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Assistive Technology to Enhance Inclusive Education
Dianne Chambers
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Schools, teachers, and students are increasingly able to access and apply assistive technology to enhance inclusion within mainstream classrooms. The assistive technology may take the form of simple, easy-to-use, low-tech devices, or they may encompass more sophisticated, highly complicated devices that require training and greater levels of support to manage. To ensure that a classroom is truly inclusive, the teacher and other professionals involved in supporting children with disabilities and using assistive technology require appropriate knowledge and skills to bring potential to reality. The knowledge concerning what is available in the field of assistive technology is merely the starting point. Inclusive educators also require expertise in selecting devices and services, including the student in decision making, implementing the assistive technology within an inclusive setting, and assessing the effectiveness of the assistive technology to meet the needs of the student and the classroom.
There are many successful examples of assistive technology being successfully embedded into the practices of inclusive settings, but there is still some way to go to ensure this is a seamless approach and one that is universally informed by practice. While legislation can go some way toward mandating the use of assistive technology, teachers and schools are really at the forefront of implementation. There are many benefits and difficulties associated with adopting assistive technology to support students with disabilities, particularly in developing countries. While the challenges may be great, the potential for assistive technology to impact significantly on the educational, social, and recreational outcomes for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms is immense.
Citizenship and Ethics
Dianne Gereluk
The dominant premise underlying contemporary educational theory and practice is that citizens are members of political communities who have inherent rights as part of that membership and concomitant responsibilities that inform their beliefs, commitments, capabilities, and actions as members of these same communities. How individuals govern themselves in relation to others within the political community is a primary aim of education in contemporary policy documents, aims, and objectives statements. Yet, despite the urgency and salience of students learning to live together in the face of social division and conflict, the framing of citizenship and ethics in schools varies at least as much as the different visions of what constitutes a good citizen in the first place. This lack of consensus is reflected in how and where citizenship is framed in schools, how it is considered in policy, and how it is interpreted and facilitated in classrooms. Various educational theorists have also conceptualized the notion of citizenship and its place in schools. The variety of perspectives on these questions underscores the difficulties that educators experience in navigating ethical challenges in an educational and social context, where citizenship has become a publicly contested issue.
Community Participation in School Management in Developing Countries
Mikiko Nishimura
Community participation in school management has great potentials for removing mistrust and distance between people and schools by nurturing transparency of information and a culture of mutual respect and by jointly pursuing improvement of school by sharing vision, process, and results. Individual and organizational behavioral changes are critical to increase the level of participation. In countries where the administrative structures are weak, the bottom-up approach to expanding educational opportunity and quality learning may be the only option.
Nevertheless, when community participation is implemented with a top-down manner without wider consultation on its aims, processes, and expected results, the consequences are likely to be conflicts between actors, a strong sense of overwhelming obligation, fatigue, inertia, and disparity in the degree and results of community participation between communities. Political aspects of school management and socio-cultural difference among the population require caution, as they are likely to induce partial participation or nonparticipation of the community at large. Community participation in school management will result in a long-term impact only if it involves a wide range of actors who can discuss and practice the possibilities of revisiting the definition of community and the way it should be.
Critical Race Theory
Paula Groves Price
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Race has historically been, and continues to be, a significant issue in all aspects of American society. In the field of education, racial inequality is prominent in the areas of access, opportunity, and outcomes. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a framework that offers researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers a race-conscious approach to understanding educational inequality and structural racism to find solutions that lead to greater justice. Placing race at the center of analysis, Critical Race Theory scholars interrogate policies and practices that are taken for granted to uncover the overt and covert ways that racist ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality.
In the field of education, CRT is a helpful tool for analyzing policy issues such as school funding, segregation, language policies, discipline policies, and testing and accountability policies. It is also helpful for critically examining the larger issues of epistemology and knowledge production, which are reflected in curriculum and pedagogy. As education is one of the major institutions of knowledge production and dissemination, CRT scholars often push the field to critically examine the master or dominant narratives reproduced in schools and the counter-narratives that are silenced. CRT is a theoretical framework that provides education researchers, policy makers, and practitioners with critical lenses to deconstruct oppressive policies and practices and to construct more emancipatory systems for racial equity and justice.
Critical Whiteness Studies
Barbara Applebaum
In 1903, standing at the dawn of the 20th century, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that the color line is the defining characteristic of American society. Well into the 21st century, Du Bois's prescience sadly still rings true. Even when a society is built on a commitment to equality, and even with the election of its first black president, the United States has been unsuccessful in bringing about an end to the rampant and violent effects of racism, as numerous acts of racial violence in the media have shown. For generations, scholars of color, among them Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Franz Fanon, have maintained that whiteness lies at the center of the problem of racism. It is only relatively recently that the critical study of whiteness has become an academic field, committed to disrupting racism by problematizing whiteness as a corrective to the traditional exclusive focus on the racialized "other."
Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) is a growing field of scholarship whose aim is to reveal the invisible structures that produce and reproduce white supremacy and privilege. CWS presumes a certain conception of racism that is connected to white supremacy. In advancing the importance of vigilance among white people, CWS examines the meaning of white privilege and white privilege pedagogy, as well as how white privilege is connected to complicity in racism. Unless white people learn to acknowledge, rather than deny, how whites are complicit in racism, and until white people develop an awareness that critically questions the frames of truth and conceptions of the "good" through which they understand their social world, Du Bois's insight will continue to ring true.
Deleuze Studies in Education
David R. Cole
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Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher who wrote about literature, art, cinema, other philosophers, capitalism, and schizophrenia. His wide-ranging oeuvre has begun to be considered seriously in education, because his ideas act as springboards for further elaboration and application in connected areas such as research, learning theory, curriculum, and policy studies. While it is impossible to track exactly how, when, and indeed if "Deleuze Studies in Education" will mature and progress to occupy a mainstream position in education, it is worth considering the influence of the French thinker as a mode of renewal and new thought. The questions that concern Deleuze Studies in Education therefore shift from positing thought from the known to what can be done.
Deleuze's solo work acts a basis for new thinking in the philosophy of education. His series of philosophical studies track and develop a new philosophy that redraws Western concepts of the subject, knowledge, learning, and thought. The intent of this new philosophy is to open up fixed Western ideas to their international and historical counterparts and to produce a way of thinking that occupies a middle ground, disconnected from the dominant, intellectual empire building that has predominantly hailed from the West.
Deleuze's writing with the French intellectual activist Félix Guattari (1930–1992) takes on a distinct shift and urgency away from the rewriting of the Western philosophical tradition until their last joint work: What Is Philosophy? Deleuze Studies in Education is deepened and reinvented through their dual work and is transformed into a mode of critical capitalist studies, adding historical/subjective valence to how one understands current shifts in educational practice.
Last, the specific oeuvre of Félix Guattari, who is often less investigated and focused upon in education than Deleuze, serves as a pressing and ethical engagement with theory that can be readily applied to issues such as environmental concerns, inequality, power, and activism. Guattari's ideas are present as a lasting aspect of Deleuze Studies in Education because they demonstrate many of the links to practice that Deleuze theorized throughout his philosophy.
Democracy and Education in the United States
Kathy Hytten
There is an integral and reciprocal relationship between democracy and education. Democracy is more than a political system or process, it is also a way of life that requires certain habits and dispositions of citizens, including the need to balance individual rights with commitments and responsibilities toward others. Currently, democracy is under threat, in part because of the shallow and reductive ways it has been taken up in practice. Understanding the historical relationship between democracy and education, particularly how democracy was positioned as part of the development of public schools, as well as current approaches to democratic schooling, can help to revitalize the democratic mission of education. Specifically, schools have an important civic role in cultivating in students the habits and dispositions of citizenship, including how to access information, determine the veracity of claims, think critically, research problems, ask questions, collaborate with others, communicate ideas, and act to improve the world. Curriculum, pedagogy, and organizational structures are unique in democratic schools. Developing an active, inquiry-based curriculum; using a problem-posing pedagogy; and organizing schools such that students develop habits of responsibility and social engagement provide our best hope for revitalizing democracy and ensuring that it is not simply an empty slogan but a rich, participatory, justice-oriented way of life.
Development Assistance Projects for Developing Human Capital
I-Hsuan Cheng and Sheng-Ju Chan
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Several Asian countries work in partnership with international development agencies to develop human capital for their national development. Human capital theory emphasizes the importance of education and training to improve the workforce skills and productivity of workers participating in the changing global knowledge economy and 21st-century capitalism. Accordingly, a relevant place to start is with an analysis of relevant human capital theories, followed by a presentation of the different aid modalities and projects of education and training (from higher education projects to other human capital development projects) practiced by the Asian national governments in cooperation with their international development counterparts. Finally, key are the implications of future formulations and implementation of development assistance projects for developing human capital in the developing world.
Discourses of Adolescence and Gender
Pamela J. Bettis and Nicole Ferry
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Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook and author of the international best seller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (2013), argues that women need to engage more actively in the workplace and take the professional and emotional risks required in leadership. In many ways, Sandberg's own story is the fulfillment of the promise of the "Alpha Girl," Harvard psychologist Dan Kindlon's name for the new face of girlhood. Kindlon maintains that contemporary young Western women have initiated a new era of female empowerment, with girls interested mainly in future careers and not romantic relationships. Meanwhile, the public discourse pertaining to boys frames them as troubled and in need of more attention. The popular press notes that girls outperform boys in school, that boys are more likely to repeat a grade, more likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability, and more likely to be expelled, suspended, and disciplined in school. Furthermore, adolescents who do not adhere to gender normativity or who identify as transgender are continually neglected in mainstream considerations of youth, school policies, curriculum, and educational spaces. Over the course of recent decades, discourses of adolescence and gender, including those found in popular and academic discussions, have shifted. As girls become the new models of success, as boys are deemed worthy of extra attention, and as gender-transgressive students remain absent from the discussions altogether, it is imperative that educators keep abreast of these changing discourses that shape the way we talk about and understand youth.
Drama in Education and Applied Theater, from Morality and Socialization to Play and Postcolonialism
Kathleen Gallagher, Rachel Rhoades, Sherry Bie, and Nancy Cardwell
The field of drama education and applied theater is best understood through a consideration of the major developments and aspirations that have shaped its trajectory over three historical periods: the latter years of the 19th century up until 1960, between 1960 and 1990, and the years encompassing the turn of the 21st century, 1990–2015, which was a decidedly more globalized epoch. The drama education/applied theater scholarship of the English-speaking world, including the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and North America, offers a fascinating distillation of the relationship between making drama and learning, including the history of alternative forms of education. Scholarship from Asia drawing on traditional forms of theater-making, as well as imported and adapted structures of Western drama education movements, speak to hybrid and ever-expanding practices across the globe.
Although young as a discipline within the academy, drama education/applied theater has all but made up for its relative immaturity by spanning a wide domain of multidisciplinary thinking, embracing an eclectic theoretical field that covers an enormous breadth of social issues and a vast range of learning theories, while straddling a compelling spectrum of political positions. The development of the field is infused with pioneering ideas that broke with entrenched historical traditions and habitual ways of learning, harkening toward new ways of thinking, being, relating, and creating. Taking the world as its source material and humanity as its target audience, the history of the progressive discipline of drama education/applied theater tells the story of an ambitious, flawed, idealized, politicized, divisive, and deeply humanistic scholarly and practice-driven field.
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Pears and/or pear juice. My ped recommended them for my oldest when he got constipated the first time as a little one. I keep them on hand now at all time. It works wonders. They taste a ton better than prunes (I hate those..ugh)
I was constipated when I was pregnant with my son last year and in turn it caused me to get a fisher (sp?) after I had my son my dr wanted to see if it wasn't hemorrhoids. She used her small pinky finger and barely put it up my rectum and I cried, so from there she did say I had a small tear from being constipated and pushing him out. My son was 5 months old when I found out I was pregnant with number two in September last year. I am again constipated but this time I fear I have two hemorrhoids, they don't really hurt just uncomfortable. I was wondering what are some good ways to become unconstipated? I have tried ducolex, exlax (gave me bad cramps) and colace. I have tried eating more fiber and drinking a lot of water nothing is working for me. I should also mention this pregnancy hasn't been a good one. I have been so sick and I still occasionally get sick. I have only gained like 3lbs but that is ok because at 5'3 I weigh 186lbs. I have lost a lot of weight because of my getting sick a lot. Any advice would help. Thanks moms.
Thank you all for your great responses. I will need to read them over more carefully so I can take in everyone's details. I am not on any anti nausea meds. I only get sick on rare occasions now, but still do none the less. I need to be eating more fruits so I will be getting more when I go to the store in a couple of days. :)
Pears and/or pear juice. My ped recommended them for my oldest when he got constipated the first time as a little one. I keep them on hand now at all time. It works wonders. They taste a ton better than prunes (I hate those..ugh)
My lil guy was having this problem. Avoid Bananas, Apples, applesauce etc. Its really interesting that apple juice helps you but apples and applesauce will contribute to the problem. Once I started him on daily probiotics, we never had this problem again. It may be worth a try.
My prental vitamins had a softener in them, so ask your doctor about this. You might also ask your doctor if you can take a magnesium citrate supplement at night....seems to work like a charm the next morning! Good luck - I know this can be uncomfortable especially with everything else when you are pregnant.
Sorry to hear you've been so sick. Have you tried Benefiber? I use a little each day and it helps.
RED GRAPES! :-) No kidding...you eat enough of these and it is a natural laxitive. I found this out by researching it on the internet. And a lot of water and walking. But eat a lot of red grapes and apple juice. Get the seedless red grapes.
You can try Glycerin Suppositories, but I've tried that and NO WAY am I going to try that again.
Try the grapes. I hope they help you like they did me. :-)
I have heard that eating a whole orange every day can do wonders for constipation. And it's natural so it surely wouldn't hurt to try....
I dont envy you and I see you got some good suggestions....think of eating fruits with pits, cherries, apricots, peaches.....other types like bananas bind you up so dont eat those! Also, WARM apple juice and instead of laxatives try stool softners; they might help and they dont hurt you. Prunes are good, water and fiber. HOpe it eases up for you. When I got sick feeling while pregnant, I drank water with lemon and it seemed to help. Good luck
look into Vitamin C for relief. Ask your dr or google it.
Ask your OB if it is ok for you to take Miralax. It is a gentle, over-the-counter laxative. It doesn't cause painful gas or cramps. It works really well.
Ask your OB if it is ok for you to take Miralax. It is a gentle, over-the-counter laxative. It doesn't cause painful gas or cramps. It works really well.
Taking laxitives can be really harsh for your system. I would suggest making it a practice of drinking prune juice each day. I know what you may be thinking ("Yuck!") but I tried it recently after avoiding it for years and thinking that it was only for old people. It really isn't that bad and it does help to soften up all that junk that has to come out of you.
There are also yoga exercizes that you can do to help with digestion and elimination but I don't know what modifications you should do when you are pregnant. I would definitely recommend drinking some prune juice each day to help you with this though. It's safe and natural.
Congratulations on your pregnancy.
Dried fruit, especially cherries and apricot, work for me. A small handful daily helps keep me regular during pregnancy. Good luck!
You should really talk to your doctor. What might be recommended for someone else might not work for you. Since you're pregnant and having a difficult time, it's really necessary that you talk about this issue with your OB before you take any OTC meds.
Prunes always get things moving for me. The SunSweet ones in the individual wrappers aren't too bad. Raisins work too. Other than that, any and all "P" fruits (pears, peaches, prunes). My oldest has always had constipation problems. We give her the Light Pears in pear juice. I try to get her to eat almost a whole can in 24 hours. That almost always gets things moving!
Keep drinking water, 8 8 oz glasses a day at least. Lay off of the constipating foods like dairy and too much iron.
Ok, this is weird, but it works for me. I rarely get constipated, but when I do I buy Hillsbrothers white chocolate and caramel "coffee" mix (found in most grocery stores). After mixing it with milk (has to be milk), I go within 10 minutes. I love the taste but I only buy it when I am constipated. If I drank it all the time I would never leave the restroom. The great thing is, it's not loaded with caffiene, so it's not like drinking REAL coffee.
I hope you find something that works! Good Luck!
Are you on meds for nausea? Some of those are the worst constipating drugs on the planet. So bad in fact that I'd opt for the nausea (Listen, i had a fissure too after my first child that required surgery. So I know all about not wanting to get constipated). With second pregnancy, I didn't take anti nausea drugs, and ate a ton of fiber and water. Stay with tons of fiber and water. If thats not enough here are my intervention preferences: glycerol supositires (which are non laxative) are my first attempt. They work great if you are just a little backed up and are better than fleets enemas which will sting like the dickens if you have hemroids or a fissure. Then if i need something more, a dulcolax suppository, which is a laxative.
About the fissure. You are susceptible to getting another one because you have a week point where you tore before. Good high fiber diets are fine, but some drugs can do you in and if you take them, you need to take counter measures. Take stool softeners. Get off anti nausea pills, and if for any reason you are given antibiotics (like if you get a c-section) make sure you take probiotics to get your natural gut flora going again, because no amount of fiber in the world will help you if you don't have normal flora in the gut.
to recap, get on and stay on stool softeners while prego and after (most fissures happen postpartum). Figure out what drugs you are taking that may cause constipation and determine if they are worth staying on. If for any reason you take antibiotics, get on a pro-biotic as well to help restore natural healthy bacteria. Use glycerol suppositories to make sure you move your bowels at least once per day. Also prune juice daily may help.
Also, iron causes constipation. Are you taking a prenatal vitamin? Talk with your dr. about getting on a low dose iron prenatal, or just make the switch yourself to a non prenatal multivitamin.
Prunes and Prune Juice, Shredded wheat cereal, apple juice.
I give my 3 year old a small about of prune juice mixed with apple juice and about a cup of shredded wheat cereal a day. This changed her from severe constipation to regular. Also you need to drink plenty of fluids. Your intestines need to have fluids to pull into the bowel to soften the bowel.
2 things are my life savor. I drink a cup of coffee maybe 1-2 times a week. I drink a glass of water before and then literally 10 min within finishing my cup- I'm in the bathroom. Or another option which is totally safe while prego is a glycerin suppository. Its just a little bullet thing you insert into your rectum. Then it melts and makes everything nice and lubricated to come out. If you use it, lay down after you put it in for 20 min. If you put it in and try to walk around- you will be on the toilet in 2 seconds and just the suppository will come out. I was horribly constipated with my first pregnancy, I am know on my second and i haven't been at all. I was well prepared how to handle it. Happy toileting :)
Start blending fruits in a blender and drink them EVERY day. Apples and pears with the skins on are the best fiber they blend nicely with a little milk and ice. You will not get unconstipated overnight tho, you must eat a balance of fiber every day with lots of liquid.
I'm not sure if its okay to have milk of magnesia while you are pregnant but if find out is I would take a big dose of it before you go to bed, it will get things moving and then start paying attention to what you put in your mouth. If you eat healthy for the rest of your pregnancy you will lose some of that extra weight you have going on. Obesity can cause roids too.
Good luck.


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Thursday Munchie Legaux found elevated success because he finally started connecting with his receivers. Remember Munchie repeatedly anchoring his November offensive attack upon tight end routes?
As his vision expands the field opens up. Between two drills Munchie connected with Kenbrell Thompkins, Alex Chisum, and Shaq Washington.
Legaux knows his weakness. Arm strength and toughness were never concerns. More vexing was hitting receivers in stride, finding the underneath routes.
Though he was able to zip the ball anywhere on the field his touch was terrible. Every throw was hard or harder.
From whence he came
In his first two years the maturity of Munchie lagged. After his deplorable loss at Rutgers UC coaches hid him from the media. The solitary media figure of Bill Koch represented Cincinnati that day.
Well Munchie admitted on the subsequent Tuesday that he asked not to take any questions. Cincinnati's media is hardly tough. Most of the college beat writers are fans masquerading as reporters. But Munchie was understandably disapointed and wanted his space.
The coaching staff protected him.
Now Legaux understands his responsibilities. He must lead the team and he must step forward and discuss why they won or lost.
Late 2011 Munchie was conducting a practice at the Sheakley Athletics Complex. Head Coach Butch Jones instructed a student manager to focus his video camera on Munchie pre-snap.
After a few seconds of watching Legaux stroll to the offensive line again Coach Jones pulled Munchie aside.
His body language was awful. Legaux looked like he was walking through his high school hall on the way to European History class not leading his best friends to six points.
Coach Jones tried to impart confidence.
Munchie has always been capable of talking, but whether it be in the huddle or after a game he was meek. Shy.
No more.
Munchie is the loudest (offensive) voice on the field each practice. He commands the huddle.
"It is definitely his team, his huddle," said ascending starting center Dan Sprague. "We go as he goes."
Cincinnati Bearcats finished 10-3 in 2011, but are forced to replace five offensive starters including the leading rusher and leading passer.
Assuming the starting QB spot is a young man who completed 47.4% of his passes. Munchie's passing accuracy was the worst UC mark in over a decade.
"Last year I think he was kind of guiding the ball," reflected Sprague. "Now this year he is ready to just get back there and throw it."
Commanding the pocket seems to be an area where Muchie has absolutely improved.
"Last year when Zach went down he was the leader but he wasn't because he wasn't comfortable," said Sprague. "But he is definitely comfortable now. He doesn't have a problem with getting in someone's face or anything like that."
For all the success Brendon Kay has had this spring he is a distant backup like Chazz Anderson. He should never see the field in 2012 unless Legaux completely fails.
Young talents like Patrick Coyne, [db]Bennie Coney, and Trenton Norvell are simply not getting enough snaps to prepare. It is Munchie's job to lose though Coach Jones will not announce a starter until camp closes.
"He is our unquestioned leader, especially with guys like Zach (Collaros) and (Alex) Hoffman, and Isaiah (Pead) are gone he has definitely stepped up," said Sprague. "It is definitely his time."


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Science teacher named Durham teacher of the year
Posted May 20, 2015
Durham, N.C. — An eleventh and twelfth grade science teacher was named Durham Public Schools' teacher of the year.
Lori Khan, who teaches at Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College, was named during a banquet Wednesday evening.
"Ms. Khan's knowledge of content is unmatched," said school principal Charles Nolan in a statement. "She models a commitment to continual learning for both her students and colleagues."
Khan started teaching in Indiana in 2004 and joined Durham Public Schools in 2008. She once considered leaving teaching after her first few years in the classroom.
"After eight months as a stay-at-home mom, I returned to teaching with a new look on my professional career," she said in a statement. "Wanting to be a teacher was the beginning of my career, the decision to stay in teaching was the beginning of my profession."
Khan will now represent the district at the regional level of the state teacher of the year competition.


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As a Mormon missionary, Ryan McIlvain spent two years ringing strangers' doorbells, even as he experienced doubts about his own faith. McIlvain left the church in his mid-20s. His debut novel, Elders, is based on the experiences he had trying to convert people to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "Elder" is the term used for a young Mormon on his mission.
McIlvain is from a sixth-generation Mormon family. He was born in Utah and grew up in Massachusetts. He's now living in Los Angeles and pursuing his Ph.D. in literature at the University of Southern California. McIlvain joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross to discuss Elders, which follows a young American man and a young Brazilian man as they carry out their missions.
Interview Highlights
On how his mission to Brazil became a way of convincing himself of his own faith
"I was a doubter almost as soon as I became aware of what I believed. I became aware at maybe 13, 14 that I'd been drafted onto this team called Mormonism that was distinct from the Catholicism that was the norm where I grew up in Massachusetts. And I started to become aware of those differences, and instantly I was doubting them, at first privately and then, by the time I was in my late teens, quite vocally. But some of the people who were very close to me — my parents, certain friends in my congregation, or ward, as it's called — their example meant a lot to me, and I thought, 'What do they know that I don't know?' So the mission for me became a chance for me to make a large commitment, commensurate to the large amount of grace I felt I needed in order to believe what seemed, on the face of it, unbelievable things."
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How in the world do you go from a 250 lb. Mastiff to a 5 lb. Chihuahua, and everything in-between? Nearly 200 breeds are recognized by the American Kennel Club alone, there exist likely twice that many or more. From big dog to little dog, the differences are mind boggling!
Have you ever wondered how our dog friends can appear in so many different shapes and sizes? Unlike most other species, the canis familiaris (that's doggie to us) can turn out Great Danes and tiny teacup Yorkies all under the same genetic category. To get the straight story on how and why, let's step back into our school days to refresh some animal science facts.
Natural selection, which contributes to the diversity in any species, does influence certain features in dogs to help them adapt to their environment. For example, dogs adapting to colder climates may get thicker fur and bigger frames. But, the huge variety of dog shapes and sizes is believed to be the direct result of artificial selection, or in this case, the human involvement in the breeding process. "You never get that kind of variation in wild populations," says animal behaviorist James Serpell of the University of Pennsylvania.
Breeding for Appearance: the Game Changer
And since humans started breeding dogs for appearance with the advent of Kennel Clubs in the 1800s, the sheer variety of dog shapes, sizes and colors skyrocketed. In fact, most of all of the nearly 400 recognizable breeds we know today were first introduced after 1850. This is significant because evidence of the human/dog bond spans over 12,000 years. But it's not until purebred dogs became status symbols that humans actively worked to change and shape their appearance. For thousands of years before, dogs were only bred for skills like running after prey, hunting rodents and fetching game.
Another contributing factor is that dogs' bodies, particularly their skulls, undergo a major transformation between newborn and adult years. Dogs' skulls grow in width and length at different rates (unlike kittens, for instance, whose skulls are at adult proportion when they are born). This allowed breeders to toy with the timing of nasal growth and other stages of development.
But why do dogs morph so easily into such a variety of shapes and sizes? "I don't know of anyone who can answer that question," says Serpell. Some aspects of the dog genome are still a bit of a mystery
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The link below gives the best summary of this interesting phenomenon.
Thank you to Melinda, August and Jedediah for the photo.
Originally published January 2011, reviewed and updated July 2017


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McDermott Awarded Slice Of LNG Project
J. Ray McDermott, S.A. recently announced that Qatar Liquefied Gas Company (Qatargas) has awarded McDermott-ETPM East, Inc. the offshore portion of the third train of its LNG project. The project, valued at approximately $130 million, includes the design, procurement, construction, installation, hook-up and commissioning of a process platform, a wellhead topside and associated bridge, pipeline and submarine cable. Engineering design will be performed by McDermott at its Houston office, and fabrication will be completed at its Jebel Ali facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The project is due to be completed in late 1998. McDermott-ETPM East, Inc. of Dubai, UAE, is a joint venture between J. Ray McDermott, S.A. and ETPM S.A. of France. J. Ray McDermott is a worldwide marine construction company. Its services include design, fabrication and transportation; installation of new and refurbished offshore platforms; installation of offshore pipelines; and design and installation of subsea production facilities for the offshore oil and gas industry.


text: SUZUKA, Japan - Red Bull's Mark Webber has branded Romain Grosjean a "first-lap nutcase" and said his driving was "embarrassing" after the Lotus driver shunted him off the track during the 2012 Japanese GP.Grosjean drove into Webber, who started second on the grid, just seconds into the race and spun his Red Bull car, costing him the chance of a podium finish.Webber had to scramble to rejoin the race and then make a pit stop for repairs. He returned to the track and finished ninth. Grosjean, who was slapped with a one-race ban for a first-corner crash in Belgium, was given a 10-second stop/go penalty in the pits. FIRST LAP NUTCASEWebber suggested the Lotus driver might need another "holiday" or ban. "I haven't seen what happened at the start but the guys confirmed that it was the first-lap nutcase again - Grosjean. "The rest of us are trying to fight for some decent results each weekend but he is trying to get to the third corner as fast as he can at every race. It makes it frustrating because a few big guys probably suffered from that and maybe he needs another holiday."He needs to have a look at himself. It was completely his fault. How many mistakes can you make? How many times can you make the same error? First-lap incidents, yeah it's quite embarrassing at this level for him."SEVEN 'MORE THAN ENOUGH'Red Bull team chief Christian Horner said Lotus might have to consider how to deal with the Grosjean's recurring problems at the first corner. "I think the most concerning thing is when it is repeat incidents. If you make mistakes, that's fine, but the key thing is to learn from them. He's hosing away points for his team, they are fighting in the Constructors' championship and I would be surprised if they were too impressed by that."Seven incidents in 2012 is more than enough. Mark was a victim of the action today and that cost him at least a podium."Grosjean admitted the incident was a "stupid crash". "I was trying to avoid making any contact, but it didn't work. "We ticked all of the worst boxes again - and maybe I need to have a few whiskies to get some luck that way!"


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Another Kamloops pedestrian hospitalized after crash in Westsyde
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A 20-year-old man is in serious condition at Royal Inland Hospital after yet another serious pedestrian-involved collision on city streets.
Kamloops RCMP Staff Sgt. Fran Bethell said the victim was walking across a crosswalk on Westsyde Road near Parkview Drive just after 6 p.m. yesterday (Dec. 5) when he was struck by a west-bound vehicle.
Bethell said the vehicle was turning onto Westsyde Road when the incident took place.
Investigators believe the force of the crash threw the pedestrian several feet. He suffered serious head injuries as a result.
The vehicle, driven by a 50-year-old man, has been seized by police for a mechanical inspection. Bethell said the driver remained at the scene and was co-operative with investigators.
"The incident is still under investigation and the cause of the crash is still to be determined," she said.
"Charges may be laid in the future when all information has been assessed."
The collision is the latest in a string of serious pedestrian-involved collisions on Kamloops roadways.
On Sunday, Dec. 2, a man walking in front of the Cooper's Foods store on Lansdowne Street had his leg severed after being struck by a van attempting to pull into a parking stall.
On Nov. 22, a 25 year-old Kamloops man was taken to hospital with injuries after a 72-year-old man drove his car over the curb and onto the sidewalk in front of London Drugs, pinning the pedestrian to the ground.
The previous day, a 66-year-old woman was struck and killed while crossing Victoria Street at Sixth Avenue. Police have since said the 62-year-old driver of the truck alleged to have hit her was prohibited from driving at the time.
Two female pedestrians suffered life-threatening injuries in separate crashes in September and November, each involving male drivers in their 80s.
Anyone with information about Wednesday night's crash can call police at 250-828-3000.
Kamloops — and B.C. — has seen a spike in the number of pedestrian/vehicle accidents in 2012. Some of the more serious incidents in Kamloops this year:
March 30: Tranquille Road/12th Street: Rosina Spina, 77, is killed when struck by a Nissan X-Trail crossing Tranquille. Police say traffic had the right of way and that Spina had stepped into the street against the light.
April 28: John Waldo Teed, a 73-year-old Kamloops man, was killed after he was struck by a vehicle near westbound Exit 375 on the Trans-Canada Highway — the turn-off into downtown Kamloops — some time after 1 a.m. on Saturday, April 28. Investigators believe Teed was lying on the side of the highway when he was struck. Police believe the vehicle involved was a large transport truck.
July 20: 64-year-old David Seymour is hit on West Shuswap Road and later dies in Royal Inland Hospital. A 38-year-old man charges of dangerous driving causing death and impaired driving causing death.
Sept. 7: Fortune Drive/Leigh Road: 20-year-old woman is in coma after being struck by a car while in crosswalk. Driver is an 85-year-old man.
Nov. 21: Victoria Street/Sixth Ave.: Valerie Brook, 67, of Kamloops., died after she was struck by a 2002 Ford F-150 truck while she was crossing Victoria Street at Sixth Avenue in the crosswalk. A 62-year-old man was driving while prohibited from doing so.
Nov. 22: Lansdowne Village: 25-year-old man suffers leg injuries when struck by car driven by 72-year-old man who jumped curb.
Dec. 2: Lansdowne Village: 53-year-old man loses leg after van driven by 68-year-old woman jumps curb and pins him against concrete pillar.
Dec. 5: Westsyde Road/Parkview Drive: 20-year-old is in crosswalk when vehicle driven by 50-year-old man hits him. Victim has head injuries and is taken to Royal Inland Hospital.


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DOVER, N.H. - Rebuffed twice by University of New Hampshire student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, her alleged killer, Seth Mazzaglia, quickly incapacitated her with a rope and raped her while calling her names, Mazzaglia's ex-girlfriend said Wednesday in emotional testimony that forced a pause in his trial.
Kathryn McDonough spent her second day on the stand Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of Mazzaglia, who is charged with killing Marriott, 19, at his Dover apartment on Oct. 9, 2012.
McDonough, 31, had lured Marriott, her co-worker, to his apartment with the promise of watching a movie or playing a video game. In reality, McDonough testified, it was she who was offering Marriott as a sex partner for Mazzaglia, who was angry that McDonough had left him alone for 12 days.
Mazzaglia's lawyers have said that McDonough killed Marriott during rough sex.
McDonough gave this account:
Mazzaglia sent her a text message at 10:26 p.m. asking, "We painting tonight?" - a coded reference to having sex with Marriott.
She replied: "Your decision, I guess. If you have a plan. Nervous."
"I didn't really know what he wanted to do," McDonough testified.
After a game of strip poker, Mazzaglia suggested to Marriott that she kiss McDonough. When Marriott said no, saying she was in a committed relationship, Mazzaglia said he wanted Marriott to watch him and McDonough have sex. Marriott again refused.
McDonough, who previously told the jury about the couple's sadomasochistic relationship, testified that Mazzaglia was unaccustomed to hearing "no."
"That's when he moved up behind her and he pulled the rope up over her head and he strangled her," she said. "She let out a quick noise and she sort of stopped. Her arms curled up against her chest and her eyes were closed."
McDonough said Mazzaglia was wearing gloves and had a soft, white cotton rope the couple used in bondage sex and that after Mazzaglia strangled Marriott, McDonough went into the bathroom.
When she returned to the main part of the studio apartment, she says she saw Mazzaglia raping Marriott and calling her names - her motionless body prone on the floor. McDonough further testified that then Mazzaglia went into the bathroom and told her to hold the rope around Marriott's neck. McDonough said she laid the rope loosely over Marriott's neck.
"Her mouth opened a tiny bit," McDonough testified. "I only noticed because I was so close to her."
She testified, voice quavering, that she checked for a pulse and found none. Neither she nor Mazzaglia called police or an ambulance.
Marriott's father, Bob Marriott, sat in the front row, his shoulders heaving with silent sobs as McDonough testified in a monotone about his daughter's last minutes.
Moments later, when a prosecutor projected a timeline of events on a screen, McDonough started sobbing uncontrollably. The judge called a break and she was escorted from the courtroom, still sobbing and trembling.
When court resumed, McDonough described the couple's efforts to get rid of the body.
They folded Marriott's body into a suitcase and took her to an island where she knew the currents were strong, she said. They tossed the body over a railing, but the body fell on rocks short of the water, McDonough said. She said she climbed down the rocks and dragged her body into the water, where she covered it with seaweed.
"Because of us she never got to live her life," McDonough said. "It's not something we can fix. She can never come back."
McDonough, 20, is serving a 1 1/2- to three-year sentence for conspiracy and hindering prosecution. Mazzaglia's defense lawyer has told jurors that McDonough is the real killer who concocted her story to get out of a long prison sentence. The defense has yet to cross-examine her.


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rose Albéric Barbier (rambler)
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Needs a warm wall to climb before it produces soft-yellow flowers, that expand to lemon-white quartered blooms, lots of late-season blooms and glossy green foliage
- Position: full sun or light dappled shade
- Soil: fertile, humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: fast-growing
- Flowering period: June and July
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Small, elegant sprays of fully double, slightly scented, creamy-white flowers in June and July and glossy, dark-green leaves. The foliage of this vigorous, rambling rose is virtually evergreen, making it ideal for covering unsightly buildings or walls. It will happily grow in sun or partial shade, often producing a second flush of fragrant blooms.
All our roses are grown in an open field and then dug up when the weather conditions are right in October or November. Some suppliers send out their roses as 'bare root' plants (ie without pots or compost), but we pot ours up as it helps to keep the roots hydrated and in good condition. As they are dormant throughout the winter, they will not produce any new roots until spring, so don't be surprised if the compost falls away from the roots when you take them out of their pots. The roses can be kept in their pots throughout the winter provided they are kept well fed and watered, however ideally they should planted out as soon as possible. They will already have been cut back so no further pruning will be required, apart from snipping off any tips that have died back. Routine pruning can begin in late winter the year after planting.
- Garden care: If planting in winter, choose a frost-free spell when the soil is not frozen. Roses are quite deep-rooted plants so dig a deep hole roughly twice as wide as the plants roots and mix in a generous amount of composted organic matter. A top-dressing of a general purpose fertiliser can be worked into the surrounding soil and we also recommend using Rose Rootgrow at this stage to encourage better root development. This is particularly important when planting into a bed where roses have previously been grown as Rose Rootgrow is said to combat rose sickness (aka. replant disease). Before planting you will also need to make sure that there is adequate support for the rose to grow onto.
Remove the plants from their pots and gently spread out the roots before placing them in the centre of the hole. Try to ensure that the 'bud union' (the point where the cultivated rose has been grafted onto the rootstock, and from where the shoots emerge) is at soil level. You can judge this quite easily by laying something flat, like a spade handle or bamboo cane, across the top of the hole. When they are at the right height, back-fill the hole, firming the soil down gently before watering the plant well. Tie the stems to the support in and open fan shape and as new shoots emerge, tie these in horizontally.
When planting against a large tree, dig a hole about a metre away from the trunk and angle the rose towards the trunk. The tree must be mature and strong enough to take the weight of the rose. Or you can train the rose up to the crown of branches, using wooden supports. In this case the rose should be planted on the outer reaches of the tree's canopy. Allow it to scramble up the supports and then into your chosen tree.
Water generously until well established, and apply a specialist rose fertiliser (following the manufacturers instructions) each spring. They will also benefit from a generous mulch of composted farmyard manure in spring, but make sure this is kept away from the stems.
When your rose has filled the allotted space, one in three of the oldest stems can be cut right back to their base. In smaller areas, remove all the stems that have flowered, tie in new stems to replace them, and then shorten the side-shoots of the remaining stems by up to two thirds. This should be done in late summer after their flowers and hips have faded. Rambling roses usually respond well to hard pruning, so those that have become overgrown can be renovated from late autumn to late winter. First remove any dead, damaged or weak-looking stems completely. Keeping from four to six young stems, cut all the others right back to their base. Shorten the side shoots on the remaining stems by up to a half and tie these onto the support.
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I bought two of these roses three years ago to cover some really unsightly brickwork where the previous owners started to paint the wall then changed their minds! I was resigned to having to wait a few years to see results, but in the first year they grew well over six foot and within two seasons had covered the wall really well. The foliage is dense and pretty much evergreen so we have cover all year round. Absolutely superb, am going to buy another.
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is this rose trained to climb on building brick wall without support?Asked on 12/4/2016 by sinu from MK
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I'm afraid all the climbing roses will need a support to grow onto.Answered on 18/4/2016 by Helen from crocus
Q:Hi, I'm looking for a fragrant rose to grow as a hedge at the bottom of my south facing garden. The Fence i want to grow the rose along backs on to a wheat field. The soil is a little clay but mostly loved by rabbits. I'd love it to be a repeat flowering variety but i'm already starting to think i'm asking too much. Am I ? Can it be fast growing too ? Have i gone too far with that last request ?Asked on 30/7/2015 by Leah from Somerset
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There are a few roses that will meet your criteria - please click on the following link to go straight to them.
http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/roses/hedging-rose/plcid.8/plcid.666/vid.234/Answered on 31/7/2015 by Helen from crocus
Q:Hi, is this variety suitable for growing in a container up a trellis? Thanks.Asked on 15/3/2014 by Richard from United Kingdom
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A:Hello there
Rosa 'Albéric Barbier' is a wonderful vigorous rambler, which can grow quite large up to 5m x 4m so it is not the best rose to grow in a container with a trellis. I would plant a more compact form like Rosa 'Climbing Iceberg'.http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/rosa-climbing-iceberg/classid.1181/
Roses in containers will use up their food reserves quickly so may need to be fed with a granular rose fertiliser, and not allowed to dry out otherwise they can become prone to powdery mildew.Answered on 17/3/2014 by Anonymous from Crocus
Q:Climbers for North East facing wall
Hi I was just wondering if you could give me some advice please. Our house is a Victorian end of terrace - the side of the house faces North-East. The side of the house is very bare (only two tiny windows on ground floor) and we would like to grow something up the wall. We have had trouble with graffiti in the past and want to paint the side of the house and then put trellis to about 7ft. Can you suggest something that would grow quite quickly please. Kind Regards JoannaAsked on 6/11/2009 by Joanna Swainson
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A:Hello Joanna, If you click on the link below it will take you to our fast growing climbers, which will cope with low light levels. If you click into each card you can then see the eventual height and spread of each plant - some of them are pretty big. http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/climbers/plcid.15/vid.186/vid.237/ I hope this helps. Helen Plant DoctorAnswered on 9/11/2009 by Crocus Helpdesk
A:Thank you so much Helen, this helps a lot.Answered on 9/11/2009 by Joanna Swainson
Q:Climbing Plant on a North-Facing Trellis
Dear Sir/Madam, Could you recommend a climbing plant for a trellis? The trellis in question is set against my neighbour's wall, and faces northward. So, I'm looking for a plant to provide maximum, attractive, fast-growing coverage. Yours faithfully, PeterAsked on 18/8/2009 by Peter Lawson
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A:Hello Peter, I have done a search on our Plant Finder and if you click on the following link it will take you to all the climbers which will grow on a north facing aspect and are fast growing (although keep in mind most plants are going into their dormant period now) http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/climbers/plcid.15/vid.186/vid.237/ I hope this helps.Answered on 19/8/2009 by Crocus Helpdesk
Q:Climbing Rose with late summer colour please
Dear Crocus, I am looking for the climbing rose "Handel". I cannot find it on the site, so wonder if you can get it? Otherwise I need a climbing rose that is tolerant of some shade, with a pink or white flower and preferably repeat flowering. The soil is somewhat of a chalky loam. Many thanksAsked on 15/8/2009 by P.Sabin
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A:Hello There, I'm afraid we do not have a close match, but if you click on the following link it will take you to the climbing roses that we sell which are tolerant of a little shade. http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/roses/climber-rose/plcid.8/plcid.11/vid.167/ I hope this helps. Helen Plant DoctorAnswered on 17/8/2009 by Crocus Helpdesk
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Deschamps set for Roma talks
Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini will meet Marseille coach Didier Deschamps soon to discuss the Serie A club's managerial role.
The Eternal City outfit are expected to replace Vincenzo Montella this summer, with Deschamps and Barcelona B coach Luis Enrique among the favourites for the post.
Sabatini told L'Equipe: ''I will certainly meet with Didier Deschamps soon. We have already spoken several times on the phone. There is already a willingness to come to Rome. Deschamps would be a good choice.''
OM president Jean-Claude Dassier on Monday pleaded with the former France midfielder to remain at the Stade Velodrome and expressed his confidence he would stay.
Dassier told the Marseille website: ''He plays around with reporters, but for me there is no shadow of a doubt - he will be the coach of Olympique Marseille next season. I think the rumours in the press have become a bit of a campaign to destabilise. This was not innocent.''
He added: ''Didier loves OM and the city, but is also a great professional. I remain convinced that he will be with us, and we will confirm in the next few days.
''I think it's more a form of appeal on his part. Maybe he wants to be told we love him... Well I say, 'Didier, yes, we love you, and we would like you to stay!'''
Former Barca and Spain midfielder Luis Enrique revealed earlier this week that he has spoken to Roma.
The 41-year-old told Sky Italia: ''I have had contact with the Roma directors. It's an attractive proposal. I know that they have several options at their disposal, as have I. Before making a decision, I must carefully ponder every aspect.''
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May 23, 2005
Newsweek's Koran Story? Blame Bush First
"Republicans close to the White House said that although President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were genuinely angered by the Newsweek article, West Wing officials were also exploiting it in an effort to put a check on the press.Some news media commentators said that the White House was blaming the press for problems of its own making." - White House reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, May 18.
A "Discredited" Claim that Iraq Supported Terrorism?
"The White House has always insisted that Mr. Bush did not finally decide to carry out the invasion of March 2003 until after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell presented the administration's case to the United Nations Security Council, in a speech on Feb. 5, 2003, that relied heavily on claims, now discredited, that Iraq had illicit weapons and was supporting terrorism." - Douglas Jehl, May 20.
Reality Check:
"Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein provided bases, training camps, and other support to terrorist groups fighting the governments of neighboring Turkey and Iran, as well as to Palestinian terror groups." - From a backgrounder from The Council on Foreign Relations.
Another Wacky Comparison
"Sitcoms are the television equivalent of the ozone layer: almost all indicators suggest that both are imperiled, yet there is just enough evidence to allow stubborn contrarians to hold out hope." - Alessandra Stanley, May 18.
Bush on Yalta: A Political Gaffe Straight from the McCarthy Era
"When President Bush declared on May 7 in Latvia that the 1945 Yalta agreement led to 'one of the greatest wrongs of history,' he reignited an ideological debate from the era of Joseph McCarthy.Mr. Bush has criticized Yalta at least six other times publicly, usually in Eastern Europe, but never so harshly. In the dust kicked up by the quarreling, the central questions for White House watchers are these: How did the unexpected attack on Yalta get in the president's speech? What drove his thinking? Did the White House expect the fallout?" - Elisabeth Bumiller, May 16.
Starring George Bush as Darth Vader
"[Star Wars creator George] Lucas is clearly jabbing his light saber in the direction of some real-world political leaders. At one point, Darth Vader, already deep in the thrall of the dark side and echoing the words of George W. Bush, hisses at Obi-Wan, 'If you're not with me, you're my enemy.' Obi-Wan's response is likely to surface as a bumper sticker during the next election campaign: 'Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.' You may applaud this editorializing, or you may find it overwrought, but give Mr. Lucas his due. For decades he has been blamed (unjustly) for helping to lead American movies away from their early-70's engagement with political matters, and he deserves credit for trying to bring them back." - Movie critic A.O. Scott on "Revenge of the Sith," May 16.
Bush Wiping Out Watergate Reforms
"The question that has yet to be answered is whether he has fundamentally altered the presidency in ways that will outlast his tenure and wipe out the remaining legacies of Vietnam and Watergate, which were taken as object lessons in the dangers of a too powerful, too secret executive." - White House correspondent Richard Stevenson on Bush and the presidency, May 15 Week in Review.
Conservatives Disrespecting Max, Again
It is hard to remember a time when politicians tried to hide handicaps and hardship. Nowadays, even struggles that were once viewed as shameful are flaunted as a sign of character.In fact, wheelchairs are now so accepted in public life that many conservatives feel free to treat Max Cleland, a former senator from Georgia who lost two legs and an arm in Vietnam, as disrespectfully as any other Democrat. - Alessandra Stanley, April 29.


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I seem to remember that there is an efficient way to recompute multiple linear regression coefficients when each observation in the dataset is left out in turn. That is, the regression is implicitly performed N times with a unique subset of N-1 observations each time.
Does anybody know how to do this efficiently? Does/can matlab do this?
Thanks much
Sounds like the PRESS method (predicted residual sum of squares). I can't seem to find a decent reference, but there is a file on the FEX by Antonio Trujillo-Ortiz
A similar procedure is Leave One Out Cross Validation. The Matlab implementation appears to require the Bioinformatics Toolbox (function crossvalind).
"Darren Rowland" wrote in message <firstname.lastname@example.com>...
> Sounds like the PRESS method (predicted residual sum of squares). I can't seem to find a decent reference, but there is a file on the FEX by Antonio Trujillo-Ortiz
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/14564
> A similar procedure is Leave One Out Cross Validation. The Matlab implementation appears to require the Bioinformatics Toolbox (function crossvalind).
> Hth
> Darren
I've done some googling and it appears that there are methods - and PRESS seems to be one - to compute the leave-out-one residuals, but I need the actual regression coefficients (or decent estimates thereof) for all N regressions.
If the criterion was mean absolute deviation instead of sum of squares, this can be done with linear programming and maybe the output sensitivities could be used to get the coefficients. Does anybody know of such a method?
thanks again
> I've done some googling and it appears that there are methods - and PRESS
> seems to be one - to compute the leave-out-one residuals, but I need the
> actual regression coefficients (or decent estimates thereof) for all N
> regressions.
The technique for computing this is described in the regression book by
Belsley, Kuh, and Welsch (BKW). It's probably described lots of other places
as well. If memory serves, it's based on the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury
theorem for performing rank-one updating of matrix operations. It's part of
the process of computing the dfbeta or dfbetas statistic that BKW propose.
You may get some useful search terms out of this.
If you have the Statistics Toolbox, you might take a look inside the
regstats function. The variable b_i is what you want. You could probably
extract the lines you need from that file to compute just this thing.
To test this, I set a break point in regstats and examined the b_i values
with a separate regression.
>> load hald
>> s = regstats(heat,ingredients,'linear','dfbetas')
< stop right after b_i is created
K>> b_i(:,1:3)
ans =
62.485 48.008 138.59
1.5505 1.7392 0.78739
0.5093 0.65465 -0.26777
0.10135 0.2682 -0.70993
-0.14498 -0.013866 -0.91617
K>> dbquit
>> X(2:end,:)\heat(2:end)
ans =
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There is no point. It is entirely delusional.Always!Peter
As the number of points become larger and larger, it's like having no point.
No, you get a sharper print
That point got lost in translation.Rob C
You post something to Lula to discuss your point.Hoping that others will join in and raise their point.At first we do not argue, as there is little point,But then the arguments start and scoring a point.Which drags on for a while and for point after point.Until the thread starts to die and loses its point.So can anyone tell me, what is the point? Dave
That is exactly the reason why I participate less and lens in on-line forums...quite often I have stopped while writing a reply and thought "was is the point of all this"?
As you go from 360 dpi (dots per inch, dot = ink point of contact with paper), to 720, 1440, 2880 dpi, you get sharper, more detailed prints
... "was is the point of all this"?
Don't give up: I have learned that one of the unexpectedly valuable aspects of writ¡ng something down is that, thought you thought you knew what you were thinking about, you sometimes discover that all you had was a vague idea. It's actually writing down the thought that makes you consider it more deeply, and sometimes you realise that you have been labouring under a misconception. Even I have managed to shatter some long-held beliefs of my own by such second-thoughts! How humbling is that!(?);-)Rob C
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Monday's sports briefs: 12/2/13
Stanford easily handles SDSU
Anthony Brown added 19 points and Josh Huestis scored 13 for the Cardinal (6-2), who won their fifth in six games. Stefan Nastic had 10 points.
Jordan Dykstra scored 20 points to lead the Jackrabbits (3-6), who lost their second straight. Brayden Carlson added 16.
Stanford and South Dakota State played their second-round game of the Stanford Regional although the Legends Classic title was determined Tuesday in Brooklyn, with Pittsburgh beating the Cardinal, 88-67.
The Jackrabbits won their sub-regional with wins over Howard and Lehigh in Brookings.
USD runs away from Graceland
VERMILLION (AP) — Tavian Pomlee led eight players in double figures with 16 points as South Dakota survived an early scare by NAIA Graceland University, eventually pulling away handily in a 112-85 win Saturday.
South Dakota (2-3) shot 57.5 percent from the floor and was 13 of 29 from beyond the arc.
Graceland (6-3) was led by Jamal Lawson and Austin Danner, who both finished with 17 points.
The game was tied at 60 after Graceland's Drew Emmert made a pair of free throws at 17:06 of the second half.
But South Dakota's Trey Norris followed that with a 3-pointer — spurring a 32-9 run — including six Coyotes 3-pointers, three by Casey Kasperbauer.
Coyote women top Wyoming 82-78
By The Daily Republic
VERMILLION — Lisa Loeffler scored a game-high 24 points to lead the University of South Dakota women to a 82-78 victory over University of Wyoming Saturday.
Nicole Seekamp added 18 points, while Polly Harrington had 11 points and a team-best eight rebounds for USD (3-5).
Wyoming (4-1) was led by Kaitlyn Mileto with 21 points. Fallon Lewis followed with 14, Marquelle Dent had 13 and Kayla Woodward added 11 points.
The Coyotes shot 46.8 percent from the floor, 33.3 percent from behind the arc and 81.8 percent from the line.
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In a weird bit of Hollywood synergy, The Artist, a silent film about the silent film era, comes out the same weekend as Hugo, a 3D film about a silent filmmaker. (Come to think of it, Three Amigos! just got re-released this week as well, and that was based on silent movies too.) But whereas Hugo tries to trick children into loving old movies using all the contemporary tricks at Martin Scorsese's disposal, Michel Hazanavicius's Cannes festival favorite is thoroughly committed to the old school techniques of the era, wisely surmising that a movie about silent movies probably shouldn't be shot on digital stock, or have an overwhelming use of Steadicam photography. The Artist feels like a classic film every step of the way, and probably is a little bit of a classic as a result. If it had a little bit more to say, I could have easily taken the "little bit" out of that last statement.
Hazanavicius reunites here with his OSS 117 lead actor Jean Dujardin, who stars in The Artist as a silent film star who proudly defies the march of progress – in this case synch-sound films – and pays dearly for his arrogance. Dujardin looks an awful lot like Gene Kelly, and the similarities to Singin' in the Rain don't end there. By setting his film during the conversion from silent to talking pictures, focusing his tale on a struggling former star's relationship with a young ingénue and indulging in a few other plot points which I won't give away because they're right at the end, The Artist feels like familiar territory. It works as a mostly silent film – there's a surprisingly eerie moment when foley is introduced to a deeply unsettled Dujardin's hushed world – but not just from a technical perspective. Aside from an increasingly modern sensibility that progress must be embraced despite romantic affection for "the old ways," kind of like Moneyball, Hazanavicius has crafted a film with a broad, tragic personal story arc that would feel totally suited to a double feature with Murnau's The Last Laugh.
Beyond its love story and backstage shenanigans, The Artist is a story about pride. Dujardin's character, George Valentin (who seems to be based on actor William Powell, from his moustache to his precocious Jack Russell terrier sidekick), bets his entire fortune on talking pictures being a gimmick. He invests all his own money in a grand silent adventure that's summarily ignored by audiences in favor of a talking comedy starring young starlet Peppy Miller, played by Bérénice Bejo. Dujardin gave Miller her big break as a featured extra in one of his more successful silent films, but now that the worm has turned he's completely unwilling to accept charity from Peppy or anyone else. Valentin's manservant Clifton, played by James Cromwell, stays with the hero until Valentin realizes that he hasn't paid for Clifton's services in a year, leading to a sad, protracted farewell. Valentin says he wants Clifton to get a better job, but we get the impression that it's a matter of ego. Clifton has become the caretaker, so Clifton has to go.
With his wife gone (played by Penelope Ann Miller as an apt mélange of Citizen Kane stars Ruth Warrick and Dorothy Comingore), Valentin is left alone to his own self-destructive devices. We know that Peppy can save him, and she tries valiantly to do so, but it all amounts to an almost Affair to Remember-like duel of wills, and man, The Artist does seem to have a lot of inspirations, doesn't it? The film works perfectly well on its own, and you'll be wringing your hands in the hopes that everything works out okay for our defiant hero, but it's so steeped in the familiar that it never steps out on its own. It's a beautiful homage and a powerful melodrama, and it's fantastically acted and directed, but The Artist doesn't feel like its own entity. It's happy to wallow in the conventions of classics that came before it, and we're happy to wallow right with it, but the potential to become something more eludes it. It's a little bit of a classic. Pity it wasn't more.


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Feb. 24, 2007
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -Tina Charles had 21 points and 13 rebounds and No. 3 Connecticut remained unbeaten in the Big East with a 92-49 rout of Villanova on Saturday.
The freshman center, coming off a 34-point night Tuesday against South Florida, scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds at halftime against the Wildcats. Charles played just 25 minutes.
UConn (26-2, 15-0) had four players in double figures, and never trailed. Mel Thomas had 16 points and hit three of her four 3-point shots. Renee Montgomery added 13 points and eight assists and Charde Houston had 12 points.
The Huskies took a 19-5 lead, led by Charles, who hit five of her first seven shots, all from inside 3-feet. Her foul-line jumper with 7:50 left in the half gave the Huskies a 31-11 lead, and UConn led 45-17 at the half.
Villanova (7-21, 1-14) was led by Lisa Karcic and Stacie Witman, who each had 17 points. But the Wildcats had only one player, 6-foot-3 Heather Scanlon, taller than 6-1, and were dominated inside.
The Huskies outrebounded the Wildcats 53-24 and held them without a 2-point field goal for the last 14:23 of the first half.
Villanova took 20 shots from behind the arc before intermission, and hit just four, three from Karcic.
The Wildcats scored the first six points of the second half, but UConn responded with a 31-3 run to stretch its lead to 50 at 76-26.
UConn clinched the conference's regular season title Tuesday, and the Huskies donned championship T-shirts and received their trophy following Saturday's win.
The loss means Villanova will end the season with fewer wins than in any of coach Harry Perretta's 29 seasons at the school. The 1989-90 Wildcats finished 9-19.
The Wildcats had won at least 20 games in five of the last six seasons.