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A new set of standards in math and English language arts is being implemented in Georgia's public schools. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was adopted by the Georgia State Board of Education in 2010, with classroom implementation occurring during the current school year.
Common Core was devised in cooperation with the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and is being implemented in nearly all U.S. states.
But it also has detractors who question both its origin and its intent and maintain that federal intervention is behind the initiative.
In its mission statement, the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) said CCSS provides a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn in mathematics and English language arts, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.
Viewed generally, the math standards set grade-specific standards but do not define the intervention methods or materials necessary to support students who are well below or well above grade-level expectations. The standards should be read as allowing for the widest possible range of students to participate fully from the outset, along with appropriate accommodations to ensure maximum participation of students with special education needs, according to CCSSI.
The Common Core State Standards for "English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects" are the culmination of an extended, broad-based effort to fulfill the charge issued by the states to create the next generation of K–12 standards in order to help ensure that all students are college and career ready in literacy no later than the end of high school, according to CCSSI.
School systems in Georgia, including Fayette, are implementing CCSS beginning this year.
The Ga. Dept. of Education (DOE) maintains that CCSS is not an attempt to institute a national curriculum into Georgia's schools, will not result in Georgia lowering its standards and will not be used to tell teachers how to teach.
According to DOE, adopting CCSS fulfills three purposes:
• CCSS helps teachers improve, better prepare students for success and potentially yield long-term financial savings for Georgia. First, while Ga. Performance Standards (GPS) give teachers an excellent tool to prepare young people, we are always looking for opportunities to improve. The Common Core integrates much of the GPS, but also takes them a step further, creating an opportunity to even better prepare our students for college and work.
• CCSS allows for a meaningful comparison of students' achievement with students in other states. Currently, states operate with different standards, making it impossible to accurately compare data nationally or internationally. Georgia students will be competing for jobs with students from all over the world. We must be able to compare ourselves to the rest of the U.S. and other countries to ensure that we are providing students with the tools they need to be competitive.
• The initiative allows for better purchasing power. Since participating states will have a consistent curriculum, textbook and instructional resource companies will be able to develop and target resources to one set of standards. This will help to reduce prices and ensure that funds are spent wisely.
Yet Common Core detractors are vocal in their opposition. Commenting as a local Common Core opponent, Fayette County resident Angela Bean said CCSS is a smoke screen for the unconstitutional nationalization of our community schools.
"Many school board members, school superintendents and teachers were sold on the national standards, being told that they will be great for those students who move to another state because they will find the exact same thing being taught wherever they go and won't have a problem being behind or too far ahead," Bean said. "While many who have now seen what these standards are all about are pushing back on the curriculum, there are still a few out there who are still supporting for whatever reasons."
Also weighing in with an opposing viewpoint is Stone Mountain resident Jane Robbins and www.stopcommoncore.com.
"(Common Core) is a nationwide initiative designed to herd states into national K-12 standards and national tests which ultimately will lead to a national curriculum and silence curriculum input from local parents, taxpayers, and educators," Robbins said.
"Common Core was not developed by the states but rather by a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit called Achieve, Inc., under the auspices of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)," Robbins said.
"Neither NGA nor CCSSO, which are merely trade associations with private membership lists, had a grant of legislative authority from the states to develop national standards. In fact, Common Core was written by the same progressive education reformers who have been trying to impose a national curriculum for decades. This time, they were savvy enough to invoke the 'cover' of NGA so they could paint Common Core as a 'state-led' effort. To the extent states had any input, it was limited to offering suggestions that may or may not have been accepted by the people in control," Robbins said.
Robbins maintains that the U.S. Dept. of Education (USDOE) was heavily involved in the effort to have the educational trade associations develop the standards.
"Once Common Core was created, USDOE 'persuaded' the states to adopt it by tying adoption to the opportunity to obtain federal Race to the Top (RTTT) funding. No Common Core, no RTTT money. Since then, USDOE has also attempted to lure states into the Common Core by dangling No Child Left Behind waivers as a reward for adopting the national standards and national tests. In both waivers, Georgia took the bait," she said.
Ga. state School Board Chairman Wanda Barrs offers a different view, noting that Common Core integrates into the current Georgia Performance Standards while allowing for a meaningful comparison of student achievement in the other 47 participating states.
After the 2010 Common Core adoption, Barrs responded to concerns asking if the new curriculum was a federal mandate or if it would hinder the Georgia Performance Standards. They answer to both questions, said Barrs, was "no."
Barrs said Common Core standards set the goal for what students should know and be able to do by the time they complete a grade level and then ultimately graduate high school.
Common Core, Barrs added, will not set the stage to abandon curriculum. Georgia since 2004 has been overhauling the Georgia Performance Standards curriculum, she said.
"The CCSS is a state-led initiative, not a federal mandate. Georgia teachers and other experts in standards-setting have been at the table since the process began. When the expert development groups that the CCSSO and NGA pulled together began writing the standards in mathematics and English language arts, they built off of the work of states that had already developed rigorous college-ready and career-ready standards," said Barrs.
"Georgia was one of these select states, and when reading the CCSS, one can see elements of the Ga. Performance Standards throughout. Therefore, while adopting the CCSS in Georgia is a step forward and gives our teachers more refined tools to better prepare our young people for work and college, it is not a drastic change for either our teachers or our students," Barrs said.


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Peripheral artery bypass is surgery to reroute the blood supply around a blocked artery in one of your legs. Fatty deposits can build up inside the arteries and block them.
A graft is used to replace or bypass the blocked part of the artery. The graft may be a plastic tube, or it may be a blood vessel taken from your body (usually the opposite leg) during the same surgery.
Aortobifemoral bypass; Femoropopliteal; Femoral popliteal; Aorta-bifemoral bypass; Axillo-bifemoral bypass; Ilio-bifemoral bypass; Femoral-femoral bypass; Distal leg bypass
Peripheral artery bypass surgery can be done in one or more of the following:
During bypass surgery of any artery:
If you are having bypass surgery to treat your aorta and iliac artery or your aorta and both femoral arteries (aortobifemoral)
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Symptoms of a blocked peripheral artery are pain, achiness, or heaviness in your leg that starts or gets worse when you walk.
You may not need bypass surgery if these problems happen only when you walk and then go away when you rest. You may not need this surgery if you can still do most of your everyday activities. Your doctor can try medicines and other treatments first.
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Do NOT drink anything after midnight the night before your surgery, including water.
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Right after surgery, you will go to the recovery room, where nurses will watch you closely. After that you will go either to the intensive care unit (ICU) or a regular hospital room.
When your doctor says it is okay, you will be allowed to get out of bed. You will slowly increase how far you can walk. When you are sitting in a chair, keep your legs raised on a stool or another chair.
Your doctor and nurse will check your pulses regularly after your surgery. The strength of your pulse will show how well your new bypass graft is working. While you are in the hospital, tell your nurse or doctor right away if the leg that had surgery feels cool, looks pale or pink, feels numb, or if you have any other new symptoms.
You will receive pain medicine if you need it.
Bypass surgery improves blood flow in the arteries for most people. You may not have symptoms anymore, even when you walk. If you still have symptoms, you should be able to walk much farther before they start.
If you have blockages in many arteries, your symptoms may not improve as much.
Creager MA and Libby P. Peripheral arterial diseases. IN: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 61.
Eisenhauer AC, White CJ, Biatt DL. Endovascular treatment of noncorononary obstructive vascular disease. IN: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 63.
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Last week, the Democratic Leadership proposed an economic package in hopes of creating more jobs. Part of the proposal is a lifting of the $50 million film subsidy for three years in hopes of luring more film/TV jobs to the state. For one, I believe it could be good for the city as we have hosted many productions in the past and have a strong base of workers. Last year "In Plain Sight" ended production and the final season of "Breaking Bad" in currently filming. Could this incentive provide a boost for the film/TV industry in ABQ? Where does Mayor Berry stand on this proposal? I was against the change to the subsidy decided in 2012. If not this, then what could be done in the legislature to improve the job climate in ABQ?
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I'm a big fan of the film subsidy. Brings a lot of good-paying jobs into the state, ranging from entry level positions to very technical jobs. It increases our exposure, so that maybe one day people will realize that we are neither in Arizona nor in Mexico. And, bottom line, the subsidy brings in a LOT more money than it gives up. If spending a quarter earns you a dollar, isn't that worth it?
Do you have any data showing the subsidy brings in more than it pays out?
If you go to the New Mexico Film Office website and click on incentives then click on statistics, you'll clearly see that we are making money on this endeavor and putting people to work. I believe with lifting the cap could even bring in more productions, provide more jobs and increase state revenues.
I'm not sure about the direct payback to the state from successful films, but it would seem like subsidiary spending - on services, on lodging and apartment rentals, on restaurants and catering - must far exceed what gets "paid out." Unfortunately, it's also harder to quantify. Tim Keller tried to push for a more thorough investigation of the movie industry's impact on Albuquerque and NM in the midst of the debate a couple years ago, but I don't think he got very far.
As far as paying out goes - remember films are required to repay the state's subsidy regardless of how they do...
They're required to repay the loan if there was one and that's at the prime rate + 1.5%. The 25 percent tax credit is just that.
Another good thing about having a lot of film made here is that actors like good food, and so its a stimulus for our restaurant industry. I agree with all the arguments for lifting the cap and the benefits it would have, but I do appreciate Gov. Martinez's point that an open ended subsidy creates a great deal of budget uncertainty. I think a good compromise would be to raise it to $100 million.
I like the compromise, $100 mil sounds great, just dont think our Gov does much compromising. To me she is a do nothing Guv when it comes to the economy.
I'm really cruddy with numbers. How much blue meth candy does $100m buy?
Lots of film and TV production in the state is also good for the hotel business, car rental business, house and apt. rentals even the secondhand junk malls do well because they are full of props that the film people need to fill their sets. Martinez needs to wake up and start really supporting the TV/film industry in the state.
I am torn with the film subsidy. I'd rather see subsidies used for something society needs---like better public transportation or paying for solar panels. How many more crappy hollywood movies do we need?
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The 4pm non waiver trade deadline has come and gone and there was a suprising amount of action that happened. While sluggers like Adam Dunn and Prince Fielder are stating put, pitchers Cliff Lee, Roy Oswalt, and Dan Haren have all been switched teams. Now it is time to see what teams are the big winners of this years trade deadline.
Texas Rangers- The Rangers actually started things off in June by trading for catcher Bengie Molina, and then adding pitcher Cliff Lee. Those two moves alone would have made them winners in my book, but with Texas was not finished. With holes in its infield caused by trading Justin Smoak in the Cliff Lee deal and then Ian Kinsler getting hurt, the Rangers also added Jorge Cantu from Florida and Cristian Guzman from Washington. Also should be noted that Texas traded catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia to Boston for 3 prospects and cash. All and all Texas has done a great job, and if Cliff Lee and Dan Harden, who is coming off the DL, can be consistent this could a team who could make it to the ALCS.
New York Yankees- To bad for Texas that they are going to run into the Yankees in the ALCS and the Yanks may have made themselves the clear favorite for the World Series, if they were not already. Without giving up any of their top prospects the Yankees were able to add Lance Berkman, Austin Kerns, and relief pitcher Kerry Wood. That Yankee lineup should strike fear in the hearts of every pitching staff they come across. The Yankee lineup now looks like: 1. Jeter-SS 2.Berkman-DH 3.Teixeira-1B 4.Rodriguez-3B 5.Cano-2B 6.Posada-C 7.Swisher-RF 8.Granderson-CF 9.Gardner-LF and in the playoffs they will have Kearns, Thames, Johnson, and Cerveli all available to pitch hit off the bench. That is just stupid, not to mention that they have a good pitchers and relievers.
SAN DIEGO PADRES- All year long the Padres have had outstanding pitching, but no one believed that they could keep up their winning ways because they would not be able to score enough runs. So without damaging their current pitching staff and bullpen the Padres went out and added Miguel Tajada and Ryan Ludwick. With the NL not having any clear cut front runner this will keep San Diego in the mix for not only the playoffs but also possibly advancing in the playoffs.
Los Angles Dodgers- The Dodgers were able to make a couple of nice moves before the deadline by acquiring Ted Lilly, Ryan Theriot, Octavio Dotel, and Scott Podsednik. These are all good solid moves that I can not fault the Dodgers for making. That being said I still do not believe that the Dodgers will be able to pass either the Padres or San Francisco.
-San Francisco Giants were able to strengthen its bullpen by acquiring Javire Lopez form Kansas City and Ramon Ramirez from Boston, however were unable to get another power bat.
-Atlanta Braves added a solid bullpen player in Kyle Farnsworth and a good bat in Rick Ankiel. They could have used another staring pitcher I believe, but for a team leading the NL East and would be a game back in the wild card these will help them stay in the playoff race.
-Los Angles Angles added Dan Haren and gave up very little for him, but this was a move to improve them next year more so then this year. The Angles seem to have put up the white flag for the 2010 season as they only made one move and the Rangers stocked piled talent.
-Philadelphia Phillies did the biggest move of the trade season by getting Roy Oswalt at a very discounted price, but I do not consider them winners because the only reason they had to get Oswalt is because they traded away a better pitcher in Cliff Lee
Chicago White Sox/Tampa Bay Rays- Both of these teams were looking to add a big bat to there lineup. The White Sox even traded for Edwin Jackson because he was the player that the Nationals said that the wanted for Dunn. I do have to give the Rays so credit though for adding Chad Qualls to their bullpen, but that is not enough to keep up with the Yankees.
St. Louis Cardinal- They were able to add a player that they wanted in Jake Westbrook, but they had to give up Ryan Ludwick to do so. I know that Jon Jay has come on strung for the Cardinals making Ludwick expendable, but they should have gotten more then just Westbrook for him. Also Cardinals should have gotten Oswalt, I think if they had they would have been the team to beat in the NL.
FLORIDA MARLINS/CINCINNATI REDS/BOSTON RED SOX/COLORADO ROCKIES- All these teams seem to have given up on this year, which is a shame because I do not think that any of them are far off from being playoff teams. However none of them made any significant moves, or any moves at all in the case of the Rockies and Reds. Meanwhile all of these teams have seen other teams in their divisions make improvements.
I also want to give a shut out to the Kansas City Royals and Arizona Dimondbacks who tried to trade off any player of any value of their roster. Way to go!
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I've been looking at new shoes and currently I'm pretty stuck on either the Chameleon 3's or the Teva Riva eVent shoes. Mostly because they both have Vibram soles, they're at my top end price range, and it's easy for me to go and try the shoe on at the local REI.
Basically I know Merrell makes great shoes, but there are a few issues I have with the Chameleon 3's which I wanted.
1. Stiff. These shoes are so extremely stiff starting out. I don't know if all Merrells are this way, but it's by far the stiffest shoe I've ever tried on. How long does it take to break in?
2. Noise. The most common reported issue with these shoes is that a squeak may randomly start while you're walking. Apparently it's got something to do with the insole, and instead of fixing it, Merrell's response so far (at least as of July time frame when they responded on their site about it) was to use baby powder between the insole and shoe. That's kind of stupid for a shoe that's been out for so long...
3. Breathability. Not a huge deal, but the guy I talked to at REI was saying that the eVent shoe line from Teva was much more breathable than standard Gortex. Anyone else know much about this?
All-in-all, I like the sportier look of the Chameleon's. I do also like the Riva's, although they are a bit plain. Honestly, as shoes go, the Riva's were very comfortable when I tried them on (soft, and broken in, although they do require regular leather treatments apparently, which I would need to explore more as I'm not used to this type of maintenance). I just don't want to write the Merrell's off yet as a couple friends of mine have them and say they break in to be very comfortable.


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Subject: Systems | November 21, 2012 - 06:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Intel's rather poorly named Next Unit of Computing is much more impressive than it sounds. In a 4" x 4" x 2" box is a Core i3-3217U on a QS77 Express motherboard, two DDR3 DIMMs, a mini-PCIe Intel 520 Series SSD and a WiFi card which gives you performance far above any Atom powered micro machine. Connectivity includes Thunderbolt, HDMI and up to 5 USB 3.0 ports and it is powered by a small 65W external brick. The Tech Report were impressed by the overall performance, especially when trying out PC Perspective's favourite shooter from 2004. At an MSRP around $300, this is a great choice for someone who needs more power than an Atom based machine but doesn't want to pay the premium for a full laptop.
"Intel has crammed a pretty capable PC into a box that will fit into the palm of your hand and dubbed it the "Next Unit of Computing." With its Ultrabook guts, we think it should've been called the Ultrabox. Whatever you call it, though, the NUC offers a possible glimpse at the future of desktop PCs"
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I love this concept. Question, Does it run silent or is there some high pitched mini fan in there?
did some research, saw the insides, active heatsink, so not silent then. Also aperently $300 does not include mem, ssd, oem-os or {and this one is kinda funny} a plug for the psu. Once you add all that up a trinity laptop or pasivley cooled mini-itx desktop looks like a lot better bang for the buck. HOWEVER this is the first generation of this mini-pc, and it is a REALLY cute form factor, so only time will tell how common these will be.
Been using one of these for a year now as an HTPC. Same form factor (the Intel version is a blatant copy), cheaper, slower CPU but faster GPU (more important for GPU accellerated video playback these days).
So the commotion about this innovative new form factor confuses me. It's nice, but we've been able to buy this for years.
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Hello, my name is Brian Sandoval and I have the honor of serving as Governor of the Great State of Nevada.
When I first came to office, our country was in the depths of the great recession. And, no state had been hit harder than Nevada.
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In "33 Variations," the audience is transported back and forth from present-day New York to 19th century Austria, when a musicologist (Fonda) is determined to solve the musical mystery of why Beethoven (Grenier) spent his last years feverishly writing 33 variations of what appeared to be a mediocre waltz.
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Jane Fonda's work on stage and screen has earned numerous nominations and awards, including Academy Awards (Best Actress in 1971 for "Klute" and in 1978 for "Coming Home") and an Emmy Award for her performance in "The Dollmaker." Along with starring roles in dozens of highly acclaimed productions, Fonda also took on responsibilities as a film and television producer for projects, including "Coming Home," "The China Syndrome," "Nine to Five," "Rollover," "On Golden Pond," "The Morning After" and "The Dollmaker."
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A TAXI driver found hanging from Barrow Bridge took his own life, a coroner has ruled.
The body of father-of-two Asif Policewala, aged 38, was found at the beauty spot, off Barrow Bridge Road, by a passer-by just after 7am on Wednesday, March 12.
Bolton Coroners Court heard the death of Mr Policewala, a Metro Cars driver, came as a shock to his family who had no idea of his intentions.
Salma Patel, Mr Policewala's sister, said: "This is such a shock to us. It is just unbelievable that he has done that without any indication whatsoever."
She added: "There was no indication he was feeling down. He was his usual happy self. He made no contact."
Statements read by coroner Alan Walsh revealed Mr Policewala had made two previous suicide attempts.
He took an overdose in 2007 and in 2012 he raised alarm with friends after attempting to gas himself at Rivington Reservoir.
A statement by Dr Eve Howarth, a general practitioner at Lever Chambers in Ashburner Street, Bolton, said Mr Policewala did not suffer from mental health illness and his suicide attempt two years ago was down to pressure he felt to pay money back due to gambling debts.
Stephen Matthews was driving with Emma, his wife, when he spotted the silver Vauxhall Astra parked on the bridge with a window down. He then made the grim discovery and called 999.
The court heard Mr Policewala, of Keats Walk, Halliwell, was married to Madija Policewala, who he had a teenage son and daughter with. He lived separately from his wife but they were in a relationship.
On March 11 — the day before his body was found — he spent time at the family home in Boundary Gardens, Halliwell, and left about 7.30pm, saying he was going to work.
The court heard he had not worked since March 9.
A receipt was found in his car for two ropes, but no evidence of debts could be found. Police found no evidence of any foul play.
Pathologist Dr Emil Salmo, at Royal Bolton Hospital, found traces of cocaine in Mr Policewala's body but not enough to cause an overdose. He found his cause of death to be hanging.
Mr Walsh recorded a verdict of suicide.
He said: "Mr Policewala was a private person but on the other hand was jovial in personality and was very jokey and happy.
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EUGENE, Ore. - Elvy Musikka relies on medical marijuana to get through her day.
The 73-year-old Eugene grandmother joined Oregon's medical marijuana program in 2005 to treat her glaucoma.
Musikka also receives medical marijuana from the federal government as part of a now discontinued research program created in 1978.
But she said that medicine is so old it's no good.
"In other words, it probably would have been very nice as hemp for wearing but it obviously was no medicine for glaucoma," she said. "I cannot work with 11-year old garbage."
Fresher marijuana under Oregon's program filled the gap.
"I was getting 3 pounds from the State of Oregon and what I was doing was mixing it up," said Musikka from her home in South Eugene.
Last October, the state imposed new fees on medical marijuana card holders. The new fees doubled the annual cost of getting a medical marijuana card to $200. It also imposed grower fees of $50 and, if patients switch growers or change the address where it's grown, the state charges an additional $100.
"This is not something I wanted to do," said State Representative Peter Buckley. "We faced the largest budget gap in Oregon's history, $3.8 billion."
Buckley said some of those additional fees are being used by the state to subsidize state health services including family planning, clean drinking water programs and emergency health services.
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Still Musikka said that fee increase directly affects her.
"For them to come at us and ask for a hundred dollars from us, I find that very criminal," said Musikka.
She lives on a fixed income of $700 a month and said she she's now been forced to drop out of the program. And she said she's not alone, dozens of others have also been forced to drop out because of costs.
"I lost sight unnecessarily because of the change in those rules," she said.
She said without her Oregon medicine, her glaucoma has steadily gotten worse, resulting in two separate eye surgeries.
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She said she's trying to get by on what she has, but if continues to not be able to afford her Oregon Medical Marijuana card, she's worried about her eyesight.
"Sure I could get some help and get that card now because people have come forward and want to pay for it for me. But I don't want to be a charity case to be able to use my prescription in Oregon."


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Master's degrees, including first MISST class, granted at graduate commencement exercises, with address by Robert A. Boardman '69
Muskingum College granted master's degrees at its graduate commencement exercises, held May 7 in Brown Chapel on the campus. The address was delivered by 1969 alumnus Robert A. Boardman, retired senior vice president and general counsel of Navistar International Corporation.
Degrees conferred at the commencement exercises were the master of arts in teaching (MAT), the master of arts in education (MAE) and the first recipients of the college's master of information strategy, systems and technology degree (MISST).
Muskingum College President Anne C. Steele congratulated the assembled graduates and said, "You have worked hard, and we are very proud of you. What you have done here will have an impact on thousands of individuals, your communities and the world."
President Steele also congratulated the first group of candidates to receive their MISST degree and said, "You will have a significant impact on your workplace and on the future of business and commerce in this nation, and you are to be congratulated on your achievement."
In his address, Mr. Boardman told the graduates, "In these challenging times, keep these priorities in your life: Listen beyond the words you hear, think beyond your own thoughts, respect others and keep a sense of balance in your life. Center your life on hope, not fear."
In recognition of his lifetime of achievement, the college bestowed upon Mr. Boardman an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. It was presented by Dr. Steele and Muskingum College Trustee and alumnus Gordon E. Spillman.
Mr. Boardman served as senior vice president and general counsel of Navistar International Corporation from 1990 until his retirement in 2004. He was responsible for all environmental and legal matters for the company, whose revenues grew to more than $10 billion annually during his tenure. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Navistar was formerly known as International Harvester Company, and is a global leader in the manufacture of trucks, buses and diesel engines. Mr. Boardman previously served as vice president and corporate secretary of Johns Manville Corporation, a multinational building products corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
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Currently, Mr. Boardman is a partner in RSB Property Development, LLC, a real estate and home building business, is the president of the Board of Directors of Salt Creek Ballet and is pursuing a master's degree in history at DePaul University. A native of Akron, Mr. Boardman earned his bachelor of arts in economics from Muskingum and his Juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University Law School.
Candidates for master's degrees were presented by Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Paul Reichardt. The degrees were conferred by President Steele, Muskingum College Trustee and alumnus Gordon Spillman, Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies Dr. Ruthann Fagan, Graduate Teacher Education Program Director Dr. Linda Morrow and Dr. Raymond Rataiczak, director of the MISST program.
Faculty marshals were Professor of Education Dr. Steve Kokovich and Professor of English Dr. Alan J. Chaffee. The graduate marshals were Linda C. Campbell and Joshua B. Eno.
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Flipper, the TV star dolphin, never had such a serious assignment as the marine mammals trained at the US Naval Base at Point Loma California. Dolphins have been used for years to locate underwater mines. Their lives have been at risk, but now their tenure is also, as robots have grown more sophisticated.
Some of the dolphins scheduled to be displaced by 2017 will continue to serve the military as port security personnel along with sea lions comparatively trained. Also because the sleek, intelligent animals have extraordinary eyesight, a sophisticated sonar ability, and have a physiology that allows them to dive to 500 feet without incident, they will continue to be used to retrieve questionable objects from the ocean floor.
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Since the 1950?s, ocean going mammals have been used to watch for and trap enemy divers and to mark the location of mines. Now a 12 foot torpedo shaped, unmanned underwater robot which can be placed in service relatively quickly will supplant the dolphin whose training period extends to seven years.
Unmanned underwater vehicle, the Navy Kingfish, is aimed at replacing dolphins in search for mines
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Those soon to be out-of-work dolphins may be reassigned to find bombs hidden on the bottom of a body of water, according to Mike Rothe, head of the biosciences division at the Navy?s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific in San Diego.
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The White Ferns have stormed into the final after hammering India by 52 runs at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.
After winning the toss and electing to bat skipper Aimee Watkins blazed her way to an unbeaten 89 off 58 to set up the victory – the highest score of the tournament so far. It was an innings full of entertainment as she hit the rope on no fewer than ten occasions and cleared it twice.
"I've played some good innings. But this would be one of my best," Watkins said.
Suzie Bates and Amy Satterthwaite contributed 10 each and Sophie Devine hit a quick 14 at the end to take their score through to 145.
In contrast the Indians were sluggish with their batting and could only manage seven boundaries in their entire innings.
Mithali Raj made 20 and Amita Sharma 24 but the accurate and disciplined New Zealand bowling unit was too good, keeping them to 93.
Sian Ruck led the attack taking two for 18 with Amy Satterthwaite taking two for 20.
Watkins commended the bowling saying, "If you bowl the right length on that pitch, it's hard to score easily. But perhaps the batters could have used their feet more and been inventive."
The White Ferns will have to wait until Friday [UK time] to find who will face them in the final, when Australia take on England at The Oval. They will be hoping to go one better than the ICC World Cup where they lost to England three months ago.
The final will be played at Lord's, London - 10:30am (UK time), 9:30pm (NZ time).


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HYDE PARK, N.Y.- A 43-year-old man worker is facing a felony charge in connection with the theft of close to $5,000 from his employer, police said Monday.
Jeffrey A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, was arrested Thursday by Hyde Park police and charged with grand larceny.
Police said they were dispatched to Stop and Shop at 3999 Albany Post Road to assist loss-prevention personnel, who had been investigating money missing since early December.
Nelson stole more than $4,880 in cash from Stop and Shop, they said.
Following his arraignment, Nelson posted $240 bail and was released.


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A MOVING opening ceremony was held to commemorate one year since Bury Hospice opened the doors to its state-of-the-art new building.
A celebration took place to mark the hospice's official opening, 12 months after patients were first welcomed into the £5.05 million centre in Rochdale Old Road.
The Rt Reverend Terence Brain, Bishop of Salford, and the Rt Reverend Christopher Edmondson, Bishop Suffragan of Bolton, were guests of honour at the event.
Jacqui Comber, chief executive of Bury Hospice, said she had been "blown away" by the difference the centre had been able to make to the people of Bury in a year.
However, with the hospice costing £2.8 million to run each year, she stressed the importance "more than ever" of ongoing donations.
She said: "The hospice was built by the people of Bury for the people of Bury and the care we provide is for the people of Bury. It is amazing to see the difference we have been able to make in a year and I have been so moved by the support we have had."
Bury Hospice was based in Dumers Lane, Radcliffe, from 1991 and this site is currently being revamped to create children's hospice Grace's Place, which will open this autumn.
Twice as many people are now being seen at Bury Hospice as were being treated in the old building, and Mrs Comber's target is for 1,000 patients to be cared for there over the next 12 months.
More funding, she said, would allow Bury Hospice to run hospice at home day care six days a week and would mean three more beds could be opened in the in-patient unit.
Mrs Comber added: "I want to remind people that we still need donations. People think because we are here we are okay, but it costs more to run this new building. Just 12 per cent of our running costs come from NHS funding so we still need all the help people can afford to give. A big fundraising push would allow us to launch the hospice completely."
When the new building opened, it marked the first time Bury Hospice could care for people with all life-limiting illnesses and conditions, not just those with a malignant diagnosis.
The building provides 12 in-patient bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and access to a terrace overlooking landscaped gardens.
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Kids can explore the world of dinosaurs with the Jr. Scientist Tyrannosaurus kit. The kit comes with a 68-page color booklet with information about all dinosaurs (not just the T. Rex) and instructions and pieces for assembling a 15-inch Tyrannosaurus Rex replica skeleton. The T. Rex skeleton features a moving jaw and can be placed on the included display stand.
Kids can also make fossil replicas out of gypsum. The kit comes with a measuring cup, packets of calcium sulfate (plaster/gypsum), and six molds for making fossils of a Talbosaurus tooth, a Triceratops tooth, a Hadrosaurus tooth, an Iguanodon tooth, an Ammonite, and a Trilobite.
Kids can pretend to be paleontologists, discovering the world of dinosaurs through fossils and skeletons. This is a hands-on kit that will definitely appeal to kids with an interest in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world.
The Jr. Scientist Tyrannosaurus kit is for ages 8 and up. Adult supervision is required.
The instructions were fairly easy to follow. Creating the fossils was a little more difficult than assembling the skeleton. Because the gypsum needs to harden in the molds, making a fossil will take just over two hours.
To make the fossils you will also need newspaper (to protect your work surface), tape, a spoon or clay working tool, a disposable cup, wooden chopsticks or a dowel, and instant coffee or India ink to color the finished fossils.
This set contains chemicals that may be harmful if misused. Read the cautions of the individual containers carefully. They are not to be used by children except under adult supervision.
All of the information in the booklet uses the metric system. So for U.S. kids who aren't familiar with kilometers and meters, they might need to ask an adult for help or look up conversions to miles and inches/feet online.
The instructions booklet also contains two manga-style comics: one about a scientist named Michael Faraday who discovered electromagnetic induction and one about how telephones and something called packet communications work. We're not really sure why these two comics are included in science kit about dinosaurs, but some kids might find them entertaining nonetheless. Although, the telephone/packet communications comic confused us, so we're not sure if 8-year-olds are going to understand it.
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Layton Kor Dies
Layton Kor is dead. One of America's greatest and most revered climbers of all time, and a founder of the sport as we know it, succumbed not to rockfall or hazard, but to illness.
Kor, born in Minnesota in 1938, came from a small town and was a bricklayer by trade. He taught himself to climb by taking a pickaxe and chopping steps up a clay embankment in Texas. "I'd seen the climbers in the movie with ice axes and I thought that as the way it was done," he wrote.
In the mid 1950s, Kor's parents relocated the family to Boulder, where the area's abundant and unclimbed rock fed Kor's voracious appetite.
By the late 1950s and into the early 1960 Kor had amassed a litany of first ascents that included Castleton, The Titan and Standing Rock in Canyonlands, the Naked Edge in Eldorado, the South Face of Washington Column in Yosemite, the Yellow Wall on the Diamond, and Proboscis in The Yukon. The precise number of routes Kor pioneered is unknown but certainly in the hundreds, and there is hardly a major crag that doesn't have a Kor's Crack, or Kor's Roof or Kor's Route. At least one leading climber, Jim Bridwell, named a child after him.
Kor, six-feet-five inches tall, was as dominating a figure physically as he was technically and climbed with what has been describes as an animal's energy. Seemingly possessed, he blazed across the rock of the Western U.S., enlisting a string of partners—leading climbers themselves—who recounted tales of horror and near death on his many first ascents. Kor was a "relentless dynamo of energy," said Royal Robbins, "[who] had a passion for climbing as pure and intense as any I have ever seen." Robbins also noted that the gangly, aw-shucks Kor whose pants were often too short had a "Rabelasian gusto for life–loving wine, women, laughter, and food." Kor himself noted that his time in Camp 4 "saw parties, drugs and women, all supplementing the escapism that propelled me and many of my contemporaries in our upward drive on the vertical walls."
Kor's technical skills and accomplishments gained him international fame, and in 1966 he joined an elite team of alpinists that included Dougal Haston, Chris Bonington and John Harlin, to attempt a direct line on the North Face of the Eiger. On that route, Kor pioneered a key rock traverse, but two-thirds of the way up the face, a fixed rope Harlin was jumaring cut, and he fell to his death. Kor, with Bonington, found Harlin at the foot of the face where they sat sobbing in the snow.
Though devastated, Kor wanted to continue the climb and was dismayed to discover that teammates higher on the wall had, fearing a repeat of Harlin's accident, untied and dropped all the fixed ropes. Kor, with Bonington, had to abandon the climb while teammates higher up completed the route.
A disappointed Kor turned his abundant energies toward other big lines in the Alps, ticking the North Face of the Cima Grande and, roped with figures such as Don Whillans, Yvon Chouinard and Rick Sylvester, knocked off other classics including the icy North Face of Les Courtes.
In 1967 Kor returned to his home in Colorado where his attitude toward climbing "vacillated between disinterest and his well-known enthusiasm," according to the 1977 book Climb! by Robert Godfrey and Dudley Chelton. Despite the death of Harlin, Kor retained his appetite for winter climbing and joined Wayne Goss and Bob Culp for the first winter ascent of the Diamond. The second ascent of the Salathe, with Galen Rowell, was next. On that climb's last bivy Rowell noted that Kor "talked not of what he was going to do, but of what he wasn't going to do. He wasn't going to do alpine climbing. He wasn't going to waste another year in Camp Four."
The Salathe was Kor's last major climb, and soon after he became a Jehovah's Witness, finding that religion "provided a far more meaningful outlet for my energies than had ten years of extreme climbing." Kor seemed to regret some of his youthful indiscretions, even wondering if his years climbing had been wasted. But his decision to back away from climbing was also driven by family responsibilities. A father of two, Kor, in his autobiography Beyond the Vertical, wrote that it "would be irresponsible of me to put my life on the line in pursuit of extreme climbing at their expense."
"Frankly, most of us were a little peeved when Layton choose God over climbing," wrote Royal Robbins in the foreward to Kor's book. "We ... regarded such a defection as a sign of weakness."
It is erroneous, however, to think that Kor quit climbing entirely. "Desire doesn't disappear overnight," he said.
Kor continued to climb as time allowed, though at a moderate and saner level. As recently as 2009 he made the first ascent of a desert tower in Arizona, displaying his youthful vigor. He had hope to return to the Dolomites—"My heart was partially still in climbing"— but poor health and a kidney transplant kept him close to home, where he was supported and encouraged by his good friends. He was 74.
For more about Kor, see Rock and Ice No. 181, page 24 of the free digital edition, here.
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As the weather starts to get colder late winter, many of us start to get the usual sniffles and colds we have come to expect at this time of year. However, a declined resistance to bugs is not just something we have to worry about for ourselves, pets such as cats and dogs are also susceptible to the cold weather and are likely to get sick during winter. If you are a pet owner or a retailer of pet supplies, it's important to stock up on supplies so you are prepared for the winter months.
Cats in general are less energetic in winter than spring or summer and most cats grow a thicker winter coat to protect themselves against cold. Cats reduce outdoor activities to save energy; however, the delicate tissue in their noses makes it more likely they will catch cold in winter. As cat owners it's important to keep them indoors and provide them with indoor activities. Some cats can play with a fluffy ball for the entire day, or mouse toys temptingly dangled in front of them. Cats love toys that make noises and love to chase after them. Cats always love to chase after laser beams or lights that dart across the floor (we've all had a laugh at our own cats' curiosity in these moments). Cat tunnels are also good fun and our feline friends love to explore and jump out of holes. Of course, none of us should be without a trusty cat board scratcher, the savior of many a piece of furniture.
Dogs are not able to catch cold, but a worse situation is that they can easily catch a bacterial infection due to low resistance in winter. It is very important to make sure a dog is warm and in a clean environment during winter to prevent infection.
Dog houses add shelter against the wind; and adding more layers to a dog's bed is always a good idea. As we know, dogs love to go walkies and require walking no matter if it's snowing or blowing a hurricane outside. However, when before stepping outside, if you have groomed or showered a dog, owners should pay more attention to the low temperature. Dog clothes are not just cute outfits and smaller dogs do not always have a thick enough winter coat to keep out the cold like bigger dogs like Huskies, German Shepherds, Great Danes, etc. Toy dogs such as Chihuahuas, are small and skinny and it's important to prepare the right dogs clothes for winter.
I hope you and your furry friends enjoy a healthy and happy winter.
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jress.dvi A classification-based approach to monitoring the safety of dynamic systems Shengtong Zhong a, Helge Langseth a, Thomas Dyhre Nielsen b aDepartment of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway bDepartment of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Abstract Monitoring a complex process often involves keeping an eye on hundreds or thou- sands of sensors to determine whether or not the process is stable. We have been working with dynamic data from an oil production facility in the North sea, where unstable situations should be identified as soon as possible. Motivated by this prob- lem setting, we propose a general model for classification in dynamic domains, and exemplify its use by showing how it can be employed for activity detection. We con- struct our model by using well known statistical techniques as building-blocks, and evaluate each step in the model-building process empirically. Exact inference in the proposed model is intractable, so in this paper we experiment with an approximate inference scheme. 1 Introduction A typical task for the risk and reliability engineer is to monitor the status of a dynamic system, like, e.g., a chemical process. Doing so will often mean tending to a large number of sensors, each of them updating their readings on a regular basis. Real-life processes have their own natural dynamics when everything is running according to plan; "outliers" may on the other hand be seen as indications that the process is leaving its stable state, and thereby be- coming more dangerous. Thus, the engineer would like to know if the system is unstable in order to ensure that the proper corrective actions are implemented as soon as the system becomes unsafe. Unfortunately, it may be difficult to measure the status of the system directly, and one will typically only have Email addresses: [email protected] (Shengtong Zhong), [email protected] (Helge Langseth), [email protected] (Thoma


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Glutamine Therapy for Hemolysis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
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Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
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Last updated: July 17, 2014
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The primary hypothesis of this study is that glutamine supplementation will improve the erythrocyte glutamine/glutamate ratio, a biomarker of oxidative stress, hemolysis and pulmonary hypertension (PH) in sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia (Thal) patients with PH. PH is defined as a tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity (TRV) on Doppler echocardiography > 2.5 m/s. We also predict that glutamine therapy will increase arginine bioavailability and subsequently alter sickle red cell endothelial interaction that can be identified using endo-PAT technology through nitric oxide (NO) generation, leading to changes in biological markers, and clinical outcome. Specifically our second hypothesis is that oral glutamine will decrease biomarkers of hemolysis and adhesion molecules, and improve the imbalanced arginine-to-ornithine ratio that occurs in hemolytic anemias, leading to improved arginine bioavailability and clinical endpoints of endothelial dysfunction and PH in patients with SCD and Thal.
|Pulmonary Hypertension Sickle Cell Disease Thalassemia
|Drug: L-Glutamine
|Phase 2
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Phase 2 Trial for Glutamine Therapy for Hemolysis-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: sickle cell disease
MedlinePlus related topics: Pulmonary Hypertension Thalassemia
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Further study details as provided by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in erythrocyte glutamine/glutamate ratio, a novel biomarker of oxidative stress,post therapy compared to pre-therapy steady-state values. [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Plasma Glutamine [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
- Tricuspid Regurgitant Jet velocity on Doppler Echocardiography [ Time Frame: 8 week ]
- 6 minute walk distance [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
- Liver function tests [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
- Renal function tests [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
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|March 2009
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|March 2014
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|March 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Pharmacokinetics
8 hour pharmacokinetics after glutamine supplementation
Drug: L-Glutamine
Oral L-glutamine 10 grams TID or (0.1g/kg TID) for children < 15 years of age.
Experimental: Treatment
Patients will receive an 8-week course of oral L-glutamine 10 grams TID
Drug: L-Glutamine
Oral L-glutamine 10 grams TID or (0.1g/kg TID) for children < 15 years of age.
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|4 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Established diagnosis of SCD (Hb SS, SC or SBeta- thalassemia) or Thal
- PH documented by echocardiography, defined as at TRV greater than 2.5 m/s
- Age greater than or equal to 4 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to take or tolerate oral medication
- Acute crisis or hospitalization within 1 month of enrollment
- Hepatic dysfunction (SGPT greater than 3X normal)
- Renal dysfunction (Creatinine greater than 2X normal)
- Allergy to glutamine
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Patients on sildenafil (Viagra), calcium channel blockers, or amino acid/protein supplements (other therapies acceptable if stable more than 3 months)
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01048905
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01048905
|United States, California
|Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
|Oakland, California, United States, 94608
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Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
|Principal Investigator:
|Claudia Morris, MD
|Emory University
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|Augusta Saulys, MD
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|NCT01048905 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R01FD003531-01 ( U.S. FDA Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|January 12, 2010
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|July 17, 2014
Keywords provided by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland:
Pulmonary Hypertension
Sickle Cell Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypertension, Pulmonary
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital
Anemia, Hemolytic
Hematologic Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Pathologic Processes
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Whatever happens between Ken Whisenhunt and the Arizona Cardinals in the future, don't tell me he lost the locker room or that players quit on him. I hate these words and they invoke bad memories of playing 10 years in the league on losing teams. I have observed many professional football players, none that were great but some that were good, that pulled up their stakes and didn't play with the passion and intensity needed to win football games. I have seen it with my own eyes. But don't tell me they quit on the coach.
Players don't quit on coaches; they quit on themselves.
When I use the word "quit," I mean it emotionally. Quitting or the word quit doesn't involve a conscious act of cognition where a player refuses to play or honor his responsibilities, quitting happens within the soul where emotion, passion and intensity resides. Quitting, as it pertains to football, is about refusing to engage the spirit and essence of the game. There is desperation and there is DESPERATION; there is intensity and then there is intensity that makes you shoot your hands under a man's chin, hoping his head might come off and roll on the ground. That was too much, but you get my point.
This is the kind of intensity and desperation football players at the highest level our species can generate should play with in order to play the game properly. In fact, the game demands you play it this way. Or you might get what you had in Seattle.
I think there were guys that pulled up their stakes and quit against the Seahawks. Not everybody, but enough. How else can one explain what we all witnessed?
But don't tell me they quit on Ken Whisenhunt. You, as an individual, are either predisposed to quitting or you're not. Guys didn't quit on the coach, they quit on the situation of losing nine in a row and not having a quarterback. They quit because that's what they've always done in the past when things got tough. They quit because that's who they are.
And there were many players that didn't quit against Seattle — and they know who they are! There are many players on the Cardinals roster that would never quit because the world would personally explode before their very eyes before they ever allowed themselves to curl up in the fetal.
These players have mastered the art of taking their profession personally. These players understand their name is their number and their number is their name; they play for no one nor nothing but the standard they have set for themselves. They have internalized their pride in purpose and are accountable and dependable to themselves first and then their teammates/coaches. They know nothing else.
In high school you would run through a landslide in flip-flops to be acknowledged by your coach. In college you played for your school, played for pride and, yes, even played for your coach. But in the NFL, you don't play for a coach. You may be on the roster and his name is above yours but you don't play FOR a coach. You play as a sole-proprietor, you play for the money (because to do anything else is masochistic), you play for the Clan, you play for kith & kin, you play to pay your wife's Gucci Card. You are a mercenary…and you know it.
This is why I can say with certitude that players don't quit on coaches because they never play for coaches to begin with. Players quit on themselves. And that's an indictment of them not their coach, their teammates or Ken Whisenhunt.
Then again, we do live in a culture where we blame others for our problems.
Trai Essex, former NFL Offensive Lineman
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Jaron Brown, Cardinals Receiver
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Jaron and the guys talk about the 3rd and 20 play plus his leg injury
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by Mikayla Ogrodniczuk (#16)
We set our goal. We worked hard to prepare ourselves to reach our goal. We fought hard … but we fell short. Yet, in so many other ways, we won.
Our 2013 Esso Cup experience is something that we will remember fondly for the rest of our lives. We learned that Canada has amazing female hockey teams and players. We played against the best in Canada, and learned so much from them. We learned what it takes to compete at the elite level of female major Midget hockey. We learned to be good ambassadors of B.C. female hockey. We learned about defeat and victory. And we learned that we want more!
It's funny … although we had intense battles with the girls on the other teams at the Esso Cup, we feel that we have a special bond with them – a bond formed by our mutual love of hockey, our common objective, and the passion we shared on the ice.
We hope that the players who depart from Burnaby and the 2013 Esso Cup, regardless of their team's outcome, will leave with a sense of pride, accomplishment, and satisfaction. Our lives have been enriched by sharing the Esso Cup experience with them, and we hope they feel the same.


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We had our first meeting of the IBM Cloud Certification Study Group yesterday.The objective of the study group is to pass the IBM Certified Solution Advisor Cloud Computing Architecture V1 certification exam I wanted to thank all the group members who attended and shared their ideas on how to study for the certification exam. We had groups members participate from all over the globe, from Sweden, India, North America and Australia. If you couldn't make it ,have no worries we'll arrange another meeting in a couple of weeks time. Please feel free to join us.
During our meeting we decided on a strategy of " Divide and Conquer" in our approach to studying for the exam. By this I mean, take advantage of each individuals strengths and share it with the group. One group member might be well versed on Cloud Security and another might be proficient on SaaS. The idea is to get together and share our knowledge.
During our meeting we covered the following:
- Key areas of competency for the Cloud Solution Advisor certification
- Certification requirements
- Resources
I'm really looking forward to working with the study group and ultimately becoming a IBM Certified Solution Advisor too.
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