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State superintendent of Education John White. (Donna Price / American Press)
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:59 PM
Contemplate this scenario: The CEO of the company you work for decides to implement an employee evaluation system in which only about 10 percent of the total employees will receive annually the highest level of evaluation possible. Job security and some employee compensation is based on that rating system.
Do you think that's fair? Neither do we.
Yet that is the prospect that public school teachers in Louisiana face with the fledgling value-added model rating system.
Amazingly, state Superintendent of Education John White defends the system.
The rating system for teachers provides four levels: highly effective, effective proficient, effective emerging and ineffective.
For value-added teachers, the system uses a bell curve that projects that about 10 percent of the teachers in the state will earn the highly effective status in a given year; 80 percent will earn the effective proficient and effective emerging ratings; and 10 percent will be labeled as ineffective.
Teachers in grades 3-8 who teach core subjects, as well as high school Algebra I and geometry teachers, will be evaluated under the value-added model.
This bell curve will make up 50 percent of their total evaluation score.
A rating system that has either predictable results or outcomes has not 1 ounce of credibility. How can an evaluation system that projects the end numbers be taken seriously?
Additional statistics expose other flaws in the evaluation system.
Less than 6 percent of the fourth- through ninth-grade teachers in Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jeff Davis parishes evaluated by the VAM system received a highly effective rating last year.
Traditionally, those four school districts have been ranked in the top 25 percent of all districts in the state. In fact, Jeff Davis Parish, where only 3.06 percent of the evaluated teachers were rated highly effective, has routinely ranked in the top eight districts in the state.
Low-performing school districts have, on average, a higher percentage of highly effective-rated teachers than high-performing school districts.
The numbers don't jibe with reality.
''It isn't like if you achieve this, then you will get this rating. It's where you stand in the overall state rank,'' said Jeff Davis Parish Superintendent David Clayton. ''What is the concrete standard for teachers?''
Under the VAM system, those standards are nebulous at best.
Additionally, to earn tenure, a nontenured teacher must receive a highly effective rating for five out of six years. Based on trials, that appears to be simply unattainable for most teachers.
In 2009-2010, 715 teachers in the trial received a highly effective rating. In 2010-2011, only 277 of those teachers maintained the highly effective rating. And last year, that number fell to 149.
Under this new system, the rating system factors into teachers' compensation.
White is correct when he says the former tenure status was too easily attained. But the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.
If White and Gov. Bobby Jindal wanted to abolish tenure, they should have had the political courage to accomplish it through legislation, not through this sham of an evaluation.
We submit that any evaluation system that has per-conceived or intended results is not only unprofessional, it borders on immoral.
Such evaluations challenge the very issue of fairness and the motives of White, Jindal and the state Department of Education.
This editorial was written by a member of the American Press Editorial Board. Its content reflects the collaborative opinion of the Board, whose members include Bobby Dower, Ken Stickney, Jim Beam, Crystal Stevenson and Donna Price.
Posted By: K Teacher On: 10/9/2012
Title: Dearest Kyle
Dearest Kyle,
I also worked in the corporate world. In addition, my pay was based on 100% commission. Of course, I received bonuses due the business I brought in for my company. I made more money in "your world" than I now make as a National Board Certified Teacher.
My decision to enter the PROFESSION of educating children was based on the realization that I wanted to make a REAL difference in the life I was given. I then decided to get additional degrees & certifications to become a teacher.
Personally, I have no problem with education reform. In fact, I welcome it (as MOST educators do). The issue I DO have a problem with is that our state's newest "evaluation" program is FLAWED. In addition, if the teachers' evaluation was based on showing the students' academic growth of a year (OR MORE)
I guarantee educators would back it 100%.
Unfortunately, this is not the system that our state has come up with. A simple pre-test/post-test per grade level is just one example of an appropriate way to evaluate a teacher's impact on his or her students' growth.
If Governor Jindal was truly interested in "rewarding the great teachers", he would have taken the time to come up with such a system.
In my opinion, that was a calculated choice. If he HAD implemented such an evaluation, he would not be able to pay back a favor to ALEC (they wrote "Jindal's" education reform). Now, of course, he tweaked it a bit. ALEC played a huge role in the "fast &furious" manner in which Jindal implemented his reform at such speed.
Just for the record, I am a conservative republican...and drank the "Jindal Kool-Aid" twice
Posted By: VIckie Ramsey On: 10/2/2012
Title: VIckie Ramsey - 5th Grade Teacher
The man sitting behind the desk in this picture has no clue of what teachers are going through. For one, he was not in the classroom long enough to even get the job he has, and he is too young to begin with . I think he needs to climb back in the classroom with all the others coming up with more work for us to do, but of course he has less work. They need to be a classroom teacher for a week and do all the work required to do. The sad thing, they have taken the joy from teachers, our creativity by dictating what we do, and will soon be losing great teachers, and have bozos teaching our children. It is a shame but, they did it, and the consequences will be on them, not us. So sit behind your desk and dictate, and watch where your valuable teachers go!
Posted By: Suzanne Abney On: 9/27/2012
Title: We Live in the Real World
If anyone lives in the "Real World" it's a teacher. We see more than the corporate world would ever dream of seeing, yet they are quick to tell teachers how to do their jobs. So a teacher is more than a "driver of performance". We do not train animals to perform, we teach children and there is a lot more to that then a test score. Question to you Kyle, "Are you the only one in control of your outcomes?" Teachers are not. There are only 2 grade levels (4 & 8) and 2 subjects (ELA & Math) where if a child is not successful on the LEAP they are retained or placed in a Summer School and then retested. So for other grades & subjects there are many students who do not really try because their is NO ACCOUNTABILITY for the student. Please tell me how if this is 50% of the teacher's evaluation it is a fair representation of what the teacher is doing. Also, if you do well in your observation yet your test score rating is low, the test score rating out weighs everything. Oh and let us not forget those teachers outside of this grade levels and subjects where the evaluation process is not based on the same type of information. I doubt very seriously Kyle would sit back and allow himself to be evaluated differently then the guy down the hallway or on something that was not in his total control.
Thank you for writing this article. It's what all teachers having been saying from the beginning.
Posted By: Destinyc On: 9/26/2012
Title: Reality meets real world
I've worked in the corporate and education realms for about ten years each. They are not the same at all. And the more that people try to apply corporate concepts to education, the more education fails. Consider a teacher a manager-because she is. She must manage time, people, resources, finances, paperwork, and evaluations of the people she manages and of coworkers. She will only be compensated for the work she does in nine months for 10 eight hour days per pay period. Any evaluations, paperwork, preparation, or work done outside of these months or hours will not be compensated. She will be docked for sick time and personal days--even if a day is taken away from her "specified management area" to compete evaluations, paperwork, preparation or other work because she cannot possibly fulfill all duties and teach every day--because the system does not value her professional decision to focus on the needs of her employees. She does not maintain the same employees from year to year if she is successful. She only maintains employees if they--but really she--fail. The goals that I set this year are based only on the students I have right now that I have taught for two months. I'm just learning their capabilities. My goal is due in two days. And the magic 10% goal is not the same across the board for every teacher...it limits the total possible number of teachers in the state who can possibly achieve this level to 10% of all teachers in the state. So....even if I exceeded my goal by 10%, others could get the raise and I could not...it all just depends really...on many factors that have little to do with me and ate completely variable between (and even during) evaluation periods.
Posted By: Belle On: 9/26/2012
Title: what about the human side?
Who will evaluate the Teacher who shows compassion, understanding, and yes love to these children. Who will evaluate the value of a pat on the back or a smile. Who will judge recognizing a childs birthday or special achievment. Who will evaluate a teacher telling a joke to ease student tensions and anxiety. Teachers are not working with robots. God bless all the people willing to work with that pre teen whose own parents can't stand. Teachers are asked too much and these new stressful formulas will not improve education. Give them teacher aides, give them more psychologists to work with thier mentally ill children. Give them Parents who are required to be at school 20 hours per year to HELP these failing institutions. Limit class size to 18! Not 33! Give the students more things to love about school, sports, drama, art, dance, clubs and free time to visit with thier friends. Evey moment is crammed with test prep! If you were a kid you might Stop working under the conditions we are creating. Give them beautiful courtyards and windows that open on a cool day. Great tasting food. Clean restrooms. Why don't we start where the problem is rather than making the only people willing to work in these harsh conditions the enemy. Real World Go Sub at any failing school for 2 weeks then state your case. All teachers have my support even the ones who no one likes! Children are not products.
Posted By: Jay On: 9/26/2012
Title: Kyle's "clear goals"
Having "clear goals" for my performance would be wonderful! I've asked for the growth goals for my students since the beginning of the school year. Neither my administrators nor school board personnel can tell me. When I emailed the value-added "team" at the state department requesting these goals, I was told that THEY couldn't tell me until AFTER my students took the LEAP test. After???
So Kyle, let me rate YOUR productivity. You keep doing what you're doing. When you've finished at the end of the year, I'll calculate your productivity numbers and plug them into a complex formula that no human can solve. Only then will I tell you my magic goal for you and if you met it or not.
Teachers, if anyone has any further info on getting the student growth goals used to calculate our VAM scores, PLEASE share! My VAM jumped several points this past year with very limited changes in the curriculum. I calculated two year's worth of student growth and compared. The differences were quite small, but they had a big impact on my "effectiveness."
Posted By: Kathleen Deshotel On: 9/26/2012
Title: What a travesty!
Here is another rung in the ladder to dismantle public education. An evaluation in which an individual has little or no chance of attaining excellence will certainly send younger teachers off to find other professions and older teachers to count their days until retirement. An evaluation should be a tool for encouragement rather than discouragement at best and destruction at worst. There was much good in Louisiana education, and it seems that we have opted to destroy everything rather than fix the parts that were broken. What are they thinking?! Is this about imposing power or about enhancing a child's life and enlightenment through education?
Posted By: john boy On: 9/26/2012
Title: kyle is clueless
Kyle. In the business world you FIRE BAD EMPLOYEES. Teachers can't "fire" uncooperative students. Teachers have no power to do anything to intentional non-learners these days. So this isn't a valid comparison. Teachers are only 1/3 the equation. The parents and students make up the other 2/3 yet they have ZERO accountability in this. How about we fine parents $25 when their kid fails a test? How about a $100 fine when the student gets in trouble at school? THEN we'd see change. All this new system will do is punish good teachers and drive the next generation of teachers into other fields.
Posted By: Zach On: 9/26/2012
Title: Most teachers don't use this grading scale
What may work in the business world doesn't always work for everything else. I don't see how it's fair that even if all the teachers in the state work at a high level that 10% will still fail no matter what. This doesn't work in classes with grades. I never had this type of grading scale in K-12 and in my college years I never had a professor use this type of grading scale. In fact I had more than one professor say how much they do not like this scale. In today's world it is very difficult just to become a teacher. College students in education go through a lot and have to deal with a lot of crap just to graduate. The process to be certified to be a teacher helps weed out most bad teachers. They don't do it for the money or incentives like that like they do in the business world, they do it because they have a passion for teaching otherwise they would not take the time and effort to become a certified teacher. And then the stress involved with teaching usually weeds out any bad ones that make it through being certified because once you start teaching if you don't have a passion for it you won't stay in it long. If the state wants to revise things fine but don't let a dictator strong arm everyone and ruin public education. Let the teachers be involved in the process as well. I'm willing to bet that in the next several years there will be a shortage of teachers in the state or even if not the quality of education will be less because a lot of good teachers will not want to teach here.
Posted By: Glenn Gordon On: 9/26/2012
Title: School is not the real world Kyle
Kyle (above) said that this how he is rated in the "real world"....Well, I too was rated this way in the corporate world before becoming a teacher. Here is why he is wrong. When I was rated this way, I was 100% responsible for all inputs into my product line. There was no part of my evaluation that was not in my hands. In education this is not true. We have these students less than 1/3 of their day. We have no control over any aspect of their lives other than the 1 hour a day we see them. Holding someone 100% responsible for a child's education ignores the reality of real life. Or, as Kyle said..."the Real world"...Absent parents, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and homelessness are all problems that my "products" (my students) have had in the time I have been teaching these young people. I invite Kyle to try teaching for a few years or better yet....let me have access to his inputs and after I screw them up really well....he can see how his evaluations look.
Posted By: Kyle On: 9/26/2012
Title: Welcome To The Real World
There are no new concepts here. This sort of system is how major corporations manage thier employee evaluations. The objective is to reward high performers and weed out under performers. I have worked under this sort of system for 20 years, evaluating staff and being evaluated by my management. My salary and bonus calculations are closely tied to this system. It drives performance! The key to the process is setting clear goals in the beginning of each year and meeting or exceeding (the 10%) those goals. It's usualy those who do not set or strive to meet thier goals that are the complainers about the system.
Posted By: Anne Farrar On: 9/26/2012
Title: Thank you!
As a teacher, I'm so relieved to see that someone other than teachers gets the unfairness of the system. John White doesn't even understand that the scores the teachers worry about are not the levels students achieve on the iLEAP/LEAP tests. It's about the scaled scores. I so appreciate the support for teachers who stood against this system in Baton Rouge last spring. Thank you SO much!


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All in all, Haven OnDemand packs over 60 distinct services, more than three time the number that Watson Developer Cloud currently offers. The platform maintains its lead even when taking into account the various managed database and business intelligence offerings available on IBM's SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service platform, which should appeal to larger organizations. After all, the more services can be bought from a single source, the less time and effort has to be spent dealing with vendors.
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BLANCHARD — The Montabella Mustangs football team qualified for the postseason for the third time in four years this season.
In 2008, the Mustangs traveled to St. Louis and Saugatuck for games. In 2009, they made the northeast trip to Whittemore-Prescott for a game. This year the Mustangs head southeast to face the Burton Bendle Tigers near Flint.
"The playoff draw was a pretty big surprise. We did not think we would go that far south," Montabella coach David Clay said. "We were thinking more east toward Saginaw or even toward the Grand Rapids area.
"Their coach sounded just as surprised. We hadn't exchange emails or contact info so we have had to scramble a little," he added.
The Mustangs wrapped up an outstanding year with a 40-7 victory over St. Louis to finish the year with a school record eight wins. Unfortunately, eight wins wasn't enough for the Mustangs to earn a home playoff game.
"You do what you can to host and we won eight games," Clay said. "Burton earned it with more points. We are not going to be bitter in that sense. Anytime you have eight wins you want to host a game, but there is a system, rules and that's what happened."
While most first round playoff games take place Friday night the Mustangs and the Tigers will meet Saturday at 1 p.m. That will give both teams an extra day of practice.
Clay is hoping his team can carry over the regular season momentum into the playoffs.
"I really felt Friday was the best football game I've seen Montabella play," Clay said. "I felt in the four years I've been here it was definitely the best since I've been here. I've talked to other community members and they felt is went further back than that.
"You want to be playing your best football at the end of the year and take it up a notch. That's what I challenged them to do is raise it up a notch," he added.
Dating to last season the Mustangs have won 12 of their last 13 games, including five straight to end the season. Burton Bendle is just as hot, having won 10 of 13 games, including eight straight to end the year.
At practice this week the Mustangs look to fine tune their play and maybe add a few wrinkles.
"We always add a few wrinkles each week specific for opponents," Clay said. "We go over the film with a fine toothed comb and we try to locate matchups that we think will work. Mostly, we want to do what we do.
"We have been running the ball well the last two weeks. I think there is some room there and we have relied on our passing game in a pinch and as regular game strategy," he added.
This will be the first Saturday game of the season for Montabella. The plan is to leave at 8 a.m. following breakfast and take their time getting to Burton. From there they will go through their normal pregame routine prior to kickoff.
The winner will face the winner of Coleman (7-2) and Saginaw Nouvel (8-0) in the district final.


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I just finished skimming thru "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract", and so I now I have a vague understanding of his Win Shares system for rating player value (= contribution to WINNING GAMES thru hitting, fielding and/or pitching). Offensive contribution is judged mainly by "runs created", and each player's contribution to runs created is measured mainly by (OBA)*(TB). Win Share totals also include contributions as a fielder.
A truly GREAT player will have some seasons with 30 or more Win Shares. Some Hall of Famers will have a season with 40 or more WS, but most fall short even in their best seasons.
TED WILLIAMS was the youngest left fielder ever to earn 30 Win Shares (32 in 1939, when he had 145 RBI at age 20); and Ted was the OLDEST left fielder to score 30 WS when he hit .388 at age 38. In between, he missed 30 WS only in those seasons when he was injured, or when he was in military service. Ted had 30 or more Win Shares in TEN different seasons -- 40 or more in five of those seasons -- and he finished his career with 555 WS (39.2 per 162 games played). Only Babe Ruth (RF) has a higher Win Share average per 162 games. Bill James ranks Williams as the #1 left fielder of all time.
JOE DIMAGGIO played from 1936 thru 1951 (essentially a contempory of Ted Williams). In his career DiMaggio had SIX seasons with 30 Win Shares or more, but only ONCE did he reach 40. (Actually, 41 WS in his MVP year of 1941 -- when Williams had 42.) Joe ended his career with 387 Win Shares, or 36.1 per 162 games played. James ranks Joe as the #5 Center Fielder of all time (behind Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle and Tris Speaker).
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The Case Against Benjamin Netanyahu
Ehud Olmert may decide not to run against Benjamin Netanyahu this time around. But either way, he's betting that crossing an American president will have political consequences in Israel.
- By Blake Hounshell
Blake Hounshell is managing editor at Foreign Policy, having formerly been Web editor. Hounshell oversees ForeignPolicy.com and has commissioned and edited numerous cover stories for the print magazine, including National Magazine Award finalist "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy. He also edits The Cable, FP's first foray into daily original reporting, and was editor of Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay, which in 2011 won a National Magazine award for best reporting in a digital format.
Blake joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Blake was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Awards prize for young journalists for his reporting on the Arab uprisings, and his Twitter feed was named one of Time magazine's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011." Under his leadership, in 2008, Passport, FP's flagship blog, won Media Industry Newsletter's "Best of the Web" award in the blog category. Along with Elizabeth Dickinson, he edited Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future, the memoirs of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
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Ehud Olmert is running. Or maybe he's not. He insists he'll only make an announcement about his political future on Israeli soil, though he seems to take great pleasure in dropping hints. Either way, the former Israeli prime minister had a two-pronged message on this weekend's trip to America: Benjamin Netanyahu can be beaten in the upcoming elections in January. And peace with the Palestinians is still possible.
Coming just after the Netanyahu government announced it would build move forward on new settlements that the New York Times described as "effectively dooming any prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," and at a time when optimism in Washington about the Middle East writ large is at a deserved low, it's an alluring message. The conventional wisdom here has it that President Barack Obama needs to find a way to work with Bibi in his second term, because, difficult and disrespectful as the Israeli leader might be, he's not going anywhere.
Olmert offers the tantalizing possibility that maybe, just maybe, it doesn't have to be this way.
I caught up with the former prime minister on the sidelines of the Brookings Institution's Saban Forum, a largely off-the-record confab packed with high-level U.S. and Israeli officials, think tankers, and other assorted muckety-mucks. He was traveling light, as top Israelis often do — with no entourage other than a security detail that seemed unusually relaxed.
The night before, Olmert had just held a public "conversation" with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, where he had scathing words for Netanyahu, his successor and former colleague in the Likud Party. Israel's settlement announcement, coming on the heels of a vote in which the United States was just one of nine opponents of Palestinian observer status, was the "worst possible slap in the face to the president," Olmert said.
The former prime minister also had strong words for Netanyahu's chief backer Sheldon Adelson, whom he said had "bought the political system" in Israel and "thought he could do the same thing in America with $100 million." Specifically, Olmert described his discomfort with a fundraiser Mitt Romney held in Israel with Jewish-American donors, including Adelson, who may have actually spent as much as $150 million in support of Republican candidates. It "smelled of something which was not appropriate," Olmert said. "I thought it was made in order to create the impression among American Jewish voters that Romney is riding on the shoulders of Israel to the White House, which I thought was a mistake. And the prime minister took part in this effort, which was totally unacceptable."
Olmert even broke the Saban Forum's ground rules by revealing that earlier on Saturday, Chicago mayor and former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had ripped into Netanyahu off the record for betting against the president's re-election — a view he suggested was shared in the Oval Office. "I don't know how friendly Rahm Emanuel is with the president but I think he supports him," Olmert joked. "If he said what he said, probably he reflected a sentiment which may not be only his private sentiment, but something that many other people share with him."
But Olmert's real beef with Netanyahu — the real reason he must go — is that he is "not dedictated to the pursuit of peace in a realistic way," a mission he described as the "primary responsibility of every Israeli government." Once a hard-line mayor of Jerusalem, Olmert has now embraced the peace process with the passion of a convert, almost leaping out of his chair and gesturing emphatically at one point to exclaim, "What the party will reject, the people will accept!"
Olmert also worries that Netanyahu talks too much about Iran. "I think that Iran is a genuine problem — enough to justify policies, and measures, and statements by Israel," he told me. "The question is whether we don't talk too much about it, we don't make it too much of a public issue, we don't create an unnecessary international debate that raises the profile of this, and perhaps prevent some countries from taking measures which they may have wanted to take but they don't want to be seen as Israel sort of giving orders, public orders to them."
As it happens, the qualities Olmert says Israelis are looking for in a challenger seem to describe Olmert himself (or perhaps Tzipi Livni, the former foreign minister and Mossad veteran who is definitely running in January). "Experience in taking decisions on matters of national importance: matters of security and matters of defense and matters of potential national crisis, in the context of international relations, particularly with the United States of America, which is the greatest ally Israel has," he told me, noting, in case I didn't get the message, "And relations with America and with the American president are of great significance to Israeli voters."
But it seems to me, I replied, that Netanyahu had yet to pay any political price for that tension. "Well, you know, for the time being," he said archly.


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What amount of force must be applied to 6kg block moving at 13m/s to slow down to 5m/s in a distance of 4.5m?The Friction between them is 75N?
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We can do this using Newtons second law of motion.
To stop the moving block we have to apply a force against its motion. Both friction and the applied force result in decrease the velocity of the block.
Using equations of motion
`V^2 = U^2+2aS`
`a = (V^2-U^2)/(2S)`
`a = (5^2-13^2)/(2xx4.5)`
`a = -16m/s^2`
Acceleration is negative because we have a deceleration.
Let us say the force is P at the opposite direction to the movement.
Using F = ma to the direction of motion
`-P-75 = 6xx(-16)`
So the required external force is 21N at the direction opposite to the movement of block.
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Nanofiber scaffolds are effective for tissue engineering since they emulate the fibrous nanostructure of native extracellular matrix (ECM). Although electrospinning has been the most common approach for fabricating nanofiber scaffolds, airbrushing approaches have also been advanced for making nanofibers. For airbrushing, compressed gas is used to blow polymer solution through a small nozzle which shears the polymer solution into fibers. Our goals were 1) to assess the versatility of airbrushing, 2) to compare the properties of airbrushed and electrospun nanofiber scaffolds and 3) to test the ability of airbrushed nanofibers to support stem cell differentiation. The results demonstrated that airbrushing could produce nanofibers from a wide range of polymers and onto a wide range of targets. Airbrushing was safer, 10-fold faster, 100-fold less expensive and able to deposit nanofibers onto a broader range of targets than electrospinning. Airbrushed nanofiber scaffolds had a looser nanofiber packing density than electrospun nanofiber scaffolds, which gave airbrushed nanofiber scaffolds higher porosity and lower stiffness. Airbrushed and electrospun nanofibers also had different morphologies; airbrushed nanofibers formed bundles of aligned nanofibers while electrospinning produced un-aligned single nanofibers. Airbrushed nanofiber scaffolds fabricated from 4 different polymers were each able to support osteogenic differentiation of primary human bone marrow stromal cells (hBMSCs). Finally, the differences in airbrushed versus electrospun nanofiber morphology caused differences in hBMSC shape where cells had a smaller spread area and a smaller volume on airbrushed nanofiber scaffolds. These results highlight the differences in airbrushed and electrospun nanofiber scaffolds and demonstrate that airbrushed nanofiber scaffolds can support stem cell differentiation.
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- 1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 1 small green pepper, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 8 ounces linguine or spaghetti
- 1/2 cup grated Romano cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Chopped fresh parsley
- Lemon slices
- In a skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add shrimp, mushrooms and green pepper. Saute until shrimp turn pink, about 3-5 minutes. Add garlic; saute 1 minute longer.
- Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions; drain and place on a large serving platter. Top with shrimp mixture. Sprinkle with cheese, salt, pepper and parsley. Toss well; garnish with lemon. Serve immediately. Yield: 4 servings.
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Los Angeles Unified School District officials are considering asking voters to approve a $7 billion bond measure in November, more than twice as big as previously discussed and nearly half of it set aside for unspecified future projects.
LAUSD's board is set to vote Thursday on whether to support the bond measure, which allocates more than $3.2 billion for future "repair and safety," "modernization, repair and technology," "green technology" and to "attract, retain and graduate more students," according to a draft summary of the bond funding distribution.
Meanwhile, district and charter officials are wrangling over exactly how much charter schools would get from the bond measure and whether the charters would own any properties and schools that are developed with the funds.
While district officials and others defended the bond, critics on Monday cited concerns over the unspecified funding and note that it is the fifth bond in the past decade for the district's $12.6 billion construction program.
"Anytime a bond is vague in how it'll spend public money, it raises a red flag," said Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
But district officials and a representative of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said building the future "priority" funds is smart policy that allows for flexible spending.
Decisions on spending of those funds would be subject to a Bond Oversight Committee and approval by the Board of Education, said Glenn Gritzner, a policy and political strategist for L.A. Unified.
"The question comes down to whether the district should have to go back to the voters to address future priorities," said Caprice Young, president of the California Charter Schools Association.
Meanwhile, charter and L.A. Unified officials still are negotiating the terms of charter funding under the bond measure.
Under a preliminary proposal, charters would receive a portion of $700 million to build or reconfigure classrooms and could keep the property themselves.
An additional $300 million of the bond is set aside for charter school construction if 32,000 seats are not made available for charters and other education partners, such as the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.
"None of that has been resolved," Gritzner said. "The ownership question is still in flux."
And that has also raised objections from A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles.
"If they agree to give these schools, or build new schools, for the sole purpose of charters, we will not support it," Duffy said.
Duffy said while the UTLA has not taken an official position yet, it is a difficult spot for the union - which has long supported improving decades-old school buildings, but not charter schools.
Still, Young said charters are pushing for stronger bond language to ensure 10percent of the bond funds and property for the schools because charter leaders remain wary of district leadership.
"The most important thing is that there is dedicated funds for charter schools," Young said. "Right now, we have zero confidence."
An executive summary of the bond obtained Monday by the Daily News states that the bond would not increase the maximum tax rate.
"It won't increase the overall taxes people pay," Gritzner said.
But Vosburgh remained skeptical.
"Cumulatively, people are paying a lot more when you add five bonds together," he said.
Support for the bond has surfaced nonetheless.
A political action committee for Villaraigosa polled 100 voters earlier this year and found that more than 60 percent supported a proposed bond even as the poll also found a profound lack of trust in LAUSD leadership.
Villaraigosa, along with LAUSD Board of Education President Monica Garcia, Young and Green Dot Founder Steve Barr backed a bond offering earlier this month.
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Last month Nokia announced a new Windows Phone to compliment their advanced line-up - the Lumia 510. The handset is to target developing countries and more competitive markets where feature phones and smartphone conversions are more prominent. WPBOX managed to receive the Lumia 510 and have since published a short video of the product.
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A jumping front kick usually coming from a smaller person against a larger foe. This quick style of kick usually takes the opponent by complete surprise and they often end up scratching their heads while trying to figure out how they ended up on the floor.
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To move swiftly twoards someone by moving side to side with your arms out like a monkey and then once you reach them to kick them as a monkey would.
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The Greatest Generation
I suspect that every generation of GW Law students has believed that it attended the school during the best possible time to be studying law in Washington, D.C. Amazingly enough, each is correct. How can I disagree with today's students telling me that there has never been a more exciting time to be a law student in Washington than January 2009? This is a time of enormous challenges, but it is also a time of enormous hope and anticipation. The eyes of the world have been focused here throughout this period, especially on Jan. 20, 2009, during the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president. Those of us living and working in Washington have been particularly affected by the numerous activities associated with this change in presidential administrations—not to mention the awe-inspiring crowds that traveled to the city to view the inauguration.
I am delighted to say that GW Law School alumni and friends have been at the center of many activities, and more than just a few will be assuming positions of responsibility within this new administration. Indeed, our potential for increased involvement and visibility is limitless as the GW Law family continues to be incorporated into the highest levels of service in the public sector. I believe Henry David Thoreau said it best: "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.†I urge you to join me as we continue to aim very high. We have accomplished great things at our Law School. With your help we will accomplish greater things still.
Of comparable importance to us all is the state of the nation's economy. We have watched the recent economic downturn with growing concern, all the while trying to maintain long-term optimism as we welcome the new year and the plans of the new administration. There is always a certain element of unpredictability in forecasting the giving levels from our supporters. While these current economic conditions have had an impact upon our ability to operate optimally, the GW Law community—each faculty member, student, member of our staff, and each of our alumni and friends—can be proud of what together we have accomplished and are accomplishing. We are well positioned to continue our forward progress, but as always we rely on your help. Now more than ever it is important to demonstrate your support for the Law School, at whatever level and in whatever way you are able.
Highlighted in this issue are some of our many recent accomplishments. I am delighted that our new dean for intellectual property, John Whealan, has focused his endeavors on making our IP program even stronger and more dynamic than it is currently. I also call your attention to the feature article on Dean Susan Karamanian and our India program and what we hope to accomplish on an international level through these efforts. This article ties nicely with the profiles of our international faculty members as we spotlight the successes of these professors and the work in which they are so passionately involved. It is with great pride that I continue to point to GW Law School and its faculty as the heart and soul of what we accomplish in training the new global leaders of tomorrow.
Lastly, let me echo what our new president has called upon all of America to do. He has asked us to enter into new levels of commitment to serve our country and one another. As part of our mission and goals here at the Law School, we are continuing our efforts to foster and encourage our students to serve in both the public and private sectors of the legal community. It is in this same spirit that I now ask each of us to reassess our levels of commitment to supporting our Law School in these challenging economic times.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado Springs Street Division said it received new shipments of de-icer Wednesday and expects additional shipments in the coming day.
There is a shortage of de-icer across Colorado. The company that supplies de-icer for municipalities across the state is based out of Utah. Colorado Springs City Streets Manager Corey Farkas said the company is having difficulty transporting the material by railcar out of Utah.
Colorado Springs is now utilizing de-icer from two new vendors to make up for dwindling de-icer from its original vendor.
It costs more money to get this de-icer from the two other vendors. However, Farkas said the streets division has room in its budget to accommodate for extra costs.
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The Orwells have grown a lot and a little between the release of their debut, Remember When and now. They've tightened their sound but have also maintained a sense of immaturity that has landed them attention and late night fame (i.e. Their performance of "Who Needs You" on David Letterman). Disgraceland sees the band moving beyond playing and recording in suburban basements into studios and headline tours. The album encompasses fetching riffs, debauched lyrics and all the makings of a great, youthful American rock 'n' roll record. And even though they might not be limited to the confines of suburbia anymore, they still seem like they could go home and play a party for a bunch of drunk high school kids.
White Reaper is a DIY band from Louisville, Kentucky that has been cutting their teeth on the scene there and across the country. I've been listening to a lot of similar sounding stuff lately so it was quickly partial to the fuzzy rhythms. White Reaper is made up of Tony Esposito and twin brothers, Nick and Sam Wilkerson. The release is full of psych-tinged garage rock with tight hooks.
Porno Mags is a Chi-town rock crew formed in July 2013. Their sound encompasses elements of garage, surf, punk, and new wave rock. The self-titled release is a lo-fi beach party with something for everybody interested in music that sounds like it was made in yr parents' garage. Their sound is similar to bands like togetherPangea, The Orwells, FIDLAR.
Naïve Thieves straight up sound like a sunnier version of The Strokes. Vocalist Cameron Thorne shares Julian's too-cool-for-school nonchalant singing and even sounds enough like him at times for it to seem intentional. Even so, the Riverside, CA quartet have crafted a rad summer album that stands on its own even with the similar sounds. Vamonos is catchy and clever garage rock soaked in California surf.


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The Arrow Mocassin Company of Hudson, MA is in my backyard but like all things good and quality Arrow lays low. When your handmade moccasins are as good as this, then why bother? Luckily for us Valet did a nice spot on the Arrow Lace Boot. "They're warm, they're classic, and they've been hand-stiched in Massachusetts from Englishtanned Swiss leather for five decades. The standard model is unlined, but for a few extra bucks you can have them lined with plush sheepskin." But they're collection also includes a variety of other models, all for that matter, sell for under 200$US. Now, their website is old school with its Web 1.0 feel but being modern is not what Arrow is about. When you make a shoe this cool, you may as well stay lo-fi and focus on the build. Loving the Bush Boot.
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Pine Plains Estates is located along the Pioneer Valley "Knowledge Corridor" on 52 acres of wooded land in the Eastern plains of Whately, Massachusetts. The location is off Long Plain Road, which runs parallel with the Connecticut River, 1.5 miles to its West and a just north of the town of Hatfield line.
Routes 91, 116 and 5 & 10 are less than 3 miles from the subdivision for easy commuting to all the major employment areas in the Pioneer Valley and the five colleges (Smith College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College and UMass Amherst).
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London - Rafael Nadal has criticised the decision to play the Olympic tennis tournament over the best of three sets rather than the five sets employed at Wimbledon and other Grand Slams.
Nadal kicked off his bid for a third Wimbledon title with a 7-6 (7/0), 6-2, 6-3 victory over Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci, but the world No 2 will need to take only two sets to win a match when he returns to the All England Club for the London Games next month.
While that would seem to make it even easier for the Spaniard to dominate at the venue where he has reached the Wimbledon final on his last five appearances, Nadal - who won gold in the men's singles in Beijing four years ago - actually fears it will turn the Olympic event into a lottery.
On the day the 64 competitors for the men's Olympic tournament were announced, Nadal claimed the combination of playing three-set matches on Wimbledon's fast grass courts was a bad idea.
Only the men's singles final will be played over five sets and Nadal said: "It's great to have the Olympics here in Wimbledon, but playing best of three sets on grass in a very important competition makes the tournament more difficult for everybody because there are no favourites then.
"That's makes the tournament a little bit more crazy. Everybody can win even more than on hard or clay, because playing best of three sets, the match can be decided in just a few points.
"So that's probably the negative thing. In every match, you are at the limit.
"I don't say it's a 'crazy idea'. But it is a little bit more difficult to predict what's going to happen."
Nadal wasn't the only former Wimbledon champion grumbling about the Olympics on Tuesday as Australia's Lleyton Hewitt also launched an attack on the tournament organisers for failing to give him a doubles wildcard.
Hewitt, who won Wimbledon in 2002, has been handed a wildcard for the singles, but the 31-year-old and partner Chris Guccione weren't given the same courtesy for the doubles.
"Yeah, I am disappointed. I can't work that out for the life of me. I guess playing as much Davis Cup as you do doesn't count for everything," said Hewitt after his 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 defeat against France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round at Wimbledon.
Results on the second day of Wimbledon at the All England Club on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):MenFirst roundNicolas Almagro (ESP x12) bt Olivier Rochus (BEL) 6-7 (4/7), 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 6-4Nicolas Mahut (FRA) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-3, 5-7, 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 6-2Kenny De Schepper (FRA) bt Matthias Bachinger (GER) 6-4, 6-2, 6-2Kei Nishikori (JPN x19) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 7-5, 6-3, 6-4Florent Serra (FRA) bt Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4Go Soeda (JPN) bt Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) 6-3, 6-2, 6-1Juan Martn Del Potro (ARG x9) bt Robin Haase (NED) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5Marin Cilic (CRO x16) bt Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2Sam Querrey (USA) bt Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-4Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA x32) 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 6-7 (4/7), 6-3Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) bt Albert Montas (ESP) 6-2, 6-4, 6-4Andy Murray (GBR x4) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 6-1, 6-1, 6-4Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x5) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-3, 6-4, 6-4Guillermo Garca-Lpez (ESP) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 5-7, 10-8Lukas Lacko (SVK) bt Adrian Ungur (ROM) 7-6 (7/4), 6-1, 6-3David Goffin (BEL) bt Bernard Tomic (AUS x20) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4Jesse Levine (USA) bt Karol Beck (SVK) 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3, 6-2James Ward (GBR) bt Pablo Andjar (ESP) 4-6, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3Mardy Fish (USA x10) bt Rubn Ramrez Hidalgo (ESP) 7-6 (7/3), 7-5, 7-6 (7/1)Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP x14) 7-6 (7/4), 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4Brian Baker (USA) bt Rui Machado (POR) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, 6-0Benot Paire (FRA) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS) 6-1, 6-3, 6-7 (1/7), 6-3Alexander Dolgopolov (UKR x22) bt Alex Bogomolov (RUS) 6-3, 6-4, 7-5Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x27) bt Tommy Haas (GER) 3-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/1), 6-2Malek Jaziri (TUN) bt Jurgen Zopp (EST) 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 9-7Lukas Rosol (CZE) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/0), 7-5Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Thomaz Belluci (BRA) 7-6 (7/0), 6-2, 6-3WomenFirst roundVera Zvonareva (RUS x12) bt Mona Barthel (GER) 2-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-4Christina McHale (USA x28) bt Johanna Konta (GBR) 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, 10-8Serena Williams (USA x6) bt Barbora Zhlavov Strcov (CZE) 6-2, 6-4Melinda Czink (HUN) bt Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-0, 6-2Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) bt Vera Dushevina (RUS) 6-2, 7-5Zheng Jie (CHN x25) bt Stphanie Dubois (CAN) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3Kiki Bertens (NED) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE x19) 6-3, 6-0Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) bt Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/5)Anne Keothavong (GBR) bt Laura Pous (ESP) 6-3, 6-3Kristyna Plskova (CZE) bt Polona Hercog (SLO) 6-2, 6-2Francesca Schiavone (ITA x24) bt Laura Robson (GBR) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x31) bt Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) 6-1, 6-2Varvara Lepchenko (USA) bt Patricia Mayr (AUT) 6-2, 6-3Elena Baltacha (GBR) bt Karin Knapp (ITA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-0Petra Kvitova (CZE x4) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) 6-4, 6-4Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) bt Greta Arn (HUN) 6-4, 6-2Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x32) 6-2, 6-3Roberta Vinci (ITA x21) bt Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 6-2, 6-4Marina Erakovic (NZL) bt Urszula Radwanska (POL) 6-4, 6-4Mirjana Lucic (CRO) bt Alexandra Panova (RUS) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4Marion Bartoli (FRA x9) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS) 6-2, 6-4Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP x26) bt Simona Halep (ROM) 3-6, 6-1, 6-2Jana Cepelov (SVK) bt Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1Romina Oprandi (SWI) bt Irina Begu (ROM) 7-6 (7/3), 6-4Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) bt Irina Falconi (USA) 6-1, 6-4
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