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[kreek, krik] /krik, krɪk/
U.S., Canada, and Australia. a stream smaller than a river.
a stream or channel in a coastal marsh.
Chiefly Atlantic States and British. a recess or inlet in the shore of the sea.
an estuary.
British Dialect. a narrow, winding passage or hidden recess.
up the creek, Slang. in a predicament; in a difficult or seemingly hopeless situation.
[kreek] /krik/
noun, plural Creeks (especially collectively) Creek.
a member of a confederacy of North American Indians that in historic times occupied the greater part of Alabama and Georgia.
Also called Muskogee. a Muskogean language that is the language of the Creek Indians.
(mainly Brit) a narrow inlet or bay, esp of the sea
(US & Canadian, Austral & NZ) a small stream or tributary
(slang) up the creek, in trouble; in a difficult position
(pl) Creek, Creeks. a member of a confederacy of Native American peoples formerly living in Georgia and Alabama, now chiefly in Oklahoma
any of the languages of these peoples, belonging to the Muskhogean family
mid-15c., creke "narrow inlet in a coastline," altered from kryk (early 13c.; in place names from 12c.), probably from Old Norse kriki "corner, nook," perhaps influenced by Anglo-French crique, itself from a Scandinavian source via Norman. Perhaps ultimately related to crook and with an original notion of "full of bends and turns" (cf. dialectal Swedish krik "corner, bend; creek, cove").
Extended to "inlet or short arm of a river" by 1570s, which probably led to use for "small stream, brook" in American English (1620s). Also used there and in Canada, Australia, New Zealand for "branch of a main river," possibly from explorers moving up main rivers and seeing and noting mouths of tributaries without knowing they often were extensive rivers of their own. Slang phrase up the creek "in trouble," often especially "pregnant," first recorded 1941, perhaps originally armed forces slang for "lost while on patrol."
Indian tribe or confederation, 1725, named for creek, the geographical feature, and abbreviated from Ochese Creek Indians, from the place in Georgia where English first encountered them. Native name is Muskogee, a word of uncertain origin.
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[kreel] /kril/ noun 1. a wickerwork basket worn on the back or suspended from the shoulder, used especially by anglers for carrying fish. 2. a basket made of wicker or other material, for holding fish, lobsters, etc. 3. a trap for fish, lobsters, etc., especially one made of wicker. 4. a framework, especially one for […]
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I know what you're thinking: "Ugh, Mario Party 6? When are they going to stop making this mindless filler garbage?"
Normally that would be acceptable when it comes to any of the other 400 Mario Party games, but this game right here is... well, it's simply perfect. This brilliant Mario Party adventure is the pinnacle and achievement of all of mankind's entertainment endeavors. There shall never be a collection of mini-games, board maps and music more perfect in every mathematical and spiritual way than what's packaged in Mario Party 6. Thank you for your gift to the world, Hudson.
Naw, it's not even worth joking about the game like that. But even with the lack of playable DK and the inclusion of the really shitty Nintendo GameCube Mic, there surprisingly is a ton to like about Mario Party 6 that more or less places it on the same pedestal as the first three games, as big of an exaggeration as that might seem at first. Why don't you read a bit more to see exactly how? I know you're drying to cram your mind with oodles of Mario Party 6 trivia.

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I am just starting to install 9i for a new project. I have 8.1.5 R3 installed and need to keep this database running at this level. The new project requires 9.1 and I would like to use the same server as it is not being stressed at the moment. Has anyone done this?
Are there any issues / install methods / nightmares I should be aware of before heading in this direction?
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you must install the rdbms server software in different homes which will be done with the setup ... and I highly recommend to decide on one oracle Home for the clients funtionality . the 9i listener can address 8i instances and make use of one tnsnames.ora


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My friends and I are planning a trip down to Chocopologie in Norwalk, CT in late March. We'll be traveling from the Wethersfield area. We're hoping to stop somewhere for dinner in between Wethersfield and Norwalk so we have time to digest a bit before stuffing ourselves with chocolate! :) The New Haven area seems like a good in-between.
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Can Am 650!
thats awesome...what are the stacks for?..air?
I hope the stacks airent exhaust being eye level might make ya a little lite headed !!
Air intake for deep water crossing.
Yeah, your ready for some deep water riding with the stacks and radiator up like that.
very nice setup! wish i hadnt sold mine!!!!!
very nice. what are you going to use it for?
Thats a cool ride ya got there!!!
judging by the house in the background in the second picture, I'd say he might be using it just to get out and get around.
That things built like a sh!t brickhouse. How much was it??


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Well, we're one day away from a game that probably means a lot more to Georgia than we might have thought a couple weeks ago and a game that means a ton to Tennessee. It doesn't look right now like either team is going to be a world-beater, but it's definitely shaping up like a matchup between two hungry teams with something to prove. That usually makes for good football.
We've talked a lot this week about the issues facing the Bulldogs, so I figure it's time to find out what the hot topics are in Knoxville. To get answers, I tracked down Tennessee beat writer Wes Rucker of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
David Hale: Obviously Jonathan Crompton isn't exactly intimidating opponents yet, but his numbers have been better the past two weeks. Are there signs of improvement?
Wes Rucker: There have been signs of improvement, but how much does that really say?
Crompton has done nothing this season to soften the vitriolic feelings Big Orange Nation (as they call themselves) have for him. He's a talented, smart young man who simply looks like he won't put the pieces together before cementing his legacy as one of the biggest busts in college football history. And that will obviously be a major disappointment for the long list of well-respected coaches who never thought they'd see Crompton's career take this route.
Crompton's numbers have somewhat improved from the UCLA and Florida disasters, but a vast majority of his damage against Auburn came after the Tigers backed off into soft zone coverage in the fourth quarter. Even UT's late second-quarter touchdown drive came in a hurry-up setting, with Auburn sitting back to avoid the big play.
If Crompton starts putting up similar numbers (and avoiding turnovers) against defenses in normal situations, then he'll have started showing real improvement — in my opinion, anyway.
DH: Despite Crompton's problems, Tennessee hasn't had too many problems running the ball. Is it the O line, the combination of Montario Hardesty and Bryce Brown or a little of both?
WR: Like I've tried telling people for years, a healthy Hardesty is an NFL tailback who can run exceptionally well, block exceptionally well and catch-and-run better than you think. In the right college offense, and with the right number of postseason games (SEC championship, bowls), he'd be a 2,000-yard, all-purpose back. Without his injury history, he'd already have locked himself into the first day of the NFL draft. But ... he's been hurt. A lot. And in different areas. Hardesty is a tough kid who pushes himself into injuries because he runs and plays the game so hard. He is by no means a "soft" player. Just watch the way he finishes runs.
Brown was seriously pushing Hardesty for the starting position until getting thudded in the hip during a preseason practice. The freshman phenom hasn't been the same since. His explosive strength and speed just isn't quite what it was, but he's still a capable player at 80 percent. If UT develops an offensive line the next few years, Brown and shifty-quick David Oku will rack up yards.
The offensive line has been a patchwork unit ravaged by injuries. Of the four proven, solid seniors who were supposed to anchor that group, only left tackle Chris Scott is still standing at 100 percent. Right guard Jacques McClendon is less than 100 percent (high ankle sprain), but he's gotten by. Center Josh McNeil's latest knee injury might have ended his promising career, and left guard Vladimir Richard could miss his third consecutive Saturday with Achilles' and knee issues. But the line has managed OK despite using primarily a group of formerly inexperienced players. The fifth-year senior Sullins twins, Cody and Cory, are former walk-ons who start at center and left guard.
But that combination has been enough, obviously, especially after a full-speed, full-contact spring and fall camp focused on running and stopping the run — the two things Lane Kiffin said any first-year team must do.
DH: Georgia has had some trouble against mobile QBs in the past two years, and Jordan Jefferson burned the Dawgs for a few big plays in the second half last week. So might we see a bit more of Nu'Keese Richardson in the Wild Cat this week?
WR: I would certainly expect to see more "Pahokee Package" this week. The Vols named it after Richardson's talent-rich Florida hometown, though my vote was always "Nukular." (No one ever listens to me around here. Not even my girlfriend. Sigh.)
UT wants to put the offense on Hardesty's shoulders Saturday, but they'll need others to help. The less they need from Crompton, the better. Putting those factors together, I think there's a great chance we'll see Richardson playing his old position for a few plays Saturday.
And be careful, Dawgs' defenders. Richardson can throw it all over the yard. I saw it in camp. I don't know how the little guy's hands got around the ball — he's listed at 5-foot-10 and is closer to 5-7 — but he can throw it.
DH: Georgia's running game has been brutal recently, while A.J. Green has been great. So will Eric Berry be spending a bit of extra time shadowing Green or will we see him more in the box as he has been routinely this season?
WR: This is one of the day's biggest questions, and one for which I can only speculate at this point, since we in the media aren't allowed to watch the team periods in practice.
My guess is that UT will continue using Berry as essentially a fourth linebacker — or "bafety," or "sacker," as he laughingly calls the position. The Vols have to stop the run and keep their defense off the field to beat Georgia, and without junior middle linebacker Nick Reveiz (torn ACL), they'll be hard-pressed to stop the run without Berry's linebacker-like skills in the box.
The Vols have a nice set of defensive backs, led by criminally underrated junior Dennis Rogan, but certainly Berry would be their best shot to contain Green.
My bet is you won't see Berry on Green all that much, because he'll be in the box. But the bottom line is Berry plays free safety, strong safety, cornerback and a few linebacker spots during the course of most games, so who knows where he'll be Saturday? All we know is that he'll usually be somewhere hitting someone hard, and occasionally taking that ball from them and scoring.
DH: We all know about Berry, and Monte Kiffin is obviously a legend among defensive coordinators. But Mark Richt was very complimentary of freshman safety Janzen Jackson. What does Jackson bring to the table, and who else should Georgia fans be looking out for on the defensive side of the ball?
WR: Jackson is an intriguing player to watch. Athletically, in some ways, he's superior to Berry. He doesn't hit quite as hard as his role model — who does? — but he brings it pretty hard. His hit on Florida's Brandon James is a YouTube classic.
I don't think Jackson will be as good as Berry in the long run, but I think he could be an All-American or at least All-SEC player in his own right. Like Berry, he comes from a football family and was raised the right way. He stays out of trouble and stays in his playbook, so he knows where to be (and how to act) on and off the field.
Berry is an exceptionally rare player, but Jackson can still be a star. And some think he's already there.
DH: It was obviously a controversial offseason at Tennessee, and there's been drama that has continued into the season, most recently the dismissal of receiver Brandon Warren. Add to that three losses without an SEC win to start the season, and it can't be exactly the start Lane Kiffin was hoping for. So what's the atmosphere like in Knoxville right now? Still some excitement or a bit of disappointment?
WR: This is a complicated question that requires a complicated answer, but I'll shorten it the best I can.
Kiffin certainly hasn't been perfect since taking this job, but he's repeatedly said that nothing he's seen so far has knocked his plan off course. He knows what he wants to do with this program, but one of his main challenges will be keeping the win-starved locals at bay for a year or two.
More than 10 players have voluntarily left or been dismissed from the program since Kiffin arrived, and most of those players would have made this season's team better. But Kiffin said he didn't come to UT with a quick-fix in mind. He wanted to transform this program into what it was from 1995-2004. The Vols went 101-25 in that dominant, 10-year stretch, winning two SEC championships, one national championships and coming oh-so close to more of each.
It will take time to even approach those gaudy records, but Kiffin got off to the right recruiting start in February. He'll likely sign another top class this winter, and it likely won't be long until he puts a large group of his prized prospects on the field every Saturday.
With that said, I have no idea what will happen in the meantime. And I don't know how long that "meantime" will last. People around here simply do no tolerate losing, with few exceptions. How long the UT fans and influential boosters can stomach the rebuilding process remains to be seen.
I can say with certainty that many fans will feel better when someone else — anyone else — is under center. Fair or not, Crompton has become the face of UT's football calamity, and his mistakes have drawn the loudest boos I've heard at Neyland Stadium.
Huge thanks to Wes for his time. You can read his Tennessee coverage HERE, check out the TFP's Vols blog HERE, follow him on Twitter HERE or just be his Facebook pal HERE.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Behind Enemy Lines: Tennessee Volunteers
Well, we're one day away from a game that probably means a lot more to Georgia than we might have thought a couple weeks ago and a game that means a ton to Tennessee. It doesn't look right now like either team is going to be a world-beater, but it's definitely shaping up like a matchup between two hungry teams with something to prove. That usually makes for good football.
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F*ck UT.
- October 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- ben said...
Nice Post.
First lemme say, I know last season I told people on more than one occasion that I'd miss watching 24 play for the Dawgs. He was exciting to watch during and AFTER the plays.
Getting to watch 8 seemingly always able to make a play that no one else in the country might have been able to make....and to make it when absolutely need it makes me wet.
I don't know if I speak for everyone, but for me, I think we are just tired of getting players like AJ, Knowshon, Rennie etc. and being told how much talent we have and how well we recruit...and winning percentage is great...but damnit Florida has two GD NC in three years...AND they had one in, was '95 or '97 or something. LSU has two GD NC. We as a fanbase appreciate what we got...I assure you...but we are sick of getting blue balled. We want accountability and results. Where the F is our NC....for that matter SEC championship. For cripe's sake even Alabama can gloat over us again.
Ok...it's off my chest. All that said, I can't wait to see what 8 does this week...and I'm still pulling for Richard Samuel and can't wait to see Knowsh...I mean Wayshaun more!!!
Go Dawgs!!
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Entrepreneurs don't clock in at 9 and clock off at 5. To be successful it requires the investment of a lot of hours and total commitment
Edinburgh, Lothian (PRWEB) March 29, 2016
Managing Director at Penmex, Kirsty Pennal, along with the firm's independent contractors Kyla Cook, Chris Burt and Steven Daniels, travelled to Northumberland to attend the event. The intimate meeting, with budding entrepreneurs and business owners from Edinburgh, Newcastle and Sheffield, was hosted with the intention to gather together the top individuals and rising stars within the sales and marketing industry, recognising them for their recent efforts and providing an opportunity for them to interact with fellow professionals in a relaxed setting.
About Penmex: http://penmex.co.uk/
The main focus for the weekend was R&R, however there was a business side with a few workshops hosted on the Saturday. Felmoor Park was chosen for its quiet location, nice scenery and it's facilities. The weekend provided a great opportunity for those in attendance to get to know each other on a personal level as well as business. Away from the hustle and bustle of the office environment, attendees were able to unwind, relax in the hot tub and network with their fellow professionals. One of the main objectives for these kinds of events is to allow individuals to expand their network. In business, having a vast and diverse networking portfolio is tremendously important. Being an entrepreneur is a solo journey, however having people to rely on and to ask for help and guidance is imperative.
Penmex supports the belief that for business owners and budding entrepreneurs, it is important to maintain a good work-life balance and the weekend's events re-iterated that. "Entrepreneurs don't clock in at 9 and clock off at 5. To be successful it requires the investment of a lot of hours and total commitment, and this weekend was a great opportunity for everyone to have some rest and re-cooperation time, and to come back to work with a fresh motivation and desire," said Managing Director at Penmex, Kirsty Pennal.
Hosted by one of the firm's business associates, the event - which was the first of its kind - proved to be a huge success and it will hopefully become an annual event in the firm's business calendar.
Based in Edinburgh, Penmex was established in response to the consistent demand for below the line marketing solutions. The firm provides businesses with effective tailor-made marketing solutions, which focus on building a positive customer experience above all else. At Penmex they utilise the human element, recognising that people buy from people and that through interactive and personalised marketing campaigns they are able to meet with customers one-on-one. This allows them to improve customer relationships and encourage greater brand loyalty. At Penmex they regularly travel throughout the UK to events like the one in Northumberland as it is important to assist with development, and helps to advance the entrepreneurial journey.


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Dr. Ostherr is author of Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health (Duke, 2005), and Medical Visions: Producing the Patient Through Film, Television, and Imaging Technologies (Oxford, 2012). She has recently published articles on medical animation in the 1920s, health education films of the postwar period, narrative medicine and biocultures, ethical issues in the film Philadelphia, and corporate publicity films. She has also published on art film, documentary, and science fiction film. Dr. Ostherr lectures widely and has recently given invited talks in Geneva, Chicago, San Diego, Galveston, Houston, Philadelphia, and New York. Her work has been supported by a variety of grants and fellowships.
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My kid is awesome! And he is autistic and has ADHD. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Watch us navigate the world of neurodiversity.
Friday, September 4, 2009
When Ryan wants something (a snack, to watch tv, whatever) it is not unusual for his first approach to be panicked shrieking, repeating the name of whatever he wants over and over rapidly. Then I try to calm him and remind him that he can use words and calmly ask for the snack or the tv show or whatever. I model the words for him, then make him repeat them calmly before he gets what he wants:
"Fruit bar! Fruit bar! Fruit bar! Fruit bar! Fruit bar!" he shrieks.
"Calm. Calm." A few moments of hyperventilating and wailing. "Say, 'Mommy, can I have a fruit bar, please?'"
"Fruit bar pwease?"
"Can you say it calmly?"
"Can I..."
"...have fruit bar, pwease?"
"...I have fruitbarpwease."
Good enough, I usually don't feel like belaboring this any further.
Sometimes in addition to the panicked screaming and crying and endless repetition, he also throws himself on the floor and refuses to be calmed for many minutes on end; I will call this The Bloody Fit. Sometimes I can distract him from The Bloody Fit after several minutes, often by taking him to a completely different environment, and sometimes I can calm him by squeezing him really hard and holding him down for a while, but sometimes there's nothing I can do.
Yesterday was a special day: almost every request he made of me was in the form of a Bloody Fit. Fruit bar! Banana! Clean it! I tried to buy myself some peace by turning on Sesame Street, but then he just wanted to skip every other scene. DifferentDifferentDifferent! Number of the day! Zoe!
I feel I must insert here that Ryan never gets what he wants if he's crying and screaming. I do not reward or otherwise encourage these tantrums. But pointing out to him that he has never gotten what he wanted as a result of carrying on does not change his behavior.
Here's one brief example of what a great time yesterday was. In the afternoon we went to a nearby park of Ryan's choosing. We ran around a little, I pushed him on the swings, he had a snack, everything seemed to be going well. Then he decided he wanted to ride in the baby swings. I told him, as I always do, that he's too big for them; I have too hard a time hoisting a 40 lb child in size 12 shoes into those damn basket swings. Then he launched into a Bloody Fit.
"Sit in da swing! Sit in da swing!" he cried. I repeated that he's too big for them. I pointed out the big-boy swings. He grabbed at the baby swing and screamed. I walked away; this did not impress him. He wailed and begged at each of the park's three baby swings; I said no and walked away. Then he noticed an older boy sitting on one of the big-boy swings. Instead of going over to one of the two empty swings, Ryan proceeded to cry and wail in the other boy's face in an effort to drive him from his swing. When I noticed what was going on, I dragged Ryan away.
All efforts to engage him in something else failed, so I announced that we were leaving the park. He followed me, running, the whole time shrieking "Sit in da black swing! Sit in da black swing!!" We walk three blocks, and the tears and screaming do not stop. As I'm about to turn a corner to head toward home, I notice that the words Ryan is shrieking have changed. He is now crying "Go to the rocks park," which is what we call the park at the local elementary school.
I get on my knees to try (again) to calm him. There's a freaking river of snot pouring down this child's face. I look down at my necklace and remind myself that he is in agony, and he's not just trying to be a pain in the ass. I hold him as tightly as I can and whisper "Calm, calm." He actually catches his breath - progress.
"Do you want to go to the rocks park, or do you want to go home?" I ask.
"Rocks park."
"Then you have to be calm. If you're crying and screaming, we can't go fun places."
He is quiet. We cross the street in the direction of the elementary school. Immediately, he starts wailing, "Rocks park! Rocks park!"
"Yes, that's where we're heading, right now."
"Rocks park sit in da swing! Rocks park home! Home sit in da swing!"
I have no idea what's going on. I drag him home. I park him in front of the tv while I make the dinner he won't eat. I'm trying to remain calm. I remind myself I'm the adult. That idea terrifies me. I concentrate on slicing carrots.
As soon as his show is over, he starts another Bloody Fit.
So I did the only thing I could thing to do: I left. I walked out of the apartment and closed the door. I sat in the hall and listened to him screaming. When there was a break in the crying, I opened the door. He immediately started crying again; I left again. It was like sleep-training a baby. This Ferber game went on for at least 20 minutes.
And then he had exhausted himself and was calm.
I wiped his face and we went out to play in the back yard.
And it was a good 40 minutes until the next tantrum.
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OMG! This could have come word for word from a script of my day! Hannah has tantrums like this all the time. Scream, scream, scream, bloody fit. You leaving the apartment and sitting outside the door is so similar to what I do that I actually breathed a huge sigh of relief knowing that I'm not the only one-that I'm not a horrible mother. When Hannah gets like that I pick her up and put her in the bathroom and sit outside the door. I wait until screaming stops, open the door, if screaming resumes I close the door again. The process might last 10 minutes or it might last 1 1/2 hours. I can't tell you what a sense of relief it is to know I"m not the only one.ReplyDelete
Ryan has a beautiful, kind, patient mama. Keep up the good work.ReplyDelete
I just want you to know I feel for you and admire you. Parenting is challenging enough with a child who is not on the spectrum. Thank you for this amazing writing. Bridget BinderReplyDelete


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With the standards of learning being an ever-changing occurrence, some institutions have devised different ways to have their instructors prepared for the subject they'll be teaching.
One of the ways the Kyrene School District (KSD) has been assuring their teachers have all the assistance they need is by working alongside academic coaches.
The Kyrene Academic Coaches assist instructors in two key areas of learning: math and literacy.
There's more than 15 Kyrene Academic Coaches covering the 19 elementary schools in KSD.
Lorah Neville, executive director for curriculum and learning services, said modeling is one of the most important parts of math instructing.
Modeling furthers the students understanding of math by using different hands-on activities from drawing pictures to using cubic figures to work out problems.
"We have kids have a more complex understanding, instead of a basic understanding," Neville said.
Coaches consist of instructors who are masters in their fields, and have spent many hours immersed in the material they're coaching.
"In our program each of our math coaches work with three schools. What they do is they help the teachers and the administrators at the school with focus on gaining math-content knowledge, or instructional strategies that help improve math instruction that are happening all over our classrooms," Neville said. "It's very much like a basketball coach, or a hockey coach."
The coaches also assist the improvement quality of a teacher's instruction model by giving feedback from the types of questions a teacher asks their students to the different activities being conducted in the classroom.
Each Kyrene Academic Coach follows an eight-key task agenda, some involving data analysis to gather multiple sources to identify information that can be utilized to improve instruction and learning, observing classrooms to learn about classroom environment in order to support daily instructions, modeling lessons to a specific instructional practice including rigor and content while a teacher observes with a focused purpose on which to reflect, and co-teaching where to coach and classroom the teacher share responsibilities for delivering lessons and reflecting on the lesson's effectiveness.
One reason Neville feels coaches add onto the teaching experience is because the standards of what students are required to know are higher expected.
"The amount of math knowledge teachers need to have now is much higher than it has ever been before. That's why we know we need math experts in the buildings helping teachers to understand math and teach math in a way that kids really get a deep understanding," Neville said.
Some expectations the Arizona's College and Career Ready Standards (AZCCRS) have students do when speaking about math is not only know how to solve mathematical problems through sets of algorithms, but understand the reasoning of using the formula and when it should be applied.
"It's a very different world mathematical for kids, and that's why we feel it's important for teachers to continuing to improve with their practice," Neville said. "To me that's the biggest difference between previous standards of the state and the Arizona College and Career Ready Standards. We're no longer saying here's the sort of bare minimum you need to get out of high school, but we're saying here's what you need by 12th grade to be ready to go into an entry-level job, go to college and not need remedial instruction in English and math."
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Thread: Date Comparison
12-28-05, 10:41 #1Registered User
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Unanswered: Date Comparison
I have two tables that I am needing to link by the tables date field. In one table the date field is defined as varchar(23). The time for this field is always zeros.
Example: '2005-12-27 00:00:00.000'
The other table is defined as datetime, and it does have the date and time in this field.
Example: 2005-12-27 08:00:35.000
The problem i am having is
2005-12-27 00:00:00.000 does not = 2005-12-27 08:00:35.000.
Because I will never have more than one record on the same date I would like to be able to only compare the date. Example 2005-12-27 = 2005-12-27
Since the fields are 2 different field types, this is giving me a problem. Could someone please help. I have tried everything I know to do.
What I really need is the a way to format the datetime fields date into a string such as '2005-12-27'.
Hopefully what i have written makes sense.
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select cast(convert(varchar(11),getdate()) as Datetime)
this eliminates the time stamp and sets it to 2006-05-27 00:00:00.000
This will allow you to join
Suggestion make your varchar field a date field.
12-28-05, 11:38 #3Registered User
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Or,Use the below code to convert date to varchar and compare with ur varchar field
select convert(varchar,DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,getdate()), 0),121)I love cursor,though I never use it.Cos' I dont want to misuse it.
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That worked perfect! Thanks!


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Friday Edition: Phishing for Dollars
Phishing attacks, those e-mails that we all seem to get that look like inquiries from banks or legitimate online sites, are continuing at sky-high levels.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group said this week that every month since November, attacks have grown at a rate of 28 percent. That means they are doubling every three or four months.
Last month alone, there were reports of more than 1,500 phishing sites. They are hard to crack and most are based in the United States. Last month alone, there were more than 8,400 new phishing e-mails that flew around inside computers.
More than 100 different brands have been victims, with the most common ones being financial institutions such as banks. Earthlink was particularly hit last month when e-mails tried to dupe Earthlink customers into giving up personal information.
Below is a sample of companies or other organizations that have published policies relating to e-mail fraud and phishing attacks:
Here are some other resources from the antiphishing.org website:
FBI -- Internet Fraud Complaint Center
The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). IFCC's mission is to address fraud committed over the Internet.
The Coalition on Online Identity Theft
Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
Some of the biggest names in e-commerce, including Amazon.com, eBay, and Microsoft, have formed a coalition to curb online identity theft.
The United States Federal Trade Commission
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them.
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a nonprofit consumer education, research, and advocacy program. Our publications empower you to take action to control your personal information by providing practical tips on privacy protection.
Nigeria -- The 419 Coalition Website
We Fight the Nigerian Scam with Education. Its a $5 billion (as of 1996, much more now) worldwide scam which has run since the early 1980's under Successive Governments of Nigeria. It is also referred to as "Advance Fee Fraud," "419 Fraud" (Four-One-Nine) after the relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria.
A piece for the L.A. Times points out that real people get hurt by these scams. And often they are left to fight the fraud by themselves.
Drowning in Applications
For a lot of high school students, holiday vacation time will be spent filling out mountains of college applications.
Many schools have January application deadlines. Students have been at the task for months, in some cases.
Why is the application process so complex and competitive? U.S. News & World Report gives some insight:
Part of the answer, admissions gurus say, lies in the sheer numbers of students striving to get into college. There are over 600,000 more 17-year-olds than there were 10 years ago, and more kids than ever have their eyes on college -- 3 of every 4 schools reported a jump in apps last year. As elite colleges become more selective, seniors are applying to more schools to cover their bases: In 1983, only 10 percent of undergrads at four-year schools had applied to six or more colleges; by last year the figure had jumped to nearly 25 percent. With applications flooding the system, the difficulty colleges have sorting through them has been compounded by grade inflation. In 1973, just 20 percent of students earned A averages in high school; 30 years later, fully 47 percent did. For many colleges, the best way to differentiate a mass of applicants whose stats look awfully similar is to require as much extra information as possible.
States Want Cuba Deals, Feds Don't
This week, at least 10 states are being represented at a trade fair in Havana, trying to drum up agriculture deals with Cuba.
State officials from Alabama, Louisiana, and Maine will visit a Cuban cigar factory and tour a rum museum this week while encouraging President Fidel Castro's communist regime to buy more U.S. agricultural products.
The story says:
Despite the Bush administration's hard line, U.S. trade with Cuba has grown steadily and reached $321 million this year as of September. Archer Daniels Midland Co. of Decatur, Ill., ranked first among all U.S. companies, exporting $8.9 million worth of corn to Cuba last year.
Maine, California, and Texas have passed resolutions encouraging trade with Cuba, and more than half the states are making sales there. Among the top U.S. exporters to Cuba are North Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. Other states active in Cuban trade are Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Texas, according to federal trade data.
- Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) signed an agreement in January with Cuba's largest food importer aimed at increasing trade.
- A South Carolina delegation signed a similar agreement.
- South Dakota's delegation agreed to sell 5,000 metric tons of peas in October.
- Vermont contracted in August to send $6 million in powdered milk to Cuba.
- Montana agreed in September 2003 to sell $10 million in farm products to Cuba such as wheat, dry beans, and peas.
Retiree Health Benefits
A new Kaiser study says the days when your employer provides even part of your health benefits after you retire are quickly fading. Even those that still will pay for health care for retirees are shifting more of the cost to the former workers.
This is not only an issue for current retirees, but it is a huge concern for baby boomers who will begin retiring in the next decade. How will they/we pay for health care? Will we just work longer to keep health insurance?
Between 1988 and 2004, the share of large employers (200 or more employees) offering retiree health benefits declined from 66 percent to 36 percent, a trend which is likely to increase the number of future retirees without such coverage. Retiree health benefits have become a focal point in negotiations between labor and management, and retiree health costs have been cited as a factor in recent bankruptcy filings. Of critical concern is the extent to which these negotiations will result in benefit terminations or cost-shifting to retirees, particularly among financially distressed companies.
What's behind the big cut in retirement health benefits? It is, of course, cost. The study says that between 2003 and this year, the cost of that health care rose more than 12 percent.It is worth noting that the report says virtually no company it surveyed is considering dropping benefits to current retirees. Most still think there will be some kind of health benefit for current workers who are yet to retire. But what the benefit will include is far from certain (see page xvi of the report).
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Going the Distance for PresenTense
Running is an entrepreneurial sport. You do not need a whole lot to get started, basically a good pair of shoes and a desire to go the distance. When you start your race, you cannot see the finish and often are not familiar with the course. For entrepreneurs, it is not all that different. They do not start with much more than an idea of where they will end up and the drive to see that idea launched. There is no set formula to finish, other than stay the course and keep going until the finish line.
PresenTense is one organization that has successfully drawn out the course map for entrepreneurs to take their ideas and run with them. PresenTense programs provide the framework for passionate people to address communal challenges. Over 1000 people have been touched directly by the organization and the ventures started as a result have exponentially been able to reach thousands more. PresenTense itself was just an idea several years ago, and today it is a start-up of good people helping to launch start-ups that do good things. All the while, PresenTense continues to challenge the conversation around what it means to make social change in communities around the world.
That is why on October 13th, I am running the Chicago Marathon to benefit PresenTense (www.100reasonstowin.com/marathon). I hope others will join me in supporting the organization. This race is about raising resources and awareness that will allow PresenTense to continue to position itself as a premier organization for social entrepreneurship and organizational development. I hope others are inspired, as I have been, to give to PresenTense by donating money, giving their time to support a local program or mustering up the courage to put their idea out there and apply to be a Fellow.
Over 400 innovators (www.presentense.org/fellows) with ventures that benefit their local communities have been a part of a PresenTense Fellowship. For example, Jill Zenoff of The Gan Project was a PresenTense Fellow in 2012, providing a source for sustainable agriculture in Chicago. Elizabeth Weingarten from Washington, DC, launched Tribelle in 2013 to help female Israeli artisans gain access to a broader market for selling their Jewelry. PresenTense has also provided direct support to organizations seeking to awaken the entrepreneurial spirit within their leaders, through consulting, training and partnership.
While working at The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, I coordinated the launch of the DC PresenTense Fellowship in 2012. Currently I train new Fellows, as a PresenTense Social Start Trainer. I have experienced first-hand how PresenTense programs empower individuals with new ideas for social change to make a difference in their local communities. PresenTense invests in people: innovators, entrepreneurs, community leaders, educators, and thinkers. They support and are supported by hundreds of volunteers and community members around the world, and they rely on donations to make those investments possible.
Running has become more than a hobby and piece of my identity. Similarly, PresenTense is more than a job for me. It informs how I approach challenges in my life and community. For me, being a runner is about taking steps to get farther and faster in life. The blood, sweat and tears I put into the sport push me to accomplish more in my day to day life. PresenTense is offering the same opportunity for passionate people with bright ideas for communal change, and I am willing to go the distance this fall to support it!
To donate to Andy"s Marathon to Benefit PresenTense join him for a Happy Hour at Thomas Foolery this Monday, September 16th from 5:30-8:30 (http://www.gatherdc.org/event/marathon-happy-hour-to-benefit-presentense/) You can also donate directly atwww.100reasonstowin.com/marathon.


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Tulsa Officer Betty Shelby Acquitted in Shooting Death of Terence Crutcher, Twitter Reacts
The officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma last September has been found not guilty.
Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby, 43, had been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Crutcher, 40. Crutcher was stalled on the side of the road when the encounter with cops began. He was shot while his hands were up. A not guilty verdict was reached shortly after 9 p.m. local time.
Crutcher's family called the verdict a disappointment.
"Terence was not the aggressor; Betty Shelby was the aggressor," Tiffany Crutcher, Crutcher's sister said. "Betty Shelby had the gun. Betty Shelby was following him with his hands up."
"Let it be known that I believe in my heart that Betty Shelby got away with murder," Crutcher's father, Rev. Joey Crutcher, said after the verdict was announced.
According to NBC News, the Department of Justice announced shortly after the shooting that it was opening a civil rights investigation.
Protests occurred following the news of the acquittal, with protesters reportedly blocking roads in Tulsa. Following the news of Shelby's acquittal #TerenceCrutcher also began trending on Twitter with emotional reactions to the all too familiar verdict. Check out the reactions below.
Protesters still at 5th and Denver across from the courthouse. Several have left but still plenty around. Lot of officers here. @NewsOn6 pic.twitter.com/BX3Hes6FAp
— Joseph Holloway (@a_cupof_JOE) May 18, 2017
Tulsa Police telling protestors to stop blocking road or "chemical agents may be used." @NewsOn6 pic.twitter.com/teQlnCVp41
— Annie Chang (@AnnieNewsOn6) May 18, 2017
No justice, No peace. #EnoughisEnough #TerenceCrutcher #SayHisName
— mykhaa (@kymeshawhite) May 18, 2017
Retweeted Dr. Williams (@CajunVegan):
Protesters blocking the road outside the courtroom. #TerenceCrutcher… https://t.co/n4aF7CL9MH
— Richard J. Marini (@richardjmarini) May 18, 2017
If #JordanEdwards murderer is found not guilty also, something other than hashtags and condolences needs to take place. #TerenceCrutcher
— Sextina Aquafina (@Prvnce_B) May 18, 2017
The justice system yet again shows it's FOS.
— Deucez (@Deuces225) May 18, 2017
I'm still confused on how you feared for ur life with his hands in the air?!? #terencecrutcher #NoJustice
— Darla Still (@Sassy1_1983) May 18, 2017


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Posts tagged Depression (mood)
The Four Neural Sub-Types of Depression
Regular readers of The Mouse Trap will be familiar with my obsession with knowing how nature is carved at its joints or in other words what are the natural categories or basic kinds.
This translates into thinking a lot about what are the fundamental drives, basic emotions and personalty traits and what taxonomic system of mental illness is most reflective of underlying fundamental nosological differences.
While synthesizing the work of others, has great value, and one derives many valuable theoretical insights based on such musings; there is nothing better than finding empirical studies that shed some light on such matters.
For example, I have argued that one set of disorders that arise form emotional polarity of fear/interest is Anxiety disorders and Obsession disorders. When fear is disproportional/ inappropriate to circumstances, it leads to anxiety; when interest is disproportional/ inappropriate it leads to Obsession. Fear and interest though opposed are two separate constructs as per the first tenet of positive psychology that good is not the absence of bad.
Similarly, the set of disorders that arise form sadness/ Joy polarity is depressive disorders and manic disorders. I am deliberately using plural form while defining depressive/ manic disorders as they contain sub-types – as we will soon see in the case of depression.
Now while depression is characterized by excessive low affect (sadness), one way to conceive Mania is as having excessive energy; the opposite of manic symptoms thus might be conceived of as fatigue or anergia. Anxiety is of course marked by excess anxiety while Obsession is too much interest; a possible opposite of obsession may be anhedonia– a sort of disinterest or apathy.
Now, its common to find depression and anxiety disorders comorbid with each other and just like treating bipolar as well as schizophrenia under one umbrella of psychosis, one may conceivably treat depression/ anxiety / anergia and anhedonia under a common nomenclature- in this case that of depression.
But we are perhaps getting ahead of ourselves. Lets backtrack a bit and go straight to this new study that found four neural subtypes of depression.
Basically, Liston and colleagues, used resting state fMRI to look at the functional connectivity of depressed patients and developed an algorithm to predict who has depression and who does not have in a sample consisting of both depressed patients and healthy controls. They found abnormal functional connectivity in frontostraital and limbic systems in teh depressive patients.
They also used clustering techniques to find that their depressive subset of patients clustered around two dimensions- one of which they called anxiety dimension and the other anhedonia. When one takes into account that there could be 2×2 = 4 combinations of anxiety and anhedoinia they found that their patients neatly clustered in those four quadrants.
If you note in the figure 1f accompanying the article,
- cluster 1 subjects have low scores on anhedonia and high scores on anxiety
- cluster 2 subjects have neither anxiety nor anhedonia
- cluster 3 have high anhedonia but low anxiety
- cluster 4 have both high anxiety and high anhedonia
The authors note that all subjects had low mood (sadness, hoplessness, helplessness) and that is why they were classified as depressed patients in the first place. The core depressive signature was also associetd with anergia and anhedonia with majority of patients showing these symptoms across all subtypes.
They also found slightly different neural signatures for all the four subtypes. For eg. cluster 1 & 4 characterized by high anxiety had reduced frontoamygdalar connectivity, linking it with fear circuit. Cluster 3 & 4 were associated with hyper connectivity between thalamic and frontostriatal networks and had high anhedonia and psychomotor retardation associated with them. And cluster 1 & 2 had reduced connectivity between anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal coretx involved in reward and incentive salience and guess what they showed anergia or fatigue.
To me it seems apparent that what we are seeing here are different effects of low mood, anxiety, anhedonia and anergia playing out as four clusters.
Cluster 3 I would classify as primarily anehdoina related; cluster 4 as primarily anxiety related; cluster 1 may be thought of as anergia related and clusetr 2 as pure depression or low mood related.
If my hunches are true we should find similar subdivisions in diagnosed anxiety disorders, obsessive disorders , manic disorders too. Of course that is an empirical fact to be proved.
Depression and its Antecedents
Today I will approach the problem of depression, but from a particular vantage point – that steeped in cognitive theory and informed by the work of Martin Seligman.
There have been other views about depression- a psychoanalytical one whereby depression was deemed as rage turning upon inwards and directed towards the self; and a biomedical one whereby depression is considered a disease of the brain/body- imbalances in neurotransmitters etc. . Seligman rejects both models and considers depression (even clinically defined) as just the other extreme of response to loss etc. This is important to note as unipolar depression, clinically defined, is usually considered a type rather than a degree phenomena, i.e. people in depressive phase are qualitatively different from those who are not clinically depressed as per the prevalent model.However, note that even Seligman considers the mild form of depression as distinct from sadness.
The theory of depression that Seligman and colleagues came up with is based on his famous experiments with dogs whereby experimental dogs were subjected to uncontrollable mild shocks while the control dogs either received no shocks or shocks that they could stop and control. When the dogs who were subjected to uncontrollable shocks were placed in anew chamber whereby they could escape shocks by climbing over a low barrier, they sat passively. They had learned or internalized that nothing they do with respect to shocks makes the shocks go away and had even generalized it to new situations when things were actually under their control. Also the feelings of helplessness reflected in many diverse behaviors like less aggressiveness or exploration etc and was sort of generalized across situations too. So not only the experimental dogs made permanent attributions about their lack of control, but also pervasive attributions and thus became depressed.
Seligman and colleagues designed and executed similar experiments with rats and also humans. Using these experiments they were able to create a model of depression. That model of depression requires different things to come together, but typically as its called learned helplessness model of depression, the focus has been on the learned helplessness following a loss of control.
The different components of the model, when explicated, have different implications for treatment/ prevention. To start with before the process can start one has to have loss of control – if our environments provided more opportunity for control over our experiences and in general if people learned to feel more in control of their life, despite losses and all, then the chain stops at its beginning itself. While some losses are inevitable, say loss of loved one, other losses like pink slips can be minimized and then no matter what the loss is , one can choose one's own attitude towards the loss – the last of human freedom's as per Frankl.
Once loss/ dejection/rejection/ loss of control has happened, almost all of us will temporarily become helpless. However, becoming helpless is not same as becoming mildly depressed too. For some of us who have a habitual pessimistic explanatory style, in terms of seeing the negative events in our lives as being permanent and pervasive, the learned helplessness turns into momentary , mild depression. We have sad affect, disturbed sleeping, eating etc. However, for those who have optimistic explanatory styles, we re-bounce from the learned helpless and do not become depressed. So changing the habitual explanatory style is another intervention opportunity.
Finally, the mild and momentary depression become full-fledged clinical unipolar depression, when the symptoms continue for 2 weeks or more and as per Seligman this happens when one adds a ruminating thinking style to the mix. Thus a person who has a pessimistic style and also keeps thinking about his own thoughts is more likely to get clinically depressed. Again , if we can prevent or reduce rumination we can prevent the clinical variant.
Cognitive behavioral therapy , which has been found to be quite effective for depression, has been shown to work on some of these aspects increasing optimistic explanatory style and challenging negative automatic thoughts but probably can be augmented by focusing on preventing rumination and story-editing techniques to re-frame issues of loss and control.
In the end, in my view depression has complex roots – some steeped in biology and temperament, while others due to environmental stressors and our reactions to them. A clearer understanding of the learned helplessness model of depression is likely to aid in therapy.


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Giants double up Padres to earn splitApr 7, 2011 - 4:39 AM
Aubrey Huff drove in three runs on a 3-for-5 game with two runs scored while Pablo Sandoval drove in the other run for the Giants, who split the two-game set.
Tim Lincecum (1-1) went seven innings and gave up just one run on three hits with 13 strikeouts.
"It's probably as good as I've seen his fastball all spring," said Posey about Lincecum. "He just had great command today and it showed on the scoreboard."
Chase Headley hit a two-run double in the ninth and Brad Hawpe drove in a run earlier the frame, but the comeback fell short for the Padres, who had won three of four to start the season.
Tim Stauffer (0-1) was tagged for four runs on eight hits with two walks and a strikeout over 4 2/3 innings of action.
"We just couldn't break through against Lincecum and get anything going," said San Diego manager Bud Black. "That's the way it goes sometimes when you face a pitcher of his caliber."
Brian Wilson, who was activated from the disabled list prior to the game, came on in the ninth and got the first out, but the next three batters reached base with Hawpe's infield single combined with an error from Miguel Tejada scored a run. After Ryan Ludwick struck out, Jeremy Affeldt took the mound and Headley greeted him with a double to make it an 8-4 game.
The next two batters then reached base to bring the tying run to the plate, but Ramon Ramirez came on and struck out Rob Johnson for his first save of the year.
Huff hit an RBI double in the first and Posey followed with a shot over the wall in left for a 3-0 lead.
Hundley hit a solo homer in the third to get the Padres on the board, but Huff doubled home another run in the fifth for a 4-1 lead.
RBI singles from Huff, Posey and Sandoval, with Posey driving in two runs, gave San Francisco an 8-1 lead.
Game Notes
San Francisco will have its home opener on Friday against St. Louis...The Padres host the Dodgers for a three-game set starting on Friday...San Diego took 12 of 18 from San Fran last season...Wilson had been sidelined with a strained oblique muscle.
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- Chase Headley doubled to center scoring Orlando Hudson and Brad Hawpe. Runner on second with two outs and Chris Denorfia due up.
Giants 8, Padres 4 Bot 9, 2 OutsApr 6 9:30 PM
- Brad Hawpe singled to short. On the play, Miguel Tejada's throwing error scored Alberto Gonzalez. Runners on first and third with one out and Ryan Ludwick due up.
Giants 8, Padres 2 Bot 9, 1 OutApr 6 9:26 PM
- Pablo Sandoval singled to right scoring Aubrey Huff. Runners on first and second with two outs and Pat Burrell due up.
Giants 8, Padres 1 Top 6, 2 OutsApr 6 8:25 PM
- Buster Posey singled to right scoring Miguel Tejada and Freddy Sanchez. Runners on first and second with two outs and Pablo Sandoval due up.
Giants 7, Padres 1 Top 6, 2 OutsApr 6 8:22 PM
- Aubrey Huff singled to pitcher scoring Brandon Belt. Bases loaded with two outs and Buster Posey due up.
Giants 5, Padres 1 Top 6, 2 OutsApr 6 8:19 PM
- Aubrey Huff doubled to left scoring Andres Torres. Runner on second with one out and Buster Posey due up.
Giants 4, Padres 1 Top 5, 1 OutApr 6 7:44 PM
- Tim Stauffer flied out to right. None on with two outs and Will Venable due up.
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- Buster Posey one-out, two-run Home Run (1) to left scored Aubrey Huff. Pablo Sandoval due up.
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- Aubrey Huff doubled to right scoring Freddy Sanchez. Runner on second with one out and Buster Posey due up.
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- Andres Torres flied out to center. None on with one out and Freddy Sanchez due up.
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Center Stage : Turn It Up Trailer (2008)
30 October 2008 Drama, Family 95 mins
All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world.
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I was introduced to Larry when I started my new position as the assistive technology occupational therapist for the school district. Larry has arthrogryposis, a congenital disorder that affects joints, limiting not only range of motion but also strength. When I met Larry, he already had several devices in place, but the team was concerned with how he was accessing his technology, specifically his iPad. Why? Because he uses his nose.
When I first saw Larry using his nose, I was blown away! Here is this student who has found a way to use his iPad, including swiping from screen to screen, entering a password, and even drawing on the whiteboard app without the use of his hands. He had already tried the traditional hands-free options — a mouth stick and a stylus mounted onto a ball cap — with little to no success. He was fast and accurate using his nose, and didn't want to access his iPad any other way.
In knowing his success, why was the team so concerned? They thought it was socially inappropriate for a middle schooler to use his nose to access technology, and they were concerned about the hygienic issues that would arise if he had a cold. I hesitantly agreed with the appropriateness of using his nose, but figured since the device was his, he wouldn't be spreading germs, even with a runny nose. After much research and observation, I realized that with Larry's shoulder movement, he would be able to use a switch to access his iPad.
Larry learned how to use the Ablenet Blue2 blue tooth switch with his iPad relatively quickly. With some trial and error, we realized he was more accurate using it as a single switch, as opposed to the double switch option that is offered. He learned to click twice to return to the home screen and to wait for the cursor to reach the row he wanted before clicking. He has done relatively well with the switch and now has a more socially acceptable way of accessing his iPad.
The major difficulty we face now is speed. Larry knows how fast he can navigate through his iPad with his nose and there is a major difference between using his nose and using the switch. Luckily the cursor speed can be adjusted, but with Larry's difficulties moving, it needs to be at a pace to accommodate this difficulty. Plus, when he's really excited, he will accidentally click the button, and have to wait for it to scroll through all the options again before being able to actually choose the right option.
Larry continues to practice using the switch during our sessions, but prefers his nose. Sometimes high-tech doesn't mean the right-tech, and sometimes no(se)-tech is the way to go.
Shelly is sad she enjoyed the snow days so much, now that school is in session until the end of June!
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On May 23, last week, Google began notifying users on Google.com as when the company detected that a users' computers or routers were infected with malware called "DNSChanger"--and directed them to the tools they needed to clean their computer and ensure connectivity.
Today, Google said that they have "so far already notified half a million individuals about DNSChanger infections on their devices," posted Eric Davis, Policy Manager, Security and Heather West, Policy Analyst.
Davis notes, that the comapny is also collaborating with the Industry Botnet Group, a group of ISPs, security groups, industry leaders, and law enforcement entities that share expertise and aggregate resources for countering botnets.
"The U.S. Department of Commerce recently highlighted the success of this initiative in bringing together private sector actors to address the issue of botnets. And the White House held an event today applauding the success of industry partnerships in addressing these issues-- recognizing like many in Congress that transparency and information sharing are critical to addressing security risks on the Internet," he said.
"Google is also continuing to address botnet security concerns through the Federal Communications Commission's Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC), which includes participants from both the public and private sectors," he concludes.
In other Google releated news,
the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has once again said that Google "is not doing enough to fight copyright infringement online." But it may be that the RIAA itself is guilty of that charge.
This week, RIAA Executive VP Brad Buckles in a blog post "Some Clear Facts About Google's "Transparency" Report" shares what the organization think about Google's efforts to remove infringing pages from Google's search results -- Buckles calls "Google's data misleads."
In a series of five "facts," RIAA lays out what amounts to two primary complaints:
- Google "places artificial limits on the number of queries that can be made by a copyright owner to identify infringements."
- Google "also limits the number of links we can ask them to remove per day."
The RIAA says these limits keep it from finding and requesting removal of piracy-related web pages related to the Billboard Top 10 songs, let alone all pirated material on the web.
"In order to truly address this problem, Google needs to take its commitment to fight piracy more seriously by removing the limits on queries and take downs, by taking down multiple files of the same recording instead of just one when a "representative sample" of infringing files is provided to them, and by establishing meaningful repeat infringer policies.
Clearly the current process is not working. Google is routinely directing people to unlawful sources of content, which is clearly at odds with data that suggests most people rely on search engines to identify trusted websites at the top of search results. If Google truly doesn't want its search results directing people to materials that violate copyright laws, more should be done to address this problem. We look forward to continuing to work with Google and other intermediaries to find better solutions to this problem, and to gain more transparency into the information flows and search rankings," Buckles said.
Also, PageLever, a Facebook analytics company, recenlty in study of 500 fan pages uncovered a significant drop in traffic post Google "Search Plus Your World (SPYW)" launch.
PageLever in its research studied 500 fan pages with a minimum of 10,000 fans, looking at external referrals from Bing and Google. "Internal Facebook referrals and searches did not play a factor in the data. The overall results show that Google traffic to Facebook pages has dropped 51%. Before the SPYW launch, Google drove 9.25% of the external traffic to Facebook pages. After the SPYW launch, that percentage of Google referrals was down to just 4.52%," reports PageLever (via SEL).
Surprisingly, the numbers were down on Bing as well, dropping 59% year over year.
Google "Search Plus Your World (SPYW)" launched in january this year, is a service that drastically customized search results based on social connections while bolstering visibility of Google+ products.
You can read the full PageLever study here.


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October 31st, 2016
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Next up in our preview series, the Milwaukee Brewers. Milwaukee was an incredible disappointment in 2013, and their season was marred by Ryan Braun's season-ending 65 game suspension for his role in the Biogenesis nightmare. With Braun back in the fold healthy for 2014, can the Brewers once again make it to the playoffs?
Yesterday was Cubs Day on TOC, and here's your recap.
–Season preview
–Two biggest weaknesses
–Three key questions
–Four horsemen
Also yesterday, the Fresno Grizzlies unveiled a phenomenal new jersey design, and Scott made his long-awaited TOC return by breaking down the numerous ways to build a winning team.
Here are today's televised games and their respective pitching matchups.
-Mets vs Cardinals (1:05 PM, Niese vs Wainwright)
-Yankees vs Nationals (1:05 PM, Sabathia vs Zimmermann)
-Dodgers vs Royals (4:05 PM, Haren vs Vargas)
-Mariners vs Angels (4:05 PM, Baker vs Wilson
-Indians vs Diamondbacks (4:10 PM, Masterson vs Cahill)
Welcome to Brewers Day, and enjoy Spring Training, everyone.