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Rice Keeping Fingers Crossed with Taillon
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Wayne Graham has signed a string of excellent recruiting classes during his 18 years as the head coach at Rice University, but he's never had a class like this.
'It's probably, on paper, the best class we've ever had," he told Perfect Game USA. "It all boils down to who enrolls in August."
More specifically, it boils down to whether Jameson Taillon actually enrolls at Rice next August. He's the 6-foot-7, 230-pound right hander from Texas who is ranked as the No.1 high school prospect in the country by Perfect Game, making him the premier player in the Class of 2010. He's got a 97 mph fastball, a 3.80 GPA and immense talent.
Graham signed 11 players this fall, including four of the top-35 high school seniors in Texas and six of the top-300 players in the country. He's got pitchers, infielders, outfielders and a catcher, probably enough to put a good team on the field with just the rookies.
There's one proviso, of course.
"Obviously, there's one player on there that nobody thinks we'll be able to keep," said Graham.
He's talking about Taillon, of course, who in all likelihood will be a high draft pick this June, possibly with millions of dollars thrown at his feet. Graham had never signed a No.1 prospect before.
"Too bad he's so good," said Graham, laughing. "We'll have our fingers crossed until August 15th."
That's the deadline for signing a pro contract. If Taillon does not sign by Aug. 15, 2010, he'll be a Rice Owl.
Taillon, who just turned 18 in November, committed to Rice when he was in the eighth grade, believe it or not. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston that's near Rice, and got to know their coaches at an early age by attending their games and camps.
He was extremely good, even in the eighth grade. "You could see it," said Graham.
Graham has won 830 games in 18 years at Rice and has taken the Owls to the College World Series seven times, so he knows talent. Taillon stands alone at the top of this class, but the Owls signed many other talented players as well.
John Simms, a right-handed pitcher from The Woodlands, Texas, is ranked No.5 in Texas by Perfect Game USA. Austin Kubitza, a pitcher/outfielder from Colleyville, is ranked No.30 in the state, and Tyler Pearson, a catcher from Lubbock, is ranked No. 35 in Texas. The Owls also signed nationally ranked players in Dickie Thon Jr., an infielder form Puerto Rico, and Connor Mason, a pitcher/infielder from Suwanee, Ga.
The other members of the class (all from Texas) are Keenan Cook, an outfielder from The Woodlands; Jaime Esquivel, a pitcher from South Houston; Derek Hamilton, a shortstop/pitcher from Lake Jackson; Shane Hoelscher, an infielder from Belton; and Kyle Mueller, a pitcher from Bellville.
"I do believe this is a great recruiting class," said Graham. "We addressed our needs with high-profile guys."
Graham credited his assistant coaches, Mike Taylor and David Pierce, for putting the class together. "They get better every year of identifying the best student-athletes who can play and excel in the Rice curriculum. I am amazed at what they did this year," he said.
Dickie Thon Jr. is the son of a former major leaguer, Dickie Thon, who spent 15 years in the big leagues and was an All-Star during his time with the Houston Astros. "I threw batting practice for the Astros for 10 years, so I've known Dickie for years and years and years," said Graham.
Perfect Game president Jerry Ford said, "Rice is one of the few programs in college baseball that has a chance of actually seeing a prospect like Jameson Taillon attend school. They have been extremely successful in identifying talent and developing players into high draft picks, especially pitchers. However, even without Taillon, this is a very talented class."
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Sapphire will not be the only one with a dual X1950 Pro card out there. Asus is working on one as well. The design is completely different and sports two PCBs which are connected, instead of packing everything on a single board. The EAX1950 Pro Dual clocks the Radeon X1950 Pro GPUs at 581MHz and 256MB of GDDR3 memory at 1404MHz. No price or release date has been mentioned. Source: X-bit labs
Whoo baby that thing looks hot. The card's getting so big that in the near future we gonna need a case for the videocard alone.LOL
that looks like a monster of a card but for the lack of dx10 and the no doubt high energy demand would stop me buying one of these
ahh two 1950pros in crossfire already perform like a 1950XTX so unless this card outperforms that its completely useless.
HOLY SHITE THAT LOOKS MAD... Its a GX2 clone-released at the right time!!! With the right cooling! And it has a full speed Crossfire!!! It uses DVI Crossfire, you can tell, looking at it, Two DVIs and one Analog... wow... This is battering the GX2 again. Funny that it will be cheaper than the X1950XTX though.
But they are doing it properly this time. Proper cooling i mean, look at the GX2's crappy cooling, its god damn aluminium tubes with a tiny, whiny fan.
It got the job done, personally the fact that this doesn't appear to exhaust out the back of the case worries me.
Yeh... why couldn't they use heatpipes or migrate the connector to the rear? Basically this X1950X2 PRO = 2 GPUs, you can probably use the top card on a normal PCI-E slot if you had a proper motherboard. Its good that it uses heatpipes though because the slot is blocking airflow. EDIT: You can use the first card's slot as a Riser card FTW!!! a Daisy chain of the bottom half of these X1950 PROS FTW!!!
If you have proper ventilation, it's no big worry. I have an Accelero X2 on my X1800, and chipset temps only increased by 2C. I think it was worth it, but I guess it does come down to your individual setup and personal preference.
This thing is a beast and beautiful. I would probably go sapphire's rout, as its the smarter solution and probably less expensive one. Though Asus did rehash a good GPU to mock the 7950 GX2. Now, if they make these where you can run them in a CF type setup, 4 GPUS ::drool::
I wonder why they need to put 2 PCBs together..... The X1650XT Dual is already a single PCB with 2 cores.... Seems like that ASUS isn't good enough to make them on 1 card, making sandwiches isn't that tasty after all.
Why would you even but memorysinks on the memory, when you can't but them on ALL.. Sometimes these engineers feel so stupid it hurts to even think about it. Leave them bare or make a bend on the heatpipes, so that some aluminium/copper fits under there and use a single block memorysink, that has fins there where they fit.
IMHO, what a waste. Does the card provide double the power of a single card? Absolutely not. It simply glues two cards together and you're still stuck using Crossfire crap. Or in the case of the GX2, SLI crap. When are these companies going to incorporate multiple GPUs on a single card and integrate these GPUs at the hardware level or a "firmware" level far below the driver level. This is way overdue. Instead they "integrate" the gpus at the driver level leading to buggy implementation, sketchy compatibility and questionable performance gains. By implementing "SLI/CF" at the hardware level you would think there would be a theoretical doubling (or very close to) of performance and it would work on every 3D game ever made as the game software would never know that mutliple GPUs were doing the rendering.
I don't know about this card, but the GX2 did exactly that. SLI was implemented entirely on the card, the computer picked it up as a single card.
yes, but in non sli enabled games, it only used 1 chip, and performed slightly worse than 1 7900gt (due to the gx2's lower clocks)


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Another way to gain access to better schooling is to buy or rent a home in a nearby high-performing suburb, and many families have made this choice in recent years. Bloomfield Hills (GS 10), for example, has a low crime rate, and one of its high schools — International Academy — is ranked #5 in the nation by US News & World Report. Of course, home prices there are 18 times the cost of dirt-cheap Detroit ($545,300 vs. $30,000), Birmingham (GS 10) has housing that is half of Bloomfield's cost (average home costs $277,900) but the crime is worse; Northville (GS 10) is cheaper than BIrmingham at an average of $177,700 per house, plus it has less crime.
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On the positive side, a visit to the school districts' offices provide an architectural treat. DPS is headquartered on five floors of the Fisher Building — an ornate 1928 Art Deco skyscraper and national historic landmark constructed with 40 varieties of gleaming marble. You can savor the elegance of the building known as "Detroit's largest art object," while picking up the forms you need for school enrollment — and, with luck, you'll also find someone who can answer your questions.
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Scholastically-striving families generally avoid neighborhood schools, because Detroit's 21 application schools and three examination high schools are consistently higher-performing. These schools achieve superiority, of course, precisely because they are more selective. All require special applications that can be downloaded from DPS's main enrollment webpage.
Detroit application schools offer a rich variety of programs. Davis Aerospace Technical High School, for example, has an approved Federal Aviation Administration curriculum, and its own fleet of airplanes. At Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, students can specialize in different fields of medicine, and participate in internships at partner hospitals. Detroit Collegiate Preparatory High School, located at Northwestern University, offers students what it calls, "a college-focused learning experience." At Detroit School of Arts, students can study vocal music, dance, radio technology, and other art programs.
DPS offers an expansive variety of schools, but choices are meager when it comes to schools that offer top-notch academics. Dozens of Detroit schools earn a GreatSchools' rating of only 1 or 2 out of 10. Only a dozen schools garner above-average ratings; top among them are Bates Academy, Renaissance High School, Thirkell Elementary , Chrysler Elementary, Cass Technical High School, and Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center.
In its annual Scorecard, Excellent Schools Detroit evaluated Detroit public, private, and charter schools and found that just 1 in 4 met its criteria in terms of preparing students for "success in college, career, and community."
Detroit has exploded with new charter schools in recent years — there are now 80 to choose from — more than 30 percent of the city's total schools. The majority, however, are severely underperforming, with three commendable exceptions: Edison Public School Academy, Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center, and University Preparatory Science and Math Middle School — all rated 6 by GreatSchools. Numerous charters are rated 5 or 4; numbers twice the Detroit district's average. In 2013, more charters opened their doors, including Detroit Achievement Academy, which has its own organic garden, provides three meals a day, and follows a project-based curriculum; and the James and Grace Lee Boggs School, named after two local writers and activists who have devoted their lives to helping Detroit youth.
If you decide you want your child to attend a charter school, check each school's website to find out about its application process. All of the charter schools in Detroit are considered open enrollment schools, and lotteries aren't generally held unless the school's enrollment is overcapacity.
What if your child can't get into any of the best public and charter schools? If you can afford it, you might want to explore nearby private schools. The offerings vary widely — from Catholic institutions like Holy Redeemer and Most Holy Trinity to Detroit Waldorf School (German and Spanish immersion), Open Door Montessori, and cozy Friends School in Detroit, which enrolls only 148 students in a PK-8. For any of these institutions, it's wise to do some research to make sure they're a good fit for your family. Like the charter schools, religious and other private schools have their own application processes, with different due dates and entrance requirements, so check their websites for details.
In the end, Cheryl Lynn Pope found that transferring her child to another Detroit school was easy, and her daughter now attends Chrysler Elementary School (GS rating 7), a school with a student-run newspaper, and multimedia publishing options for aspiring writers.
Pope is delighted with her daughter's new school. "The kids actually write and publish books. My daughter is a two-time author. She's contributed to two books!"
Cheryl's cousin, who gave up guardianship to provide a better education for her kids, also gambled well -- although it meant sending her children out of the city. Both of her children graduated from Southfield High School, located in Southfield, a nearby suburb.
Detroit's growing, and energized, community of education advocates—many of them parents of school-aged children— hope that one day soon most Detroit families will see their children graduate from good schools — within the city's boundaries. This community's ambitious goal, as articulated by Excellent schools Detroit, is for 90 percent of the city's students to graduate from high school, and 90 percent to go to college or post-secondary programs.
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Miami-Dade's expressway authority has launched a multi-million-dollar study of what could be one of the most controversial transportation ideas to come down the pike in a while: A new north-south expressway that could run through farms and ecologically sensitive wetlands at the county's extreme urban edge.
The most likely route, according to a conceptual plan developed by MDX, would take it along Krome Avenue, meaning the multi-lane expressway — billed as a "southwest extension" of State Road 836 — would run almost entirely outside the county's Urban Development Boundary, on land now zoned for agriculture or environmental conservation.
MDX officials, who inked a contract for a five-year, $6.9 million study of the idea, say the expressway would extend south to Southwest 136th Street, providing relief for Miami-Dade's sprawling and traffic-choked far western suburbs.
But environmentalists, planners and urban advocates have slammed the concept as an outdated car-centric scheme that will do little to relieve congestion, but instead open up tens of thousands of acres of farms and plant nurseries beyond the UDB to further suburban development. The contemplated roadway would also bring pollution and development closer to the imperiled Everglades National Park, they say.
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Administrators at MDX, a semi-independent agency that manages the county's toll highways, say they're well aware of the area's environmental sensitivity. But they say many of the 850,000 residents along the corridor must now rely on dangerous Krome Avenue to travel north and south by car. Existing expressways to the east, meanwhile, are virtually inaccessible because of congestion on local roads, MDX executive director Javier Rodriguez said. And further growth is expected inside the urban boundary, he noted.
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I think you've listed her at a very reasonable price! I wish you the best of luck with her sale, I am sure someone will gladly give her a new home! :-)
Nadine, thank-you, I looked at your Flicker pictures and got to see Frankie's lovely eyes up close. I also enjoyed your Draculaura and listed you as a Flicker contact. You are a very talented artist. The creativity and quality of your painting should fetch a good price. Dare I suggest $75-150 ?
She truly is amazing! I like that you've kept her sweet appearance. And the body mod is fantastic. What I usually do when I'm not sure how to price something is to search etsy for comparable items. (In this case OOAK Frankie Stein) and see what other pieces of relatively equal talent are going for! I am SURE that someone out there will be MORE than happy to purchase her! (Be sure to take into consideration what shipping would be and where in the world you'd be willing to ship as well!
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Would you mind sharing a closer picture of her face? I'm interested in those lovely eyes :)
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The Animal and Plant Health
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survey for potato mop top virus (PMTV), the results of which will represent
every certified seed lot in the United States.
USDA is funding this survey under the Technical Assistance for Specialty
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of Californias crop goes for fresh use.
In addition, the majority of the oranges that the United States exports
are navel oranges from California. During
the current marketing year, November-July 2001/02, U.S. exports of oranges
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Canada, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and China are the United States largest
markets for oranges accounting for 86 percent of the November-July 2001/02
total. With the larger supplies of
navel oranges forecast from California, U.S. exports of oranges in 2002/03
should post a recovery. U.S.
production of grapefruit is forecast to decline again in 2002/03 to 2.0 million
tons, down 8 percent from 2001/02. This
will be the lowest production level since the freeze reduced 1989/90 level.
U.S. exports of grapefruit during the current marketing year,
September-July 2001/02 totaled 392,603 metric tons, an increase of nearly 3
percent from 2000/01. With the
forecast drop in production for 2002/03, supplies available for export are
estimated to be down as well. Japan
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the total this marketing year.
The much-anticipated final rule to renew the importation of Spanish
clementines was signed by Deputy Under Secretary Butler on Tuesday, October 15,
2002, and was effective immediately. The
new requirements include provisions that the clementines be grown in accordance
with a Mediterranean fruit fly management program established by the government
of Spain, that the clementines be subject to an inspection regimen that includes
fruit cutting before and after cold treatment, and that the clementines meet
other conditions designed to protect against the introduction of the
Mediterranean fruit fly.
According to the latest estimate from the California Agricultural
Statistics Service (CASS), the state is set to produce a bumper crop of 127,008
tons of pistachios in 2002. Growers
claim that the crop is the best quality they have ever seen at this stage of the
harvest. The outlook for marketing
the record volume is bright due to continued strong global demand, a lack of
carryover into 2002 and possibly into 2003, and because of the crops overall
high quality. In calendar year
2001, the United States exported 33,211 tons of pistachios, with an associated
value of approximately $109 million. China,
Belgium, and Germany were the top three export destinations in 2001, purchasing
around 50 percent of the total export quantity with a value of $46.5 million.
Markets in Europe, China, Japan, and Canada continue to grow at a rapid
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The U.S. Department of Commerces International Trade Administration (ITA) has requested public comments for its first annual review of the antidumping order against apple juice concentrate from China. The request follows a July 2002 preliminary determination by the department, which proposed to eliminate the 51.74 percent antidumping duties on imported apple juice for 10 Chinese producers. During the first administrative review of the antidumping decision, the ITA changed the method of calculating the cost of production of apple juice concentrate in India, which was used as a surrogate market economy for China. ITA has invited comments by October 31, 2002, on whether the Indian juice apple price used was correct or if another country should be use as a surrogate. In May 2000, the United States began applying antidumping duties of up to 51.74 percent on Chinese concentrate apple juice, following a finding that Chinese concentrate was sold in the U.S. market at prices below production costs, causing economic harm to U.S. concentrate producers. Following the initiation of the dumping investigation, imports from China dipped, but they have rebounded to levels exceeding the pre-dumping case levels. In fact, apple juice from China remains among the lowest-priced options for U.S. importers, with that country supplying over 16 percent of the total volume imported in calendar year 2001. Other leading suppliers to the United States include Argentina, Chile, and Germany. In 2001, the volume of U.S. imports of Chinese apple juice increased 13 percent to 215 million liters, while the associated value fell 12 percent to $33 million.


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