
Hope this helps,
Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Men's Health Week 2017 will run from 12-18 June.
This year we'll be focusing on belly fat. Why? Because it's the type of fat that's bad for your health and men are more likely to have it.
It's a problem because belly fat lurks not just beneath the surface but also gets down deep and surrounds your vital organs. Regardless of your overall weight, a large amount of belly fat increases your risk of:
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- Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes
- Colorectal cancer
- Sleep apnea
- Premature death from any cause
- High blood pressure
So, men need to get those tape measures out.
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Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
The Department of Criminology recently held a "Welcome Picnic" for incoming freshmen in Fall 2009. Students stopped by the Oak Grove area in front of Wilson Hall to meet many of their professors and enjoy a picnic lunch.
Dr. Erika Frenzel, Advising Center coordinator, welcomed and encouraged the students to stop by the Advising Center if they have any questions. Seven door prizes were given, included Criminology T-shirts, a backpack, and IUP school supplies. It was a relaxing afternoon and an excellent start to their first semester here at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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